The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17
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When the dying year was young' a farmland near St. Paul drank small bottle of nitro -glycerine on q wager On the way home he was overcome py the cold, and, when his friends trleu to thaw him out, he lost his winnings and everything else save two buttons. Until the first frost there were to he seen on a tree near Kingston-on- Thames, England, several semi-roast- t. ed apples. An auto had caught ire beneath the branches, and the flames had cooked the fruit while destroy ing the car.
 Last February the herrings came down Departure Bay. B. c., Tn sucn numbers that their rush through the waters sounded like escaping steam: This lasted 21 hours, at the end or which time nearly 1000 tons or tlsn were in and near the channel, dead,- smothered by their own density.
 Lifc's Little IrOnies.
 General Dokstouroff, running up stairs to thank the Minister of War for ordering him to the front Che had begged to be allowed to die soldiers & death), was claimed by heart disease on the top step.
 The only essay entered for the an- nual prize offered by the Parisian Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, did not receive the award,-- as it was too illegible to be read.
 Sir Alfred Harmsworth offered $500 reward for information which might lead to the arrest of a certain reckless motorist-who turned out to be Sir Alfred's brother
 Dying in poverty in a San Francisco hospital, Luscomb Soares received word that the British government had just allowed his claim of $5.0o0.0Oo arising from losses during the Boer War.
 The Gentler Sex.
 In October, Mrs. Ella Goltz. of Forts mouth, O., swore out a warrant for a circus elephant. which had eaten her gold watch and smashed brand-new Paris hat. A Cologne dairymaid was arrested for bathing herself daily in the milk she later sold.
 A negress, living near Atlanta Ga' has to have her shoes made to order; Finished they are Z3 inches long and weigh IS pounds.
 A June bride entered a grocery store at Fort Fairfield, Me, to buy "an empty barrel of flour that she might make hencoop for her dog
 Whats In Name.
 TO commemorate the years yellow fever epidemic a New Orleans couple named their baby Stegomyia Faciata
 old Tabby," chief of a tribe of Utah Indians, died in October or cat aleptic fit.
 "Damsite" is to be the name of one of Texas new post offices. There are irrigation works there.
 At a wedding in Poplar. England the brides name was Wedlock, and the Bridegroom's Marriage.
 Our FOur-FOOted Friends.
 During a Manchurian engagement a Japanese officer found Pekin span iel wandering lost between the oppos- ing lines It came to whistle and was at once affectionate. Later when the charge was sounded, the dog started forth with his new friend. but as II could not keep up with the rush, the Jap tucked it under his left arm and so led his men to victory
 cat belonging to the Duchess oi Beaufort, being taken to a country seat other than the one where 1t had Seen born, turned back home, after Two unhappy days. covering the 200 intervening miles in safety.
 A veteran police horse (October PSI