Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1883 — TRUE STORIES. [ARTICLE]

TRUE STORIES.

As the dog of Samuel King, a flagman at Elizabeth, M. J., was trotting along the road a swallow flew so low that it went Into the dog's open ipouth with such force that the dog narrowly escaped choking to death. The bird was finally taken out A mah in East Dougherty. Ga, has a front tooth which he plugged with lead with his own hands over thirty years ago. He used an awl to clean out the cavity, and packed the lead in with the same instrument, after beating it out as thin as possible on an anvil The tooth is in a good state of preservation, and is likely to last as long as the man Fob several dfys Mrs. John Malsby had been keeping a nice pound-cake in her bureau, which she was saving for the first preacher who might drop in Tnugiiw her surprise, when she opened the drawer, to find a highland moccasin two feet long coiled up on her nice white cake The snake was killed and the cake thrown' away. How the snake got there ia a mystery.— Walton (Fla.) Nevus. 3 Db. J. K. minruM contributes to our museum a cucumber four feet in length and a perfect representation of a snake coiled up. It measures four and half Inches around the body and gradually tapers te the tall. The mouth and eyes are plainly marked, and when growing upon a vine in the garden, is scary enough looking to frighten any one not acquainted with the rattlesnake variety of oucumbem Ittmp , kin, (Go.) IndtpendtnL