STRANGE. 23 ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF | EVERY DAY LIFE, | SOMEWHAT Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven- | tures Which Show That Truth ic Stranger Than Fietion, A amAN, in the St. Louis Globe-Demo <rat. tells how to get earth-worms with out digging for them, Take a strong stick, four or five feet long and sharp at one end, and go to some locality, such | as the back of a barn, where the worms | are sure to be plentiful. Drive the stick | four or five inches into the ground with | a hammer and then begin to twist it with a rotary motion. Every few minutes hit the top a rap to drive the point further into the ground, and keep | on twisting. In five minutes the worms will begin crawling out of holes, and all you have to do is to pick them | up and put them in your can. They hear | the grinding and think it is a mole after them, and know that only on the surface | are they safe. So they come out, those | nearest to the sound making their ap- | pearance first. with evidence of haste and trepidation, Sometimes they come up for a distance of or fifteen | feet from and in| places where as many as a hundred scared out of the or Some people th | they may be rigl Knows th and will squirming to th the ground any time it coming in ny or stone, i i i i their every ten virling are plent be literall in this worm has the th y i. but adliest enemy, { top of 4 Ars mol $a pet crow, whole household ‘ ‘ willl young . 11 3 fliowed a id the famil COme hen hit nig y stran diamond of the dang (Ireossing 4 thters the the crow was perched « Search was made eC ti missing ind 1 fair cog ali ail washit tion shock. lightning though ti mark D3 first plate Sos souri, man, Boonville and Bonker John Bonker, a Mis Texas Railway brake left leg under the cars a The limb was buried there was removed the com pany’s lLiospital in Sedalia. Bonker gan to experience the sensation that his amputated limb was in its accustomed place, and great pain was felt in the foot, So intense did this feeling become that the crippled man tossed from side to side of his little cot in the surgical ward of the hospital and moaned with pain till the doctors heacame alarmed at his condi tion. He coald not sleep por could any shing be done to relieve him until Bonkers father visited Boonville and had the ‘eg removed from the grave. The lid of the box was raised and the toes of the | foot were {found to be crossed. No other | peculiarity was discovered. The lid was | closed and the coffin reburied. The Me jured man at the hospital at once experi- enced a sensation of relief, and the trouble has completely vanished, The case very peculiar one and has ex- cited much comment in medical circles, veeks ago Kan 8 and is wt his t to be i ‘ 1 i Yeu LL Bras C. Horrmax is a veraciops citi- gen and farmer of Hamilton County, Ohio, He comes to the front with a nt markable snake story. He says that | during s severe thunder and Huhtning | storm an immense oak, which stool upon his place in Glendale, was cleft in twain by a thunder bolt. He saw the bolt strike his favorite oak, under which | be had played as a boy and often sought | shelter under as a man, and he felt as if | an old friend had been taken away, | Immediately after the storm he lost no | time in repairing to the tree, and there | in the crotch he saw. a snake fully six | feet long suspended and dead. Its head was pinioned in the splinters, which bore | the mark of the lightning's stroke, | Looking down into the hollow of the | tree his surprise was hightened by dis- | covering, all enddled up together, | twenty-two young snakes, alt dead, Hel surmised that the large snake was the | mother who had been out in quest of | food, when the storm arose, and in en. | deavoring to reach her voung had been overtaken by the thunderbolt, Tren is a lineman in a busy little Michigan town who has excited the envy audacious way in which he bas invaded one of their tirze honored provinces, and furthermore, turned it into a source of wevenue, The English sparrow is not liked In Kalamazoo, and the decided feeling against him is indicated by the fact that the people would rather by three cents see a dead sparrow than a live one. The lineman who looks after the lights of the city now availing himself diligently of the benefits of this is lishmen® that he is inclined to believe an arc lamp. Just before the voung birds are fully fledged he pinches their heads and realizes on them. One day he brought in 141, and last year his ‘‘side line” brought him $70. J. B. Ruwronp, of Los Gatos, Cal, has originated a new system of living | he calls the Edinie system, He | cats nothing but raw: wheat, consuming | about three-quarters of a pound a day. | Bread, butter, sugar, meat, yoisonous, and | CIs He Cats to thrive on his strange diet. At forty, he says, he was an old man, whereas now, | though sixty, he feels voung. ‘‘lIcan along.” he adds, ‘on one or two cents a day, and do a good day's work Five cents’ worth of rolled oats has lasted hours while travelling, | I could not possibly eat more than ten cents’ worth of wheat a day; my riot get four RO YOu S¢ how onomic al om i I HNOrses, Ayal . Iso has a theory about r them only ond tumfor la nd beat it about his Dees hie LG the pur of the i mak os si Of man who wil The old Indian iH wi } saw in yesterday save the Farmer is the product of eae line by H 1 Bl iN. lewiow and the neighborhood cackled at The curiosity consi sized egus joined together at the ends by a shell, filled, x4 inches whole resembling a pair of was omer, Jr It } HL 3 of his hen ail the fow the % AVR 8 job, sta of two common small the Ose lass 4 Miss Evia Ewixe of Seotiand county, Mo. a cov damsel of eighteen sum mers who measures eight feet two inches in height and is still growing. She said to be retiring in disposition, but exhibits quite an amount of exuberant is is Bermuda's Lily Fields In the picturesque islands of the Ber- mudas lilies are mised as a regular field crop. In value and in the esteem of the though both which The claims that be imagined than at this season of the is the sta crop of the Buffalo, ple comes suddenly upon one of these fields, EXPRESSION IN ANIMALS, Observ ition of Thelr Ways Shows Somé Interesting Facts, Dr. A. 8. Japp, in Cassell’s, gives the following interesting facts regarding ex- Birds are not generally credited witn great powers of expression ; but let any one how the common when once the delightful little fellow i8 on free terms with his master or mistress, ean keep up a conversation in his own way, and give to his varied by unmistakable signs and expressions, It you wish to see i= observe oven canary, 1 iangunce feelings led in degree with surprise and wonder, suddenly show something that or strange to 8 pet canary. You w ill seo the feathers on the of his head to vou clegant is new top round and short, while the eve is turned cer for a i eye, and then, with the most questioning air, on you, and back again, The softer dark Stweet-tweet” eye, by the seeing vou the first thing ing, ft on the moran nn absent than usual from the room where h the flirting of » and : f oul of or after vou have be and thi the tall u the YOu may not see again ( { i master's hand Ir again, ook Mrsrstirior % Te and shov AFC Very ores . a strongly even I» htest body thrown ANY Cary forward, sound the lengthened apart, so that second nt #0 a8 1 0H SIE more Ot quickly andl the spring 34 is . is The main features and ex pre sstons of this position « h all the « tribe, our Pp wie aracterize wie in t when cat’ 1 rod COSRATY her in most directly proclaims her long and her kindredship with the giant members of her species. Mr. Hamerton, in studies of animals, favors the idea does not have the almost moral sensitiveness that marks the do though in some respec’'s her touch and her perceptions are finer, at all events, quicker; but have met with at least one case where the attach at 80 this which WH h dese nt, Sq ar ne i his or f sense of we in the for the sake of company. That cat's range of expression was really wonderful, as well the house wet most fragrant white, Unfortunately, the lily fields are not in the most profitable state. The beau- for the lilies should be marketed in the form of buds, stems and packed in cases, sixty-four in and modifications of expression such as sometimes gave much amusement to visitors, Much might be gaid about the influ. United States, place the buds will remain without open ng several weeks, while being placed in water they can be brought to perfection in a day or two, or, if the water ia slightly warm, in a few hours. This fortunate peculiarity of the lily has made it possible for it to be transported, not withstanding the long journey. The culture was introduced only a few years ago upon the Bermudas by an American gentleman, General Hastings, Some of the largest fields are still owned by this gentleman, and it is said that on one of them at any time in the season over 100,000 lilies may be seen in bloom at a. Alaska has yielded $33, 000,000 in seal. {or$15,000, - 000. their power of expression. The dog does not bark, proverly speaking, till he comes man, nor does he ex- hibit the feelings most vividly expressed by barking-—joy, sense of guardianship, as well as surprise or sense of danger, In truth, domesticated animals receive a new dowry of feeling and emotion through association with man, which is almost as surprising ax man's own accent in emotion and thought, and all the fine complexities of language and expression which they bring, wn a A New Method of Preserving lee. An easy way to lay in a stock of ice for summer use is practised by a Minne. sota farmer. In the winter he packs drifted snow in his ice house fora fow nights, wetting it with well water. en frozen hard it is cevered with sawdust, Last summer his stock of show fee lasted until ember: it is just as good and clear ar river ice, and he hadn't the trouble of hauling it.—(St. Louis Star Sayings. ANCIENT OF THE WORLD FORE THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, BE. About the Conforms Farth Which \ires—Karly Struggles Our Incomparable tion of the in Medieval of Columbus Land, The ¢ in regard to region their obser srecks indals tx of their * 10 and Tin was is re mi in beyond the vation we find striations ! * Floati i 15," ** Tin islands,’ island Hesperides ealled by th } CARSITOTONS, peatedly in Homerie poems, employed at a very early of copper, from which produced This, f cor nown to the Greeks as Cassi i These Ned tly 31 1oned the mient and w Hoy bronze mixture precious Wis metal was produced from tain island terid 8s or desi islands islands, peninsula of thus £0) SUD sgn the posed to be group at i tin wa = in A In Mr matter, familiar to we, Boreas, region of el, brought navigators rude Was =| hile Eurus, the east and Homer h the Hellespont from its ros { «O0thing a nothing o the names of wholly un sometimes re Europe and but knew f 300% of world thn the and we A sis ry fnown to him referred t Asin never The gee times chars Euro Africa 1s but Homer is some the “‘inner” The inner, meaning around the Egean the regions beyond the wraphy of i £ . 1% ‘outer’ gre 1 he belt of co yen, and the tone INL eT The country around the Troad in Asia sthough none of the colonics of Greoee from Myeia Corea mentioned, Among the HEgean islands Crete and named with a 10 is Imbros, and Te nedos, i Halon . The ““ outer” {i far to the north who roam he plaine beyond the Thin ian hills, To the south there are rumors of Egypt is The name Phanician securs only once, but the cunning works »f Sidon are more than once mentioned. Parts of the liad bear the impress of sorthern Greece in the imagery of wild woodlands and hills, and in the presence sf Mount Olympus as the dominant fea. mre of the landscape. Other parts of the Iliad show local coloring borrowed from the walley of the Cayster, near Epherus, or from that Icarean Sea, which washed the seaboard of Southwestern Asia Minor, In the Odyssey the coast of lonia is referred to and for the first time Chios wd “windy Mimas,” the promontory on the Tonian ald. ad ihe ow l It is useless to undertake to follow Odys eo in his wanderings, for from the mo- ment he sets sail from Troy and is driven to the land of the Clcones on the coast of | i Thru { and (rR aes { Males he enters Hn of fancy and him over the evil winds, The i whol impression jeft by the Odyssey is that of 1 poet { ) Iv the v J J Cape the we vive to who himself knew onl Fouean zone woven into imaginary wan derings derived from stories of the western Mediterranean brought by Phe | necian traders hed the { south of Spai i i CC. Not in Homer shows: 1 ance with the great monarchies on the Euphrates or the Tigris The of Assyrin and Babylon swver heard Civilization outside of the Kzean is rep resented solely by Egypt and Phoenicia Herif al Edrisi, surnamed the Nubian, an eminent Arabian writer about the be ginning of the fifteenth « y, tells what he knows of the geography of the world and of the perils of tion, as follows: “The ocean encircles | the ultinate of the inhabited carth, 1 all ana one has been who had rea as early as ahout 1100 13, Hn Wor t Coun names ire n ntury, SCeRn navy jan bound NO on VOI It 18s unknown to verify n account of its difficult and 1hale anvthing « cerning it, © POTIIOUS i navi its profound depth hse arity it im fishes many 4 through fear of it yet jMes there are oth and haughty winds rs unin who dare % i ae islands in There to enter Into ils habited have done so of the : over against Eq faith and liv avi open the Indies After more licit than fen tat ys Portugal he | of the Tagus to seek a rich in nauti having watched the stars latitude of Iceland t the Elmina. Though yet longer baffled by the skepticism which knew not how to comprehend the « learness of his conce tion, or the mystic tran which tained his inflexibility of purpose, or the unfailing greatness of his soul, he lost nothing of his devotedness to sub lime office to which he held himself elected from his infancy by the promises | of Gol. When half resolved to with draw from Spain, traveling on { he | knocked at the gate of the monastery of La Rabida st Palos to crave the needed charity of food and shelter for himself and his little =on whom he | led by the hand, tho destitute and neg lected seaman, in his naked poverty, was still the promiser of inpuioms, hold. ing firmly in hie grasp “the key of the ocean sea.” claiming as it were from hea- von the Indies ss his own, and “dividing them as he pleased.” It was then that | through the prior of the convent his holy | confidence found support in Isabella, the queen of Castile: and in 1492, with three | poor vessels, of which the largest was | only decked, embarking from Palos for { the Indies by way of the west, Columbus | AYE 4 new world to Castile and Leon, “the like of which was never done by any man in ancient or iu later times,” The jubilee of this great discovery is at hand and now, after the lapse of 400 voars, as we look back over the vast ranges of human history there is nothing in the order of providence which can compare in interest with the condition of tne American continent as it lay upon the surface of the globe, a hemisphere unknown to the rest of the world, There stretched the iron chain of its mountain harriers, not yet the boundary of political con munities: there rolled its mighty rivers unprofitably to the sea; there spread ont the mensureloss but as vot wasteful fertility of its uncultivated flolds: there towered the gloomy majesty of its unsubdued primeval forests: there littered in the seeret caves of the earth the priceless treasures of its unsunned gold, and more than all that pertains to material wealth there existed the unde: veloped capacity of 100 embryo states of and Isabella, al at se O Near equator at P *s wis } ¥ ae 0 r of republics, the nt millions, un ‘ parnest the lion i hidden by trable veil of waters, There is A n overwhelming long in America from the humanity, inappropriate in the { holy eX pre ion Of 1h tive races, The boldest Phoenicia arched its Carthage rad not on . ancient nations and fortune of the old phalanx of hing machin an imp rial cor future revealed able « re $ 15 vet to the but ; 3 HNCONBCIous cider "expect ation’ of fan of : man, 4 the ing i 4 my mina, erett. HAiness ys of ther hood of Dry t : reticoton mesa a} BHOTER NC which ground heavy tramp of “the world to powder, ti nations from wrth.” not the faintest echo } the exist DArons populous i ) Jad Arotused slumbering west in the cradic of ber { sympathy had shot aor adventur the inte otal vitality he convulsive freedom, from the heroic and struggles fo artistic of vnitou downfalls empire, regen 1 OnE ancient maoeaieva: sto an, yria to Ha a delug -Ars TOS Mara Ain Of t the practice abundance of lymphatic or t¢ mperamd« nt, ang wt depleted, can take bath to advantage inclined to be thin in and feet become cold avocation, who are t whose nervoa : the « {hers flesh, and clammy « dig fond with difficult; who carry large mental burdens, should avold early morning bathing. For all such. the bath at noonday or before re- tiring at night is far more desirable, and it should be followed by rest of body and brain t equable conditions of circulation established Some in dividuals weak in nervous power have such excitable peripheral perves that they get at once a perfect reaction from bathing, but lose in after-effects more than the value of the bath. This class of persons should not bathe too often, and should always use teped water, choosing the time prefer. ably before retiring who whose h ¥ % assimilate it %t and 3 who are nervous and iil 5 are mT who are OO 4 i No More Crowded Citles, «1 believe that the days of great cities, as we now understand the term, are num- Hered,” mid Professor W. B. Cowper, at the Southern. ‘Rapid transit has for years past been spreading the population of these immense trade centres over a lar. ger area, and, in my opinion, this work has just begun. The tendency is to go further and further away from the dust and heat for home enjoyment, and trade and industry are creeping after the pop- ulation towsnds the suburbs. When the science of transportation is so perfected that a journey of thirty miles represents WG greater time oF expense than one of five oilles now does, you will soon see cities like St, Louis and Chicago spread over quadruple the present area, and instead of mile after mile of solid brick and stone the chief business districts will be interspersed with numenous parks gardens, Then will the charms of the country be wedded to the social and com- mercial advantages of the city, and the reeking plague spots that now defy both the laws of wa and God will disap- | pear,” [8t. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1d urs i
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