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


. worthy Of giving the incident a
place high Up on The list of eues.
events OF the departing year.
Other Cities Take Notice.
But III OF New Yawk- makes still
one more bid for fame in this respect
Actually there are hundreds who saw
them actually giddy Gotham has po-
liceTnen who have beer seen running.
Fat ones, 100. and they really ran.
I Last May. along with ether police re-
forms. someone with an Ingrowing
crouch made a point that all fat POI
i Hcenen on the force should prove they
could really run and thereby reduce
their weight
So. one night eleven OF the "foin-
est and fattest SET out to run race
around the entire circuit Of Central
Park. a distance Of seven and one-half
miles The winner. with a big wet
sponge in his mouth. finished in fifty
two ninntes-by his own watch. But
ali along the way 250-lb. coppers
could be seen in various stages Of coll
lapse hanging on and over park
benches. gasping for breath. groaning
or calling down terrible naIedictions
upon the head of the individual who
wanted to prove they could put ore
foot in front Of the other faster than
walk.
An eminent surgeon OF stockbridge.
Mass, while on a fishing trip, had a
narrow escape from death last May
that might well be labelled "improb-
able" had ii been utilized In fiction
story. Sunk in quicksand nearly to
his waist, he shook his rod and line
clear and made cast for mis- life at
the limb of tree some fifty feet away.
The tackle caught and held
Then steadily, slowly. with infinite
patience, hand over hand along the
stout, silken trout line, he managed to
pull himself out of the qufcksand 10
an old log. There he waited all night
long until. in the morning. party of
Boy Scouts came along and rescued
him.
A Strange Superstition.
Like a scene from the Middle Ages.
when trial by battle" was the ac-
ing MS innocence. was that of duel
between an Italian and his wife in
Denver. Col. last July The husband
accused his wife OF unfaithfulness
and she siraightway demanded the
chance TO prove herself innocent by
lighting duel with him with knives.
Doubtless. as in the ages Of the past,
she felt that some unknown power
would strengthen the arm and heart
Of the person wrongly accused. Al
| waya. according to the ancient super
/ stition, the. accused. II innocent,
| would triumph. but. ii guilty. would
/ fail before the righteous attack of the
| accuser. Both husband and wife were
| badly cut up when the police finally
| broke down the door and separated
them.
The hobble skirt, after all. It seems,
has its uses. Last October beauti-
/ full young Pittsburgh, Pa, woman.
richly gowned in one of the new skirts.
walked out to the middle OF bridge
over the Monongahela river and
Jumped overheard. Striking the water
seyenty-hye feet below, she sank only
half her length and then. buoyed up
by the air under her skirt (the silt
being under water. Of course) re-
NAMED afioat. Even though she made
desperate efforts to sink herself. the
improvised lifepreseryer did its un-
expected duty and she was finally res
cued by passing rowboat.
Cupid indeed takes strange means
to bring about his ends Last May a
! New London, Conn. man journeyed to
, Moberly, Mo, to claim the hand Of
maid who. more than year be-
fore. had written her name and ad-
dress on an egg. Despite the cold
storage life the egg must have led
the writing on its shell was not OBJ
) liberated.
And even though the egg itself
should have been reminder that, at
seventy-ave cents a dozen. married
life Is nowadays considerable of a
financial undertaking. the future
bridegroom noticed the handwriting
on the wall" Of the egg as he was
about to break 1t for breakfast. wrote