Animals: Kaiser Bill

Kaiser Bill, police dog of Mount Sterling, Ky., thrice convicted of sheep killing, thrice sentenced to death, was last week freed by the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Bear

A 14-year-old boy named Boileau, in the forest hamlet of Algoma, Ont., heard his mother scream. A bear was trying to get into the house. Seizing his father’s rifle, Boy Boileau ran out. The bear made for a telephone pole, climbed to the top, tried to escape along the wires. It had travelled 20 feet without falling before Boy Boileau pressed trigger. Still the bear did not fall but lay stretched across the wires, dead.

Gift Dogs

Fiances with more wealth than imagination were glad to hear last week what Crown Prince Umberto of Italy was giving his Belgian princess, Marie Jose, for a betrothal present: a pair of Maltese dogs. Fiances who set out to follow the royal fashion will learn the following facts about Maltese dogs: They are more poodlesome than Pekingese. They cost from $1.500 to $5.000 each. Fashionable weight: 1 Ib. Foremost U. S. breeder: Mrs J. Gardner Rossman of Plainfield, N. J.

Gurgling Worms

Naturalist Charles Barrett, on an expedition in southeastern Australia, sighted several earthworms six feet long. Their eggs were greenish, translucent, had tough and horny shells. When these earthworms heard Naturalist Barrett coming, they retreated quickly into their burrows making loud, gurgling noises.

Subway Snake

A five-foot rattlesnake appeared upon a crowded Manhattan subway platform, was beaten lifeless by a policeman, thrown into an ashcan.