SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERY DAY LIVE, Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven- | tures Which Show That Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. A curious lawsuit is engaging the at- tention of Ecija, Spain. The object in dispute is a sum of 250,000 pesetas and a baby. Some time ago a stranger, with a half-mask on his face, went to the railroad station-master and handed him : a sealed letter and a heavy box, saying | he had been commissioned to hand over a costly present. There being a train in the depot waiting to be despatched, the station-master had the box and letter put | down, and went to attend to his business. On returning to his office he opened the | letter, which said that a good friend, | who did not wish his name divulged, was sending to him and his good lady a | recious gift. Opening the box, he | ooked into the face of a littie baby, “I | will not have the brat.” he cried out, and soon had the whole force of servants of the depot around him. A approached and looked lovingly at the fittle stranger, “Will you have it?" asked the station-master. ‘Take it. 1] would not keep it under any circum- | stances.” “If you will give it tome I will take it to my wife,” said the sigmal- man. ‘‘Take it away,” said the station master: ‘‘l1 do not want it any longer.” When the signalman and his good-hearted wife undressed the baby to place it in a warm bed they signalman | 1 to see found a the clothing, which when counted were found to amount to aquarter of a million | of stated. to the education the chi When the station-master heard find he came and demanded the child to be given back to him. But tbe signal man refused, holding that it was to him without reservation. The st master has appealed to the court cide the question. WwW. BR of given n atio 10 ce . Moxnros, from Colo- recently Bear tracks had been seen in the vicinity for several days, and Monros search of the animal, accompanied by dog and armed with a Winchester He had gone about ti met a large cinnamon bear on the thirty feet away. Two brought the bear to the earth. A cub appx sre and ell-directed shot killed it also A large male bear then appeared few feet gway. Monroe i knocked the brute down, but was on his feet in an inst rush for the hunter tumble fight ensued serted him, but finally « bear made a rush for took advantage of this to « with his left arm, hi rh been broken in got only a few fron when the bear retqirned ar attack. Outching the bear pulled « away with feet when he fell tained a fracture of th richt shoulder was badly there an had to be sewed u left foot were badl a terrible scratch abdomen. Hu {for medical treatment went when |} miles shots Ww a Vv only him it, but had go dead was ugly gash in ni . His i % v bitten seross his was brought Tue champion season in Wast mit. and is Chronicle, in that of Summit missed r and days without finding any trace of abouts, and had al she had been st ' children discovered the an fifty yards from the house wandered into a hollow cedar sumably to get into the si pushing her way for fifty f ie she passed through « had splintered in falling, with tl ters headed in the directio going. Of course, when she attempted to back out, her exit effectually blocked, the splinters having back. And there she was, confined as any prisoner in the tiary. When discovered there been imprisoned for five days. Mr. Glancey had to the log in front of her before she could be taken out nothing the worse for her experience ex cept for her enforced fast. The weighs about 1,500 pounds, so the size of cedar timber in that ‘‘neck of the 'woods” can be imagined, neighbor a spent seve ral leu, whet th was peniten she had cut COW A writer in the Medical Record, who has bad mach experience as a physician among the Chinese on the Pacific Coast, notes especially the speedy healing of wounds on these people, which, he says, must be due to their diet and habits of bodily cleanliness From early youth they are constantly in the water, and you find the lowliest washing their bodies twice a day. Their dict is mostly veg- etable, in which rice and tea form the foundation, to which are added green vegetables, as young turnip tops, spinach, kale, or similar garden truck. ally they add to this oysters, fish, pork and fowl, principally chickens or ducks. Bee’, mutton and veal they use In no way. Possibly this may expla the quick healing power, which is marvel. lous. The tissues of their bodies cut differently that is, they feel differently under the knife--from those of the Caucasian subject, They are more dense and elastic, and not so flabby. A Portiasp (Me) man tells the Transcript a queer story of a young man, a native of a small town in Maine, who tried to be a piano tuner, but failed be. cause he had no ear for music, and who then went to work in asawmill, Within a year he was struck on the ear by a fly- ing bolt and the hearing in the ear de- and when he recovered he found that all sounds were different to him to what they had been before. He went ‘back to Boston, Jound no Hiffieuity in tuning pianos an now a tuner for one of the largest o firms there at a lib- eral salary. His ears had been takin in sounds differently, making a continua discord, and by his fortunate accident harmony came to him. Occasion Ae ingenious fraud was recently com- mitted in Victoria, New South Wales, A mew claiming to be a telegraph opera- tor ingratiated himself into the favor of the post-mistress in a country district, and took advantage of the opportunity by telegraphing two money-order tele- grams to Melbourne to pay two sums of $100. His accomplice in Melbourne applied at the eatatlice and received the money in each case, At Anotine, Asotin County, Washing ton, for some time the farmers living in the foothills to the mountains have been suffering from the depredations of a bear that made many successful raids upon the stock feeding along the timber. devised a plan for his capture, in which it appears he was su cessful, He built a shotoun with a set trigger, so that when the intruder meddled with the bait would the contents of both barrels of the gun in his body. The other morning when Farmer Kreshler went out to inspect the work of his trap he found it had done well, for there lay ly, shot to the heart. ir of the New York ir. J. 8. Thacher receive AT a recent meeti ical Society how one bullet might cause two wounds, The specimen had been removed from a in the Dr. The davs injury. hospital service of Hved eight bystanders McCosh. nan The gaw the shooting say that only one shot fired ; only empty chamber revolver, only one hole ¥ 1 1 ana MY One who the LAM was there was one { bullet was Y +3 wg - 1 3 \ gh there was only a single situated Just above the re rere two open mater and t contained clo the dura both if Was cavities, 3 bull found just side of the inner plate of the skull. A Max who met with shipwreck off the coast of Cuba and had to take to ar | tells of the prec wliar hallucin called by sailots the ‘Paradise i t on by exposure to the un's ritys. He sea appeared to be f igh meadow, wwought brig seteon] weit) y { BRUSical wilh song ol springs burst from crystal rocks and ed over golden sands, and idens ed beckoning men 1 They join them, and af the hx . The bath brought and ¥ reached the Cu ead ' 1 Sen 'ts danced beneath the trees, me to j » side at into then aliv ge under t em into the pol and nobody had any trouble identifying the burglars on sight. The; A queer story comes from Hancock, Mr. Luther Springer owns an old Its days of usefulness being over, Bridges, taking an axe, started to lead the horse into the woods, but after going a part of the way, the which had always | kind, suddenly attacked Mr, Bridges, and, throwing him down, trampled upon him and so injured him that it was feared that he might not recover. At last ac. counts the horse's prospects of living were much better than Mr, Bridge's. of ovr before Worn Two En lishmen had rather ashock while shooting last month in Missouri, according to home letters. They sat down to take their lunch on a bit of rough ground near Ironton and laid their guns on a flat rock. Instantly the guns moved from their resting place and leaped up to a huge bowlder a few fect distant. At first the men were terrified at this mysterious action, but they soon discovered that the bowlder was com. posed of magnetic iron ore, The guns were only slightly damaged. Tur vendetta is by no means extinct in Corsica. Some time ago a man name Dampietre was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for shooting at a youth named Andrei, aged eighteen, When he came out of prison he repeated the offense. and has been sentenced this time to two years, It came out in evidence that forty years ago the grandfather of the prisoner was condemned to hard labor for life for murdering the grand father of Andrei Men baths were common among the ancients, the mud on the seashore and the slime of rivers being capecially prized for this purpose. The Tartars and Egyptians still use them in certain diseases, They are takea by many wople at places on the continent of surope, among which may be named Driburg, Eilsen, Neundorf, Pyrmont, Son, Marienbad, Franzensbraun, Eger, Riingon ang Teplitz, A Bax Fraxcisco firm is about to at. tempt the revival of whaling in the Ant. pr Ocean, which has not been carried on for as many as twenty-five years, A quarter of a century ago the catches of sperm and right whales used to be excellent there, and many whalers are now of the opinion that the southern seas will agin afford a profitable field for 0 POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES, * Evecrricat. Derisrrions.—The sus ject of electrical distribution is common- ly illustrated by its analogy to hydrau lies, and Mr. R. G. Davis gives these terms: Volt, unit of pressure, electromotive foree, corresponding to ! pounds of steam or water pressure; am-~ | pere, unit of quantity, called currant, | corresponding to gallons of water; olum, 000 foot pounds, txanamission is at once clear as to its ele mentary phenomenn. Bracketing analo gous electrical terms, we may say that a certain number of pounds in may flow friction [resistanee] of the pipe [wire order that the water [current at the rate of so many gallons [amp resi per minute, The larger the pipe [wire the more water [current] can be carried, and the less will be the friction [resist Manifestly the pipe [wire] migl be so small that the would absorb a vers large proportion { the power of the pump dynamo, leaving but little remaining for therefore the two horns o if the pipe 1 Cost too miu h: if t ance. useful efiect, f the dilemma ¢ t y large it w ill be ) the loss will arc Wire 8 sina wr 10) ryirat be t 0 JTEeR|L, Novel Measurisc oF Water DeErris, Oxford, urions of find. if water at a dis he sa exph in « Way ing the depth of a piece HSAbout two ve “I wished to Know h rain, mnee, ago,’ Ars from time to time rate which a river was rising after a { ver was a consider- listance the i re it re iis ns of and $f F001 bination of two gun pipes & telephonic circuit described in tl lines I have redd measurement » limits, At pipe was fixed verti verted position, We sR rather lowing been able tom the req thin LOS the riv (ran ver acted as a stopper the ris the note it bellows wheel he in circuit fat or driven A mi Ippr ena o about 0.02 feet of no moment in such a section urements, 1 organ p and action of the macie metal water SC UAT resist the Rais. —~Man in the for mation or he better understands the details of nature's methods The most widely aCe pred, at present, as to the natural process of the { ymation of rain, go only so far as to say that the moisture present in the atmosphere is extra ted from the air by three different steps, namely, first, the saturation with aqueous vapor that is produced by cooling the air: second, the condensation of thé vapor into small How Nature Propurces nay not hope to assist ns until preve ntion of own lens the agglomeration of these droplets of cipitated as falling rain, hail or snow, 1. The ordinary natural methods of ac | complishing the cooling required in the | first of these steps are: (a) the mixing of cold only tion a very slight amount of precipita can be formed; (hb) the radiation of heat to the colder earth and air and space by which at first thin layers of fog or stratus clouds | are formed which then slowly thicken with time; (¢) the rise and expansion of | large masses of air; the mechanical work | done by the expansion simultaneously of the whole mass may cod it to any extent | whatever. This last is the important process on which all our rain depends, { TI. The second step, namely, condensa- tion, is a molecuiar process that has been likened to the crystallization of | | ! | there is too little known abo t either | process to warrant the belief that they | are really similiar. | maintain that the condensat'on of vapor, | Mike the crystallization of salts, demand | moe nucleus as a starting-point, and that every minute droplet of fog or cloud | must have a particle of atmospheric dust | as its initiative, IIL The third step in | the above process of rain and formation i 1s the agglomeration of fog or cloud P= | ticles into larger Srops. About this there is very little known from actual observa. tion, and the hypotheses are quite vari ous, The hypothesis that among these sarticles some are larger than others and, their more rapid descent, overtake the smaller ones and thus grow larger as they descend, seems at first quite natural and is sufficient to explain the fact that the quantity of rainfall is an ex. ecodingly small the water that water that is On the other hand, the sizes of fogs do not variation in the diameters of of tions cles the parti show sufficient a to these minute particles with it, it would seem that if they are to come in contact whether by gravitational fall or by the jostling of wind-currents will not neces sarily cause their union; it is essential that the surface tensions of the two par- ticles be properly adjusted to each other, and the latter point seems to demand fur Agricultural Science, RELIABLE RECIPES. to large speaking, a than inches in diameter and proportionately thick when baked, ‘This gives a deli cate. moist, flaky biscuit which will be cooked through before the outside crust aver brown. Many too large to « ook before the it is a he upper crust by laying a wet clot vith hit mistake make a Properly should not It is a great tea biscuit tea be more two has become hard of the muffin tins OF Are horoughly crust t through hardens, In su h a case t are hot covering it i Cookies, on the other H be of liberal d out so thin that their size does no vent their cooking through, f ASO O03 diameter, as they are apples is at it i apples are stored ge I'he wrap i wenther, best way v i : 3 appies is 10 thom papers 3 { i § COOL, and put them i dry enough wrap 4 | ; i in Consul Rounseve apore, who is coming missioner to the World's Fair, is nalist of He was edi tor of the Idaho Statesman, and at one time on the staff of the Kansas City Times, © Mr. Wildman has arranged a large exhibit for the fair. It will « onsist of three palm ieaf bungalows, each about thirty by fifteen feet, cight feet from the In The court will be decorated with palms, and and native women wearing sarongs and making fancy articles, Through C man's solicitation the Saltan of Johore will visit the World's Fair. Mr. Wild man is at present visiting the Sultan at JOU considerable nots court, ground, enclosed in a square the bungalows will be the exhibit, meul Wild gressive Oriental, and will light his pa lace with electricity upon his return from arc expected in Washington in Decem ber. The Sultan will arrive in New York July next. [Harper's Weekly. A Carious Library. Perhaps the most curious library is that on the corner of Eighth street and University place, New York city. It is known as the Directory Library. literary standpoint as the ordinary library,” said the attendant in charge. i out the world." is chiefly patronized by detectives, law- addresses of people in other cities, [New York Herald. The Japanese Ivy, The Japanese ivy has been charged with many serious things, such as injur- ing the stone and brick work of build- ings upon which it grows, and affording a safe harbor for mice. And now comes another, The ufiesding slant covered the walls of a stable a orced an en- trance by the window. There one of the horses, in his eAgernnls for n food, nibbled freely of the leaves within his reach; immediately it fell ill and died soon after from their poisonous effect, ns an indicated, All of which is doubtless a libel on this lovely creeper.—{ Washington Post. FOR THE CHILDREN. THE MAGIK VINE. A fairy sced 1 planted, Bo dry and white and old ; There sprang a vine enchanted With magic flowers of gold, I watched it, 1 tended it, And, truly, by and by It bore a Jack-o' lantern And a great Thanksgiving pie! { Youth's Companion, COLUMBUS AND THE ¥G( At return from his versation turned One of the rot a dinner given him soon ceond voyage con upon the nes ners of the Bpanish court value of the h id been endeavored to precate the discovery, and said that mor made « than it deserved, took up a could mak: others had the feat, Colum achievement, in his opinion, In answer Columba asked if apy one When the wind Accomplish DIRITIIMIA, WHOS ““Was that b She shook her bead. Did you k “A rea gent Ninctee: nim.” Farm F WHY JOIXNIY It was a great, golden squash that looked like a round-f sun half hidden among in the garden Wan av the argest that had county, and CGrandp Feorris that 1t must go 1 fair. the blue ribbon IMD TT LIKE SQUASH HT green lea 1 it that declared unty where was rire Lwin Johnnie thought his bos! ue #0 riend Amos it on onc of their daily visits to the squash to sob how much it had grown in the night, “Wouldn't it look fine with a flag right in the middie of it?” asked Johanie, “Yes said Amos, ‘but your grandpa might not be willing.” “Pooh” replied Johnnie, *‘l think he'd be glad wo, about should but he never thought of it.” “The flag was brought and driven into just the right place, pulled out it left a jagged hole which Johonie filled up with dirt. the one around the soldier's monument ready t= do whatever Johnnie did, helped the flag. “There, that looks beautiful!” said Johnnie, and then ran off. He forgot all about it until grandpa told him that he had ruined the squash-—it could not © e to the fair—and for a punishment must eat it all up. “That's not bad,” thought Johnnie, and sat down quite cheerfully to a break- fastof stewed squash. Squash for dinner was not bad either; but a supper of squash was tiresome. He ran down cellar to look at it as it stood on the shelf, Such a very small piece cut out of it too! At that rate it would last for weekd How could he ever eat it all? : At the end of the second day it was : ted little boy that sae hat grandpnre enouch. Johnnie was sure he had .and he told Amos over the fence the ness day that he never should forgeti tt, evens if he was a big man; and he never has, {Our Little Ones, 4 AROUND THE HOUSE, To clean articles of papier-mache, wash them with a little lukewarm water and soap and rub them vigorously with sweet oil, A useful saucepan for boiling milk is marked with the a *B. N. 0.) | which are the initials for Joil Not | Over,” By the saucepan will not 1% kept a the inside boils, and lets contrivance y th it # curious arranged se is boil over so long ns milk blow mux angrier inch the vil off flange, COVES Ons 1s sf rij i (ious part of h lessened if a 18 shut steam Joos vier ying up in Cre lace and tacked siretcher The Levee at St. Louis, rawhide, The in the center, i's bexdy so that he { rawhide n the bottom of the 0 SUF occupant craft fastening it tightly the arms. This t practically water tight, {le along in the roughest withou danger of raft rolls over all he the water until he we surface again, and stationary ballast, 1na- itself, etn are made with two holes passengers, The o brought down are the single pat- They an it fourteen feet long, thirty inches across and of a like depth. They are very light and can easily be car- | ried abo "The owners are going to keep them at Lake Washivgton. Itis wid two men came down from Alaska in one some years ago and had been upset aumerous occasions on the way, but ey never suffered more serious injury n getting their shoulders wet, 3 Li flap up, } } unaGer has to do is iW gets his head to 4 boat, having iy rights th 10 LCCOMmMmOa ati wo Some iw tern. aly 5 ul on Most Important Theft The most importa theft ever com- mitted took place in the year 558 A. D., | until which date silk of the East could | only be obtained by the Western world | by importing the manufactured article. | Many attempts were made to induce the Chinese and Corcans part with the | serret ss to how they obtained the maw | material, but none were successfal, and the origin of the beautiful fabric re- | mained more or less a mystery in the | West until, in the year pamed, two Per. sian missionaries to Corea stole two or three dozen cilkworms’® oggs, and after great difficulty managed to convey them | to Constantinople concealed in a stick of bamboo. From the stolen eggs thus im. | ported have been deriv ed all the genera tions of silkworms that have supplied | the raw material for the silk manufac. turers of Europe from that day to this. The purloining of those few cggs may therefore well be ranked as the most im portant theft on record. —{ Yankee Blade, in it {to Dietery for Children, It is the opinion of a celebrated doctor {hat children under five years should not eat meat more than once a day, and that in the morning or at noon. “‘An almost ideal dietetic schedule for most children,” it is said, would include eggs at break fast, ig ov noon, and bread milk at night, * abprOl te given with the milk younger id ages © to give and for fear the overtaxed, «| New
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