Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1883-05-17
SPRING TERGIYERSATIOSS.
An Unusually Large Crop OF Extraor.
binary Tales, Big Stories and
Very Unique Lies.

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! Very Unique Lies.
A Massachusetts whopper:
The manuscript records of George.
town, under date Of July 5, 1916,
note northwest wind that ''lifted up
their Westinghouse at Newbury, the
people being in it,. 1t darkened the
air with dust, yet through Gods
mercy it did no hurt
From Wales, and none the less
hard to believe:
A centipede caught a lizard and
began to make meal of it as it ran,
but not relishing dining on the wing
it formed its body in the shape of q
hook and caught onto stout weed.
The lizard was not strong enough to
break loose and the cannibal rep
tile ate its fill and then allowed its
victim to crawl off and die; so says
Prof. WhitelI, reliable Welsh nat
uralist.
A dubious story from Hartford,
Connecticut:
MIR. c. Durham has been troubled
with rats for some time. Mr.. Dun
ham thought he would see if he could
get his cat to kill rat. He caught
one and shut it in a barrel with q
cat. The second day after he looked
in, and the cat was sitting on one
side of the barrel and the rat on the
other. The next day, in the after
noon, the cat was sitting very con-
tentedly with the rat perched upon
her back, apparently enjoying him.
self.
Even Boston is not beyond sus-
picion:
A lady had pet dog and cat that
were very fond of each other and
never quarreled. When the dog
wished to go into the kitchen, he
would stand by the door, and puss
would jump up, catch one paw oyel
the latch and press the other on the
thumb piece, and, as the door swung
open, she would drop down on the
dogs back and ride in, in triumph.
New York will not be forgiven fol
this. Note the clumsy attempt tt
play at punning with the words fee
and feat:
At noon on Saturday Col. Law
renee Kip's black mare Lady Girls
wold, dashed down. Seventh avenu
at full speed, leading cluster o
trotters. Near 125th Street the team
collided with furniture truck. Col
, Kip turned a complete somersaul
and landed on his feet, not even los
ing his hat. 1t was a feat whic
, would have turned some of the bes
f acrobats green with envy. Th
mare, although she was tremblin
and nervous, never offered to move
The only damage was a split shaft
: and getting into his wagon again tn
ICo1onpI drova off
The following from Gloucester
I Mass, is not so bad as some, bein
, of the kind regularly expected in Me-
England with the spring flowers:
p Capt. Augustus G. Hall and tn
crew of the schooner Annie L. Hal
h vouch for the following: On Marc
q 80, while on the Grand Bank, in lat
y tude 40 degrees, 10 minutes, long
e tude 33 degrees, they discovered a
g immense live turtle, which was at fir
$ thought to be vessel bottom VI
$ The schooner passed within twenty
o five feet of the monster, and those Q
board had ample opportunity to est
mate its dimensions by compariss
with the length of the schooner. I'll
d turtle was at least 40 feet long.
It feet wide and 80 feet from the ape
y of the back to the bottom of the III
o der shell. The fiippers were 20 fe
: lsng. 1t was not deemed advisab
o to attempt its capture.
g The South invariably runs to snal
e stories, which may be readily a
e counted for. This is from the vici
10 ity of AmerIcus, Ga:
T.: A gentleman from the country T
o ports a snake fight which he WI
messed a few days ago, where a blat
snake was endeavoring to swallow
snake of the moccasin tribe. TT
le snake was half way down the bla'
snakes throat, and its squirming W
,e Iudicrous to witness. The bla'
d snake was speedily killed, and whit
the moccasin was liberated it W
If found to be but half of its origin
dimensions, smooth and sleek as if
had been just taken out Of an oil ca
er After being liberated it became twi
re the size that it was when taken o
a, of the snakes mouth.
lp From Rhode Island we have,
st might be expected, small and We
lr modest story.
While men were at work on Nor
ar Main Street, they had dug ht
k, down to the depth of twelve fe
lie when they struck a curious fin
namely, two huge mud turtles, be
er of which were then alive. One
lie them was accidentally struck will
IT. crowbar, however, and killed. I
of other was taken out alive. This Il
tie measures sixteen inches in lent
and fifteen inches in width. I
R, tail is twelve inches long and the ID
of D;na inches II is a LARGO sDeciu