Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-04
FOUND IN THE TALL GRASS,

farm of Coon Shafer, near Mindless
burg, nature has left one of her curl
osities. 1t is in the form of a six-leg-
ged pig, 8 months old and as healthy
and frisky as any of its companions.
1t has four front limbs, the two extra
ones not being so large as the others,
but they are fully deyeloped-feet and
all. Mr.. Shafer says this is a genuine
six-legger, not stuffed with sawdust,
but alive, and any doubling Tbomases
who may have misgivings concerning
the facts in this case can see his pig.
ship at any time by driving out to the
farm. g
Hull Index: Strawberry short cake
in November, all an Iowa product, is
not often enjoyed by the citizens of
Iowa, but it so happened that Mrs.
Leuty was privileged to grace her Sun.
day dinner table with that delicacy.
Mr.. English. of Valley Junction, came
up Saturday to accompany his wife
and boys home, and he brought the
berries with him. They We're brought
to his Office by Polk county farmer,
who found quantity sufficient to fill
several boxes while preparing to cover
his strawberry bed for the winter Be
meath lot of leaves he found portion
of his bed bearing fruit. OF course
they were curiosity and he took them
to the editor, and Of course the editor
brought them Immediately to his bet.
ter half who happened to be visiting
her sister at Hull. They probably tast-
ed better up in Sioux county than ii
they had been devoured in Polk coun,
ty. VIZ ~
Jefferson Bee: Perry Dewey had
too many Plymouth Rock chickens in
a coop. Some had to stand UP. like
democrats at Shaw's meeting. They
got down half grown P. Dornick.
trampled her fiat, and began to prone.
made on her as the mad fellow in the
hay loft "tromped' Don Quixote; and
then they picked her on the breast:l
worried off all the feathers, got through
the hide, bored into the flesh and
through 1t, into the gizzard, and the
half digested food oozed out. Thew
ate that and let the chick alone MAJ
ture cured the bird; shot filaments Of
tissue across the gulf, as across water
when skim of ice is forming, and the
shuttle. day by day, added new lines,
and the cavity was rooted in and hide
formed over that as thatch, and then
she upholstered it all with feathers,
and that sorry looking pullet now
struts around, talking Volupuk, as
good as new. Got well by not eating
when the feshy bars were let down.
or, as Seneca Dewey puts it, she lived
on foodless food till the stop.gap was
closed. Nature patched that breast
with living tissue just as woman
darns rent.
Rock Valley Bee: A. w. Corder Of
Abba, called on J. B. Foppe one day
last week and voluntarily offered I'd
pay bill which was over seven years
old Mr.. Foppe did not, afterwardg
recall the indebtedness, but the man
insisted that he had note somewhere
in his possession which he wished to-
pay-principal and interest. Mr.. Cor.
der lived here near Rock Valley sew.
en- or eight years ago. He has beer
| more prosperous in his new home and
came back to pay his merchant friend
who favored him years ago when III
hard luck. Mr.. Foppe is greatly pleaa
ed over the incident and counts it ono
of the happiest experiences of his life,