The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-10-17
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There Is . pOstOGics in shannon
county, No., called Not.
AZ Huntsville, Ala, Q pink and
white chicken was Matched . short
time ego.
The author Of "Listen 10 the
Mocklng Bird" has made tl00. 900 By
that one effort.
A little girl in Dayton, Oregon,
found o poeketbook containing $500
and restored Il 10 its owner.
A huge rattIesuake crawling along
the sidewalk was one Of the sights
ct Athens, Ca, recently.
A LeComte pear, Weighing twenty
four ounces, was recently picked mp
at Early Branch, 8. G.
A society lady Of East Liverpool,
o., puts her pet poodle dogs hair
mp In curl papers every night.
A petriied rabbit and numerous
old coins were found twenty-four
feet below the surface In Ports-
mouth, o.,
Suburban Boston always eats lie
doughuuts with cheese, and at rustic
tea parties cheese always TANKS the
cake.
SIegfried Knoepffmaeker, Of CHI
eago, has had his name changed by
order Of court 10 Slegfried Button
maker.
A Middletown, Del, duck mlngles
with chickens and endeavors TO con-
ceal lite identity by making attempts
ut Growing.
A negro ut Starke, Fla, went TO .
lawyer 10 borrow . dictionary TO
learn the meaning Of Q brand on .
Texas pony.
A wheeling girl Of IS has received
numerous proposals Of marriage.
The last was from . man 80 year,
old, who IL q paralytic.
At Unadilla, Mich, Q farmers
turkeys got into q dispute with his
bees, and the result was that seven
teen turkeys were killed.
Pat Brady. o convict at Auburn,
has been pardoned by Governor
Hill. He IL AZ years old and has
been In prison since he was IS.
The wantOn slaughter Of birds Ia
Florida led to an increase In the
number Of snakes. The pond birds
are great destroyers Of the reptiles.
A Dresden manufacturer has pro-
dueed thread from the common net
tie 90 fine that sixty miles Of Il
weighs only two and one-half
pounds.
Henry Wilson, Of jefferson county,
o., has q COW that IL I years old and
weighs less than 800 pounds. The
animal IL about three and one-hali
feet high.
A small boy killed blue racer st
Benton Harbor, Mich, the other
day by cutting Off his head with q
hatchet. The snake was fully six
feet In length.
Two ten foot black snakes were
killed at SAwmIll Run, Ligonier
township, Westmorelsnd county,
Pa, recently, by Candas MershOD
and George Zeltner.
A farmer In Belmont county, o.,
states that q woodchuck and q black
snake inhAbit the same hole Ia his
clover lot and are apparently on the
DeBt Oh teTDlb.
A planter at NuevA Paz, Cuba,
was captured by bandits recently
and not returned TO his family until
the payment Of a ransom variously
reported at $500 TO 5000 In gold.
Her thick wooden stockings saved
the life OF Mrs. Burton, Of Middle
bury, Pa. She was bitten by q
rattlesnake, but the stockings absor-
bed the venom. The spot turned
bright green.
Capt. Haskell, OF San Francisco,
recently witnessed q terrific battle
between q sword fish and q whale In
the harbOr Of San Francisco. The
sword fish was finally victorious,
killing the whale.
A live toad imbed ded In q seam Of
coal has been found In q north Of
England mine. The creature has
no mouth, but appears 10 live upon
air. IL IL three inches long and can
hop and crawl freely.
Simon Collins, Of Marietta, o.,
has been blind for twenly-seven
years, yet he IL an expert carpet
weaver, makes paper sacks and
prints them ln cOlOrs, and has re-
Gently learned typewriting.
There IL q fish pond at Delano,
Cal, which Is supplied from an
artesIau we'll. The fish are spurted
out every day ard belong 10 the
same species rs those ut Owens lake,
ON the other side Of the coast range.
The gymnotus, or electrical eel, is
common In the tributaries Of the
OrinOco, and IL generally captured
by causing the fish to expend their
shocks upon horses driven into the
stream until exhausted, when they
become an easy prey.
An Ohio man has written Jay
Gould q begging letter every day
for the last $50 days, aud In his last
he announced that he had purchased
80 worth Of stationery and calcutta
ted to keep turning the crank until
he got some response.
A New York farmer fired q shot at
the reflection Of burglar In = mirror
and shivered the glass. When he
came to replace the mirror he found
q niche In the wall back OF it where
In his grandfather had secreted tl5,-
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