The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-02-20
Ghr1rmorraf-S STIR
THE GOAT As Az EATER.
New Orleans States.

New Orleans States.
A good deal has been written
about The digestion OF an ostrich,
but there Is nothing that al ostrich
will eat that goat will not tackle
and goit two or three better. There
are goats with appetiies that range
all the way from tender rose buds
far into The domain of broken
crockery and discarded hardware,
and To face an ostrich with their
records would cause that modest
bird to plunge lis head IN the sand
and wait for death TO relieve il of
its disgust.
Three goats arrived in the city
this morning on the Illinois Cen
tral train from Memphis, and each
one, it appears, has done himself
proud in maintaining the record As
the greatest all around eaters in
the world. The goats were placed
by their owner, when the train left
Memphis, in tn" baggage car and
he informed the train men that
they were trained and perfectly
harmless, and the result was the
animals YER tied to straps of
trunks, for safe keeping. Tie
journey to New Orleans had not
fairly commenced, however, be-
fore the restless nature of the goat
asserted itself, and they quietly
freed themselves 10y eating off the
straps to whichthey were chained.
The taste of the leather whetted
their appetItes and they began to
look around the car Tor something
on which 10 make a square meal,
and "A package of mai tor Herman
do. Miss, that the baggage master
had placed on q trunk while en-
gagged in his duties. suddenly dis
appeared, and when he missed the
package the goats were devOtlng
themselves 10 the feast that had
been set before them in the shape
of the checks on the trunks and a
dozen mor of them brass, leather,
and all, 10 the dismay OF the bag
gage master had gone 10 join the
Hernendo mail together with all
of his way bills, and the binding
OF several handsome volumes be-
longing to a book agent.
No person on earth can express
himself on the spur ofthe moment
with as much force as a baggage
master on a railroad, but his allu-
siuns to the conduct of the goats
had no effect whatever, and a look
of gentle innocence shone in their
eyes as they smacked their lips
over what they regarded as an in.
sufficient luncheon and commence
ed TO glance around for something
more substantial. The baggage
master no doubt fearing that The
goats might take a notion TO eat
him summoned the conductor and
the two surveyed the mass of mu-
tilated baggage and asked each
other what the indignant pasSen-
gers would say and what the SUI
perntendent would think when it
was discovered that the tram mail
for fernando, Miss, had not been
delivered, aud that the way bills
had gone where the woodbine
%twineth, together with sundry ar.
ticles belonging to the railroad
company. The scene that occurred
at the depot when the train reach
ed this city and when passengers
went to claim their trunks, is de
scribed as fearful, as the baggage
master related IN mOurnful Ian
guage that the checks he had put
on the exterior Of the trunks were
at that moment lodged somewhere
in the interior Of the goats, and up
to the hour of going to press we
have not heard how the matter
was settled between the railroad
officials and the passengers. 1t is
understood, that the goals are per-
fectly complacent and still hungry.
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