The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-12-29
CURIOUS EVENTS OF
THE PRESENT YEAR
Odd and Comic Things Which
Have Served to Enter
tain the Nation.

Is always looking for 1t, and it takes nc
Dong experience to show him that he
is not apt to find it first page, tor
column History may be caronicled
there, but, as good hannah More once
wrote: otis trifes make the sum OF
human things" and back in his
paper, h~alf-buried perhaps, among the
zeal estate items. will be usually come
upon the unconsidered little things
which best tell the joys and SORROWS in
response to which the worlds heart
beats.
Ninteen ten has proved this over and
over again. January began the story
on its very first day when a Philadel
phia man, Frank Angelo. reported him .
self at the Pennsylvania hospital for
treatment His heart was giving him
no end OF trouble every time he look I'd
al a pretty girl. He'd turn dizzy and the
pavement would rise and fall like the
deck of a ship Mt sea. The doctors said
they hadn't had a case on the records
alike 1t since 81, and Angelo, when dis
missed, took a solemn vow always to
look the other way when passing the
Quaker City maidens.
A January Trio.
To jump across the continent the
rSafne ttfttia; month OF the II brought
che oldest OF happenings to P. w. Sew
'ersen, Of Portland, Ore. Back in SO,
rather than lose q weeks wages and a
shotgun, which he had lent his en-
ployer, he took (under p~rotest) a corner
4ot. 5GX10G feet. On the day in question
1T sold for just $250,000.
Locking for her share Of something
OF a IKE sort, Mrs. Sumeral Dennis, Of
Dadeville, Ala. entered a claim for a
pension IN January, aud 10! the bu-
geau's annals showed that her very
patriotic husband had died three times;
IN 1918, after service in the war of 10;
IN al after having been present at all
the Mexican fighting. and now (again)
a few years ago, with a civil war ex-
perlence for q grateful governments
consideration.
Under the Identical date of this last
dispatch, Indianapolis old the world OF
a local solomon. Mayor Shark, hear
aas Two cases of violation Of the saloon
closing law. ordered the saloons in
question TO shut up until the owners
mad attended church IN at least n
sunday morning and had remained
Throughout the service. The clergy
ma must ATTEST the fact in writing.
Freaks at Law.
Alderman Donohue, OF Wilkes Barre,
Pa, did as well as his when, last
March. he decided that John Buckson,
arrested FOR drunkenness couldn't fair
Ky be lined the usual dollar as he had a
wooden leg, which naturally was not
drunk. You're probably two-thirds
u was the decision, TIN cost
you just 81 cents"
When Judge Mallowney, of wash
tngton, examining William Thomas as
20 the state of his mind, asked him the
name of the president of the country,
and heard the reply: "Ah doan right
there's Teddyi" he found the man
who'll sane.
Most curious of al the legal causes
ss However; was one reported
from Stockholm, Where Albert yys-
troern had been fighting in the courts
for his skeleton. Some years ago he
signed a contract with the Royal Instt-
cute OF Anatomy making over his body
after death, in return for a present sum
OF money. Then he came into an I'M
expected fortune and tried to cancel
The deal. The case was not only de-
cided against him, but he was ordered
20 pay damages to the party of the
second part for having had two teeth
extracted without their permission.
Another couple Of items OF not dis
similar sort We're these: Judge Lea,
OF FL Faso, showed his regard for ST.
Patrick by releasing all Irishmen
oroaght before INN on March II under
bail of a shamrock each, and an East
liverpool. Ohio, grand jury found
George Browns theft of some ostrich
plun1es, valued ordinarily at $50. only a
petit larceny. as it was a bargain day
when he helped himself-the plumles
had been marked down to S23. (And
possibly the figure suggested the at
tenapt.)
Dollars and Cents.
w. Spencer Smith, of New York, din
seng at the ST. Charles at Atlantic CITY.
pace g yet better bargain IN January
70, 1or IN a single oyster he bit upon mol
Sess than nine pearls. which later
proved worth several hundred dollars
fortnight later Andrew Carnegie an
aouncsd. I've made up my mind not
1T It's matter of point of view as to
which happening was the odder.
Somewhat like the Swede and his
skeleton was q Chicago man who Of
xered MS corpse when there should be
one!) to the highest bidder and 4 noef
chap IN Omaha who advertised to lease
nlmself for a year under any reason
able terms, but Cornelius Pace of Rey-
.erly.sN u. went all these a few better.
He was selling a shoemaking business
50 one Anthonio Flodrers, and his wife
Gectding that she preferred Flourers to
Face, She was thrown in, for full
measure; shop, wife and ali Changing
owners for $50.
Tho Ladies.
Inis naturally brings tie ladies' into
che question, and 1910 made several en-
FRIES concerning them. In the first
n place there was Mrs. Elena d. Smith.
NhoN for nve years posed successfully
D, + man. al 70 win q $4,000 bet from
Mrs. Amy 10. Winship. of Racine, Wis.
k Eiao IN spite OF her so years. entered
2ho Ohio state university at Coluln-
on y etecsing philosophy psychology
literature as studies best suited
50 supplement the time she had lust
peen spending at q summer school
nearsHher home. M
ll was we'll out OF the usual. too. Ia
read IN March that a bank had lust
nssn opened In London. England not
~ run entirely by women, but NOT
accepting deposits from or transactinr
business with mere men.
In October. South Bend. md. Wit
MESSED the marriage OF Grace Gilbert
and Giles =. Calvin, the out Of the ar
dinary detail here being that the nride
mad a. beard l8 inches long. while the
groom could boast OF no more than
very slim moustache.
But Delhart. Tex, beat ali Of these
with 9 now version or the widows
<crsse parable. Mrs. Josie Pettis lives
saear there, hcr little farm barely s,,ns
porting her. Late In January durine
m unreasonable Eeyc.e fs1,,1as
ftnristsa bolt of lig-,tnsng ripped mn her
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