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Show Charmed by a Snake. Bnakes travel a good eal on their eputation. They scare bL'ds and small animals so thoy become helpless. Wo ak know this to be a fact. And then when mey get in a tight place with a man 'ikey try io riin a bluff on him. A lawyer law-yer in onr town once met a rattlesnake down in the Ozarks and began to experiment, experi-ment, or rather to let the enako experiment, experi-ment, to see if there was anything in the snake charming theory. Fb said Jhat the snake's eyes got brighter and brighter, and his scales became glistening, glisten-ing, and his body seemed to swell np s little thicker, and the whole outfit became be-came so engrossing that he finally ran away from the snake in a dead scare and didn't get over it for a good while after. He told me that it was his belief that if ho had kept company with that Bnako much longer he would hare lost hl wits- Firest and Stream. Wlilotra of Rovolntionary Wa. On June 30, 1894, the date of the last eporfc of tho commissioner of pensions, there were still nine living widows of soldiers of tho American Revolution en the rolls. Tho names of these relicts of tho soldiers of tho great war of independence, inde-pendence, together with their ages and postoffico addresses, are given below: M.iry Brown, 89, Knoxville, Tenn.; Nancy Cloud, 81, Chum, Va.; Esther Damon, 80, Plymouth, Vt.; Nancy Jones, SO, Jonesboro, Tenn.; Rebecca Mayo, 81, N-vrtorn. Va.: Patty Rich- |
