Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-07-10
NOTES OF INTEREST.

NOTES OF INTEREST.
Haymakers on the farm of A. H.
Sell, near Hanover, Pa, noticed a COW
| in a nearby meadow strangely jumping
about and believing loudly. Upon inves-
tigation they We're astonished to find
| that eight weasels had attacked her.
After a hard fight the farmers succeeded
| in killing several of the blood suckers
and scattering the remainder.
After cleaning his gun with gasoline,
| Hugh Loynes, % years old, of Elsie,
Mich lighted match and held it at
the muzzle to dry out the barrels and
then blew into the gun to remove the
smoke. An explosion followed. Loynes
will have difficulty in talking and eating
| for some time. His tongue, palate, and
roof of his mouth were severely, burned.
the question of the ownership of par
rot by placing the bird on the stand to
give its own testimony. Miss Bertha
| Saunders and Miss Emma Harris We're
the rival claimants for the bird. Miss
! Harris held it. but Miss Saunders had
brought action to replevin. To prove
her ownership, Miss Saunders wrote
string of pet phrases she had taught the
bird, gave them to the judge, and started
the parrot on his recitation. AS the
bird reeled off saying after saying the
judge decided Miss Saunders plea was
correct.
To step from Hymen's altar and find
two undertakerS awaiting them with
ambulances was the seriO-cOmlc expert
ence of Mr.. and Mrs. r. D. Stitt, OF
Butler. Pa.
While Rev. J. w. Pontius was per-
forming the marriage ceremony at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas +.
Klingensmith. parents of the bride, Miss
Emma E. Klingensmith, some joker
called the M. H. Berkimer and the
George W. Amy undertaking rooms and
double quick. The ambulance men drove
| at breakneck sped to the home arrlv-
ing about the same time, and awaited
the word to remove the dead and dying
Instead, they were introduced to blush
ing bride and a nervous groom. An eff
fort to force the couple to take dead
wagon ride failed. The joker will be
asked to pay for the ambulance service.
| Max Goodman and Miss Sarah Good
mans of st. Louis were on their way
to Alton on the City of Providence when
| the conversation turned to Daniel Mat
thews of Jerseyville, the church janitor,
whose nerve failed him six times at the
marriage altar.
81 don't see how man could be such
coward" remarked Max. ct would
| take more than that to scare me-
| ''Would it?'' deiantly asked Miss
| Goodmans. watching some driftwood
float by the paddle wheel.
at would, and I'll prove 1t to you,
retorted Goodman. "How about your
nerveW
Rabbi Nathan of Alton married them
as soon as they disembarked.
ct didn't take much nerve" said
! Mrs. Goodman after the ceremony. II
only lost an IS by the transaction.
| Famine prices prevail at Hazelton,
mining town in northern British Colum-
bia, with a floating population of about
| 500 people. Flour is selling at $40 a
| sack, sugar costs $3.50 pound, and is
only sold in small quantities; tea,
one blend only, is worth from 81 up, and
all other commodities are corresponding
| " high. The town is on the verge of
| becoming "dry," hardly any spirituous
| liquors being in stock at the three sa-
! looms. Recently, when it was made
known that the last steamer to reach the
! spot had not brought up any 'hootch,"
| prices were sent soaring upward, as
high as S25 being paid for half a bottle
of gin, the stuff being sold by auction,
| eighteen returning prospectors bidding
for the coveted thirst quencher. There
| is no whisky left in the town, only half
case of brandy. and very little of any
other kind of hard drink.
A poker proved a convenient weapon
for Mary Didek of Wilmington Del.
when she attacked Martin Prochnoski
after the latter is alleged to have called
the woman an ugly name. Mary welded
the poker with such good effect upon
her male antagonist that she broke his
leg in two places and inflicted other in
juries which necessitated the mans re-
moval to a hospital. Martin attempted
to defend himself and in turn attacked
the woman but when she was tired
beating him Peter Martha took up her
fight and put the finishing touches on
Martin.
Mrs. William P Dolan of Buffalo. n.
Y. killed one of her prize pullets the
other morning with an axe after her
neighbor. Arthur Briggs. had killed the
same chicken. as he supposed with a
penknife RrigcG' brother-in-law Clay
ton ]. Standard, is employed in the state
department of agriculture and recently
he showed Briggs a method of killing
chickens scientifically by thrusting the
blade of a penknife through the mouth
into the brain and letting the chicken
bleed to death. Mrs. Dolan wanted a
hen killed and Briggs offered to do it in
the scientific way. After the chicken
| had bled sufficiently and was hanging as
if dead, Mrs Dolan plunged the bird into
hot water and removed all the feathers.
Then she put the chicken on the kitchen
table and left it there to attend to other
household duties. When she re-entered
the kitchen half hour later the chicken
was walking about the floor. Mrs. Dolan
first tainted, then called in a neighbor,
and the two cornered the nude hen and
chopped off it's head with an axe. Mrs.
Dolan says it was spring chicken, des-
pite its toughness.
For Modern Health.
SIN aqua sanitas.' quoted the mod
ern observer. Now, there's an axiom