GOATS AND NATION'S FATE

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 503, 10 January 1906, Page 3

GOATS AND NATION'S FATE

Bewhiekered Thibetan Animal Is Strayed Over Line of Demarcation and the War follows. The frontier between British India and Thibet traverses districts where there are mountain pastures, and the main grievance was that certain Thibetan goats which were ignorant of the line of demarcation were in the habit of straying into British territory. What particular harm the goats did by browsing- occasionally on British grass Is not very clear. In any case, the damage could not have been considerable. In 1739 England went to war with Spain on account of the ear of a certain Jenkins, which had besn cut off by soma Spanish officials, although it was' contended that the ear was still attached to Jenkins' head. It has, however, been reserved to this century for England to engage in a war that prorotoea to be extensive, on account, profen&edly, of a few wandering goats.

B*awtt Out Honeytnooa Dwiir&bis. . That New England couple that took their wedding trip on a freight train may have wanted to have tfc ? honeymoon as long drawn out as possible, says the Chicago Daily News. P' Figures Obsolete Now. The populationof the wor ":], according to the latest estimate, is 1,567,419,233. But th.'fse figures were published before Col. Alexis Romanoff, the new czarlette, was born. I : Tortoise 350 Years Old, The oldest tortoise in the London zoo has seen 250 summers. He has to be fed fey hand with cabbages.