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Show K Some Things of Odd and Comic MM Interest Which This Old MM World has Seen in 1909. Mm Tbo World's bfiurt beats in Uttlo HB tblogs. HnppeuinRS of broad import jjK mas fill tbo year's "front pages, top Mm oolumn," but it is In "Iho shadows B of h Bbndo,1' oftoti burled" 'way HE baok ntnoug tbo real estuto items and jB the classified ndo that Is UBunlly to bo jB found tbe truest bumau interest. I E And flomo of these "unoouBidered H trifles" tollinc of tbo joys and eor- f MS rows, oddities and drollltloa of tbo H now-oloalug twolvo mouth huvo beio HI boon gathered. iH DOLLARS AND GENTS. jljD That Bimio liltby luoro, whioh plays afl bo iarga a part in present duy nows, K Ugtired iu Maroh and April in two IK otbor out-nf-tbo-wny bapponings: tho VMM "rst ''"nK ' no opeuiug of u tnis- K' or's grave at Epiuiil, Franco, with tho jHK resulting dlsoovery of boiuo 8150 in H Btuull ooino lying amid tbo banes of iSB tbo dead man, whrt bad presumably ' fflmt swallowed tho money to carry nt len&t B bo miioh of bis worshipped trunsnro Af ont of tbo world with him; nud tbo -9B seoond reoordiug a genuine April 'xM Faolfi' jolco. Just because tbo day jjS was thu Urst of tho fourth mouth, Lob jB Angeles pedestrians allowed to lio on V tbo Bidownlk uninvestigated a dilpl- HE dated old wallet. At last it was HJf kioked ournloesly into tho gutter, K whero M. .1. Aleobtilor, tho diHtreseed Mm. ownor, disaovcrod it iu bis soarab WMt BQd reaovorod $710 in goad aurrou- W FREAK& IN LAW. HE Two oddly just sentences have como ini out of Pittsburg oud Chlcogo. In MK ono city in Novomber Judge dnahttu HE Oohon hau deorood that tiiro boyu, MB. unouord of potty larcony, aro to go to HV oburoh uvory Sunday, or tako n term HW in prifon; in tho otbor. 18-ycnr-old IHj Joseph Mastorson, nrrosted for tho K tbeft nf a pair of troupers, has boou mu direoted to go homo nud read "David 9l Oonporfield," poudering its leesoti. m JUSTAHOUT WOMEN. H Last May thlB advertisement np- H peared in certain Colorado papers, in Mm Berted by tbo Eobool board of tho lit- Mm " twu ' Virginia Dalo: B WANTED For School District 1U Wmg A toaohor with a glees oye and n oark flUf or wooden leg; sdro to tako to the UK' Vfoodujjr iBbwiraoownjnittUitoomlng.j " BHr Tho solons iu obargo of education H out thoro bad bad trnublo, it eeomp, BR iu keeping a teacher of oven nveragu 'wBw ottraotinus; thoy married a(F about as 'flflr fast as they woro appointed. llfl? ,1UST J''ATE' KXjHff There fato was obviously nt work Kjfl as it whs in Augunt, wbou Ueldeu 1Bj Woodring, a steeplojuck of many lof- iTHimfr y Q"n,D9 fe" from u chair iu his BjSHr kltolipii nd killed bismelf ; and when K Antonio Auillorn Muxioau murdorer, (1MB suddenly meeting tho twiu brother of HSHj, n victim on tho streets of Zaontecap. IpBB, 'oil on hla knees, made full confos- Ijjfi bIou of his arime, and wub led nwuy BW' to trial aud oxenution. f$H IN AT THE FINISH. lliHc Colorado Springs, May 21. Carl jnEHL Griokson, while asloop last night, mjB walked ont of n window and fell jtfflHj; twonty-flve foot to tho ground without HlHK awakening. Thoro bo slept for nearly HK threo boars, being brought to himself 'Ot' ky dreaming be ras freezing to death. 1 Faebla, Mexico, May 2 Felix BhB GbIIo, aeronaut and inventor, ascend- BBf ed sixty feet today in an air oraft of BjSk bis own making. At that height he jStjB tried to start baok to oartb only to ftjB find bo oouldn't, and nothing but n HffX resourceful youth who floated a toy Efigjflf baloon up to him with guy ropo at KfB taobed to its scarlet thread, got him Rl9 down in tlmo for supper. Gnllo is Kl the first man to got stuck in tbo sky. |