Eureka Reporter | 1905-05-12 | Page 3 | Toy Mouse Starts Panic

TOY MOUSE STARTS PANIC juvenile plays a joke on car and fat woman tumbles into snowbank there Is apparently no limit to the ingenuity of the juvenile brain in creating the most excitement with the least cause this was illustrated in a car to day two innocent looking children had been making a round of the depart ment stores buying toys which were warranted to wreck the strongest nervous system among their pur chases waa a mouse which when wound up and released would run along the floor in such a natural man ner as to deceive any but the sharp est eyes the car was well filled with women who had been shopping and one large woman was hanging on a strap near her stood a small man intently reading the paper one of the little boys in the front of the car extracted something from his pocket stooped down and set it on the floor buz z z z the fat lady turned to see a mouse with red eyes and rigid tail bearing down upon her with a gasp she turned and as she coulden couldn t get past the little man she took him with her and down the car they rushed colliding with two other men who had been standing the door of the car opened at this juncture and a portly man stepped in only to be struck by the flying wedge and jammed against the plat form railing A sigh that sounded like the wheeze of a dry pump him the fat woman continued her flight and falling off the car which was now slowly moving was gently deposited in a snowdrift by the roadside ach du lieber himmel she cried the two scared youngsters were jumping off the car and one of them was shoving 1 a toy mouse into hia pocket chicago evening post