More clippings from the May–August 1889 Tyrone Daily Herald.
May 9, 1889 — I Can See for Miles and Miles
A man in Centre County has what his neighbors call “telescope eyes.” He can distinguish colors, recognize friends and see very distinctly at great distances. He told the time recently by a town clock which was two miles distant.
May 1, 1889 — One Mean Character
A gentleman named McMullin from Pennsylvania Furnace was among the visitors to town yesterday. Mr. McMullin got into a fight in front of the opera house with a young man, a resident of town, and was landed in the lockup by special officer Mail. Sometime after he was put in he tore up the bunk in his cell and using one of the planks for a lever broke the cell door in two pieces, walked out and broke the outside lock and door after which he walked off home or somewhere else where the officers could not find him.
May 16, 1889 — Counterfeits
A number of counterfeit ten dollar greenbacks have recently been put into circulation. They are executed to represent the series of 1878, but can be distinguished from the genuine by the execrable likeness of David Webster and by the fact that the paper is poor and pale, and the lettering is all in one line, whereas in the genuine the capitals and first letters of words rise above the others.
June 14, 1889 — Four Ears
An Italian boy having four ears, was found asleep on a Philadelphia doorstep a few evenings ago.
July 23, 1889 — Big Fish
The Philipsburg Journal is dazzling its readers with the following heavy fish stories: Clem Cardon, of Clearfield, caught a twenty-inch black bass a few days ago. When the fish was opened a pine squirrel was found in its stomach. A salmon weighing eight and one-fourth pounds and which measured thirty-one inches, was caught on the outline in the river at Shawsville the other day.
July 27, 1889 — Black Snake Tale
Sinking Valley never gets left on snake stories. Recently Reuben Fox, James T. Bailey, and others, in the valley, have seen near the church at Scalp Level, an immense black snake which they estimate, on a good observation, to be at least thirty feet long and as thick as a nine-inch stove pipe. The monster representative of snakedom has been seen several times but no one has yet ventured to kill it, as it looks entirely too powerful to fool with. This is a huge snake story, but Jordan Crawford and James Templeton, who live in town today, vouch for the truth of what is herein related.
July 28, 1889 — Mosquito Bite Cure
Onion juice instantly cures the pain of a mosquito bite.
August 18, 1889 — I Had a Cat Like That Once
Solomon Slaughter, an Everett colored man, last week became a father of a child that had twelve toes and twelve fingers. A physician ruined the child’s value as a museum attraction by amputating the surplus appendages.
August 17, 1889 — Poor Kitty
E. J. Rowe, of Geary, Westmoreland County, brought a quantity of fly-paper a few days ago and spread it all around. During his absence a pet cat got stuck on it, and rolling over and over in its fright, became tightly bandaged in it, all but its claws. In this state it made a frantic dash for the woods. A lot of men in a harvest field took flight in terror. The neighborhood was aroused, and soon men, women, and children with guns, clubs, etc., were chasing the strange-looking animal. It was finally run down in a brush heap, where it expired of fright.
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