Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-14

About the same time John Henry Thirey
Of Long Island City. regretted that he
had his youngest christened Frederick
Cook Thirey. and he had that altered
though the boy became John H.. jr.. and
not Robert Peary.
4 Rival of Kansas.
New Jersey has always been almost as
prolific as Kansas IN its peculiar doings,
and the last few months have proved no
exception to that rule For a thief to
return a stolen pocketbook. with Its 81 I'M
touched. the whole accompanied by a CON
trite apology (which was what happened
az Newfleld IN the spring. might have
taken place any where. though it's not an
everyday sort OF occurrence. after all. but
where else IN the wide world could mem
Der Of p sleeping household have been
awakened by buzzing mosquito 20 find
out tbat the building was afire? That was
the experience Of Charles Browson Of Bev-
erly. as told by the morning papers Of
September TO-
II was left to Jersey too to set the
hardest OF all questions asked applicants
for pos tons as enumerators. It ran: How
would you classify a child born on the
high seas OF French mother 70 German
father. and brought TO Atlantic City to
liveg''
Caldwell ~ j.. has announced the find
ing OF an albino muskrat and at the West
Jersey depot Of Vineland the freight hand
lers had roast chicken. thanks to the third
rail system. Biddy happened along p OK
ing up stray grains and stepped on that
rail-and before a wooden pole could be
secured to push her body away. II was
done a rich golden brown
But Rocksburg. Warren county. takes the
palm. The cover was left off the apple
mash trough at the cider mill in October
and ten up-to-the-then innocent cows got
at II. Their friskings, their attitudes. and
at last their don't-care lethargy was the
talk OF the country side. and a nearby
vet" had busy hour bathing bovine
heads in ice water
Hen Happenings.
Vineland and Rocksburg do not. however.
monopolize the chicken and COW dispatches.
Half the country has been interested in
Washington's riddle, rs a hen a bird?"-
raised by an egg importer who wanted to
get around the Payne-Aldrich tariff tax.
Then came Michael Singer Of Chicago with
hen minus the beak instead Of which the
lady had almost human lips, with a first
rate imitation Of human nose above
them; she had to be fed by hand, quite
naturally. Finally. Tomkinsville. Staten
island. produced a socialisuc tale OF a
partnership home run by a hen and a cat.
There were eight chicks, and there were
four kittens, and these, with the two fond
mothers, shared one, and when pirate rats
came nosing after grain Tabby took them
in, thereby both protecting one set Of
youngsters and feeding the others.
AS for cows, what could be more sad
II an the story Stamford, Conn, now
tells OF Maude. once owned by DairymRn
William Olmstead? She had been deserted
by her husband, her only child had been
rudely torn from her, and as melancholy
settled darkly down she came upon box
containing four sticks of dynamite. What
! followed was a foregone conclusion. Maude
ate the dynamite-and that's all
The comet brought yet another hen-hap-
pening william Scott of Ithaca keeps
chickens and never have they acted as
chickens should not till the HALEY talk
began to fill the papers. Then a hitherto
perfectly proper member OF the flock laid
oomet-egg with a well-developed tail OF
a good two inches, covered with something
noticeably harder than mere shell.
Adam Toma. residing in the outskirts Of
Budapest committed suicide because OF the
aerial visitor, leaving a note saying he pre-
! ferred to die by his own hand rather than
be killed by a wondering star.
Quaint Mixupas
Lawrence, Mass, set a record in July