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Show This Goose Is a Jumbo. Hnrry Plnkham of Nevada, Story county. coun-ty. Ia., owns a Toulouse goofco which Is Indeed a monstrosity and has attracted a great deal of attention at tho various places at which It has been exhibited by Mr. Plnkham. Tho fowl, which Is a llttlo over 2 years of one. weighs 114 pounds, und lion been exhibited at tho fat stock how at Chicago, nt Dcs Moines at the Iowa Stale fair, and will bo taken to St. Lou la to bj exhibited this summer at the Louisiana Purchaso exposition. Tho enormous enor-mous weight of the goose has been too heavy for Its web feet, and in order to protect tho gooso from tho frozen ground tills winter Mr. Plnkham has made for the fowl a pair of rubber shoes wlilch fit on tho two web feet. Tho goose has been In tho habit of laying an egg about every day. and ihwo eggs arc of enormous bIzo, bolng as large ok nn ordinary water bottle, bot-tle, and tho landlady at Plnkhnm's board-lng-houso recently made fourteen pics out of onc of tho eggs which the gooao had Uld. Chicago Inter Ocean. |