Sept, ii, 1909.] 
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plowing in a field. The plow blade unearthed 
a crude weapon that proved to be a hatchet. 
Fortunately the man was an amateur naturalist 
and he spent some time in excavating the ground 
with the result that a fine collection was acquired. 
The entire collection may be seen at the Carnegie 
Institute at Austin, Minn. 
A large flat-faced rock, bearing Scandi¬ 
navian inscriptions, found in Central Min¬ 
nesota recently, reads something as follows: 
“We left the ship five months ago on the rocky 
coast and finds us in the midst of a heavy wild¬ 
erness. Land, land everywhere. We can go no 
further, for the wild beasts and savages have 
killed off many of our number. Sandvig and 
Ullar have not yet returned.” 
Robert Page Lincoln. 
JIM’S FALSE ALARM. 
Gloom in great wads settled down over this 
little city to-day when it was learned that Jim, 
the ophidian fire alarm, had met a sudden and 
untimely end, says the Brighton Beach corre¬ 
spondent of the Los Angeles Herald. Tears 
were shed at the town hall and the fire station 
is draped in black. 
The story would not have come to light had 
it not been for the enterprise of the local re¬ 
porter for the Watts Evening Register, who 
made the discovery that Jim was not in his ac¬ 
customed place in the rack at the fire station 
when the wires were tested at 5 o’clock. 
Jim was the educated rattlesnake that has been 
the main bulwark, so to speak, of the fire de- 
4St> 
AN UNPARALLELED 
RECORD 
THE 
In Shooting History 
Made by 
PARKER 
GUN 
At Chicago, the week beginning June 21, Mr. Frank Fisher 
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at ten doubles and eighty singles, score 94. 
Mr. Fred Shattuck won the Grand American Handicap from the 18-yard mark, score 96, 
and 20 straight in the shoot-off. 
Mr. Fred Gilbert a ain won the Professional Championship with a score of 193 out of 200, 
which included40 doubles, of which he broke 37, making his second consecutive winning of 
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