The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16
PART TWO.
QUEER SPRING HAPPENINGS.
A Goose That Plays Tag and Squirrel
That whips Snakes.
From the New York World.

From the New YORK w Grid.
This is the time of year when curious
;,,.ideDts occur. 1t is half way between
spring and summer, and it is said that
,ba unsettled conditions of the weather are
the cause. For instance, who ever heard
~ an intelligent goose? Yet, William
rrepner of Kingston declares that he owns
one which plays tag with his children in
the back yard and alarms the househould
nights should tramps or other strangers
prowl about the premises
I'm in Wayne county a spring has sud
denly shouted on the farm of John Howell.
II throws out fine white sand, which,
when rubbed on the hands, cannot be got
off again until it wears off. Farmer
Howell thinks of erecting a sanitarium
near the spot for the cure of dyspeptics,
as he believes the substance will put
cast-iron coating on the stomach, which
will permit it to digest ten-penny nails.
The other day Supervisor Wood of Mid
dletown drove to Fair oaks, orange coun-
~ on business On his return he wit
messed a singular struggle for supremacy
between a large garter snake and SPUR
rel The snake tried to catch the squir-
rel in its folds and bit savagely at 1t. The
squirrel skilfully eluded the snakes at
tacks, and, jumping nimbly this way and
that, managed to bite the snake in half
dozen places. The snake soon had enough
of the fight and turning tail, fed to the
dusty roadside and made it's escape into
a nearby stream.
ELIAS Belts of Summitville, Sullivan
county. caught a trout weighing nearly
two pounds in the Bashe's Kill Thursday.
The next bite he got nearly jerked Elias
hi urqK m
preston that he'd hooked a shark. After
a desperate struggle he pulled an enor-
NOUS ell partly out of the water. Finding
that the eel was fast at the other end,
holding on by its tail, Belts twined his
line about stump and cut into that por-
ton of the eel that was out of the water.
That part of the eel captured, he asserts,
weighed four pounds Great Eeel-lie"
say the natives, what must the whole
ell have Weighed?'
Carpenters Point is a suburb of Port
Jervis-an old-fashioned corner of the
town-aud nobody would think that any
thing could occur within its limits to cause
all the old maids to clap their hands with
JOY. But such is the fact. A gray cat
owned by a spinster gave birth few days
since to three remarkable kittens. None
of the kittens has a tail, and each cat
has a forepaw turned in like a turtles.
They are strange freaks, and that's why
new breed of cats.
Oliver Rider works at Port Jervis and
lives at Milford. eight miles away. The
road is like floor, and the bicycle time
for the distance is twenty-five minutes.
Ryder was bowling along at a terrible rate
house just as a dog chased a big black
cat across the road. The wheel struck the
cat, which in turn stuck it's claws into
the tire with such grip as to puncture
1t Immediately. The scorcher rose in the
air like a rocket and came down like
stick. The cat screeched and flew the
other way. The cyclist left string of
buttons along the highway where he
scraped the earth up, and the cat sat on
the top rail of a fence and made faces
at him. The enraged wheelman endeav-
ored to shoot the cat with a revolver, but
1t has nine lives yet
A young woman on a wheel wearing a
big revolver in her belt passed through
this place last Saturday, bound for the
Delaware water gap.
Several farmers living in the town of
Mamakating, Sullivan county, have gone
into the novel business of planting chest
nut trees for a future living Col Crum
OF overlook farm has two acres planted
with chestnuts, which he will graft next
spring with paragon and other fine chest
nut sprouts. Mr.. Crum claims that the
common nuts sell for only SO a bushel
while his graft of the paragon chestnut will
and $12 a bushel
a mock of English sparrows and a crow
nad lively battle on the edge of the
mountain above the village. Wednesday
winch was watched by many people. The
struggle lasted half an hour, after which
the sparrows flew away. An examination
OF the battle-ground revealed two quarts
OF dead sparrows with the body of the dead
crow the latter being nearly pecked to