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Gherry County Independent VALENTINE NEB F W HAW ICES f Editobs Pobusheus DRAMATIC DOINGS WHAT PLAYERS PLAYWRIGHT3 AND MANAGERS ARE DOING The Second ol the Great American Trago dians Booths Enchanting Elocution Johnsons Narrow Escape from a Sym pathetic Audience At Homo and Abroad Thomas Bcttertoji t 11 t ftxsr i T TAJIE second of n F d mr yj i r 1 f v u w i v r JJ tragedians is oju lily pxuuuiuo ly tcrton but a gulf of over half a century of time lies be tween them Soon after Burbages death the stage fell on evil days During the early part of the time of Puritan su premacy i n the nation the theaters fell into disrepute and later on they were closed altogether In 1G60 though at the restoration of the Stuarts forty one years after the demise of Burbagc they were reopened It was then that Betterton appeared on the scene He found the stage degraded and the public taste deteriorated but he quickly improved both He took the leading tragic parts in such of Shakspeares plays as the depraved tastes of the time tolerated as well as the chief roles in the plays of Beau mont and Fletcher and Dryden all of which were more popular than Shak speares in that age Associated with him in some of his plays were Mrs Bracegirdle Mrs Barry Mrs Sander son the latter of whom he eventually married and other ijreat lights in the history of the stage in the latter part of the seventeenth century For tunately we have the testimony of many competent eye witnesses as to Betterlons qualities Pcpys says he was the best actor in the world and Isaac Pickerstaff called him the English Eoscius Colly Cibber the English playwright manager and actor who was a better authority than either said that Betterton could vary his spirit to the char acter he played Those wild impa tient starts that fierce and flashiug fire which he threw into Hotspur never came from the unruffled temper of his Brutus when the Betterton Brutus was provoked in his dispute with Cassius his spirit flew only to his eye his steady look alone supplied that terror which he disdained an in temperance in his voice should rise to It is said that Hart who went before Betterton but of whom we have scanty records was a better Othello but in Hamlet Lear and Borneo Betterton was superior to all the tragedians who lived close to his time Cibber says of the ghost scene that Betterton as Hamlet opened with a pause of mute amazement then rising slowly to a solemn trem bling voice he made the Ghost kqually terrible to the spectator as to himself Even when past TO years of age Betterton was a great Hamlet and he said himself that at that time he was only just beginning to learn the histronic art His last appear ance on the stage was in 1710 when lie was 75 3Tears of age when he took the leading part in one of the miior tragedies and three days later he was dead mounted on Taurus I once rode ten miles on the back Of a bull said BM Johnston a re tired actor ashe sat in -front of the Richelieu and thoughtfully removed the old gold overcoat from a corpulent banana I was traveling through Georgia in 1S13G playing Claude Mel notte in the Lady of Lyons Society i was a trifle crude in the Goooer btate in the years immediately succeeding the war and we not infrequently had trouble with our patrons who in sisted on taking us out in the middle 6f an act and setting up the red picker if we chanced to please them and had no hesitancy about coming on the stage and making trials of the iiQ rrJrQ n mritnr if tlin llfn W villain appeared to be getting the best of the deal One night the crowd got the idea that I was not treating Pauline exactly right and a committee of six or seven came up to fiib about it I attempted to expostu late but it didnt go They said I accused Pauline of being stuck up that Paully was agood gal and they Wouldnt allow any sawed off little dude in ginger bread togs to abuse her Well sir they began to shoot and I began to move The hall was j fixer a errocerv store and saloon 1 1 jumped through a back window and the gang began to pile down stairs I was a trifle fat and somewhat scant of breath and knew that in a sprint ing match I would stand no show Tethered to an oak tree a few rods away was a big brindled bull with a rope reiD attached to a ring in his pose Some countryman had ridden Taurus in to see the show There fcas no time for hesitation I mounted the bull attired in my stage dress and lit down street with half a- dozen men shooting at me and all ifyv dogs and pickaninnies of the Tillage in hot pursuit The bull was good roadster some or tne ouueu ad stung him and he just put nis frtari flown his tail ud and did his jivei best emitting a plaintive bellow very few roads that sounaeu nice a w ir ci jS - - ft fop horn off Newfoundland He ran at least ten miles before he wore him self out Then i crawled into a fodder shock and waited until the wagons of the great Johnsonian Dra matic came by next day Globe Democrat Booths Kcadlng or Holy Writ Early in the twenties the elder Booth visited his frieno Col Josiah Jones in Providence Many visitors flocked to the house to see and con verses with the eccentric actor One Sunday evening when the parlor was Ailed with company mostly religious people who were unaccustomed to at tend the theater but none the less desirous of witnessing the effect which he was capable of producing by his skill in elocution Col Jones asked him to read some selections for the gratification of the visitors ne yielded assent and desired that a Bible be brought He was provided with one and opening it with rever ence he chose a passage and began to read As his impressive voice was heard every other sound was hushed The words continued to flow from the lips of the reader sobs were occasion ally heard and when he concluded scarcely one in the room was not weeping All testified that never be fore had the sublimity of the lan guage of Holy Writ been made ap parent to them and Booth seized the opportunity to descant on the frame of mind in which the Scriptures should be approached and to con demn the soulless readings of those pastors who read as an unwelcome task to listless hearers the awful revelations of their Maker Making Money from Theater Passes The story of an indignant audience exasperated beyond endurance at the worthlessness of a play shouting out with one voice Give us back our orders has a new significance to day A correspondent points out that a bundle of printed orders may be to the wily manager a profitable sort of investment The holder of the -paper for the gallery is told the place is full He pays the difference to the pit The pit is full so the pit order is transferred to the boxes with a sup plement and so on to the stalls With these dillerenccs the theater is kept open on the order system The best sower of -paper in the old days was one Humphrey ic Barrett act ing manager to Fechter at the Ly ceum and an old theatrical hand In every district in London he had ladies ready dressed in small scarlet cloaks tippets with swansdown trim mings and Berlin gloves Beady dressed also were swains ready to ac company them As occasion required these people were sent for in batches to till a house They were called Ilumphs London Telegraph Annals of the Stage Samuel Footes first appearance was in Othello in 1744 CriAPvLES Macklix first appeared in small parts in 1730 Macklix made the character of Snylock famous in 1741 Calderons first plays were repre sented at Madrid in 1723 Lopez de Vegas first drama was put on the boards in 1682 Qnxs first appearance on the stage as a star was in 1716 Lopez de Vegas wrote 1S00 plays and 400 interludes and farces Bartox Booth made his first ap pearance in Oronooko in 1707 Garrick first appeared at Drury Lane in 1742 farewell 1776 death 1779 Garrick made his first star aD pearance as Bichard III in London 1741 Oxe of the greatest of early Ham- lets was Thomas Betterton about 16S0 The Olio TnE show biz is big in Chicago this season Tiiey have a permanent winter cir cus in Philadelphia Eleaxor Barry has secured a di vorce from Bury Dasent in San Fran cisco Mrs William Morris Xettie Hawkins has presented her husband with a son and heir Jonx Warrex has retired as man ager of iSat Goodwin and has been succeeded by Mr Appleton Jacob Litt and Thomas H Davis will expend over 10000 on the scenic equipment of In Old Kentucky The Actors Holiday when it takes the road next season will have one of the finest casts ever seen in a farce comedy The Bell Boy Company went to pieces in Troy Mo and the poor actors walked oack to St Louis many a weary mile L C Jones formerly manager of Newton Beers Lost in London company is gradually recovering his health Mr Jones was confined to his room at Bridgeport Conn nearly two years but is now able to get about on crutches Miss Maude Adams whose deli cate and judicious portraiture of a tipsy scene in The Masked Ball won her fame in a night says she has not heard anything gthat would tend to make her believe that she is to be married to her manager Mr Charles Froham As A rule seats in first class thea ters in Eurone cost more than in this country A seat in the parquet of a London theater costs S2 and one in the first balcony 175 Then the program costs from two to six cents and the fees to the attendants count up any where from a dime to fifty cents The theaters in this country are not only the best in the world as well as the cheapest but they cover every imaginable taste and are suited to every purse L SOMEWHAT STRANGE ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OP EVERY DAY IiIFE Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven tures Which Show That Truth is Stranger Than Fiction There is a fellow serving a life sen tence in the penitentiary at Joliet who owes his incarceration to a dream of mine said a Chicago detective to a St Louis Globe Democrat man In 87 a hackman was shot down on West by a man with whom he had trouble about a fare The murderer got away and nothing was heard of him for a year or more Finally we got a tip that he was in the city and I was de tailed to round him up I soon became convinced that he was hiding on the North Side but to save me I could not locate him I searched for two weeks without getting sight of my man or dis covering his retreat One morning I left my room walked leisurely down to the Palmer House looked at the clock and noticed that it was just 9 30 I bought a paper and sat down to read but was disturbed by a man who asked me for a iight I handed him my cigar looked up saw that it was the man I was search ing for and clapped the jewelry on his wrists The snap of the handcuffs awoke me I had been dreaming The dream was so vivid fhat I determined to visit the Palmer House I did so and noticed as I entered that it was just 930 oclock I bought a paper sat down to read and was interrupted just as I had dreamed by the man I was in search of Dont tell me there is nothing in dreams Ax artist writing to the London News with reference to an incident recently mentioned in that paper says Some thirty years ago I was sketching on the shore at Lochgoil Head when a shepherd accosted me lie even looked at my sketch and drew my attention to a low lying mass of rock jutting out from the shore that I had caught as faithfully as I could Yes sir he said a curious thin occurred there about three weeks ago Foxes you well know sir are in the habit of coming down at low tide and eating the ovsters out of their shells One day I found one lying dead and on examining it closely observed that its tongue was held as if by a vice The oyster was firmly attached to the rock and poor foxys tongue to the oyster so the returning tide settled his fate T asked if he had ever come by this kind of thing before Xo sir never before though I believe it is not uncommon lie was a young fox though full grown and may bo he was not up to the dodge of putting a stone between the shells That is what I am told they as a rule do Oh they are cunning things foxes whatever I tell you the story as it was told to me I believed it then and I do so still The prettiest throw of the lasso I ever saw was down in New Mexico last summer said D C Smith a Western cattleman T had gone out to look at a bunch of cattle I thought of buying and was standing in front of the owners house discussing the proposed trade A two-year-old child was playing about the lawn when suddenly it clapped its hands and cried out as though highly elated I turned my head and saw to my horror that it was amusing itself with a monster rattlesnake that was just coiled to strike The snake was shoot ing its forked tongue out almost into the face of the child and it was this action that so pleased the little one At niy side stood a Mexican cowboy with a lasso on his arm Quick as a flash it went whizzing through the air and closed around the neck of the serpent just as it drew its head back for the fatal stroke The father of the child nodded his head remarked that it was a capital throw and resumed our discussion with im perturbable gravity Your Mexican is nothing if not stoical It is the result of his Indian blood A Calcutta paper the Indian Gentle man tells the following most remarkable story A few days ago Atkama Yatzry a Bengalese gentlemai residing on tho flat seven miles north of Shuttezat saw as he affirms an enormous serpent float ing along in a fleecy white tezarcr or wind cloud The cloud and its scaly passenger floated direct over Mr Yatzrys farm and bore oil in the direction of the Great Blue Jungles and disap peared from view Over a score of men women and boys who were working along the flat at the time of the phe nomenal occurrence attest that they plainly saw the same hideous monster in his ethereal flight One witness describes the serpent as being at least 200 feet in length and as big around as a mans body All witnesses concur in saying that the head and foreparts of the creature re sembled an alligator more than anything else It was yellow and black striped according to all witnesses and kept its body in continued motion as long as it remained in sight The natives are said to be much excited over the matter There is a young lady on Capitol Hill says the Washington Post who has a musical cat After nearly a year of hard work on the feline musician she says it can sing the best portion of two well known songs Home Sweet Home and Auld Lang Syne but without the usual variations When this vouusr lady wants pussyto smg she puts her on a velvet footstool and commands Puss sing Home Sweet Home at the same time humming the air Pussj always responds singing the desired tune in a rather high falsetto voice a little broken but sufficiently well to be recognized by the hearers Sometimes when this cat is on a moonlight expedition her voice can be heard above those of her companions in the feline out door back fence con cert ringing out Auld Lang Syne or Home Sweet Home The young lady does not want her name mentioned for fear she will be besieged by freak col lectors or dime museum proprietors who want to buy beg borrow or steal her musical pet The Loudon courts will be called upon soon to decide one of thejjmost curious cases that ever puzzled legal brains A lady was seated a few weeks ago in the Zoological Gardens and for securitys sake removed from her pocket to her lap a purse containing six sovereigns The show elephant shortly afterwards came on its round and mistaking the brown purse for a bun gracefully transferred it to its trunk and thence into its stomrch The management of the Gardens were at once appealed to and emetics were ap plied but no more than two of the sove reigns and munched bits of the purse were removed The solicitors for the lady are now therefore suing the Zoo logical Sociey for the missing four sove reigns and seeing that the Society pos sesses the elephant and the elephant possesses the sovereigns the plaintiff claims to have a clear case Loudon Chronicle Mrs Susan Neil a lady seventy years old who lives with her son on a ranch in Maverick County Texas killed a full grown panther with an ax She was out in the yard when some animal rushed passed her which she thought was a dog until she turned around and a full grown panther had sprung into a small tree near her She called to the dogs and they came running out but one of them immediately took up the panthers back trail and ran off The others saw the beast and made a dash for it The panther sprang out of the tree and ran toward a pen where a number of kids were confined but as he sprang on the fence the dog caught him by the ham and they began fighting The other dog now returned took a hand in the fun but both kept a safe distance from the savage animal Mrs Neil seized an ax and when the dog attracted the panthers attention she rushed up and dealt him a blow on the head which stunned him and allowed her time to deal him a fatal blow Mrs Neil is much admired for her brave fight Electricity has become an important adjunct to the outfit of the modern dent ist but it is not likely that many will be called upon in the discharge of their pro fessional duties to illuminate the cavern ous mouth of an elephant as recently happened in the practice of a leading New York specialist A large show was on exhibition in a town in Michigan but the showmans elephant which was a tower of strength to the performance was suddenly seized with the toothache and the whole caravan was demoralized It was found that the trouble arose from a decayed tooth None of the local practitioners fancied the job of filling the cavity and the proprietor of the show telegraphed to a New York dentist The New Yorker went on by first train and after first chloroforming the animal he braced open the brutes jaws by two crossed hickory sticks and from these suspended an electric lamp This gave a light that enabled the filling of the tooth to be satisfactorily accomplished and in an hours time the show was in full blast and the dentist with his fee in his pocket was journeying homeward Gueat excitement was created at Chadron Neb the other day by the dis covery of a petrified man about two miles north of that city near Natural Wall one of the great wonders of the region The body was found by Ed Rossiter a well known collector of that town while engaged in securing turtle fossils It is thought to be that of a man six feet tall well developed and in a perfect state of preservation It was found buried in clay and weighs over 500 pounds The teeth arc plainly visible and the skull head and lips are those of an African The finder was offered 2000 in cash for the specimen but refused it A mustache is not regarded as a marketable commodity says the London Million but a man disposed of his upper lip ornament the other day to a beardless youth who envied him its possession The two men were sitting in a cafe when the youth in a moment of guileless desire said Twill give you 12 for your mustache Done replied the other with dramatic promptitude and calling for a pair of scissors he laid the mustache on the table The young fellow pro tested that he was only joking but his companion issued a County Court sum mons for the amount agreed upon and recovered it without much trouble Twenty four years ago John Gilbert a Pottstown Penn restauranteur had one of his index lingers mangled in a feed cutting machine The doctor sewed up the wound and it readily healed Recently the finger got sore and an ex amination revealed the ends of several threads They were the stitches that had been put there a quarter of a century ago The threads were removed and the finger is healing A curious deception came to light in Paris recently in the course of a police raid on unmuzzled dogs An old lady whose pet had been seized among the others complained loudly when her pug was captured that the police allowed that of her neighbor a painter to roam at will without a muzzle Tne police inspector assured his visitor that the artists dog was always muzzled and was somewhat taken aback on learning that the muzzle in question was merely painted on the animals head New Jersey comes to the front with a strawberry plant which bears fruit all the year aud Arkansas with a three-year-old negro boy who killed a rattle snake just twice as old as himself inside of which were found a water moccasin over four feet long a black snake of the same length two dead toads and one live one besides a large bullfrog Again it is proper to remark that this is a great country Hydraulic Ram A hydraulic ram can only be operated by a running stream or fall of water The ram is operated by a stream carried iuto it by a pipe ten or twelve feet long this stream lifts a valve as soon as it has gained sufficient velocitv aud shuts the pipes The flowing stream being thus suddenly stopped is changed in its course into an air chamber in which is a valve that is opened by the diverted stream As soon as this stream exhausts its force this vulve oloses and the pres sure of the condensed air in the chamber forces the water which has entered from the feed pipe into the discharging pipe Then the valve in the feed pipe being no longer pressed by the stream drops and the stream begins to flow again and the process is thus repeated several times every minute In this way about one seventh of the water in the drive pipe is raised to any desired height the quantity of water being in proportion to the height of the delivery less as the height is greater New York Times II M T THE WORLDS GROWTH WHEN WITjI THE WORLD BE EN TIRELY PEOPLED The Present Population and Future Increase in the Globes Cultivable Area How Many People Can the World Hold In order to answer this query at all satisfactorily it is necessary to determine First The present population of the world and its probable increase Second The area capable of being cultivated for the vield of food and other necessaries of life Third The total number of people whom these lands would be able to maintain I need hardly point out that a precise answer to these apparently simple questions is well nigh impossible PRESENT POPULATION OF THE WORLD This is a fundamental question for the inquiry proposed but it is quite impos sible to reply to it with any amount of confidence Enumerations of the people have been made in all civilized States but with respect to large parts of the world we are still completely in the dark Of Africa Ave know next to noth ing while the long array of figures pre sented to us as the results of a census taken in China are not calculated to inspire confidence I have taken some care to form a true estimate of the popu lation of Africa and I cannot believe in hat continent supporting more than 127000000 instead of the two three or even four hundred million allotted to it by certain statisticians Even 127000 000 is a high figure for it means eleven people to the square mile while in Aus tralia there are not one and a half and in South America five onlv THE WORLDS POPULATION IN 1S90 To a square Total 3Iile Europe 328200000 101 Asia 850000000 57 Africa 127000000 11 Australia 4730000 1 i NTor th America 89250000 U South America 30420000 5 Total 1407000000 31 ExcliUsive of 300000 in the polar regions CULTIVABLE AREA I shut out from consideration all those territories of the polar regions which lie beyond the limits within which the culti vation of cereals is possible I divide the remainder of the lands of the globe into three regions The first I describe as fer tile meaning that it is fertile so far only as within it lies most of the land which is capable of remunerative cultivation It cannot be assumed for an instant that the whole or even the greater part of it could ever be converted into fields yielding the fruits of the earth My second region includes the steppes or poorer grass lauds and as within the fertile region we meet with comparatively sterile tracts jo with these steppes there exist large areas which can be rendered highly pio iluctive espueiallv where means of irri gating the land arc available The third region includes the deserts within which fertile oases are few The area of these regions in square miles I estimate as follows exclusive of the polar regions Fertile ltogion Steppe Desert Europe 2SbdUU0 667000 ksia 9280000 4230000 1200000 Africa 5760000 3528000 2226000 Australasia 1167000 1507000 614000 NT America 4946000 1405000 95000 B America 4228000 2564000 45000 Total 2S269000 13901000 418300 INCREASE OP POPULATION On this point not only are our statistics still very incomplete but conditions so cial or otherwise may arise that would Materially affect the present movement of the population Weighing all the data to be had and carefully considering all the causes which are at all likely to give in impetus to the growth of population Dr retard it in the various quarters of the world I assume that the increase in the course of a decade will amount to 10 per ent Summarized the results of my careful stiraates are as follows Increase m a decade Per cent Europo S7 Asia 60 Africa 100 Australasia 300 North America 200 South America 150 The -whole earth 80 CONCLUSION Accepting these figures as correct it becomes an easy matter to compute the Increase of the population By the close Df this century the 1408 millions who now dwell upon the earth will have in Creased to 1587 millions in the year 1950 there will be 2333 mil lions in the year 2000 3426 millions and in the year 2072 or 182 years hence there will be 5979 millions These estimates are not resented as a prophecy I have already E inted at voluutarv checks to the growth of population which will come into play Its civilization advances and the demands for the comforts of this life shall be more general At all events so far as we are ersonally concerned 182 years is a long jeriod to look forward to but if we ook back a similar number of years nd remember that William III and Marlborough were then still among us we are bound to admit that it is but a ihort period in the lifetime of a nation POSSIBLE POPULATION The task of estimating the number of people whom this earth of ours would be capable of supplying with food and Other necessaries of life once it had been fairly brought under cultivation is very flifficult There are at present some vege tarians These would maintain that if their peculiar views were accepted three men could live where one does now and there would be no further need of keep tog up large herds of cattle and sheep I am not sufficiently Utopian to believe that mankind generally will ever accept these principles Again it has been asserted that our present methods of cultivation are capa ble of vast improvement that the earth might be made to yield much larger har vests than it yields now and that popu lation might thus be permitted to in crease without correspondingly -increasing the cultivated areas This is no doubt t iy jiii true as respects many countries but it is hardly true of the world at large Mak ing all reasonable allowance however for these suggestions I take as a basis for my estimate the standard of life such as we find it existing in various climates and among various peoples Upon this basis I calculate that fertile regions would be able to support 207 human be ings to the square mile the present mean population of those regions The steppes with their large tracts of land capable of cultivation I believe to be capable of supporting ten inhabi tants to the square mile while the des erts would be fully peopled if they had even one inhabitant to the square mile I do not take into consideration the colonization of the tropical regions by Europeans because I am constrained to maintain that the tropical regions are no field for European emigrants aud be cause it is not necessary that the con sumer of food should live in the country which produces it From all these considerations I assume that this world of ours if brought fully into cultivation can supply 5994000 000 human beings with food and other necessary products of the vegetable king dom Goldthwaites Geographical Mag azine THE HUMAN EYE Now Put to Uses Never Thought o in Ancient Times The last 100 years have increased the need and capacity for work upon small objects near at hand One of the ques tions occuring to the mind is do these different and increased demands bring increased facility and capacity to the human eye Eyes are now used in ways never imagined by our remote ancestors possibly never dreamed of in the Orien tal countries Whatever there may have been in the way of sculpture among tho Greeks demanding artistic and accurate vision there was no typesetting no elec tric telegraphy no stenography and no typew riter The eye of the patriarch Job was con stituted at birth and went through life to old age very much such an optical in strument as that of the English squire who devotes himself to an outdoor life in the eighteenth or nineteenth century but Job had no printed books to beguile the tedium and pain of his seat in the sand and ashes The examination of the mummies in the Egyptian mausoleums shows that there has been no change in the anatomical conformation of the human ear in four thousand years and there is no evidence that there has been any in that of the human eye for exami nation centuries after it has ceased to see prevents us from proving it It is safe to say that it has not changed in any essential of anatomical form dur ing the time of the human race upon the earth But as we have just inti mated the demands upon it and its oc cupations are much more exacting and very different from that obtained among the classic Greeks and Romans or the patriarchal Arabians The tendency of the people of our civilization to live in larce towns in the bad air and with the absence of light in cidental to such life may have brought the human eye into many more dangers than those that come to it in a rural oc cupation Yet accidents to the human eje in rural life are not nt all rare It may be that civilization generally attains the loftiest plane in large cities where the intellectual activity is most intense With this come increasing demrnds upon the visual power and often under improper conditions But if the nineteenth civiliza tion of great towns has brought great dangers to the sight it has also achieved great triumphs in the matter of examin ing the eye so that we may determine and increase its power for work and lind out and cure its diseases It is perfectly possible means of the instruments of the nineteen century to exactly learn the optical condition of an eye to decide just what glasses if any are needed for its perfect working and it is also possi ble to look in upon it and by the ap pearance of its tissues and its blood vessels to decide as to the existence of serious disease when there are few other symptoms that point to it when there may be none besides to be found in the body that positively proves it I ma mention two classes of disease one constitutional and the other local which illustrate this latter statement the eye mirror opthalmoscope is the instru ment by which such things are settled B rights disease a name carrying dread to many a household is the constitutional disease to which I refer In not a few cases the diagnosis of it is made by the examination of the retina with the eye mirror The expert will make no mis take if the eye gives evidence of it for its signs are positive in minute bleedings from the blood vessels and peculiar fawn colored spots on the retina The surgeon dreads to find them be cause they are evidence of an advanced stage of the malady which prematurely destroys so many lives Brights disease is in fact a degeneration of many of the tissues of the body the walls of the arteries being among them In no part of the body can this degeneration be so readily detected as in the retina of the e e Cosmopolitan The Pulse Beats of Animals When a healthy horse is enjoying per fect rest his pulse beats at the rate of forty times per minute that of an ox fifty two times while in sheep and hogs the average cardiac pulsations are seventy-six per minute As a rule arterial pulsations may be felt wherever an artery crosses a bone or is otherwise forced out ward too near the surface In horses the pulse beats are usually examined on the chord which crosses over the bone of the lower jaw just in front of the large rounded hinge curve In cattle the pulsations may be taken by placing the hand at the middle of the fifth rib in hogs by placing the finger on the bony ridge above the eye In sheep there ii but one recognized way of making puls examinations by placing the hand on the left side where the beating of the heart may be felt St Louis Republic Navy blue and brown outnumber all other shales for street colors d i f 4 H I
