Show miscellaneous ITEMS the only woman who has ever asked for an office in daviess county mo is seeking a an unmarried woman has made a reputation in gag gage e county neb as a corn busker doing 75 bushels a daiy diy A board on the side of a house at forbes mo was removed the other day by the owner as appeared warped lie found a hive in the wall and pounds of honey the bees had entered through a knofe adle twelve bees and 12 pigeons were released at the same time in a westphal hm village three miles from home the ilist bee arrived 15 seconds before the first pigeon three other bees and pigeons reached home simultaneously in alic w cods of shelby county ind a den of wild dogs was discovered and morgan II endrickson set about digging them out he had to dig down seven feet of ane seven dogs five got away from him and now he know what to do with the other two A small metallic object was found some rags in a paper mill at westbrook me and the workman who w as sorting them tried to open it with a penknife it proved to be a japanese bomb and in the explosion which followed the unfortunate man lost three fingers and a thumb the most successful in maine is william brown of oakland fall and winter he captured 83 foxes 93 skunks 13 coons 9 mink and 2 silver gray foxes hiis success is chiefly due to some aromatic essence a drop of which on the bait lures the animals A mouse while scampering around a classroom in a public school in baltimore stepped on the foot of a teacher miss clara evans dihe excitement which ensued was only allayed when the fire department was summoned under the belief that the school was in flames an aquatic creature supposed at first to be a whale 22 feet long 8 feet wide and G feet high was found partly buried in the sand at anastasia beach ala by a couple of st augustine cyclists and was pronounced by the preside president nt of the local scientific society to be aji octopus alie missing tentacles have been worn away by the sand and v ves or eaten by sharks |