Monday, December 5, 2011

Third Clipping, three little stories

The third clipping has three little stories, The first two seem meant to be humorous, but then the third one is about a man being killed on a train.

CARING FOR THE DOGS AND BIRDS.
After having done its best for horses, the Paris Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has now turned its kind attention to dogs and birds. Under the auspices of the association there has been erected a pyramid construction, surmounted by a wooden pigeon, on the Boulevard Barbes. Immediately under the pigeon is a small perch and a drinking basin of diminutive dimensions, wherein common sparrows from the housetops and other free and feathered inhabitants of the air will be able to slake their thirst.

WAKEFUL PINKERTON OFFERS BELATED HELP.
The great detective, Robert Pinkerton, heir to the firm of insomniacs that bears his name, was caught unaware when his companion Jacob Worth had his watch stolen during an outing at Brighton Beach racetrack. The watch was of great sentimental and monetary value to Mr. Worth, a prominent politician of the Borough of Brooklyn. Though cognizant the turf is most congenial to pickpockets, Mr. Worth no doubt thought he was secure in the detective's company. The discomfited Mr. Pinkerton has vowed to apprehend the culprit, even if it necessitates another fifty years of sleeplessness.

KILLED IN A RAILROAD CARRIAGE.
This morning Charles Campbell, a soldier on his way home to Inverness from India, was found in a carriage of the mail train at Blair Athol with his skull fractured. It is supposed the unfortunate man had been looking out of the window and that his head came into contact with a standard on the bridge. Death must have been instantaneous.
The second one takes place in Brooklyn, which is part of Long Island. I have looked up Jacob Worth and he was a state senator from Brooklyn. He lived from 1838-1905. Robert Pinkerton was the name of one of the sons of the original Pinkerton. Robert died on a ship going to Germany in 1907.

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