Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-05

Mrs. Margaret Meskill of SOS Bloomfield
avenue, Montclair, n. j. went to the back
door Of her home in answer to a knock
and found on the steps a one-legged man
who asked aims. Mrs. MeskiIl was SYM
pathetic and in answer to a question the
mendicant, a giant in stature, began
tale Of accident and misfortune.
He was leading up to the climax Of his
description Of the mishap that cost him
leg when Tige, Meskil's bulldog came near
The man showed Tige aside with his
| crutch and the dog dashed for the beg
gar's leg. The next moment an apparent
miracle occurred. The supposed one-legged
man suddenly developed into a spry two
! limbed athlete and dashed into Bloomfield
| avenue at a ten-second gait, with the dog
| in pursuit. Tige was called off after he
had chased the faker nearly a block
Samuel Uhler a defendant in a separa-
ton suit, described an unusual business
on the stand before Supreme Court Jus
tice Giegerich, lie said;
Il lease basement in Harlem which
use for laboratory and refinery. Each
week l visit dentists offices and collect
the sweepings from the floor and put
them in bag and carry them to the base
ment. The sweepings are dumped out on
the floor and / begin a search for gold
Filings and crowns, for particles of plat
mum wire, and for ivory and particles of
silver. Then l water the sweepings. Then
| by filtering and an electrical process the
tiny particles of gold dust are separated
and extracted. BY electrical devices each
atom Of valuable mineral is withdrawn
| from thp MI -.
rate receptacles. The gold Filings and
crowns that l find by this process are
then melted into Jumps, which | dispose
Of to the United States mint in wall
street The other minerals l also dis
pose Of"
Uhler stated that some weeks he makes
500 and other weeks only $40 from his
business.
Two men about town were walking I'D
Broadway near Long Acre square, when
one OF them called the attention of the
other to woman buying a bunch OF
violets from a flower vendor. She wasn't
very we'll dressed.
That's Maggie" he said. She doesn'
see us. Let's get by before she does"
/ did you ever know her2" asked the
other.
Il certainly did" replied the first. She
used to be one Of the prettiest chorus girls
on Broadway"
Seems to like flowers, doesn't she?"
"She just loves them. / used to send
her American Beauties. They used to cost
me as high as SIS a dozen"
What's she buying now?"
''Niolets-a l5-cent bunch, l guess" re-
piled the one who used to know Maggie.
And she's paying for them herself"
One of the clowns with the BaTnum &
Bailey circus, now playing in Madison
Square garden, has for a pet a bantam
rooster which will fight anything from
an ant TO a locomotive, but when II comes
to battling with a mouse he scratches and
lies down for the full count of the referee
Mr.. Bantam was sleeping calmly in the
cage with the baby giraffe in the men
agerie yesterday afternoon when a mouse
came nibbling around the cracked corn
which the rooster had laid away for a
rainy day. The gaze OF the mouse and
rooster met and the rooster took to the
bars OF the cage, but they were slippery
and would not hold him. As he was losing
his grip he flew onto the back OF the
baby giraffe, which is now a tiny thing
only nine feet high. but not deeming him
self far enough away from the mouse he
took few hops and alighted on the baby