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Show THREE THRILLING TALES. k Tho liars' Clnb Awarded Prizes to These Short Stories. After his narrow escapo Zob Vaughan 9f Pasadena fell on his knees and thanked heaven for a miraculous deliverance de-liverance from certain death: So would any one else who had been grasped in the iron clutch of a 1,400 pound grizzly while ten miles from a gun or a cabin. Zeb never lost his presence of mind and began tiokling the bear's ear with a feather he had picked up absontmind-edly, absontmind-edly, and the bear began laughing so hard that he could neither close hia arms to squeeze nor his mouth to bite. Zeb continued tickling until the bear laughed so hard that he burst a blood vessel and fell down, dying. A couple of Montana turkeys recently killed had taken into their aristocratic 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 tho emulous fowls of tho new state have within 11 months of 1894 scratched up and swallowed 11, 037,514.65 worth of gems aud precious pre-cious metals. A girl in Kalmnazon-who was not satisfied with squeezing a 26 inch waist into an 18 inch corset of the ordinary construction, devised one of ropo yarn ribbed with clothesline. Thus arrayed she took a bath, when tho wetted and contracting fiber brought tho measurement measure-ment down to 9 inches. In delight she gasped: "Oh, haven't I got a just lovely figure now? And it's so loose and comfortable." Now York Advertiser- |