As to how the paper was grown into the potato with no indications on the peeling remains a mystery. Big Grizzley is Hotel Guest. An unusual guest appeared recently at the Stewart Hotel, in San Francisco, when a huge grizzly bear, accompanied by Fred Thompson, his owner, and nature man Joe Knowles, waddled up to the desk and gravely went through the formalities of registering, giving his name as “Baby of the Rockies.” After a good feed on lumps of sugar, Baby, who weighs slightly over 500 pounds, took a trip up the elevator, which he jammed on his way up. Arrived at the seventh floor, Baby and escort visited a party of women. The grizzly was captured by Thompson five years ago. Four Legs Fatal to This Curious Chicken. The town of Cheshire, Conn., has developed a chicken which ought to have been born in the days of Phineas T. Barnum, so that its praises could be properly expressed by the world’s greatest showman and purveyor of natural and man-made wonders, more frequently the latter. Joseph Wheeler, a prominent poultry raiser, found among a recently hatched Rhode Island Red brood a chicken perfectly formed except that it had four legs. All went well for nearly a week. Then it was discovered that the two sets of legs were arranged for locomotion in opposite directions. The result was that the chick pulled itself apart. People from all over the countryside came to see it, and in death it has been turned over to a taxidermist. How Ships Take Oil on Run. The method of supplying vessels, especially battleships, with fuel oil at sea is remarkably simple when compared with that required for coaling. A tanker is run up to within about six hundred feet of the vessel needing oil, a tow line is attached, and a second line supports a hose through which the oil is pumped. Meanwhile the ships are steaming at an hourly speed of from ten to twelve knots. An automatic tension furnishes the necessary elastic medium for paying out and taking up the supporting cable, as required by motion of the vessel. By this method it is possible to transport from the tanker to the vessel taking on the fuel nearly seven hundred barrels an hour. Owes Life to Sleeping Dog. A dog averted perhaps a fatal injury to its owner, J. H. Adams, a farmer near Polo, Ill. He fell thirty feet from the haymow of his barn and alighted upon the dog, which was lying asleep. The dog was killed, but the man escaped. Facts for You. For the convenience of travelers, an English firm is compressing tea into blocks that resemble American plug tobacco. After experimenting for thirty-two years, a New York man claims to have perfected a synthetic gold, made from copper and aluminium. A French inventor’s parachute can be guided in falling by pulling cords to draw in its sides. Extensive deposits of iron ore have been discovered in Bavaria, the ore lying close to the surface of the ground.