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