Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — A PATCHED PONY. [ARTICLE]

A PATCHED PONY.

Tricky Indlnns Make Use of a Rabbit Skin. “These stories of Indian troubles in the Southwest remind me of an experience that I had down in New Mexico,” said Henry Davidson, of Albuquerque. “I was new to the region then, and although 1 had heard all sorts of strange tiles about the trickiness of the Indian, I aid not know that ho was as shrewd as 1 afterward found him to be. “I wanted a pony for some reason, and I communicated my desire to a friend of a crowd of the greasy citizens of the outskirts. Tho next day I was besieged with offers. I looked all over tho lot and picked three or four to make my selection from. After several hours i settled on an animal that I thought to be in the pink of condition and form. I took him for a good round sum and a trade thrown int j the bargain. “I rode home on the animal. As I got into my quarterkYl noticed that the horse ap reared to be uneasy, as it suffering from injury. As I live, I found that a patch of skin several inches square had come off his back. I looked into it and discovered that the horse was raw there, and that he had been patched up with rabbit or some other skin for the time being. Those Indians stood by each other, too, for I could never locate the scoundrel who had swindled me. I have since concluded that they were all wrong, and that had I bought the outfit I would have found the oddest assortment of pat had horses that it wa3 ever the fortune of a white man to look upon.' Two Kind of Pies. There is a certain class of restaurants, very numerous in the lower part of New York and on the avenues, where the bills of fare announoe: “Pies, all kinds, sc; heme-made pies, 10c ” The name “home-made pies ’ is supposed to be very attractive to peop:e whose taste is offended by the machine-made pie turned out by the bake shops, and who have memories oi the pies their mothers used to make. In serving the pies the experienced waiter rarely asks a man what kind he will have. He simply sizes up his customer, and decides how much money he wants to spend on his luncheon, and brings the ic or 10c pie accordingly. But the name “home-made pie” is only a name. Both kinds of pie are made by the same factory, composed of the same materials, flavored with the same spices and baked in the same oven. The only difference is that the so-called “home-made” is bigger than the other. There are a great many bakeries in New York that furnisn pies to restaurants, but the greater mass of the pie 3 eaten in New York restaurants are made by two big pie factories. They make pies, and nothing else, and employ big crews. These two factories manufacture more pies than all the small bakeries in town put together. Only a few of the highpriced restaurants bake their own pies. —New York Mail and Express. Novel Exhibition. Vienna will have a novel exhibition in the winter of lfe9s-’96, the arrangements for which have just been made. It is to be a collection of all objects of interest connected with the Congress of V ienna in ISI4-’ls, which redivided Europe after the fall of Napoleon. It will include portraits of the persons who took part in the Congress—Metternich, Talleyrand. .Wellington, Castlereagh—and other distinguished men of the time; paintings of the chief occurrences during the session of the Congress, and reproductions of the fashions, uniforms, court dresses and furniture of the day. Many of the early wood cuts employed in books were painted over .by hand, after the printing had beep dona.