The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-12-30
stories Boiled Down.
CAUGHT A TARTAR.

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went up very high and circled rounC
awhile. and suddenly fell to tn,
ground. Upon examination it wa
found that the snake had wrapped
itself around the hawks neck anC
choked it. Both were killed by the
men.
MIGHT HAVE To KNOCK HIM DOWN
1t is related of Lord Charles Bere
ford that during the hot fighting il
South Africa, as he was riding bach
after an engagement, he oyertool
one Of his troopers wounded and
slowly making his way on foot. H'
stopped and told the trooper to ge
up behind him the trooper refused
on the ground that if he got up they
would both be taken by the enemy
but if Lord Charles Bereford rode or
alone he was certain to escape. Lord
Charles Bereford looked at him q
moment and said If you don't gel
up shall have to get off and knock
you down Whereupon the troop
er mounted and both escaped.
FATAL WATCH.
The late DIR. Mclean sometimes
in feeling the pulse of his patients
held his watch to his hand and
counted the pulsations. On one oc-
casion while doing this his watch
stopped suddenly in his hand and
his patient, contrary to his expecta-
ton, died. He related this to a par
ty of gentlemen, among whom was
Davy Harris, well-known citizen,
Not long after Harris was taken sick
and sent for the doctor when the
doctor arrived he was a great deal
better, and was sitting on the piazza
at Major Burt's, where he lived the
doctor felt his pulse, and uncon-
sciously pulled out his watch. Har-
ris, remembering the incident, said :
Don't pull that id watch on me.
The watch stopped in forty-eight
hours he was corpse.
HE DROVE OFF.
A story is going the rounds of an
estimable youDg gentleman who is
something OF practical joker. Not
long ago he discovered, while prom
enading on North Pearl street. Al
bany, the driver Of closed brough-
am doing away upon the box. Our
friend, leaving his companion, ST.
lently opened the door of the car
riage and, closing it with loud
snap, addressed an imaginary person
within, and politely doffing his hat,
promised to call soon. The driver
had meanwhile Strengthened up, and
glancing hastily oyer his shoulder
perceived the wag smiling upon his
mistress, as he thought, and when
that gentleman looked up at him
and uttered the word home be took
up the reins and speedily drove of.
No one but the lady and the coach
man will ever know what transpired
after she crossed the threshold Of
the family mansion.
AFTER A WATCH.
One day recently Jake Tobriner
purchased a gold watch and chain
as birthday present to bis wife.
He laid it down a moment on a
chair and went into the next room,
and when he came back it was gone.
Great was his astonishment on see
ing the iewelry so suddenly disap-
pear, and he fully concluded that
his wife had played trick on him,
and said nothing. Finally, at din
ner, he said the joke had gone far
enough, and she had better produce
the watch. She knew nothing of it
and Jake was beginning to feel rath-
er queer, when he he heard noise
on the stoop and, going out, found
the cat with the chain tangled about
her neck and trying to get rid of it.
He made grab at it but pussy was
too quick and slid under the house,
with the elegant watch clattering
along behind. Mr.. Tobriner got a
long pole and poked it about under
the house, and after spell. hearing
noise, saw the cat upon the wood
shed with the watch still dangling to
her neck. He climbed up with a
bowl Of milk to get the cat, but she
ran under the chicken-house with
the watch of course and then he
poked her with the pole again; but
it was no good the cat was up in a
tree too quick, and the air vas filled
with clubs and bricks for half an
hour, trying to bring her bown. Mr..
Tobriner finally went TO borrow a
gun to shoot the cat, when she came
down herself, and getting the watch
caught in between some boards was
unable to get away. Mr.. Tobrlner
got his watch and, strange to say, ii
was uninjured-Carson appeal.
TIED TO THE cows TAIL.
George Hauck, the brewer, spent
week last summer at hotel in
Hunter, Greene county. One day,
on his wav to the hotel, after long
ramble through bush and briar, he
stopped at neat-looking farmhouse
for the purpose of getting q glass OF
fresh milk. The kitchen door stood
wide open. Mr.. Hauck, after krock
ing, walked in. He saw no sign Of
! life in the room except a sleeping
baby in a cradle, which was rocked
ed to and fro by. some unseen power.
A closer examination revealed the
fact that stout cord was fastened
to one of the rockers and run through
hole in one side of the room. Mr..
Hauck resolved to follow up the
cord and see what the other end of
it was fastened to. The search led
him to a small barn connected with
the house. In it stood three cows,
to the tails of which was tied the
cord. 1t being fly time, the animals
kept up constant switching with
their tails, thus accounting for the
rocking of the cradle in the kitchen.
The rest of the family were at work
in a field about quarter of a mile
from the house, and Mr.. Hauck had
considerable difficulty in attracting
their attention. He finally succeed
ed, and obtained a glass of milk
Kingston Freeman.
ON THE BATTLE FIELD.