Morris tribune., 1890-11-19
MEANS SPOT CASH

Attorney General Miller has given ar
opinion that the anti-lottery law does
not prohibit the guessing contests" now
much in vogue among newspapers as 9
means of advertising.
Mr.. Goschen, chancellor Of the exche.
quer, was elected lord rector of the
university of Edinburgh, Mr.. aoseher
received 1879 votes and his competitor
Sir Charles Russell, S01.
A dispatch from Madrid says that the
total number Of deaths from cholera in
Spain during the present epidemic is
about 5000, The disease has not yet
been stamped out in Valencia.
At the recent election held at the
university of Glasgow, Mr.. Balfour,
chief secretary for Ireland, was elected
to the Office of lord rector, receiving 94s
votes, as against TIT cast for the Earl oi
Aberdeen.
Patrick Delaney, who was implicated
in the Phoenix park murders, and was
serving sentence Of life imprisonment
has been released from prison. He was
witness for The London Times before
the Parnen commission.
Amsterdam advices state that Sweden
has notified Belgium that the former
country will not accede to any annual
contribution to the support of the Congo
Free State, Sweden having no commerce
whateveS with the Congo.
Bancroft, the actor, has offered te
give $4,000 to the fund that Is being
raised by Gen. Booth, Of the Salvation
Army, for the redemption Of the
masses, providing ninety-nine other sub.
scriptions of an equal amount are made,
The trial of Michael Eyraud, the
stranger, who, with Gabrielle Bompard
as his accomplice, is charged with hay.
ing murdered ~. Geuffe, q notary in
Paris, on July 26, 1889, and who was
subsequently captured in Havana, has
been postponed until Dec. 10.
State Dairy Commissioner Tupper, oil
Iowa, has compiled his report of the
amount Of, butter shipped out of the
state by the various railroads for the
year ending Oct. l. All the railroads
have reported save the Chicago and
Northwestern, and the amount is placed
at 70 800 GOO pounds,
Animal rriendshirs
Here Is another story about the friend
ship OF animals. A blacksmith named
Thomas Rae bought little black faced
lamb and put 1t into field in which
were q COW and q little Galloway pony
The lamb took no notice of the cow, bui
soon began to show great fondnesa fol
the pony, which returned Its affection
and thu two friends kept constantly II
each others company. When the pony
was used for riding or drawing car
the lamb would trot beside it, and if q
any time the lamb was alarmed b,
people coming too near to look at 1t, j
would run under the body of the pom,
and pop out its little black face from
between the forelegs, and look about |
in conscious security. At night TIN
lamb slept in the stable, and If separated
from the pony would raise plaintiv
bleatings, which the pony answered b.
mournful neighings. And Just as dol
leaves5 She sociesy of Its own kind b
follow man, this little lamb forsook it
own species that it might associate witt
It's friend, for on one occasion, when th
blacksmith was riding the pony, th
lamb, as usual, trotting beside it, the.
passed d large flock of sheep that wa
being driven along the road. The lam
never needed the sheep, bnt wen
straight through them with The pony
|. Another time both pony and lam
strayed into an adjoining field, in whicl
there was flock of sheep feeding. Th
lamb joined them for q short time, bu
a. soon IS Che blacksmith came to driv
cut the pony the lamb followed withou
once looking back at It's natural CON
| nanicus. Christian Advocate,