Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1914 — Finally Captured Eagle. [ARTICLE]

Finally Captured Eagle.

After defying a score of traps and as many guns of farmers, who have sought vainly to Impose summary sentence for the loss of hundreds of chickens over a period of six months. Old Baldy, a monster eagle, was caught by a man with a lasso. He lay waiting in the shadow of his chicken house for the chicken thief for more than eight hours. The bird swooped down shortly after daybreak The lasso was thrown around the eagle’s neck. The man wanted to capture the bird alive, but it fought so desperately that he was forced to shoot it. The eagle measures eight feet seven inches from tip to tip, and weighs 73 pounds. ‘

-FncemyeL"Przemysl” is one of the tew really simple proper names that have secured notoriety In the Russian invasion of Galicia. It Is pronounced “Pahem-ia-i," with the accent on the “pxhem.” Just how easy this is one may appreciate by considering Przemyslany, in the first syllable of which the “r” is sounded, thus: “przbe,” with the AustroHungarian variation of “miscellany* following. In pronouncing “PrzemysT you should carefully hold a “p” between your teeth while pronouncing “ahem” (which is a soft, mushroom, dumdum variety of “shem”) and Just as you are about to eject it deftly insert the “p” in the outer hook of the “s;” thus: “Pxhem.” Nothing can be simpler.