St. Landry democrat., 1894-02-03

AN unsupported trait of COW nature
was recently revealed The Philadelphia
Record of recent date tells of Pottston
farmer who, visiting his cows at pasture,
found them very drunk. Their antics
as they staggered about resembled the
actions of drunken men. They beloved,
threw their heads and tails in the air,
and acted like circus horses prancing to
the music of a brass band. 1t was the
worst lot of jig dancing that Farmer
Jacob Christmas had ever witnessed.
The COWS were clearly and thoroughly
intoxicated, and how they became so
was a mystery. A veterinary surgeon
named Evans was summoned and an in
vestigation commenced It was dis
covered that the cattle had broken into
their owners cornfeld and the green corn
they had eaten had fermented in their
stomachs and caused intoxication.
CANADIAN papers tell of the death of
Mrs. Charity Moore at the age of eighty.
Her life proves the old adage that truth
is stranger than fiction. She was the
daughter of a farmer and cloth~mill
owner near Belfast, and fell in love with
one of her fathers workmen. whom she
married. This displeased her father,
and it became necessary for the young
couple to come to America. They set
tied in the Province of New Brunswick,
where, after life of hard struggling
with poverty, which he never quite sue
ceeded in conquering, Moore died, leav
ing his widow with large family. They
were Woodworking family, but never
made much progress, and they were in
very humble circumstances, indeed, when
one evening about five years ago
knock was heard upon the door and
stranger entered. After a few questions
he startled the mother with the informa-
ton that her only brother had died in
testate and that she was the sole heir to
all the immense property and business
which in the fifty years of her absence
her father and brother had accumulated
in Belfast, the income from which was
100000 year. In few months she
was formally put into possession of this
immense wealth. She never realized
how riol she was, as will be shown by
single incident. The first remittance
she received was $50, 900. She at once
went to her lawyer and asked what she
should do with it. He advised her to
give some of it to her family. She said
that was good plan and forthwith sent
to each of her children $40 bill.
LIVING in a fashionable town within
committing distance of New York is
gentleman who invariably attracts atten-
ton by his long hair. Strangers always
conclude that he is nothing less than a
great lawyer or bank president. When
a reporter for the Commercial Advertiser
asked his fellow townsmen about him he
was told the following story: One day
the gentleman, who is one of the best
accountants in the metropolis, stepped
up to the president of the bank by
which he is employed and said he had
decided to resign, and that the resigna-
ton must 60 into effect Immediately.
The president was 10th to lose so val
liable man, and urged him to recon
slider the matter. lie talked with him
for an hour, but to no purpose. The
cmploye, whose skill as a mathematician |
was beyond anything ever met with by
the officials of the bank, was bound to |
leave the institution, but absolutely re-
fused to give any reason for doing so.
The accountant left that day, and the
bank was obliged to get along as best it
could without him. Ten days later the
cashier was astonished on entering the
bank to find the accoun tant hard at work
Mt his old desk The mathematician said
good morning, just as he had done every
day for years before he resigned, but of
fered no explanation. The president
and cashier let their strange acting en-
ploye keep at his work and asked him
40 questions. Three months later the
accountant went into the presidents
office again and rendered his resignation
It was accepted, and the man was absent
or a week or more. Then he suddenly
'eturned. The same thing was repeated
again and again. Now it is a standing
oke in that bank that the accountant
las resigned. 1t is his way of taking a
He never stays away more
han two weeks.