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...Mount Prospect, 111., one Ernest Grimm, farmer, killed a skunk that nad long haunted the adjoining farm of his cousin, Edward Grimm. With clothespin on nose, Ernest Grimm skinned the skunk, hung the pelt in his barn. In the night Edward Grimm made off with the pelt. A skunk caught on his land, he remarked when he met his cousin next day, was his skunk. Words followed. In the lonely barnyard, Grimm fought Grimm. Ernest, with a slap of his hand, broke the nose, already inflamed, of Edward. Edward brought suit for $5,000 for assault and battery...
...said his life was enchanted. Nor ivory knife nor silver slug could pierce the Swarthy armor of his skin. His chest was as hairy as the pelt of a bear. His teeth were sharp as stakes. He taught his soldiery to play a game-first you took a village, then you lined up women, tore the babies from their breasts, tossed them in air, impaled them on spear points. Some say that a British propagandist, not Osman Digna, invented this game, but Colonel Horatio Kitchener (young then) took it seriously. He went after Fuzzy Wuzzy at Handub but a black...
Napoleon's dragoons have gone, but their artistic temperament has lived on to find a re-opening in the spirit of the fighting diners of Memorial. Napoleon's men pelted "The Last Supper" with brickbats; their successors have used potatoes and biscuits, usually softer but no less dangerous missiles, to pelt the pictures that line the walls of Memorial Hall. Napoleon's men probably did not know that in "The Last Supper" Leonardo da Vinci had done a world masterpiece; our fighting contemporaries probably do not appreciate the fact that Memorial contains pictures of great value from the hands...
Another interesting and finely illustrated article is "The Start from Delshaven" by Rev. Daniel Van Pelt. The pictures by J. H. Hatfield and others of the quaint old Dutch town are charming and one wonders how the Puritans could drag themselves away from such a spot...