SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EYERY-DAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
tures Which Show That Truth is
Stranger Than Fiction,
Tue clerks of the Grand Hotel in San
Francisco, that the most cheerful
man that ever staved there was M. Dow
ling of Minneapolis, recently a guest, and
savs
arms. He wore them all himself. With
out them he would not, to all appear
ances, have made much of a
Set up on his high cork legs, however,
and with his arms pieced out with the
same material, he would burst into the
hotel like a ray of light on a dark, cloudy
day. He ictim of one of the
playful blizzards of Minnesota. When
it was over and he was gathered up from
the it difficult to
pie es would withstand the
of the gravedi Some
vived
to oe
showing.
wus the v
Snow Wits tell what
, however,
what he could do.
off close to his body.
was gone, and all h
the smq
rnght h
walking
which
wear,
to buy cor
likes a
street iz San Francis
for arnm
or both
mediately
load t
time li
with ti
all over
much
beg
uoem
ing th
they
would tell ]
was
arias a
then
lear
thems
cane,
fore with
his wav.
that he
however
while he
bre
Winiav E. Kxieur, fan
as ‘Bill Knight, a Phil
gist, who i
chara
aimlessly
Another
of interest
ful of laced on
in payment for a bottle of medicine
Dever cour 1 1 i off car
and thrown
mark
Pe
inm tary matters
small ch
ug
I guess i
Is a pool
stone,
summers
able care
In the big palm house,
tropical plants rise to the
feet above
the hot countries,
itself. During i
ment in ux
ebey the commands o
a whistle from his lips will b
the dark recesses of the po
ling. A snap of the fingers will
to ceisappear ji
or 4 above the surface of
the water the height of a foot
the agile bass will leap for it, and greedily
gulp it down. Mr. Forson says fish
seems fond of him and willing to sport
with him as long as he stays:by the pool
It has several tricks that it performs at
the will of the gardener. The only com
panion the bass has in the pool is a sun
fish. Several German carp were
when the savage black fellow
caught
a jungle of rar Pp
Alits
his bass now disports
of confi
learned
and
it from
twink
SON,
lin a
1st as quickly If
hie id
even to
8 worm
cricket 1
§
sh
Lae
was
but the introduction was advantageous
only to the latter, The carp were soon
eaten up. The one sunfish either defen
ded itself with vigor against the bass,
or entered into a truce, for the two
together in harmony now,
Tar weird story that comes from
Texas of the segro who hanged upon the
scaffold until justice was satisfied that
came to life and his now able to polish
there are several cases on record of crim-
inals surviving judicial execution. More
than six centuries ago Juetta de Belsham
hanged for three days, was cut down and
PP oned, the supesstitions people be.
jeving that God had decreed otherwise,
Obadiah Walker, a former master of
New College, Oxford, England, tells of
# Swiss who was hanged thirteen times,
every attempt being frustrated by a pecu-
liarity of the windpipe which prevented
strangulation. Ann Green, who was
hanged in Oxford in 1650, survived the
ordeal, was pardoned by the crown and
was soon after married. In 1808 ove
Johy Green was hanged in London and
recovered on the dissecting table of Sur
geon Blizard, A fitting close for thi
the story of “Half-Hanged
Maggie.” She was banged in Edinburgh
in 1740, came to life while taken
to potter's field and lived for years after
wards,
is
“note”
hi ing
Ohio, Herald's West
“Miss
is the
in the
the
h the
and night in
formed
hen,
two became
Tne Dayton,
daughter of D. W. Pease,
rly
house and took up his abode wi
He
un
s00n nt
old black
and the
matters
hen,
usual =eason
un
for
Thus went on {or
some time, when the
that the
remembering
nd replenishing her sj
jected a nest in the poults
+ known her intentions thie
She was at once supplied
in
1 wv
commenced busine
the
with
forward to save the
8 to quick for hi
jumping in the creek disappeared
0 ith his prize,
lost the supper he had
several hours to catch
% for w
WRie -»
he
worked
:
Such
on the part of an animal so notably shy
as the mink is Known to
be, has set all the old Civde Hill hunters
and trappers to wondering.
SUsplCIous
A vaxous rock is the vaselike depres
the ‘Navajo postoffic ©,
thirteen miles from Manuelito, New
Mexico The story of this latter is
Whenever a Navajo happens to pass this
apot, if on a journey of
sion of OI
nore than usual
in pursuit of lost cattle or to visit a sick
relative, he procures a stone or pebble of
it in the *‘postoffice” with a wish for the
How long
vogue among
but some idea
custom has been in
this tribe no one can tell,
fact that the ‘‘postoffice”
not less than 30,000 of
and many have been scattered
and displaced and some have been used
many times,
now contains
Marriages in Abyssinia.
—————
Abyssinia is a country where, if mar.
riage is a failure, it can be easily dis
solved. There is absolutely no legal or
holy tie. When a man is desirous of
marrying a girl he directly applies to her
parents, he maidens, like those in
many European countries, are seldom
consulted on the question; the lover
arranging with the father or male rela
tives regarding her dower, which gener
ally means a few beeves, sheep or pieces
of cloth, and sometimes gold,
On the marringe day the bridegroom
presents himself with his best man at the
house of his future father-in-law. Much
feasting goes on till the bride is carried
off by her husband, generally on his
of their togas
sun, or perhaps
Behind come
follow, making a canopy
to keep off the rays of the
and clapping their hands to be measured
beating of tom-to.gs carried by men run
who also blow long trumpets
The happy couple that 1 saw married
with the ex
and at last
where the
with their
3 ries
when ti
of
the
womsmen formed a
happy pair,
deferred courtship began,
their
be st
reached town green,
creecn
round th
gs of the
to be
many
HOW MINES ARE
hread Let
One Ci
SALTED.
A Course Out the Secret iy
in Utah,
LR
#4
ieceptiy
A Pest of White Anta,
11% been
nt This pest,
Office report
i the
long
Har quarter
impradence
ng the dam
to the houses
t
:
who, instead the old wood,
they are
ind many public
§ 3 ia ‘ 3
sllowedd 1 tO Iw ity i AWAY)
now almost evi
and priv ste build
state from then
in
ide, which makes
he exact amount
a house
are knowp
been neces
and timbers from the
it very difficult to ki
of damage done, wrefore
can never be safe where they
to be In some cases it has
Gry
supporting beams and woodwork taken
THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH.
URE DisgAsE,
incurable when its
interruption
an incurably chronic con
OpgracLes 10 Tne (
A disease is
OF
i
“iso
without
work on
Malaria induces
residence. A bronchial eatarrh continues
stationary, and at last draws the lungs
into sympathy with it, if the person at
should come down unexpectedly.
has had to be done at the
gardens in which it is useless to attemph
to grow certain flowers (for instance,
out the inside of the stalk, leaving onl
the skin untouched. It has been foun
impossible to destroy or get rid of the o,
«| Loudon Globe,
Tex miners in Pulmas County, Cal,
were descending a snow covered moans
tain, dinner-pails in hand. Suddenly
there was an avalanche, and the miners
shot down the mountain with frightful
velocity, In a few monents the snows
slide separated, five of the men going
down a slope 700 feet long, and the
others not halting until they had bounded
over a precipice 30 feet high, and come
to a stop wahurt after traveling fully
1,700 feet,
EE
Professor 1 , writing
not more han 2000 GO a iy
like sud
causcs of dis
of the
power
With
to a dusty atmosphere
» continuance local
{
Of It
individual’
Of his «
vigor onstitution, are
determining the o
il ma
the
old
have
well
thie
kinds of
work In
ir work : and
best eel
i thie
bod
nave
ach food in
what
wlistis
what Kinds,
to the 1
different «
the
world De
toy muscul
aa
equiremoents « thie :
the v1
bt that
if. happily, in
their early education they
the dietetic of the
furnish thoir husbands«; if
they knew, for example, that the foods
which ar conveyed into heat are the
starches, sugar and fat, and that those
which more particularly nourish the ner
vous and muscular systems are the albu
men and salts Dr. Davies the
time-honored belief that meats are heat.
ing, and that farinaceous foods are not;
and he recommends for hot weather, as
the result of his valuable experience
as a dietician, a regimen com.
yosedd of fish, such meats
Pot and game, green vegetables, salads,
and fruit. Farinacoous food-that
starches, such as breads, biscuit, oat
meal, rice, arrowroot, sud even potatoes,
should be eaten in smallest quantity
only. The fruit that i= eaten will supply
the system with sufficient sugar, and
should not be supplemented, The doe-
tor shrewdly suspects that it would be
useless to advise those who take aleoho-
lie drinks for the sake of their stimula.
ting qualities, that spirits and beers and
certain wines are too heating in summer,
and that, however suitable port, sherry,
spirits and beer may be in the colder
months of the year, the best summer
iv in
ar We kh
fewer
Ons Of
not east dm wives
ome widows,
of
learned
the scheme
had
meats toy
vali
neunilse
beverages, containing alcohol, are those
known as the light, dry Moselle wines,
Acidulated drinks, mineral waters, and
tea, however, are preferable from the
just as the stubborn dipsomaniac
continue to imbibe his false ean de
instead of the free and limpid gift
the gods have given him, so it is to he
feared perverse world, des the
will blindly
will
vie
fi ite
admonitions of Dr. Davies,
to itz cotton fabrics
t in summer on oatmeal, biscuit, and
weon,
trust and break its
is
RELIABLE RECIPES,
Srivacu Sour. —To make
he Ladies’ Home Compa
Wash
pins h OUD
1
i
of spinach, put
and
1
HOWIng rod
boil
i it
t (quart of
oh ti 4114
ch throug
A New Kind of Grain.
Lafitte, the Pirate.
Hy
' his
Chicago H
erald
Musical Glasses,
There are mans
i inant
i
plest ist
\
finger Howl,
to impart a vibration
the tip of the finger
suld Iw
| as
ang
the rim Loar
fing tip, 14
and free fron
sets of glasses ¢
ix clean
laborate
used pon the
. the each depend
upon the water in the
or upon their size and thickness
w hie Tre are of
Freasiness FE
often u
tone
musical
of
of
amount
glasses
glasses
wet felt to give
solidity to them, ana no water is used, —-
New York Sun
Somoetin the
different sizes, they are
in
Shakespeare ns nn Entomologist,
Shakespeare's knowledge of birds and
of quadrupeds was apparently equalled
by his aquaintance with insects, At a
logical Society, Mr. William Webster
read a paper entitled, “Was Shakespeare
Entomologist?” The author stated
works of the
poet, amd found two hundred and seven
references to insects, and, as far as could
be ascertained, mention of thirty kinds
inscets, and showed by numerous
an
had a fair knowledge of entomology, but
nature, | New York Independent.
Machine for Sheep Shearing.
There is a shearing machine in use in
Australia and New Zealand by the large
flock owners, but, although this is an
American invention, itis not in use here
for this purpose. But it is used for clip.
ping horses and also by barbers for cut
ting persons’ hair, The machine works
well and easily, and does not cut the
sheep or twice cut the wesl, ay often
happens with shearing. — (New York
Times,
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PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS
EPITOME OF NEWS GLEANED FROM
YARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE
buildings
Mo pky
in
was
LIGHTRIXG struck several
Freeland, Mrs. George
killed.
Tue citizens of Minersville have presented
County Court
sy by the County Commi sioner:
Cuesten B, Bavzrer, aged 10, of Beading,
lied from the of 8
lock jaw, consequences
wound received on the Fourth of July.
PUPERINTESDEST LA
town Publie Schools, in his
that the
Allen
decinres
pis, of the
report
night sclicols opened in that city are
1 3 did,
a iallure, owing 10 irregularity and indilier.
euce
SHERIFF MILLER,
the death warrant (0 3id Y.
of Lehigh County, read
Keck, the
condemeed mur ierer, in Allentown
Lazziy of Lanesster {
RAN DO
bitten by a copperhead snake, while
berries, Dhie ia crilical Cong
ruck Lhe sion
in Chester {
dynamite
He NAN Was Ki
y
rder was caused by 3
Hot slag was dumped int SEWED nesr
SYERr isughter
Jermyn, near Serant
by Fdward Clark. The girl
neaghbors threaien to iyneh (
Tus
in deranton
iark
State Fditorial Associstion
BCRAXTOX may
year, os there is &
tween the State &
persc ns
Tir Scranton
more pay jor B
interested in t!
plireet
is now considering 1}
He entered bi
room and sssanlied them
escaped by
Bamryr 1. B
mpinug oul
TLER, 1}
tax collector of Delaware
hearing
Moore's ar
Jui of
mmitted to
before a ce
I wae
defan t of bail
A DESTRUCTIVE
Frown
storm swept
township, Lycoming cot
trees were dosiroved
A German Schoolmaster,
After i
years Johann Jacob Haberle, of
many, died
dairy has
which the
tered are all He gave
011.517 strokes with stick, 240,-
100 “smites” with a birch-rod, 10,686
hits with a ruler, 136.715 hand
smacks, 10,235 slaps on the face,
= 905 boxes on the ears, 115,800 blows
on the head, 12.763 tasks from the
Bible. catechism, the poets, and
grammar-—every two years he had to
buy a Bible to replace the one so
roughly handled by his scholars—777
times he made his pupils kneel on
peas, and 5,001 scholars had to do
penance with a ruler held over their
heads. As to his abusive words, not
a third of them were to be found in
What It Mean
Wife—“What does it mean in this
paper when it says that the young
German Emperor expects a call 1a
sev hs i rier pe for ELC snt
teaching school for fifty-on
Gere
some vears ago, and his
ublished, in
punishmer ts he
\
3
noted down.
¥
i
just been
{Re
admini
he
Husband —*“A call to arms? 1 sup-
pose he expects his wife to say: ‘Wile
helm, take the baby.’ ” — General
Manager.
msn issn AAI
Foipetivl,
In 1871 2a man in Auburn, Maine,
Goenosited $2,200 in a savings bank,
and. as he was growing old, forgot all
about it. One of his relatives Yearned
of the deposit lately, and the forgets
fui oid man was agresably surprised
to find that his $2,200 bad increased
to 85.000.
s——— i ——————
Miss Murray HIl-T wonder i
Bridget drinks? Of late her nos: in
suspiciously red.
Mr. Murray Hill-—Maybe she has
got hold of some of that red paing
you smear on your face when you go
to the theater.—Texas Siftings. :