ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY DAY LIFE,
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
tures Which Show That Truth is
Stranger Than Fiction,
A Burraro man who recently did
Chinatown while in San Francisco re-
ceived a shock the other night that he
will not forget for some time to come,
Returning home late in the evening he
felt a stinging sensation on the surface
of his right leg. He examined the spot
and dumbfounded to discover a
large brown patch on the skin, which
his wife at once pronounce ! to be Chi-
nese leprosy. Doctors were hastily sent
for and after four of them had been in
counsel for an hour no decision was ar-
rived at. The patient was put to bed,
where he lay and groaned as he thought
of his skin drying up and his limbs
dropping off at the joints. His heart-
broken wife sat by his bedside and for-
got in her wating tooth-
ache from which she had suffered all day.
But th th fin: its
Known,
was
presence
she hesitatingly asked:
did you forget to bring
thache/drops I asked vou to get!”
; atflict-
ary,” feebly answers
packet and deliberately cut his throat in
cull sight of all the people surrounding
the burning pe.
A woopEN-LEGGED veteran living at
Shelton Centre, Conn., sct to work re.
ceutly to make a frame for the support
of his tomato vines. In order to keep
the posts stendy while he nailed the slats,
he placed his wooden leg against them
and drove the nails in witha vim. After
nailing one end he started to go to the
uaxt post, and was surprised when he
found that he could not move. Visions
of paralysis passed over his mind, until,
ou examining, he found that he had
driven the nails through slat and post
into his wooden leg.
Winey a sailing master wishes to buy
oysters in the ports of the Chesapeake
he runs up to the masthead an oyster
basket, and presently has plenty offered
at the vessel's side. Down at Chinco
teague island the basket at the masthead
is sometimes accompanied by a flag of
concentric squares in different colors
During the closed season for oysters the
basket and flag indicate that the master
wishes to buy clams, The Chincoteague
clam di during
part of the year, and a very spry
thick
hundred
the greater
man in
tread
Fi r works
oan
in
per
great many a day,
1.000
at Chincoteague,
“You will
SETS Po kot."
, there was not even one
» bottle had become un
corked, an
leg had absorl
inally contai
“It h
Buffalo man the other day to
News re rter ‘that
1s a well-establi
some di
ilmost any of fo
ng in the
Way
3 hear of cases
displays a marked appeti
iting liquor, but
tter that caps th
“Did
No?
of
vOry
and ey
Thomas {
been
Mo., t
ITitos
head for twenty minu
turned
times,
Then the
Dass head
ously, and ]
he |
surface
into the
§ 3
Man nel
The
fishermen |
had put out his ey
gide of hi ]
wot Spot 44
seven pounds,
OE of the few civilia
pension from the United
ment is an Hs
physique, who has the record of having
come alive through an
dent. Hi
rishman of pee
astounding acci.
‘ was carrving a torpedo under
his arm one day at Now port while he and
an officer went in a boat to a point where
the exple sive sunk, by
some accident the electric connection was
made and the torpedo exploded. The
man went skyward and lit in the water
an eighth of a mile away with one arm
shattered, one side shockingly mangled.
and an eye blinded. He manag ad to !
keep afloat until aid came, and in time |
he recovered sufficiently to return to |
work, although not at his former dan
gerous job.
Wonrkmex at the Baltimore and Ohio
elevator saw a fight between a crab and
a rat at Baltimore. The mt went down
a stringer to get a drink and a crab |
caught him by the head, A fierce tag |
followed, the rat apparently having the
better of it for a while, He could steady
hin self by his foothold, The crab used
his method of propulsion with energy,
and churned the water about him. The
rat's power of endurance finally gave |
way, and he fell overboard, but he still
did his best to release himself, He
struggled hard, but the crab held on |
until the rat was drowned. The crab
was so exhausted by the fight that when
the rat floated to the surface the crab
swam away,
Tune was a disastrous fire at Freien
wald, in Prussia, at which eight people
dost their lives, A young man was ac
sively engaged in rescuing men and
waluables when part of the house fell in
and two rafters caught him by the logs.
Both his legs were so tightly wedged
between the timbers that he could not
be extricated and he was surrounded by
flames in a minute. In his terror of
having to die a slow death by being
burned he cried out to the men to shoot
him or kill him in any way so as to save
him from burning. But there was none
to respond to his prayer. In desperation
de fetched his claspknife out of his
was to x when
Ix Cast 0, + 3
chant named Billotte a i
recently captured by bandits
PROM
A TOLEN Kisses ma
aw rather dear at th nt market
Talca, of
that t it
polis 0S
A PHoTouRAPHER 11
presentment
bear in the act of making fo
di
ry
Excrasn’s Queen sine
her reign |
the Ix ginning
of death
on
warrant, ¥
Isle of Man, the act
tler Majesty of
death warrants having, bs
in execution in
passed for re
the signing of
an oversight,
not included that part of Her Majesty's
the
meving
dominions
Ax Englishman stalking deer in Glen
Tana forest dropped two fine stags with
bullet. The ball struck the
animal in the backbone, killing him in
stantly, and passed on into the breast
of the
one first
wi cond.
An Electric Frying Pan.
It is now possible to cook with elec.
The bottom of an ordinary fry-
amel, in which is embodied a zig-zag
wire conveying the current, To prevent
radiation from the insulating enamel the
plate on its under surface is protected
with asbestos. The wire is made of an
coming very hot it makes the iron pan
hot-—about 480 degrees to 500 degrees,
coffee made in a jifly, while the expense
teen-power incandescent lamp. There
With an electric frying pan
comparatively nothing. — [St.Louis Globes
Democrat,
ER a amet
Sroxor Popping. Two cups of flour;
one tablespoonful of melted butter; one
cup of Jowdared sugar; six eggs, whites
only, whipped stiff; two cups of milk;
one teaspoonful of rose water or other
prefunie colorless extract; two teaspoon.
uls baking powder,
Rub butter and sugar to a cream, stir
in Jreaumliy the milk, then the frothed
whites, lastly, and very lightly, the flour,
which has | sifted twice with the
baking powder. Bake in cups or a mold
and eat with liquid sauce,
DEAD MEN TURNED TO STON E.
Away upamong the sagebrush of White
far removed from the shriek of
nccasional prospector is a strange, silent
pity. Once more than 35,000 people car
ried on all kinds of business and traffic
It was during the phenomenal
rush to White Pine in 1867. Many hun
It was
, new city, which never slept, and
Mark Twain
This was the story
the telling made
“Now, if vou go there,” said he, ‘you
only a few of buildings, for
most of them have fallen in and decayed
yet remain
those
cabins
the sound of man’s footsteps,
of men lie buried and where
headstone marks their last
The headstones, where there werd
were of wood and they quit Kly
formation
of limestone,
per olating through it part kes of
and this in
has petrified the bodies
“8a i on
resting place
any at
rot
all about
Water
thie
many cas
all,
ted away. ‘he
'
there is largely
nature of lime,
Wer
in the great gras
every nand pete
to be out of
hold it in re noe, and altho
select great numbers of them to
their snake-dances, they
but, when the ci
them out on the
Zuni Indi
with whom |
fused to repeat their
doors for fear the rattlesnakes
hear St. Nicholas,
Vire
wver kill
# 3
remony is finished,
plains and release them
3 %
from New Mexico,
became
}
Notre 7
acquainted, rv
folklore out {
on
would
AROUND THE HOUSE,
Where ice is a scarce commodity var
ious expedients may be adopted for
keeping provisions fresh and for cooling
water, ete. Every one knows how much
cooler water may be made by putting it
and twirling it around, wetting the bot.
the watering-pot. A good way of keep
ing butter or milk cool in hot weather
without ice is to fill a box with sand to
withinan inch or two of the top, to sink
to thoroughly wet it and keep the box in
the cellar,
The good housckeeper is not the one
who indulges in periodic serubbings and
overhaulings, but one who keeps her
yremises so scrupulously clean, while she
i#2 about her work, that there is never
any need to the superficial observer for
the stated cleaning days, which like the
good workman's systematic care of his
engine, keeps the machinery always In
working order. The housekeeper whose
scrubpail is a continual accompaniment
of her housekeeping, must bo a careless,
shiftiess manager. It is the art of keep:
ing a house clean, not of making it clean,
that characterizes good housekeeping. It
is a disentanglement of the snarls of
work, that wear out time and patience,
and break down the strength of body
and nerve,
The average woman who has not yet
learned how to manage her work, wastes
about one-half her strength in useless
energy, in unmethodical ways, taking
ten where she need take but one.
When work is once reduced to system
i
and each part follows properly the other,
when the housekeeper hins learned the
true economy of time and strength, we
will hear little of broken-down house-
keepers unable to withstand the weight
of the daily toil which comes to their
lot,
A Gigantic Irrigation Eeheme,
Beyond all question, the irrigation
scheme being pushed in Florida by a
number of capitalists of Cincinnati, 0, ;
Philadelphia, and New York is to be the
grontest North America has ever seen, [It
| is exclusively a private enterprise, con-
| ducted by a stock company that has no
stock to sell, no mort.
At present it is only
a big land syndicate, but it may develop
into the the world
The company existence for
months, agents has se
| « ured at a
bonds to flout, no
gages to necotinte,
giant monopoly of
had
and through
few
nt
1s an
ts
tract of
cents an
John
jahty-three miles long «
It has three feet of
Acre a
land on the i
rich
worth
six miles wide.
i muck,
hundred : i Acre Ww
he
ie
aud, it is
once hen
drained been
An el
svsel thie
b 4 LS
Ww
Ba
Hake
Fhe Best Talking Bird,
S000 ODO
#530 §
HAN
at Caron
Daniel, family,
and each of their children
born on the sam of the month,
the old folks
date,
live
the
iis wife thre
| Were
Fhe wedding anniversary o
{ falls +n the
If the
| Montana, have not been recently changed
| they still surround 36,000 square miles of
territory, making that one country larger
| than the five States of Vermont, Massa
| chusetts, Connecticut, Delaware and
| Rhode Island.
same interesting
boundaries of Custer County,
Dr. Kayser from his lofty station on
| succeeded in taking some fine photo.
!
| graphs of the aurora borealis,
weigh 8,685.8 pounds. The same amount
of silver coins would weigh 58,020.9
pounds.
In the fall of 1890 G. C. Sexsmith, a
farmer living near Atchison, Kas, found
an ear of corn which showed an odd
number of rows of grain—19,
A Mr. Goodman of London bot that he
could smoke 86 cigars to an inch in less
than 12 hours, He did it with 42 min.
utes to spare,
Chemical action formed a stone in the
stomach of La Marshale, the famous
hurdle: jumping horse of Paris. Ho died,
and the stone, a ball nearly 8 inches in
diameter, is in the museum of a Parisian
veterinary.
Vulean, the British ironclad, is pro.
vided with a rudder weighing 223 tons,
or something like six tons heavier than
the rudder used on the Great Eastern,
Charles D. Young, of Denver, Col,
has built a perfect miniature locomotive,
which is but five fect long and weighs
bat 285 pounds,
Acconpiso to Chicago authorities
{ the little
Ones
well
Fair
are going to be
{ fooked after at the biz World's
| There will be a children's home and
| zreche where the little ones can be left
tin safe hands during the day of sight
seeing. In many cases it will be im
{ possible for the mothers to visit the
World's Falr without taking their chil
dren, and in so doing they will wish th
{ little as well as thems
the fullest advantage of the
facilities there offered, No plan having
by the Board of Direc
Ones Aves to take
be n made tors {or
i 6 children's building, and no funds hav
ing been appropriated for this
the |
up the work of building and equipping
a beautiful stracture
purpose,
shall be de
voted entirely to children and their in
The
ation
which
Soard has secured a desi
adjoining
hi to build the
I'he building wil
on whie
| hay All assem
wining rows
from which stere "i
i.1
older
which calming
than as a
un above thi
condemns
tl 1 of
i "
This was carried
W. H.
ag ovidently
yakivn
the
R33.
Lex of Br
investigated
and in deta
the New York Press making an esti
that 200,000 aliens annually return
this « to their native lands carry
ing £200 each. ot £10,000, 000 Many
these hinese, who are estimated
to have carried out of America $700,000
000 in the last forty-two Th
annual drain of $10,000.00 by all the
returning aliens, and of $100,000,000 by
Euronean travel of the well to do, how
ever, =o far as it actully consists of Uni
ted States money, is offset by the expor
tation of goods in exchange for the re
turning cash, which does not circulate
with som ATE
from
country
are {
of
Years,
Muon J. M. Bavax, of the
Territory, seems likely to get the biggest
on record
83 per cent of $8,000,003. This is con-
“old Set
which has been before con
past seventeen yoars,
othors on the docket of the Supreme
Court, which has to review the decision,
and will be passed upon at its next
session. At the late meeting of the old
sottiers, at Talequab, 1. T.. Msjor Bry.
an’s contract, conceding him 85 per cent
of the property if the suit was success
ful, was renewed,
As Tie blind person's only association
with the world about is by means of
sound it is not at all surprising that it
is through a musical training that the
great majority of them are fitted to carn
a livelihood. In various parts of the
United States ee ne now 150 blind
le employed as piano tuners, ere
on Fully pl many more who are teachers
of music in schools for the blind, nearly
500 who sre private teachers of music,
100 who are church organists, 15 or 20
who are com blishers of
iments
A German authority savs that almost
"that is 400.000
language
inngruage is apoki fi Dy
Fourth, the
while the
language is spoken by 57,000,
ind the Hpanish by 48 G04).
Of t European the
fifth in place,
Tue pneuny
Face
all humanit ¥ .
000, speak in the
Then the Hindoo
rmore than 100 0006 000
5,000 000,
Chinese
th
he languages
ilky has come to stay
on the Hobort Bonner
esumed to be able to
on the subiect,
f; that $v Sa asin
im that it is going
i records, as it
i from two
the mle,
Rats That Catch E
or
ros
twenty mies o
pros edd ton
the
he AVY
anited offorts o
tug Tyee was eng
the
say
evening saw
beached at Neah
bare bones of that sa
red by wind and wave
g in the sun, for, on
ons, the services of the entire tribe,
are
required in stripping the flesh from the
huge skeleton, in return for which sexvice
such oc.
hing
festoons of whi h
hanging along the joists and
houses for weeks to come,
drying in the smoke of the fires, to be
hoardsd up for use in the winter months,
[Port Townse nd (Wash. ) Graphic.
long
be
will
A Serpentine Mound in Ohio.
One of the greatest archrological dis.
coverics of vears, one that will excite
antiquarians throughout the world, has
been made near Lebanon, Ohio,
In has been known for a long time that
peculiar location and the varied character
of the finds they were not identified until
arts of a single earthwork—a serpentine
mound,
Professor Putnam of the Peabody
Museum verified the discovery, and pro.
nounces it one of the greatest of Amer.
ican antiquities. Mr. Metz of the Poa
body Museum and World's Exposition
has surveyed it, and with Professor Put.
nam is making explorations in it.
The serpentine mound is 1,900 feet
long snd about ten feet through. The
famous Adams county mound is much
smaller, and was Supposed to be the onl
one in existence, © find is ina
archwlogical district. {San Francisco
Examiner,
Narrow leather makes
trimming for cloth “gl Gy
dresses,