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AN OLD DOG STORY REVAMPED. 
A Lewiston, Me., attorney is backed by a 
Lewiston physician in his assertion that the fol¬ 
lowing dog story is absolutely true, the occur¬ 
rence having come under the observation of the 
physician, at Old Orchard, last summer, and re¬ 
lated to the attorney upon his honor. An in¬ 
telligent dog was afflicted by fleas. They clouded 
his existence, if w5 may believe appearances, 
since for four-fifths of the time the intelligent 
dog was tied up in a double bow knot, fighting 
the smaller and less intelligent but more nimble 
flea. 
Fie had chewed his hair from his sides, and 
his eyes were lacking luster. The mangy canine 
decided to take a bath in the waves of the ocean, 
and in so doing discovred that as the sea water 
heightened upon his legs and sides and hack, the 
fleas fled before it, as ever the wicked flee. Soon 
after the dog was seen backing out into water 
a smile growing over his countenance as an idea 
took possession of him. He was next seen with 
a big wad of cotton in his mouth. 
The fleas crawled higher as the sea water rose 
about him. They occupied his back and then 
his head, made uncomfortable as they were by 
the salt water. Then at last as the dog’s head 
sank very slowly beneath the waves the multi-j 
tude vacated it, jumping to the wad of cotton 
that was floating just at the dog’s nose. The 
fleas floated away forever on the flickle wad of 
cotton, while the dog swam ashore to be for-i 
ever embalmed in history by the story of the 
doctor and the lawyer and the newspaper.— 
Lewiston Journal. 
A BUZZARD IN A CAB. 
. Recently, while his train on the Georgia 
Southern and Florida Railroad was rushing along 
at a rapid rate on its way to Palatka, Engineer 
McNabb had a remarkable experience, says the 
Atlanta Constitution. He was passing throng! 
one of the swamps between this place anc 
Palatka when a buzzard flew into his cab anc 
hit him squarely in the face. The buzzard 
badly frightened, showed fight and clawed anc 
bit the. engineer’s face frantically. Engineei 
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of the window. Evidently the buzzard hac 
started to fly across the track or swooped dowr 
too close to the big machine and was drawl 
into the cab by the air current produced, by the 
rapid movement of the train. The engineer waf 
not hurt, but the experience rather unnerved hin 
for a short time. 
In the Lodges of the Blackfee 
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My Life As Ai\ Indiai 
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and women passed their time, how the youn 
men gambled, how they courted their swee 
hearts, how the traders imposed on the Indian 
and how the different tribes fought togethe 
The one central figure of the book is 
Nat-ah'-ki, 
the beautiful Indian girl who became tf 
author’s wife. , . 
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