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ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS EYERY-DAY LIFE, OF Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven- tures Which Show That Truth Stranger Than Fiction, LANCASTER i lis “IY were systemati with a neatness showed surprisi Cgus were were laid on feathers, as = the London Tele A CORRESPONDENT . ible for the following re graph is respon markable statemént: “A cow to Levi Mogge of Lydlich, Dorset, observed a few davs trot bie agony, and eventually hed against the walls of its shed, neck. feet lon water Of in its head das On examit » snake, and six wis were that iles while miion a g, young ones, also found in i thie IK er nas named Rasson tried at Lille, seemingly endles Re produ i ft every imag) figure s and beckons w reproduction dred di wilder i half “( sired wav. - the hall wed the stands A rocosmorive on a Hangarian railway had just pulled a freight train into the station and was standing upon t 0 thie when her boiler explode d with a terrific detonation that shook the earth and with such force that all the windoW®s o the neighboring village were The greater part of the cylindrical body of the boiler, as well track, distance of two hundred yards, The frame of the engine, broken under the stress, was bent in two near the earth, while the boiler tubes, remaining adhe. rent to the fire-box, were exposed to view like the entrailsof an open cadaver, Strange to say, the accident caused no loss of life, the engineer having left the lform, while the fireman, engaged in oiling the mechanism, escaped with non fatal wounds, Waar is believed to be the largest aerolite ever known to have fallen is lying in the Caspian Sea, a short distance rom the peninsular of Apsheron, The serolite made a terrific obve as it rushed through the air, and the white hot mass ight that ill uminated the country mn i ound about for i great distance r were thrown cht to those ped was an exeec =i of w up he sich who wer CHOrinois cts twelve nat fathomles ind ines with | : twenty AZO A We drilled there to a dept 1900 feet, but as no results were 13) i Wiis it was abandoned Some ve water and gas ese ped from the great i pressure, tearing ou cutting id ri fY pall lider was w ¥ torts to opped il operation was upon Mrs } 11. by Drs fe 0 ArT Salis 1 i rest to the me Mrs, Sweet been suffering for eighteen months with a trouble which baffled the skill of l Her i phy condition 1 will nd i hins the g1Cinns, wroming light a broken knitting inches long, which had be encysted in the flesh. Upon one of the needle there had formed a hen's egg. her life, The needle with its strange formation has been photographed for the benefit of the medical fraternity, Eight. cen months ago the needle was broken off in Mrs, Sweet's back, Strange to say, she was not aware of the presence of the steel in her flesh at that time, but later on the pains for which the physiciant could not account developed and it was but recently that the cause of her suffer. ing was surmised, She is now in a fair way to recover, Tax Government of Holland for a long time has been considering a project for draiviog the vast lagoon known as the Ruyde ee. his shoot br 1a ee for purposes VONSEIS Cian onty adam by me AS ag would be ex navien find thei the i Arye Am a Canal timate nturie i inungn The wonld be fd ivi which would Ix cost of the 000, aud of Such a time whi put down at SOMETHING IN THIS NAME, A St, Louis Man Filled With Who is Embarrassment, Constantly certificate of that the fancy Same ships to-day ent raced writer $y Lida Heed po nun y carry an oil equip- ment for dangerous weather A thin stream of oil from the bag suspended at the bawsprit will do wonders toward the tecth waves: the ofl spreads over the waters in a thin film with wondrous rapidity. A British ship heavy with ore, was but lately in distress during a terrific northwester, being pounded to destruc tion on every side, The lookout espied a black object ahead which looked like a long, low rock, At the same instant the clonsness, The rock that they were driving upon proved to be a dead whale, and from its sides slowly oozed the sperm which had calmed the raging deep hn a fearful em- ergency for the bark, his calls to mind the fact that the discovery of the modern efficacy of oil upon the waters was made by observa. tions of the conditions surrounding the { | ELECTRICAL TERMS, A Lucid Explanation of the Laws of Electricity, Probably fi winter isu i ho LL i the law have a oo ing [8 $11 wl ei her other by connectin of iT 3 4 each inmp ng current to nents, Just ast cach ot holes wi her may whorever pipes running parallel t be puncture with small it ix desired to have the currents of csCape In neither case will thie jrressury be diminished at any point, except by an inconsiderable amount due to friction, though a large quantity of water or electric fluid will be used A man's hiady offers a resistance to the passage of an electric current dependent upon the muscular and nerve fibres of the body, the thickness of his skin and the conditions under which the current enters and leaves hig body This resist. ance depends, therefore, upon three valua- ble factors, and therein les the uncertainty of “electrocution.” A man's ability to withstand the effects of a waterfall de. sonds similarly upon the strength of the man and the point of application of the water's force, a water i it te im Brahman Punishment, The Indian papers report that some time since, in the neighborhood of Fyre baud, a man of the Abr or cowherd caste was carrying a young calf home on his I k. Tie | uteact sna | Hpped down prabimans «ds # nienceda form oi months, A BRIDGE OF SALT. Partly Natural and Partly Artificial Found fa Death Valley, in It The its f Je i but the couking, patation In the waters faken ¢ ix of two kinds, larg: former is highly poisonous, ix consequently interdicted latter, if properly prepare « for fe ugh, and hax the reg of being highly palatable, Among the middie and upper classes, however, a prejudice exists against cating fugu in any shape, and since the fish consequent. | ly commands a low price in the market, it is consumed in considerable quantitics by laboring folks, The coachiman of the | Russian Legation and his wife dined off | these “shosal” fugu on April 18, end apparently the little fish had not been properly cooked, or else they were of exceptionally poisonous character, for by four o'clock in the same afternoon the man wae dead, and thirty minutes latter his wife expired. An investigation made by the police showed that the fish- monger had sold his fish as fugu, so that the unfertunate people could net have been in any doubt ax to the nature of what they were about to cat, and the necessity of removing a certain portion If 89 on PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, EPITOME OF NEWS GLEANED FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE. Tis gravest fears are entoria ned as to the Dam, BILE. safety of the Naufmenn Hun W aber A ine entire nt. The on, and spending now camped about six miles sbiove Follsvil ¢ break has already occu brenst nay give vay at soy mom inhabitants of BL. Clalr, Port Curl other places were warned of the in davger, and about OUD pep enre cut on the hills, Hundreds of others have sken refuge in Pousvilie, wh town is nol to be in any danger, A force of itis is mationed at the dam tau give warn ng itomedintely the dam gives way snd 1000 asked for for the the I WiiLE attempting to light a lets have Deen use © those out on ile. fire with oll was fo ire snd wae Mre. Henry Sadler, of Greensburg, tally burned, Her house (ook destroyed, Tue family of John Line made violently ill by eating children A i mey die, BEXSATION was crested in when the Collingdale election « ¢! for viclsting the election laws ine thet they were not sworn io at the oi! the primaries. Pre blicas charge Tne election of officers of the cinit in Upland, st the recent primaries have been arrested or of violating the election inwe viner, bet murderer st tinry. His need wieil . n years in the Per 3, rece. ved a sentence of two years, THE sult against ex State Tressurer Boyer the Rutan, MES Cis issed at Harrisburg, owin to ance of ex State nek, TY Coroner Sta fler, held quent nEArian, Haile e- #88 TOD. bie body of Jobin Spolak, the supposed 10 have bees ton by a mob murdered As no evi! cured, a verdict of scci be denial dered, Tue commencement exere's aud Marshall Cx y IX Serantyn, Michae. Moran es of Franklin in Lancaster, over epee were Leld was run by a street car and killed, Two sireet cars on uring Thomas Devine, and Mr. Ne the Dunmore line coll McDonaid, Mickael andrew, a memb:r of the P'hi. Shermans Rifl Patrick McAndrew, while marching a parade wus overosme by and died. Tne Loony fed, it ex, Lae went 2 ier of Ancient Or Siate The egate, James secretary, § Hibernians, srped ia Wilkes Harre. niion adie ats Officers e'ected are: State de ornelius Patrick Pittsburg was selected as Jackson, Philadelphia; O'Brien, Ph Pivsborg. the peat piace of meetin Pavi suexien, confined in prison at Wilkes-Barre or a charge © inde RIN, {reasurer Va'llon, the county { mak- jog threats, commilieed su cide Jrarovsry caused John Faber, an Ashley Andrew Ca- jure his wife miner, to shoot down and kill sonic, and to probab ¥ fata.ly i with an ux THE tris] of William Kain George Krambo and Otto Wand, who constituted the election board at the recent Republican primaries in The wen are indicted for comepiracy. CARXFGIE'S mdnacer has signed 1000 me. Works. Tire mechanios de flare that the associat. on liltreated them dure ing the former sirike, and they now propose 10 let the Amaleamated fight its battles alone. Exercise ipeidemial to commencement were held at Swarthmore, Ducknell. Ursinos, Pennsaylvania an | other colleges, Tig uneral » ryices over the remains of ex-Senator Rutad were held in Allegheny. The interment was st Beaver, SRORRTARY EDGE has issuod a report cone srqirg the condition of crops in the Biate, The yield of wheat promises to be larger than that of last year. Oats, hay and corn have been damaged. Tue p tate crop will de tmalier thau last year's yield,
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