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Tame Fox; Is Trained.

C. H. Brantley Smashes Long Accepted Theory That Wolf Family Cannot Be Caught. Has A Fox Which Will Obey Like Dog. Will Lie Down, Jump Through a Hoop and do Other Things. It has always been considered that to tame a fox, a wolf or an animal of the wolf family, or a common cotton […]

Honor For A Champion Chicken.

Bloomington, Ill., Aug. 13.-A monument is planned for a chicken belonging to O. L. McCord of Vermillion county. It has just died, aged 12 years. It was to be the champion of champions, having won first prize at eight successive state fairs and also at the Pan-American exposition.

Prevented Toothache.

The old Romans Did it by Devouring Two Rats a Month. If it be true that ancient remedies are always the best, it may be of interest to those afflicted with dental troubles to know how the ancient Romans dealt with such ills. The Quirites [citizens of ancient Rome] recognized two types of treatment. The […]

Dog Walks 287 Miles To Home.

Starved and Footsore Finds Way Back to Chicago From Indiana, Where It Was Lost For Two Months. Chicago, Aug. 24.-It’s a walk of 287 miles from Evansville, Ind., to Chicago and there aren’t any sign posts on the way that a dog can read, but this is the trip that John Cummings, janitor of the […]

Dogs.

Twenty-five hundred persons were bitten by dogs in New York city during the first eight months of the present year, according to the returns received by the department of health. Of those bitten 1,850 were males and 650 females. Children were the greatest sufferers-1,800 as against 700 adults. Twenty-five persons were bitten more than once. […]

Oysters A Foot Long.

Labadist missionaries in America wrote to Europe in 1697 that they had eaten oysters a foot long. They said they were very palatable and fully as good as the English variety. An early writer states he had seen oysters thirteen inches in length in Virginia, where in 1609 many of the famished settlers found in […]

Three Bears Are Killed By The President.

Woods had only five all told but the President got all he saw. Only one shot by his own rifle. Goes into the bush for bruin and shoots straight.-Other big game is killed. Stamboul, La., Oct. 21.-“We got three bears, six deer, one wild turkey, twelve squirrels, one duck, one possum and one wildcat. We […]

Fire In Omaha Stockyards.

Cudahy Packing Plant Suffers Damage to Amount of $200,000. South Omaha, Aug. 21.-Fire in the plant of the Cudahy Packing company in this city caused a loss of $200,000. From the Cudahy plant the fire spread to the Union stockyards plant and hog pens to the value of $50,000 were burned. Those pens were filled […]

Golf And Fish Story.

Some time ago a northern golfer drove a ball a fine, low, skimming shot across a river. Just as the ball was nearly over a salmon leaped at the ball and caught it in its mouth. Such was the pace of the ball that it carried the salmon on to the river’s bank, where it […]

Elephants Afternoon Call.

An elephant of a traveling circus managed to get loose the other day and went for a walk up Bubbling Well road, finally entering a garden where a lady was sitting on a veranda, when the intelligent animal broke some flowers and handed them to her and then dropped on his knees. He was evidently […]