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Show . SYORitS RECENTLY TOLD. Three weeks alter a tree near Jackson, Jack-son, Miss., was used as a galiowa, it showed signs of decay, and a month later la-ter it was dead. .lAYOtrsa man in Texas started to towh.the other day to get a marriage license, li-cense, but the clerk had eoid cut. He invested iu' a" pair of ekoes and went home perfectly satisfied. A touso man named M. W. Smith arrived ar-rived at the mining town of Cripple Creek, Col., with ?33 in his pocket. .. He began peddling peanuts and popcorn, and in'sixty days cleared 83,000. It. is claimed that a double-yolkedegg was hatched by a hen near Gettysburg Gettys-burg recently: The farmer was greatly amazed to find two little chicks, grown together after the fashion of the Siamese Sia-mese twins. Some boysvin Murray county, Ga . claim that they saw a blacksnake run at', full speed: down a steep Jnil and jump ten feet high and capture a sap-sucker, sap-sucker, which was drilling i hole in the bark of a pine tree 'with'.its sharp beak. - . - A stabtliso variation of the :snake story conies from Rome,-Ga. A gentleman, gentle-man, seeing a. snake lying on the road, . prodded it with' his umbrella. The snake straightened its body, spread out two . long .wings like a goo3e, arose in the air, and flew across the field. |