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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2017, 26 March 1914, Page 6

The death has occurred of a wonderful perforin :»K horse, Alpha, which belonged tit "Jtlr. I),. C- Shaw, Of Great Hale. Tito aiiitna!, which had performed before '•cve.rnl members of tlvo loyal family, cttuid play the National Anthem on a harmoniwn, couKF write its own name on a slate with chalk held ill its mouth, and eenkt do (lilSealt sums in Hie .first fmir rules. Another horse, Little' Beta, also belonging to Mr. Shaw, accompanied Alpha, on Show, and together tliev could play "Homo, Sweet Home," ,«ith bells fastened on their feet. At the newest arti-l tallest skyscraper m New York a lift or eievater dropped stub denly eooft. without anyone focing injured. As a inatief of fliet. tiifife were no ■nassWEcrs, for it was a testing experiment. The tar was placed af; l;l«v i'orivseventh floor* and: was weighted with cast-iron up to <! total Of T'SOOlb.., representing its full capacity if crowded with passengers. It was then set free by the pulling of a latch-string, The lift was falling-'at the rate of two miles a minute when, it reached the aSKmisbitin- tubewhich bftgins at tlye eleventh floor'. Then it». speed diminished gtadnsily. nniil it arfred at the bottom 'as gefiilj- as a faathfr. - ■ ■