Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1911 — Matchless. [ARTICLE]

Matchless.

“When Edwin Gould took up the manufacture of matches seven years ago,” said a New York banker, “his friends were a good deal amused, and many a joke was » cracked at Mr. Gould’s expense. *T remember one June day, at on open-air luncheon at Tuxedo, a superb four-in-hand dashed round a turn of the road and we all looked up from our strawberries to admire. " ‘That is Mr. Gould’s team,* said some one. 'Who is driving?’ “ 'Mr. Gould himself,* a lady answered. ‘Doesn’t he look striking on the box?”'

Bird’s Remarkable Diet. Ostriches are credited with a peculiar appetite for glass and ladies* batpins, but a woodcock just sold tn a Paris shop has run them closely. The customer who bought three birds asked to have them opened, and to the surprise of the shop assistant one of them had four Lebel cartridges in its stomach. The bird was carried with much precaution to the police station, together with the cartridges, and the authorities are wondering whether they are faced by a new phenomenon that might interest naturalists or whether ft is merely a packer's practical joke.