David Adington, of Hilliard, Ky., owns a duck that serves as a watchdog. The duck was hatched with four legs and soon became a curiosity. When strangers were in the Adington neighborhood, they would always visit his place to see the duck. The bird became so sensitive that whenever it heard any one coming it would run and hide, but despite its efforts to escape, it was generally caught.
Then it changed its tactics, and when any one would approach, it would begin quacking as loud as it could. Now, when any one enters the back yard at night, the duck can be heard all over the neighborhood. Adington has refused several nice sums of money for the duck.
A Wonderful Bedspread.
Stitches totaling 178,962,687 were made by Mrs. P.C. Gress, wife of an Atchison, Kan., physician, in the making of a crocheted bedspread, on display in a furniture store here. There are 555 squares in the spread, each requiring 581 stitches. Other stitches necessary amount to 2,162. It took Mrs. Gress a year to make the spread.
Kansas Has New Gas Blower.
What is claimed to be the greatest gas well ever developed in Kansas sprang into record in Augusta. The flow is estimated at from seventy-five to one hundred million cubic feet per day. So great is the well that when the cap rock of the gas sand was penetrated, the tools were blown out of the well several hundred feet into the air and the derrick was demolished.
The Augusta gas and oil field is being developed rapidly, and to-day it is second to none in Kansas, and there are over seventy good gas wells, besides the oil wells which solve the fuel proposition here.
Horse Plunges Into Store.
Frightened when the cutter became stuck in the street car tracks, a horse driven by Joseph Cone dashed up the sidewalk on the main street, in Marquette, Mich., stopped in front of Stafford’s drug store, snorted a couple of times, and plunged through the big plate-glass window in front of the store. Arriving in the store, he gazed about, showed his teeth in what looked like a grin, then slowly backed his way out and returned to the street. The broken window was the only damage resulting from the episode.
Victim of the Bad luck Jinx.