Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-31

/ has entire charge. She does not simply
take the cattle to the range and leave them
| there, but remains with them, and takes
care of them as well as coald any cowboy.
Her duties frequently tax here from thirty
to forty miles from home, as the cattle
must be kept moving in order to feed we'll.
She wears q wide -brimmed white felt hat,
long gauntlet gloves, carries lsriat coiled
about the horn of her saddle, Is provided
with branding irons, and rides the widest
bronco on the range.
Before the war consumption was exceed
ingly rare among the southern negroes,
some physicians even affirming that 1t was
entirely unknown. DR.. G. w. Hubbard
of Nashville, Tennessee, has complied sta
tistics from the health reports of that city
and FIVE others In the south which show
that the rate of mortality among the ne
groes from consumption is now nearly four
times as great as among the whites. The
change ia equally marked in regard to in
sanity. DIR. T. o. Powell superintendent
Of the Georgia state asylum, says that
''thirty years ago there were only forty
Eve insane negroes in Georgia, while now
there are over thousand" -
The lsoyrinthodon, q huge creature re-
sembling toad or frog, and which lived
in the earlier period of our planets his
tory, has recently been found in a eur
prising state of preservation In the mari
beds of Huezelweitz, Hungary. ALI species
of this gigantic frog are now extinct, and
are known to the nsturslists only through
the investigations of the geologists, who
have often found parts or entire fossils of
the monster in strata of the trisssic por-
tion OF the mesoEoio period. The speci-
men unesrthed in the Hungarian mari bed
is entire with the exception of the left
forearm and the lower jaw. The skull
measures eighteen inches between the eye
sockets, and weighs, exclusive of the miss
ing underjaw, 3l2 pounds The bones
which have been discovered up to date
land there is still hopes OF finding the
missing parts,) with the adhering mstrix,
weigh l $50 pounds, almost ton.
A charge of the most callous cruelty to
animals is brought by Humane Agent of
Pittsburgh against certain companies that
ship cattle from Chicago to Philadelphia.
The freight time on the railroads between
these points Is seventy hours, and 1t is al
legged that the beasts are kept without
water during all this time in order that on
their arrival they will drink an enormous
quantity and increase thsir weight Fifty or
sixty pounds. at the East End stock
yards in Pittsburgh there are several huge
troughs to which the cattle are supposed
to be admitted to quenoh their thirst on
the way to Philadelphia. Here they ar
rive between midnight and morning, and
it eaid that the practice with the drovers
has been to go before the cattle into the
yards, pail the plugs in the troughs, snd
let out every drop of water. This finally
reached the ears of a Humane Agent, and
for several nights he lay on top of tn,
stockysId fences Watching the drovers and
securing evidence. He describes the suf
ferings of the cattle az something dread
full. They would rush to the troughs Il
find them empty, and would then trampl'
one another under foot to lick the We
boards.
a report is circulating in Europear
cirles that the Czar will issue o ukase or
January l, 1894, putting an end TO the de
portation of conyicts to Siberia. and that
on the same day the provisions of the
Judicial Procedure act of Alexander II
with the exception Of trial by jury, are tc
be extended to that country. 1t has beef
expected that, ss a result of the recent
visit of the Czarevltch, and in view of tn,
construction of the trsns-Slberian rail
rosd, a revolution in the government oi
! Siberia woald be- effected, bat the report
| of a change SO radical as that suggested IL
/ received with csution. The nGturs
wealth of Siberia makes It an ideal lsnt
for colonization, for It is by no means
region of unrelieved hsIshness and arcti
rigors as ia largely supposed. Its horror
are in the convict mines and the exile sys
TEN, not In the country itself. But tn
abrogation of the system of Siberian exil
would change the whole scheme of gov
eminent in Russia, and, while some radl
cal change in Siberia Is confidently ex
pected In the near future, 1t Is though
hardly probable that the Gear will make
move so positive SIS that.