Show CURIOUS ODDITIES Strange things happen in the city said the pallid DaUid boarder Strange Strang things happen happ n in the coun COUll country country try too be sum gum um the farmer inter interrupted interrupted interrupted The rhe city man rocking on tha th porch in the Uie twilight over his cheap cigar had had the floor for half an hour Now it was the farmers turn Strange things rather the old man resumed 0 O course yeve heerd o 0 snakes cows hangin and dangin in from un under under Under der while the cows all allover allover allover over the kentry 0 O course yeve eve heerd 0 o that but did ye e ever hear Mr Clay Clayo 0 o pigs Digs cows No uNo Cant say as I have the other answered languidly languid Its bin done said the farmer farm r Its bin done to me gosh dast it It done only last month My lI black an tan sow guv guy birth to a litter Utter 0 o nine pigs an blast my buttons if them pigs as soon as they the got to be a month or two old mi k my cows At noon when the cows LOWS laid down in the shade the little pigs would come up r n drink all their mm The mind The milk was no good to them so 50 0 o course they tIey keer keel who got it itAn itAn itAn An oven or 31 stove should never be placed where the sun will strike it said Eald an S Sunlight puts a afire afire fire out you know I had haa ha often heard hear from old women that fires would not well if the sun shone on them but I thought this was a superstition I thought the fires only seemed to burn well wall if the sun shone on them of the sun made their flames mes look pale and weak I was wrong though It is a fact that sunlight on a range rang or stove starve will HI weaken and extinguish the fire The Time reason is that the suns rays ra s hinder combustion rare rarefying rarefying rarefying the air all and lessening the bulk built of oxygen so necessary to a It good bright blaze It seems odd that a shellfish should spin a soft shiny silk cilk ilk that is spun inti Int expensive fabrics s yet this is js done by bythe b bythe the ruina a Mediterranean shellfish which has a little tube at the end of Its ts tongue Out of this tube spider fashion or silkworm fashion comes the silk thread with which it itself to rocks When Wl en the puma puina moves moes on to other environments it leaves the silken cable behind Sicilian fishermen gather this silk which h they call caU It is woven into the softest and shiniest of fabrics fabri s but as the supply is limited Cl the price of b silk goods goodo is very high |