Miscellany: Feb. 18, 1924

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On the Montana in midocean, "while ten yaks and a big brown bear screeched in frantic chorus," Hans Fimm, one-legged animal trainer, fought several hours with six monkeys escaped from their cages. Fimm was badly bitten "from neck to heel." One monkey was killed, the rest captured.

In Mineola, N. Y., at a "freak animal show," Jack Johnson, "monkey-faced mule," kicked Rosie, cow, in the throat. Rosie was a freak because her heart was located in her throat, its pulsations plainly visible. Kicked in the heart, she died.

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