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Show THREE THRILLING TALES. Tlio Uars' Club Awarded Prizes to Theit Short Stories. After his narrow acapo Zeb Vaughnn 'A. Pasadena fell on his knees and thanked heaven for a miraculous de-livorauco de-livorauco from certain death. So would any ono else -,vho had been grasped in tho iron clutch of a 1,400 pound grizzly while ten min-s ficm a gun or a cabin. Zeb never lost his pitsonca of mind and' began tickling tho boar's ear with feather he had picked up absentmiud-edly, absentmiud-edly, and ths bear began laughing so hard that ho could neither close his arms to sqaoezo nor hia mouth to bite. Zeb continued tickling until the bear laughed so hard that he burst a blood vessol and foil down, dying. A couple of Montana turkeys recently killed had taken into their aristocratio craws to assist in deglutition 13 valuable valu-able sapphires, several ounces of gold and just enough silver for change. It is now fashionable among Montana poultry to have jeweled interiors, and it is estimated that the emulous fowls of the now state have within 11 months of 1S!)4 scratched up and swallowed $11,G37,514.G5 worth of gems and precious pre-cious metals. A girl in Kalamazoo who was not satisfied with squeezing a 26 inch waist into an 18 inch corset of the ordinary construction, devised one of rope yarn ribbed with clothesline. Thus arrayed she took a bath, when tho wottod and contracting fiber brought the measurement measure-ment down to 0 inches. In delight she gasped: "Oh, haven't I got a just lovely figure now? And it's so loose and comfortable. " New York Advertiser.. |
