The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15
7hings Of Odd and Comic Interest
 That the World Has Seen in 1907.

love ana faitn o1scounteo Ao"s
 score years.
 New England contributed it's share to such events when H. c. Wilder, aged SC, and Miss Esther Crawford, aged 90, were married in Lowell. after . two weeks acquaintance; and when Bridgeport announced the eiopemsnt of Edward Skinner. who is S2. with maid of only 60. Mary Curtis. Tomhstones and Funerals. Franccis Loclus. of Angouleme, | France. has this year. and for the sec. ond time, been pronounced dead, l only to revive and interrupt the tuner | al. Mrs. Fred. Hatzell, of Huntingdon | w. Va, did the same thing, though 1t l was her initial appearance in the un- canny role; when she rose in her comm, there was more than panic among the l gath cred and mournful friends Dunton, Md, thought (June) 1t had | just such another case. for when the bearers were lowering . coffin into the l trench a voice from it directed:"Let me down easy". Upon which 1t was drop | ped!--and later ventriloquist was arrested for . sadly misplaced practi- l cal joke.
 Surely. speaking of funerals. one may record the playfulness of Sag 1 Harbor shark, who, in August, mistook l torpedo for a fish. And also the l finding in q Mexican post office of l packet of letters. written back in the | mid-seventies. This last has been ac- | cepted as full explanation of why at | least some of the letters she longed Tor
 never came. :, Coincidence and Paradox. Sayville (of white crow fameD was | eplivened one April Sunday by the odd l aptness of the Rev. J. B. Hammills text. Lean not on weak foundations. I he announced, and the same instant the pulpit desk collapsed. Quite as fitting was the decoration | conferred upon Prince Henry of the Netherlands by England's Edward | Queen Wilhelminas consort had saved . score of lives. at the time of the wreck of the "Berlin", nearly drowning himself in the attempts. Now he has been made a Companion of the Order | of The Bath.
 New York has produced non-sink- ] able German,--too fat to commit sui I eide in Atlantic Basin. though he tried his Teutonest: but Indiana University has surpassed all other attempts of 1907 to illustrate the irony of fate. Colonel Bryan offered an essay prize there. and now 1t has been won by a genius who wrote opposing the Gov ernment ownership of railroads. In Turin Parts. Guatamala made her bid for first place when Gin ApriD President Cab rera issued warrants for the arrest ot Francisco Rafas. an editor. He was b criminal in that he had dared print the presidential message on the back page of his sheet. Paris added to her escape prisoner episode. a characteristic item. when, last April, she began to perfume her subway lines with the scents of Arabs the blest.
 And dear old Lunnon sent in no less than three good ''trys'' for head of tn.
 list. In the years second month sne reported a gentleman, Thompson b.
 name. who had been in bed since 1877,
 he is perfectly healthy. just LAAf
 This was followed up. in May, with
 cable squib of the arrest of half
 dozen little girls who had been caugl.
 throwing dice for a Bible. Augus
 saw Lord Waisingham out shootin- wasps. on the wing. with a rifle. Judgment suspended. l.. Stranger Than Fiction. The Nations capital puts in. perhaps, | the strongest bid of all for nineteen
 seyen's strangest story, and it is al4 l true, of course. On March 24th, J. ii. | Wurdeman. Jr., was thrown from his buggy by a runaway horse. The ac-
 cident happened directly Derore the | office of I1r. H. Wells Woodward, al.
 
 chanced that Wurdeman's injuries were | scalp decorations over the eyes. The physicians push-bell began to jingle | toudly,--and there on the stoop stood the fractious horse summoning the specialists aid. All of which occurred about 165 years after Washington cut down the cherry tree.
 Small news" reads bit tamely aft
 CT this sort of thing. But out il4 Quincy. H., Frank Bogue lost a wallet containing $1.s00, while fishing. anu and then along came c. H. Stenbrecher,
 fellow angler. and hooked the pesky purse first cast.
 Hess usual was the record estab-
 lished by Barbara Ritter. of the Windy
 City. In 1862. g girl of 14. she enter ed the service of Mrs. SanAel Faulk-
 ner entering the place, she received a gold medal from the School of De- inestic Arts.
 Four-Feet as We'll as n Tale.
 The doctor -summoning horse has the
 following for competitors in the years
 animal news:-
 March l. A pig swan ashore from a
 wreck off Fortune Island, carrying a
 lifeline. All hands saved.
 March 8. J. D. Price, of Felton, Del,
 reported the birth of twin lambs. each provided with two mouths, which eat
 and masticate at the same time. April g. Dr. H. J. Jennings, of Johns Hopkins University, demonstrated that
 star fish can be trained to tricks. He
 made one of his pets turn somersauIts. May IA. Mrs. Hollis Hunnewell Of Boston, motoring in France, was saved from serious injury during an upset, py falling on a pig, recently given her
 for luck.
 June 1s. A pet dog, in Muskogee,
 Kan, carrying @ lighted lantern in his
 mouth and running ahead of his negro
 master. gave, at a railway crossing.
 such perfect signals to stop" and
 back" as to hold up a freight train
 which chanced to be approaching.
 July 24. MT. Santillo's garden, near Stamford, Conn.,, was entered and raV- | aged by a wandering COW. She had to pick the lock with her horn to get in. Sept. Il. land owner at Albury,
 Melbourne, surrounded his place with
 rabbit proof" wire fencing. The next night, while on the Watch, he saw a bunch of bunnies climb over; only his presence saved his crops And Finally. Samuel Miller. of New York City, has
 been sent up' for 10 years for a 24-
 cent theft; Max Rothstein, of the
 same city served his sentence in some thing less than a minute; and William
 O'Brien, M. P. for Cork, Ireland, was
 awarded three farthings damages for
 libel injury.
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