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Mice that Subsist on Scorpions
Among the queer forms of animal life that inhabit Death Valley is a mouse that has acquired such a taste for scorpions that they form its entire bill of fare.…
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Alaska Reindeer Meat Served in Florida Cafe
George Kelly, a well known conductor on the Alaska railroad, spent the winter in Florida, and while there went in to the Comus restaurant which claims to serve any meat…
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Bessie Should Have Bought a Ticket Instead
A railroad wreck was the result of a collision of a freight train with a cow on the Rock Island at Morganville last Saturday. Two of the employees of the…
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Ground Hog in Long Trip
Animal With Wanderlust to Come by Way of Chicago on Journey Around World. Salt Lake City.—The wanderlust of small ground hog, which entered Salt Lake recently on the brake beam…
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A Large Fish
A large fish, called Hapuu, attracted the attention of a crowd at the Fish Market this morning. It was caught by a native named Kaihe, off Diamond Head during the…
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Ostriches Here for Big Banquet
One is Displayed in a Window of a West Pike Street Restaurant The three ostriches that will be cooked and eaten at the Annual banquet of the Clarksburg Brotherhood Thursday…
The Mystery of the Cyclops
The Unexplained Disappearance of the United States Naval Collier Causes a Marine Expert to Discuss the Fantastic Possibilities of Encounters Between Ships and Gigantic Octopuses
The disappearance of the great United States naval collier Cyclops during the year 1918 has now been ranked among the famous unexplained mysteries of the sea, like the fate of the crew of the brig Marie Celeste and many another ocean tragedy.
The Cyclops, a ship of 19,000 tons, sailed from Barbados in the West Indies on March 4 last on war duty and has never been reported since. This great steel ship, with all her crew and arms and equipment, her wireless and her boats has vanished from the seas just as feeble sailing ships did in ancient times when the ocean was an uncharted wilderness.
By order of the Navy Department all available naval craft In Southern waters have been making a dragnet for the ship, but steadily the conviction grows among officials that the great modern mystery of the sea will remain unsolved.
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3 Men Devoured By Band of Wood Wolves
Port Arthur, Ont. — A great roving band of hungry timber wolves has devoured three men, according to reports sifting in today from the snow covered trails of the Sturgeon…
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Worth Knowing
Certain native animals of New Zealand seem to give way before those from Europe with which they are brought in contact. The Norway rat has completely exterminated the native rat…
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Wild Boar Menace in Rhenish Prussia
COBLENZ, Feb. 5 — Judging by the number of letters from German civilians of the American occupied asking for special permits to carry firearms for hunting purposes, the wild boars in Rhenish Prussia more numerous this season than in many years. In fact, several letters written to the headquarters of the Third American Army stated that the wild boar menace this winter greater than any other year in German history.
Every day from various parts of the occupied territory letters into Coblenz from German civilians who have been deprived of their usual winter sport by the American decree forbidding civilians to have possession of either rifles or revolvers. In nearly every case the letters agree that the wild boars are overrunning the country, destroying crops and eating certain winter growing plants which should be preserved for the horses and cattle.