The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-03
WHAT eAOoMAs OF A HORSE.

The Eeriod of His Greatest Useful
ness Begins ftsr de is Dead.
From the Washington Star.
1t was MISUNDERSTANDING oil horse
with consumptive aspect presumably en-
gendered by Ag periods OF semi-starvatio
and when 1t fell dead suddenly in he shafts
of a. ash wagon opposite the pa ent offic9
early yesterday m rning.s the colored man
who drove tne cart did not evInce a1y
marked ,urprise. A policeman who was
passing stop, for a moment to Inspect the
corpse, a then vent into a shop on The
corner TO ring up a telephone. Ten min
utes flew by, and a man with a UusinesS-i6e
air ahd large wart on his nose made his
way through the little crowd Tat sur
rounded the dead a lmal. Tne ash man he
addressed b. lefty in whisper and rese tly
handed him i've silver dollars. After eye
ing tIe money for few econds with he
air Of one cons led for a misfortune the ASA
man put 1T i'll lis pocket anu walked off,
probably to borrow another hjrse for the
purpose OF dragsl 6 his wagon hone. AS
tAe crowd broke up philanthropic psdes-
trlan remarked, VITA sign, TO tue person
with a warG o. nis nose that the pooc beast
was TO be CO gratu ated upon having fin
lshed his career of usefulness i tais world.
TAeman vi h the wa. grinned, anI reolied
ne S, far from being finished, had onIy be-
gun.
TAKEN AWAY IN A DRAY.
The philauth opic citizel did not under
stand the meaning of this response; but he
W, uld have comprenended 1t better if he
had waited a minute or 90 more, at the end
of which hea Y d ay was driven up along
side the pavement and two me with an III
cnned pane III boards and rope-oacke
h. i -.
drove away with it. The bys ande S H.
tlced tnat TIE dray wa, marked in Dig let
tcrS with the name OF sucn-and-sucl a
firm, manufacturers Of superior fertil-
izers"
This, then, was to be the destiny of the
deceased qdadru ed. Unlike the egg that
cnlrps at breakfast, it had not survlveI the
peri d of It's usei ulnes,. IL would live
again in tae fruits and flower, and waving
grain 10 which it might contribute the ele-
ments of growth.
PUT THROUGH THE MILL.
After awhile the dray ca he to a stop in
front OF an ugly-looki building On the
Potomac ba < at the other end of George
town. The men did not hold heir II ga.
but hat wa because they were u ed to tbs
very u. peasant smells which tuiuke toe
atmosphere of tie locality. The ca case
was uni AIDED ami, haviag boon conveye1
floor There a expert opera or set O NO
up n it with en- kil.e and quickly re-
III we'd he entire skin, the portion vorilS
the cad and tail included. The fiayed i
NAL was thea cut up into SIX pa Is,
wnic vera thrown luto a big on kettl,
with steam jacket and boiled fur hours.
At the en- of tuis time tue big bones,
lOosened from the flesh by cook g, We're
separa ed from tue ma IS of mea5 Wit
"a for n inr
fe. Til Ter, which is very expensive, but CON-
tdins elements that r,store the nu ritive
power to the soil in Wonderful man er.
FOR whereas fertilizers iuade of flesh pro-
due good elect that is mer, ly TEN IOrary,
the gr ID oone supplies the appetite of the
buggy loan in a way that really lasts.
Nitrogen, carOon and lime, when it so
largely contains, are marvellous growth pro-
ducers.
USING Up THE REMNANTS.
But, as wa, alb Tut to be S lid, 70 flesh and
little boaes, sftsr the dig bodes had beeA
taken out, were put under powerful press,
big enough to accommodate nalf ton, and
squeezed until neary every r.ice of
water and grease mad been forced out of the
usSu'. Thea the mass was placed in a
steam dryer with two Jackets ,etweeu watch
steam was continually flo wing around, and
after awhile it came out dry as a chip.
Not bit of grease or moisture, in ic
the elements of decomposlti N are prop -
gated, remained and the residue, after being
gro nd UP fue in a sort of mill, resemuled
Lone ia X tobacco more than Anything else.
IL had no offensive smell, and the re or err
was iuform-d that it would last indefinitely
without exhibiting sigl of decay or
change In this form, put up in bag, il
wa, ready for the farmer-an excellent fer
tlhzer, tao gh by no means equal to ground
bone. 1t is mucn cheaper, however
THE SKINS AND HOOPS.
And now, presume ly, you are under the
impr ssi1u that you kno all about the post
morcem history of a horse. BY no means.
You have AoS yet besI told that his SIX n
goes TO Philadelphia or NeN York. ana IS
made into base ball covers. Nothing so