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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1914)
REMARKABLE HOG , l-AYS DIVIDENDS Lowndes County Hog Is Proving a Veritable Gold Mile. Mr. S. L. Dowling, living sev- j en miles out of town, is the own er of a remarkable hog. During the past twelve months she has produced thirty-six pigs and rais ed all of them so far. The first litter of eleven was slaughtered for meat the 15th of this month and averaged one hundred and seventy-four pounds dressed. At ten cents a pound these hogs rep resent $191.40. The one odd hog in this litter has seven young pigs of her own, making forty-three pigs in twelvemonths. The second litter of twelve was butchered today and averag ed one hundred and forty-six pounds dressed. At ten cents a pound this amounts to $175.20. The total of the two litters so far amounts to $366.20 in money, and one sow and her litter of seven young pigs yet to be realized on. The cost of production was four cents a pound for the first litter and two cents a pound for the second litter. The total sale was $366.20; the total cost was $111.60; leaving a net profit of $254.60, with twelve youngs hogs and one sow and seven pigs yet to be sold.—Valdosta Times. The Great Invention. Chief Patent Clerk Abel Snowzwetter was idly register ing a patent device for stopping unheeding trolley cars by lassoing them, when he was confronted by a long-haired, short-nosed man with gleaming eyes. “Eureka!” cried the stranger. “First name, please,” said the patent clerk. “That’s not my name. That’s my cry of victory,” explained the long-haired man. “I have an invention that is sure to low er the high cost of living and I want a patent.” The clerk was so overwrought with surprise that he nearly got it mixed and sprtuig to his hands and held out both feet. “Great!” he cried. “For years we have been waiting for you. Hi! men! fellows!” Soon the entire patent force was gathered around to hear the long-haired inventor speak. “It’s this way,” he spoke. “Shoot at sunrise every plumber, iceman, coal man and tax collec tor in the country and the high cost of living will go down auto matically!” They tossed to see who should pitch the inventor down the ele vator shaft. Squirrels Were Drunk. New York—A special to the Times from Tarry town, N. Y., says: When Hud Weeks goes fishing he always comes back with a good catch or a good story. Today he brought back both. "As 1 was going over this morning on the lake road,” he said, “I saw two gray squirrels eating out of a small pasteboard box. When 1 approached they staggered away like drunken men. I looked at the box and saw the reason why. It was labeled ‘chocolate cocktails.’ It had probably fallen from an au tomobile. 1 watched those squir rels as they tried to climb the tree and get in their hole. They were just like a drunken man trying to put a key in the key hole and had about as much suc cess. I went on fishing, and as I was coming home tonight what do you suppose I saw?” “Saw them signing the pledge,” suggested Jim Grave son, president of the Roslyn Wheel Club. “No,” said Weeks, “they were both sitting on the side of the lake holding a cake of ice on their heads. They were a sick looking pair, I tell you.” j Matrimonial “Wants” Put into Verse. James O. Baldwin, husky lad, wants to marry very bad. He is 50, six feet, strong-lived at Caldwell, Jersey, long. Couldn’t find a wife, at home, so he sings this little pome: “Wanted—Wife to clean and scrub, mend my socks and cook the grub. Must be handsome, . bright and gay—3l if she’s a day. Widow woman not deterred —one kid, maybe, none prefer- j red. She must have some cash j to spend; an intellect with learned | trend. She must be a music lov er; fond of me, and nary other. That is what my wife must be— lum-te-dum-te-deedle-de.” A Better One. At the monthly meeting of a j certain homing society, one of, the members related an interest ing experience. He had recent ly sold a couple of “squeakers” j very young pigeons—to a man whose cote was two hundred miles away. He sent them off by train, and was astounded to find them back in the old cote two days later. There was a painful silence, broken at length by the presi dent’s “Wonderful!” “You doubt my word?” de manded the narrator of the sto ry. “Not a bit of it!” was the re ply. “It’s a strange coincidence, that’s all. I sold the very same man a setting of eggs in the middle of June. Before the end of the month those birds had hatched out and had flown back to me. Homing instinct’s a wonderful thing!” The Usual Way. The Limited Express tore mad ly along through the midnight darkness. Suddendly the alert engineer sprang to the lever, and set the brakes. The sparks flew from the rails as the locked wheels slid along with a cry as of pain. The lights were extin guished as car after car toppled from the rails. Then came a shuddering silence more terrible than the harsh grating of iron on steel. Some passengers made torches from fragments of wreckage, and searched for dead and injnred. A sound singularly like a snore isssued from a pile of debris. Hastily removing several piecis of twisted iron, they dragged forth a slumbering porter. “Great heavens!” they ex claimed. “Didn’t you know there had been a wreck?” “Well, gemmun, I sho’ felt somethin’ but I done thought we was couplin’ de dinin’ cah at Jackson.” Devil Fish Fights Fisherman to a Finish. Florida newspapers tell of an exciting fishing experience in which Alfred C. Newell, the At lanta insurance man, took part last Saturday, when a giant dev il fish was hooked and fought the whole party for twenty minutes before it got away. 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