Evening star., 1937-07-22

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Fashioned a fabric harness fol
kitty, attached the wire line to tn,
harness, put her in one end OF th'
pipe and then closed it after her.
Greek chorus Of encouragement wa!
set up at the open end. thunder
Of seats" ratified over the cats heat
from the other approach. In shor'
order she had run the line.
The services of the commanding
officers police dog, held in reserve Al
the starting point. were not required,
says the official report Of the feet.
SYMBOLS.
One OF those men ,Uho berdte
their ,Cipes for buying things from
ouse-to- house salesmen happened
to be at home the other day ,Dhen
q canpasser rang the doorbeH.
Man opened the second-story
wtndop and yelled do1Dn, who's
there?"
&C. 0. D."
The householder thereupon trot-
ted downstairs and opened the door.
What's the C. O. D.7" he asked.
Come on dorn," said the sales
man, stepping INSIDE.
Sold n MIRO order ion
SEEING THINGS.
THERE are flying snakes. Or ther,
is flying snake. We have tn,
word of Navy pilot for it. Six nava
patrol boats were flying from the
Canal Zone to Florida. Soon aftel
leaving Guantanamo, Cuba, one Of the
pilots saw snake coiled around tht
outboard wing strut. Stayed there
for about three hours, until it begar
to rain. Then the clever thing
crawled into a hole in the wing.
When the pilot landed and told hi!
story, everybody at Pensacola gave
him the laugh Told him he shoule
go to bed early nights, quit reading
Ambrose Bierce.
Tale was quite joke around thu
station until one afternoon when ,
squadron radioman was removing
some radio gear and the snake, NJ
longer phantom, went scootinj
across his arm. He lassoed it with ,
piece OF antenna wire, found it to b,
q 5-foot cotton mouth water mecca
sin.
INVENTION.
I ETTER from a man out in lowe
offers to sell the paper a stor,
about how to keep the starlings out oi
Washington. Says he has a methoc
by which robins can be kept out o1
cherry trees full Of red-ripe fruit most
successfully" The system also ha.
errors for sparrows and grackles, anc
S very cheap, simple, effective ano
We refer him to Mr.. Clifford Ian.
nam and the Patent Office, and 20 on
our personal suspicion,
hat the method is an automatic shot,
gun.
COMPASS.
ENTERING the Benjamin Fra,lklin
Post Off1ce by the main entrance
citizens will invariably walk acros.
large bronze plate on which are the
points Of the compass, but We doub.
hat many Of them notice the floor
compass points are almost diamet-
really opposed to the true ones, the
pointer heading more or less
north, the northern hand pointing
south.
Answer is that the inlaid compass.
S set In relation to a map Of the
world inlaid in the vestibule floor. Ir
his particular world, the northern
countries are on the southern half OF
he map, the southern countries or
he northern half. Don't ask US why
y
NEWS.
Weary OF that old "n,an bites
dog definition OF ne,Ds, ne offer
another one, based upon an actual
occurrence about to,pn. Headline
uould be Mans Teeth Bite Him."
Seems a local tello,p, who had d
nep set OF false nolars, didn't find
them perv comfortable, often re-
n'ored same and placed them in his
pocket. Went out to friends
house one evening. was inpited to
stay to dinner. Pulled up chair
and sat do,pn. Came poined er-
preston on his face, and he reached
sloWlu for his hip pocket.
II think" he said, "somethino
bit me-"
NEGATIVE,
n APPEN1NG to be down South
during the big flood last Winter
lady we know took some pictures Of
friends houses under water and othe,
weird sights she wanted to preserve
In her scrap book. Took the films te
, Photographic supply house for de-
velopment, after the water subsided
and the proprietor begged to borrow
The negatives. Said he could sell q
lot of those pictures.
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