The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

can count, and has found that horses can
count more numbers than any other ami
NAL He has found that a parrot can
count four, cat six, crows ten, and some
few dogs twenty .-r. .e1ss -. -.
But he found horses that could count
more than this. One would pillow across
a held twenty times and would then stop
and rest, but Il never stopped at nine
teen or twenty-one. Always lust twenty
Another horse always counted the miles
along the road by the white mileposts
that We're set up. and stopped every TWEEN
ty-flVe miles, as it had been taught to do
TO be fed. Another one was always fed
when the town clock struck z When
the clock struck eleven 1t would lift up
Its head and listen, but when the bell
mad stopped would again droop it's ears
But when the clock struck II it always
neighed loudly for dinner
New Year Dinner for Veteran Cbarg-
Once in every twelvemonth the animals
in the Home of Rest for Horses, at Friar' s
Place Farm, Acton, of which the Duke
Of Portland is president, are treated to
New Year dinner.
The objects of the home are to enable
the poorer classes to procure on moder-
ate terms rest and good treatment for an 10.
imals that are failing, not from age but
from continuous work, sickness or acct
dental causes, and are likely to be bene-
Led by few weeks rest and care. Also
to provide animals for poor persons for
temporary use while their own are resting
in the home and 10 provide a suitable
asylum for old favorites" that would suf-
fer by being turned out only TO grass, but
whose owners. instead Of destroying or
selling them for further labor desire TO
place them under good treatment for the
remainder of their days, paying remu-
For nine years in succession money 10
provide the dinner has been furnished by
a philanthropic woman named Gore, who
orders for this special feed sugar,
brown bread, apples, carrots and white
bread.
This years meal was served to nearly
thirty horses. conspicuous among the odd
favorites" being the Old Man, brown
horse, 81 years of age. and an inmate Of
the home since March, 1892, and Bones
a veteran black charger of the House
Guards (Blues), now the property of Miss
Hardy, and an inmate since 1893. Bones
figured conspicuously in the Egyptian war
of 1852, and took part in the famous
charge at Kassassin.
Bert sheIdon's Eccentriclties.
All horses have pecularities but Bert
Sheldon, one of the most popular trotters
in the National Trotting Association, out
Glasses All OF tntn IOT lnt sluHtS
does of the track as well as on. He is
about as cranky as a genius, says the
Cincinnati Enquirer.
In his stall Bert is a character. II a
rooster enters the stall ten to one he'll
meyer get out alive. lie wrings the roos-
ter's neck and then dispatches him with
avidity But let a hen fly up on the door,
he is all cordiality.
Everything that most men like Bert likes
beer for instance. His driver has never
tried to get him drunk, but he has given
him pail fun of beer at time, and Bert
would call for more. This is not all. Bert
likes potatoes. bananas oranges-if peeled.
He dotes on peaches, and does not swallow
the stones; he eats prunes, Jelly, bread and
butter, pickles, corned beef and cabbage,
carrots and string beans. He Is fond of
apples, pears, grapes and sugar.
Berts pecunafities on the road are fun
ny. A boy sleeps in the same car on a
cot. Bert never goes to sleep until that
boy Is in bed. and then he lays his head
against the same pillow and sleeps that
way. one night the boy attended show.
Bert had raced hard that day and could
not stand the late hours. He rolled the
bed clothes back so the boy could jump
into bed without waking him up, and
then laid his head on the edge OF the
inflow "a tho lad would have room.