Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-01
A HORSES BROKEN HEART.
Some Good Stories OF Men and
Other Animals.
ueeR ADVENTURE OF A PIG.
How Porker Lived OF His Own Fat
for Five Mon;h,-Dr. Shoe
makers Tumor-A Mon
keys Suicide.
A Circus stced's Pathetic Death.

markable. There are instances on rec
ord where the death Of the horse has
been traced directly to grief. One in
stance is called to mind which occurred
more than twenty years ago, says the
Western Sportsman. A circus had been
performing in the little town of Union
vile, Pa, when one Of the trained
horses sprained one of his legs so that
he could not travel. He was taken to
the hotel and put in box stall. The
leg was bandaged and he was made as
comfortable as possible. He ate his
food and was apparently contented until
about midnight, when the circus began
moving out of town. Then he became
restless and tramped and whined. AS the
caravan moved past the hotel he seemed
to realize that he was being deserted,
and his anxiety and distress became
pitiful. He would stand with his cars
pricSed in an attitude OF intense listen
ing, and then as his ears caught the
sounds of the retiring wagons he would
rush MS best he could with his in
iured leg from one side OF the
stall to the other, pushing ut the
door with his nose and making
every effort to escape. The stableman,
who was q stranger to him. tried to
soothe him, but to no purpose. He
would not be comforted. Long after all
the sounds of the circus had ceased his
agitation continued. The sweat poured
from him in streams and he quivered in
every part of his body. Finally the
stableman went to the house, woke up
the proprietor. and told him he believed
the horse would die If some of the CIR
Gus horses were not brought back to
keep him company. AT aoout daylight
the proprietor mounted horse and
rode after the circus. He overlook it
ten or twelve miles away, and the
groom who had charge of the injured
horse returned with him. When they
reached the stable the horse was dead
The stableman said that he remained
for nearly an hour perfectly still, and
with every sense apparently strained to
the utmost tension, and then, without
making a sign, fell and died with
scarcely struggle.
Yesterday there was considerable ex-
citement occasioned by the suicide of
one of pair of little monkeys in j. H.
Daniels store in the Kimball house
block, says the Chattanooga Times.
Somebody had dropped II piece of hemp
rope used in tying the bananas, and it
fell within reach of the little animal.
He was in dead earnest, and when he
poked his head into the moose and
jumped Off, he was as completely
take his own life. HIS companion
would ptat: open the eyelids of the
dead monkey and look into his sightless
eyes in the most pathetic manrer. She
seemed perfectly desolate and realized
that her companion was dying. little
boy was lifted over the transom and the
dead monkey was cut down, but it was
too late. He was cold and stiff. Ser
geant Moss brought the piece of rope to
the STATION house and will preserve it rs
memento.
DR.. w. H. Shoemaker, a talented and
leading physician of this city, says a
Birmingham, Ala. dispatch has been
declared insane, owing to having be-
come victim OF tho cocoaine habit. He
became violent this morning, and
tonight was sent to the state in
sane asylum at Tuscaloosa. While under
the influence of the drug he, in Decem-
Der last, performed upon himself prob
ably the most unique and most remark
able surgical operation ever recorded.
He had been Il sufferer for some time
from tumor on his liver. One night,
while alone, he took his surgical in
struments and deliberately cut into the
abdominal cavity, cut the tumor from
his liver, sewed the inclsion up, showed
the cut and tumor next morning to
brother physicians, and has since en-
tirely recovered. His use of cocaine
previous to this operation had become
habitual.
"A fight between turkey hen and q
rattlesnake is probably II very strange
contest and something we suppose very
few ever saw, says the Talmage Trib-
une; yet such battle was witnessed one
day last week by Mr.. A. Edmisten on
his farm several miles southeast OF
town. Among the fowl possessions of
this gentleman is brooding turkey
hen with nest of twenty eggs in u
young hedge not far from the house.
While riding along the fence one morn
ing, he noticed the hen leave her nest
and act as though she was fighting
something. Riding near he found she
had attacked rattlesnake which she
evidently feared would rob her nest.
She would make charge on the rep
tile and peck at it. while the snake
would coil and strike back. After
striking, the hen would sometimes
grab it back of the head, shake and
throw it quite a distance. Once she
threw it over her back nearly rod be-
hNd her. Fearing that the snake
might bite the hen, Mr.. Edmisten has
tily tied his horse and started to take
hand in the battle, but before he
reached them the snake struck the hen,
biting her on the side of the head at
the edge of the flesh and bill. The hen,
before so courageous, now seemed to
loose all courage, for she commenced to
run backwards, dragging the snake
short distance. After she escaped from
it she dropped her head and sneaked off
to her nest. Quickly dispatching the
snake he fixed salt and soda poultice,
and bound it on the wound. The snake
was over two and half feet long and
very large one. AS to the hen, she
she showed no lad effects from the bite.
+. |. Maybury has returned from a
three months trip in the south. He
has pair of canary birds, which have
mated ut his house for a long time. The
female bird has laid eggs quite often,
but before they were Matched she has
invariably pecked them open with her
bill. Last Sunday morning, says the
Grand Rapids Democrat, his little girl
came running to him and said that
''Pete" (meaning the male bird) was
laying an egg. He thought she meant