Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — SHORT STORIES. [ARTICLE]

SHORT STORIES.

Every army horse in Argentina *•> eelves two ounces of sugar with its dally supply of food. Farmers near Margaretville, N. Y, have banded together and declare they will shoot automobilists who fail to slow up when warned of excessive speed. Joseph Bradley, aged six years, df Pottsville, Pa., to escape being run down by a locomotive lay flat between the rails, and the train passed over him without doing injury. On a tract of about 600 acres near Murfreesboro, Ark., more than 130 diamonds have been found within the last year. In size they vary from 1-64 carat to 6% carats, in color from dark brown to the highly prized blue white. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Is making a copy of one of the most conspicuous examples of sculpture In Chicago—the Lincoln statue near the entrance to Lincoln park. The directors of the New York institution have been much impressed with this work by Saint Gaudens and decided to get a copy.