Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-04
NATURE FAKERS GOING SOME
Spring Collection of CuriOsities from
CrOwless Rooster 10 HOIdup
Mouse.

ceeds in his latest plan, late sleepers will
rise up to call him blessed, for nothing
less now than a crowless rooster is Mr..
Welborn's aim. Already he has produced
an almost wingless chicken, which is
guaranteed TO stay at home The neigh
bors of Mr.. Welborn out on Dauphin ave-
nue. wanted to give him a medal for that,
but he modesty asked them to wait until
he had perfected his crowless rooster: and
they then could give him something really
worth while. They told him IL he sue
ceeded they would insist on both a Nobel
prize and a Carnegie hero medal for him.
"I was down in South Carolina last week,
and 1 saw freak of nature that our friend
Congressman Legare ought to have
brought to Washington for the zoo or for
the edifcation Of his congressional breth-
ren," said johnson A. Tunison Of Florida,
quoted by the Washington Post. This
freak was a COW with seventeen horns.
The farmer living near Greenville who
owns the COW is very proud Of the ami
NAL The horns pTotrude from the cows
back along the spine. Each joint of the
spinal column seems to be the base for
horn. The COW is normal In every other
way. She gives just a little more milk
than any other COW in the pasture. The
owner has been offered a large amount
of money for the COW by museum owners,
but he refuses to SELL might add that
the farmer has named the COW Cornucopia,
and he thinks the name was appropriate"
"a Long Island railroad train was stalled
ten minutes by a mouse last week. 1t
was an electric train going west over the
Rockaway Beach division. At the Ozone
park crossing a switch was thrown and
the train halted. Trainment went forward
and found the tower switchman making
vain efforts to turn the switch The
motorman suggested that something was
'stuck in the switch box" The small
metal switch box between the tracks was
opened and between the teeth was found
the body OF a mouse. Its little body had
so clogged the teeth that the switch could
not be operated.
Eight little pigs are the foster children
Of white men on the farm of Emil Carl
son at Winsted. Conn. This spring, Carl
son says, the hen formed the habit Of lay
ing in the pigpen. The pig was fond of
eggs and did not object.
When the hen decided to set she found
to sit on until litter of pigs ar
rived. These she simply adopted, and when
they went to sleep, piled in heap after
the manner Of young pigs, she climbed to
the top of the pile, and spreading her
wings, did her best to cover the twelve.
She has stayed with her strange family
constantly. Now that they run out OF
doors she follows them about in great dis
tress
by John Rogers!" exclaimed Joseph !
Rogers when yanked into deep water at
T.ala ssIl darnad
whopper yet" he added as he floundered
in the water.
The "whopper" was a large eel. Rogers
was fishing for perch. standing in one
end of a boat. When he plunged head
foremost into the lake he chung to his rod
and kept himself afloat until his two com
panions in the boat rescued him and landed !
the eel. II was six feet long.
A goat roosting in tree is the newest |
bit of scenery on the farm of Robert |
Rogers, two and one-half miles northeast |
of Fulton, Mo.
Recently Rogers shipped a load Of goats |
to ST. Louis and upon counting them |
missed one OF the quadrupeds. One day |
Elijah Palmer passed a tree on the Palmer |
farm and saw the goat curled up in a
bough. John Berry, who lives about a half
mile from the Rogers farm, had noticed a |
white object in tree on his neighbours pre-
serve, but he was unable TO make out what |
II was.
A hen belonging to Virgin Johnson of
Glasgow, KY, laid an egg the other day |
which had upon one end of 1t the photo |
graph in red Of a snake coiled and ready |
to strike.
Just what caused the phenomenon is not
known. Nothing like it was ever heard Of
before in this part of the country. 1t has |
been suggested by a physician here that |
the hen might have been charmed or
frightened by a snake coiled in the grass
while the egg was forming, and that a
picture of the snake was impressed upon |
the shell Of the egg which was then soft |
and saturated with the albumen OF the |
egg.