The record-union., 1893-11-03
TWO LEGS ONLY FOR ONE PIG.
"aria' native of Spain. Now Enjoy
Ing Life on Washington Nights.


Maria, Native of Spain, Now Enjoy
Ing Lie on Washington Nights.
That fin de steele civilization has not as
ton of New York known as Wasbineton
lights is proved by the fact that as vet
Washington Hights has no dime mu-
scum. Consequently Policeman John
broWns pig, Which is spending the fall
season WIN Joseph Campbell in a SUBJ
urban retreat at One Hundred and
Elghty-tnlrd street and Tenth avenue,
ana whIch Is a porclne prodigy any dime
museum manager might be proud of. is a
promise OF better and bigger things for
those on the Hights, says the New York
Times.
Maria Officer Browns pet is of the
feminine persuaslon-is porker worthy
OF the most distinguished consideration,
She comes OF lllustriOus Cantabrian an
cestry, having peen captured, so Police
man Brown avouches, some two and a
half years ago, while sucking. In the
north of Spain by party of boar hunters.
who evidently knew that in some cases at
least half hog is not only better than
none, but better than whole one.
Maria's chief claim to renown lies in the
fact that, literally enough, she is not all she
might be. When cruel Nature turned
her out to grub for trutfles she ONLY gave
her two legs. Maria's hind legs Rava
been totally omitted in her architecture.
and so she has to go through life balanc-
ing herself on her two front legs in soma-
what the same fashion as an acrobat bal
ances himself when he walks on his
hands. She has, it is true two rudiment-
airy hind legs, but they are concealed un-
der the skin OF her hams, and are of no
more use to her than a mans vermiforn
appendix is to him. All her locomotion
has to be effected by means of her two
front legs, and very lively locomotion liz
is, too.
Maria does not know enough to know
that she has legal claim to pair of hind
legs. Consequently their absence does
not worry her, and Mr.. Campbell is ready
TO back her to outsprint any pig of
her weight, some 100 pounds, in the State.
Beside being able to sprint, Maria can
fight like rOomful of wildcats, aud in
spite of her sex, she is not charry of dis
playing her powers. Even the big dog
that Mr.. Campbell keeps chained up in
his yard terror to tramps and also to
visitors, ceases barking and retires into
his inner consciousness and into his ken
mel when Miss Maria, the brisIles on her
back all a-tilt, struts out with the same
motion as chicken into the yard and
surveys the scene, like conquering hero
on crutcheS.
In color, Maria, to borrow the vivid
imagery of her owner, resembles "a ton
Of coal on dark night" Her eyes,
large. brown, and lustrous, are her only
beauty, being far more like those of
dog than pig. Her snout, too, is of ex-
traordinary length. tapering down till
in shape it somewhat resembles a
greyhound's muzzIe. Altogether, Ma
ria is, as Sir Boyle Roche might
have said, "black swan among
pigs" and at the same time she is, ac-
cording to Officer Brown, "a sight more
ornament than use." Most people would
set down Miss Maria as neither orna-
mental nor useful, but as stranger from
the same land as Columbus she is decid-
edly as interesting as many other two
legged visitors from the same place.