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Forced To Eat A Cooked Cat.

Wisconsin Woman Changes She Was Forced to Display Culinary Art on Feline Instead of Rabbit. Racine, Wis., July 13.-Judge Belden, of the circuit court has granted a divorce to Mattie J. Spaulding from Dr. J. Spaulding one of the most prominent physicians of Kenosha. Mrs. Spaulding was married in 1903, and she alleges that within […]

About 136,500 Seal Catch.

Six Steamers Held Fast in Ice Since Twenty-First of March. St. Johns, N. F., April 7.-though the sealing season in the Gulf of St. Lawrence has not been an utter failure, St. Johns sealers have had a rough time. The catch totals about 136,500. Since March 31 the steamers Bellaventure, Bonaventure, Boethic, Virginia Lake, Adventure […]

Swapped Baby For Dog.

The Unusual Exchange That Was Made by Two New Jersey Women. Any mother knows the comparative value of a baby and a puppy dog. It is infinity to nothing. Yet in Newark, N. J., a deal has been consummated in which a real, live, plump, pretty chunk of humanity was swapped by its mother for […]

An Elephants Thoughts.

How a Hindoo Can Tell When the Animal Intends to Destroy Him. Few more impressive confidences can be imparted than one in which a Hindoo describes how he knows his elephant intends to destroy him. It is all so seemingly trivial, and yet in reality of such deadly significance. His story is full of details […]

Helps The Dog Catcher.

A Market for the Dog Pounds of Large Cities Will be Utilized by the Alaskan Miner-Chicago’s Contribution. [Copyright, 1837.] L. H. Lewis, a lawyer of Seattle, has recently formed what he calls the Seattle Yukon Dog company, whose agents will travel through the states, purchasing by wholesale the lost, strayed or stolen animals that are […]

Livestock Burned.

Kankakee, Ill., Jan. 17.-Twenty-eight head of cattle and 18 horses were burned Sunday night with the barn of T. J. Clark, two miles west of here. Loss, $5,000; insurance, $2,000.

Chipmunks In A Cemetery.

They Are Increasing So Rapidly in Brooklyn’s Greenwood That a Trapper May Be Called In. Greenwood cemetery is suffering for the second time in its history from too great increase in its colony of chipmunks. Eighteen years ago they became such a nuisance that a trapper was employed, and 28,000 small, stripped pelts were the […]

Rattlers Chase Hunters And Bite.

Italian Hunter Pursued by Sixteen Rattlesnakes is Bitten by One in Finger and Acts as Own Surgeon. Newburgh, N. Y., Oct. 24.- Arthur J. Sarventi, a well-to-do cigar dealer of this place, went to Pike county, Pennsylvania, last week in quest of deer. One day, a short distance from Eldred, while following some deer, he […]

An Equine Rat Killer.

Roscoe Franklin of Brockton, Mass., owns a bay horse, known by the name of Shiloh, that is possessed of a peculiar accomplishment. Mr. Franklin’s stable, a rather old building, is infested by rats that give the horses much trouble, stealing their food and making themselves pests generally. It began to be observed a short time […]

Snakes.

Port Jarvis, [N.Y.] Gazette: “I never lie about snakes,” Warren replied. Do you remember that about three years ago a collision occurred on the Delaware division to a train carrying O’Brien’s circus and menagerie, and that the snake cage was demolished, and two or three snakes escaped in the darkness. Well, one of these snakes […]