Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1875 — Peculiar Fact in the History of Babies. [ARTICLE]

Peculiar Fact in the History of Babies.

Though the sight of a dog almost always changes the passive state of hydrophobia in any animat to the active, raging condition there is one recorded fact which points to the probability that an animal afflicted with this disease is thrown into a violent state at sight of an individual belonging to the particular species from which the poison was received. A horse inoculated with the rabies obtained from a sheep and exhibiting the terrible symptoms of the malady showed no disquietude whatever at sight of a dog. When one was thrown to bim he pushed it away with his nose, but a sheep being placed in the Bame inclosure he became frantic, and in a dreadful paroxysm of rage he seized it and killed it with one movement of his powerful jaws. This case is in direct opposition to the usual coarse of things, for animals suffering from rabies have in all other known instances been excited to madness whenever a dog showed himself. It may be that the constancy of this phenomena is due only to the fact that the inoculation is almost lways inflicted by a dog.— Oalaxy. ■ —There is a striking personal resemblance between JohnW. Hart and Edward L. Ayers, of San Francisco. Ayers forged an order on a banker for twenty dollars, and got the money. The crime was discovered, and the hanker, misled by the likeness, accused Hart of being the man to whom the money was paid. The identification was positive, and Hart protested against arrest in vain. Doubtless he would-have been convicted, as he was unable to clearly prove an alibi, had not a detective arrested Ayers on suspicion, and induced him to confess. —Laura D. Fair appeared as a witness in the Ban Francisco Police Court the other day, and testified that she owned 1.668 shares in the Silver Column Mining Company. The Chronicle says that she mounted the witness-stand with the gleeful skip of a lighthearted schoolgirl. She still wears a buckskin pocket In her dress.