Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-19
LITTLE ROMANCES.

Some Maine lumbermen who were an i
noyed by bear stealing their molasses
out of the camp store-room put up a job
on bruin. They got an empty molasses
keg, filled the sides of it full of sharp
pointed nails, inclined toward the bot
tom, poured a little molasses into it.,
and set the whole arrangement out IN
the bushes near the pig pen. The
novel trap worked nicely. The next
from the camp. The BEARS head was
inside. He had stuck it in and couldn It
draw it out. A riie-ball ended his
misery and his thieving.
Thomas Connor landed at Castle
garden, the other night. The next
morning he wrote a letter to his brother
in County Kerry, Ireland, and started
off to drop it in letter box, near the
in the proper box, he opened tire-alarm
box No. IL. The box is a keyless one,
having small bell on the door which
rings when it is opened The sharp
whirr startled Connor somewhat, but
''as nothing else happened just then l
thought that | was safe enough" Con-
nor said afterward. Finding no place
to put his letter. he pulled down the
hook that he saw inside, thinking tha4
it would reveal place for the
letter. 1t didn't, and while Connor stood
scratching his head and wondering how
he could post the letter, a fire engine
dashed up with changing gong. Three
or four sections of hose were reeled off
the tender. BY this Jime another en-
gine arrived and a third was close be-
hind. Then two trucks arrived shortly
after each other, and at last Connor got
scared and ran away. Someone told
Foreman Murray that Connor had
pulled open the box, and he was ar
rested and sent to the Tombs court,
where Justice Power discharged him
after Foreman Murray had told the
story. The alarm had caused COM
plete blockade OF business down town
in that quarter. Connor was fright
ened half to death over the affair, but
he said he thought 'those very funny
postmen, wild big hats an axes"
Samuel Carter, of Waterloo township,
an old farmer of Athens county, Ohio,
was some time since very sick, and,
thinking himself nigh unto death, he
sent for his son, John H., living in one
OF the western states, TO whom he
decided his large and valuable farm.
Unexpectedly recovering from his sick
ness, however, he wanted his farm back
iHobiputVu "Oic
determined by the judge deciding that
the deed transferring possession Of the
farm was valid and must stand.
Charles Raymond has been familiar
figure around Niblo's Garden for many
years.
Raymond did not take kindly to the
ordinary lndulgences that men usually
employ to ruin their health. He did
not use tobacco or drink intoxicating
fluids, but he had one little speciality
that he heartily enjoyed.
His method of dissipation or relaxa :
tiOn after the trying duties of a night S
performance were over consisted in
eating tacks for the amusement of his
friends. There was no legerdemain n
about it, either. He would swallow
handful Of tacks with as much greed AS
a loye-sick maiden would candy. He
found ont that he could swallow tacks
while working at laying carpets when a
young man. He has swallowed several
kegs of tacks in has day, and the only
bad feature noticeable was that his APP
petite always appeared to be on the in =
crease. The explanation OF the phe-
nomenon is a simple one. Raymond has
not copper-lined stomach, as has often
been suggested TO him, but he has a
strong stomach, into which there flows