STORIES FROM AMERICAN

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 240, 7 October 1916, Page 17

STORIES FROM AMERICAN

"WHAT IFAB IN : 'whtb fTBTir/ti^' v r " Olathe has an EnfcUstanan *ho teidl the L»ondon papers faithfully. When It began to thunder last Thursday afternoon lie ducked into a. cellar-and etty cd. there . for --.twenty-*our- lipii » "Obrthe Seglster.'- , ,.:, .: ,>«^ T v ..",^j.-¥." ... "SOME" Mr. John Underwood, j of Cotamtms. Indiana, has • remarkable four-legged chicken, according to the New ; York "World." The chicken Is sometime* re* tered to ma the "Charley's Aunt , • bird, sometimes as the "dotfbie-turbine'' fowl. When tired of using one set of left It picks them up and drops the others downIn thte manner It can keep running aQ the time and still Teat one pair' of legs. Mr. Underwood has been offered' & *or"the chicken If it reaches maturity! ' it obgbt •to te on the "variety": stage.""'.'' '~."-. -j ".". LOST HIS BET : PAXD HIS DEBT. One of the sanguine German* In Newl York who believed that the iFfcthelwid ■would be victorious Is paying far Ms belief in an extraordinary manner. (Hfr"ls"oQ» Wlederberger:' XAst year He ■wa«ered''t&t the war ■would end on August'-1 ."Iμ Jtibe defeat of the Allies. Wiederierger started from Albany on Saturday to "walk to New York, pushing a perambulator "before him all the way. The distance is ISO miles.' At all the principal cities he goes througtrhe Is compelled to sing *kioa;Save ; theV Kln^ , * and the "Marselilaiae" in tut public streets. Thie is hfa payment of tbe bet. /.. _ CASE OF ."StATCH7rOt.fj.^-' At Wentworth; N.<Cx ,- W , ."'SJangliiEer, former police caief at "-Draper,'' N.'C,"'probably -will 'be turned over to his ■wife as a convict labourer while he is serving a'twoyear eeotence for manslaughter. The decree stipulated that' the State be siren the privilege of hiring' him out' during "his sentence, and Mrs. Slaughter asked for the contract. Slaughter also was sentenced to pay a fine of 400 dollars to Mb. Thoman 'Weaver, r wMiwr of-the man he • -nrith killing. : ... 1. .._. c _": HORSE AITO aatttUNERY. *• Beaching out for the three green leaves that adorned the hat of Mr«. Mary "Miner «0 yean old, a staid old dranght hdrse' missed the trUmning and Wt oF the left ear of lie at the ' Ninth Street market, iLois Angetes. and e °rle? ing with Miller ran dnce stall nearby and collapsed. She L and taken to the"receivS,W WHAT'S nr A KAME rf e .^L ß^ BCee Smith mm, .wio <e«n»ed the arrest of Albert Frey postal "»" clerk, on a charge of of donaa, took the witness stand-in Police Joage Sollivan'e court ar San" iPrandsco ±ne otter morning, and *X answer "to Prosecuting Attorney' Harry' McKeniie's Qnestlens, saia: "I really doit know what my name is. eoenetmies. Jt'e fimith/ eonie. time ifs Han. TTnsri again itniignr be Jenkins er Jones, tat'lt has been twisted atoont «o mnch-by tbr courts th a i lam ■not qtrfte sore which one is the"tteht name." She Has been married fojor."*? |r e time*, _... _ ■ --■ - guy.