People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1893 — FREAKS OF NATURE. [ARTICLE]

FREAKS OF NATURE.

Db. J. C. Bivings, of Dalton, Ga., has a cat which in some respects resembles a kangaroo. The fore feet are much shorter than the hind ones, and it scurries over the ground just like the Australian animal. A bewitched apple, with a blood-red drop inside, grows on several trees in Norwich, Conn. It is caUed the “Mike apple,” after a farmer named Micah, who crier two hundred years ago was supposed tahave killed a peddler and buried ths body under one of hi* apple trees.

“Didn’t you know you were doing wrong when you counterfeited that dollar!” asked the judge of the ycung culprit. “No, 1 didn’t judge. The fact is the engraving work on that dollar 1 made is worth two dob lars and fifty cents any day.”—Harper’s Bazar.