SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EYERY-DAY LIFE,
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
tures Which Show That Truth is
Stranger Than Fiction.
Ix the western part of South Dakota,
i8 one of the most wonderful natural
curiosities in the world, yet it is =o little
known that even its name is rarely heard
outside of the immediate vicinity, This
is the cave mountair This mountain is
part of range, vet it is almost de
tached from the surrounding
and stands in a park. The mountain is
literally honeveombed with caverns,
which ran in every direction through it,
and in some places form tunnels which
run clear through the mountain, It is
estimated that there are fully three hun
dred distinet caves, not those
which connect with others as separate
ones. From the appearance of some of
the cavities they have been used at some
time in the past by men who have made
their homes there. It is supposed by
certain scientists that an ancient race of
cave dwellers used them for homes, and
probably assisted nature in fashioning
them from the
One of the largest caverns bears evidences
of man's handiwork in that the walks
have undoubtedly been smoothed down,
and in one
the
mountains
counting
rocks in the mountains
place an excavation has been
made in one side and a raised dais give
indications that it was used as
throne room. In another cave are
remains of a dungeon. There is a deep |
cavern, almost circular in shape, about |
twelve feet from top t On the |
sides, at the bottom, are indications that |
at some time some one has tried to cut
steps in order to get out, There
no human remains found in any part of
the caverns,
a sort ol
the |
y bottom
were
A German statistician recently pub
lished the results of his investigation of
the relative ages of husbands and wives |
in the various capitals of Europe. He
found that the conditions in Berlin,
where the Bureau of Statistics does ex
cellent work, corresponded, the |
whole, with He
discovered that marriages are most fr
quent where the husband is two or three |
years older than the wife.
twenty however,
take 1 husbands
seven vears older than themsel
the man
the woman were
}
upon
those in other cities,
vears of age,
usuall
themselves i
unto
cases in which
younger than
numerous as t which
ur seven vears older. The fir
was tru f 6.7 per cent
Hose In
couples,
per « ont.
Was sIX wen ve
wife were
where he was
older. Only
where the husband was
the senior:
seven years older,
Cases
irs Vv
MSO HIST A8 numer
thirteer
+1
ne case where
and one «
was the older by 3
case was discovered
thirty-four ve
Twelve
men
years of age
are between
years eld.
ow by
wo
Since the
to about
as it is |
Comm
the rem
become very
1s sere
fugitive ir
his pursuers,
thinks, if
impor
whereabou
One of the
ure in that
Marsh, late
bank, Phi phia,
managed elude
erally conjectured t
desired hi
could be
the many
powers of i
of the and the arrest
Rudolph Jaeger, the Rothse hild runaway
cashier, who fled, leaving behind him a |
defaulting record amounting to 8400,000, |
He was arrested in Ramleh,
Egypt, and
will be brought back to Frankfort-on
the-Main and made to { his
crime,
the telegraph is the discov
whereabouts
answer POT
But for the telegraph his arrest
would have been next to impossible,
Two travelers have lately arrived at
Shanghai, China, whose names deserve
not an unimportant place in the roll of
distinguished explorers They are cap
tain Bower, of the Seventeenth Bengal
Cavalry, and Dr. Thorold, of the Indian
medical staff, and their claim to dis
tinction rests upon the that they
have journeyed through Thibet by the
longest route that can be taken through
that mysterious country. They followed
an imaginary line drawn from the Cash
mere frontier in the northwest, to the
Chinese province of Szechuen, where it
adjoins the southeastern border of the
territories of the Delai Lama, They
were upwards of ten months in Thibet,
aml a great part of their journey lay
through a series of elevated table lands,
seldom lower than 15,000 feet above the
sea level, On approaching Lhassatthey
were turned back, when within eight
days’ journey of that city, by the officials;
but after some parleying were permitted
to proceed on promising not to attempt
to enter the Thibetan capital. No for
eign travelers have before followed the
same route,
fact
Promanry no other part of the world,
save, possibly, the Yellowstone Park,
has so many natural wonders as Modoc
county, Cal, The first in point of historic
gnterest is the famous Lava Beds.—scene
of the Modoc War—a country of rocks,
#0 full of caves that lakes and rivers an
swallowed up, leaving nothing but a
faint murmur to show their course
through the bowels of the earth. In
many of the caverns an army of men
cotld hide, and in some places the intense
heat of the rocks is evidence that in-
gernal fires are raging. In all parts of
the country can be found mammoth hot
springs belching forth water strongly im-
sgoated with minerals, and often close
will be caves of the purest ice. Medi
e Lake is a wonder that draws many
_ visitors annually——a Yody of water that
does not contain a living thing, and at
certain hours of the day is full of a gelat-
inous, sponge-like substance, that sinks
and leaves the water clem At the lake
are two mountains, one of pure obsidian,
he other of pumice stone, in layers,
It 18 still an open question whether
madstanes extract the poison of a mad
dog's bite. The following points on mad-
stones were recently given to a reporter
by an old Texas hunter: “When a deer
was unusally hard to kill, running a good
after receiving n dead old
hunters searched for the madstone in
them, locating it generally in the maw,
or upper part of the paunch
of the deer has nothing
Forty-five years my father
deer which ran half a mile after
although the ball orazed the
in the
Wivs shot,
I'he color
shot n
it wa
heart
maw
ago
shot,
An
vellowish Or
examination disclosed
brown
smaller, but the shape
other deer killed by my
of various
shape of a
stone,
of a
father he f
these stones sizes, genera
the size and
mother saved a number of them, and s
found them valuable in curing risings
nutmeg
insects. They absorb the poison,
is afterward extracted by throwing th
stone in tepid water.”
that
instant
it does,
lar belief
produc
Most Cases
animals an
quite a while
t to pieces. B
known to kill their pursuer
been shot in the art,
Many CASes On rec
fought desperatel
y wound A recent shooting
an illustra
Montgomery
after
is body show ot
furnishes
walked out of
dining room being not put the
autopsy 1 bul
from
one of the ventn
heart,
Wirriax M. Davexeont, of the
Mass, , is f
remarkable examples of a man’s
f triumphin natural
is totally and
tead
vden, one
over disa
y
1 has
of
ind,
but ins
1
3 1
DOS DO
or sitting down for other
beggar
set out to make a living
then as a thr
of 700 acres
1% a farm
uted to be orth
£35,000
nature
Peter
mat Keep
ning
he trout
snakes cling
Lt ther swallowed
the string
Block op
fe in Hazlewood cemetery,
zuma, lowa, recently. h
were held fast |
Wars Mr
grave of his wi
near Monte
Charl %
mains petrified to solid stone
men to lift the coffin
The woman's fles
her hair black and glosay as in
bunch of roses in her hand had bee
slid stone The bods had been buri
fi Ye 1
}
grave, h was {
E
if
vight years.
A c¢rriovs ] have just been de
scribed by Dr. Paul Ehrenreich as inhab
iting the Rivers Amguava and Purus, in
Brazil, These are the Kamya, the men
and women of whom speak
dialects, Their love animals, not a
rommon trait in the character,
ts peculiar,
peopic
of
savage
IT 18 said that an incredibly larg:
number of Frenchmen apply every year
licenses to wear the decoration of the
Lion of Persia. Were it for not the income
derived fram the sale of brevets of that
order, the Persian Embassador in Paris
would not be able to maintain his em
bassy there,
Twins were born to the wife of James
Thompson of Mount Vernon, Ind., not
long sinve, one a boy and the other a
girl. The strange part of this is the fact
that the boy was born with a heavy
beard. The child is healthy, well de
veloped and bids fair to live,
Turre was born to Mr. and Mrs, John
Cantel of Wilberton Township, Illinoris,
recently, a girl beby weighing one and
one-half pounds, The child is perfectly
healthy, and is probably the smallest
child ever born in Fayette Coupty.
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An 04d Bug.
A curiosity in beetles which seems a
direct successor of Pope's famous gold
bug is now in London. It is in the pos-
session of Mr, W. 4. Dudley Wyatt, who
bought it in the City of Mexico. It is
about an inch in length, and not only has
it a gold embroidered coat actually sown
to its wing cases, but its legs, thorax,
head and antennas are gilded, Mr, Wyntt
has taken it to the South Kensington
authorities and has promised to present
it to them. It is alive, and has a small
git chain and pin attached to it, and
, Wyatt seems to carry it about in all
sorts of odd positions, sometimes pinned
to his coat, at other times in his waist.
pocket, He left Mexic 0, where
beetles decorated as his are by all
the ladies in all the smart sets, and has
carried it with him all through the East
and Indian during some months,
He says it has had nothing to eat during
that time, and will a captive for
from three to four years
zoette,
cont
worn
seven
live
{ Boston Ga
AROUND THE HOUSE.
Inid in vinegar fo
black ean then be
should neve:
injures
» handles, a
Knives
r the temper of
st with a dam
v smooth
YORI
ic powder,
h warm water
i Deed
a flannd dipped
putting a pinch
n which th
morning or after the
+ the
wedding
vy wins tp get ih ig
iil do something dr
is often realized,
or
o kill any one he can un
Brought on by
The madman seizes nis Kriss
rushes headlong down the street,
at every one he meets. To any who
has seen a kriss or a parang further detail
1% unnee CSsary.
A man running amok is as a dog with
hydrophobia, but the panic caused
by the former is by far the
worse. Like the mad dog, the mad man
is followed by a noisy rabble, who, sooner
or later, run into their man and exter
minate him. When this vengeful rabble
is made up of bloodthirsty Malays and
Chinamen, its wild mge and fury is
beyond control, In vond lose ription,
The clamor and blood-curdling yells of
the pursuing crowd, and the ever-nea:-
ing shout of ** oran amok, oran amok,"
is an incident which ean never be foo.
gotten by any one who has seen or heard
it, The bravest quails when suddenly
turning the corner of a street his earsare
greeted with the cry of “oran amok,"
and a few yards off he sees a Ms lay run.
ning straight at him, brandishing in his
hand the bloody Kriss with which he has
already sleughtered ali in his way. lis
hair flowing behind him, his sarong
thrown away or torn off in a struggle, his
naked chest reeking with blood, his eyes
protruding from his head and twice their
natural size, coming toward you with the
rapidity of a deer, every muscle in his
herculean little body swollen to its great.
est tension, his kriss dripping with blood,
his eyes upon you, with dire hate and
determination gleaming from them, down
he comes upon you, the whole place ring-
ing with the ery of the ever-increasing
and avenging erowd behind him, down
upon you comes the “oran amok! oran
amok !"<<[ All the Year Round,
ame,
cutting
one
“1 staid until the curtain feil on the
last act.” “I think the curtain or some.
thing must have fallen on the first act, it
was 80 flat," Harper's Bazar,
NOVELTIES IN WAR.
STARTLING DEVICES
COME HOSTILE
TO OVER.
ARMIES,
Uncle Experiments With New
Methods of Destroying His Enemies
The Highest Explosives,
The
ing active
Sam's
tak
of late, in the
ivilized and
with for
effective
United States Government is
part, particularly
experiment which all
Christian 1
the
means for wiping ou ostile armies and
fleets, writes informed Washing
ton « | Wi with
keless pow th { t of
ible, the War
ian eve uj
engaged
ering more
pur prose
Irres bruasy
Ao ob ied
which is
Departn
on the ‘smoke grenades” \ Are now
attention in England. They
ces which,
exciting
filled
explosion rodluce elo
ical subst
. ' $1
ds Of dens PMR
smoke id are designed to be carried in
skirmishers and thrown, so a
Not loss
advance by
{Oo conceal the troops (ollowing.,
novel and remarkable are
ing bombs 5
Italian
ail
ately |
of 100, 000 «
binitro-ben
are in separate gi
are broken when the shell
its being mixed to
id volution of the
Won
ven of the havo
Aa
time fuse
projec tiles of
20 method of
from
gunpowder has been
although one scientific
gentleman has wasted £300,000 of Uncle
Sam's money in experiments which only
&
1
resent
pr ni
X plosives
resulted in bursting many valuable can
non However, that
conducted under Government
with a now mixture termed “‘emmensite
scem likely to solve this problem. Until
now only pneumatic guns have been
found available for such purposes,
Flying machines for use in war have
engaged no little attention of late on the
part of the inventors, Maxin, the de
siguer of the famous gun, claims to have
sroduced one which” ean be controlled
he declares that he can fill his acrial car
with explosives and hover in it over the
city of London, hol. ing that great
metropolis at ransom to the extent of as
many millions of pounds as he chooses to
nicntion. Thus situated, be can an-
nounce his terms by dropping a small
package containing a statement of them
and his ultimatum of “cash or crash!”
lis contrivance is a cylinder of alumi.
num containing a three-fourths vacuum,
its collapse being prevented by strong
ribs inside. It is propelled and steered
by clectric gear, and k further sustained
and balanced by the wings of a great
acroplane, with an automatic arrange-
ment of a compensatory nature that
brings the machine immediately back to
the horizontal when it tends to vary
therefrom.
BALLOONS IN WARFARE.
The War Department has been recently
conducting experiments with balloons
for military purposes, Tt will exhibit at
the Columbian Exposition one of its new
“balloon trains,” consisting of three
wagons, One of the wagons carries a
balloon packed in a basket, while the
other two convey steel evlinders ¢ atged
with hydrogen gas, When it is desire
are being
auspices
rials
to send up the balloon it
thie
of the cylinders
thie
in elevation «
to the
through whi
The
in the
on th
tion 1
basket. connected with one or
and i to on
in fifteen minutes
more
aks
ascent
if 2.000 feet,
earth by
iia copper wi
tached
connects a telephone
balloon car with another telephone
o that dir
copper wire
ct communicn-
I. If desired, the tele.
phone wire may be continued to the Lead.
1 i Lhe con {
Way Meagwhi
Fionn cnr
orrotine
grrovind
nin tain
manding general
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341
1 intrenchments
trier ti
duced by th
and Cape
san
vesteriy
Old and New
but 3.566.480 et
would, therefore, Ix
y write the entire Bibl
3 §
ines Of
words
vee i One square
same manner ss the
rd’s Praver have been written
men
ment, without doubt, stag
but the figuses an
and are ox rtainiy Om
“the statement at least
to bring home to ug the limited nature
f our capacities as
with the facts of the universe,
It also furnishes an interesting sug
tion in a very different subject,
It has been often stated that a physi.
cal basis of memory may exist in perma.
nent structural modification of the brain
matter constituting the surface of the
furrows. In a highly developed brain
this surface amounts to 340 square inches,
and it would, therefore, appear that the
entire memories of a lifetime might be
written out in the English language on
such a surface in characters capable of
mechanical execution, such as those of
the Webb plate at Washington,
Cats and Catnip.
1 & stats
the imagination,
verified
whole LOTY OR
mental compared
HOR
Anyone who is disposed to have a cat
party in his or her back garden has only to
procure some catnip and leave it there,
and all the cats in the vicinity will soon
arrive and then the fun will begin. They
will sniff it, toss it up, roll over it, fight
for it and scratch it around until there is
not a vestige of it left. Valerian has the
same attraction for them; and ina lesser
degree they enjoy the scents of other
aromatic plants. 1 have often been
amused watching my big maltese going
gravely about smelling the pinks and the
plants, but 1 had to correct him when he
began tasting the latter. —{ Detroit Free
Press,
The Dreaded Glla Monster,
The Gila monster, heloderma horri-
dum, is the only species of known poi-
sonous lizard in the world. It is a na
tive of the Gila River in Arizona, and has
seldom or never been seen at any great
distance from that stream. This strange
creature is sluggish, inert, well armored
with a tough, defensive skin, and finde
on birds’ eggs and insects. The Indians
of Arizona believe the spittle, or saliva,
and even the breath of the animal, to be
deadly poison. The odor of the exhala-
tions Is said to be exactly like that of
magnolia buds,
JOR THE CHILDREN.
BLUNDERING B
Blundering Bess savas th
And oddly her
Unwittingls
funniest things,
he transposcs ,
wed eT 4
well know,
QIBCLOBUK
‘ita 03 ut
vith the pig
thu
hole of my
we with a tickle”
cking
at a rapid rate,
ra
am
meant sav
.
ut
Was stealing
. tale day
Was asking
hie was stealing
wmswered Jack, “and
cat it.’
door
£ rong away oo
moment the
Sidney cume into the
baat
vial
ODE
r
his bright,
looking at all as
ashamed of himself
for Dicky. mam.
lump between
“and here is #
I saw the postman COT
for him.”
said mar
she urn
room,
1 is ¥, “ye
little face Mm
* WAS
ma,’
the wires
jetter for v
r for vou,
ing and waited a minut
‘Thank wou dear”
i nd then
g, at him
at Jack
I
ked Sunbeam
A Carious Chinese Legend.
When the tower of Pekin was
built the Emperor Yung-lo, of the Ming
dynasty, ordercd a great mandarin,
named Kuan-yu, to cast a bell big enough
for such a noble edifice, says Pearson's
Weekly. Time after time Kuan-yu and
the expert workmen in the country tried
to east a bell and failed; the casting was
always honeycombed, and the Emperor
said that if there was one more failure
Kuan-yu's head should pay the forfeit for
it. Now, Kuan-yu had a daughter, 2
beautiful girl of sixteen, named Ko-ai;
ghe went to a certain astrologer and
asked the cause of her father’s failure,
Some demon, she was informed, wired
the blood, of a maiden to be mixed with
the metal, and unless this was done the
next casting would fail, like the previous
ones,
Ko-al got permission from her father
to be present at the costing, and amid
the dead silence which prevailed when
the taps were drawn and the molter
stresmt poured down juto the mold o
shriek was heard, sud, crying out “For
my father!” Ko-ai threw herself into the
soothing metal. One of the workmen
tried to seize her, but succeeded in get.
ting hold only of a shoo. The father
was taken homo a mving madman, but
the bell was perfect in wake and tome,
and, whou struck, its sonorous boom is
to this day followed by a low wailing
sound like the cry of a woman in agony,
and when people hear it they say:
. o's Ko-ai calling for her shee,” . |
bell