Evening journal., 1911-08-07
ODDITIES IN
A DAYS NEWS
BY The United Press.

by ne OnlNtu IItchs
MIDDLETOWN, n. Y.-Rev. o. P.
Crandall. aged 95, the oldest Metho-
dist preacher in New York preached
at Ridgebury yesterday in celebration
of seventy-five years in the pulpit
NEW YORK-To prevent the steal
ing Of his light" Joseph ~ Fancolini.
an Italian banker proposes to erect a
sheet iron fence ninety feet high be-
tween bis home and an apartment
building.
TOPEKA, Kan.-Becsuse six diff
ferent varieties Of deadly germs have
been found in the fur of a cat. the
State Board of Health advises that all
Kansas felines have their hair cut,
short
ATLANTIC CITY. n. IA needle
was drawn from the shoulder of Ed
mund c. Gaskill, Jr., after he had suf-
fered intensely from what he believed
to be rheumatism The needle entered
his knee twenty-three years ago.
NEWARK. n. frank feeling has
been discharged from the hospital for
the insane, having been cured by the
shock of a collision .between, an auto
mobile and the asylum's van.
UNION HILL. y when the
Rev r. ID. Garland felt pick pockets
hand on his wallet while RIDING on a
street car, he promptly grabbed the
hand and smashed its owner in the
face with his fist.
NEW YORK-After being rescued
from the wheels of a subway train
under which he tried TO throw him
self Herman Lewkowsky said he
wanted 10 die because his mother
nasged him and called him lazy.
NEW YORK-Thomas Gardner and
George Bartlett, both cripples, and
each having but one leg, engaged in
a furious battle, using crutches for
clubs. They we're friends and had
disagreed.
LONG BEACH. J.. I-George w
Beattie. the aviator, brought his
fiance, Miss1 Anna Orslgan, from the
Long Island aerodrome here TO din
ner. After dinner they leisurely flew
back again.
NEW YORK-Firemen dashed into
burning tenement to rescue what
they thought were two children, when
Ruth Kalzman cried for Petite and
Pinkey. The firemen found two white
mice. One FIRE fighter was over
come.
MTDDLETOwN, n. Y.-Finishing
seventy-fve years in the pulpit, th'
Rev. o. P. Crandall told his congrega-
ton that he got drunk once eighty
years ago, before any of his present
parishoners we're born. He never
tasted liquor since.
NEW YORK K-After an intermittent
search of eleven years Detective Clin-
ton Woods has captured Walter Tins
lev. a negro wanted for murder. Tins
lev had not been out OF New York.
BAI,TTMORE-Th stork made a
raid on the saloon of Stephen Kuhta
A "law citizen" rushed to the police
station, reported fragrant violations
of the LIQUOR law. When the reserves
arrived they we're told the reason FOL
the gathering. They returned tC
headouarters and reported to the
lieutenant everything quiet
PTTTsFIELD, Mass-William P
Creegan. of Rock Springs, Wyo., whS
has been legless for the last three
years. swan two miles in Lake
Pontoosuc.
ST. LOUIs.-Since Mrs. Blanche
Hoyt, wrote to the police chief o
Chicago to find her husband she hal
received 331 letters.
NASHVILLE Tenn.-The excite
ment Of game Of pinochle was fata
to Mrs Theresa fitzpatrick, so far
as known the woman officer in thu
Civil War She was rs years old.
NEW YoRK-Anthony Comstoc
and agents for the suppression Of vic
society are busy pasting blank pape
over all bill boards depicting pistc
or bloodshed scenes. Show manager
Will lose $5o,ooo.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at
bargain counter. Miss Marguerit
Veail, OF Wichita, Kansas met a gii
who ssemed her double. 1t develope
the strangers we're twins.
BAYSIDE, L. I.-Old timers say tn
kummer is TO be short They ha7
heard the katydids chirps1g aud th