She unstrapped an extra tire that she carried along, fastened to it a rope, and then threw the tire to the struggling man in the pond. He seized it and she tried to pull him out, but was unable to do so. Then she tied the rope to the automobile and started it slowly away from the pond. The man, clinging to the rope, was hauled out of the water. Then Miss Ditson took him in her automobile to the home of her uncle, near by. He said that he had been skating when the ice broke and threw him into the water. His efforts to escape were vain, and he was becoming numb from the cold when his rescuer appeared.
His Life Saved by Rubbers.
Because the sloppy condition of the city’s streets caused him to put on a heavy pair of rubbers, David Taxin, of Monroe, Mich., is still living. When he drove over some telephone wires lying on the street and which were crossed by high-tension wires of the municipal electric plant, his team of horses dropped dead. Taxin, thinking they had slipped, got out of the rig and worked over them. Passers-by warned him he was standing on wires carrying 2,300 volts.
Finds Silver Dollar of 1796.
Elmer Steele, of Lewes, Del., found a United States silver dollar bearing the date 1796, while digging in sand near the Cape Henlopen lighthouse. The coin is in excellent condition.
Bird Flies Over the Ocean.
A carrier pigeon dropped from the roof of a building in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and Fred Jacobs, who found it, discovered a message tied about the bird’s neck, which evidently was the message of a German soldier in the Belgium trenches to his wife. The message read as follows:
“Dear Wife: I am alive and well in the trenches in Belgium, but your brother has been killed.”
That was all there was, not even a signature to denote the identity of the man who wrote this little tragedy of war. The pigeon showed evidence of long flight, and the injury to the wing seemed to have been received shortly before the bird was picked up.
The message was written in English and wrapped in the heading of a German newspaper, and the date mark of the paper was Saxony, Dec. ——, the day of the month missing.