The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-12

Bur, al the same time, there are
things going on around US everyday
That certainly seem 10 give the lie 10
such q boast Things that arc as
strange and unconventional az any that
transplre within the realms Of Action
Romance is not dead among us.
Neither Is the preparation of the
weird. the unusual, the amazing. In
deed. the very 'gods' themselves must
laugh when they behoid the strange
things poor mortaIs do in an age that
boasts " its civilization, it's culture
and--most OF all-its hard. common
sense
IL you Wish to join the aforesaid
gods" IN their Inerriment at our ey-
pense. or II you doubt the above state
Hsents, listen to the narration of
few Of the queer things that have hap
pened in the year OF our Lord 1918.
Culled from the news Of the day dur
ing the short span of the twelve
months past they are but partial
record Of the odd things that have
happened right in orr midst. But they
are amazing.
Ate Scales And All.
From the beginning, the college
boy, when In frolicsome mood. has
been considered an irresponsible. pes
tiferous fool Also, he has been
grossly libclled and made he butt OF
much undeseryed ridicuie. But surely
just about the limit is reached when
he eats bowl of raw goldfsh-to
win bet. And that is precisely what
one of them did several months ago al
one of the New England colleges.
Perhaps there IS some excuse for
the deed since he was a freshman. At
all events, he was sitting in a chun,'s
room, along with several other stu
dents. when one of them dared him
TO put his hand into bowl Of goldfish
on the table. catch a FISH and eat Ii.
The freshman hesitated. But when
mis- tormentor bet him a quarter ne
hadnt the nerve to do IL. our hero
reached right in. caught up the wig
Cling, tapping, shining goldfish,
crushed it between his teeth and swai-
lowed It In triumph-pocke the
quarter.
Still unconvinced. the torrnentor be,
him fifty cents he couldn't swallow
another. He did. Moreover. before
the piscatorial prodigy quit he hat
exhausted the supply Of goldfish n
the bowl and had won $3.50 from
his fellow students.
Out in Montana, on Governnen
reservation, there is an unusually fin,
tribe of Indians called the Black
feet. They live in the open nearI,
the whole year round So. when
party of them visited New York CIT,
during a very cold spell last winter a
sort of combined guests-and exhibit
in an industrial affair. they refused /,
sleep in the steam heated. electric
lighted hotel rooms, but went up O,
the roof. pitched regular Indian en-
campment there and were comforta
BILE.
Chief Three Bears, over eight
years Of age, couldn't close his eve
within the walls Of the Fashionable no
tel; but UP on the roof, with the win,
whistling around his tent and the snoy
falling, he slept In peace So di,
Long-Time-Sleep and White Calf bot
Of them remarkably picturesque speci
mems OF the American Indian at hi
best. And so. too, did their sauaw
and a little ten year-old Indian maid
There, above the caves. whence the
could look out over the city,s artif
cial peaks and canyons. they pitche,
heir tepees cooked their meals an,
lived for all the world as though the,
were back or their native prairies