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former city. The patient had been suffering from stomach 
trouble for some little time, and in the efforts to relieve him a 
powerful emetic brought up a brass chain three feet long. But 
this not alleviating the symptoms an operation was decided 
upon, and the following list of articles were removed from his 
stomach : Three chains, one brass and two nickel, two latch 
keys, six hair pins, 128 common pins, ten 2^-inch iron nails, 
two horseshoe nails, and one ring with a stone in the setting. 
The operation was the immediate result of an examination with 
the X rays. Many other objects had passed into the intestines. 
He bids fair to recover. 
An automobile, conveying a lady to a dinner party, be¬ 
came unmanageable and ran away. The conductor informed 
his passenger of the state of affairs, and that nothing could be 
done until the machine ran down. This, he said, would take 
four hours. So, directing the “ mobe ” to a circular clearing 
in the park, it continued to go around and around until the 
power was exhausted, when it came to a standstill, the lady 
walking home, with a determination to hereafter use other 
modes of transit. In New York last month another machine 
got from under the control of the motorman, and crashed into 
an elevated railroad pillar. During the same week suit was 
begun against the electric cab company by a young lady, who, 
seated on the stoop of a house, was nearly killed by a cab of 
the company jumping the curb and pinioning the fair victim 
against the stone steps. She lies a victim of meningitis and 
will probably die. If this record continues, the Herald will be 
forced to divide its staff of “runaway reporters,” using some 
of them to strangulate news calculated to discredit the perfect 
safety of horseless carriages. 
Legal Rights of a Horse. —For the first time in the his¬ 
tory of the State of Colorado the right of a horse as being en¬ 
titled to sufficient food and proper shelter at his master’s ex¬ 
pense is to be tested before the courts, with the Humane Society 
upholding the horse’s side of the case. The facts of the case 
are as follows :—During the extremely cold weather and period 
of deep snows last January, Agent Bailey received reports that 
there was a band of horses, thirteen or fourteen in number, 
twelve miles up in the mountains from Wauneta, and that the 
animals were snowed in and starving to death. They had been 
turned out by their owner to shift for themselves during the 
winter. With a companion he made a trip on snow shoes to 
the place, and after considerable difficulty found the animals. 
