The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-28

John c. Hilger. of Columbus City, Ind,
Hilger set a hen on seventeen eggs.
When the chickens Matched there were
nineteen. That means there were
twin chickens in two eggs or else
bankruptcies in one egg, 80 why not
call them bankruptcies?
Hilger offers to furnish the proper
proof and affidavit that this story is
true. The chickens are Rhode Island
Reds and they are doing we'll. Be
cause of crowded conditions the twins
or bankruptcies wre weak at the start
but Hilger says they are now as strong
as any of the others in the flock.
| Hilger says he has heard story
about a Pennsylvania engineer who
runs on the Louisville division. The
engineer Is said to have placed four
teen eggs over the boiler of his engine
and the constant heat there Matched
out fourteen chickens. 1t Is further
declared that each chicken was equip
ped with headlight, rear trucks,
green tail lights and whistle and that
each chick whistles every time 1t ap-
proaches a grade crossing. No affi-
davit is furnished for this story.
Catfish Like Leeehes.
| An exhibition of how catfish will
hold fast to n mud leech won for Will
liam Campbell, Robert Campbell and
Joseph Dooley their freedom in a mag
listrate's court at Bellefontaine, o.
The men had been arrested by game
wardens on the charge OF having in
hAf Sh hat hah
lcaught without the use of hook or line.
bait or lure. The presumption was
that the fish had been caught with
nets, a practice which the state is try
ing to break up at indian Lake park.
The accused came into court with
an exhibit of catfish and mud leeches
and explained the absence of hook
marks in the mouth OF the catfish by
Isaying that the fish clung 10 the leech-
es with which hooks are baited with
lout getting the hooks into their
mouths. Justice Henry Hayes dis
charged the accused with the consent
Iof game wardens Nohr and Hassier af.
ter seeing the demonstration.
i Hunts Crows For Profit.
Hunting crows and their eggs is be.
looming a profitable sport in Lawrence.
burg. Ind, since the last general as.
sembly enacted law authorizing the
county commissioners to pay a bounty
of 10 cents for the heads of crows
and cents for their eggs. The per
son presenting the heads or eggs at
the county auditors office must make
. an oath that they were obtained in the
county.
Bob f. Nowlin of Miller township
brought 1O2 eggs and ninety-three
crow heads to this city. The county
council has not made an appropria
ton for this purpose, so the bounty
could not be paid and he has filed his
bill.
\, Lays Two Eggs A Day.
A South African duck that lays two
, eggs every day without fail, including
Sundays and holidays, is in the pc
! session of William S. Taverbaugh, 8
poultry raiser of Albany, Delaware
/ county. Teverbaugh several week!
ago purchased a pair of South African
ducks, which are really wild fowl ant
Z which are only kept in domesticity b!
) means of clipping their wings. Tt
, make sure that the female duck wa.
1 laying two eggs day, he isolated hel
). and found that twice a day he coult
! 60 to her nest and be certain of /;
| double portion of eggs. Thinking thi
may be characteristic of ducks o
this species he is planning to buy sew
eral more.
!. Cat Interrupts Lodge, Disappears
All rewards for the recovery of Di
!. adam, the valuable cat that was a pc
at the Walton & Whistler store at AT
!, lanta, five miles south of Upton, TO
! years, have been regretfully with
. drawn.
= The cat invaded the lodgeroom o
!, the Atlanta Daughters of Rebekal
|, lodge, carrying large rat, struggling
!, for its liberty. The lodge meeting
broke up without the closing order o
any motion to adjourn and it may hav
been the actions of the sisters tina
: frightened the cat into the woods an
the simple life. Walton e. Whistle
advertised and searched for the ANNA
y and a reward Of $40 failed to produc
k her
e Mice Nest In Mail Box
Although marauders have daily rol
y bed the rural mail box of Rober
70 Crane. farmer, who lives north Q
Washington. Ind, and their identity
known, Uncle Sans secret servic
I. men will not be saked to investigat,
L. for the marauders are mice. The mic
h adopted the box for home, an
I. though their nests have been throw
out by the mail carrier each day.
v has found the next morning that tn
:. rodents have rebuilt the nest The lin
9 II was reached yesterday, when tn
carrier found letter the Crane ha
left in the box had been torn to frai
ments by the mice. which seemed fon
Of the mucilage on the envelope.
z Hen Destroys Hawks Eggs.
County Recorder Edward c. Fox wa
~ hunting along Tanners creek nea
. lawrenceburg, for crows, when he di
= covered large chicken hawk sittin
" on her nest in the limbs of a large ire
- He shot the old hawk and dislodge
- the nest, which floated gently to til
y ground. In it were two unbroken egs
% which were almost ready to hate
~ Mr. Fox carried the eggs home an