———— soc
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
"ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EYERY-DAY LIVE.-
tures Which Show That Truth
Stranger Than Fletion.
Mrs. W. A. Apaxs, living on West
fourth street, had an experience, says
the Sedalla Mo., Democrat, that she is
guite likely to remember whenever she
bakes bread again. In her baking she
that is hinged side and
down like a lid,
bottom, the lower one of which is usually
filled with water for steaming purposes,
Like all good housewives,
made her bread and placed it in the oven,
on one
roasting hot,
all right until
Everything went along
the hired girl began to
wonder at the strange odor that filled
the kitchen. An Investig Iu
gun, and it was determined that some
thing was burning. The
opened and Mrs. Adams started to see if
her bread was scorching. The pan was
partly pulled out when the colored girl,
who had been looking on, fell back with
a scream that indicated a near attack of
hysterics. A snake two feet loWy
was lying coiled on top of the pan and
was burned to a crisp. Its
wide open, as if it had been repeatedly
striking itself with its fangs in the death
agony. Even though roasted snake is an
unusual delice: vet the that
jeauses the housewife to wonder is how
the snake got into that stove. The rep
Aile was too badly charred to identify
A special search for snakes
‘henever bread is baked in t
ation was
oven was
about
mouth was
1 tht
ACY, thing
Species,
ibe made
house a
wr
nat
AT THE Gloversville, N. Y
‘pany’s works the other morni
trifugal machine, a heavy r
concern used for waning hair,
packed full of that material and running
under great pressure at
thousand revolutions
suddenly exploded, filling
of the mill with flying hair and pi
iron and doing a great amount of damage.
A man named Helwig had a narrow es
cape of his lif He was sitting in an
armchair i and
picce of iron we
flew closely
his chair, and,
building, buried
H
vir Com
the ce
evolving iron
n-
cle Wis
the
that portion
3 f
oCes Of
some distance
away,
20
th
i
through
ground.
passing
itself in the
Ix Tue ir at Mountain
View (
planted a lar
the ranging in
four to seven inches in
reservoir borders Blair Park
and the mena at the park consi
a big “tom” cat. “Tom” is exper
fisher cat. He me the margin
of the reservoir
up its nose int
the lake to feed,
carpship out and
true cat and fish ste
is considered
Tue t
Fisher,
near Cape May,
years ago, and
wiil
SCTIVO
Cal.,
f German carp
fr
Oakland,
* number
s1Z¢
8
ni length,
the
th
on
Teri
An
reeps al
and when a carp pokes
» grass at
wom
which str
soon Ie
vessel as
deeply
masts or ny
the recent
bones §
vessel 1
not
The «
he f
fect CY i
clothing
light,
hour
forty-nine
tobacco wore
crew. The cargo consisted o i
of corn shipped at Duck riv
bay, for N« Ww York.
in the sand that the crew’
paraphe rnalia,
went down
eral of
and the s
to reach the
at
ust as i
full load
Delaware
She
HAs wu
the crew wi
ard drowned
ma
aw
land.
Fanuen Corseglia of South Je
gent to the Philadelphia Record
neat thing in the way freak ef
woduction of of his Ci
What the hen tried to do was to |
egus at but she only partially
ceeded, Having produced one com
plete egg, correct in size and shape, she
managed, in trying to instantly dupli
cate it, to inclose it in a flexible sac of
semi-opaque skin, which
the complete ¥
egg. The effect
of a hard egy and an egg that has been
dropped out of its shell, both inclosed in
a seamless bag about four inches long
and two inches wide. After accomplish
ing this very unusual feat Farmer Cor
geglia’s Cochin hen raised such a disturb
ance in order to eall attention to her
achievment that she was set upon by
half the feathered inhabitants of the
barnyard and foreed to roost on the hen
house roof to escape their jealous wrath,
The row having attracted a farm hand's
notice he investigated the cause and the
Cochin's prize production was carefully
placed in a cigar box fillled with bran
and taken to Farmer Corseglia,
one
once,
Twexty odd years ago Captain E. A.
Marwick of Portland, late master of the
bark Rose Junes, found a stowaway on
board his vessel just after leaving a Ger.
man port for the United States, Calling
the ragged and halfstarved boy aft, Cap-
tain Marwick, who never was noted for
smiability, asked what he meant by
coming on board his vessel, and told him
to prepare for the soundest thrashing he
ever got. The boy replied that a thrash-
Jng was fust what he expected. This
excited Captain Marwick’s curiosity and
he questioned the boy who said that he
had been accustomed to daily thrashings
at home and thought that he could not
| possibly fare worse as a stowaway on an
tAmerican merchantman. At this Captain
Marwick's anger changed to admimtion
for the plucky lad, whom he soon after.
ward adopted. The old Captain has
now retired from the sea, and the poor
[stowaway commands the Rose Junes, and
thas a wife and children in a pleasant
thome at Farmington, where the man whe
gave him a start in the world instead of
ia thrashing often vists,
| Oxe of the keepers of the Philadel.
arger animals has been quite varied, in
speaking of the elephant, said: “While
it has no fear of the powerful Bengal
tiger or the Numidian lion, at the first
sight
from the most abject fear. I remember
well, wears ago, one of the largest and
most brutal elephants we had in
Zoological Garden, while feeding one
day in its quarters, discovered a mouse
to look at. The mouse seemed enfirely
composed in the presence of such a mas
and satisfied its appetite fully
before retiring, The elephant gave its
lilliputian visitor a wide berth during its
Wirniax R. Vavens of Ilwaco, Wash-
ington was supposed to be afflic ted with
catarrh of the stomach, and after vainly
}
n tube
stoma to wash out the diseased
organ. One day recently while using the
tube, there was ejected from the stomach
h or snail about an inch and a half
long, and the body back
about the thickness of a lead pencil.
Two horns protruded from the head.
placed in a bottle of alcohol and sent
Dr. Carter of Fort Canby, Mr.
Vaughn's physician, The only manner
to account for the presence of the thing
be the fact that
ago Mr. Vaughn was engaged loge
the lake near town, and often drank
brooks running into the
1
fn led
Was
to
may about three vears
1 on
ir
it
+ +h
til
urious fae it not
hundred who h
thi
1s had any
any put the
1 : 3. y
powder into his bootlegs
ng but
t al 1t
AiOus
need
¢ receive
knows
powder he will
}
during tl
before he enters
down. Then he
or of his boot,
1e shift,
and these »
re
go
shafthouse to
and in
this manner conveys it into the
mine,
The miners have stopped
the fulminating caps with
f late years, :
ti ide
of the Anarchists
be hanged with
gw exploded one
andl
ma jori
his 1s due,
10 suid at Chicago of Ling
who was sentenced
nies and the
f the
of the caps by
his head off
blew most of
of th
i
the
e miners crimp the ap
on the heel of their boot w
ith a
Kui
pl
ire] the olutl
th
{ po mn
dden
The
4
aone many
with a su ness the glass broke
work
pieces
fim
Lispox Faris Me, |
Id girl who rhs
wel
When she
t 250 pounds,
was 1:
Scientists have estimated t
t aver I to fourteen feet of the entire
the
to f
flow back into the
taken up into itmosphere
shape ot vapor, xl] as rain and
08,
Bricks made of plate glass
superior quality A
glass is forged into a mold
sand of
under several
thousand pounds pressure: it is then sub-
jected to extremely high heat,
sand firmly
i
y¥ to unite,
perfectly white
», and
causes glass and
The bricks are
stand both {frost and acid.
will
in
is to
The new bridge Paris,
Pant Mirabeau, constructed
sothewhat the cantalever principle,
since it will rest upon two piers and meet
in the centre, Its stability, however,
will depend upon an adjustment
weight like that of huge crane,
Iw
on
of
a
Heht construe tion, and to compensate for
abutment will be especially heavy,
Herr Weismann, a distinguished Ger.
man biologist has pointed out that the
average duration of the life of birds is
by no means well known. Small singing
birds live from 8 to 18 years, Ravens
have lived for 100 years and parrots still
linger in captivity. Fowls live from 10
to 20 years, while the wild goose lives
over 100 years, The long life of birds
has been regarded as compensation for
their lack of fertility and the great mor-
tality of their young.
Orriciat Tig, — Notwithstanding the
fact that standard time has been adopted
animost everywhere in the United States
for the last seven years, there still remain
some cities who subject themselves to
the inconvenience of a double standard,
Among these was Augusta, Ga, which,
however, on March 1, formally adopted
eastorn time as Ms standard. There are
now but two places of any importance in
tha Union, says the Railway Guide,
where mean solar time, or as it is popu-
Inrly called, ‘sun time" is used, In both
of them attempts have been made to
adopt standard time, but the conserva.
tive apirit has been too strong and has
brought about a return to the old state
of affairs. In one cass the effort vas
made in the winter when the days were
short, and the difference in the hours of
{ daylight soon made itself apparent and
| the attempt to readjust the working
hours was a failure. If, however, a trial
should be made during the spring and
| summer it is doubtful whether any one
would be sensible that the change had
taken place, Both of the towns referred
| to are on the line of railways leading to
{| Chicago and it is to be hoped that they
will try to bring about the reform before
{ the opening of the Columbian exposition,
otherwise they may figure in the eyes of
the visiting foreigners ns the only cities
{in the United States whose inhabitants
use the system in vogue in the days
{ of Christopher Columbus,
| atid
Mii
Disaserenr oF A TnusperporT. — ‘Did
lightning
geologist,
n
©x
vou ever see the diameter of a
flash measured!” asked a
“Well, here is the case which once |
| closed a flash of lightning, fitting it
i actly, so that you ean ji how
it was. This is called a ‘fulgurite,’
| ‘lightning hole,’ and the material it is
made of is glass, I will tell vou how it
was manufactured, though it took only a
fraction of a second to turn it out, When
a bolt of lightning strikes a bed of sand
it plunges downward into the sand a
or transforming
simultancously inte in the
material through Thy
by its great heat, it {forms once a glass
s17¢
big
or
Ist seo
greater,
distance, lems
glass the silica
which it passes
its own
. knowt
aug up.
tube of pred isely
then such a tube
wl and
followed into the
nearly thirty
r diameter
thre
wore of the
5 ferry
is 10
inches
flash
produces
. : 3 : ti 1
ound also in solid
!f
!
f alicrht
of slight «
rally
Urasiy ir
SIN mere ly
surface,
in astonishing abundance
of Little Ararat in Armeni
and so porous that
can
be obtained,
directions
ono
ng
bottle-green gl
There is
Museum
rock
aderangemenst
and are at
cryous lise Res
cling breath they
aff
cannot
the
ed
suiier
snd one
remain in
48 a rule
pect than the rich, fi i
ir teeth « arly attended to by $
former allow
head until they
tooth of ot bs
the
AT
Som
to have them
time for the ex
a difficult
| matter to determine. If the back teeth
are abscessed in any way they should at
| once receive skillful treatment, and if the
discharge of pus cannot be controlled in
time they should be extracted. Chronic
| abscesses in the teeth discharge pus con
tinually, and the stomach is forced to as
| sithilate this septic poison along with the
{ food. In the of time it must
| poison the digestive organs, and eventu-
ally impregnate the whole system. Too
much attention cannot be given to poor
teeth in this way, There is a dry rot in
some teeth which does not discharge pus,
and a great amount of injury may not be
done to the system by letting them re-
main, but the majorijy are harmful. The
| question of pain should not Keep one
from the dentist's chair, for when gas is
administered the work is comparatively
painless. In taking gas, however, it
should be taken only on an empty
stomach, for if taken immediately after a
good meal nausea and vomiting may be
caused,
P cess, and the owner hates
pulled out, The proper
traction of a tooth is really
course
French Army Bileyclista,
The French War Office has just fssued
regulations for the employment "of bi
cyclists in the Army. The present or-
anization provides for the enrolling of
Bet ween 6,000 and 7,000 ““‘wheelmen” in
ease of war, They are, curiously enough,
provided with a double armament; for,
according to the regulations, they are to
carry a cavalry carbine and thirty-six cart.
ridges in their belts, Their chief use is
to be that of messengers, and old-fash.
foned grumblers say that the first result
of n gener! having a crowd of SY
hanging about his headquarters will be
that he will send far too many directions
to his subordinates. —[ Vanity Fair,
A WONDERFUL CLOCK.
BLETE IT.
Fashioned Out of Over 34,000 Small
Pleces of Wood From the Four Quar-
ters of the Globe,
This is an age
wishes to be somebody must
thing that nobody else ean do.
do some
Feeling
ymbition in some
thing, Charles BR. Hurlbut began sixteen
VOUrs agro the construction of a wonderful
which hus reached
to BUTrpass
not yet com
pletion
This clock now contains over thirty
four thousand separate pieces of wood in
laid, and includes 350 different vi
It stands three feet high and has been de
igned and executed entin ly by Hurlbut
Aricties,
of One Hundred
It is the first and o1
er attempted by
D 3
color of
and Twenty
ily piece
him NO
deseriptic
]
inlaving eo
stain or any mn
the natura
t..1
ue
u brut
woinls ine WOT
copting biue
strikes the hours
3 4
Hi
1
ont ic
h Fath
ire COs
an
eon
ime and Satan o«
juarter «
siripes io no
have been
iAsN
2
Opposite this onderful
other, showis ene in Past
his
h
% A palm tro
crimson and
standing
rzling growt of coarse grass {iver
his head stretohe ite leaves
bye
In
untains
wiond thie
an irregular chain of
in
¥
1
SUTTON oad 1
44k
utlined eral borders
rey
four different patterns, all of which an
original «ave the Grecian fret
The clock, as the artist
a lady's gown that
finishings or decorations may
attached It was practically completed
six months ago, and vet he has since ad
ded at the top a specimen of Klosir, cut
from the handle of a butcher knife owned
by a Russian Jew, some German ash from
an emigrant’s trunk, a piece of Siberian
hemlock cut from the stick carried by an
exile, and a cane made in
Greenland
“When I first began to collect my
woods,” said Mr. Hurlbut, “1 had no
particular interest in the different speci
mens, but when I learned that there were
200 varieties in Florida alone [ grew
ambitious to introduce a few hundred in-
to the clock. 1 became a crank at once
and talked wood, dreamed wood, begged
wood and sawed wood until my friends
all brought me wood to get rid of me,
I haunted the docks and sought acquaint.
ances among the sailors. Many an old
tar has made me his friend for life by
fishing out of his locket a stray bit of
wood from Hong Kong or Shanghai. 1
have destroyed all the pipes, canes,
elegant fans and bric-a-brac that fell into
my clutches, in order to insert a square
inch in my clock. If all the scraps
employed were got together again they
would make a respectable cord of wood.”
The big and curious chronometer can
never be duplicated, and its value has
been estimated at $15,000, New York
World.
walnut NOY
i panel and include ti
3
resembles
additional
always be
NAVE,
in
ROTM
scrap of a
Ammonia for Electric Shock.
An ingenious dentist has been makin
some interesting experiments or Roi
——————
5
i
ly killed by ¢l
which have been near y electric
shocks
On Wednesday he was standing on the
street and saw a sparrow in a small pool
of water left by the The
bhirk BOON wire
overhead, Thu
to the ground,
dentist picked
move his wings.
street sprinkler
went up and flew toa
it him
the
shock went
whore
him
The
mouth and let
Ones
ne lay until
abie to
thed
him go.
the
nan
up, barely
i
gentleman bre
As the shock was
not a very bad one,
returned to a dangerous locality, and the
result another mu
than the first When the bird fell to the
he was parently | i
i
wi
Was shock cll Worse
ground
the dentist too i
gan un experiment
He at first resorted to artificial
tion ns
bird's
before, and then injected in
flesh aromatic
§
" 11t
then put
ROMe Cle
When placed |
« nearly cold
MEDICAL LAKE.
It Cures the Maladies of Men and Ande
reads,
irresistible
of my tent,
* }
to give him
1 rope long enough
iit , and he
considerable liberts
of 1t thu Vers
and make
to divide A meio
the
that he wanted me
into tent it
rape s« were his pre forence, then came
bread and Finally,
1 biscuit
¥
i
he drank milk out «
“He comes up to me and puts down
his head to have gis cars rubbed, and if 1
do not attend to him at once, or if 1 ceas
ittending to him, he gives me
but admonitory thump
“1 dine outside the tent, and he is tied
to my chair and waits with wonderful pa
tience for the odds and ends, only ocoa
sionally rubbing his soft nose against my
face to remind me that he is ther A
friendly scuffle is the only sound he
makes. He does not know how to fight
or that teeth and heels are for any other
uses than eating and walking. He is
really the gentlest and most docile of his
race. The point at which he draws the
line is being led; then he drags back and
a mulish look comes into his sweet eyes,
But he follows like a dog, and when |
walk he is always with me,
“He comes when I call him, stops
when I do, accompanies me when I leave
the road in search of flowers, and usually
puts his head either on my shoulder or
under my arm. To him I am an embaodi.
ment of melons, cucumbers, grapes,
pears, peaches, biscuits and sugar, with a
good deal of petting and ear-rubbing
thrown in."
a soup plate
a gentle
Tur Turkish Government is contem.
lating the building of a great suspension
Bridge over the Boagitutons, which
divides Europe from Asia. It would he
ulmost as ntic an undertaking as to
bridge the Hudson river at New York,
And yet it would probably cost less to
make this great improvement than it
would to duplicate the useless pyramid
of Cheops. The Bosphorous bridge
would not be so great as the famous
Forth bridge in Scotland.
hg
LREEDING IN CAPTIVITY.
| rds Mating in 8 Zoological Garden ss
! Never Befors.
The condors, vultures and eagles of
0 Philadelphia Zoo have begun to lay
| eggs, which they have never done be-
| ‘ore while In captivity. These birds have
sil bullt huge nests of branches of trees
{end bark, and a wholly unwonted ac
ivity possesses them, The Zoo has
Leen filled with persons looking at the
i »rds and watching their bulldiogs.
| vio keeper of the Zoo explains us
hy it is that the birds have never mated
sefore. *The secret is this,” he said,
"The nearer you approach a sfate of na-
the better it for birds in every
NAY In that st the first thing vul-
ures and e when they pounce
1pon their prey is cut into the head
snd dig out and devour the brains, The
birds had always been fed here, as they
everywhere ¢ horse meat,
during the past month we have
arrangements with poultry and
h dealers by which the heads of pouls
#
dire
is
alo
ages
JAvVe on
ut
He
xy and fish dressed for market and all
t damaged
thrown
are little Aare
in to the
change from
have been
i They are now devour
natural food in their natural
end are that much nearer
state. They became less
ok more int t in each
wasn't long bef hey wero
doves I
8 ¢
HOB nat a
Jrought up
Is
birds, 1
wreeflesh
leome
birds
: their
HE
t
I
nanner, just
hi
| Bit ari if 4
Huugish ana 1«
Cres
14 %
it
ther, re
furtie
1 an eagle ze
wire screen,
1 it with a stick,
same fate,
Lark were
Xperunent,
and
id nests and lay in
wh raising
buzzards and
ducks in a
in captivity:
any pretense
We shall
fish brain
are needed in every
what they have ac-
A an e
the vultures
mii De
Ors,
: hi and
agies 10
N
iid these
young
{f layir
ie can swim excel
for
ently and it often
nks
rater to drink
wells the purpose of otaining
Poisoned
Mrs. Mary EK. O' Fallen,
Hey OD YeRrs ag. An
terrible ulcers broke
head, Arms,
throat, She
but 78 ihe
w nd
Mrs ME. OFallen. .
41 last oho beg
PARILLA -
Fors
nto take HOOD'S SARSA-
op he 5 now perfectly
Le
»¥ ' and A ¥
weighs IX ou x 4 y 1, and does
fe avon far
Tor a Iarg ny
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iy 4 -
iy medic
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color 3 to the forth a Colin Sliver Wateh,
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an elegant Gold Watch, of fine workmanship
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's The second to the last a handsome Silk Dress
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finetan © Tasnnbn, Pew
yOue Can
Af make
‘German
Syrup
My niece, Emeline Hawley, was,
taken with spitting blood, and she
secame very much alarmed, fearing
‘hat dreaded disease, Consumption.
5he tried nearly all kinds of medi-
sine but nothing did her any good.
“inally she took German Syrup and
the told me it did ber more good
than anything she ever tried. It
ito the blood, gave her strength
wind ease, and a good tite, I
wad it from her own lips. Mrs.
ary A. Stacey, Powmiebo Conn.
tlonor to German Syrup. °
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