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