The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-10-09


erel, said Bowdoinham epieure,
concerning this famous dish. ERRED
brown, with plenty of salt pork, they
are food fit for the gods. Lewis
ton (Me.) Journal.
| There is cab horse which can be
seen on one of the Islands, along
Broadway which has breathed for
years through a false windpipe. The
animal had the heaves and not only
made as much noise as a locomotive,
but his speed was reduced nearly
half because of this difficulty. A vet
erinarian inserted a tube and the
horse breathes as we'll as ever. The
only part of the apparatus which is
visible is a small metal disk through
which the air enters.
An English tourist was being driv-
en- on a jaunting car through the
Donegal Highlands, and after a time
the result of his observations came
to the surface In the following que
nv: "Driver! I notice that when YOU
speak to your friends whom you
meet on the road you invariably do
so in Irish, but when you address
your horses you do so in English.
How is this?' To which came the
retort: "Musha, now thin. Isn't
English good enough for him ?''-
The Spectator.
It is seldom that a hurricane and
thunderstorm brings in its train del
uge of game birds. This singular
spectacle, however, was witnessed in
the Tarbes district recently. The
storm broke over. the district in the
evening, and when the gale was at
its height, about 10 O'Clock, large
focks of quail, which must have been
migrating at an invisible hight, were
beaten to the groud, the plain around
the city being thickly strewn with
their bodies Tn the grounds of the
Hotel de Paris, the birds were picked
up in dozens. -London Globe.
Almost beyond belief is the story
which comes from England of a trick
the wind played not long ago on the
spire of a Presbyterian church. 1t
blew the steeple above the belfry %
| degrees out of plum, SO that the
| spire pointed in a northwesterly d.
rection and it was feared that it
would fall. When the next morning
men were engaged in Strengthening it
the wind veered around and blew it
back to its original position. Of
course, it was necessary for the men
to strengthen it and it's supports, but
the wind s freak made their work
much easier.
Egypt puts in a claim to possess
the oldest person in the world, one
Ahmed Selim, who has just turned
six score. He remembers Napoleon
in Egypt, or says he does, and how
he scattered the mamelukes before
him "with his whirlwind sword,'
more potent than even the prophet s
heaven descended blade. He was long
a slave in Cairo, but is now bedrid-
den, and taken care Of by great
granddaughter, herself now well
along in years. Old Arabs remember
him as an old man when they were
boys and have no difficulty in believ-
ing that he is as aged as he says he is.
In this country, the general method
is to run a locomotive for limited
number of years. and then to relegate
it to thescrap heap in favor of
more modern type of engine. On the
other side, however, the practice is
to retain a locomotive in service as
long as it will run, irrespective of the
developments and improvements that
may be incorporated in the progress
of time. The result is that upon the
English railroad may be seen engines
still in hard use which we should con-
slider long past their term of service.
Yet no English engine has attained
the unique distinction achieved
by the locomotive No. 955, "Charles
Dickens,' upon the London &
Northwestern railway, which has COW
cred close upon 100000 miles in
haulage of express trains since 1882.
American.