Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-18
4 Curious Decree of Nature.

Curious Decree of Nature.
 A curious simuttude runs through the whole race of swift=feoted horned mammals-de antelopes and goats in that every one has more or less white about the tail and the adjacent parts of the launches, and also ten dency to decided marks on the face or throat, says writer in New York publication. In the elk. it is q dull yellowish disk surrounding the tail; in the mule-deer, or blaektaii. of our west. the stern is marked by two oval white patches, between which the gray tail ending in a black taft is Wagged continuously when the animal leaps away in alarm, by it's peculiar elastic bounds. Our eastern deer, when quiet ly feeding, betrays no more white be- hind than a mere N-shaped frings to the broad tail. Let something alarm it, however, and up go head and tail. These are its private signals to either friend or foe The white tbroat-pateh and small white edged ears are dis played as a house flag to tell it's name; the uprearing of the tail is a danger signal to all it's mates far and near Look out, something suspiciousi" And these diamond shaped white stern patches and the distinctive carriage of the tail serve another important pur- pose. for they form sure guides through tall grass or thick woods or the dark ness of night for the animals of 8 band to follow their leader, and par tieHlarly to enable the lawns to fol- low their fleeing dams. Men familiar with deer hunting in the west have told me more than once that deer of any sort, with lawns. will rush through a band of cattle, or even through 8 band of different deer, in the darkest night, and never one mistake a stran- ger for it's own kin. guided only by the white marks on the launches of those ahead.
 A Notable Shipment Of Perch heron Horses.-The following appeared last week in a Chicago paper: Chicago has become a horse market for the Pacific coast. Yesterdays overland freight On the Northwestern railroad took a car load of sixteen giant Percheron craft horses, consigned to a brewing and malting establishment in Seattle Wash. The animals had to themselves a palace" stable car equipped with everything dear to equine appetite and comfort, with special attendant to minister to their wants. It is said to be the first time Chicago has been drawn on for such consignment to a domestic destination nearly 2,500 miles away. In anticipation of the new field of traffic the shipment may open, the railroad company has sent along it's right-of-way orders to rush" the ear to the coast with all possible dispatch. None of the horses was un- der sixteen hands high, while they tipped the scales at an average weight of 1.750 pounds. They were of the uniform shade of "dapple gray" and were bred on the pratries of Iowa and Illinois.
 A GhHd's Wish.
 Be my fairy, mother.
 Give me a wish a day.
 something, as we'll in sunshine
 As when the rain-drops play" And if were q fairy.
 ith but one wish to spare. " nat should l give thee, darling.
 To quiet thine earnest praYer2"
 d like a little brook. mother.
 All for my very own.
 10 laugh all day among the trees,
 And shine on the messy stone. 10 run right under the window,
 And sing me fast asleep.
 With soft steps and tender sound
 over the grass to creep.
 Make 1t run down the hill mother,
 With a leap like tinkling bell. So last never can catch the leaf
 That into it's fountain fell.
 Make 1t as wild as a frightened bird.
 As crazy as 8 bee.
 AIla noise like the baby's funny laugh