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Show THREE THRILLING TALES. The Liars Club Awarded Prizes to Thes Snort Stories. After his narrow escape Zeb Vaughan of Pasadena fell on his knees and thanked heaven for a miraculous deliverance de-liverance from certain death. So would any one else T-ho had been grasped in the iron clutch of a 1,400 pound grizzly while ten miies from a gun or a cabin. Zeb never lost his presence of mind and began tickling the bear's ear with a feather ho had picked up absentmind-edly, absentmind-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 the emulous fowlg of the new state have within jTlnonths of 1894 scratched and -t-illnwed $11,637,514.65 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 the wetted and contracting fiber brought the measurement measure-ment down to 9i inches. In delight cho irasnftd: "Oh. haven't I cot a just lovely figu.e now? And it's so loose i and com f citable. " New York Advertiser- |