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BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

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of God-liver Oil, with hypophosphites of lime and soda. It strengthens the Lungs, cures Coughs and Colds, and builds up the system. Physicians, the world over, endorse it.

Wasting Diseases of Children are speedily cured by SCOTT'S EMULSION. It stops waste and makes children fat and healthy. Prepared by Scott Sl Bowne, N. Y. Druggists sell It.

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ISSISTI8T10 SIGHT la a pair of Gold Spectacles, and the only place to have them correctly fitted ia at 10a East Washington street. No one every sold glasses so cheaply in Greencastle. Don’t trust your eyes to spectacle peddlers and ewelers. G. W. BENCE, M. D.

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Low Excursion Rates South. March and April arc the most unhealthful | and unpleasant months in the North, while i in the South they are among the pleasantest. I All nature is decked with bloom. Now is the | time to come South. Very low round trip - rates can be secured on Excursions leaving | St. Louis at 8:35 p. m., March 20, April 9, lu j and 24, May 8 and 22, and June 5, 1894, over the | Mobile ana Ohio Railroad. It will only cost you a trifle to visit the best and most healthful section of the South, where you can find cheap homes with as fine a climate as that of Italy. I Full descriptions of the South sent free by E. E. Posey, General Passenger Agent M. & O. R. R. f Mobile, Ala. tf

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If you want a fine RoastorSteak Or boiling piece call at ft\owev 5c SXowev s MEAT MARKET. Fresh beef, veal, pork, mutton always on hand. Also a full line of cured meats, at lowest prices. 3m27

Low rates to Mississippi and Alabama on March 20 and April 24. Tickets sold by C. & A. K. R. at one fare for the round trip. Last Chance for a Cheap Trip South. On April 9. im>l. the Louisville A Nashville Railroad w ill sell tickets to principal points in the South at one single fare for the round trip. These excursion rates take in the principal cities and towns in Tennessee. Alabama, Georgia, West Florida and Mississippi. Tickets will be good to return within twenty days; snd will be on sale at St. Louis, Evansville, Louisville and Cincinnati on above dates. Through cars from these cities to principal points sonth. Ask your ticket agent, and if he can not furnish you tickets from your station, write to C. P. 'Atmore, General Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky. 4147 Big Four Excursion to the South on Feb. 8, March 8, and April 9. The Big Four will sell at one fare excur sion tickets to all points in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, and to many points in Georgia, Florida and Louisiana. Final limit 20 days. Apply to F. P. Iluestis, agent. At Saltsburg, Austria, a man was kept prisoner in a cellar for 15 years, during which ho never saw a human face.

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Corks as Fuel. With every indication that coal is going up it is timely to suggest that a couple of girls in Paris used to keep themselves warm by burning orange peel and empty spools. Corks are also recommended. There is a story told of a well-known English curate who pocketed every cork he came across at a dinner tabic. When questioned as to this singular habit he blushed and said he gave them to the poor. A sufficient number of corks would keep a coalless maif with a good lire all day. Fir cones arc also advised, and make a line, cheery blaze; likewise corncobs. A Snub-Nosed Ueginieut. In the Russian army there is one particular regiment of infantry of the guards formed by Emperor Paul, the men of which fire recruited, not so much with regard to their height or the color of their hair and complexions as to the shape of their noses. Emperor Paul had a typical Kalmuk nose of the most excruciatingly up-tilted pattern, and since then, out of compliment to him, nil of the officers and men at this particular regiment have noses of the same shape, the sight which they present on parade being somewhat startling.

Quaint Heraldic Emblems of Civio and Military Designs.

Ilntton* Worn Among tho r olontUU Which InUicsto Descent from I amUle* of High Hank—Figurrs Used as Symbols.

Nothing is more complicated than Chinese etiquette, sai.l Dr. Edward Bedloe, ex-consul to Amoy, to a Washington Post reporter. A master of Debrett and Burke is a novice beside a Celestial master of ceremonies. Nevertheless, the latter's system isdeflnite, if elaborate, and he has many official landmarks whereby to shape bis course. (Inc of the most important of these is the button which is worn by every mandarin on the top of his hat. Each of the nine ranks of Chinese has its particular button and the second degree of the first and second ranks are also marked by separate buttons. The

A Ten <1 cuey TowhciI Lower I’rlcen—Con-

fidence In the Future In Week.

Nkw York. March 10.—1L <J. Dun A Co.’s weekly review ot trade says: •‘Evidences of present Improvement In busl* ness multiply, but confidence in future lm* , provement doe* not seem to Increase. There | Is more business and s larger production by In1 dustrles, for the season has arrived when ; greater activity is necessary if dealers' stocks are to bo replenished, and those who cannot make calculations beyond a few months are the mure anxious to crowd as much trade as they

safely cun Into those months

•Tn seme branches of distribution, however, there aro Indications of a dlmi.ilshtug demand for goods and the evident preference for medium and low-priced articles, with the known re 0notion in wages and family expenditures, leads many to feel some* hat less confident that business will soon recover Its former volume. Undertakings reaching beyond a short timo are not made with greater freedom and in spite of a larger present demand prices of mauufao

tured goods tend downward.

"Failures are growing loss important and somew hat fewer also. For the week ending Mart h S the liabilities tnus far reported were only $2,k:!7,S32, and for four weeks in February fU.SSft.Pdl, of which M,732,015 were of manufacturtng and 27.027.127 of trading concerns. The number of failures during the last week

in the United States, against

ottieial list is as follows:

red butt^semand decree,’ deop 1 coral ™d<».n Ganada, against £ last

red button. Second rank—First de-

Swine.

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Light Brahma, Barred Plymouth Rock, Blnck Minomi, Mummoth Brown Turkeys, Touloose Geese, Pekin Ducks and uud Guina FovvL. 3 m 10

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A ton of diamonds is valued at ?35,003,000. Union Raciffc cars arc cleaned with compressed air. Tho engine of a f rs‘.-class man-of-war costa nca.ly *.iu.uuj. The young wag wears his quotation marks en his upper lip. lu Paris Ithe undertaking business is monopolized by the city goverment. Iceland, with 70,000 inhabitants, has as | many papers as the Empire sf China. Snakeproof aluminum boots have been tried in Florida swamps and arc a success. lu olden times the Egyptians had a cit cemetery, which they considered sacred. A Russian scientist has traced all of a man's disease to the fact that he wears

clothes.

A speck of gold weighing the millionth part of a grain may be easily seen by the maked eye. The length of the largest tiger skin ever taken, nfi-r b-lng vtretched srd dyifd ,m« 13 feet 6L, inches. Motormen who ring gongs with their feet get a peculiar pedal malady which they rail I “trolley loot.'’ The smallest bird in the world is the “flyeater” ot^t'uba. It is one-third the size of the hummingbird. Pennsylvania has a greater railroad trackage to the square mile than cither Germany, France or Holland. An advocate of electrical cooking claims that of every 100 tons of coal used in a cooking stove 88 tons go to waste.

pree, lipht crimson button: second degree, dark crimson button. Third rank—Both, lipht clear blue. Fourth rank—Dark I’russiau blue. Fifth —Quartz, plass or crystal. Sixth— Opaque white. Seventh and eighth— —Gilded, yellow or gold. Ninth—Silver or silver-white. It will be seen that a red button indicates high rank. The rank in general is personal rather than official. Thus, for example, a taotarship is an office of the third rank, and its button is a ligh\, clear blue. Yet many taotatis, if not a majority of the class, are decorated with red buttons. It even happens that a person of the second rank, through misfortune or political vicissitudes, will hold an office of the fifth or sixth rank. In such a case he would still wear his roil button, and in many official events would be preceded by an official of a dark blue or crystal button. For this reason it is often very difficult to toll the official rank of mandarins by their buttons. Nor is the difficulty lessened by the embroidered insignia upon the wearing apparel. This is more elaborate than the buttons, but, like the latter, does not discriminate between rank and position. To overcome the difficulty the Chinese resort to several expedients. One is the card on which is written a full statement of the owner’s rank, degree and position. Another consists of having the same facts painted upon the lanterns with which all chairs arc provided. These can lie rcitil with equal ease day or night. The third is used for the information of the public and consists in having the name and all titles carved In large, bold characters on long red boards, which are carried by coolies. Mandarins who have received many honors will frequently have as many as twenty of these red boards. Where an official has retired from service ho is still entitled to place these boards at the entrance of his residence. A fourth mode resembles the preceding and applies to juizks or vessels in which a inandarin travels. The characters are written upon Hags, which are fastened to the mast and elsewhere in lieu of ordinary bunting. When the present governor of Formosa left Sl.angbai on the steamer Smith no less than thirty banners of this class wore Hung to the breeze from the masts and other parts of the boat. The embroidered insignias of rank and position are placed upon the front and back of official robes. They must be of the finest workmanship and so well executed as to show the design clearly and accurately. The general design for a civil officer is a bird and for a military official a quadruped animal. The civil list is as follows, ranks and not degrees being discriminated: First, a manchurian crane; second, a golden pheasant; third, a peacock; fourth, a wild goose; fifth, a silver pheasant; sixth, a young egret; seventh, a quail; eighth, a long-tailed jay; ninth, an oriole. The military list runs: First, a unicorn; second, a lion; third, a leopard; fourth, a tiger; fifth, a black bear; sixth, a tiger cat; seventh, a mottled bear- eighth, a seal: ninth, a ihiuoc-

eros,

These insignias have been used from time immemorial, while the buttons are a creation of the Manchu conquerors of China, it is a singular fact that both the lion and rhinoceros are strangers to the latter country. The limit of their habitat seems to be the Ganges and to hare been so since the tertiary period. The knowledge of these animals by the Chinese was acquired long before the Christian ei-a, when large fleets of junks, naval, pirate or commercial, went from Canton to nearly every port in TTindoostan and often brought back these and other wild beast.-, alive. Of late years etiquette has relaxed considerably in regard to both buttons and insignia. Tho r.lrth of a Japanese Prince. There is great joy in the court of Japan over the birth of a young prince. He is, it is true, only a so-called “half blood,” that is, he is not the son of the empress, but of Snno Ynshmo, one of the secondary wives of the mikado, who has already presented her liege lord with the IVineesses Buno and Kane. (Should the crown prince die, and no other be born, the young “half blood” could succeed to the throne; and that is the cause of the joy in the palace of the emperor.

T'!; r«}'•?»tn Germany.

Germany, whose population is about 60,000,000, bad 21,001 physicians in 1895, against 20,500 in 1892; that i«, nn increase of l.ool. That makes about 4,

AN AWFUL FATE.

The Tragic Sulilile of Mr.. M. A. Well, at Savannah, Mo. St. Joseph, Mo., March 18.—Mrs. M. A. Wells, living at Savannah, 10 miles east of here, entered a closet Monday morning, carrying with her a can of kerosene. Locking thedooron the inside she-poured the oil over her clothes and on the woodwork, thou she set fire to her dress. Her screams alarmed the neighbors. They were compelled to break down the door, but did not uc eeed until the woman's screams had ceased. When they finally reached her she was dead. Mrs. Wells was assistant cashier of the State bank at Savannah, and owing to the illness of her husband, who was cashier, had been doing all the work. The strain of overwork and the anxiety caused by her husband's sickness unsettled her mind. THE WAR OVER.

The leader of the l.ru/.iliun InsurgentM Makes an I'uoondit k>nal Surrender. Bio me Janeiro, March 14.—The war is practically over and the cause of the insurgents is a lost one. There is much rejoicing in this city at the culmination of the struggle which has continued so many months, with no object seemingly but to hamper business and destroy property. The rebel forces have surrendered, unconditionally, almost without firing a shot The officers of the insurgent fleet have taken refuge on board French and Portuguese warships. One French vessel has put to sea with many of the rebel officers on board. It is said that Admiral da Gama is on board the British warship Sirius. KILLED BY A CRAZY SON.

Thoma. Finnrxan Commit, a IVrrlhle ‘Crime in a Fit of In.unity. Pittsburgh, Pa., March 13.—Thomas Finnegan, a crazy man of “Peanut Works,” near Latrobe, Westmoreland county, on Monday began breaking the furniture in his home, and then seizing an iron bar the maniac crushed in the skull of his mother. While she lay on the floor unconscious he kicked her all over the body. The aged father tried to save his wife and shared a similar fate. A dozen men tried to overpower the maniac, but failed. Cue of them then shot Finnegan in the face and rendered him unconscious. The woman will die. The father may

recover.

MRS. STOCKING BURNED. Associate Justice Miller’. Dauelitsr May Not Survive Her Injuries. Washington, March 14.—Mrs. Pattie Miller Stocking was so badly burned by the overturning of a lamp as she was lighting it Monday night that she can scarcely survive. Mrs. Stocking was the widow of Col. Stocking, one of tiie heroes of Andersonville, and the daughter of the late Associate Justice Miller of the L’nited States supreme court. She had for several years held a clerkship in the interior department, Shot Ilia Stepfather. St. Joseph, Mo., March 14.—John Putnphrey, of this city, spent the greater portion of Monday night whipping his wife, and had threatened to give her another beating this morning. About 7 o’clock » tn he told tier he | was tempted to cut her throat, and when he made a move to strike her ids stepson, John Tombs, shot him in tho back, inflicting a wound that will prob-

ably prove fatal.

Hedies of KntomtHM! Min**rq Rfmoheii. Wh.kesbabkk, Pa., March 13.—The bodies of the men entombed in the Gaylord mine have been reached. They are so badly decomposed identification is only possible by means of the clothing

Voorheei* \ low.

Washington, March 13. — Senator Voorhees ■Wld Monday that he had no idea that the tariff bill would become a law before the middle of July and it might not be until August. l ull* Heir to $63,000. Springfield, O., March 14.—Charles I’arsells, a poor cupola tender here, has fallen heir to SdS.OOO, left him by a farmer named Haines, with whom I’arsells lived during boyhood.

Robbed a Collector.

Kanevu.i.e, 111., March 14.—M. O. Shoop, the town tax collector, was held

CAST OFF FROM A WRECK. TaIII**. Cat. Which Founded a Community on the New Jersey Coast. Long Beach, the narrow strip of sand seven miles from the mainland on which the village of Beach Haven, N. J., stands, contains the only tribe of tailless cats in the United States. These cats were not detailed, says a correspondent of the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. They were bom without tails. Early in this century a large English brig was wrecked on that part of the Jersey coast. She became a total wreck, but the sailors’ lives were saved, and so were the lives of a lot of cats. Those felines came from the Isle of Man and belonged to a curious breed found only on that island known as Manx cats. At first the animals were quite tame, and frequented the vicinity of the lighthouse, where they nightly held open-air concerts that were not harmonious enough to merit the appreciation of the lightkeepers, and ultimately resulted in their being driven away. The felines took to the woods and managed to subsist during the first winter on birds, thousands of which lived in the swamps. The cats increased rapidly in number, and in a few years small packs of them could be found almost anywhere in Barnegat’s woods. Their outdoor life made them savage, and the breed seems to have increased in both size and courage, for eventually they be came so fierce that they would stand and show fight toward anyone who invaded their homes. They are curious looking creatures. The front legs being shorter than their hind legs causes them to make big jumps as they go about, yet it is said they can easily outrun an ordinary dog. The cats make good fishers, and when fish are plentiful they go along the beach, and. as the breakers run up on the shore, carrying with them small buttertish, mullets and silver bait, they jump into the shallow water and with their sharp claws pin a fish to the sand and the outgoing wave leaves their prey exposed. Then, before another breaker can roll in, they catch the fish and take it up on the dry beach and devour it. At times dozens of these strangelookiug cats can be seen on the beach making meals olf the surf clams that are cast up by the tide. For tho past twenty or thirty years Long Beach has been a famous summer resort. Many of the cats have been killed by tourists or frightened back into tho swamps. Occasionally some humane visitor endeavors to tamo one of the animals. It is hard work, but when the effort is successful there is no more domestic or affectionate pet than a Manx cat. WHISKY TRULY SANCTIFIED. A Fla.k la tValled I'p tn a New Jersey Church. The distinction of having a quart flask of whisky walled up in the structure belongs to the Sacred Heart church of this city, says a New Brunswick special to the New York Sun. Although the church has been built for over ten years, this was not generally known until recently. Ten years ago last October the corner stone of the church was laid, and the work of building the edifice was pushed as rapidly as possible, so that before the dawn of the new year the walls were up to the first story. The cold was intense at this time, and some of the masons employed on the building acquired the habit of depending upon stimulants to keep th?lr blood in circulation. Consequently a large quart flask was brought into requisition, and frequent trips were made from time to time to a hotel to keep it filled with the enlivening fluid. The men had their whisky with great regularity until an incident occurred unexpectedly one day that upset their calculations for the time being. The flask had just been replenished, and the men were making ready to enjoy it, when they were startled by the sudden appearance of Father Mulligan in company with several other ecclesiastics, who had come to make an inspection of the progress of tho work. The man who had the flask happened to be quick-witted, or the secret would have been out. Without a moment’s hesitation he quickly stowed the flask in between the inner and outer walls, while the other men vent on with ihuir work, consoling themselves with the thought of the good cheer that awaited them when the visitors departed. They reckoned in vain. Father Mulligan and his friends remained close to where the men were working for a long time. Although the wall was gradually inclosing the precious whisky bottle, the masons did not dure stop work for fear of exciting suspicions. When the pni'ty finally took its departure. to their dismay the masons found that the flask was out of sight, and all efforts to get it were unavailing. They did not dare tcui' the wall down to get it, so the whisky remained in tiie wall, and the tilling of cement sealed it securely. The men who were engaged in erecting the building lived out of town, and the story of the flask was recalled several days ago, when one of the men, who was visiting this city, went to the church to alleinl service, and thus had the incident brought to his memory.

lie Ruined tho Gusinciis.

American temperance agitators would

. . . . . i- , i not enjoy themselves in Austria. A up by two highwaymen Mommy even- ; liatnv uf a Mnall Vlli aftcr a u in£ while returning home fn»m fclburn ♦ i .• 4 * and relieved of 8400 in cash. eatalcpuc ranee, a y.ar ago. declared

that he had boon to Heaven and hud been commissioned by tho Almighty

NaviKHtlon on the MiHslAHippi Open.

Di'BUQL'E, la., March 13.—Navigation ! to return and teach the peasants thb on the Mississippi was opened Monday wickedness of drinking spirits. Soon by tiie anival of a frau: the ‘be entire village took nn oath of total mouth. This is several weeks ia ad- abstinence. Tiie district governor comvauce of other seasons. j mitted the man to the madhouse, where I Told hy n l.nrkrt. | the doctors kept him for six months 1 — - uud then declared him sane. He ro

short

REPRODUCED AT A RAPID RATCJ Frodlglnu* Fecundity of an Ineert Which Feede on the riant Kingdom. The aphis, which is known by the common name of "plant louse,” is an entomological enigma as well as an agricultural posL The scientists do not pretent to knoprr just exactly how many varieties of aphis browse on the green things of nature, but some authorities estimate them them at 1,000, a large proportion of that number having beqji named and classified. A single insect of any of these species of aphis may become the progenitor of billions of young, even during its own lifetime. Latrielle, who is regarded by the SL Louis Republic as an acknowledged authority on this branch of entomology, makes some curious and interesting calculations: A female will pinduce young at the rate of about twen-ty-five a day during the summer months, and as each immediately becomes the progenitor of others, one aphis may possibly be the mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, etc,, et al. of the enormous number of 5,904,500,000 individuals by the end of the season. Yongar l and Morren, who are equally ns good authorities as U;j ( &- rielle, extend this number into quiqtillions as being within the capabiljr ties of a single mother's efforts. The late Prof. Huxley once made a calculation which affords some idea of what a quintillion of aphides might mean: Assuming that an aphis will not weigh more than the one-thousandth part of a grain, and that a man must lie very heavy in order to weigh more than 3,000,000 grains, the tentli brood of aphides alone, without adding the product of all the intermediate generations (if all tiie members of this immense family should survive the many duxb gers to which they arc exposed), would contain more ponderable substando than 500,000,000 men. In other words, they would outweigh the entire population of China.

INFORMALITY OF JUDGES. -

Tntrl hy n t orker.

doctors for every 10,000 inliabitunts. i M aniiovsoc, V.ia, March ll.-V.es.

but they aro not equally divided cued from a wreck thirty-seven years ^ utned lus agitation and m throughout the empire, for in some re-1 ago, Frank Willis, of this city, lias just lm ® sevon villages had taken vows of gions there are not even two doctors discovered his identity by means of a f bfi ttnence I he result was that a mtmfor every 10,000 inhabitants, while in , locket ‘ I bcr of li ^ uor dealers to "'horn the gov-

other districts there are thirty o'f them for the same number of population.

Germany possesses also 915 dentist*

r.nd 4,988 druggists.

eminent had granted licenses refused

Art.or Day In Wl.c«n..n I to Ucep th( , ir contracts. The district Madison, Wib., March 14. T he gov- judge gave orders that the dangerous , ernor lias tssued a proclamation desig- nff i t uter be arrested if caught preacb-

\ Bating April 27 as Arbor day. | il)e abstinence.

Supranir Court Dlcnltarla* I.« «« Amterw Than Might Re Expected. Sticklers for the nicest proprieties find but one fault with the supreme court of the United States, and that is that Chief Justice Fuller's hands are too much in evidence there, says the New York Sun. They are like the pretty hands of the tavern hostess whom poor Gerard met in Charles Reade's “Cloister and the Hearth.’’ Her hands were forever flying about like excited white pigeons. The chief justice’s hands arc also like the arms of the angelic actress with whom Arthur I’endennis fell in love when he was a boy. Her arms were so continually exposed, says Thackeray, that she could only be seen through them, as it were. Chief Justice Fuller's long, 1 nervous, thin, white hands are forever pulling his long mustachios or hovering about bis nose, and if anything could upset the dignity of that high court it would be those hands that would do it. Our New York lawyers find the court most interesting in its contrast with our owu courts. The other day a great light of the bar was arguing a very serious case before the almost full bench when Mr. Justice Field interrupted him, called him by his surname without taking the trouble to prefix the word “Mister," and then cracked a little joke with him in the most free and easy way. It was as if he had said: "Nee here, Tomkins, you New Yorkers see clean streets when there is a fresh fall of snow on them, don’t you?” There was absolutely nothing to criticise in such an interruption, and yet no such thing would occur in a high court in this state once in twenty years. A Hunter’* Great Feat. Mr. F. C. Selous, the great African hunter, in one night killed three lions. Two hud been shot, and Selous and bps native servant hud gone to bed in their hut, when another lion began to sniff around the frail shelter. It was so dark that nothing could be seen, but instant action was necessary, as the lion might any moment force an entrance. “To prevent such a consummation,” says Mr. Selous, “I pushed the muzzle of my rifle between the poles, just where my ears told me my would-be interviewer was moving, them. and. pointing it upward, holding the stock ou the ground, pulled the trigger. Once more, and for the third time that night, the report of the rifle was answered by the most terrific roars it is possible to conceive, uttered as they were within six feet of our cars.” Then the hunter returned to his couch and slept calmly '•.ill inffill* Point of View. An odd illustration onee given Emerson, the philosopher, of the fact that the laws of disease are as beautiful as the laws of health is reported in his lecture on “The Comic.” “1 was hastening,” he says, “to visit an old and honored friend, who, I was informed, was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me in great saints. “ ‘And how is my friend, the reverend doctor? - I inquired. ‘“Oh, I saw him this morning. It is the most correct apoplexy I have ever seen; face and hands livid, breathing stertorous, all the symptoms perfect.’ And he rubbed his hands with delight, for in the country we cannot find every day a case that agrees with the iiiagiioais of Loc hooka.” A Horse on the lirlton. An Englishman traveling in the south some years ago was interested when a chance acquaintance at a hotel said to him: "I imve some of Longfellow’s hair.” Then no drew from his pocket a little box and exhibited a . quantity of coarse black hair. “Oh,” [ said the Englishman, with surprise, “t should have thought it would have been white." “No,” said the proud possessor of the relic. “It’s all right. I was in the stable myself yesterday and got this where he'd switched it off against the side of his stall.” It was thus that the Englishman first learned that a famous horse had been named for the poet. ^