Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1891 — A Clown Goat. [ARTICLE]

A Clown Goat.

Richmond, Me., is the home of a clown goat which is a source of amusement all along the Kennebec. He is a pet among the steamboat men and a regular visitor at the wharf when steamers arrive or depart. One day last week Billy’s owner missed him, but two days afterward, when the steamer Kennebec arrived, the goat walked calmly down the gangplank, dressed in a pair of old trousers, a swallow-tail coat, and a stovepipe hat. He had been to Boston with his friends, the deck-hands, and came home with an increased dignity of bearing naturally consequent upon a visit to that learned town. When a lady in ths waiting-room petted him the goat whipped her veil from her face and swallowed it in a twinkling. Then he, went home in his new togs, which hs has probably since eaten. In Germany experiments have cently been made with small locomotives for towing boats on canals. Instead, however, of attaching the rope to the locomotive it is attached to a heavy towing car, which is drawn by the locomotive. The plan is said to be satisfactory. It is stated that the railroads of ths United States Jose $2,000,000 yearly from landslides, $5,000,000 by floods, $1,000,000 by fire, and $9,000,000 by eollisiohs.