Year: 1876

Experiments.

 There lives in the south part Of town { good little boy, constructed in most re- spects like the average boy but with his bump Of ingenuity crowding the others slightly. The little boys father some time since presented him with a dog, the party of the second part agreeing therefor to re- sign his position as vice-president Of a

 youthful club of free-booters whose rem dezvous was in a neigh boring vacant lot, and to remain at home of nights, with an

 understood condition that his little sister and the domestic cat should be his legiti-

 mate game. The dog was good enough

 but unprepossessing in appearance. being a cross between a coyote and a sooner dog. It had a full grown streamer tall, and what worried his youthful proprietor was

 that on the first signal of danger his dogs | tail would drop between hls hind legs and stick out between his fore legs and deprive the animal of every vestige of courage.

 The boy was convinced in his own mind

 that if the tail could be kept in its nor nal position and even elevated a little, in seasons Of danger, his dog would be as

 brave as a lion. Being an ingenious boy he resorted to various expedients to reme- dy the dropping tendency in the dogs mar. rative. He levied upon and used all his

 mothers best pearl starch, but without ef- | feet other than to add 10 the dogs dissat- 1 isfaction with worldly affairs. He induc- ed a young companion, whose father was a doctor, to borrow the old gentleman's electric machine, and together they gave the dog a shock which threw it into con- vulsions and destroyed It's voice; 1t was never known to bark again. But the tall stlll went down at the first sign of danger and carried the animals courage with it. l At last the happy idea Of balloons struck the ingenious boy. He had seen a lot of toy balloons in a store and 1t occurred to him that a sufficient force of aerial attach ments fastened to the dogs caudal appen- dage would be just the thing. The balloons cost money and the boy was little short Of funds, not having received any salary of course since he had resigned the vice. presidency of the free-booters, but he had read much Of self-made men and so at an

 opportune visit Of a peddler, during the absence Of his parents, he sold sufficient Of their wardrobe to create a sinking fund and forthwith bought out the storekeep- CTS stock of balloons. His first experi- ment was gratifying in Its success. He fastened six toy balloon power tO his dogs tail and let go. Presto, there was splen- didly elevated tail, while a look Of grim ferocity stole gradually over the animals Icountenance. Leading the way to the front gate where Q little dog was passing with a matutinaI bone in his mouth, the

 big dog dashed through the gate, jumped the little one, broke three Of his legs and took possession of the bone, and bigger dog happening along at this stage of af- fairs, instead Of the balloon dog running as heretofore, he merely dropped the bone as something undesirable, and stalked maJestically to the back yard, the tail ele- vated, the balloons flying in the air and his youthful master following in the rear 2 whistling Yankee Doodle. This was glory . enough for one day and the boy rested on his laurels, whiling away the hours by di- . vertlng his mother with plausible theories concerning the disappearance Of her ward robe, and filling the eat with mechanically unrest and spring-halJ by attaching ba- lloon to each Of her hind legs. The next lmorning the ingenious boy determined to

 crown his efforts with complete success.

 So attaching his entire balloon power

 some two dozen, to his dogs tail he start led ahead for the street calling his canine lcompanion 10 follow. with the intention |. Of finding the biggest dog in the neighbor- hood and getting up a fight. Reaching the gate and hearing a terrible bowling

 behind him, he turned and 10 his horror

 beheld his dog in mid air, gradually as cending 10 other worlds. The balloon power was too strong. The boy rushed .i frantically into the house and called his

 parents out, only to be filled with help

 less astonishmeut and 10 see the dog slow ly disappear in the blue ether. The boy

 has since explained and his father being

 of a scientific turn Of mind, has exempt , ed him from punishment on the ground - that his disastrous experiment has devel s oped the possible cause of such things a. r the Kentucky shower Of meat