| Show T 6 af afeld eld in october bob white bob white thy chal challenge lenga rings across the stubble brown bob white hite bob white the north wind brings the challenge into town the littered pages on my desk do rustle in the wind As if of crisp october leaves they fain would me remind they whisper me ile of copse and wood of 0 sumacs fl flaming arning led of field and meadow brown bron and sere since gentle dumn er fled they whisper me ah who mho can tail fall to take the challenge of the quail count v life in america smallest child in the world probably the smallest child for her age in the world is little ruth schwartz the daughter of mr and mrs wm win schwartz ot of pallas dallas ruth Is a midget standing just one foot nine inches high she barely reaches reache aboe the seat of an ordinary chair her little nead is just a size larger than a billard ball and her whole per son is in exact proportion the child was on her last birthday four fou r years old and at that time weighed 15 pounds 3 ounces she now tips the scale at IG 16 pounds I 1 ounce showing ft a gain of 10 ounces in four months at birth the child three quarters of a pound and could easily have been placed in a low quarter shoe in spite of hei small size every faculty of her mind is developed be yond the average of a child ot of nearly five she converses with all the seriousness rious ness and ease case of a girl of twelve and is an adept in music being espe chally proficient on the piano she also sings well and her voice has been the admiration of all who have heard her exchange the cape hyrax hyrax or duman rock rab mt bit of south africa Is first cousin to both the tapir and the rhinoceros it la ila a shaggy coated mouse colored ani mal mai with four toes on its fore feet and three toes on the hind ones it looks like a rodent but ta Is a strict vegetarian and Is often made a domes tic pet ewe nurses a fox farmer nye of Hop bottom pa ft last fall discovered that something was carrying off his poultry he set a trap and caught a fox he ile promptly killed it hardly had he done so when a baby tox fox came 0 it from the brush and moaned piteously around its dead mother the farmer took the young ter star home refusing the food offered it the little fox waa was in a fair way to starve to death when mrs nye had a bright idea one of the ewes had been robbed of her young by wildcats and the little tox fox was carried to the bereaved ewe to receive nourishment the fox throve amazingly on sheep a milk and the strange foster mother formed a strong attachment tor for the little fellow before other animals and to all human beings except mr and mrs nye the fox is extremely shy but it sleeps side by side with the ewe and land the farmer can handle the baby fox ox as he might a house dog new york world telegraph facts every day that a telegraph opera tor works at three minutes before 11 there la Is only one man in the whole country from san francisco to new york that is privileged to use his key that man Is tho the operator at washing ton in those three minutes every key is open and all operators wait for three minutes ticking which tells them the correct time from that ticking every telegraph company a clock is set there are at least 20 operators at work taking three minutes from every one of them equals 60 minutes idled away every day it would take one man ears to do the listening of all these men for those few minutes at the rate of 50 a month and working for the required number of years this man would receive 75 this is what the corn com pany pays to their men for just listen ing recovered watch through dream some week weeks ago john H tu tudor dor a well known citizen went squirrel hunting a few miles from montreal canada he bagged a number ot of squirrels but in the bagging lost a watch he was puzzled over it un til 01 he recollected a dream he had that his watch was in a certain spot near where he had hunted he went where the dream had directed him to go and found his watch it was hanging to a twig of a tree he ile had shot a rel in that tree and as the squirrel had lodged in the tree he went up it ft and got his victim in descending his watch had been torn from bis his pocket fly in coffee fatal the sight of a fly in his coffee today caused the death of samuel wag ner aad 79 years mr wagner was seated at the dinner table when a fly dropped into his coffee he as ed his wife for another cup and she went to the kitchen to get it it on her return she found her bus hus band leaning forward on the table de dead ad the T he sight of a fly in n his coffee or any foreign substance in his food had always made him hicl and his death was due to heart failure easton pa correspondence philadelphia press mag c square with the twenty seven numbers complete the rectangle in such a man per as to obtain in each of the three horizontals and forty two in each of the nine colars by dividing the rectangle into three parts and superimposing the three parts so obtained there should result a magic ft 0 I 1 il w U t 1 7 n vi s w ft 42 41 it U 14 it 42 2 jez 4 1 0 is giving a total of forty two in the nine perpendiculars in the eighteen horizontals and in the tour four grand diagonals of the cube literally wiped off the earth joseph shaff shaffer er a nitroglycerine shooter employed by the pennsylva nia torpedo company of bradford pa vas mas blown to atoms near the state line shaffer was mas driving a team his sleigh contained quarts of nitroglycerine and he was on his way to shoot a well in nicho las valley in the vicinity of line stone sleighing is rough in the districts the snow not yet being packed along the roads and fers fer a sleigh dropped into a rut the sudden jar loosened the pent up forces of the explosive and in a flash the man his horses sleigh and load of glycerine were mere going skyward wholly disintegrated and in smoke people in the vicinity alarmed by the deafening explosion hurried to the scene but found nothing ot of the man horses or sleigh A deep hole in the road showed very plainly what had happened brave girl saves a train minnie martin a pretty country girl 15 years old of new martins ville va on the west virginia branch of the baltimore ohio rail rai I 1 road has received a check from that road tor for 50 for preventing the wreck of a passenger train recently after a heavy rain ehe she noticed that a large bowlder boulder had been washed down into a deep cut mounting her horse bareback she held on by it ita mane and forced it a at t the risk ol 01 her life to swim a stream am swollen by the rains and reached the track in time to flag the par passenger csenger train As the rock was in a cut and a curve the engineer could not see r it t and she saved lives ferret a s new occupation I 1 recently says a correspondent of the field saw a ferret put to a new use as an electrical engineer the electric light wires in my district are being renewed where required and as the wires are protected by earthenware covers through which they are run the only means of put ting new wires in without disturbing the covers is by the use of a ferret the one I 1 saw was very lively and on good terms with the workmen he had a metal collar to which a string was attached he started off to the next manhole and then when the ferret mas a removed the wire to which the string had been previously attached was drawn through from times the construction of the pennsyl vania schuylkill valley rall raid through the lower section of kill county and particularly in the vicinity ity of and adams dale has revealed farge deposits ot of rock millions of fresh water shells evidences of rep reptilian tills U life ve vegetation 9 elation and ocher specimens specimen 9 all petrified have recently been revealed by blasting and excavating too B a for a soldier among the men called out by the conscription at cuneo italy la Is one battista ugo 7 feet 7 inches filches high and weighing pounds he was rejected because he showed up the shortness of the other soldiers he is twenty four and still growing lost on the races 0 coo A C V coo 00 0 TAIM 9 the diagrams show relative amount of money lost on horse races annually large bra n causes death pressure on the brain from want vant ot of room in the brain chamber was the case rase of the sudden death of a girl named elsie stone aged eight at leicester E eig ag recently at the inquest the doctor stated that the child childs s bran bra n eigard 49 oz or I 1 07 more than the average adult te fe male brain A |
