A great deal of interest and curiosity has been created in the vicinity of West Nashville, Tenn., by a message found in an Irish potato.
Mrs. Walter Lovell was preparing some potatoes for dinner when her knife struck something she thought was a cob, but on examination proved to be a heavy piece of brown paper, about a foot long and five inches wide, with the following writing on it:
“Peter Johnson, Edmore, Mich.; Harry Hansen, Edmore, Mich. Please answer.”
This was written with an indelible pencil. The peeling of the potato was smooth, with no indication of a plug. The potato was unusually large, weighing about three pounds, and had grown firmly around the paper, leaving a cavity when it was removed.
As to how the paper was grown into the potato with no indications on the peeling remains a mystery.
Big Grizzley is Hotel Guest.
An unusual guest appeared recently at the Stewart Hotel, in San Francisco, when a huge grizzly bear, accompanied by Fred Thompson, his owner, and nature man Joe Knowles, waddled up to the desk and gravely went through the formalities of registering, giving his name as “Baby of the Rockies.”
After a good feed on lumps of sugar, Baby, who weighs slightly over 500 pounds, took a trip up the elevator, which he jammed on his way up. Arrived at the seventh floor, Baby and escort visited a party of women. The grizzly was captured by Thompson five years ago.
Four Legs Fatal to This Curious Chicken.
The town of Cheshire, Conn., has developed a chicken which ought to have been born in the days of Phineas T. Barnum, so that its praises could be properly expressed by the world’s greatest showman and purveyor of natural and man-made wonders, more frequently the latter.