The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-27
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or diminutive steeds the Shetland pony is
the most popular and the most reliable one
for children, says the Baltimore Sun. There
| are several varieties that resemble the Shet-
| lands. Among these are the Welsh mountain
| ponies, the English Exmoor with a very
/ beautiful species that comes from the West
! indies. With the exception of the Shetlands
most Of these are likely to fall into bad
/ haDltS, learning to kick, bite and run away.
| All resemble the Shetland pony and are usu-
/ ally so denominated. The real Shetland is
/ thoroughly reliable, They are docile easily
managed and Intelligent, and will allow their
! owners to ride by the primitive method of
/ cinging to their name without thought OF
! Kicking. The age of the Shetland pony
! reaches IS years sometimes. 1t carries about
In its day several generations of children.
! Inc EXmoor pony is perhaps the hardest. In
! the billy country Of which they are natives,
they thrive on the coarse, scanty mountain
herbage, acquiring power of endurance that
! viii enable them to travel thirty or forty
miles a day, carrying weight of 275 pounds.
me value OF pony differs in accordance
| with Its quality They are quite as expensive
as horses, the average specimen costing from
$50 to Sl75. A pair Of white ponies recently
! sold for 1000 The most sought after, how
| ever, are the spotted ponies. The carts cost
from $50 to $50.
The origin of the best strain of Arabian
blood has been related by some romancer,
| says writer in Harper's Magazine. While
Mohammed was fighting his way to greatness.
he was once compelled to lead his corps of
10000 cavalry for three days without drop of
water. At last, from hill top. they deserted
| the silver streak Of distant river. Mohammed
ordered his trumpeter to blow the call to dis
mount and loose the horses. The poor brutes,
starving for water, at once sprang into mad
/ gallop toward the longed-for goal. No sooner
loosened than came the alarm-false as it
| happened-of sudden ambush, 10 horse"
was blown, and repeated by 100 buRles. But
| the demand was too great; the parched throats
/ not to he rpfUSRd. SfnTunpdp grp
! wilder and wilder as 200U0 steeds pushed
| desperately to the river banks. OF all
the frantic crowd but 1--WE mares re-
| sponded the call To these duty was higher
than suffering. They turned in their tracks,
came bravely back, pleading in their eyes and
! anguish in their sunken TANKS, and stood be-
| fore the prophet. Love for their master and
sense of obedience had conquered their dis
tress, but their bloodshot eyes told of a fear
ful torment; the more pathetic for their
dumbness. The danger was over the faith
| full mares we're at once released but Moham-
med selected these five for own his use: and
/ they were the dams of one of the great races
of the desert. From them have sprung the
| best OF Arabian steeds. 1t can. however
scarcely be claimed that the average horse
! OF the Orient comes up to this ideal. He
must have been bred from the 1895
The bulls used for fighting purposes are
| specially selected, specially -cared-for class.
They are all pedgreed, says the Gentlemans
Magazine. Andalusia is especially the dis
trict Of the bull. Here, at the age OF one
| year. the young bulls are separated from the
! heifers. branded with the owners mark and
| turned ont loose on the plains to Craze with
| others of their own age. When q year older,
/ the young bulls are gathered together in or
! der that their mettle and lighting qualities
1 may be tested. One of them is separated
| from the herd. and chased by a man on horse
| back, who, by the skillful use Of a blunted
! lance. overthrows the escaping bull where
upon another rider comes in front OF the AMI
4 NAL with a sharper lance, to Withstand the
! expected attack. II the bull, on regalning his
/ feet. attacks the rider twice. il is passed as a
/ fighting animal; but if he turns tail and
runs off, then il is set aside to be killed or to be
| used in agricultural work. And so with each
/ animal until the whole herd OF 2-year-olds
/ have been tested. Each bull that has stood
! the test successfully is then entered in the
| herd book, with a description OF its appear
| ance, receives name-such as Espartero,
flamenco, and the like. This process OF care
/ ful selection gees on from year to year until
! the bull is years old, when, should its met
Tie still prove true, IL is ready for the arena.
| and flaming posters appear on the walls of
! Madrid or Seville announcing that EsparterO
! Tor whatever his name Isl will on such and
such date make his first and final appear
ance. A good 'warrantable" 5-year-old bull
FOR the fighting rings costs from go to ESQ.
Wherever there's smoke, there's fire. is
an adage based on observation of unvary1ng
physical laws; but the reverse does not al
ways hold good, says the Newcastle Chronicle.
"
| events without apparent smoke In Berlin an
! inventor has succeeded in devising o means
| Tor lnSurfng complete combustion without the
! emission of smoke and his method has on
| repeated tests proved so satisfactory that
| Two OF the most important steam shipping
| companies OF Germany have decided on adapt
! ing II TO their steamers. In this system coal,
| reduced to powder in centrifugal disintegra-
| tors, is introduced into a pear shaped com
! bustion chamber lined with fire Brick, and
ntted with an induction apparatus like those
used In petroleum fired furnaces, the coal dust
| Delng drawn along by a Jet of steam or
! compressed air The combustion cham
per "hlch taxes the place OF furnace,
Is provided with two aper-
| lures, one in the center line of the boiler oc-
| cupy1ng the position of the usual fre-hole
door while the other, on the opposite side of
| the combustion chamber, serves for intro
duclng the coal dust through n pipe, so placed
| that the dust is evenly dispersed over the
| whole surface of the chamber. After the first
| ignition, which may be effected by any
source sou OF neat, the com bustlon continues regu-
larli and intensely under the action of the air
| current, which is regulated in accordance
| with the quantity Of dust required to produce
! the necessary heat. The air or steam and
aust are intimately mingled IN the zone of
| com buStion, while the speed of the current
| which has served as a vehicle for the dust Is
much reduced. Each particle of fuel held in
: suspension is by this method brought into
| Such close contact with the oxygen necessary
| for its combustion that this combustion is 81
complete as to allow Of practically no smoke
|
! The war that is now going on in MatabeIe.
| land, in South Africa is, at best only a CON
tinuation Of that contest for the survival of
the fttest that began with the discovery of
America, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. What
Cortez was to Mexico and Pizarro to Perm
the British military leaders in South Africa
nave neen to Zululand and BechuanaIand
! what the Virginia company was to King Pow
| hatan AMI the natives of Virginia at the he
elnnlng OF the seventeenth century the South
AFRICA company is becoming at the close Of
the nineteenth to King Lobengula and the
saVages OF the Matono HIS Everybody who
mas studied the history of the colonization of
North and South America knows that civili-
zatlon recognized no questions of duty or I'M
mainly towards the savages of the two Amer
lcas Inc natives were not only despoiIed
OF ther happy hunting grounds but
they were ruthlessly slaughtered when
ever they came in the way
OF the white mans greed. Indian savagery
IN North America in the seventeenth and
elghteenth centuries is not to be compared
Win the 0arbarlsm Of the European conouer.
oIS: what began on the James with the Vir
ginla company is now going on under the aus
plces OF the South Africa company in Mata
oeleland'ln Its protested purposes this organ
lzaIon; which came into existence in 1889
under the presidency of the duke OF Fife is
very paclhc, but as matter of fact the inter.
eslS OF the company involve the most ruthless
spoIlatlon ana outehery. 1t was intended no
selZe ana hold such outlying provinces in
south Africa as had not been seized nv the
and al No.