The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-27


 year for her. during life. If she re- fused the we'll. the whole property was I to be devised to charities. she to be the recipient only Of his personal jew | Catherine B. HeckIer of Portland. | Ore, got even with Mir. Hanmore jn behalf Of yher sex, when in October she l willed "the sum of one dollar. the same l to be paid. in four monthly ipstail- nients. to the individual who married me- No contest.
 This very month has seen quite as curious q happening of the same kind. John Deiacy, Philadelphia saloon keeper left very considerable estate by a. relative, dying in South Africa. I has received offers of the foiIowing: Seven automobiles. three houses and | letss six epoch fnakfng' inventions, one race horse. one bull pup. three gold mines. one steam yacht. five motof- boats, one trolley line. two trotters, fif- I teen private secretaries and twenty two wives. 4g .saa s-f N <
 Feathers npd Four Feet.
 i A pure white sparrow. a four-foot garter snake, daily milking prize 1 Alderney, a St. Bernard, mothertrg three forsaken lion cubs. and Collie adopting four tiny piglets, these are few of the 1908 human interest" l events in the world of feathers and | four feet.h The Penneylvania towns of. I Bloomsbutg and Lancaster Chicago herself, and StewartsvilTe. Ind, are the sources from which the respective l items have been issued to waiting and ready press AZ
 The the so-cailed .Sea dog,r cruising of Atiantic Highlands, Y. J..s has struck yet newer, less commonplace note. The creature looks like seal but the vital point Is that 1t emtts q I cry so like an automobile coming round q sharp corner that many A wayfayers hearing 1t, has jumped preclpitately to the side. of Headiand Drive. Some even aver the thing smells of gaso- i After this. one demands what Is I unique, If genuine attehtion is to be cleilued--and another Jersey hamlet rises, to the occasion. If the Chatham correspondents are to be believed tend surely they areD a certain MT. Budd, there residing. has this year lost q remara.bie hen. The lady entered the l world in quite the usual way. but one l day. while exploring. sine wandered ] onto a patch of newiy-iaid concrete just inside the Budd barn door Her 1 feet stuck. and the concrete set before the daInseI-tn-diatress was discovered. But, her spirit remained unbroken; her | faculties tinimpaired. Externally shack eled, she bore her lot uncomplainfngly for nine months, eating and laying l eggs quite as she ought. Then came the inexorable scythe- -bearer--per erhaps, for once. truly welcome.
 a Eternal Fpitneas.
 What more beautifully it detail of I the .es news than that which told i what the orgapist at the second wed- I ding of Madame Anna Gould played after the cererponyg 1t was Abide With Me.'s.
 | sefU hNy DeWitt.and Delos~ Fall, twin. brothers, of Jackson, Mich.s should have sent, with his regrets, a thy bottle sof chlc~ I r0fOrm to each of the s0-gear-oldersE
 And. Jan. 90 last. Marcus choeu. I windoW-cleaner at the Battle creek ISanitarIun, in the same Lake state l falling through sky light, It. badly cllt up and bruised, in the operating room. The attendant physicians I promptly got busy
 Very much to the same point, again, 1 are three of the twelyemonth's record 1 ed thefts. A burglar, working in the I jewalry shop of James Alpert, Phtla- I delplia, capped off his operations by 1 taking away the burglar alarm; BIT. | Joe Sinnem, 'in'' Hnttonsvifie's jail 1 fPa.l for chicken lifting, escaped and carried off the Sherifts Sunday clothes l euf route; and Beeton second-story
 man, plying his trade on the fringe of | the Back Bay district, ignored silver and bric-a-brac, preferring box of I poems. The pipe mixture needs no l conirnent--nor the poetM either re- 1 rnanabeslng The Hubs traditions.
 ~ Providence and The ChuFch. I Bloomsburg's white sparrow Is not her sole claim to notoriety this year. | ]. C. Henaershott, lives near by, and ] he has outBurbanked, Burbank. Two I 1so aN a tf1f a 1 from a certain tree; last year the ] fruit on those seifSame limbs looked | peachey but tasted queer; this year it hos borne-plumg! And the nelghbors whisper of "Providence," for Mrs. H. is plous. an Invalid and 2 lover of damsons. l was omniscence also behind the oil strike which was made on the tiny l property of the Reformed Church of PetersviIle. Pa. in April? The fact is l that a f"gueher" was found within the week after a prayer-meeting had l been held over the debt of the little grssation.--pEoperty mortgaged and back salary due the pastor.
 Som ething went bit wrong how ever. when Woodstock. Mass, prayed for rain. last October. The heavens | opened all right efiongh--but Stock bridge got the shower. y l Two. other paragraphs "0f Religious | Interest" Cash registers have been in- l stalled (June, hfteen) in the vestibuies | of St. Caslmir's, Worcester. (Mass.,1 sd that church -goers may now see their contributions properly "rnng up". And pr, E. Turmbull Lee. of the Frist Press byterian Church, Walklnsburg. (the
 ''sWelI" PittshurK suburh) has asked
 the ladies sitting beneath his pulpit to remove their llatss--"save,- of course,
 the elderly ones" All the Merry :
 Widows have come otf without com ment! sS!
 i In Furran' Rarts,
 The Old World has sent full measure across seas to such a gleaning as in Ohio. Burgundy has passed a law for a a;ciosed season" for sTaiis, ctossing,
 the diminutive house-carriers as game. An oelsnitz (HunEFy) ena- broidery factory has had to shut down hecauso of butterflies, sweeping in at
 the open. windows, had clogged the
 machinery. And Swiss couple has been married after a courtship of forty-fves---3.00O love letters have pass
 ed in the meantime.
 Switzerland too. has produced The Happiest Man on Earth" Johann schmid is the claimant to the title. the town of Suhr hIs home. and here are his reasons: T have never worked never married, never been Ill, never been anxious. eat well, drink well, and aleep we'll"
 Across the Alpine border, in France, and down aA versailles a waiter, one Oscar Gildschmidt (prohably not q native if there's anything in a namel
 while reading newspaper over a