The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-29

"ouuueu HldSler py Srdsplng Une ledUn
ern girdle around his waist, and car
rled him many weary miles over tn,
plain, till he reached Hassan's home
where he laid him gently down. TIL,
brave horse then dropped dead iron
exhaustion.
Down on Book Learned Horsemen.
From the Chicago Herald
''I've handled hosses all my life,
said the Dragging passenger from Bur
lington, "and / knows all about 'en
There can't nobody tell me nothin
about a hoss. | knows 'em from the
tip o their noses to the last hairs il
their tails. Why, down in our section
when they want an expert on hoss
they send boy right up to my house
Guess I've been called in fifty times as
an expert witness in lawsuits bout
hoss trades. But I'll you what makes
me mad, and that is to meet one c
these book -larned fellers who think
they can tell all bout a hoss iron
what they read. Only last week met
one o that kind, and the way I mixed
him up talkin' bout the anatermy and
diseases OF the hoss made him wish ht
AAS'-A ECU cA &c Oll
"By the way" said an old man il
the next seat, who hid pair OF roguist
eyes behind a pair of huge spectacles
81 am little interested in the horse
business, purely from scientific
standpoint. never handled horses
| am a professor of anatomy in col
lege down East, but there's one point
I've always wanted settled. You are
Just the man I've been looking for
and if You will be so kind"
Certainly, sir; certainly. | kin tel
you anything about boss. VIII be
glad to settle the point you're mixed
up on, SIR
Thanks. Please tell me how q
horse walks. What is the motion oi
his fore legs in relation to the motion
OF his hind legs? That is what has
puzzled me-"
That's easy enough" replied the
expert, in tone OF confidence. "The
hoss picks up his right fore leg and his
LETT hind leg simultaneously. and after
they have been set down he picks ur
his lett fore leg and the right hind leg
at the same instant"
"Bet you $40 he doesn't"
"Wh-what's that?" queried the ex.
pert, as if the breath had been knocked
out of him by the sudden proposition
whats that? Do you mean to say
that don't know what Pm talking
bout? Do you question my knowl
edge?"
money talks"
The expert was in for it, and had to
face the music. The money was put
up in the hands OF the conductor, and
at the next station all hands ad.
iOurned to the platform, where pain
of bus horses were started on a walk
to settle the novel wager.
"Well, | swow," exclaimed the dis.
comfited expert, as he saw the conduc.
tor hand the stakes to the old man
with the spectacles; "who'd q thought
that walkin' hoes picks up one foot
at q time? / never did ike these in.
fernal book-larnin' chaps, anyhow
Durn the luck"
An Easy Way to Steal.
From the Brooklyn Timesl
While the police were looking for the
crooks the two men entered Samuel
II. Whitney's iewelry store, at 2O5
Fulton Street. The elder was the
spokesman, and told Mr.. Whitney
that he wanted to look at some plain
gold rings. A tray OF rings was laid
before him, and he picked up three to
examine. He was very particular, ap.
parently, and complaining OF his poor
eyesight and the unsatisfactory
light in the middle of the store,
walked toward the window to get
q better chance to estimate their
value. He stood there gazing at them
while his confederate chatted conf
dentially with the salesman. The
scrutiny did not seem to satisfy the
would be purchaser, and he returned
the three rings to the case, saying he
would look elsewhere for something
to suit him. Then the men, apologiz-
ing for the trouble they had given,
bade the salesman a cordial "good
day" Mr.. Whitney was in the act OF
placing the tray OF rings back in the
case when he noticed peculiar sheen
on the three rings handed by the
stranger which the others in the box
did not possess. So he picked them
up and examined them more closely.
They did not bear Mr.. Whitney s
private mark and the ieweler saw at a
sharper glance that they were brass
rings plated with gold. This discov-
cry was disquieting, to say the least,
and Mr. Whitney started out to look
for a policeman. He met officers
Tierney and Dunham, who were search
ing for the thieves. The officers fol-
lowed in the direction the thieves
had taken, soon overhauled them
and placed them under arrest.
The men were very indignant and
made threats of suits for false inn
prisonment against Whitney and their
captors, but for all that they were
taken to the Washington Street sta
tion and searched. A box OF brass
rings resembling those which had been
substituted for Mr.. Whitney's gold
ones was found in the elders pocket
and the younger had a book contain
ing the names of bank presidents and
other noted persons, q book such as
confidence men carry. He also had
railroad tickets to Chicago.
The prisoners described themselves
as John II. Davis, aged %, painter,
with no home, and George Wilson,
aged 40, clerk, whose temporary
residence was at the Summit Hotel,
New York. The younger mans cheeks
seemed TO be abnormally swollen, and
Officer Tierrey asked him what alled
him? II have the toothache, F."
mumbled the prisoner.
Well see il you have" retorted
Tierney, and he made a grab at the
fellows throat and mouth. Davis
gasped for breath, and Tierney took
from his mouth the three rings stolen
from the jeweiry store and bearing
Mr.. Whitney's private mark.
Electricity.
The greatest number of American in
ventioEs on any one subject in 1855
are those relating to electricity, the
number last year being 1858, or SIS
per cent. OF the whole number, which
was %, $50. The number OF the last
patent issued in 1885 was 333, ,493; OF
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