SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS EVERY.DAY LIVE. OF Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven- tares Which Show that Truth Stranger than Fiction. Is Covtoxgr I. N. Bargspare, of the pas. genger department of the Pennsylvania Railroad, has a dog that can tell the time of the day. Colonel Barksdale hasa very fine clock that strikes only on the hour and then very slowly, The Colonel got into the way of making the dog tap with his foot at each the clock. Finally he got so he would do so without being told. Just before the clock strikes it gives a little cluek, and whenever the dog heard this he would prick up his ears, raise his paw and gently tap his paw at each stroke without being told. awhile he got that when clucked like the clock he would position and wait for the strokes, was for a long time confused at not hear- ing the clock, but after a while began tapping his paw any way. The remark- stroke of s0 ret 1 Thus taps should make next time. any time after 10 he times; after 4 o'clock five Some learned scientists are going to in rv the dog actually possesses re acul- ties. Colonel 1} not part with the dog under any conditions. Freer city of New famous criminal judges in the « has written Seribrer, entit maka x FO form of ' 1 O ClOCK times, ete vestigate the matter to see wheth y igser # A=OHInS i rksdale will rder of the the most ountry article for 1 the Law, ¢ pertinent sage . . 3 ed “CU in which he gestions tor the r cedure in New York, In origin of erime, Recorder “Chief Inspector Byres, to and intelligence the city owes much of its safety { dations of prof North attributes much of ssional article in the the « to the influences surround lodging-houses, wher SErious nature are steps in crime, perience, largely due to the ing of the i + Fea d Fes vw inhealthful quarters, population compelled to seek tl of recreation af gather upon the n and, influenced by ol dened compan themselves int which someti spiracies for commit the Lo y strange gentleman ie capital #OoCil some Ose totl ftates that what mo tention was some toms, going round to all permitting them to drs ridiculous style that they fane times the happy man is array ly painted Kimono are tied up with a tovs and trumpets on and a red hat, the cot pleted by an cimpty which rattles noisi generally by a crowd of said to authorities to put a Une con visily a accompanied children. T been designed by the stop to divorce and fiter marnage, bY gach a hardship undertaken Fhe however, observes ject of the regzulati + 1 § 4 % custom is have irregular conduct mari maxing lost sight o record agains: the al periments is the story which Dr. von Kraf ength in a smal girl, a Hungarian terical constit dinarily susceptible to} tion. Whe fell into La fra te. whose ill-judged zeal and « Young ation, un iriosity ried them to lengths incredible, and her life was cruel and = was hypnotized several wes a day for some months, apparently any who chose to practice upon her, and was i h Seem alm =i ruined | iments, by ‘neeless She by One 4 . as : » 5 Ts made the victim of very painful and dis. tressing For pair of S2isOrs was on one « suprrestions instance, a casion told burn burn laid that her. were vn her bare arm, and she was they were red hot and Allthe effects of an would PPR flamed and blistered spot, taking the shape of the scissors, appeared on her arm, and took mouths to heal. The un- happy girl at last became insane. Accorpisa to the Now Lombroso of Turin has been for some on bits of stray paper and potsherds and broken dishes, ete, he could find. He has classified and studied them. and re. wrrors of debasement and degradation which this glimpse into the dark corners of the evimiual mind reveals. Hardly heavy log by a chain, into some brush more than twenty-five feet from the spot where trapped, and was quite dead. So | i not broken, The eagle wus too large to carry, so the trapper cut both legs off as trophies. He measured the huge bird of its outstretched wings, in the role of the “Babes in the Wood'a in the leaves. They suddenly took it in their heads, while playing on the street, to make a pilgrimage, and set out with no further preliminaries than the Prince in the fairy tales. They came at last to the road at Perkasie, sovernl miles away, but still were unweary, and kept on their journey over the hills, Wondering farmers gaped at then as they passod, themselves complacently for beneath the overhanging Meanwhile the frightened father had spread the alarm and was fast He traced his to where ho awoke them, and slumber babes woods, frozen. Is the famous West Philadelphia Bar- Botanical Gardens there Flori trunk of which is fully six $ . tram Hourish Cnormous swamp cedar } feet in diam- This tree was planted under vers i cirenmstances, well worthy of tne weouliar rration, was riding through the St ben n day, many Yea Bartram 1 and the nto, narshces alors was a very Rosin accelerate his journey neighboring DUNLTy I Such rood service i ICH 2 i han one Maine Fa on the partition of a wood. shed vn paper tacked over it : ¢ BO One identity. aring out i £45 NG A ROOETES was put on the Li Hanford, Cal.. the 3 ; head wag cut off. | day fhe other wut when reached for him the ambitious walked off, The head severed, save a small portion of the of the skull. but the bird cot and feel and even ery out bir Hs ¢ np le fe iy base still hear He lis sixteen hours in that condition A voa who lives in Northamptonshi England, is a sworn enemy of al except one, and has made a good record for ridding his master’s premises of them. His favorite, however, is permitted to around the kennel; and when the ie - cided demonstration the dog's part warned him to stop A cin in Doster, Me., possesses n y which mystifies her friends When blindfolded and provided with a on she will aso describe the objects in any picture or print after merely running her of regret or shame. Usually the erimin- ual assumes that his judges and the police und lawyers are worse than himself, his only error conmsting in letting himself be found out. Asa rule he has but one hope that of rele se, in order to avenge himself on society by further rails. Most of his effusions, we need not say, are unfit for publication. Next to the Judges and the police, the chap'a’ns ap. pear to be the objects of his bitterest Beorn, Du. Jesericn bas made a special study of the photography of the hair of : rest of &# man accased of murder he promptly satisfied the police that the prisoner was not their man by the com. parison of two hair photogen plas. An Indian Giant. a hills of Washington not far from A mong the Louisville, nestles an old. neighborhood. Several days after he went out ty look at his trap, but instend Inrgest, perhaps, ever seen in the Rocky fn the powerful jaws of the tran by one leg, just above the claws, He arse i Jisnure of perfect health, standing, in iis stocking feet, seven foot two inches, ond weighing in fighting trim 257 in fle was bors in Dok Town. ship, Washington County September 24, single, While a boy he was abnormally tall, shooting up to his height the last vours of his teens. In complexion he is rather fair, with gray-blue eves. Strangely enough, no other member of the family is extremoly tall, the father measuring five feet ton inches, | Louisville Courier Journal, CENTRAL PARK’S ANIMALS. Winter. A New York World reporter askaod the l Superintendont Conklin, of department in Central Park, what dispo. sition wus in wile thi wild i winter, “In the first Mr. Conklin re plied, as winter comes on, our food bills will run up a trifle. It tukes food to keep the animals you know, just the same as in the case of Hun, Vell, with additional food, a little the more susceptible animals from the storms, there come out all right in the spring “What is the estimate fi vou recall it?’ “About £15,000 “Is not that a great deal? ‘No: we should have more.” ‘But that is nearly $300 a week,” ‘Yes; but we have ne arly 1 anir Well, they on the all the 1, they anima of animals in place,” more solid wari, more ¢wre and warm houses to shield is no reason why wo should not for fe yoar.” ' ir little What does ¢ “We feed can bi i Wiki Iu suse, VW Goes not 3 FOO Ww Vv: two hyenas it 6 @ OF ix pounds : ir principal meat eaters, A New North Pole Scheme. A scheme for reaching the North ole totally Mr Nansen has originated M Ekroll, a Norwegian, who intends to put the test in the different to that proposed by een by it to summer of 1803, Having estahlisl supplies Mohn, on const of he start portheast to Peterman Land, the northerly known part Franz Josef Land. Five men only will ac. company him, and they will have six small slodges drawn by dogs. In the very probable case of their coming to open water the six sledges can be joined together with little trouble or time and converied into one Inige boat for sailing or rowing. From Petermann Land Mr. Ekroll will shape a straight course for the pole, but if the southern ice drift is to great for him to overcome he will rotreat to his supplies on Spitzbergen. If, however, ed nt depot of the will at Cape Const Spitzbergen, HOT Oss the § FOG moat of explorers. at Lady Franklin Bay or Sooreshy Sound. How he will foed his dogs ond how he can use thom if he meets broken, hummocky ice i= not ex- plained. But, nevertheless, his inven. tion of converting the sledges into a boat valuable addition to appliances for aretio work, ROT A WINTER GIL. The lover's heart is full of woe, He hearkoned to her vow; Bhe loved him six short months ago, That's why she doosn’t now, wif ~{Judge. HERB-GATHERING. THE GREAT SOURCE OF ETABLE MEDICINES, YEG- or emmm—— How a Dig Business Has Been Built Up-—-The Thelr Methods, The curious reader who may have passed the stores of the botanic medicine dealers in John street, New York, has wondered, no doubt, where the curatives Collectors and Had he asked the dealer he would probably have been told that two. thirle of them were gathered in the Blue ts of North and South Cur. The of Ridge distrie oling snd Tenuersee. business firm, Messrs, Wallace Statesville, N. C., who haveseve dred thousand dollars of « apital invested, aad ciuploy 300 agents and 60,000 iectors throughout the mountains. Statesville, the Brothers, of cols writes a correspondent of New York Evening Post, is tho ern North Caroling fn i some fifteen hundred midst of cotton. tobacco «and grain pretty town of inhabitants, set in I was introduced to its leading herb-gathering —in what picturesque fush main street was filled industry no sol I'he vehield % ind Wagons, wide 1) SL. ith r ches VATrious v, arn wagons of the mou of those center and bo sstracts from the January pine peingr ir and ndrake ro root, bark HINES pound pounds of black ovhosh yt tach pounds of it of cherry wissnlras bark bark, 8.0%) pounds o $45 {4 > is iL ARE} pounags Sie} oun $ Comiliiness is its soarcity and the it 1 lus de from China thie herb of their chief curative ent, a demand 8 imost Chinese it for wholly nang It is wpeeific in herbs in their opinion for all disenses, They also wear it as a charm on their bodies to ward off evil spirits, and worship it in their Jone It was discovered growing ina n few : before that it was worth six dollars a poun i This demand |} . hous = wild in Uf Yeurs ago: & caused it to be so per- for that it was nearly ex- terminated, the collectors gathering it before the seeds were fully matured, in defiance of n State law which forbids the collection of ginseng before September tis a sunll plant growing about two feet high, witha peculariy shaped root, double pronged, as vou see, which, per haps, leads the Chinese to attribute sov- freign virtues to it. It is all exported to Chika throogh Chinese agefite in New York. In this oouptry it holds an insig nificant position in therapeutics, It has one virtue as a light tonie, but is not valood, It is indigenous to Amerien, growing in cannot be successiully cultivated.” A more romantic the collectors, and of these, Messrs, Wallace estimate, are employed in collecting this vast body of simples, These people comprise men, women and children, white and black, plainsmen and mountaineers, outfit required is a mattock and a large sack holding about two bushels, which ‘ sist ntiy sougut and under the other arm like a sower's sood bag. A certain knowledge of herbs, how properly to secure them, at what seasous, and how to prepare them for much time and money during the past twenty years in imparting this informa tion. Several hundred of these people, principally colored. reside in and around Statesville, and ply their vocation in the neighboring fields and forests. Most of the great sry, however, live in the mountains in small ‘yg cabins of one # room, and pursue their novel calling in the shadow of the deep lifts, under the mighty forests, on the open summits of | the lofty peaks. or in the deep gorges of | the great Appalachian chain, In these | almost inaccessible molitudes, the pin. | song, spske-root, blood-root, mandrake, and scores of other varieties are found In abundance, {| There the mountaineer collects, carries to his cabin, nnd dries When he lins a eargo sufficient to load his “schooner,” he hitches up his ancient mules, and trans. ports it over the mountain rounds to the | nearest town or settlement, lobelin, unicorn root, tile where he ex- tea, coffe The three hundred of these ittered throughout tains, and onee a ve changes it , kugar, snuff, and tobacco, Morers, Wo EOImo fe nis = moun AT isually in June no member of the firm in a two.horse buggy makes the tour of all, often driv. ing i i over the mountain rattling thousand niles roads, the merchants, establish Ir HOW 001 tie rough ceounts with on and taking a ~eneral purses fied of operations, New York Post LIGHTNING CHANGE MEN. Wonderful Expertness in Handling i Coin at the Cashier's Desk, Now nnag sien Yo i. WT than call a ck belo nd charge : And there'd twenty copie blocked up kb it t 4 ; NESE Bu poo me in two ni Range : | ba bination, from a two cont VY Of instantaneoy io 8% o arisen BOY « ‘ ¥ thin ¥y 4 § revive nay 3 ! HhGsllyY Tom Contented Blind Men, see Alpbonse Daudet is very ial Dland, ® And he bo fils wile what wii yet, went to note iH . dilierent i meet affliction cmemboera avant whose one object in life i od ing, and when sight was he committed sui world to him was as the Milton felt as in his pati Lid ie lint gone, darkness of his blindness sounet be lets know, but he did stost work while under the Heine, in his six vears of suf. ering and anguish, speat in what he ¥ tering his ‘graveof mat. tresses,” wrote some of his most touching The blind chaplain of Congress Dr. Miiburn—ifone of the happiest of mortals; so was the late Mr. Fawcett, Postmaster-General of England, and 1 know a doctor near Chicago who, though blind, is one of the cleverest of his pro. fession. He not ouly attends to his large circle of patients, but is a writer on med. ical subjects as well, and operates the typewriter with the skill of a profession. al. In company he plays the most fry- ing games of cards and is the brightest man at the table. After all, it seems to be a case of a man having the mind to rise superior to the troubles of life, and reonguizing that even under aiction there are things worth livin gz St Louis Globe-Demoerat, the tomb, keonly, the world 2 mne of his gre suffering calamity 3 himself eyvnien WOO Ine Poi ¥ EL . — A Hermit in a Hole, dayx ago, when hunters came across him an investigation led to their finding a room underground, in which Pardum wae living. A rude oot, a stove, and a the man, whose lon, locks gave him a wild appearance, de. rlined to come out, The rise in the river is likely to flood the hermits place of abode, but ne amount of persuasion will make him desert his strange home, {Conrier-Journal. rR Rh It in a fad to collect boxes of wedding cake Sih deseriptive notes written on PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. EPITOMY. OF NEWS GLEANED FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE, A BTATEMEXT of the receipts aud expendi- tures of the Stat for the year ending November, 1801, wns prepared st the Government Auditor-general’s Depurtinent. ft eliows re. ceipts for the year of $15. 007 101.74 a» against $5.04 910.10 in 1790 The payments for the 3,954.64, us nzainst $8,103 561 The La Treadury, % ‘ » > sovember 53, £54.55, being Yesr were 210.4 15 in 1800, ance in $2,000,000 wore than the balanee st the Ciose of the fiscal year 4 PR in United inmost $82 the column irom the Of receipis ©¢ * he sintes Government ou th Direct Tax re ther Dig items wer BOLAT properly, und 5 BIER inheritances, Wiunel Was pussing gene Lamb, a schoo oie wood land court Towmhin, Berks ( ounty, » His boo pier cea { ¢ i Bred at him from s riddled with shot A TiN bud A TIS inte ¢ $ Y Mis Organ. Castle wit} of $12,000, Jdonux Hive, a wealthy farmer, of younz Eiysbury, wus fous i un lonely p Woods near that v vo with bos skull erushed in. His horse and yi near is general th dete carriage sto belied fF WAS murcered CIWIRG tothe the Cyrus HK. Teed was found n and gueon id srpiain how Le deaths trom the grip were ¢ ton, There were tunay foner Wyoming Valley eanused by the m CHARLES WALL, vader death se: Tonkbaonock for the murder of hi of & ead wing hanged, wants to be gat tA iE annual o of the inmaier of the ¥ runs Loundy Joie Margaret tise reveaed (he Mrs Rebecen Fi wing caver of longevity, ny, 4 years Re 86 years ydia Fry, Mary Berger Beppert Wahl & Hi years: 1 BO vears: Fears Els years: ie Ring 8 years; Catherine Stief! it Schwartz, 85 years: John FF A s¥ the bursins Ashiand, nine st" he Wittiam I. Bs ichigh Valley cosl fie were ER,» brakemus 1 the train, near Sig car, when by a ion wae silting on a coal aadden He and called to ud passed, sn oil jar he was thrown off upon the ground was rendered semi-conseions by the fall 8 young man whe sew the soe dent eeder not (0 move until the train Hecder, however, raised his head pught his clothes and be was the train snd Killed Tue Biste Treasurer's monthly shows £5 350 671.17 to the genersl § 160.25 in the Sinking Fund. box dreawe under report fund and The large amount in the General Fund is necessary to meet the £5,000, 000 school appropriation, which is paid in June. After next June it is not ex. pected that much money will be carried in the General Fund, except just before the school appropriation is due each year THE Armor plate mill of Carnegie Phipps & Co., at Homestead, wos shut down owing to difficnlty with the workmen, Tux bankrupt firm of B. 8 Kendig & Co., nt Lancaster, have assigned to Amos BB. Hose etter. ® IHPUTHERIA in its roost malignant form is epidemic st Locust Gap, a mining town of 1200 people, two miles we t of Mount Carmel, families have been “ ou De, In several enees who'e silected by the dieess:. Tue property ef the Hunterdon Construe. tion and Quarrying Company which js doing some work at Clifton Heights, was sttached for wages due their workmen. Saperinten. dent Kent attempted to remove a horse, but was roughly treated. Fearing that an attempt would be made to remove thestenm rolier two Irishmen heavily srmed are guarding it Inder producers met st Williamsport, and decided to recommend an immediate od cance af 50 cents a thousand feet in the price of hiwmlock lumber over the average price of 1801, Tt was decided 10 recommend & rostrie. ton of production this year of fully 25 per i Duorery CAXesUCRER, a New York cident was taken to a if Dudely was delirious. “Well, yes,* doctor, *I think hy" . little cut of his heud. He fe ig
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