The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-11-11

horse caused the death Of John Duffy. n
wealthy farmer of ElmSford. NY. Duffy
was driving, when his horse baked. He
| took out the whip and hit the horse two
whacks and then fell dead Coroner
| SquiTeS of OSSining. decided that the
man had died of heart failure. superin-
| duced from oyereNerlon. The dead man
Is one of the best known farmers around
ElmSford. lie was IS years old.
| Whenever hospital attendants in st.
! Louis, Mo, miss Henry Knlb. who is
confined there with lead poisoning they
| find him IN the bath tub The patient
| literally takes to bathing like duck To
| water, and the only way the hospital
nurses can stop him is to strap him on
| his cot. From noon until & o'clock KoIh
| took seven baths.
III eases the pain" KoIb said, when
asked for an explanation for his unusual
cleanliness. IF | could stay in the water
all the time | would soon get we'll"
| One of III" most remarkable mail routes
! in the world is that which letter Jour
neys in getting from Beehe Plain, Vt.
| to Bccbc Plain. Quebec. Canada While
the two offices are within ten feet Of
| each other-are located in the same
room, in fact-a letter mailed from one
office to the other must make n trip Of
| POI milcs-siXty-Seveu miles in Canada
and the rest in the United States.
The plain oldfashioned store building,
! which is situated on the international
| boundary line. contains both the United
| States and Canadian Offices There are
separate entrances 10 each. but both are
| IN the same room, have the same lobby,
! and there are no partitions to mark the
! division between the domain of Uncle
Sam and the possession of King Ed
: ward.
IF you mail letter from the Vermont
| side addressed To the Quebec side" says
| the postmaster. ''it goes from here to the
| junction, then to Newport then to White
| River junction. and back to LennOxvile.
Quebec, over the Boston x Maine. There
! ii is transferred 10 the Grand Trunk and
goes TO Il southbouEd mail pouch and
comes to Stanstead Junction and then
back 10 this same building, a distance of
| 2oi miles.
IF we wish to mail letter from the
| American side to Derby Line it must go
10 White River Junction aud then come
back over the official route
Just 2953.7S2 rattlesnakes have been
| killed in their innocent bahyhood on the
muuntaiusidc farm of Abe Wheeler near
Benton. Tenn, within the last month,
according to Wheeler himself Last
| spring the farm was infested 10y n hum
drcd or SO willy old rattlers. Wheeler
| killed practically all of them. He buried
the bodies in shallow trench and plant
eel okra over and around the trench.
When the olra plants hloSSomcd Wheel
err wondered ut the strange specklce and
stripes On the flowers. When the time
for the picking came Wheeler was star
tied to notice that the Ollra pods wrg-
glcd and twisted on their stems. \
week later 2oJ3,TS2 rattlcsnakeS
craWled forth and spread over the farm.
| Wheeler has burned the bodies of the
snakes killed in the last snake war
\. McCallum. a Colchrook farmer.
SAYS he never told lie. He went TO
WinStcd, Conn, and uurcelcd yarn
that put to shame any ever heard here.
Here it is:
II once had calf that had its leg
broken. ! cut q willow sprig uHd bound
il M. About three years ago that calf
disappeared and | never heard anything
from ii until the other day, when | hap
pcncd upon a willow tree that looked
familiar and, looking up, saw COW at
| the extreme end.
What do you suppose That twig
that | tied to the calfS leg had taken
root and grown, and that calf, suspend
ed at the end of the tree, is today "A fun
| grown cow"
McCullum'S friends advised him to
| keep it there, for the day was coming
when aerial milk stations would be in
| demand 10y ayiators.