Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-28
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eating meat and fish until I bought that
nag" said a well-known butcher of New
ark. n. j., recently calling the writer's at
tention to large gray horse which stood
in front of his shop. 'Of course, l don
mean to say that Tom subsists entirely
on animal food, but after the beast has
finished his midday meal of oats and hay l
or nv man frequently give him bit or
steak, liver or. in short, almost any variety
of meat which he eats with apparent relish
Toms appetite developed about two
months ago. No one knew of his strange
Partially for meat until one day he was
seen to reach into another Of my carts that
was tied just ahead of him and calmly
begin eating a steak. After that he was
fed often with bits of meat, and many
bet has been won and lost on his peculiar
appetite.
up to last week Tom varied his carnal
meals by eating a fish, but he was then
cured in manner that was ludicrous to the
spectators, but very painful to himself. he
was reaching into q fish wagon where his
olfactories detected the odor of his favorite
fish, a snelt, when an active and belligerent
crab took offense at the intrusion and
promptly fastened to his lower lip. Tom
shook his head frantically and whinnied in
pain, but the crustacean held on until he
was crushed by being banged against the
side of the wagon. Since then nothing will
tempt the horse to look at fish,
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One of the frequent callers at the White
House is an old Virginian. well known in
many cities and chimes. He was once in
the diplomatic service. and because he IS a
republican desires another appointment.
He comes to the White House as regularly
each day as he says his prayers, and he
declares that he does this every morning.
In the two years time he has never seen
the President, but he talks to other OFF,
Gals. His daily visits are expected now.
Nearly every morning during the last
| month the judge" has stopped at u tree
on his way out of the grounds, and those
who did not know the kind OF tree mar
veled at this performance. The tree is a
horse chestnut and stands near the gate at
the northeast corner of the grounds. 1t
furnishes good deal of fruit, and when the
chestnuts are first beginning to drop they
are said to be fairly nice In favor. They
taste much like the regular chestnut. THE
judge" not only secured all he wanted to
eat, but placed many of the chestnuts in
his pocket.
In the lower part of the White House
grounds are any number of buckeye trees,
which furnish buckeyes by the busfel.
These trees came from Ohio, their native
President Hayes. Many a visitor to the
White House would give considerable to
get some of these buckeyes as souvenirs,
but visitors are not allowed in the
lower portion of the grounds they are not
aware of the existence of the trees and
what they bear. Many people who believe
that buckeyes prevent rheumatism and
other ills and miSfOrtuneS carry White
House buckeyes in their pockets. The
buckeyes look much like the horse chest
nuts in shape and color, but the skin IS
almost as hard as flint and they keep for
ever. One of the best-known Presidents
is said to have carried a buckeye IN each
trousers pocket to ward of rheumatism