Show POINTS FOR TIlE CURIOUS A POUND CAKE MYSTERY For several days Mrs John Malsby has been keeping a nice pound cake in her bureau which she was saving for the first preacher who might drop in Imagine her surprise when she opened the drawer to find a highland moccasin two feet long coiled up on her nice white cake The snake was killed and the cake thrown away How the snake got there is a mystery Walton Fla NewsWHAT WHAT A BLACK ANT DID A young man of Danbury recently eat a piece of cake in a dark room and a large black ant which was on the cake fastened to his palate His friends succeeded in severing the body but the head continued to hang on with deathlike grip to the young mans palate how could it be removed without the aid of a doctor doc-tor The doctor could relieve its hold only by crushing the head of the ant with a pair of forceps A MAMMOTH APPLE TREE Mr Abel Schofield an Adair county farmer who lives about twelve miles southeast of Kirkville has perhaps the largest apple tree in his orchard that can be toun J in North Missouri It measures 6 feet and 10 inches in circumference near the ground and G feet at a dis ance of six feet from the ground The largest limb measures 4 feet and 10 inches This mammoth of the orchard has yielded forty bushels bush-els each year for the last ten years and the fruit is of an excellent qual ityAdair County Mo Journal A BEAR IN A BEAN POT A party of California hunters camped in a ravine one night and as usual put a pot of beans on to cook While sitting around the fire telling yarns and weeping smoke tears an immense bear joined the circle whipped the covers off the pot and without so much as by your leave thrust his paw into the seething supper Roaring with pain and astonishment he as quickly drew it out again overturned the pot with one vigorous blow and throwing the hot beans into the young mens faces lumbered off growling into the darkness AFTER DEAIII In the philosophical collections of Mulferus there is an account of a woman buried at Nuremburg whose grave being opened fortythree years after her death hair was found issuing through the clefts of the coffin When the cover was removed re-moved the whole shape of the cof I fin was visible but was covered from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot with thickset hair long and curled The sexton was about to handle the head when the whole fell apart at once and notb fug remained but a handful of hair There was neither skull nor any other bone left yet the hair was solid and strong Mr Arnod relates the case of a man who was hanged on the gallows for a petty theft as was formerly the custom in Eng land whose body was covered with growing hair before it was cut down from the gallows THE WHISTLING FIS1I OF NEVADA One of the most singular of the fish family is doubtless the whist ling sucker which is sometimes caught in Walker lake The fish when caught emits a plaintive whistle which will almost persuade an angler with any tenderness of heart to throw it back into the water Charley Kimball has one which was caught in a net when quite young He keeps it in a tank and has taught it to know him and whistle when it is hungry When its master approaches the fish pushes its nose and mouth barely out of the water and making a pucker with its lips which Ithe human pucker does not nearly equal whistles some shrill notes It appears lo have some of the parrot characteristics and Kimball thinks that in time he can teach it to whistle part of some simple tune Walker Lake Neb Bulletin ON THE WHEELS One night recently as the stage was approaching Woodford canyon N T the team began to fag wonderfully and the driver was at a loss to account for it After stopping to rest a few minutes they were unable to start again The driver got down and took a lantern lan-tern to examine the runninggear when to his astonishment he found as he supposed that a rope had been tied between the two wheels Laying his hand on the rope he started back with a yell of horror on discovering that a live snake had twisted itself between the hind and fore wheels and was holding the stage as securely as if the wheels had been tied with an inch rope The passengers got out and tackled the snake with clubs and stones and as the reptile thrashed about under the wheels the horses were wild with terror He was finally killed by a blow on the head and it was after midnight before they got him disentangled from the wheels He was the style of snake known as the mountain runner and measured twelve feet four inches When stretched tightly be tween the wheels he was much longer A REMARKABLE SNAKE There is a most remarkable snake bottled up at the Bellevue It is fully as long as a mans arm but is in no part thicker than an ordinary piece of twine It has evidently got a head but it is so infinitesimally infinitesim-ally small that it cannot be distinguished distin-guished from the re t of the body with the naked eye In fact so far as can be seen with the aid of a glass both ends are exactly alike RThe r color is almost black with a light shading on the under sideIt was placed in a glass of water yes terday and succeeded in crawling over the rim and dropping to the floor > where it lay unobserved for a time and when long discovered was nearly dead On being placed in the water again however it revived and became quite lively It was captured in the Red river having become entangled with a fish line just at the moment when the angler yanked a fish from the murky depths It is probably one of the most curious specimens ever seen in this country and pains should be taken for its preservation Mr I Higgerty proposes to put it through a course of training and make a good moral snake or it Winnipeg Free Press A DEERS JUMP You see that cliff said our guide pointing to a ragged jutting crag Well about fifty years ago an old man by the name of Knowl ton lived around the curve there I where he came from or what he was nobody knows anyhow he was a I master hand at deer One day an uncle of mine went aout huntin with him on the way home just above the cliff old man Knqwiton got ahead and in a few minutes Uncle Bob heard a whoop and rushin ahead there was a big buck had the old man wedged right agin a tree Well hegrabbed him by the horns and let the old man up then both tried to < knife the critter but it took em through the bushes over the rocks at such a pace they couldnt do nothin And all at once the old man yelled let go and len go they did and the deer aunchedj off the cliff and was dashed all to pieces You see the scrub grew right up to the edge and only by accident they saw it or the deer would a carried em overNew York Post |