The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-15

couple of dispatches anent dentistry
 which would scarcely be held of mere
 routine sort. A baker. Hawthorne by
 name, recovered 50 pounds damages
 against one practitioner for pulling twenty-two teeth at a sitting: He had me at disadvantage" explained the plaintiff. and took his will of me unfairly" The other instance pre- sents a candidate for the Victoria Cross. There was D. D. s. Cor at least he claimed to have some such degree) operating upon the unwary. and the police heard stories that he was far from qualified. but to arrest him and make case 1t was necessary to take him in the very act Then came forward the hero. youthful Robbie. who without an anaesthetic --then climbed out of the chair and pulled" his mani
 As to the Continent . restrauran- teur in Munich has adopted system of paying his waiter according to the number of miles they travel in the
 course of a days work (each carry ing a pedometer.1 and the burglars of
 Paris have unionized themselves into a League" This last event was dis covered when a set of rules was found on the person of one of the memb CTS. caught practicing his vocation. The
 strangest regulation of all was that which announced that member "ar- rested thrice in succession" should be l suspended: 1t would almost seem
 that the courts, in such . case might
 be depended upon 1t make the sus-
 pension promptly automatic.
 Four, Feet and Feathers.
 Speaking of teeth, fand of automo-
 piles. too, Waterbury. Conn, last June
 produced a horse that approximated a small gold mine. He had been
 killed by a whizzing devil wagon" and his owner, out of genuine af- i lection, ordered his head mounted for preservation. Then thet taxidermist found gold filings in the teeth. worth
 something better than s15o. for once upon time, 1t seems. he had been the property of a wealthy New York dentist who had cared for him as he would as son. Virginia and Maryland have this year | found new uses for allfgators. Near
 Cape Charles. in the former common
 wealth. farmer Thompson has import ed three Florida gaters to police his
 melon patches. and he says 1t works
 like a charm; at Chestertown, Harry
 Nichols Is trying the same experi-
 mento guard his chickens, and he en- dorses Thompson's opinion.
 | And chickens themselves figure not
 unworthily in all this budget A Nor way, Me. boy owns a hen that habit
 ually lays double-yolked eggs; Chicago | Gin August) reported fourteen chicks,
 alive and well. found in a case of
 -.'strictly fresh" eggs shipped up from l Missouri; and a simple minded AIlen- town rooster has stopped "The Queen of the Valley" the crack express of the Reading Road. The train was
 checked so suddenly that Engineer | Tubbs was nearly thrown from the 1 cab, and investigation showed that | MT. Plymouth Rock had been drawn | up between two coaches by the suction of the flyer. and in his rapid. un-
 sought for flight had somehow cut the
 emergency cord and applied the air brakes.
 As To Peach Baskets.
 Yet further light on birds and trains is thrown by a pair of happen J ings both bearing date of May; and each brings in the 1909 model hat. which has served the twe1ve-month's
 joke smith so handiiy. Miss cecillie Conway went out to pick flowers on Dunwoodie's Heights near Yonkers, and all of a sudden, something began