Show uncle sam is willing to lease a number of af islands off the coast of alaska and famish at reasonable prices an animals fo or r breeding purposes to anyone who desires to undertake fox breeding as a business several canadians have signified their willingness to accept the pio z position but there have been no so far 1 1 A fall down stairs d did id for mrs helm a warr woman 11 living near wilmington Wilmine ton del what great surgeons of both europe had failed to accomplish for many years she his has been a cripple with a dislocated spine vainly she sought relief everywhere until her fall in some some way forced the spine into shape shap i and a nd she is now well W F gorsuch and victor rausch were arrested in philadelphia a few days ago charged with false pretenses they were operating an oklahoma boasters boosters bo car it Is is said they offered to give a farm of acres in n a government reservation there to each person who purchased a city lot in mcalester whose board of trade they falsely claimed pl claimed aimed to represent t while experimenting with sawdust to end a method of producing alcohol from it ii august zimmermann has discovered a saccharine residue that thai will bo be very valuable as a feed for cattle and arid which will produce a good quality of alcohol the manufacture of alcohol wolfrom from this material gives rise to the production of several other useful substances I 1 stall ces as byproducts by products among them are fuse fusel oil acetic acid and furfural ol ketchikan alaska being built on lilii along the sea and situated JA in a regj rugged ed country pressed for or a baseball park but thanks to the resourcefulness s es s of a yankee citizen they th ex havi have found a place that quite well the tide there rises some 20 feet but when it goes down it leaves a wide sandy beach that furnishes ideal accommodations for the sport the recession of the tide is a signal for the general suspension of business and everybody rushes off to the ball ground where the game lasts till the tide drives the players in there are several classic methods for starting a balky mule one is to cause him to sneeze and forget why hi he balked aked by putting some red pepper under his nose another which is 13 not recommended owing to the high voltage of his heels Is to twist his tail still another is to build a fire under him ibe latest however is to hitch an automobile to him and his bis load and then start it up the reluctant mule toon soon finds who is boss and gets right ba into step 0 they are telling sensational stories about col roosevelt one is that while he is on his trip in the west he is quietly recruiting four rough rider r regiments 1 egi ments to b be ready forthe for the invasion of mexico in cue there is a war another 0 report is that he has been engaged to appear on the vau vaudeville deville stage in england at a week both stories are branded by his friends as aa absurdly untrue george koors of Coving covington tont ky ICY was convicted of killing his brother in law and sentenced to life imprisonment 31 years ago after serving 10 vears of his is sentence he escaped and went to new york mime wh eie he married and lived under an assumed name the ghost ol of his victim followed loll owed him wherever ev er he went he says his mcmorse finally became so intolerable that he tossed a coin to determine whether he should commit suicide or return t lo 10 0 the M V penitentiary en iti and give himself 1 up a 7 to sj serve rye ou tahe ahe remainder of his terni term the latter course won W on and he went back to kentucky where he be surrendered himself to the authorities a 2 short time ime A newspaper woman was or ordered ered from a 17 story building which was being erected in toronto because it is no place jor for balero a woman 0 this aroused the ire of mrs mis T D wells welli wife of the contractor acor who proceeded to demonstrate that a woman has as much nerve asaman as a man she took her position on a huge iron girder and ascended upon it is the derrick hoisted it to the top of the aks skyscraper y per A west vir virginia enla man claims to have found a chemical chemic al mixture that will increase the glo w of lightning bugs and prolong the th elight light giving a long longtime time filter after they are dead he says his home is now lighted by the bugs and that the light is superior to that from the tungsten Incan descents this is the kind of news that Is 13 interesting SJ if true the obstetrical society odthe of the american institute now subscribes to the doctrine that plato promulgated several thousand yens years ago namely that no woman should become a mothers mother before she is 20 years old the society believes that this doctrine must be adhered to in order that a better race brace maybe may be propagated and its members have pledged themselves to exert all their influence to secure the passage of a law to that effect in the united states while being married albert roberts fell dead before the conclusion of the ceremony his natural heirs contested the right of his wile wife julia E roberts to share in the estate and the case came before judge dillon D on it at columbus ohio for settlement settle ent it was shown that each party md d gone fat fa to say 1 ado I do 1 I in re response to the ministers question the 1 judge held that this tied tho the nuptial knot and that she was the legal wife of roberts segundo ado sanchez who lives in a panama has proclaimed pio claimed himself the messiah and is working with all his bis might to finish an wark ark in readiness for a flood which he says is about to visit the earth he is the second modern noah to appear recently A band of his adherents are busy collecting pairs of all the animals found in that region howard Howar obreen dOBrien len a new york lad witnessed the performance of an acrobat at coney island it a lew few evenings ago and was so impressed with it that acrobats were mixed all through his hh dreams after he had gone to bed dreaming that he acrobat he walked out of the window he fell to the pavement and was badly hurt dreams also proved the undoing of another boy in in decatur ind he thought that ahat he WIS was down at the old swimming hole and so realistic was his bis dream that he dived out of the window and had his skull fractured on the pi pavement where he fell 7 N Tf ckner a painter pal friter was engaged to paint the dome of the state capt capitol itol at Lang sing mich he climbed to the top of 0 it and was about ready to begin his work when a swarm ol of hornets disturbed by his presence rushed out from their home in the dome feet in the air and attacked him though suffering bering su pain from their repeated stings he managed to fight his way back to the ground |