SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EYERY.DAY LIFE. Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven- tures Which Show that Truth Is Stranger than Fiction. Mz. tion on Tinana Creck, Wide Bay, Aus. tralia, has discovered a sort of troe- climbing pig. For a great number of years the wild pigs have been numerous in his locality, and Lis theory is that the original or common pig must have amal- gamated to a certain extent with some aboriginal animal, or that the necessities of climate, ete., have caused the varioty. The captured animal weighs about one hundredweight, and is pretty fat, with bristly brown fur, small black spots, snout and ears like a pig, but the jaw is furnished with front teeth like a rodent: it has large canines and powerful back grinders. The fore feet are furnished with hook-like claws; the hind ones have two hook claws on each hoof, The tail ish coil. The animal is also furnished with a pouch. which it only appears to use for carrving a supply of in while it is traveling fo fresh pastures. In drought the animal climbs trees and hangs by its tail while it gathers its food by the hook claws. Mr. Le Mortemore intends capturing some live specimens and breeding from them. The Wide Bas News suggests that this variety is due to the breeding of the common pig with the Queensland tree-climbing kan- garoo. fi W wl Ir scems that there ix really a whist- ling language. A French traveller, M. Lajard, has written a work on the sub- ject which has just been occupying the attention of the Paris Academy of Sei- ences. It is in the Canary Isluuds that the people whistle instead of speaking when they hold with each other. Noris the whistling language on mere language of conventional sounds. It is composed of words, as it were, like any other language, and the inhabitants of the Canary Islands attain great pro ficiency in it, so that th 'W CAN converse on all sorts of subjects. The whistling noise is produced placing two fingers i ) ingide the mouth. M. Lajard declures fn Mnity converse ov that the language has eat aff] with Spanis , being in fuct, a sort of whistli He has jotted = of it down in a sort of ow - ng Spanish. He musical notation and it is fouad that any sentence | } 18 ¢X- actly ope syllable more than the ec juivn- lent sentence in Spanish, the extra sound being accounted fe by the fact that the first syllable serves as a mere explana- tion i or designed to attract the attention of M. Lajard learned he the person addressed enough of the lm MEG converse fo a certain extent with t Hoses ax Wa Wi house No. 7, in Frankford, Philadelphia, is the happy possessor of a Remington rifle. and ent Satur day afternoon, while killing sparrows for fi Cong AN a suburb of the re ' . alescing grip patient, made a pe- Noticing a graph , hie He beneath the ut culiar and ondertul shot sparroy aimed | was star bird whe fo say, showin . ¥ire at the bind, oti strange any fear of bodily 4 Wilson, who IS ©rone : ri. shot, After the hit [isso fused another laps v» hours the to | A linem wns observed in the same spot X ssi that wa induced to el i bees dis COV er ! to thes rifle ha torn outa strand a which passing direct! had transfixed it to th A CURIOUS f lost fre from Australia \ diver engaged in the pear! hery in the vicinity of Torres Rtraits come in the course of his work the wreck of a It i Yess} ded in the sand. story of ISUre Comes § BCToOss | imbed and a hope of finding something to pay him for his trouble him to m examination of the ship Fhe search was very fruith results, he proved to be an old Spanish East India MIAN, fin Curiosity pind cad o make a enrefu YORS0 | part of its cargo was silver specie in dollars of a period abont sed euty vears ago. Fo far the discovery is a profound secret, known only to a very few, who are now engaged in xploiting the wreek to considerable advantage A recent steamer from Australia brought to London a large quuntity of the specie, amounting in value to many pounds, and there is more to follow, thousand It coated. A reenter dog saved the lives recentls the natural gas fire, not noticing that oie of the pipes had sprung-a leak. Sud. denly the visitor fell to the floor, and Mrs. Hamphrey, who started to ‘her as- sistance, met the same fate. They lav there in a stupor, and would have died had not the family pet, a Scotch terrier, rescued them in a queer manner. Angry at being kept from his mistress so long, the terrier began jumping at the door and finally forced it open. The dog ran into the room ane shook his shagey and snowy coat over the “women. This, coupled with the fresh air, reviv d them so that they were enabled 16 reach the door and call for he Ip. The dog is u hero now. His mistress insists he kuew what ke was about all the time when he insist. ed on coming in the rovm, ns he had never before disobeyed orders to “stay out.’ Lavvresaxr Mexcrn of the Sisty-first Georgia Regiment, was no very remark. able man, Ho was a slender, cadaver. ous-looking man, with apparently no physical strength, yet he lived through what would bave killed a dozen ordinary men, and is alive to-day. In the early part of the war he was shot through and Sheough The ball struck the brost bone d shattered .it, passed through his dy and came out within an isch of his ne, between two ribs. After a dosper. ate struggle for life he recovered and regained his rogiment. At the battle of | Monaceasio Creek ho was again wounded, | 1 the ball entering between the correspond. | | ing ribs on the other side of his spine, | and issuing from the same hole that the first entered nt. Tho second shot must | have taken the passage inside Muuncie's body that the first ball made in going in | | the opposite direction. He was in prison | later and appeared to suffer no unusua pain, Tuene is a silver mine near Sarbad, in Afghan Territory, which has a curious history. Thres mon were sent from that country to Cabul, the residence of the Ameer, to be executed for an offence against the State. They told the Ameer that if he would lot them off they would tell him where he could find abandunt supplies of silver. The Ameer deferred the execution and sent them under guard to Iskansham, where they went to work digging. They, and the men who went to work with them, dug for twenty days finding nothing. The Ameer's officer told them at length that they could dig for seven days more and if they did not find silver within that time the sentence of death would be curried out The next day they came to a very rich vein | of silver, and now about a hundred men are emploved in the mine, which visited last summer by an English trav. eler. wns Coxstperance excitement has been oc casioned near Bedford, Ind., by the finding of 81,000 in greenbacks at the roots of a tree on which Stephen Clark { was hanged by a mob several vears ago. It was supposed that Clark had hidden large sums of money, and the boys i the neig ¢ from time to time gone searching for it. One night Clark's widow was awakened by the light of a in her vard, and discovered some bovs at work with a | pick. They dug about two {eet into the ground, and found an old After unrolling it, they discovered a revolver, some counterfeiting and $1,000 in greenbacks. Clark s hanged on the samo tree, and after his death the re- mains of five men and fl hborhood hay lantern under a free cont. molds wo One woman were murdered found in a cave near his are him. A wrrr-kxowy firm of eaterers in Phila. delphia, who hare gained an international reputation for preparing terrapin, ship regularly every week to a gentieman in London two quarts of 1« rrapin, Ww ved at the Sunday dinner rapin is i *y 'y home it believed to have been i ich is sor The ter. already prepared is put uj he firm preparing it claim i» flavor It comes 3 and is in tin cans, that jrualitios by it loses none of its delion this j n donner, I= made, Ame rica, doubtless cult soto forthis cnn de CROCS Proves known Har tho | his sountry Wirtisx Jaw | instructor, Vary france condition nnd I know a ws facts wh frances general, says: her tran transcend Visian who in ich altogether possib f erg 1s wut the [i 3140. Tess Tikis i arge estate she Ne is attending to th v herself fies nies over the prasre i ois, followe } In ' s 3 & Warmiv and mounted on a pony . whe Per RE ally Stu perint nds the rounding up of driving head winter, wrapped her cattle, facing the hours, until y lust horned of shelter. Ix the Swanson, of Omaha rac SOW for sin a plac i Jolin almost mi He quarry w hen n keg of and hurled him a con. from the spot. In a ition he landed just above dynamite, space of t minutos chad two irom v6 tions CRECADOCS : : standing near n pow rex jriende d was siderable distance ROTTING i a charge of which | had lighted Before he could be rescued the dynamite « sploded, and Swanson was blown a time into this escaped with | the fuse of aiready been second the air Nothwithstanding double accident the man | only a broken leg and arm. A worax who died at the alimnshouse at | Me.. recently, aged nearly wndred years, had passed through | ROE GUEST experionces, She came to | this country in 1846, and for thirty veurs | | shie was an inmate of the almshouse, In| that time she had been laid out as dead three tines, but on cach occasion she | { caine to life in time to put a stop to the | funeral arrangements. Ouly a fow days before her death an undertaker was | { called to prepare her reinains for burial, | but when he arrived she was sitting up | in bed. i One I Epwann Braxcier of Lewiston, Me. , is forty-four years old, and his wife is two | years younger. They have been mar. ried twenty-throo years, and in that time | they have had eighteen children, ton of whom are alive now. In Canada, where Mr. Blanchetlived formerly, the authori- ties give a soction of land to the father of twelve living children, but in losing cight children by death he lost the prize. Erastus Crank, a hunter of some re nown, brought into Plove, Utah, recently two huge mountain lions, which he had killed in Hobble Creek canon. One of the lions, a male, measured nine feet from thetip of its nose to the tip of its tail, and weighed, when killed, nearly four hundred pounds. The other, a fe. jual, measured soven foot from tip to tip. The Firefly's Light and Heat. From some rocent experiments of Professor Langley it appears that, after all has been said and done, the firefly's certain amountof heat glow and warmth seeming to be iasoparnb’e. Langley finds that the firely's light is substanti ully from the green side of the spectrum. As far as human contact with the insect is concerned, there is no appreciable hen’ wonderful and delicate little instrument, which he calls a “boloscope,” and with which he measured the heat emitted by the “bug.” shows that it about one half of one.por cent. of that given out with an equal amount of light from the candle and other combustible illuminants, That the light produced by the firefly is comimnon + and incereased by tho opposite; that nitrogen quonches it and oxygen stimu lates it, while the product of the opera- tion, whatever it may finally prove to be, appears to be a fine carbon dioxide. Louis Republic, Shooting an Elk. The first elk 1 I] was obtained in this manner, suvs Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt, | was travelling with a pack train the mountains, riding at the head It was a dark, lowering, rainy morning, and were going up a small densely wooded hills Suddenly, came into a littl ginde, we heard, half a mile to our right the challenge of a hall elk, swered by a more distant note of defiance, idently rival further up the I and my companion, a tall shot in the season of in we valley with wie ep. on either hand. ns wo ont 8p '" dily nn i from tod } ov i motntam, silent old sip pe d off our horses and through the woods toward + forest mountain hunier., instantly n to steal nd It and tho ered with wa Deyn the sou was a great tamarack ground at our feet was cov gered that it k without making a noise possible we Ors pt on from tree to frie YErET or two stopping to The elk was by the distant moun i INORE sO Was easy {o As silently the gloom of the mighty e “1h ‘orest, every minute for the che evidently very much pr sone of his rival ou the tain side, and he kept repeating at short intervals. When we into the woods and heard i sounded lenge excited first ¥ i most musical, nearer the sound had a harsh ring i we # iI Fo gdetraciod from iis i thrill nes less sent Nearer minute n Poar of the booming d then balor tO nttie of hear the r bull 2! 3 wes! the savagely tro 8 and saplings iii nearer and from a particularly dense ol young © to make it four came the The old hunter Grgreens wr Le sot 1 i roe: pile i lu tH i aint] the taps of the great oa moment | saw lers tree preiecinge i trunk on I was in mv buckskin haut it of either sis i hay is & Wald Some Curions Truths, There are a number of world that be one of the founded in | called “The Beefsteaks, " and bers the Prinee of al § ing-room of the Covent Garden Theatre and dined upon The club was in existence for than hun dred yours, an I became quite noted he. of Another strange name was that Seriblerus Clab, ft fo to which Pope, Gay, men belonged Sedan chairs were first used in Eng! by the Duke of Buckingham during reign of James I. The first chair aro SWI I0R AF sirange names, but ahiy most curious was i by an Enzlish acto " Nublime So had Wale hey met in the paint was other rw OrRONBTCS, beofsteaks hore i odd customs, of the inded in 1714, and and other literary Can is which Nw and the 184 i who said that meu were being used to do the work of beasts, but later on they bocame very fashionable, The fashion of | saying bless These J oepld belioved that some danger attend ed sneezing, so they “Jupiter, help me!” It bas been make Ronan rabbis also An old the same, and Jewish mention of the fact. seemingly in good health soeezed and upon which the ancient Greeks and Romacs played. performod ison it, and an old piece of the bagpipes dressed #1 the fashion that is known to-day nas the Highland cos tume. {Harper's Young People. A rew old toll bridges in Maine bear signs that perpetuate the memory of a curious law. These signs proclaim that all persons, save ‘‘paupers, Indians, and Elegy wish," must pay toll in crossing the bridge. The indulgence shown to 0 and clergymen is easily under. at from the ioe olsewhero, but why tho Indians were exempted is not so clear, unless. indeed, it was a recog. OF THE PRESS. Unaceountable Delay She Fell Ree Heved A Sliding Seale Then and Now--No Flies, Ete., Ete. USACCOUNTARLE DEL AY. In the days when the stage was still the prevailing of tenvel in the West, a traveler one day grow incensed at the slow progress made by the vehicle in which he wus a passenger. Remon strating with the stage-driver, he said: “What's the matter with the team this trip? We're going as slow as a New England pruyer-meeting. I was modo over AX APT RETORT. Optimus You can rely upon Frank. leigh, He always keaps his word, Cynicus—Ah, because pobody will take it. Hi# FUELETON Featherstone in ghosts? Trasers—Well, for years 1 have been living in n haunted house, Foutherstone — You don't tell me? Who is it hanuted by? Travers und Furnisher ao You Lelia #" iv my tailor. ‘luthier NO Tiuws Mr. Bils His What kis Mrs. Bilvuns Mr. B.—1s she what they call enltured she is very handsome “We do soem to bo gittin® a lectle less hump on oursel’s than we did then, fur a fue’, pard.,’” said the driver; “but the why of it beats me. These identicel broncos we had then, per's Ma-eazine, Har si He Will swer, quick! She ns he makes a to tuke out of his vest po kot don't, don’t, Fred. 1 will but don't, don't He Don’t what? | we ing for the engagement ris she {hy FELT RELIEVE] you marry mo? Your an. motion something rejieved nfraid it w» Nouns, i% 0 dynein’ Tommy emplover, one vish vou to regulate in the ther siny aroipe seventy de el the mometor iv morning, heat so that the mercury wh ail rons “1 supy seventy degrees will do for this kind weather, but i i need the phia i it said ‘1% when MOTCury 8 tie to him 6 tune hile he sat on her o get the moon Now more than half a century York Press vonder came § He was a {HOT West a worth three Ononng How i arrieq Am mn fun v i Happened wishing to pay “fit . ‘You must have an exccoliont memory. for that has Vears complim * i must ¢ DUen many, many § oF ago ™ Manager—The should sible way all the waste Chief Clerk work J want LAR CHANSELS, latest general order COONOMIZe in every pos Hereafter you must pick up SATS woe If I must do this extra a raiso of salary, Manager All right; put fyour appli cation in with the waste paper. [Tele graph Age ARVED VOR THE FRAY. Mrs. B. Why, no, she hasn't time for vation Nhe is in society York Press TOOK HER USAVYWARER Harry Miss Nottings would you say if 1 should ask your hand in marringe” Carrie How f vol Mr Nypooks: enn 1 tell what | should do until asked such a question Harry But may | ask you? ( arrie It ix not in mn; pos tro! vour askinzs. Mr. 5; Harry Carrie, will you Carrie Hy, Harey, thi den Joston | ranscript WW ity Carrie, nhisard no how MMI hes Le ROMETHIS ,. Sinaia Englisi thing 1 Catt Maths Ma JiriEs oR Le nen ~ What CRer Ido vous Ted a Yes “How much Mamma expls that « Area , Svs is written down in : 3 things too? Mamma Yes I. ¥ aoear pensi te iy Then 1 think TU and, w as gis “11 Rome carpets to beat, He did the job so well that she commended him for it “You must have beaten earpots fre. quently to be such an expert,” she said “Never beat a carpet before in my life, lady; U've allus toached school,” he answered promptly. glletroit Free Press COXSISTEST IN HER TASTRA, Fanglo It seems to mo very strange that Mrs. MeJunkin should lavish so much affection on dog. Comso-— Not at all. hor husband. { Epoch. You ought to see FATHER TO TUE MAN, Georgio Gazzam (aged five)—Let me tell you the latest smart thing my father said. Benny Bloombumpoer (aged four and a half Thauks, uo; I'm tired. | have a smart father myself. Brooklyn Life. RAPID GROWTH. “This town socems to bo making great rogreas,” said a visitor to a resident of winville, Oklahoma. * You are jist right, stranger. Why, we're had to enlarge the jail twice." {Epoch. APPEARANCER AGAINET HIM. Office Boy There is a man outside whe says ho has a play ho wants you tv read. Manager How is ho dressed ? Office Boy-—Oh, he is “out of sight” «silk hat, patont leathers and boxooat. Manager Tell him I'm not in; he must bo an amateur.—{Clothier and Far. . ha London Truth. PARTIAL APPROVAL Ethel (showing hereng Pou't YOu mdinire his tast Mind -Ye-os, ax far concerned, igement ring ns jen A Solid Foz. The deleterious influence of be estimated from some results obtained The director speaks of the leaves as being covered with a substance like brown paint-—-“tarry hydrocarbon which ean only be straped off with a knife. On shows over fifty-one per foriycone per cont of metallic ter, and the leaves Young Man, Armed Against Starvation, The London Pall Mall Gazette says that while Lord Randolph Churchill was traveling through Mashonaland, in South Africa, recently, he took the precaution of providing himself and his party with somobody’s “Essence of Lite.” This sabstabce “warranted to sustain an adult for one month,” was taken in order to lesson tho chances of starvation throw being lost in the bush. It resembles a small cake of soap, and one is sup to lick it —as a mule licks rock salt —three times a day. Lord Randolph himee'f, with characteristic sagneity, carries three onkes. This “essence” is the secret paration of a professional faster; ang al t it does not appear to be fill ings said to answer its purpose adn . Ed a gat Ld Ad NOTES AND COMMENTS, | gaa | i Ax incident occurred in Valparaiso harbor on the night that the Chilian man. Erruzuriz arrived She began | throwing her search light round the har. | bor at 1 o'clock in the worning and threw | the glars all over the bay, in what was supposed to be an effort to find the York. ! town, the only United States cruiser then | in the barbor. She finally turned the | light neross the forecastie of the Ameri. con gunbont and some of the rays pene trated through the perts to the berth deck, where the “watch below” was sleep The blucjacke ts were aroused from | their slumbers by the light, and a num ber of them wont on the forecastle and “Star Spangled until Huminations ceased, | oi-wur ing | sang the Junner the : ¥ re port of ping shows some remarkable facts in re- gard to the great nge of craft still in scrvice. lhirtyv-uine sailing vessels mentioned in the report nre be twoen fifty and sixty vears old, eighteen between sixty and seventy years, thirty between and & hundred, ix have aflont contury. This is, of uf the list of , and the ving craft, It is how- ex ture |} A necy casualties to ship- ROTI petive Bi Ww hile ents been during a COUrse, only a part ancient craft still in servic vpssiels referred ARTE LF sOen-4 and not ba OF Fiver boats Ver nre there is eedingly eft in the re built them: but while g little of t old ships ing and fitting has almost plank of the ¢ easel retains J (16 i remgins, the f two 8 stors 0H tras emg the es entered the res train ‘0 a forward Sea versation ain 1 fie nnd ther fo mee fallt Fhe Austrian a iattor From of 122 sui OPTS, i TEE OHH off firearn S The mont ! Ihe shot imiamous 10 Ss . n " vd of ina third of fa military 1 _nee., | © the for listastc troubie an fear of great in- is , and the is [Ter LHR inishment is everywher Fhe maximam in the hotte is reached in coldest The late Mr. Buckle affirmed of civilization that there is a periodic regularity in the suicide mania, and this testimony of the suicides in the European armics goes far to confirm it. Tus an enlarrement of the national Capitol for the effective tran. snotion of business becomes more argent with every session of Congress, declares the New York Post The spacious building now all too small to accom. modate the great and increasing host of Representatives, It will be ranembered that the Fifty. first Congress bought the neighboring Maitby House, “for the uso of Congress and the execative depart- went: under control of the Senate Come mittee on Rales.” The House concurred in the resolution of purchase, which emansied from the Senate, but before the Representatives could secure any of the rooms for offices the wily Senators { precmpted them all, Mach the same | thing happened in the case of the ac. quisition of the Butler mansion, which | cost £275,000, in this instance the Treas. ury Department taking possession. The lovee complains that in its wing there arc not rooms enough for the use of its various commitiees, and that it is often necessary for two committees to “double up” amd ccoupy one room, an BrIANGe. ment that is provocative of much un. pleasant friction. Eveu the prehensile | Senate is now confronted with the dilemma of having no accommodations for its Committee ou Enrolled Rills. In this sinte of affairs Architect Clark comes forward with the plan of an extension of the Capitol. It provides for sixty-five additional rooms for the oast and west fronts. To make the design an arch. itectural entirety, the castern and western central porticos would be enlarged. The now additions would be constructed of marble, and would shut out from view all the unsightly sandstone portion of the old structure, The cost of the enlarge. ment would be #6.600,000 or just half what the construction of the Capitol has cost up to this time, If did pot desire to inour the total ax y nitive reached minimum weather N88 a aw r need of is
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