The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-16
Special to tho Scranton Tribune.

Special to tho Scranton Tribune.
Susuuehanna, Feb. 14.--At the Cas-
cade, Farmer Underwoad's tiger cat
trotted out toward the barn last Satur-
day in search of mice, and she carried
in her teeth a piece OF meat for her
young, \ bald eagle. which has been
lowering over the farm for several
days. descended upon puss and whirled
Ter up The path of ascent, to the
yves Of the spectators watching the
scene. was clearly. identified by loose
feathers violently tossed from the point
IF compass Soon the struggling pair
attained q Lgiddy eminence and came
to stanGstll in the sky The eagles
huge wings had dropped now and then,
and he had given plain evidence of
pain. yet not once had his awful grip
relaxed. At length he began to fall
with a rapidity which every moment
Increased and the two animals struck
the groundat the same point where they
had first encountered each other. But
the big eagle was stone dead, and
PUSSY, as soon as she felt the earth
beneath her feet, shot away to the barn
still carrying her bit OF meat The cat
had cut thc eagles throat and laid open
his breast, After his death in midair.
huWeNoI she had been too clever to
relax her hold and thus fell to the
ground, hut had let her enemy serve as
parachute to ease the the descent.
PuSS was none the worse from her
battle for life among the clouds.
PAE,AGRApHrC PGCKUPS.
The Erie shops have been placed on
'ull time. The road is seriously handi-
capped on account of a lack of motive
power. There is a report that a large
number of locomotives will be con
structed in the shop here.
pn acc unit of the heavy fall of snow
the big leslie steam rotary snow plow
left on Monday for the New York divis-
ion, to clear the drifts from the tracks
The Susquehauna shirt factory has
once more shut down indefinitely. The
management could not secure sufficient
female help.
Thomas J. Nicholson has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Lanesboro vice
Moan Bisbee, resigned Mr.. Bisbee will
remove to Bnghamton.
The funeral of Mrs. Mary Ann Err
purg occurred on Sunday afternoon
from Grace Episcopal church, Oak
land,
ll.Es NGCf CURED.
''ralkin' about the ague." said an
Erie brakeman, there was Sol Simson
Sol used to break on the Delaware di-
vision. He had the ague awfully. Had
it so bad that some of his teeth shook
out, and he shook the buttons off his
coat lot of his friends had sure
cures for the ague, and each gave him
the prescription. At last, when he had
thirteen prescriptions he took them all
TO Port Jervis drug store and had
them put up He took them home and
put them all into one jug. Then he
shook the jug, mixed the thirteen pre-
Scriptions thoroughly and took three
doses. He never shook again until the
hearse struck a stone"
IN SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY.
Forest City yearns for a county
bridge, a new railroad station, a board
of trade. a poor farm and a lot of
other things not yet classified. Per-
haps If she asked for less she would
receive more
A wild cat weighing twenty-five
pounds was recently killed at Forest
Lake
The next meeting of the Susduehan-
ma County Medical society will be held
in Montrose.
Hallstead, MOntrOse and Great BenL
are preparing to give their soldier
boys rousing welcome home"
HOME MADE CROWS HEADS.
Mr. Billings, of Brookdale. uas taken
contract 10 furnish IA New York
millinery manufacturer with crow
heads for Twenty-Five cents piece.
1t cost nothing to get dead crow
Alive it is an elusive bird, and ammu-
milton is expensive. Billings, however,
Is an enterprising speculatOr. He has
discovered scheme by which a max
imum number of crows heads can he
got with a minimum of expense He
has set up "A chicken incubator in
which is placed or laid the eggs of
about 100 hen crows that have been
trapped and confined with perhaps a
dozen cock crows. Within fifteen days
he little creatures are hatched, and a
inrtnigh later they are ready To be be-
headed. 1t is understood that the head
~ a crow chick is worth Just as much
as that Of the adult of the same
species. AT the uniform rate Of four
for a dollar. dead, they vii pay the
producer Billings has the only crow
hatchery in the world. and he is
proud of his achievements
\ QUEER BANK
Mr TeWsbury. of Ararat. having
$225 to pay on a mortgage, carried
the money in leather wallet in his
hip-pocket for a year. few DAYS
ago he went to Carbondale TO make
the payment. The wallet also contain
I'd his marriage certificate, which he
intended having framed. A few days
later he mislaid the wallet. He began
10 recall where he had been and re-
membered having sit back in the barn
one evening fixing a harness. In the