*® SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS EVERY.DAY LIFE, Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven- tures Which Show Stranger than Fiction. “I've seen n good many bad-looking snakes and other reptiles in my time,” said 8. C. Rose of Galena, Ill., ‘‘but the moccasin snake that Capt. Heil of our place killed last summer made the my spine than anything ever did before, although it was dead when I saw it. Capt. tleil and some friends were fishing two or three miles below Galena. oss than a rod below hin, h» saw, as he supposcd. two big moccasins stretched in the hollow of which they evidently had their home. The snakes were so large, and their proximity so singular, that the Captain stepped cautiously for- ward to got acloser view of them. When within three feet of them the saaken raised their heads at the same time. From each mouth dashed a fiery tongue, and a loud To his utter amazement the Captain then discovered that only one suake was there, and thatit was a most hideous thing with two heads. Capt. Heil stopped back, and the serpent darted rapidly after him. hiss issued from both. had faced many dangers during the war, but he quailed before this frightful thing. The snake rushed fiercely for- ward, and but for the fact that Capt. Heil had bis revolver and is an unerring shot he would surely have fallen a vietim to the venomous reptile, so equipped. Drawing his weapon he fire twice in rapid succession. Each shot was cffectiv the headed y double monster fell Heil's and body, e necks, was f sive of the + foot two e of the f the body was nine and The necks were indepan.- and forked like a : Fach was four inches long. : he circumference thickest part a haif inches. dent of euch letter V from the bod inches | , the triangular heads being two two inches long hideon avs, | at the bass Dend i8. QV and enr inches wide and nearly wis tmost aged, the Captain Tue movement for better publie roads i8 exoitin States, has probal world. disgusted nesota letter to inneapol the to iighways without consi Journal prove tng the them that States, Macadam ros Taine of crease saves, costs i n the loss to the inhabitants of the ¢ in upon people th ler. He tells 1 many counties in the Eastern liminary expense where svstems Pelford or exile out, | the been in- rr ro ad. iT arm ins ner property i cent pons 81 yaniry damaged ] MINON rome In Minnesota they strips of cou thrown about tl a 1 i upon. WOR where otherwiss ‘worked’ know nothin just as Ji possioie, ana impassable, building improvement in considering the a most ' re expensive manner In our i roads are lakes of summer stretches of dust after the autumn rains again. This mud freezes, y beon cut by nto the roughest possible surface, and then one cannottravel twenty mile road to piece maintained v 1 districts through which they run, ] i so much labor or an equivalent in riouey every yer as possible, drainage or even to the question of is the n with. Theresult is exasperating sound legislation and spirit will afford a remedy. common long they alter narrow-tired wheels ra country witho r his wagon broken a. State the roads are each family furnishing The work isdone as quickly no attention being paid to 4 1 nt ost durable material bul fo id (ely an aroused pun Wiriix six miles of Brandy Station, Va. Squire William B. Nalls, whose survival after an unusual sceident is fomarkable. Some in TOR Mr on struction of the Chesapeake avd Ohio railroad through West Virginia to tie Ohio River. One day he, with Lis men, hed sought safoty from several blasts, awl he was about moving forward to ses the result, when a rock of several pounds weight, that had been sent skyward a considerable distance, descended directly on the crown of his head, penetrating through bis hat and skull and burying itsolf in his brain. He fell senseless, and his companions believed that he had been killed, Pat physicians who examined him ascertained that life was not extinet, During the dressing of the wound and tho removal of the particles of bone and foreign matter ch brain matter oozed out. His family, living in Culpeper Court. House were notified, and he was removed to bis home, probably a hundred tiles fron the scene the accident He remained in an insensible condition for seme time, and no one believed that he would survive. By degrees, however, he recovered consciousness, but his lower limbs wore paralyzed. [In that condi. tion he was unable to move about except by the use of crutches. At the top of Hyon time Nalle was n boss the cary . the son ¥ af 0 heu's egg of ordinary size. Since his recovery be has been justice of the Peace, and on several occasions he has been olected Mayor of Calpeper. He ia be. twoen sixty and seventy years of age, he enjoys good health. Tuar there aro more wonders on the oarth, in the sea “beneath the earth,” and in the sky nbovo it than ever Hora. tio imagined, is a woll known fact which that worthy's most ardent admirers will not attempt to deny. Take for an in. stance the famous neodle-und-thread treo. linngine such & luxary und the delights of going out to your tree and plucking a needle threaded all ready for use! Odd as it may seem to us there 1s, { growth. The “tree” may not exactly be u tree in the true sense of the word, pur. taking as it does more of the nature and characteristics of a gigantic species of aspuragus. Jt has large, thick, fleshy leaves, such as would remind one of the cactus, especially of the one popularly known as *‘prickly pear.” The “needles” the needle-and-thread treo are set | along the edges of these thick, fleshy i leay 08. | of {to push the “needle gently backwarl into the fleshy sheath (this to loosen it { from the tough outside covering of the { loaf) and then pull it gently trom the { socket. If this operation be properly arried out, 100 more fine fibres adhere to the thorn like so many spider webs. By twisting the “needle” the drawing operation, the thread can be { made of any length desired. I'he action of the air on the fibres toughens them amazingly, a thread from it pot larger {than common No. 40 being capable of sustaining a weight of five pounds; | about three times the tensile | six cord” spoul cotton or strength ol { common °° | A Kirrnixewonrrn necticut Valley, who had stored his buggy in his barn all winter without | using it, went to market at Middletown in it a day or so ago, and as he jaunted along the lonely highway he noted queer sounds occasionally that appeared to emanate {rom the box beneath Once in a rough part jolted severely farmer in the Con. his seat of vehicle paid slight atte tion to it. Arrived at a grocery in Middletown, however, thrust his arm beneath the buggy seat and his fingers touched something sleek he and lively, and there was no doubt this time that something in the squawked loudly. Thereupon he throw | buck the cushion flap and peered into the dark beneath the sest. In the middle of the buggy box, in a nest of straw, and with fourteen eggs under her, sat one of his best Plymouth Hock hens, who had been trying to keep her temper and her seat ou the « n the important business of incubating them buggy recess rove all the way, twelve miles, from Rhilling- worth to Midd Sho had about lost her temper, though, at the her owner discovered her cate situation, and when he thrust his or: fled ug farmer repia elown cily. moment aeil or business she The without transacting arm into | lel him to the and resiorel upon win was shown the nat the showed was qu ie been asked should hav in short Numerous i themsely resembie n P sod aeraed to COat 18 CON Miss Reps to Africa at Tang Wazan and Moro co he attention a direct Mohammed Mohammedan 3 The cherif asked 3 achool den and #erts phet r to marry jition that fo him. and she consented on con Le was to marry no abandon all such wis he destinies of Moroceo, choerif practical I plavs he part of mikado to sultans tycoon By Miss Keene he has two eldest of Mulai Ali, an pi shed linguist, educated by | sons, the Ww hom. accom is mother, the Mohammedans as 18 as popular wi h he is with the English that the voong cherif will one won the throne of Moroceo It is confidently hoped t tit sil uj A Scaorcnsas one evenings recently sat Inmoking at some mice An iden struck him. He decided to set the little thieves spinning yarn, and it was probaly a very astonisned pair of mice that found them. day the horse had actually eaten a whole chicken, and the bones had cut through | the stomach, onusing death.” Tue four-vear-old daughter of Charles Brandt, a dairyman, near Lebanon, Pa., milks six cows every day, She is small for her age, aod it is more convenient for her to stand up than to xit while milking. Only the gentlost cows are nllotte | to her. She bogan the practi e n couple of weeks ngo ot her own nceord, asking permission to try her hand after having watched the milkmaids at their work. A vxique triple wedding feast was on- joved in a Bohemian village recently, when a young couple were married the same day that the purents of the bride groom celebrated their silver weddin and his grandparen:s their golden wed. ding. The same day adianmond wedding was celebrated ut Hellingenkrouz, near Vienna, six little sons sovere Tye German kaiser's are subjected fo 0 their futher. They sleep in a plain, bare room, upon iron with hard mat. tresses aud scant bed-clothes. At seven morning tako a cold bath, then put through vigorous gym- CXETCises, Hvon Farge, not a very large man, attempted to drink twenty quarts of milk on 8 wager, in Middle town, N. Y. He had ten hours to doit in, but after drinking eizhteen quarts he regimen by COs, every and ar nasiic hey who is thought he had made a custard of him self aud gave it up. Railroading on the Plains, motive with ir West and the plains Many a strange story the loc ongineers tell of their experience animals on the prairies of the § Between the Missouri Rocky Mountair y the great Weky Mountains are the great spreading out Riven for hundreds - of part of in I hey have taken the of the old jehus of the overland mai the transportation Probably in no the country eNCineers come more contact animal life. express in more modern days rapid 08 were In ten the sing great danger . 3 x eat hords of sinmps bulla ver, express agent w he in the {11 were well 6 sh arp Cra Fecundity of Sea Fish, ¢ The feo fl andity of some of the sea fishes fur Rnowied of the s g ot has been increased by Pr. Fault f the Fishery Board for Scotland sa determined the namber of eg duced by thirty-nine spec It apt that the thirty mill I'he cod produces soven or eight dock from two to neariy a CRormos jos produces from tw on the ov 0 or thr thie thousand ah Ver ing Ons of eros, irom iw millions of « hind. or three hun million, and the « about one to two or three millions the berring the number runges fr 200.000) 10 about 50,000, a greater n Ege ire from imber than fish the most fertile fe is usaally supposed. Among fiat is tho with from three or four to nine or ten million eggs. In proportion to flounder produces more eggs than any other fish, the number varving from over SO0,000 to about 1,500,000 egos, turbot, ita mize the in a cage like those other small treadmill rats and animals are were paying their board in this wav. An ordinary mouse can twist over a handred threads on reels every day, although to this he has to run ten and a half miles, do | Oxe of the vegetable curiosities of | Central Park, New Yrk, is a maple tree | standing just west of the west side tennis lawn. The tree is fully five feet in dia | moter at the base, but instead of rising | ns one trunk it splits into seventeen dis. | tinet trees, of which sixteen are alive, {and several are at least ten inches in | diameter. The seventeenth, a trunk { four inches in diameter, is dead, having | perished apparently from some defect {of nourishment. Near this tree is t another maple split into eight trunks, A arnaxon story of superstition is re. ported from Homoliez, in Hungary. Reveral bodies of men had recently been | found there with their heads cut off. An investigation wax made, and it turned out that these mutilations had been com. mitted by young men who were betrothed to the widows oi the decapitated persons, they marriod a second time their first husbands would reappear and destroy their wedded happiness. Tur Santa Maria (Cal) Times tells the following curious story: “Mr, Yel. kins had a fine bay horse that had a mania for catching chickens, and one day Inst week when he went out to the stable, he found the horse lying dead. He cut the body open and found that Cats in Egypt. The first people known to have domes. tieated cats were the ancient Egyptians, on whose monuments representations of these animals are found as early as 1600 B. C. that the cat first appoasrs unmis. inkably as a domestiontes creature, be. ing shown seated beneath a chair. In ancient Egypt. the eat was an object of religious worship, and was even an in. a cat goddess, named Bubastis, who wus always depicted as having a oat’s head. Behind the temple dedicated to her at containing multitudes of mummies of cots, luminary through the heavens. Like. wise its eyes were believed to undergo a chance each lunar month, snd for this | gason the animal was also sacred to the moon, {Scientific American, In saw mill using pneumatic pipes for taking away the sawdust iv is | found that the back of the saw usual. ly throws up a good deal of fine dust in spite of the air suction. This dif fleulty has pow been overcome in many instances by an invention for admitting air to the saw hopper in such a way as to cruse it to impinge on the sides and teeth of the saw aod thus give it an air-blust washing, At Berlin, in 1801, there were 1,084,826 ani. wale Slenghtered, as compared with 1,142,706 THE WHIPPING POST. HOW THE CRIMINALS ARE ISHED IN DELAWARE. PUN- The Lea'hiern Thongs Often Blood From the Yietims 1H, Who Weigh dies the Lash. Draw A Shere % 230 Pounds, Hane. In Delaware criminals aro for various offenses by boiug placed in the pillory and lashed at post, The Maryland has a whip ping. post for wif beutors only , and since Nate of its establishmont been uneommon, The w witnessed recently the whipping inflicted on eight culprits at the juil in Newcastle, Del. The struction, which includes pillory whippiag- post, is very rites con end simpie anl sixteen feet high, is placed firmly in the ground. On each of two of the si les of this post is an iron band, fastened by means of a staple Ths bands 4 sl i the groung, nbout twelve inches square five hands of about feet from id the the culprit placed in fastened tightly Fou groun | nround this post is built na and und the ure them eel nobove form five feet square, our fet { t onrd ten ichies wid iHuced t t Hes thirougn Are pinced, that when once 1 post tho | loses all respect for anili 1 i8 BO Ure himself u hardened er f Now ti wit: a Becomes oO is Lhe case warden The Oo nine. hite oak an inch af heavy i, from an nen | will draw the blood +! has heen wh pped and ceil his back is wal up without auy medi [he in adminis. permitted to but sherri i® not ver his suoulder, 1 under lprit brought to negro s ‘ntenced to receive His back 1 out time. He took his punishment well, as did also another negro sentenced to re. ceive the same number of lashes The next white man who was shivering with cold when he was brought out, bat found himself warm enough be: fore the sheriff had laid on five lashes. His back was 1ed from the shoulders to the waist The next culprit brought out was of Afrienn extraction. He was a tall, lean, dadisb.- looking negro, who had never seen uo whipping-post before, and camo out laughing and in a very jolly mood, appearing to think it sport. He had a Yittlo stuap of a pipe in his mouth ang puffed nway at a great rate. While the warden was manacling Lis hands he was dancing a hoo-down, and kept it up until his sontemce had been read, much to the amusement of the spectators. The sheriff took a good deal of interest in him bocause he seemed so cheerful, He was to receive three lashes, and, as the sentonee was light anl the fellow be. haved frivolously, the sheriff laid them on hard, to the great satisfaction of the crowd. When the sheriff struck him the first timo the fellow dropped his pipe and ceased his dancing. The next two lashes caused him to contort himself, It is hardly nocessary to add that he was not laughing when his hands were un. manacled and he was led back to his coll. His successor was a chestuut-brown negro who came out with his coat on. The prisoners are always pormitted to wear their coats on the way to the post. This fellow plainly desired to have his hands manacled without removing his coat, but the Warden invited him to tako it off, which he did. It was then discovered that ho had one saspender, THe A which would have been a great protec. tion to his back. The Warden told him to take it down and he did so, although he pretended not to under nt first, “Then another: coived fivo lushes and told the that he would never havo another crack at Hin The negro horse thief who i 3 i " stand the order Hero ye Sherif stood the pillory an hour was then brought had an stood the 108. ile The last culprit to be whipped was a yoang white man who had been sen tencod for burglary to several yeurs' im- in the pillory twenty lashes Although voung, he delicate look. be suffering in He had stood an hour in the from e'even o'clock to twelve o'clock -and when he brought out and while his being man d and then at the pleading manner. His twenty lashes were jail He was a was hands were Shariff in the most on as lightly ns possible, but before he had y the twentieth one trickle i down his back he inshies i i in eflect a hundred vith each stroke Le wire i rnty, « uine talis struck him He had the pil ining 8 received, g apparentiy , and while he squirmed bent himself almost dou the crowd laughed at his uclion the Sheriff had THE SEAL HUNTERS. Small Reward for an Exp osed and Perilous Occupation. ny walers to row when all is DiinaGness o no guide to steer by. Days o lowance of waler short al But why pursue the No one who has ne er wind swept seas nor fogs can realiz are taken every day of uncer small reward they i ursuae The gunner is pai he gets, from $2.50 to 8) ap accord ing to size and quality. Tue boat-pulier is paid from 40 cents to 81 a skin, though sometimes he works for £30 a month Ten skins make a very i and to get so many the hunter will usually expend from 150 to 200 cartridges. That would signify about $40 for the hunter, whose labor is highly skilled, and $4 for the puiler The owner of the vessel pro vides the ammunition. Indians have their own spears and canoes the such ee das #& Calon, biog big men, bat do not secure so many. When the skins have been salt, to preserve them. Enough of the fat is left upon them to hold the salt, This fat has an extroadinarily offensive odor. The smell is not only disagree. able, but it has n certain sickening qual- ity which turnz the stomach of anvone who is not accustomed to it. When the officers of the Revenue Marine board a sailing schooner, their first proceeding is almost invariably to go to the rail of the vessel and relinquish whatever they have eaten recently with an abandon which appears to signify that they have no further use for it whatever. Old Kentucky Homes, Rather to the country than to the towns in Kentucky must one look for the local history of the home lite. There first was implanted uncer English and Virginian intuences the antique style of country-seat; there flourished for a time those gracious manners that were the high-born endowment of the olden school; there in piquant contrast were developed side by side the democratic and aristo. oratic spirits, working severally toward unlity and caste; there was establish. the State reputation for effusive priv. ate hospitalities; and there still aro peculiarly cherished the fading traditions of more fustive boards and kindlier hearthstones. If the feeling of the whole people cou’! he interpreted by a | single saying, it would porhays be this: that whether in town or country-—-and if in the country, not remotely hore o¢ there, but in w sil-nigh SUCCORRION from estate hnve attain- civilization of common Tie, unbroke i thoy they od a notable stage in the tho home, This is the tion, thiz the idle of the itself ray rest on the | isolation, which is the to estate CONvio= The ido! wet of prov.nc il formons of self- { love and neighborly dey otion: but it sui- fices for the purpose to say that it is an idol still, worshipped for the divinity it is thought to eusbirine, Hence you may naseil the Kentuckiong on many grounds, 3 d he will bold his peace, . You in LY tell him that he has no great cities, that he does not run with the currents of na- tional progress. but never tell him that the home life of his fellows and himsell is not as good as the best in the land Dometicity is the State porcupine, pre- senting en angry quill to every point of attack. To write of homes in Kentucky, therefore and particularly of raral | ores, the popn- i® to enter the very citadel of lar affections Century. RELIABLE RECIPES together, them An Eleetriec Marvel, (iss the marvels of the recent eles iy , vt Lo#. $ tric Frankfart ition was A SiX- light of 20,000 candle the Nuremberg elec- asionishe i Ean tion uckertt pow at work larger light for the World & Fair at Chic It will be one. hall feet, and of at least The Frankfurt light could be seen plainly at Bingen on the Rhine, { five It expected the search the Wor d's Fair can be seen at ixty ' Electrical neer Sargeant is making plans for a 30 feet n which the big be . At a height of above the ground will be two lights, and the three will suffice to illuminate the skies for miles around Jackson park. Brilliant feats are with these search lighte Sheets of light can be projected with par- converging or diverging rays When the rays are thrown out parallel a clearly defined sheot of flame seems to be suspended in the darkness By chang- ing the reflector the rays are brought to la iocus at long distance from the central station These lights, turned on the buildings and alternately shot into the heavens or out across the lake, will pro. duce brilliant electrical effects, = nl exp f00t electrics ear schuckertt pein its construc. Sel is nn n and seven 2 INK) ¢ ap nndgie power foriv- miles that i. Mies away. 3 high, « vht wil ant wii feet mounts six-ioof search am ymplishe i 1 fain, Ee ——— Egg Lore. | We believe that there must be a sur. { plus of [ood to produce eggs. In other words, it needs a certain amount of food | to sustain life. anl al beyond that goes | towards the manufacture of eggs. We | dare not, however, overfeed. nor can wo expect a profit by underfeeding. A scientist mays that an excess of certain fuods cnuses the ova to be produced too rapidly. In the natural course of events only one ovam should be produced in twenty-four hours, and for five or six successive days. If two ova are produced in vne day of twenty-four hours, various ceoentricities result. Sometimes two pass into the oviduot together, and a double yolked egg results. Occasionally two perfect chickens mar be hatched from one of these, but ususlly only one. Some. times tho one is possessand of abnormal parts, as a surplus of legs or wings. Another irregularity from over-fat is an vgg within an egg. The oviduct being irritated, contracting in front of the pers feotly formed egg, instead of behind it, forced it back until it met another yolk, when the two joined company and passed down the oviduct together, Soft-shelled eggs are not a rarity by any means. They are more common to hens kept in close quarters and becoming overfat. Exercise is the best preventive, For this reason there is leas trouble of this kind on the farm-—the complaints ng vs from those keep- — a yards. —{Germantown Telegraph.
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