Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1884 — Mules and Horses. [ARTICLE]

Mules and Horses.

The question as to the Btatus of the mule in the animal kingdom is a muchmooted one here. An ordinance was passed by the Council some months since prohibiting certain animals, among them horses, from running at large within the city limits. Mules were omitted—accidentally, it is supposed. The owner of one of these animals was arraigned before our former Mayor charged with violating the ordinance in question. He pleaded in bar of the offense that mules were not included in the ordinance. The Mayor accepted the plea and discharged him on the ground that “a mule was not a horse. ” Since that time the owners of these kicking quadrupeds have not been slow to take advantage of the decision, as well as of the defective ordinance. The present executive, however-, has just fined one of these parties, deciding that in contemplation of the law “a mule is a horse.” — Roanoke (Fa.) Cor. Lynchburg News. * * * Loss of power in either sex, however induced, speedily, thoroughly and permanently cured. Address, with three letter stamps for reply and book of particulars, World s Dispensary Medical Association, Stitt Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. A Chicaoo surgeon advertises to cure bare-lip. He don’t give his name, but it is probably Philip.