SOMEWHAT STRANGE. |
ACCIDENTS ASD INCIDENTS
EVERY DAY LIFE.
OF |
Queer Episodes and Thrilllng Adven-
tures Which Show That Truth is
Stranger Than Fiction.
ABILENE,
thousand i
cooperatl
thos: Lid¢ Rigi Big
10 8 nor
ohicct
laws, is
nova:
tion and
house, for
month. I
cook, wit
wlacl
Is Working
h two
groom gir
and
3 grown
and 8 quarter for
bership is limited
the «
have pri
their
pay only
Visitors
for two ds
Pe Bex,
over fron
furnish
complaints must
person,
up the
¢
Ol
most of
sippi or on¢
it, It
These De
He
of hous
times named,
:
neatly |
fortable fun
curt
be «
by t
Moore
ted by
of the
the ri
not
jumped f§
dock ¢
tion of
mistre
testim
to the
to the
the court
taken and the do
Mrs. Brady by or
Waren Eli Grave
ship, Penn. ,
the day he
bush in the band of
straw hat. After he ha
he heard a lou
and, looking
swarm of bees co
leaned on his h
tive insects,
course to the woods, i
chance to do so. When the | were |
nearly over his head they spe ad the bush
in his hat, aod changed their minds |
gbout sailing to the woods to hunt up a
hollow tree. They settled down on the |
bush and over the crown of his hat, and
for a moment, Graves said, he was in a |
quandary. The bees were friendly, how.
ever, and they clung to his hat, Fear. |
ing that they might become angry if he |
moved about much, Graves jammed his |
hoe handle in the ground, took his hat
off carefully and placed it on the hoe.
Then he got a nail keg, brushed the bees
into it, and carried them to the house |
without getting stung once.
G. W. Buanp, Justice of the Peace of
Ruth Township, met with a strange |
sight on the road past one of the fields |
of B. T. Stultz, says the Galena (Mo,) |
Oracle. Mr. Bharp is a8 man of trath,
and his statement of the facts cannot be |
denied. While riding along the road
Mr. Sharp noticed a full-grown wild tur.
key at one side of the road which seemed
to be in trouble. As he came up he saw
au immense dark-colored snake, with a
body as large around as a bootleg, had
went
; :
other a small maple
wd brimmed
fugi
their
get a
intend
{to
swallow it. When he came up the
snake took alarm and let the turkey go
then made It was cer
tainly aver twelve feet long and of im
Mr. Sharp, though a mm
d courage, when he saw the
across the road in front of hin
oncluded it was not prudent to attack
and let it vo.
18 eRe ane,
' mize,
in which the hai
after bu
HERE
hite was
ing will
ikl bv a gentleman from I
A lady of that city originally hal
« hair, but in the
turned pur
4
i
expected, but about
hair began darkening,
black as jet. There is
nor
neans used to produce
doubt about the « hange, WHS any ar
ft
it. so that
Case Most re
is certainly one of the
rod
v. The lady was not conscious
1
orded in the annals of med
Stor
any change in diet or in her physical
condition that would justify the curious
i 1 80 it absolutely inex
plainable on any known hypothesis
BerLrast gontlemar woke about i
a wood
{ter iting frie
1 He put on a buff
«d out to play boar
cked the supposed bear
i
tf
]
stones and then thumped
before the young man sq
was 20 badly nruised that he cou
crawl home,
Ix the Isle of Jersey there is a curious
judicial procedure which enables anyone
to declare that his life is indanger owi
to the low practices of any individual,
and have the offending individual sent
to prison therefor. This procedure is
] Last November
a Mr. Vibert swore ‘les treves” against
Mlle, Jane le Feurre, an actress, and in
consequence she was confined in prison
for five days.
aginst her prosecutor for damages, but
Crixrox E. Dixox, a cavalryman, was
hanged at Omaha, Neb., recently for the
murder of Corporal Carter at Fort Niob-
rata. The Federsl
morbid and curious people by having
the execution five hours ahead of the
time announced, The sentiment against
hanging was so strong that the marshal
wovided three electric buttons, each
wing touched by a different person, that
none should know who sprung the trap,
——
a——
—-
When an Egyptian dog wishes to drink
the river and howls for some time, The
rocodiles being attracted by the sound,
immediately crowd to the place, while
the dog hastily runs to the part which
have left and drinks in
GIVING INDIANS MEAT,
How the Wards of the Government are
Given Supplies,
There were not over 200 Indians there,
ilthough they ented
who remained in the differ-
ittered over the
{ and timber
shield them best from the wind were to
found i h
ted
bre
i
nis
repre several thou
and others,
nt camps se ation,
} "sg Ww »
wierey Water
TOSeTY
and bluffs to
steer is cal
Ind
from 14
is on the
1.000
ued
hen
ommon, Ea
twenty-five
in «
to
f {
supply
or
to
WEOeKS, Or
a day; this
Uppos ition that the steers average
to 1,200 pounds The steers I sav
weighed about 500 pounds, and Ww
they tried to run, with the
weakness They were
iothing ide and ribs and two horns,
I'hey were driven four at a time through
1 long chute, and dd the
send of it until owners’ n
marked off t
two
of beef
stumbled
at
vation,
nhinite at
their
s ligt
it isi
gate a
gate a
Anes
Indians were ed in front of
in long row
sitt
lowed to
31 Over fsevernmm ition
until the spring, when they had fallen off
tet .
in weight from one-third me-hail,
They were then issued at their ori.
ginal weight. That is, a steer which in
| October was found to weigh 1,100 pounds,
Land which would snpply twenty or more
moat, supposed to
this weight throughout the
with
kept
jr aople was
have
| entire
though it
its bones,
| blame for this,
it had not 300 pounds of flesh
The agent not to
This is the fault
i on 18
suppose that some one besides the con-
| tractor benefits by the arrangement,
{ter the contract has been made, it can
fand frequently is rejected by the army
i officer in charge of the issue if
| thinks it is unfit,
| But the officers present at the issue
1] saw were ns helpless as they were in.
| dignant, for the beef had weighed the
due him, and for which he paid in land.
[Richard H. Davis in Harper's Weekly.
A A
It has heen estimated tha
15,000,003 acres
THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH,
Power 1x Some
has
Brarx CHILDRENS
directed to 4 paper
of Vienna,
been
before the late hyvgienis mn
“The Working Curve of an Hour.” To]
demonstrate fluctuation of brain |
power in childre n, he ealled two
CONGZrous, {
the
classes |
little boys, the
and twelve |
i CASY MUI
periods of |
intervals
the work,
Care
of little girls and two of
children
years, and set
i arithmetic
nm minutes,
then
lations and the error
and
total number of calculation
: children
4.000. 3 000
third and {«
During the third period of
t hie ir f
great a
being eleven
them to
+ Age
work
wort
d. The
bv atl
conpare
sin
i ond,
vely.
minutes
ko
Gl
increased, roughly 5 King,
and 4.000
mirth iad 00
ten
ICT CARE wrk done was not
Of wie
ut other periods; they
mistake algo increased, say
850 in the different periods,
i ind.
Lt
lowest,
uring the third peri
its
the work wus at
3
LIS
appear that children of
mentioned rued
mrtcul
The
analyses of fish is not larger than is found
in the fle other used for
food . But even the fish
were richer in phosphorus, there is no
woof that it would on that account
Pot r for food. The question of
the nourishment of the bmin and the
sources of the intellectual energy are ton
indeterminate to allow decisive state
ments and too abstruse for speedy solu.
tion, There is no experimental evidence
to warrant the assumption that fish is
more valuable than meats or other food
material for the nourishment of the
brain.”
Prof. Atwater, who is a careful stu.
dent of food generally, is of the opinion
that in the United States too oh food
fs eaten containing an excess of fat,
sugar, and starch, and not sufficient
proteine. “This,” he says, “is a natural
result of our agrieuitural conditions,
which have led to the production of
large quantities of maize, which is rela.
tively deficient in proteine, and of ex.
cossively fat beef and pork. Our agri
cultural production js, in this sense, one-
sided,” It is the various substances in
animals
i
i
5
iw
brain
ficsh containing nitrogen which are
known as the proteines,
Taking the nutitive
kind of flesh,
in POSKERS ing the three factors
valuation in any
its {food consists
pro-
tier
hal mineral nu
forming materi
human body
tliree, i
bones
able,
4
tudying the oo
as food, Prof
nacre n Te
Mount Vernon «
in November, 1876
1
before the cap, with
it
ils
cided upon
‘le Guide Francais des
French Canadians
own S105 8228 500
te, and 10.696 of them
in business for themselves, There
now 800.000 French Canadians
United States, half a million of
in New England, and New
number of Freach
According
Etats nis”
the United
worth of real estate,
are
are
the
are
ET
in
in
whom
York
Canadians in
Eng.
y ' numbered
only 65,000, a fact which strikingly indi-
cates the fecundit, of the race. Iu Bos.
New England they have flourishing
schools and cocicties, and they now talk
of establishing a college. They have
representatives in the legislatures of five
States, and they have nine newspapers
in New England and New York. “In
politics,” says the authority quoted, “the
majority are Republicans, though a good
many are Democrats, They are naturally
conservative, They favor onder, dis
countenance radical views or experiments
and oppose strikes and secret socictios,
They strenuously oppose divorces”
EPiTome or NEWS GLEANED FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE.
YORK was
Houses were
visited by a severs siorm.
buildings wreeked,
in
done
tinirooted
and man
County great
one Lanenster
by light
barns were struck
was killed,
damage was
ning. Nesr Heading six
Bl once,
Tie sult for false pretense instituted by
Lancaster polieybiolders of the Commercial
Allisnce Ynsurauee Company, of
aga nst W., A,
D
pany, were dism
New 3} ork,
Carr, of Philad und
if min
Heese, of Lancaster, nzeuts of the com:
ssed is Lancaster, the sgents
having nected strictly under insiroctions from
the company.
Tus police are investigating the death of
John Wiedensane, of Lewisburg, who, it is
0 a
alleged, committed suicide and then set fire to
th house,
It is now susyec ed that the man
wastiurdered and the house burned to con
ceal the erime
Tn
plosion in ithe Parrish Co
Tue Chautiuquans at Me, Grein
ted the S00th
EE men were {faially injured by an ex-
fery at Plymouth
celelre-
suniversary of the birth of
Comenius, the great Moravian stor.
A COXFERV XC
various trade and |
out the country
ject of the meet ag
lormisg an interes
gates present represent
ANG glass workers,
ing trades, The meetis
of the convention of
sels, Belgium, a shor
Dopixa an
the passeng
Ryan,
pressive cere
Foople
Who Lack
approacl
the
il
Ga
for
asked what
water. Th
ad face, In
Wi
this was
ing her
wil
me a
iich traces of
she
FOIng upon
} beauty
visit replied that
he only way she had of giv
children taste of sal}
which they required. The tax levied
upon this article by the Government
places it entirelv beyond the reach oi
the poor.
yi £411 1 :
re still ile, she
the
the
i TS
Animals That Never Drink.
Mr. Blanford, in his book on Abys
ginia, says that neither the doreas nos
Benett's gazelle (two allied speciey
ever drinks. Darwin states in hi
“Voyage of a Naturalist” that unlesy
the huanacoes, or wild llamas of
Patagouia, drink salt water, in mans
localities they must drink none al
all. The large and interesting groug
of sloths are alike in never drinking.
A parrot is said to have lived in the
wological gardens, Regent's Park, for
fifty two years without a drop of
water. It is often said that rabbits
ina wild state never drink. The
In the automn and winter, when
sheep are feeding on turnips, they re.
quire little or no water.
ao. con UR
St. Lous has no notion
ap the shutters.” She is sing
build two new million-dollar hotels.