Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1916 — Queer Bits of News From All Over Our Big World. [ARTICLE]

Queer Bits of News From All Over Our Big World.

tondon, April 11.—The liquor control board has discovered a new nonalcoholic beer, the sale of which will be pushed as far as possible in the English public houses. ... "It smells like beer; it looks like beer; it tastes like beer—the only difference is in the headache,” says the statement issued by the board. In a Lest case a workman "'drank twenty ,|>int bottles without becoming intoxicated. The new drink will be placed at the disposal of parliament in the house of commons bar. Vincennes, Ind., April 11.—Walter Dillon, a prominent business man of Wheatland bought a young mule at a sale yesterday. When he started home the mule refused to wade the mud and all the persuasion of the new owner proved futile. With the assistance of ( several farmers, Mr. Dillon put the mule in an auto truck and took it' to his stables, the mule apparently enjoying the ride. Twenty cars of fast moving Michigan Central train Monday evening passed over Edward Larson, a young man employed as switchman at Gibson, and those w r ho witnessed the accident thought the lad sure to be dead but he escaped with a few rather minor injuries and will live. Herbert Spink, 3, plunged twenty feet from a second story window at _ Lexington, Ky., alighting directly on his head ,pn a brick pavement. Only a slight bump shows where Herbert and the pavement met.i Sullivan, Ind., April' 11.—Thinking that when the court asked “Are your guilty?” the question put to him was “Are you well?” Louis Martell, of near Hymera, a Frenchman, answered “Yes,” and was fined on a statutory charge in the court of John T. Watson, justice of the peace. Martell’s story as told by an Tffwrpreter after the trial. Martell’s fine was stayed and he was released.