The Press., 1889-07-25

Hartford Courant A very singular dis covery was made at the United States stables yesterday. In the loft of the stable that fronts the driveway is large grain box calculated to bod load of oats. l A shute leads from this bin to grain box on the lower floor, from which the attend ants deal out the oats to horses. Mir. Allen, one of the new proprietors, noticed some oats on the floor about this last mentioned | box and told one of the men that there must be leak there somewhere. An in- vestigation followed and a small hole was found near the shute, possibly made by a rat The box was taken out and the floor taken up. There is cellar under the barn where manure is stored. Where the box stood the cellar was perhaps four feet deep.
 And how many oats do you suppose they found in this self appointed bin The question was put number of good guess CTS, and the pluckiest one of the lot dare not trust his reputation on better than ten
 bushels, while the most conservative one
 thought maybe there would be ten quarts.
 It seems almost incredible, but when a
 Courant man strayed into the stable he
 saw between sixty and seventy bushels that
 had been gathered in bags. Porter Whit on's big farm wagon, that should hold cer-
 tainly fifty bushels, had been filled to the
 brim and sent away, and there still lay un f der the barn 8 pile estimated at fifty bush | els, making in round numbers not less
 than 165 bushels and it is not unlikely that many bushels had worked down into the manure pile. ! Just how long the leak has been going on no one can ever guess. It may have extended back beyond MT. Wheaton's time. , The grain showed that rats and mice had ! worked it, but for all that much of it was Fin a good state of preservation. It was Innitn f0 dicfipr1ish fhn nota fhot mad been added to the pile more recently from r thelr brighter look. Of course the grain n is not suitable to feed horses, but it would n afford the biggest kind of picnic for a } flock of poultry, or a pen of swine to toss
 about.
 e 'I'll toll you 8 story, boys," said Col. Ingersoil. :. r was the law that the holder of a claim
 should be liable to lose it if he let it remain d idle ten days in succession. We'll, there
 was one fellow who had been working # faithfully when he fell sick and had to take
 to his tent. Another fellow came along tt and jumped his claim. The first man g. pleaded and argued, but the other was not
 to be moved. So when the first man re. e covered he sued the interloper.
 Il 'sThe case came up before the justice.
 He was very sorry, he told the plaintiff
 but the law was absolute on the question, g and the defendant could not be busted Il No sooner had he finished than the plaint
 if jumped up and hit the defendant sting 7. ing blow behind the ear. The defendant d fell over, and the plaintiff jumped on hin rs and began to pummel him. soundly. The
 constable ran up and was trying to par l. the fighters when the judge arose, and h pounding on the desk yelled to the con r. stable
 e. you, sir, leave them alone
 The law is the law, but if tho gentlemen
 want to compromise they mustn't be inter d fered with.'''
 The colonel's way of telling it was al good as the story-Nes0 York Sun.
 I have no doubt that the donkey believes d himself when praying to be executing
 vocal solo of the highest excellence. Al
 some of my readers may be incapable o o> approaching the song will mention de 70 vice whereby the Turks induce the tot ID vocal donkey to be silent against his will v. Just as before cock crows he finds it nee
 essary to stretch out his neck to the ut
 most, so the donkey feels himself com no Eelled to begin his performance by holdins al his nose in the air and his tail parallel witt sir his spine. When, therefore, a Turk wishe ny to silence his donkey he ties a tolerabl, ry heavy stone to the end of the animals tai 'r- and departs with an easy mind. When tn he donkey feels inclined to bray and begin ts the usual preliminaries he finds himself de P' barred from placing his tail at the requis o. o. ite angle, and in consequence is unable t. ia do justice to the bravura with which h ie was proposing to favor the world. = Some raragraphing theorist says: N. Did you eve= see man with side whis ter kers who wasn't cold blooded and selfish all If that is a new idea to you just run over os- list of your acuuaintances who wear sid
 whiskers and tell me if any of them ar
 warm-hearted, or noble, or self sacrificing - I'll bet you dollar to 8 nickel that yo
 won't find one. Not long ago mad
 known this theory of mine about me
 with side whiskers in a conversation at tn
 store. It was hotly opposed at first b on count up their acQuaintances with sid ,. whiskers they became my converts. Onl =, a few days ago one of the boys went IL write business letter discussing anothe ton, man, and ended it with, ssIn short, he
 one of those -blooded, side whiskere - fellows"
 A A century ago only 300 species of orchid
 were known, and those very imperfectly 4 Now the latest authority gives the extrem \ number of known species as 1O,o oOO Thi \ may be an excessive estimate, but it show gg-- the immense advances which have bee se made in our knowledge of these interestin d. plants, for which collectors now ransac e. the most remote quarters of the globe. 8. is said that the modern passion for the GU . tivation of orchids sprang from the exhib Tl tion of some remarkable specimens at th f early meetings of the English Horticu ea tural Society.
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