STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 July 1916, Page 17

STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

i WIZARD OF HORTICULTURE. < i It Is reported that Lather Burbank is '"' growing grapes on a flg tree. We hope ho ' will never be so unorthodox as to grow * grapes on thorns or flss on thistles, even If he did make a prleklv cactus edible. ■ I 1 ATTACKED BY A WILD CAT. Dale Davis, aged three years, son of James Davis, of Redding, California, was attacked in tlic yard of his parents by a wild cat. The boy was badly bitten and scratched about the face. Daris killed the cat. The child lias been sent to | Berkley for the pastear treatment. | I 1 A STEAMBOAT DISASTER. j At Memphis on June 7 divers began a persons who are believed to have been ! drown* , .! when the Mississippi River ; steamer Elcanore capsized near riessant ; View, Ten D.. twenty miles north of : Memphis, in a storm. The bodies of two white men were recovered. Two other white passengers and abont thirty negroes, the mnjority deckhands, have not beeu accounted for. COUPLE RE-WED THIRD TIME. Matthew Does (77) and Lncretia Boes (72) have heen married for the third time to each other at Paris, Illinois. Thevthird marriage ceremany was performed by Justice Davis, who, it is believed, will be abla to lay claim to the distinction that be married the couple "the first and last time," having tied the first knot for them almost forty years ago. » "TWILIGHT FILM" BARRED. r Mayor L. A. Fritsche has barred the motion picture, ■•T-wilight Sleep," from showing at New Ulm, Minnesota. The picture, with a lecture, was to have been shown at the Armory to an audience of -women, and later for an audience of men. The films was exhibited privately to local newspaper men and the Armory Board, and these concluded there was nothing immoral about them, but agreed that an attempt to show tliem to an audience of men only would, be 111-advised. The woman lecturer asserts suit will be started. A BURNT OFFERING. Opening the family Bible that lay beside her husband's charred body when it was discovered on a ranch near Castle Bock, Colorado, after a search that had lasted since hie disappearance several weeks previous. Mrs. Thomas Sawyer solved the mystery of her husband's strange death. Verses 6, 7, 8 and c, chapter xxtl ef Genesis, were tnterltaefl with pencil. DescrlptlTe of Abraham* attempted sacrifice of his eon Isaac, the marked verses disclosed to Mrs. Bnryer the manner ef her hnsband's death. B»wyer bad bnllt a pyre of wood and etoces and then offered himself as a sacrifice to the Lord. The body was renting upon a pile of stones and charred wood, which was surrounded by the asher of burned tree limbs. The body was so badly burned that it was cot recognieamt. A _

DRUGS WITH POTATOES. The unusual popularity of Mike Ade's restaurant in San Francisco, was accounted for when Detective Nelson Mathewson discovered tbat Mike served morphine with mashed potatoes. Meu and women were .seen slinking in. hands trembling, lips quivering, thoir eyes dull. When patrons emerged their step was buoyant, their lips wreathed In smiles and their eyes a-sparkle. Mathewson paid for a meal and plunged a fork into the centre of tlie dish of mashed pototoes and penetrated the secret. Mike ■was arrested, charged with violating the State poison law. WOMAN CAPTURES BURGLAR. Her Attention Qttrncted fry 3 noise in 0.0 upstairs bedroom. Mrs. John Brown, who I was the guest of her aunt. Mrs. J. W. Simpkins, of Chester, Pa., investigated and I found a man hiding in a closet. He had ! dressed himself in one of Mrs. Simpkins' j skirts to avoid detection. Mrs. Brown dragged the man out of the closet, and giving him an uppercut uuder the ear knocked him down. Then she sent for the I police. Chief Vance highly complimented j Mrs. Browu on her pluck and offered to I intercede to get her on the police force, j if the movement to secure a female memI ber of the department succeeds.