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Show EARLY TOAD GETS A CIGAR. Prematurely Awakened, Mistakes a Fiery Butt for a Meal. Montelair, N. J. A toad, led to believe be-lieve that spring had reached here, had a painful experience. A trench was being dug for a sewer connection in Claremont avenue, and to thaw the frozen earth fires were built along the line. The toad, feeling the warmth, awoke from its winter sleep, and hastened to the surface. Just then a passing smoker smo-ker threw away his burning stump of a cigar, which rested on a small twig that held it about two inches above the ground. The toad, on the lookout for a square meal, probably thinking the firefly season had arrived, made a jump for the stump and bolted it. The toad jumped in the air about three feet, then alighted on the sidewalk. side-walk. A low faint croak preceded another an-other jump, which was followed by a third. Then the toad hopped nimbly back to the grassy plot from which it had emerged, no douht returning to its winter home to think the matter over. Lays a Freak Egg. Minneapolis. Minn. A three-year-old Plymouth Rock hen owned by Frank A. Breitkrentz is in the public gaze with ( lie queerest shaped egg on record. It is shaped like a squash, with a body the size of a small egg. a long neck and another small sized egg on the end. |