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lZXmmmmmm ESSSSnnrTF !r9f!-' f'fl other side. Policemen were called. The drovers tried the Ameri can cowboy1 trick of lassooing, hut the bull broke the small ropes which were thrown. One drover put eight different"- bullets of small caliber into the animal, but only angered it. The bull drove -the crowd of 20 men to shelter JJehind chimneys. One brave 'photographer from a great .London daily narrowly es caped, with his life and his cam era after securing a, photograph which showed' tfie wildness in the bull!s eyes. The police wagons along the sidewalk, the so"und of shots on the roof, the cries of frightened men and women, barricaded in their apartments and their pleas, from open windows, for help, Drought an enormous crowd to the scene. Traffic was blocked. The crow'd waited for the de velopments, but the pursuers of the bull were cornered on the roof. . For two hours the siege was kept up. The bull with sundered ropes tangled about his horns, bleeding from small wounds, bel lowed, snorted and pawed the pebble roofing, his reddened eyes never leaving the chimney and wall behind which the men. were hidden. The bull was finally killed when a policeman came up from the street carrying a Lee-Metford express rifle. He laid the young bull low with one shot and made sure of his work with a second. Then the police cut off the bull head and hoofs. The waiting crowd heard a shout of warning from above and then saw a ton of undressed beef fall thrdugh the air to theide walk. v The police had thrown down. the carcass because 'they couldn't drag it through the narrow turns in the stairway through j which? the young bull 'had' squeezed his1 way. j a o o ,3 THE ROTATING EGG Mnisf-en thp raised rim of a' plate with water. Then place, half an egg-shell upon it and move the plate in ,a circle. The- A egg-shell will begin to move in an opposite direction and also on its own axis. With a little dex terity you will be able to in crease the speed of the rotating egg-shell. Is Talk Really Cheap? "Talk is cheap," commented, the ready-made philosopher. "That remark," replied Senator." Sorgum, "proves that you have never undertaken to pay the trav-" eling expenses and hotel bills of party of campaign orators." Washington Evening Star,