Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1881 — The Bray of the Mexican Donkey. [ARTICLE]

The Bray of the Mexican Donkey.

The New Orleans Democrat recounts the many good qualities of the Mexican burro that has lately been introduced into that city as a child’s horse, who, it seems can banquet on splinters and scraps, carry immense loads, and is faithful, uncomplaining, decile and tireless; but, “w’e regret to say,” continues the Democrat, “the burro brays. Amazing as is his strength,bisstamina, his amiability,his courage, these things are as nothing compared to his bray. That such a tremendous and far-reacn-ing sound should emanate from so small a source constitutes the eighth wonder of the world. “When the little blue burro—thev are nearly all blue —concludes to celebrate his scanty period of relaxation by a good, healthy; whole-souled bray—when he humps his little back and shuts his appealing little eyes, and lets his ears lie along his back, and then gathers himself into one ecstatic note, it is enough to make one envy, the sainted dead, and long for the ccld and silent grave The sleepers for a mile around start up with the sweat of terror on their furrowed brows, children fall down in fits, the sick believe they have heard Gabriel’s horn, and the very atmosphere sbud<h rs likea human ■ creature. Burros don’t often bray’, because they havn’t much time for braying; but they "bray sometimes, and that is what keeps them so low in the scale of. animated nature. Without his bray, the burro would be little short of an angel. As he is, however, be is an animal to be admired at a distance and in the abstract.

Ex-Governor Hendricks of Indiana says a word for ministers’ sons, among whom he thinks that bad ones are really rare. They make the best of our authors, teachers, and editors. “When men of this kind have bsoomo worthless,he thinks, “it may have arisen from their want <»t business training, by which th«y did not learn thrifty habits, and yet lacked the reiglous stimulation or their parents.” The dreamers are a new Minnesota sect, who believe that dreams ore revelations of divinity, and only heed cor-, rect interpretation to serve as guides to holy living. Their leader professes peculiar expertness in this regard, and nis followers report all their dreams to him toise interpreted,