Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-02
NO. iO4

he thought the gangplank was, but it WAS of
 course, not in place, and with yell he went
 down into the river The others heard his
 cry and by means of ropes rescued him The
 game had been so absorbing that none had
 noticed the motion of the boat after it's re-
 lease from the wharf. When the shark reach
 ed shore, wet and mad, he secured buggy
 and drove back to Owensboro. It was that
 d-n fellow Vest that did this,' said he,
 land I'm going to kill him. He secured
 double barreled shotgun and started to look
 for Vest The old shark was dangerous man,
 and Vest being warned by his friends, con-
 cludsd he had nothing to tie him to Owens
 boro, so he left at once. He went to Missou-
 ri. If he had stayed in Owensboro he would
 probably have gone on in the old rut and
 never amounted to @ hill of beans. By the
 way, Senator Vest never drinks now"
 Angora Goats and MonaIr.
 [southern Forum.l
 That the law of atvaism implies to cross
 breeds is not doubted. But, if in two spe-
 cies of animals of interbreeding relations
 you could find in of them trait or
 feature which the other did not possess, nor ever did, then the cross breeds from these two species could only inherit this feature from the parent which did possess it, and none whatever from the parent which did not. Let the mohair of the Angora repre- sent this feature, and the common goat, which we will assume to be the mother in this case, to represent the deficient side. Then, if it can be shown that such feature can be found in animals of the same species, and that the cross breed can not inherit any portion of it from the dam's side, and that mohair will not cross with the hair of the dam, does not this solve the question that hair and mohair are dissimiIar, and that the cross breed can not breed back toward the dams side through his progeny any portion of feature, none of which he ob tained from his dam, though he will do SO in any other feature common to both, as color, form, etc. And so in point of mo-
 hair, he can impart only that which he ob-
 tained pure and unmixed from his sire. It has been fully shown elsewhere that whilst the finest bred sheep will cross it's flores with coarse, hairy sheep and pro- duce medium wool in the offspring, that nohair will not cross with the hair of the common goat or the long Of the Maltese; showing the two flores to be unlike, and that mohair is implanted in the offspring to the seviction" of the hair, and through the influence of the dam, and that the mohair on the first cross is short and fine, proving there is no cross of the mohair with the ! hair, as shown in the flores of the sheep. ! IT these premises and conclusions are cor rect, then it further follows that a cross- bred or grade billy will impart amount of mohair to his offspring in the ratio of his grade to pure blood-that is sixth cross or s3-64 grade, will impsrt to his offspring all the mohair a pure blood would, less from the 1-64 part he lacked of being pure, and that what mohair he produces in his off spring, though it would be equally fine, as from the pure blood crossed on the same dam.
 Found a Bag of Gold in n yyelI. From the Philadelphia Recordl Southwark has sensation out of the usu- al run. It is the discovery by John Mo- Gucken, young contractor, of a bag of gold. McGucken started with five fellow laborers on Wednesday morning to clean out an old unused we'll on a property on Second street, below McKean. During the process McGucken, who was down the we'll alone, stumbled across heavy object. Turning the light of his lantern on the obstruction, he saw it was heavy canvas bag carefully sealed and tied with a strong cord. He kicked the bag and heard the merry jingle of metal. McGucken thought he had struck a | bonanza, and was so elated that he jerked the bag from its resting place and started for the open air.
 When he got half way to the top the bag which was rotten from it's long stay iu the well-split, and the coin started to drop out. With his hand over the hole McGucken was \ hauled to the top by his companions. There \ lay pile of glittering gold pieces in five, | ten and twenty dollar coins.
 | A hurried count showed that nine hundred | and forty dollars comprised the bags con- | C6nLS. HOW much OIOppSu Oub OL tuo DhS lS not known, but McGuckeu does not think more than fifty dollars. Like sensible man he proceeded with his work, and when the day was ended did what his fellow workmen
 say was the squarest thing ever seen in South wark Nearly five hundred dollars he divi- ded among them, one hundred dollars he presented to his mother, three hundred dol- ! lars went to his own credit in the savings ! fund, and with the remaining one hundred | dollars the young man is celebrating in [ mild way his good fortune. He is the curi- | osity of Tree street, where he lives with his | mother, and during the day attends to his business as if one thousand dollar gold bags | were every day finds with him.
 Who the money belongs to or who placed the bag in the we'll is mystery.