Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1912 — HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Was Bitten by Bloodthirsty Barbastel

pronounce the name' of th«T bloodthirsty animal they did not succeed in getting help. - ' Rosie Goldstein tried to slip under the safe, saying that the barbastel was an eagle and that she had often seen its species in Russia,' but the space beneath the bottom of the tide was too narrow for Rosie’s buxom figure, so she was compelled to crawl under a bench. - * In the meanwhile Binberg had grabbed a stick and tried to beat the barbastel, who was devouring the hair tonic on Binberg’s curly locks. He managed to hit the barbastel once, after having bruised himself a dozen times. Manager Joseph Blankford was dancing around in a frenzy, crying, “B-b-b-b-barb-b-b-bastel, b-b-beat it," but the ferocious animal couldn’t understand Yiddish and transferred his affections from Binberg to Blankford. Joe won by a, nose in the race fdt a closet. Finally Mr. Barbastel was cornered and clapped under an empty box, and some .5 or 18 people, sat on top to make sure that it didn’t escape. Mr. Fechter returned from a business call, and found his employes completely metrogrobollzed by the awful encounter. Cautiously lifting up the box, he looked within and began to laugh as though he would burst a blood vessel. His employes were aghast when Mr. Fechter grabbed, the animal and shored It into a widenecked bottle. “What is it, a-neagle?” asked Rebecca Zuckerman’. “No, you blockheads; It’s only a bat,” said Mr. Fechter. i “Oy oy,” said the employes, and went back to work.

MEW YORK.—A large, ferocious, »i bloodthirsty barbastel, which chlropterous mammal* is probably more familiar to you under Its Latin nickname of Synotus Barbastellus, caused a panic among the one hundred employes of Benjamin Fechter, a clothing manufacturer, when 'it flew through a window of the loft the other morning at 10 o’clock, and bit, scratched, clawed' and tore the hair, eyes, ears and noses of several of the men and women working at the machines. The barbastel is generally Insectivorous or frugivorous, and Ik a first cousin of the big-eared Mega-der-ma-gl-gls, which inhabits Australia. The barbastel in question, however, was decidedly carnivorous, and to judge from the way it tried to make a tencourse dinner from the physiognomy of Morris Binberg, one of the cutters, It had not eaten for several days. Binberg was the first one to see the barbastel as it flew into the Bhop. Binberg has nice fat cheeks and the barbastel made straight for the cutter, who dived under his machine too late. The terrible animal caught him by the hair and Binberg started to do a Marathon around the room, shrieking for help at the top of his lungs, while women fainted, and of course, it follows that strong men grew pale. The other employes ran out of the room in a panic, but as they couldn’t