Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1883 — TRUE STORIES. [ARTICLE]

TRUE STORIES.

Erath county, Texas, has an infant industry which needs protecting just now. It is little girl, 6 years old, who is an expert telegraph operator. As the dog of Samuel King, a flagman at plizabeth, hl. J., was trotting along the road t swallow flew so low that it went into the log’s open mouth with such force that the log u narrowly escaped choking to death, rhe bird was finally taken out., ; A man in East Dougherty, Ga., has a front ioeth which he. plugged with lead with-his bwn hands over thirty yeart ago. 'He used in awl'to clean out the cavity, and packed the lead in with the same instrument, after beating it,out as thin as possible on an anvil the tooth is fn a good state of preservation, and is likely to last as long.as the man. For several days. Mrs. John Malsby had been keeping a nice pound-cake in her bureau, which she was saving for the first preacher who might drop in. Imagine her surprise, when she opened the drawer, to find a highland moccasin two feet long coiled up on her nice white cake. The snake was killed and the cake thrown away. How Che snake got there is a mystery.— Walton (Fla.} News. Dr. J. K. Barnum contributes to our museum a cucumber four feet in length and a perfect representation of a snake coiled up. It measures four and half Inches around the body and gradually tapers to the tail The mouth and eyes are plain'y marked, and when growing upon a vine in the garden, is scary enough looking to frighten any one not acquainted with the rattlesnake variety of cucumbera—Lumpkin (Ga.) Independent. Georoe J. Romanes, of Manchester, Pa., has a cat called Tabby. The other day a thin, dilapidated, I’m-afraid-of-a boot-jack-looking cat came into the back-yard. Tabby went out, and they rubbed their noses together for a moment; then Tabby went into the kitchen and took some of her own meal to the wanderer. Scon, seeing that the hungry cat was not s itisfied, Tabby went and brought out a new sunply of meat, which the stranger seemed to accept with every evidence of gratituda