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...hunter's home. A porcupine named Albino spiked apples with its quills, carried them to the cider mill. A hen after thawing out the water spigot on cold mornings by silting on it, turned it on, drank. A Maltese cat, with a harelip, whistled "Yankee Doodle." A cold cow gave ice cream. Jim. Pete and Dick, trout, were fed New-Year's dinner with a silver spoon. Copycat Mortison. Early this year it seemed Winsted's animals might be spreading when from Waterbury, Conn, were reported some chicks which had hatched out in fur instead of feathers...
Nina, police dog of Marietta, Pa., who led her master to the barn where he found Bess, a prize cow, strangling to death with her head caught in a hay rack...
...editor of the original Fascist paper Il Popolo d'ltalia in Milan, Signor Benito Mussolini was threatened constantly by the Socialist Chamber of Labor, kept a quantity of hand grenades about his office to cow "the enemy." An old employee, Margherita G. Sarfatti, writes in her authorized biography of Il Duce that "one day, the office boy, all unconscious of danger, was about to light the fire in the stove, just then full of bombs." She once reproved her editor gently thus: "Do you really think a bomb is quite a suitable thing to put a lighted cigaret...
Yesterday afternoon a 49-year-old employee of the central packing house at Middelburg intended to kill a cow. Just when he was ready to fire the gun, the cow, with its head, pushed the weapon out of his hand. As it fell to the floor, it went off and the man was shot in the abdomen. He died at once...
...remarkable how little the sense of news value? The item appears on Page 5 of a twenty-six page newspaper, under 'Miscellaneous News Items.' The man's name is not even mentioned. Wouldn't an American paper give this item a front-page position with a headline like this, 'Cow Shoots Man?" --St. Louis Globe-Democrat...