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Show THREE THRILLING TALES. The Liars' Club Awarded Prizes to These Short S'.ories. 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 "ho 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 tickling tho bear's ear with a feather he had picked up absentmind-edly, absentmind-edly, and tho bear began laughing so hard that he could neither close his 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, soveral 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 new state have within 11 months of 1894 scratched up and swallowed $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 f ropo yarn ribbed with clothesline. Thus arrayed 6he took a bath, when the wetted and contracting fiber brought the 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." New York Advertiser. |
