Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — Antlers Einbedded In a Ire Trunk. [ARTICLE]

Antlers Einbedded In a Ire Trunk.

A couple of weeks ago, says the Salem (Wis ) Statesman, Mr. Van Man, a farmer in Zena, in Polk County, was engaged In cutting cordwood on his place. He chbpped down an oak tree of about three feet in diameter at the butt, and, after sawing it into the proper lengths, proceeded to split it in the usual manner. In the section about five feet from the ground he struck his ax into what he supposed was a bunch of knots, but as the chips immediately crumbled, he made a closer examination, and discovered the right side of a pair of deer-horns embedded into the very heart of the oak tree. There are evidences that it had five prongs, and from the growth “rings” of the tree has been in that position for at least a century and a half. The tree is thought to be at least 200 years old. According to the Bangor Commercial, a Maine schoolgirl compared the adjective “ill” after this original fashion: “Nominative, ill; comparative, worse; aurperlatlve, dead.” S- -SEX.