Show DISTRICT COURT NEWS last weeks report of the district court brought our readers to the paul droubay case thursday february 15 on motion of the defendants attorney the case was continued in the estate of henry booth deceased decree settling final report and distribution Inthe in the estate of lottie miner de ceased decree settling account and discharge of administrator in tile the estate of james D rosa deceased decree settling final account in the he estate of roy 0 woods do de je ceased eased decree of distribution the society of cincinnati has bocen been investigating the case of R G neof a greek of that city who his has a three year old boy whom he is training a as an acrobat by nieth methods that seem cruel when the child was only 10 days old the father purposely broke his bis wrists and a ankles and a month latter began systematic system systematically ati cally to trim him ih I 1 h oe e decided to let neuf contina cont inu with his system on the promise aliat lit hi would not exhibit the boy for oi at least jive years yea f A baby has been born in cambridge with two heads both heads are set on one neck and both are normal rid ind the child may live cormany for anany years for some years the cement industry flourished but the business in stagnant now ilow and the american cement co one ot of the biggest concerns sn in the country has just failed perrysburg Perrys burg 0 has turned over a new leaf As the result of a revival the citizens assembled the other night and aad made a bonfire of their novels playing card chewing gum and other vanities to the accompaniment of gospel songs benhur ben hur hut as a play has paid pa id to the estate of lew walliace and in book form fono the ilie story has yielded as muan more mrs wiggs of the cabbage patch as a book and play f has netted the author 10 a word so far and is A still drawing li little ittle lots loi s edwards of clorinda orinda CI iowa has twice won the state prize for bread baking she went up to washington hoping to be allowed to bake a batch of bread for the president but the he white house rules prohibit any out tide side cooks doing in the kitchen the north dakota agricultural cot cor lege has undertaken an extensive service of very remarkable broad scope bulletins Bulle tines on such subjects as how to to au wl showing alt erad 0 iba color fiber 9 er etaf have been prepared Ore pared i at the agricultural department and sealed up in glass cases in a vacuum to be preserved for future reference these samples will be used as standards and current grades will be compared with them from time to 10 time i the hen that can lay lai two eggs where one was laid before has at last arrived in the international egg laying contest at the connecticut agricultural I 1 college 20 rode island red hens have been laying 40 eggs a day there is no physiological reason why a hen should not lay two eggs a day it bv be nr mp mainly a question of eating food enough N R wood a scientist of the nat matill tonal museum at washington says that a 40 years study of birds has convinced conin ced him that though they have no language strictly speaking they are able to communicate muni cate with one another on fio familiar matters and that a human bring being tan ican 44 talk with them provided he studies the sounds they make use ase of and try to use his own language the turkey he says has the largest vocabulary and the pigeon the smallest while the common crow is the smartest of them all the employees at the big government arsenal at rock island ill had threatened that they would wo tild strike if the government under undertook tock to introduce the taylor system of scientific management there under this system cards are issued to each worker and strict account is kept of how much work each one does etc the unions are opposed to the system as aa they think it is a scheme to get more work out of the men brit the cards are being issued and the men have not struck government ent jobs ate are too good to be recklessly thy thrown own away |