Valentine Democrat., 1907-01-03

carry out the Kansas City sentence.
Kansas also reports a Boone county
cider well, where a farmer has stored bis
apple juice in cemented pit.
London (England) is responsible for
this: The armchair of a confirmed tip
pier used at a 'psychometIic lecture"
made tipsy every one who sat in 1T The
signs of drinking continued upon four
Subjects till the chair was burned,
when they at once sobered up.
The Old Folks.
The annual bridegrooms of an age past
expecting just that of them, were Isaac
Lloyd of Liverpool, who, at ninety, was
wed to a widow of sixty, in March;
while, month earlier, Deacon French of
Nashua, n. H., at eighty-eight, married
a spinster of seventy-six.
''The seventies" have even more to tell.
In January, Andrew Lansair of Toledo
began cutting another set of teeth; in
February a lie Sueur (Minn.) matron
painted her entire house; in October
Frank Bookwalter, returning to his boy
hood home in Attica, had the doorstep
lifted that he might find dime he had
lost down the crack as boy of five. He
found it. And each of these was just
three score years and zen.
The note of pathos, which so often
sounds with age, came from Middletown,
n. Y, in April. Matthew Smedes, aged
10, could no longer resist the call of the
fields. He took to the plow again--and
was found dead in the first furrow he
had cut; died in harness, as he had
wished to die
Babes and Divorces.
The divorce mill seems to have record
ed a new "farthest north" A Seattle
judge separated an even dozen couples in
seventy-fve minutes, in February, one
formerly fond husband receiving the
boon for which he prayed because his wife
has become a Shakeress, and another be-
cause his better half had circulated
report that he was an anarchist.
Mrs. Lorenz on the other hand, re-
ceived a divorce in Cincinnati on the
plausible ground that it was difficult to
live peacefully with a man who insisted
on appearing in the parlor with neither
shoes nor stockings.
Des Moines produced, in May, baby
who changed in color three times q day.
When little Eli Rami awakes he is a
proper pink. By noon he is dark gin
ger in hue and before bedtime is start
lingly pale. But then he is the son of a
Hindoo father and an Illinois mother.
In August the Hello lady, on the line
between Meredith and Wolfboro, n. H.,
heard the voice of a two-hour-old sub
scriber. The news of his arrival in the
world came first, and then his infantile
Endorsement Travelled across Lake Winni-
pesaukee.
Stranger than Fiction.
That a Iaborer should discover gold
bearing quartz in New York's Broadway
(March) h)-that a house out in Butte,
while being moved, should run away and
kill team of horses (September) THAT
Danbury Comm young lady should
lose a locket while skating, only to find it
next week in the ice in the family refrig-
erator-these are odd enough. But odder
are two tales which the year has brought
from across the Atlantic.
In the one-from Italy-the story is
that four merrymakers, running away
in the hills near Lake Como broke
through the parapet on the edge of the
road-only to land right-side up in high
tree Just below, no one being worse than
frightened.
claim something near the record At
some amateur theatricals, near Victoria,
in January, two people in the stalls, when
ever the heroine was kissed, kissed each
other loudly. The man of this couple
was husband to the stage heroine, and this
was his way of reproving behavior across
the footlights to which he was distinctly
opposed.
Weird Wills.
When the late Michael Davitt be-
uueathed to all his friends kind thoughts,
to my enemies the fullest possible forgive
ness and to Ireland my undying prayer
for her absolute freedom" he yet did not
leave the strangest will of the twelve
months probate.
Mrs Christina Hoch of Brooklyn will
ed the ashes of her body, when cremated,
as fertilizer for a rose bush on her sons
grave; Mrs. Isabel Kreamer, at West
minister (EnglandO, left her cork leg to
the parish poor warden, and a woman of
Florence, Italy, bequeathed $1,000 to the
staff of local newspaper ''in gratitude
for having been so often entertained by
their writings"
Alphonse Strauss, one of Londons mill
ionaire merchants, dying last May. dis
posed of an estate of 81 1,4S1, ,105 In just
forty-three words-nearly $4,000
word; while January brought sudden
wealth to poor French girl. who at
tended the sale of a great aunt's effects
to buy in some trifing memento OF her.
The only bidder for a shabby cd book
of devotions-she found between its leaves
will bestowing upon her the entire
property, valued at $4,000.
Lifc's Little Ironies.
If this last was the brighter side of
those little ironies which life shows the
world each year, the darker side appeared
to sleep-talking farmer of Sibley, Iowa
He had committed a murder two years
ago, but had never been suspected. Con
Tossing the crime while asleep. he was
arrested repeated his confession in court,
and was duly sentenced.
In Milwaukee (February) one Harry
Mortn<1c Dlo--iDU ghost to frirbtap Coma