SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EYERY-DAY LIFE. Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven- tures Which Stranger than Fiction. A Fresca medieal journal tells of a remarkable surgical operation performed upon a certain Joseph Moreau, a soldier his whole face was shot away by a shell in the battle of Bapamune, January, 1871. Although he was left on the field for dead, he managed to stagger to a neighboring village, where he was cared for by the doctors. Later on one of the most distinguished surgeons of the day applied to the head, which was left al- most without human semblance, a wax mask so cleverly adapted to the healthy portion of the skin as to appear quite continuous with it, This musk, as the years have passed, has become firmly at- tached to the head, the skin having grown around the edges, and has permit. ted the unfortunate wearer tonppear loss an object of repulsion to his fellow men, Moreau has got quite used to breathing through the fulse nostrils, and by the help of an artificial jaw worked by a portion of the vriginal bone, he is able to eat comfortably and masticate the tough- est kind of food. His voice has regained its natural quality and the sense of smell has come back to him with even more than patural acuteness. Of course, he sees nothing through the false eyes which look out from his waxen features witha glassy stare, but it is long since he has acquired the peace of mind with which blind men ure so often blessed, and in all the canton of Landredies, where he lives, there is not a happier man or one more fond of telling and listening to a good story than he who is known as the “Man with the Wax Face.” He lives modestly on his pension, and adds t by the sale of a little pamphle scieutite account of his wonder 3 his resources Russian Trans. cngineer- iron-bound Taxes altogether the caspian Railway is one of the ing wonders *‘of this, the century." t first it was considered imn- possi to maintain a road through the shifting sands of the Kara Kum desert, but General Annenkoff, who ten of what was supposed to bean ins Was super- fant ACNE construction, overcame Iron able obstacle by ring 7, and , thicke ts of desert But when this had road bed assured, & effect that the s abandoned be there fuel nor water along the line, doughty (General solved the water pre b- lem by bringing water in pipes from the mountain, and his constructed a locomotive which I for fuel. But yet there was another great obstacle in the wav, the « which would have to be bridge 1,000 feet longer than the Brook- Jyn wonder. This d «, and the ro eperation. with the plants bre en don 3 went mo would k anse was Cousin used petroleum insxic fixus, 5 Cross d witli © is ft taal uity was Dually Overcom in active Tug pearl hunters of Borneo and the aljacent islands have a peculiar super. stition. When they open shells in search of i aris they take e i very ninth whether it be large Or ama into a bottle which is kept dead man's finger. The pearls is phial are known as pearls” or **breeling pearls, native Bor. neose firmly believes that they will ro. produce their kind. For every pearl put into phial two grains of rice are thrown in for the pearls to Some whites in Borneo believe as firmly in the superstition as the natives do, and almost every hat along the const has its “dead finger” bottle, with from nine to fifty scel pearls and twice that number grains carefully and evenly AWAY them. Professor Rimmerly says that nearly every burial place along the const has been desecrated by breeders” 3a search of corks for their bottles. . 1 coraed fegeed " and the the iF 1 food " upon. of tice stowed among pear ¥ Fruscn justice sometimes lags like the English quality. A suit came before the Paris civil tribunal about the heritage of a family named d'Hatteaun d'Origny, in Normandy, The Normans are said to be the most litigitious people in France and born lawyers, They are prompt to appeal. and are up to all forms of pro. cedure that can afford satisfaction to their taste for litigation. The d Huttean d'Origny case was tirst heard of at Caen. Delays were so frequent that the three judges who originally tried it died before the venue was changed to Paris, where it dragged on for six years. It was called the other day for the three hundred and tho face only excepted; he was then | takog up by two men and thrown into | the river, and after a good bath he came out and was received bs the Brahmins, | fully restored to onste fellowship. The Brahmins informed the purified individ ual that a great favor had boon conferred on him in weighing him in copper instead of silver. Ix the course of his New Haven { (Conn.) lecture, Rev. Thomus 8. Dany, {an educated Indian, made this singular ‘statement: ** The Indians nover cook anything in the house. They always cook outside, giving as their only reason that if they cook inside the steam will collect in their clothing and draw the lightning. Whether this is truth or not I do not know, but 1 do know this: No Indian wigwam has struck by lightning since the dawn of history, and no Indian has been killed with lightning for more than 100 years.” It scoms quite possible that Indian wigwams are seldom or never struck by lightning; but why a whole race should exempt heen be low habitations don’t atiract tury is, to say the least, something re- markable. (s. Mich EnLLisGer,. 0 of : performed the remarkable cooper working only eight hours per day, beats all records of United States. and nail was, of course, rately, and some of three to five times, rels Mr. Ellinger between DOO and heading, 60,000 hoops and 200,000 nails. Taken altogether hoops, nt y loads 01 i handled sepa- these articles To make 10,000 bar. 170.060) from used IRL] slaves, pieces Oo! staves, head-pieces, ete. —there was least twelve common box-car timber, a train of thom. fifty cars would scarcely hold ABLE of the application heen i i made p § telephone has Mount Bleyer. Croup Dy Ina Case o suce re al of the tube intubation to. When the remo it had disappeared attached by an ie other end of telephone receiver, was throug i larynx. 4 to Da performed, but the difficulty was to locate was sorted became necessary, A delicate eieotrie wi metallic probe, re, tl which ter- minated in a passed down Tracheotomy would evide Con As soon as it came in ibe a distinet click was wsition having thus acheatomy wus per extracted, himself and manafactured it, ine some old umbrellas. Recently he in i some friends to witness a test of sine on the roof of his father's Putting on his wings and Hap. ping them vigorously, he boldly sprang from the house, forty feet earth, and flow straight ground. His lez and set afterward, but he and thinks that there was some culation in the Ww jiviyWw near Willi over twenty ahove to had to resting the down the arm is onsy mizcal. make-up of the machine, Bans imsbhridge, Ohio, Bn go nA LES wh ives he filer it Voears ia, ‘ wns plucked, five vears ago, its feathers again, and every winter from cold. Then certain young upstarts in the flock poked fun at it with derisi of the food, ] nssaul it with thei beaks After during an unusual amount of this sort of pond the ice with failed to grow it suffered g, stole its she en- insult it ambled o a little other morning. broke the thin its beak. and held its head in the until life was extinct. The cause of the rash act is obvious, A nerengnr named Britt, doing business at Wolverhamton, Staffordshire, England, has from Wellington, New south bullock with a wooden leg. animal some time ago having had it at the joint, by an ingenious device was pro vided witha made after the style of the ordinary wooden leg. received Wales, a The v hind | 5 one of its hind legs broken substitute and to eat comfortably, and has passed by a veterinary surgeon as being free from pain. Carr. Borreo lery Regiment of the Italian army made a wager recently that he could ride 150 been ing the saddle except to change i He ing ing bad covered 170 miles. morning he was at drill as usual. He changed horses five times during his ride and thereby thirty minutes, During twenty-one hours he rode at a trot, and ou 11.00 on the following in aven- ' ost postponed to enable meet something in the nature of a de- murrer, coupled with a demand for a commission to be named to take fresh evidence at Caen. Heng is, from Chambeis’s Miscellany, 8 story which riva's anything told even of the dog. In the summer of 1800 an officer of Lyons was requested to inquire into a murder, of tho deceased, and found her lifeless body stretched on the floor. A large white cat was mounted on a cornice of with his eyes fixed upon the corpse. fared with fury, his hair bristled, and ie darted into the middle of the room, where he stopped for a moment to gaze at them, and then precipitately retroated. The countenances of the assassins were disconcerted, and they now, for the first time during the whole course of ihe trial, felt their audacity forsake thom, and gave evidence which led to the identifi. gation of the criminals. A Fyzavao Hindu who had been out. onsted for the offence of eating cooked food in a railway train while there were 8 of other castes in the same car. riage with him bas been restored to caste. The erring individual, although not a wealthy man, had sufficient menns to pay the gost of purification. He was ir weighed in rice, and valued at 150 ru. Jpess, aud after that in wheat, After the ighing he was made to sit on a square stone and his body was covered with dirt, A most remarkable case is reported | from Kentucky. | prominent Baptist minister of Simpson County, reared a family of six daugh- {ters. He received all of them into the Church, baptized them all and said the { and buried them all. He survived the | last daughter several years. { City, Pa., is a great-grandmother at the | age of forty-seven. >he was married at | the age of fourteen and her oldest ohild { followed in her hymenial footsteps by { walking to the altar at the uge of fifteen. The granddaugter came in duo time and was wodded when sixteen, and now every {lady in Tower City is wondering whether the great-granddaughter will be married when she is seventeen. A meurnrui, down-East fisherman tolls of u startling adventure that be had with a whale near Grand Manan recently. Heo and his dory were about to be swallowed by the iris when, with great presence of mind and steadiness of nerve, he throw a quid of tobaooo, striking the monster full in the eye. While the whale was wondering what struck him the fisherman escaped, A Dexa Lene (Me.) man has a cariosity in the shape of an egg, which had on one end n cap-like excrescene, which, boing lifted, showed a full-sized cranberry bean between the cap of the shell and the in. ner lining membrance of the egg. He wants 10 know how it got there and if anyone ever saw the like. It is a novel way to raise beans, at least. % Grernvpr Lovie, a protty girl of 18 years who lives in the town of Aroostook County, Me., has never been known to laugh or even to smile. While intelli- gent in other matters, she apparently cannot understand a joke, and is un. moved by the keenest witticisms. TROTTERS AND PACERS, ns Miss Lola Grimes, aged 16, drove Riley B., pacer 2.104, to his record at Terre Haute, Aug. 28, 1801, and her sister, Miss Wanetah Grimos, 14 years of age, drove the pacer Arch White in 2.18%, at Lima, Ohio, Oct. 16, 1891. mother, Mrs. Gee Grimes, is an expert with the lines, while their father, Mr. Gen Grimes, i= one of tho first drivers of the land. Like produces like. A down-hill kite track is to be built at Instead of the track cross. ing itself at the starting and finishing ponits, tho starting and stretches will run parallel and about ten or fifteen foot apart. By this arrange- ment an easy down-grade will be estab. lished, waking the finish at the wire five finishing At a California breading farm has been built a swimming is ninety foot long, twenty feet wide, in the tank and I'he idea is that been knocked road use or track work anted to be got re ady reasonable time it will out by too much for trotting within their muscles hard by the bath work § ‘ DOs TO 86] be } ible to keep : § : i whereas i they were given on the road or track they would get sore and soon be of no account. In a recent letter from Chicopee, MceFElwain, in answer to rding the i he re. i My for sim was 220,000, but I had to discount a efromit. I am glad he has gone i is and feel nfi ¢ account of | ox] a qu ston reg said: ve a good ka is a son of Nutwo second i nira « purchnsed by Mr tt, of New York, stabie companion to Athel, inm Jessie He k le wns nnd i brother a 3 1418 Arion, we dU13. I'he | ghtost vehicle for trotters this distance ding woirhing FOIEnIng stan sinrt ey ir wert i ’ inde 0 tor two miles is 4:54 four miles, 10:05; ing start and ing at i all made with irawine a sulky or d whik s Grawing as sulky or droschks least 240 Russian poun 3 report that un, Sir Walter, soason, has of cky breeder to ont ions for a return of Sir Walter ackv, but nothing definite has n determ ined, ¢ may stork syle 1e 10 stand for wor "e § Shu J. Hal nes & n Ho Monmouth coun'y, N. J His son Walter, Jr. 1 irt at the Bates Farm, Watertown, near Boston, Mass Hr holds cot Suffolk Ww. firat bred in Leonard Her hore Lads county, Ni was Lo Island, and foaled in 1533 “ as Bio race was at Baby by lon, in 1X30, w trotted for a purse of eleven dollars won it, going 5:45. Later under saddie at two miles in 5:15, beating Lady Victory, Black Hawk others t 1849 was her great vear, trotting Wititail twelve, she in jut nineteen races and sting Pelham, Trustee, Gray Sutton, Mac and others of that taking = 22% and a 8 wddlo record The old mare died at Bridge. port, Vt, in 1855. The first 2:30 trotter made of stern stuff, She left tre Eagle, Lady the cracks of day, and of 2:26. Was Bo progeny » The Great Trees, — Both were named from sempervirens, written language, his nan was as far above his fellows as are the other countries. The lan. although he himself died in 15843, at the age of seventy-three years. It was in 1852 that the big trees were first discov. Lindley to describe and name them. The soquoin sempervirens is very like its giant brother, It is as large as all but the most ingmense specimens of the lat. tor. It grows in the same way, that is, with clean, uplifted trunk, clear of 200 fet, with a long, beautiful, droop. ing crown of folinge for a hundred feet or wo above. It grows in groups of 200,000 trees, and it has the saw. tiny cone, so out of proporticn to its immense wize, in which the seod tases some four yours fo mature. I confines itself to the coast, howeves, being found all tho way from its heunts in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, up vorth to great Humboldt redwood forests, It has, too, n habit of throwing up smaller trees in a circlo about its own roots, so that cach treo is surrounded by a group of younger and smaller ones, looking like tral tower. The beauty, therefore, of these redwood forests is indescribable, far exceeding that of the wonderful groups of the gigantea upon the moun tain slopes. [New York [ribune, One recommendation to buy white on they can be dyed THE JOKER'S BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. A Smart Boy—Proof Positive Held His Head High—A Burglar in Lueck Knocked Out—Ete,, Ete, 4 EMART BOY. Dick Little Johnny smartest There goes He's the Father—How go? ““He got himself a rich father.” “Humph! I don’t understand.” “Why. his real father died, an’ then like Johnny; so was sick on goin’ to die; und then, after the rich man married his mother, ho got well." {Good News. didn’t PROOY POBITIVE. Jack So you are engazol to Maud now’ : Tom-—How do you know? Jock You were the only didn’t flirt with last Herald man Now York ba night, HELD HI HEAD HIGH, Friend happy f i Any Is 4 regular but I don’t soe why 3 he ad q ite so high. Young Father Gropping asieep I know you area proud and snd I've no doubt that cherub, and all that; hold your sther, Ou net d I'hat's to keep from 1 w York Weekly. Smith was aroused from a sound sisep night by a noise. Thinking that b irgiars were in the ho and one 186, he arose, Pp it his slairs, other ho ro. wont down hand, the Oi frousers Ar in on ing holding his eo empty, Find turn ately asked: “op i instead of Tour revolver’ “Why rather brightening Mrs. Smith fell « a lucky thing the {Detroit Free Press one bolow nn. of cours thinking it was 1 CRCa peg, Twents Why ATAWAHY Wi, that? nn fanndad the confoundeq wine i t i : sont 1t hone espress and i had {o pay the freight HBrovklyn Life DessImieti “Yes: and 3 ast the has to wait before he pessimist is that comes in and who shaved fare six other turn « men and the « : fy . ped bry h Ne¢ es, is the : 1 { cGistingui euation ng next. e api w York Press, mamma, my dollie fell Little Girl Oh, down and broke her nose Mamma-—-How di “Khe fell all by | ‘How could sh **<he was standi . “Then you must have stood her “Yes'm.' ** And then vou went off and loft her?” “Well. don't want their mammas around all the « (rood i she fall? up.’ nkeild ChHarens time.” ONE OF RER PETS Sho-—I always have a great many pets Am I one of thom? You are my pet aversion, He (tenderly She Yea. IT 18 STRANGE. Driggs—There is one thing about a foreigner | don't understand. Figgs What? Driggs—He brags about his country APPROPRIATE. Cumso—What are you going to do with that mouse, Johnny? Johnny Cumso—Use it for bait, Cumso (astonished —For bait? Johnny—Yes; I'm going to try to catch some catfish. — Jester, GOOD DEFINITION “It's but a stop from the sublime to the ridiculous.” “How so?’ “Here's on man offers 21,000 for a bird dog. That'ssublime. Here's the owner, who won't take it. That's ridicalovs, {Brooklyn Life. NO SLEEP. “There is pour Robinson—hasn’t a place to sleep.” “What, Robinson?" w Yep " “*He hos a home.” HY os~and twins two wooks old.” THE REIGHT OF BLISS, Hojack-Did Tom look happy when he stood up to got married? Tomdik-Yes; hecouldn't have looked happier if he had been “next” in a crowd- ed barbor shop.—{Judge. PLENTY OF AMMUNITION, Tom-1 am not surprised that the New. weds have quarrelled; it was to be ox. Jook-—Why? Tom—~8be always would 0 was always Jaf shot. Neath. TWO FEATURES OF Mrs. Newliwed day. day. Miss Spinn—It was a walk or a drive. Mra. Newliwed ing of the wash, I do so enjoy a bright Now lust Monday was a superb a perfoct day for i Yen: but I was think. [New York Sun, i JUDGING VYROM APPEARANCES, ““ Bo, Jones married the widow to whom he was paying atiention?”’ “Yes. How did you know?" “I saw him this morning on the street | {and I noticed that he had lost all that { jaunty air he used to have about bim.” —— New York Press, A LEAP YEAR PROPOSAL, She said: “I'm crazy with delight, I've a camera that's brand new, I'll photograph the things I like, And will begin by takin BE you." MARRIAGE VOR SPITE. ‘“ She bolieve.” married to spite ; somebody, 1 “* Whom? “1 don't were her husband. Do vou know but it looks as if it 1 Rhow or URE Little Johnnie—Say. Ma. d ister really need all the sii mn ppurs that are we n f given him? 5 » r Mrs. Brown-—Yos, inde generally so very bad. His son is A CL IDEBAY MARTER, “Who nis’ ‘Ye know Mulcahy sthable?” ‘Is it him! er fur now, Din. hat has the livery int work lor Share woul 8 man ss mane as him. he has? “A ' ‘Al It's a hard name ver mistaken in Mulcahy is one ev the mses his hand do a day's work in consigerate nitch wan as He is ‘Is there anything inGeeq ees im’ “(. ves. he son rT or You wil reads His first publi FEON THs Happiness is but a caks Which the Wise and Sorrow is a lamp of de Merry tal yagh Fools and cynics seek it Mrs Bree 20 Danes Tor me, ne Mr hereafter | shall Hree; oY THE 1 Though I'm a poet of the Belore no editors | Bocause I've | And send my rhymes to them i learned a thing or two 3 +1 OV mail A Persian Horse. “ Persian horses,” = in “ Journeys in Persia and RKardistan,’ ‘are to admired and liked. Their beauty is 8 source of constant on joy. | ment, and they are almost invariably | gentle and docile. It is in vain to form | any resolution against making a pet of of them. My acquisition, { * Boy, insists on being petted, and his | | enticing WAYS are irresistible. He is al- wavs tethered in front of my tent, with a r pe long enough to give him considera. bie liberty, nnd he took advantage of it the very oirst day to come into the tent, | and make it apparent that he wanted me to divide a melon with him. Grapes wore his preferenc . then came cucum- ber, bread, and biscuits, Finally, he drank milk out of a soup plate. He | comes up to me and puts down his head to have his ears rubbed, and if 1 do not attend to him at once, or if 1 cease at. { tending to him he gives me a gentle | but adwonitory thump. 1 dine outside the tent and he is tied to my chair and waits with wonderful patience for the odds and ends, only occasionally rubbing | his soft nose against my face to remind | { me that he is there, A friendly snuffe | is the only sound he mnkes. He does | not know how to fight or that teeth and | heels are for any other uses than eating i sve Mrs Vishop be one new and walking. He is really the gentliest | and most docile of his race. The point | | at which he draws the line is being led; | then he drags back and a malish look comes into his eyes. But he follows like | | a dog, and when | walk he is always with me. He comes when I call him, stops when [| do, accompanies me when 1 leave the road in scarch of flowers, and | | usually puts his head cither on my shoulder or under my arm. To him 1 am an embodiment of melons, encumbers, grapes, pears, peaches, biscuits, and | sugar, with a good deal of petting and are rubbing thrown in.” The * Oregon Boot.” A decided novelty in footwear, more suggestive of utility than of comfort, is the ** Oregon Boot,” so called, with one | of which a train robber who lately as rived in St. Louis was maneclod. The | boot weighed sighteen and a half pounds, | and a d vo spent fifteen minutos in opauing the combination by which it was | soon to the prisoner's foot. Thus hobbled, there would seem to bo small | chance for a malefactor to effect his flight from custody unless he should | somehow learn the combination. Prac. tically, he res FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS, WEARY MOTHERS PLAINT, HO weary motpers, mixing dough, Don't vou wish that food sould grou? Your lips would smile, 1 know, to see A cookie bush or ua papeike tree, No walting to get the vven hot: If vu sould send sour child tv see {ths pies bad baked on the cherry treo. ‘A be inte; bah won'd be quite fine, Srend be plucked trom the tender vine A sponge rake plant our pet wou'd bi We'd read and sew neath the muffin tice” THE There is’ a told far PIRET PAINTING. very pretty little legend the origin of painting. In ao frrveces, bie fore Of the off mythical hiselod ngs his wonderful marble ie mighty Homer sang of ses and the full of Troy, girl one day #tood at tent He was going as it some. father's bidding lover. sxviad +} iy ang ft ariing. Imes is in such cares, was long and ten. As he stood straight and tall in hi : " martial she ed that sck shadow just aul, notice on i of wail ther 1 1 Laughin seized al iy Bhe from the ie Dgure 21 tho i the bit of ei bhoers oft the wails of the ten f him when he wa left she Bile | newsboyvs were trying to edit i alte GILI0HR © $1 noon AN Carrying a iarge basket ik should he jcader wn 8 other direct snake an terrible bite he could be harmed for his {fy x | fn of the = another ir ine i wi : As the reptile reached assailant another monkey attacked site side, and thus in one after another wo tortured and kilied their terri victim and left him where he had fallen My informant assurcs me that when they uttered a loud ory, which was responded to almost in one unbroken chorus, and when they had destroved their encmy that a loud cry was uttered by them as they dispersed. There 1s every reason to credit the state. ment that these little creatures unite their forces to attack a strong foe, and that their preconcerted plans are intelli. gent and unique and differ in detail as tiie conditions differ. HOOT : hie 1 the opy sick suet assail thew The Author Waited in Vain. Colonel John Hay tells an interesting story that be vouches for us true. It is like Harper's, Lippincott's, and others, accumulate manuscripts for future use and file them away in vaults until needed. A friend of the Colonel's wrote a story called “The Brazen Android.” locating the scene of the story in England, in the time of Roger Bacon. The author's name was William 1. O'Connor, who for years lived in Washington. The story was a long one, and ran through three numbers of the magazine when published, in 1801. The singolar part of the inci. dent is, that the story was written and ncoepted by the Atlantic Monthly in 1861, and paid for. Month after month, and year after year, Mr. O'Connor watched the magazine for the publica. tion of his story, and it finally did ap- poar within & short time after his death, more than thirty years after it was aoe copted.—| Washington Post. To Dress Ordinary Hides. To dress ordinary hides, such as coon, skins, it if onl with the hair or wool side down, and then smear the upper surface with a paste made of equal parts of alum and salt dissolved in a weak solution of sulphuric acid and water, adding suffi. cient wheat bran to thicken the paste. The proportions should be about two ounces of alum, two of salt, and one drachm of the acid to ench pint of water used in making the paste. Spread this nasty aver the flush side of the skin and eave it in two or three days, then sera off, and work the skin until it is soft. #4 for dressing skins with the hair removed, it depends somewhat upon the nse you are to make of the dressed hides, and their kind, whether thick or this. If ant the skins to ent up Sur strings, drosscd differently
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