The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-05-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

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At the age OF ninety-siy, Job Brown
Tillou, who had eaten pie twice day
for eighty-nine years and had chewed
tobacco for eighty-five years, Is dead
in South Orange, n. ]. He was born
on the homestead where he died and
never drank anything except well wa
ter. Three years ago he let barber
shave him for the first time. He did
il himself before that
During the twenty-five years Miss
Florence S. Markham has carried mail
between Stockbridge and Interlaken,
Mass, she has travelled $4,000 miles.
She gets $25 month from the govern
ment for making two round trips of
twelve miles each day, feeding her
horses out of the amount. She hasn't
missed a trip in all the years.
A report that the New Jersey coast
is sinking at the rate of "a inches ev-
cry 100 years is to be officially inves-
tigated by the state. Prof D. w. John.
son, OF Harvard university, is to make
the preliminary examination this sum-
mer.
There are seventy-one Official" or
habitual, drunkards in Newcastle, Ind,
according to a list Of names furnished
the saloons and drug stores by the
prosecutor. BY his order none OF the
men named can be legally sold drink
of any intoxicating liquor
The Yale appetite Is large, accord.
ing to a report from the dining room
of University hall for the first. five
months OF the college year, and for
900 students. There were consumed
10000 quarts of milk, 10000 quarts of
cream, $4,000 fresh eggs, 1900 pounds
of breakfast foods, $4,000 pounds Of
butter, four and half tons of crack
ers. $50 barrels of -four and 10000
pounds each of roast beef and chicken.
]. II. Ray sat near wire fence rest
ing from ploughing on his farm near
Fayetteville, Ark, when a monster
gray eagle swooped down on him. The
bird got tangled in the wire fence be-
fore it could strike its intended vic
tim. and Ray pounced down on it.
After a fierce hand-to-claw conflict Ray
the king of the air and
trussed It up like a chicken. The bird
measured seven and one-half feet from
tip to tip OF its wings. It was taken
to Fayetteville and placed on exhibit
ton. and is the first eagle seen in that
part Of the country in several years
Fanny, Spitz dog belonging to Mrs.
d. VI. Scott, of Montpelier, Ohio, eats
anything human beings eat, from
pickles and kraut to oranges. She is
fond of all kinds of fruits especially,
and drinks sasafras tea in the spring
time Fanny is ten years old and
weighs thifty-fve pounds.
Because his red hair was turned
white by injuries he received in a rail-
road wreck near Alton, H., last No
vember. a new nickname will have to
be found for Frank Baulfield, known
for years as Red" Baulfeld lost
leg in the accident The doctors say
1t is the first case they have a record
of where a red.haired mans hair be-
came white in such a short time.
In love with Miss Lydia Glider, deaf
and dumb. Sylvester Shaw, OF More
land. Iowa. learned the sign language,
courted her and they have been mar
ried. The bridegroom answered the
minister's questions in the regular
way. then in the sign language, so the
bride might understand his promises
and pledges.
An old woman boarded a Central
Pacific train at Oakdale, Cal, and pre-
sented ticket purchased in 1882. Con-
ductor Martin O'Neil honored the
twenty.nine-year-old pasteboard and
carried the passenger to Stockton,
The bark Hesper is being QUILTED
at Eagle Harbor, Wash. for treas
ure-seeking expedition to Cocos Island,
The craft will have hydraulic power
sufficient to wash away an entire
island five miles in diameter. The
81. OOO, 900 treasure is supposed to
have been buried in 1858 during a
war between Peru and Chilli.
His curiosity on finding a shell
which had been buried since the Civil
war near Jackson, Miss, landed Wal
ter Armstrong in the hospital in a