Show IN THE ODD MILNER SOME BOMB QUEER AND CU CURIOUS PHASES OF LIPE LIFF mow a wyoming W T 4 DOU DO 0 te ta wow bow music travels of a do faz enjoy tho the ant hnott the th altor Bl tor apology Apol wey ROM dainty tat to parted hair my lady is a sunbeam snare and all the flowers flo W look up at her and think she is a fairer flower such laughing beauty is her dower such love dreams in her browa eyes stir in midair poised to hear bear her sing the skylark hovers quivering and all the leaves that shift ad sigh seem whispering of her lovelin loveliness S while softest winds her curls caress and kiss kies her mouth as aa oft as it II all men and women as we meet meat are glad and swift to serve my sweet and others crushed in crowded marts funk bunk low in sin ein and misery her lily hands lift tenderly and these too call her queen of hearts hanged to slow music made in the early days of wyoming when there were but few churches and many infractions of law a man by the name of barstow who never knew fear and was waa a devout christian was elected to the office of sheriff so soon on af after ter barstow entered upon the duties of his office a man was convicted for a capital crime the fact that there was no minister within reach preyed upon the mind of the sheriff who undertook to supply the lack by bv holding an hours bible reading in the condemned mans cell and praying with him As the time tor for the hanging approached barstow became possessed of the fear that he be had not acquitted himself of the spiritual responsibility devolving upon him and devised a program that was u new and unique after the victim of the laws mandate was placed upon the platform and everything was in readiness the sheriff prayed long and fervently then he called for some one to start a hymn and a man ner near the platform began the only one he knew 1 I want to be an angel in which the prisoner joined As the last ver verse was sung the sheriff busied himself fedj adjusting the noose and immediately upon its conclusion the trap was sprung travel of a ballet I 1 R H campbell of the madras civil corps tells of an incident which came under his official notice as magistrate of hosan madras A european was hunting black buck on a hillside when h he got a shot with his martini henry carbine in a valley 1500 1 yards away beyond two rather high hills and a little beyond a native was standing with his head bead bowed and hands clasped behind hu his back the bullet broke the wrist of his hand in the investigation that followed the course of the bullet was traced accurately in firing at the antelope the bullet had hit a stone on the hillside and gone bounding end over end over the first hills at the next I 1 hill another place where the bullet struck was found here it leaped up into the air almost perpendicularly and when it came down in the ric rice e fi field eld it hit the mans wrist broke the bhae cut a gash in his body and dropped to the ground a spent ball the most dangerous bullet save the one in a so called loa ded gun is the one that goes ricocheting through the air do foxes enjoy the huntt hunt P H bryson raises a question in the american field which is sure to bring out considerable discussion among fox hunters he wants to know now if foxes enjoy being run by dogs he believes that they do if you think the fox does not enjoy the run you have only to look at a fresh fox as it passes his eyes are dilated with pleasure no fear there and brush vibrating defiantly in the face of his pursuers pu in full cc command of his mental faculties and using brain as well as heels this same fox exercises cunning and craft to escape instead of dropping into a hole when it would be safe from the dogs tangs fangs many a fox has lost his life rather than escape into a hole seeming almost to regard the earth escape as disgraceful to be resorted to in the direst stress only bryson tells of a vixen which with her whelps ran mn a long way and then the youngsters being tired went into a hole while she continued the race tor for hours finally escaping into the same game hole with her young the editors Edl torB ap Apolo loav yr ax hoax said the leading article in a western paper apologetically that our will pardon this issue and tax mys mye ab ex ot of a cartain shooting sam bibber into our office and stated that as ax was going to hoot boot and had no ammunition ax would ilax to borrow so gomz of our type tor for shot ax could it ax grabbed all tax out dut of tax most L important box and dis our chir subscribers can help to arx ow on emt tf 11 thoad waw worx t t ft will galyx cdx fax A abot ba y it it to is P ic ax d out of tham and return to ua nav r mind if it b li a pre press and printer gh wants to be a otowa ay the rhe officials of the bremen line to tn hoboken and the united states marshal there are puzzled over the persistency of a woman who on three occasions has tried to stow herself away on the ocean steamers that tie up at the hoboken docks twice when she went to the docks she was wa plainly almost shabbily attired says the new york herald on her third visit however she was expensively dressed and seemed to have plenty of money the marshal says he thinks thinka the woman is of good family who for some mysterious reason wishes to return to her native land unknown her face is that of a foreigner and she speaks four languages fluently all she will say about herself is that her name I 1 is s durent and that she came from new orleans j the fuma was lying at the br bremen emen docks early last week and in one of the staterooms state rooms a stewardess found a woi man one afternoon she was making herself comfortable and seemed seamed to resent the intrusion of the stewardess the latter called the chief steward who questioned the stranger I 1 1 I dont see why you annoy me she said gald calmly 1 I have a right here my name is durand and I 1 am traveling with the van pelt family 1 where are your tickets ticketed asked the steward in my trunk the woman replied and the steward left the stateroom he searched the passenger menger list in vain for the name van pelt or the name du rend then he be went back to the stateroom and turned mrs durand over to united states marshal bernhard he compelled her to leave the ship the officials in charge of the dock thought no more of the matter till last sunday the trave was then tied up to the hoboken pier john the chief steward was awakened about 4 in the morning by screams that came from the cabin of the stewardess he found the lady on the verge of 3 steria mrs durand was in her I 1 I 1 cabin she had coolly entered it and attempted to drive its rightful tenant ou out t escorted the intruder to the pier and left her she again appeared at the docks and attempted to steal aboard the steamship trave she was not at first recognized zed owing to her rich attire she had been plainly dressed upon the two previous occasions she was again turned over to marshal bernhard aid ad removed from the dock d by Bar A scotch highlander dressed in kilts and carrying a set of bagpipes under his arm appeared at bar harbor the other night and next morning at 8 strolled up main street in search of a good place to try the bags on an the natives it is years since the uncanny music of the canny scot has i 1 been played there and it had a wonderful 1 effect the first tune causing no less than five simultaneous runaways among horses a and nd the wrecking of t two 0 w wagons and sets of harness the bagpiper stopped in the middle of the tune to see the fun and after he saw the destruction st that one tune had wrought he let the wind out of the pipes and took the 1030 boat for bangor she shears shear sheep at 77 in this section the field of womans comans usefulness is widening and the old notion that her place is in the kitchen is being dispelled says a richmond ky correspondent this county has a colored woman who is a brick and stone m mason as a s on by trade and is an expert in that line the county comes to the front again with another woman she Is mrs rhoda cox of the panola section A few days since she wanted her sheep sheared and finding no man who would do the work went to the sheep sh sheds eds and abad performed the work herself the job was neatly done and the fifteen sheep were soon separated from their fleece mrs cox Is 77 years old and active hale and hearty A wonderful flower the most wonderful flower in the world as well as one of the very largest blossoms known is a native of the malay peninsula it Is simply a gigantic flower without either stem or leaves and has more the appearance of a fungus than anything else it is about three feet in diameter and has a globular central cup which has a capacity of nearly two gallons this cup is always filled with a fetid liquor which attracts an immense swarm of flies and other insects the pistils of this queer flower distill the liquid and it is believed that the rank odor attracts the flies in order that the flower may be fertilized netted nested over a doorway inside the porch of a doorway of a house in desmund Jes mund england a pair of i grey birda built their nest the i ing in and out of the people residing in the house did not seem to disconcert the happy couple who helped themselves to some feathers placed at their disposal the grey bird or song thrush i often chooses a singular place as a nesting site tide in Ne bruk out in polk county nebraska and in fa some of the adjoining they have a queer lot of wella they are called ude tide wells because of a peculiar habit their waters have of ebbins ebbing and flowing dowing just as if they were connected with a great underground ocean polk county alone has between 1 twelve and twenty of these quew queer raw roaring wella |