Judge — July 24, 1909 — page 3: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

7 OS NT ay me aS ~/otcenoen\- ~ = yee JULY AND DECE: (The last Fourth of July was the coldest on record —New York Daily Paper.) Father Firecracker (to Father Christmas-tree)—"* Year by year our dispositions are hecoming more and more alike.’* SOME NATURE ITEMS. DOG fancier at Oshkosh has invented a meter which accurately establishes the amiability of the animals he sells, by register- ing the oscillations of their tails. Nodog is allowed to go out of his establishment whose temper has not been so trained that it wags its tail under fifty miles a week, and without special inducements vither in kind words or food. M. Anatole de Boudoir, of Hyeres, France, is in this country selling a specially domesticated breed of French poodle, having a bushy tail that is said tobe able to dust the furniture and the bric-a-brac of an ordinary drawing-room in less time, wiih less breakage, and more thoroughly than this service has yet been rendered by the average domes- tic servant of commerce. The cost of this household assistant involves an investment which is equivalent to about three months’ wages of a Swede, but with kind treatment there is no reason why he should not last for sev- eral years in a high state of domestic efficiency. An enterprising young man in Cherry Valley has trained a giraife to pluck the fruit which grows in the topmost branches of the trees, and which has hitherto not been available without serious damage to the tree itself. He hires out this talented animal to the fruit- growers of the section on a royalty basis of ten per cent. of the gross daily * . - pluckage, and is A QUESTION OF DEC ISION. P Ethel— Oh, yes; she's a decided blonde.”* reported already Myrile—* When did she decide?" to have the ani- mal booked for the full season. Abner Dillbecker, of Penn Yan, has on sale a variety of goldfish that sheds its scales every Monday morning, the singularly valuable quality of which is that they assay twenty ounces of gold to the ton. A nugget made of a two years’ accumula- tion of scales from one globeful of these valuable fish was sold to a goldsmith last June for forty-seven dollars. Jacking for bullfrogs has become a popular and profitable sport in Louisiana. Like the deer, the frog finds himself very much interested in brilliant lights, and his curiosity results in his undoing. As soon as the light shines in his eyes, he jumps aboard the nearest lily-pad and tries to stare it out of countenance, and, while he is doing this, it is an easy matter tq lasso him or hit him on the head with aclub. An ordinarily active frog hunter, with a dark lantern and a blackjack or a length of clothesline, can bag with ease over a hundred portions of frogs’ legs in the course of an evening's hunt. It is not considered sportsmanlike to chase frogs with do Louisiana, and the new method is hailed with delight by devotees of this particular pursuit. | 2 ta PE me GOOD MANAGEMENT. { a [eee Sao | Boss's wi A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT. an, especially if there are Acronaut—" old chap; the chances are we’ Il be “You bet! If they’ re we drop another mile.” tem out; and if they're good-looking, 1 show ’em in and the boss hoy? 1 suppose you behave like a little ~* So this is the new offi adies present.” homely ones, the boss takes ’em in and I show takes "ein out."” comicbooks.com