Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — A DISAGREEABLE RATION. [ARTICLE]

A DISAGREEABLE RATION.

A Horse Swallows h Ball of Twine— How It was Kemoved. A horse in a small town near Norwich, Conn., which is disposed toswallow anything that comes within its reacts recently bolted a large ball of wrapping twine. The ball rolled in easily, but a knob at the end of the cord anchored itself windward between the animal's front teeth, and the knot and the visible piece of twine served as a key to tho situation, when the young groomswoman visited the stable and inspected her steed. There was a somewhat troubled look on the horse’s face as he stood with feet braced, ears lopped, mouth open, and in his eyes was a mute apt>eal that betokened a growing suspicion Hint probably the case was hopeless. The young lady unloosened the knot, wound six inches of the cord around her hand, and began to. unravel the mystery. The horse kept his mouth ODen, looked wise, and seemed perfectly to understand what wa3 jxoing on, and out, yard after yard, fathom by fathom, the animui complasantly yielded up his geemiar dinner, and on neither sido of the manger was a comment Uttered, except that now and then the grateful beast emitted a sigh as he observed the external ball swelling in magnitude and felt the internal one steadily diminishing. Finally the last yard of cord was reeled out of the horse, wound up, and the ball taken into the, bouse, where the animal couldn't get at it again.

A t;i .'KI Speech. ' A lawyer whose eloquence was of the spread-eagle sort was addressing the jiiry at great length, and his legal opponent, growing weary, went outside to rest. “Lawyer B—- is making a great speech. If you or I had occasion to announce that two and two make faur we’d be just fools enough to blurt it right out Not so Lawyer IL—l He would say: “If, by that particular arithmetical rule known as addition, we desired to arrive at the sum of two integers added to two integers, we should find—and 1 assert this boldly, sir, and without the fear of successful contradiction—wc, I repeat, should lino by the particular arithmetical formula before mentioned —and, sir, I hold myself perfectly responsible for the assert on I am about to make—that the sum of the two given integers added to the other two integers would be four I”

A Great Speech. The other day a friend told me what he claimed to be a new story about Mr* Evarts. 1 had never heara it before, but new stories about Mr. Evarts are rare and at a high premium. A gentleman, he t said, was entering the Senate gallery at 'Washington when he cbauced to meet a friend coming out. “Hello!” lie said, “what’s going on?” “Nothing just now. Mr. Evarts has been addressing the Senate.” "Has he? I’m sorry I missed tbat.ll “Yes, it was a great treat He spoke for more than four hours.” “What about?” ...... **He didn’tsay.”