Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-10
SOME ODD STORIES
CLEANED AT RANDOM
Cat That Ate Canary Came Back.

Cat That Ate Canary Came Back.
PHILADELPHIA. August 1O.-After an
absence of more than a. month, "Tonk,"
the house cat Of Mrs. Herman Chapman
Of Lexington street. Manayunk. to all
appearances rose from the dead, and
greeted his mistress when she opened the
door to take In the newspaper and
bottle of milk yesterday morning.
On July '-ronk'' ate the pet canary
bird of the household, and to avenge the
death of her pet Mrs. Chapman paid two
boys 50 cents each to drown the cat. Yes
terday the boys acknowledged that they
had thrown the cat into . freight car
headed for the coal regions. and 1t is
thought that the cat had made the jour
ney back.
At all events. the cat came back-much
reconciled over the loss Of the canary.
again received the cat into the family,
and its accustomed place by the f1reside
next winter will not be empty.
Stirred Lemonade With Wooden Leg
NEW YORK, August johannes Har-
man. thirty-five years old. whose home is
wherever he hangs his hat and who
Is known along the Bowery as "Jifn-
mic the Trader" was sent to the work
house for six months by Magistrate Kern
ochan. in the Tombs police court.
Hartman has only one leg. He has
feud of long standing with Nathan Wag-
ner. who keeps a lemonade stand In front
of his restaurant at 2l5 Park 70 The other
night Hartman sat down on the curb In
front Of the stand. He unstrapped the
wooden leg and began to stir Nathan's
lemonade with It. In the fight that fol-
lowed Hartman lost the leg. Magistrate
Kernochan asked where 1t was.
oh" said Wagner. che threw It in the
street, and ragpicker got away with It,"
Did Not Know Kaiser's Mustache.
SWINEMUNDE, August 1O.-Emperor
Williams new style of wearing HIS mus
tache was the cause of admission to one
Of the coast forts here being refused him
just before he departed on his trip to
Sweden. The emperor. accompanied by
several officers. the entire party being in
civilian dress and wearing Panama hats.
approached the entrance to the west bat
terry, where the sentry on duty stopped
them
The emperor was much amused and
vainly tried to pass. Then he said to
the sentry:
you must let me enter. Don't you know
me? am the emperor"
The sentry then looked more closely at
the emperor not quite treasured, but evil
IDENTIFY recognized his features and allow
co MIN 10 pass.
The emperor reported the occurrence to
the officer Of the guard Of the fact, prais-
ing the soldier and recommending his pro-
motion.
spooning Parties Are Barred.
KITTANNING. Pa. August 1O.-Rev.
L. A. Carroll. pastor of st. Mary's Church
here. has adopted unique method Of
keeping the young people Of his congre-
CATION away from the local parks at
nights
There has been considerable complaint
against spooners, and Father Carroll,
who formerly was a newspaper man in
Pfttsburg has inaugurated q series OF
nightly entertainments, which are free to
those who don't go to the parks at nights.
There are singing, dancing and regular
vaudeville turns.
Boys Hand Caught In Rain Pipe.
NEW YORK. August l0.-Climbing to
the roof OF a house to recover base ball
which had been knocked there. fifteen
year-old Clarence Yerkes Of ga Delmar
street, Roxborough. put his hand down
into q rain spout to recover the ball. His
hand became firmly lodged there. and
he was not released for more than an
hour, at the end Of which time a tinsmith
was called in to help him.
To free the lad 1t was necessary for
the tinsmith to cut the entire spout away
from the roof and tear up q part OF the
roofing. The boy was not injured In the
process.