The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-30
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
The Story Of Peter Hazen's Two
Headed Cow.
wEsTcOTTs PETRIFIED PUMPKINS
Strange Actions of Farmer Wood
wards Carp--A Few Notes ofInter-
est to the Railroad Boys.-stray
Bits ofsusquehanna County Gossip.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

Hazen, of Cascade Valley, has a. two
headed COW. The unique animal, ex-
cept as regards cranial popularity,
is OF normal appearance. 1t is we'll
kept and has n well-developed body.
The left head is, as regards it's exter-
nal junction, inferior to the other. 1t
eats and drinks with the right hand
mouth. having full command of the
jaw. The jaw of the other head has
hardly any power or motion, as 1t is
embedded in the neck 1t has three
good eyes, and, but for an accident,
would possess four. Although the
left head is comparatively pas
sive, yet under certain circum-
stances, as when the animal is eating,
the mouth belonging to that head
cmits saliva. Although it cannot eat,
this mouth can water" as the epi-
cures say. In the center of the fore
head of the right head is a deep de-
preston that does not appear in the
left head.Ihis would seem to indicate
a deficiency of the brain on that side.
All speculation on the inner structure
cannot well pass the limits of con-
lecture until a post mortem examina-
tion is some time held. The bony front
in the region of the back of the horns
is continuous, apparently, from both
sides. In its entirety the animal is
what Bre'r Thomas Bound, of the Jer-
myn Press, would call bloomin' laloo.
IN sUsoUEHANNA COUNTY.
The gun clubs of Susquehanna coun-
ty will have a shoot in Beebe Park, in
Susquehanna, on Friday afternoon
next
The annual meeting of the Susque-
hanna County Medical society will be
held in New Milford on Tuesday, Oct. 5.
a Methodist church is to be erected
at Elk lake.
The Hallstead Herald will appear,
this week. as a weekly.
The remains of Harrison Brown, late
of Forest City, were on Friday in
tered at Smiley.
Susquehanna county teachers are
discussing Normal Union"
The Teachers association of the
county will publish a journal.
The Susquehanna Teachers insti-
tute will be held in Montrose, Oct. IS.
The funeral of Myron l.. Foot, Of
Great Bend, occurred on Friday after
noon.
The Hartford fair will be held Sept.
27-30. Bauer's famous Scranton band
will furnish essential inspiration. Take
along your knitting work and have a
real good visit.
The Montrose fair will be held Oct.
So
PETRIFIED PUMPKINS.
Some years ago, during a violent
storm, a large number of pumpkins on
the side hill farm of Abram Wescott,
of Hickory Grove, were washed down
into a ravine, where they We're covered
with clay. They were seen the next
year, but no attention was paid to
them and they were forgotten. Last
week some telegraph line repairers
passed through the ravine and un-
earthed the pumpkins. They had be-
come petrified and turned to stone.
Some of them retained their original
shape in marked degree, even to the
stubs ieft from the vine. Some of the
pumpkins weighed fifty pounds. They
will be forwarded to the agricultural
department of Cornell university.
NEWS MENTIONS.
In Beebe Park on Monday morning,
the Great Bend team defeated the
Susquehanna nine. The Great Bend
team has won the championship in the
siXteen-game series. The Susquehanna
club had three Scranton players. The
Great Bend team contains one Great
Bend player. The Susquehanna club
contains one Susquehanna player. Both
teams have played good ball during the
series.
In Beebe Park, on Monday afternoon,
the Susquehanna club, in an exhibition
game, were defeated by the Great Bend
club. And Great Bend isn't on the
map! o, me! o, my
The Honesdale Shirt company in
forms the Susquehanna board of trade
that it has no intention of removing
its Susquehanna plant to Scranton or
elsewhere. Let us have peace.
The work of erecting the new Pres
byterian church edifice is progressing
very favorably. William Knoeller of
Hallstead, the contractor is one of the
most capable and straightforward
builders in this section % the state.
In Cascade Valley, few days since,
Mrs. p. Schonton, aged 80 years, was
bapAzed in the river by Rev. A. p.
Merrill, of Deposit, aged S2
Hon. +. b. Hardenbergh, of Homes
dale, our able and popular state sena-
tpl, budl lc Is d
for reelection.
The Kaiser-Watkins Grand Concert
company, of Scranton, will give a con-
cert in Hogan Opera house on Thurs
day evening. A full house should
greet them.
PREDATORY CARP.
Four years ago Farmer Woodward,
of Starrucca, obtained some fine speci-
mems of food carp from the Pennsyl-
vania fish commissions. He made a
nice pond in his pasture, placed the
carp therein, and waited for fine fish
ing. He had not long to wait. In two
years he was catching two and three
pound specimens, and last year city
cousins carried home siX-pounders.
Farmer Woodward had fish TO give to
his neighbors and TO the poor. The
carp multiplied and grew rapidly.
They soon devoured all of the animal
and vegetable matter in the pond, and
at night made incurslon into the near
by garden, appropriating unto them
selves everything green. Farmer
Woodward was perpleXed but he con-
soled himself with the thought that
he had the finest carp pond in seven
| counties. Last weak he took advan-