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

nbury- Several months ago he cor
pleted his first job-on a ne,pbha,.
pony. He takes the horses hoof Is.
tween his little legs and nails on +.
shoe with little hammer made =.
pecialiy for him. He is said TO nav.
tremendous muscles and brawny arm.
A New York woman was purchas,n,
a collapsibie bathtub on the instal.
mens plan. Some sort of dispute a, "a
the payments brought a woman and
two men collectors to her home las,
January. They wanted to get the tub
The woman was taking a bath. Bu,
that made no difference The woman
collector forced her way in and kicked
one of the legs OF the tub: 1t did Jus.
what 1t was advertised to do-col.
lapse. The bather and the water vera
spilled all over the fioor. The men
carried away the tub
Out In Vanbruen. Ark. last July
they found a man working enthusia.
tically away at job that paid him
fifteen hundred dollars though he wa,
considerably more than millionaire.
II became plumb tired of being a rich
man. he said. with nothing TO do ex.
cept play the society game and study
new ways to kill time / wouldn',
trade my $500 year for the bigges.
fortune In the world."
| Another man. heir to two million
dollars. re-enlisted In the army at
about $40 per month last February
at Los Angeles. Cal. simply because
he likes the life.
Asked For Breakfast.
Toward the end of the first month
of 1913, Ulysses. Pa, undertaken
had the surprise of his life. In the
act of making an incision In the arm
of a dead man. preparatory to
pumping the emhalrning fluid into the
arteries, the corpse suddenly sat up
yawned and asked for some breakfast.
Up at Ketchikan. Alaska. the great
American game is played under pc
culiar circumstances. Every time the
| tide goes out. the people close up shop
and rush to the beach to watch tae
1 ball game The settlement Is so close
/ ly fitted in between the mountains and
/ the sea, with the tide rising normally
to the height of twenty feet, that Il Is
built on piles It is only when the
/ tide is out that there Is chance 10
play ball.
A st. Louis steeplejack fell ITO feet
! from the top OF smokestack to
steel roof yet waved aside hospital
attendants who came to remove his
remains and got up and walked over
| a half mile to his home.
There were strange ..doings" IN the
J, florists shops of Evanston. Ill, las.
( March. Yellow chrysanthemums
/ changed to an ashen color over night.
white roses to pink and carnations 10
| almost every shade in the rainbow.
The florists maintained It was due 10
i the hypochioride of lime put into the
city's water to purify 1t. but the com
4 missioner of public works insisted the
lime had nothing to do with 1t.
More than that, women who wanted
to remain brunettes backed up the
! florists: but those who desired to be-
/ come natural blondes" declared ina.
the water was just the finest wash
they had ever seen.
A few weeks ago in Chicago an
edict was issued against horizontal
i plumes. aigrettes, pompons and other
ucN US VI Hiiiauy ma "HiSh ..e
4 tickle noses or scratch eyes. II neces'
/ sary, 1t is said. the executive will pass
favorably on an order similar to the
! one compelling women to remove Their
1 hats in theaters
The perpendicular plume which
see Is coming into style" he said, rs
all right. That Is, so long as IT does
not interfere with trolley wires or ex-
coed the building limit of 26o feet" T