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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Cat Catches Rattlesnake.

Brings it home alive by the nape of the neck.      Dr. McConnell of Tulsa, I. T., has the latest snake story. It is a true story and hasn’t any of the dream elements about it.      Dr. McConnell was sitting on the porch when he saw a cat coming up the lawn dragging a […]

Blue Jays Whip A Cat.

Birds Rout Predatory Feline Which Attacks Their Nest.      Residents of Fayette place, Taupton,Mass., recently witnessed a remarkable battle between “Rags,” a coon cat owned by Mrs. James Brown, and two blue Jays. The jays were the aggressors and the victors.      Attracted by the scolding of the jays, the residents saw “Rags” sitting on […]

Eagle Cut The Rope.

Hurled Down 600 Foot Cliff Man Who Stole Young.      Frank Schreiber of Colorado Springs, Colo., was recently badly injured as a result of a fight with a mother eagle whose young he stole from a nest on the side of a precipice 600 feet from the valley below.      Schreiber discovered the nest in […]

Made Noise Like A Bear.

Snoring Oskaloosan Slain by Hunters in His Sleep.      Richard Harding’s wife often complained that Richard snored “something dreadful,” but he outdid himself recently and got killed for doing it.      Richard had been sitting in the backroom of the village drug store at Oskaloosa, Ia., taking a few sips of something to cure his […]

Mayor Entagled in the Harness.

     Mayor Griffiths became entangled in the harness and the horse fell on him in the water, holding him under the water. Fire Chief Jacobs escaped the entanglement and swam out. He at once went for aid. The body of the mayor was found under the animal. The mayor’s body was brought to Springfield.

The Danes and the Raven.

     Perhaps the Danes selected the Raven for their standard out of feelings of gratitude, for before the invention of the mariner’s compass they must have found him extremely useful. The only method of determining whether land was near was to let loose a raven. If the bird saw land he sailed away forever; if […]

Greatest Horseback Ride.

     The greastest ride on horseback ever done up to this time was done by Cowper Thornhill, Huntingdonshire, England, April 29, 1745, who rode 213 miles in 12 hours and 17 minutes to win a wager of 500 guineas.

Japan Takes to Horse-Racing.

     Seventy-two horse-racing clubs have been organized in Japan. Most of them, the Japan Mail says, were established for gambling purposes only.

Paradise of Hunters.

Explorer Discovers it in Africa Where men Have Annihilated Each Other. Lion Reposes With Hartebeeste.      London, June 18.-Sir Harry Hamiton Johnston, special commissioner for the Uganda protectorate, has returned to London after as absence of two years. He brings stories of uganda rivaling Henry M. Stanley’s description of “Darkest Africa.” Sir Harry relates that […]

Horse Kills itself.

     Just because the young colt of a horse belonging to Mr. Christensen, of Millburn, got scared at the thunder last Friday and started running down the street the mother fearing her colt was in danger, broke loose and with her mate tore wildly down Westerfield place and ran into a telephone pole crushing her […]