The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-12-29
chat is he had been natura1lzed in the

Hub of the Universe, having given ur
the North cape for good, who applied
to the court to change the name he
had then chosen. Kruse was he born
but Cruso was he naturalized, an6
Robinson being his first name he found
the combination tiresome. About the
5ar;u ttTns John Henry Tiiirey oi
Long Island City regretted that he had
his youngest christened Frederick
Cook Thirey, and he had that altered
though the bay became John H. junior,
and not Robert Peary.
And apropos of names, 1t was a coin
cidence, surely that New England's first
successful ~aeropiane, THE Flying
Fish" should nave been taken up by
MI. Herring as pilot. and that Miss
should last April have married Mr..
Lawrence Swift. The brides father by
the by, is senior partner of Hurry &
Gallup, lawyers.
Then when Edgar Allen Poe argued
a case before Oliver Wendell Holmes,
certainly the clock in the federal sup
rene court chamber seemed set back
several decades. But thai is the name
of Counselor Poe, of Baltimore, n of
Associate Justice Holmes of Boston,
and the pedigree on each is as direct
as can be.
Finally under this head q recent is
sue of the Egyptian Gazette of Cairo,
carried the account of a marriage head
ed "Howe-StranGe." 1t was rather
in Furrin Parts.
Cairo and London, Norway and Swe-
den haVe not been the only foreign
sources for queer news this year, by
any means. Tarsus, in far-off Asia
Minor-the native city of the Apostle
Paul-has lit its streets by electricity;
a subject of King George V has chosen
to accentuate his loyalty to the new
ruler of Great Britain by having the
royal likeness tatooes in many colors
on his bald head, with the Union Jack
Tor a background, atild-possibiy
%strangest of all, in q land where next
to everything is "verboten''-a self
confident German has stopped the Ber-
~lin-Stuttgart express in full career that
he might run back and find his false
teth which had bounced out through an
open window when the good SOU had
q fit Of sneeZing.
The Partisan contribution came, in a
March happening, when a certain lner-
chant sought a divorce from his wife,
on the grounds that she had been pray
ing to st. Exterminus' ID to ill the
mind of Mime. X with the sole de-
sire of getting rid of NJ. W CD 20
inpel M. X to leave his wife; 49,
to possess her own husband with q
wish to bestow upon her (the lady of
the petition) q handsome allowance;
M. X- 1t took the court a week to
decide that q legal separation was
justifiable.
In the Wilds of Jersey.
New Jersey has always been most as
prolific as Kansas in its peculiar doings
and the past few months have proved
no exception to that rule, for a thief
to return q stolen pocket book with
its $ff untouched, the "iois acG0Tupa-
MED by a contrite apology (Which was
what happened at Newfeld in the
spring. might have taken place any
where Though it's not an everyday oc- /
currence after alb but where else in
the wide world could a member of q
sleeping household have been awakened
by a huzzing mosquito to find out that
the building was aireg That was the |
experience of Charles Brownson, of
Beverly, as told by the morning pa
pers OF September 10.
II was left to Jersey, too. to set the
hardest of all questions asked appli-
for positions as census enuniera-
tors. It ran: How would you class
ify a ehild born on the high seas of /
a French mother, to a German father,
and brought to Atlantic City 10
lIveTv i
Caldwell, n. J.. has announced the
flndin gof IN Albino musk rat and at
West Jersey depot at Nineland the |
freight handlers had roast chicken |
thanks to the third rail system. Bfddy
happened along licking up stray grains
and stepped on that rail-and before a
wooden pole could be secured to push
her body away, it was done a rich,
brown.
Bat Rocksburg, Warren county, takes
the palm. The cover was left off the
apple mash trough at the cider mill.
in October. and 10 up to then inno-
cows got at it, Their freshness.
their attitudes and at last their don't
care lethargy was the talk of the cour-
try side, and a nearby wet" had a
busy hour bathing bovine heads in ice
water.
Four Feet and Feathers.
Vineland and Rocksburg do not
however. monopolize the chicken and
coy dispatches. Half the country has
been interested in W~ashington's riddle
is & hen a bird2"-raised by an egg
importer who wanted to get around the
Michael Singer. OF Chicago, with a hen
minus the beak, instead of which the
ady a almost human lips. with q
lrst rate imitation of a human nose
them; che had to be fed by
1and. quite naturally. Finally Tom
Sinsville Staten Island. produces a
tale Of a partnership home
run by a hen and a cat. There were
chicks ana there were four kit
these. with the two fond
mothers. shared one, and when the nj
ate rats came nosing after grain tabby
.ook them in, thereby both protecting
set of youngsters and feeding the
AS for cows, what could be more
than the story Stamford, Conn
low tells of Maude, once owned by a
larry man. William olrnstead? she
been deserted by her husband. her
'nly child had been torn rudeiy from
Ter and as melancholy settled darkly
she came upon a box containing
our stocks of dynamite. AWhaf fol-.
owed was a f~oregone conclusion.
laude ate the dynamite-and that's
Thanks TO HALEY.
The comet brought VT another hen
happening. William Scott, of ithaca
seeps chickens, and never have thev
.cted as chickens should not tilt the
Iailey talk began to fill the papers,
Ten a hitherto perfectly proper mem j
Ter of the flock laid a comet egg with
! we'll developed tail of a good two
inches, covered with something notice-
tbly harder than mere shell.
Adaf ToIaa, residing in the ont
outskirts Of Budapest. committed sui
'ide because of the aerial visitor. Ieay-
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