El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-23
OWneY Killed.

Owney. th= famous Scotch terrier OF
the railway mail service who passe
through Ell PasO several year ago, and
sket h of whom appeared in the
HERALD az the time, has at last sue
cumbed to the Inevitable. He was
killed in Cleveland Ga last Friday
evening, af,er having beaten brake
man and policeman.
Inc dog was IN bad temper, caused,
it is declared, by having been CON
PEELED to ride in d baggage instead of a
mail car The superin tendent of
mails at Chicago had recently issued
an order that IN all car privileges no
longer be extended to him on that
division. AT the time OF his de4th
Owney wore a collar to which were
attach he'd scores of badges and checks,
showing the extent of his travels
Supe intendent V. J. Bradley, of the
New York div sion, said yesterday:
He was a most remarka ble dog. He
was BON ia the Albany pos soffice
building about a dom years ago and
followed the ma |, since he was alb to
toddle the way in which, on mt r.
ing railroad station, he would uuer-
rirgly pick out he mail car from % ass
enger coac nes a d bag cage and Express
cars Seemed u snow more Jtan msre
instinct VIII il WAS err we ecu " re-
pOr Ell, SOM wee 5 ago. h t h dug
tal been killed a. Strac Ise | was T. =
quest d b. the cu-rnd al of the Pp-t-
Off e Depa rtment NJ IS nm. at Wa IL
ingtun, 10 nave the Dody sbuffei aud
sent o the Museum. L DO UOV eXpact
TO take such actio ibis time. however.
"a the dea his ut occurred on my
DIV sion. Not tmprOb ibly though, tae
Was hington Museum will be the rest
log place of the stuffed 20 vrey..''
20 -, ~
try at his own Will, and rarely remain
ed in on ace for more tn few
days. On his passages through city
streets, b-twe en- matt cars ana post
offic S, he ms s5ed on riding On the seat
beside the driver.
The 90 :, upon whose co lar was the
words, Il II Owney the post Office
dog" has teen in eve"y pDrtton Of tGe
United S rases, and his friends sent him
a couple ye lis ago on trip around
the wor d. From San Fra &c SEQ he
weot via matt ste amer to Yokoham4 +,
where he was we'll rece we'd by the
''Owney" lost an eye, but killed the
o her dog. He went TO Hong Kong,
Shaghai, Singapore, and lay on a pie
of mail bags as ne sail through the
Suez He Stopped at AIgier5 and then
proceeeed to Liverpool, and then came
once more to the United a es.
How Much Water should We Drink.
Pro,e SIR Allen las 1t down that
1--WE should drink from One-third to
two-f fths as macy ounces OF wat-r pr
diem as we weigh il hounds. There
fore, for a man weight g l65 pounds
would be required from tiity-six to
sixty -four on ce5 daily, or from one
and one-half To fur pints. This we
T. "a a I'd n tEfinjtn
Toe amount of water requ re / depends
on the -ason Of the y. AZ, the amount
of work done ard the kiud of food eat
N. In hOG we lther We require more
than in cold because Of the gre lter loss
through the skio, though this is in
part made up by the Lesser amount
passed away through the kidneys. If
d man labors very hard he requires
more an if his labor is light, a man
working in a foundry where the tenn
pera ure is high and the Precipitation
profuss not unfrequently drinks thre ;
or four gallon daily.-Science Stiff
ings.