teins SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERY DAY LIFE, Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven- tures Which Show That Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction, A nea hanging by his paws from the erotch of a large oak tree in the woods on Neille Ridge near Seranton, Penn, seared Ora Becker's spaniel Topsy half to death at sunrise on arecent Monday morning, Becker was on his way to Racket Creek to hunt grouse, and Topsy that she was out of sight when she begun to yelp furiously and canter toward him, He wade her stop her noise when she reached him, and then he heard a bear bellowing and bawling some distance to the south, Becker cocked his gun and accompany him. The bear had both paws in the jaws of a trap twenty-three feet from the ground, and he was dig ging into the bark with his hind claws and doing his utmost to keep his weight from pulling down on his imprisoned paws. le yelled and snarled with pain was fastened to a limb with a log chain, and the bear stood no chance at all of yanking himself loose. Decker had a of his barrels, and he put an end to the bear's suffering by shooting him in the head. Then he got Topsy and started for the valley to find out who owned the trap. It belonged to Edgar and Amasa Morehouse, who set it in the erotch of | the oak tree on Sunday and daubed it over with two pounds of honey, There | was a colony of wild bees in the hollow trunk, and the Morchouse brothers dis covered that a bear had been clawing and biting the wood where the bees went in and out. They made up their minds that the surest way to get the four-footed lover of sweets was to bait the trap with | honey and fasten it in the crotch of the tree, but they didn’t expect to capture him so and so they didn’t go to look at the trap the next morning. The bear weighed 313 pounds, and the More- house boys gave Becker one-half of the carcass for shooting him. Amasa brought the skin to Scranton and got $24 for it, Mne., James HixcrLey Walnut Hollow, Conn., had an encounter with a hen hawk recently that nearly her death. Mrs. Hiockley is a widow, and manages a farm with the assi of her only child, a 15-year- While she was throwing corn fowls an immense hawk swooped : and caught a hen in its t Without apprehending the f, Mrs Hinckley picked up a stone and threw it at the hawk. The missile bird fairly and seemed to madden it, for it flew at the woman. Mrs. Hinckley was unable to get hold of anything with which to defend herself, Fith ti of attracting some ono to her she screamed at the top of her voide, ber daughter had on an errand more than a mile distant, and her cries were unheard. The hawk’s anger was apparently increased by the woman's t aimed to got at the woman's face, which she protected with her hands and arms. From her arms and shoul. ders her was torn to shreds, and the flesh wus lacerated so badly that her clothing was saturated with blood. twenty minutes fue vird fougl woman all over the vard until sh a fainting She woul bly bave been killed by the bird h her daughter arrived just shi The girl is vigorous and fear Tak- ing in the situation promptly, she secured a piece of heavy log chain that hung the fence. The hawk turned its atten tion to the girl, but it soon got across the bad that ren kK with the chain dered one of its wings useless, and it then became an easy victim for the girl The hawk was of the killed hercabouts, It measured five two inches across its wings from tip to tip, and A Tare of piracy comes from the Bens that sounds like a romance of the middie azes. Two brothers, Rodiques, highly educated and polished men, who, for some crime, had been committed to | the penal settlements of New Caledonia, | made their escape, and working their way into the South Pacific they managed to get into the good graces of the natives and foreigners there. They succeeded in getting possession of the yacht of the | native Tahitian King, a very fast sehoon- | er, and manning her with a crew of two Europeans and five natives, they loaded her with goods and sailed ostensibly on a trading voyage. When they were one week at sea they gave the cook a bottle of strychnine, and by promising to divide the spoils with him, and threatening his | life in case of refusal, persuaded him to gt the poison into the food of the crew, While the uuhappy victims were rolling | on the deck in agony the Rodigues sat smoking and enjoying their tortures, and finally threw them to the sharks that swarmed around the vessel and laughed to see them devoured, £000, of caused alons, danger to hersel struck th 1 dea wsgistance bat OS ILE gone cries, reas condition, wel § 4 1 largest eve foe one ¥ § L weighed thirteen pounds, South | The yossel Was | crew was engaged, dnd they set out to! dispose of ga cargo. Finally the cook demanded his share of the profits, He | was refused and given to understand that | be was their slave and must not leave the | vessel, where the cook managed to get ashore | and betrayed the pirates to the author. ities. They were speedily arrested and decapitated on the cook's evidence, and he wes executed at the same time as particeps criminis, *“Oxyp of the coolest actions 1 ever ob. served in the course of my express exper fence,” said an express messenger to a er of the Clucinnati Times Star, *twas that of a rough fellow from New Mexico, He was poorly dressad, and boarded our train at Tombstone on a second-class ticket, depositing at the same time 5 box in theeare of the express t, labeled ‘Rattlesnakes handle hh cure.’ It was os small soap box nnd aot very heavy, but you ean bet that box was zealously guarded. At Kansas Cit be came and got the box and carried it off to a bank. The bunker was a friend of mine, ind, meeting him the next day, 1 asked what that fellow did in the bank with the rattlesnakes. ‘Rattlesnakes! Well, that's a good joke on the express company,’ he replied, “That box had ex. act 000 in $10 greenbacks in it’ we would have charged him a neat sum for its transportation, but, by labelling it rattlers, he had it carried for a trifle, and I'll venture it was more secure from robbers under that simple title than it would have been in the stoutest safe.” Tue physicians of Philadelphin are said to be wondering whether the leprosy is ever of spontancous generation, A woman was recently admitted to the hospital there who has every symptom of the leprosy, Herskin is badly discolored and bears large spots of bronze color, and the cuticle is d lifeless, It is said that she has always resided in the city, has never been abroad, and, so far as known, has never come | into contact with any person afflicted with the leprosy. Last winter D. W. Little, one of the { adobe farmers at Biggs, Cal, sho! ato la band of A white gander was | { struck and had one wing broken. Mr. Little took the goose home and gave him to his boys, who doctored his wing and | he soon became so tame us to follow the { boys wherever they went, eat from their | hands and even poke his head into their | pockets for corn or wheat, A few days geese, void. — Richar! Jork.” In the nest pumber of thy paper the following ap. peared: “I hereby declare that with respect to the advertisement of the an nulment of my betrothal, written und proclaimed, with Herr Jork 1 do not agree. 1 am and «till intend to remain his betrothed, — Emma Ziegler, A Newton county (Mc,) woman has sued the Splitlog Railroad, based on the following claim: “She was a passenger on the road and was accidentally carried beyond her destination somes distance, when the train stopped and she alighted, While i1eturning she was chased by a bull, and in outrunning him impaired her health.” CHRISTMAS GAMES, Entertainment for the Young Folks, If vou are to entertain a large circle of young folks of all ages at Christmas, it will be well to provide yourself before. hand with a list of amusing games. “Fling the Towel!" Let the company form a circle, with one of the players in the center. One member of the then flings a large towel, aiming to hit Holiday cirele | ago a band of wild geese flying over the { premises and making their usual elatter | attracted the attention of the domesti- | cated gander which gave an outlandish display of quacking and shrill yells in | goose language that had a most startling | { effect with the band flying past. A fine | white goose was seen to leave the band | and down until it landed in the | yard at the side of the pet, aud the meet shoot gree. Their gabbling, quacking and the boys who witnessed the meeting as they could have found at a circus. The new arrival, which is probably a mate of the tame refuses but will fly over the fence when the two are approached by the boys, and then fly | to the mate when the boys step now LOORe, to leave, back aside, A TRAMP giving as John Fair appeared at the police station in Atchi- Kansas, the other night, bruised from head to foot, and uske od permission the cell until morning, Fair Atchison stock train, and had his nam {to sleep in he Omaha on had " . life. Shortly i of said had come from 1 thre the most rain pulled out Omaha, the he crawled to a car which w + steers soon begun and, this tramp climbed on the bad This Wo seeing i ¥ ’ the steer, a The madden wbout, hooking tramn cach r thi 1 all sides about Bees © Arms which he was riding, i hel Aid th 1 and it until the train stopped at head number tramp's car a bruised Asoxa certain tribes of India the {ol ordeal constitutes eremony The othed into some ympanied by a priest, with wryiog { man conduc vater: they ar and ; The man places his hand by the priest's band, and the the b i iI of $3apae riivat g at inting priest them a cow driven nto the water woman places hers next that of groom. and all three clufeh hole 's t while the offi :1 cai, ater upon the cow and the « ye Lime uttering } (im it fing a The two their cl religion then made man hes being tied to the priest The latter claims » ealf for his part in the the happy pair deposit on the various idols to which aifts find their + exchequer, : rewarded for his Are st} G0) AX extraordinary Case Halberstadt, A regiment, who took part in the celebrated death ride at the battle of Mars le Tour, } in the left ankle. | man was removed to the hospital at dinburg, where he remained for over | year. The doctors, after making \ attempis bullet, at discharged fer soldier in a cuiras was severely wounded to dis over the and man, who has been an invalid ever since The other day, after twenty-two vears, the doctors at the hospital at Halberstadt succeeded in extracting the shot, was embedded in the bone. The patient | is said to have experienced immediate | wre} SMATCE gave up she A story Mr, William Hancock is tell ing on the lecture platform in Eogland | retlects great credit upon the sagacity of | the buffaloes in Sumatra, where he has He that these in telligent animals, being in great fear of | their mortal enemy, the tiger, take refuge at night in the rivers, where they rest in peace and comfort with only their i “Vs Possibly the traveller derived his infor. of Central Africa who regaled Dr. Jun the and cooked their food alter manner of the lords of creation. Tue alligator has never been looked negro known as Jack Fisherman, a well. in Florida, declares that he nearly sub- ile Eas been seen to eat that it is a8 tender us chicken, but has taste more like that of venison than any For the last fifteen years he has never tasted meat other than this, Ac- cording to his statement the choice parts le directly under the sealy ridge along the backbone, and arc as white as veal, Ax extrordioary oceurrence is re. ported from Monsac, France. Between that village and Couze a little child of five was playing in front of its mother's cottage, when it was suddenly attacked by a lsrge gray wolf which had emerged from the neighboring wood. The beast icked up the infant and trotted back into the forest, but fortupately the bur. den was rather heavy, dod on the nigh. bors—attractel by the child's cries. coming to the rescue the wolf dropped its prey and disappeared, A Gurvax newspaper lately contained this announcement: **I bereby declare, since the written notice of the Sth of August, 1802, and notwithstanding her refusal to accept the same, my betrovhal u the money had been entered as money: with Fraulein Emma Ziegler is null and some other member, If the player in the middle is adroit enough to intercept it the ring, he takes the place of the one who threw it, who then takes his hand in the middie. If it hits the one at whom it was aimed, he must try to get rid of it by throwing it to another play the gne stationed in the middle can catch wer before Fhe game of “Santa Claus,” which is uniike that called “Donkey, i fun Tack a big white sheet, Make a large paper Santa C cut off his head, his fect, his arms, and pack: cut off his ears and nos ut his eves, nd paste his body or not § rrent upon the wall ans; i and apalon 01 Blindfold cach plaver ! of the Saint’ it where he him t avd let him place should go You can have a bit of dried the of bits hat they can be moistens He I ar looking saint, w his heel, head g in the r ght pls have two simple prizes who comes nearest b a port ion thinks it backs thes of nucilage on paper; sot « and stuck to the bods tu 4 most pecu:l on his ind nothin eye another thumb, where his feet shoul ir, placing of some member, ¢ + for the one farthest on SOP AW fold down the sheet 50 as to leave except ines to the paper * then passes it to Show on what bawdy is it a bod then fi (raws fie ext é ir. When ie yers Curiam fist two orio prentice” Lis Family Graveyards, : ™~ s no piace ike South ran Indi said William Y akey, ‘There is ana for gravevards of Bloomfiel { Ind., toa Chicago Glolw ; Now, that section, includ Green, Monroe, Brown and Sullivan eo i is a wonderland to traverse. It looks i id settlers of fifty Years his ow Bn. OI BOY Poa was Every mile or two, often far totally inaccessible to agons without laviog waste the fences, upon little rock - walled or rail wures containing the dead of Father, mother and several children there, and none others ““ These places have long been forsaken and forgotten. Weeds flourish in profu. sion and hide the wind and rain -stained tombstones from view Often with » companion I have catered one of these little inclosures, trampled and torn out the weeds and righted the five or six head. oyen fou como fie iid wormy earth, “These people had no country church. yard; no preacher except ihe visit ng par- son, who came monthly on horseback. They had no funeral in the present sense of the word, Pisin wooden boxes were used for coffins, and often the sturdy youth of the family made the coffin for the dead parent or relative, These little gpots were dear to those families. One can sec that by the loving little inscrip- tions and decorations. When they were nll dead no one remained to eare for them, and they fell into decay and ruin, “They are lonesome sights, those little groups of white pillars, In the winter, when the trees are bare and the grass dead, 1 have seen flocks of crows coming and circling about the clump of trees that usually cluster about those places. The bitter wind moans through the erackling branches, and those crows wheel about and caw and croak until the world scems truly a place of sorrow and death.” A Wonder In Eggs. The number of eggs in the medium. sized eel at the beginning of the breeding season is statod by eminent authorities on fishes and their allied creatures to Le fully nine millions (9,000,000), a sum so great as to almost paralyze the intellect that tries to grapple with it. To the na. ked eye no single one of these life gorms is nlmost invisible, A Rtong microscope, however, shows them firmly packed to- gether standing on their tiny ends look. ng Bat unlike the covered cells of honey comp. THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH. Dust Ix tug Eve. Never rub Lot the tears gather and flow. they will them out {, how rile first upon the outside of the lower one; by ifting the lower out and upon the upper eyelid, Another good plaa is to plunge the face ina deep basin of warmed water, aut. jut a celebrated oculist in Utrecht hing gritty, ets into the eve, that the pure olive oil poured in upon the eye ball and socket This remedy is quite pain substances, Wonk Dr fear of Hanp xor Ixastiiiovs the ordinary man using his much for health and he that mental labor or kind interferes with life a day. He enting is the abuse jury of sther cause, brains too does not believe hard work of health or maintains that excessive that tends to the in brain workers than Many broken ido vIn, any more nny ind fancied ave suddenly hat : to brain fatizue, is a matter of f ia furnace it was due CE, 1 Over stutfing of their connected with i ime clogged up with ashes n various shapes and form =osult, disease came, Yaeed vas fully appreciated lition of the nervous the wns and n ime a philosop self aloof Ir ected bys 3 tf this process go ited room wher thered together, waury Consume fol, ar umiulates he air less and the re of human if if the air of seven-tenths of carbo acid 1,000 cubic % offensi irbon ie that to feet it becom even the sense of smell, ( gas cannot support combustion; hence a lighted candle, partially or completely surrounded by it burns slowly or goes out, and so it ith human acid is = beings «1 with this gas all the functions of the body are tardily ind imperfectly performed-—=the muscu lar tissues are enfechled, breathing be comes oppressed, the head aches, and, in sufferings of the most distressing nature, The fact ean scarcely be too strongly sufficient CETess of the upper unless for air from spd 5. the part be made impure the Iu the greater number of surpose; on'the as possible to the outer air, while the the ceiling no apertures exist for the of carbonic acid gas, In this par of the community suffer almost equally. The fact that carbonic acid gas is inimical to health from our public places of assembly and our houses, but most of all from our sleeping apartments, Alry, well-venti- Inted sleeping rooms should be ranked with the most important requirements of life, both in health and discase. Bed rooms, in which about one-third of human existence is passed are as a gener al thing too small, too crowded, and too y ventilated. The doors, win. dows, even the chimneys are often closed, and every aperture carefully ed so ax to exclude the fresh air, conse. uence is, that, long before the morning awns the atmosphere of the whole apartment becomes highly injurious, from the consumption of its oxygen, for mation of carbonic acid and the ex. balations from the lungs and the relaxed skin, In an atmosphere loaded with ef. fluvia, the sleep is heavy and unrefroesh: ing, partaking more of the © of tnsensibility than of healthy slumber. There are certain diroases in which the cause of death is simply an accomulation of carbonic acid gas in the blood, and this condition exists, to some degree, in a badly ventilated and over-crowded bed. room. Instances of speedy death from over-crowding can be readily recalled, Of the 146 prisoners confined in the Black Hole of Caleutta” live through the night, the survivors afterward putrid fever caused poisoned with carbonic no 125 Hot of of by being quence, many were made ill while seventy Time nny dove lop bad be sometimes required to i to be the most potent and extensive of all the predisposing causes of disease, and especially that of consumption, provision were only made for the of pure air and the air, our sleep would escape pre baer iy very instance the door of the bed and the upper down a extent, weather of inches 10 window let {ow Jean the the a greater or the state of 90¢ ard with vented from playing directly upon the position, or hanging a sin n beside the trouble to and lool a bis or placing a scr Dolly swrhed highly deleteriou rd greater than Lad er in the Arcdic Ooran., er to Aprilit is froze: t of the great y the transparency presents polished crisia Very : of the fine « xperi fascinating influen MOT make ss 1 stopped to a sketot take some photographs. It matter, as | found on getting ou sledge, for the ice slippery tl in spite of my having felt snow boots on, I could hardly stand. The death like silen~e of the surroundings was ores ally broken, however, by curious sounds as though big guns were fired little distance. They wi ‘ Wax iy SOT ansed I was told that in some parts of the lake through which the it & thi water could be seen is for this journey by daylight. We reached Mouishkay, on the opposite coast, ex. actly four and a half hours after leaviog whole distanoe of thirty miles with only two stoppages of a few minuteseach. [It of work for them, as they seemed as fresh when we drew up to the post vard as when we started in the morning. Wild Cattle in Oregon. al localities in this State there are ani- from domestic ancestors, In Pacific, Chehalis and Mason Counties there isa remnant of 2 heed of wild cattle which was maintained on Gray's harbor, and the soldiers as farms, The troops owned a large number of cattle, which pastured on part of the garrison ranch. The post was suddenly abandoned, for some reason, and the sol cattle with them. They were leftin the pasture adjoining the fort and were uncared for. There were no settlements «or next to none—on the harbor or ie Chehalis valley at that time, conse. quently the cattle roamed undisturbed where they pleased. Notwithstanding the scanty which they often found and the de dations of the black wolves that theo infested the woods slong the coast, the cattle increased in numbers very rapidly and proved a scurce of constant annoy ance to carly settlers. Fences wore broken down, crops destroyed and tame animals coaxed off to the woods, Many of the animals were killed by parties organized to exterminate them and the remainder of the herd has been driven well up into the skirts of the Olympics and into the coast m east and south at Gray's hon TO Roh (Oregony n . * fare a Ors AND COMMENTS. Tne work of incendiaries in the United which ijssurance men believe great loss syory year, has led fire underwriters attempt to secure the enactment of laws providing for the adequate investigation of the causes of all fires and the prosecution of all persons believed to be incendiaries, The National Board of Fire Underwriters has sent to the Governors of different States a communication calling attention to the need of has al “dH recommendations CHaLISe $45 iegislation on this subject, and issued a pamphlet containing the of 5 insurance commis enacted requiring investigation of all fires, It shows that the fire has increased from $54. 000,000 in 1882 to R145,000,000 in 1861, The lusarance Commissioner of Colorado in his report for 1892, says that fully 35 per cent « are of incendi i The Connecticut ys that the risk should be divided between the companies and the insured. to induce care weits aud New sioners that laws wWiste ff the fires there rif min, ary Commis sioner Or: greater aoains fires { 01 « of Massachn the muh joc {, a2 nirodueed at the ast gessions ( Hampshire statutes of bills Lit ew-York and New Jersey legis) luded in the pamphlet ences of some ravelers was to tint an odd wa Greenland Fski- opean dace: all i {2 . thenoe 1 snd, by their own story, on people's soap, or liver pills, or this extent ng enterprise will astronomy iZination, rasters To what h of adverts of advertis the scien ft to the ims ce of Ww Apaus of West : I quite a large of the 8 srship Bepedict Arnold n Lake Champlain, srs is rs, of which { the after with a nt » of oak, and wood, when takes a beau cither worked %, as relics, or id's Fair. Mr. and solid lark and be ni MA BNC her article Woe ams fas als everal shells et Hot, ! an usket balls, which he has found near the A xtuner of German deatists have been heavily fined by justices in Prussia Saxony for advertising themselves as doctors of dentistry on the strength of diplomas received | American col The German laws recognize only { doctors those of law, philosophy and medicine waking of is worth soling that the three dentists of Berlin, Dresden and Leipsic who have the largest and most remuncrative praclice are respec tively Messrs. Sylvester, Jenkins and Young, all natives of Main The two inst mentioned were formerly residents of Bangor. Sylvester and Jenkins are court dentists, Lis om ¥ 3 5 dentists, it Prorzsson L. F. Blake, of the Univer. sity of Kansas, in an article on “Safety from Electricity,” in the Electrical World says: “For buildings in cities, except churches and other high struc. tures, rods, 1 think. are unnecessary. Lightning strikes seldom in the cities compared with the country, one reason being that the many electric wires— tele. phone and telegraph and electric light — A building is safer with such wires over it than with. out. In the country, however, buildings may need protection, Foun years ago, it is said, General Harrison vent to bod on the night of clection before he knew the resalt,. The wife of general Hancock declared that the latter went to bed at 7 o'clock in the evening on election day, 1880, being too tired to await news. Next morning he awoke at dawn and asked if there were any definite tidings. Upon her reply: “Yes, you are beaten,” he turned over and went to sleep again, A Sax Fuaxcisco firm is abomt to attempt the revival of whaling in the Antarctic Ocean, which has not been carried on for as many as twenty fiv years. A quarter of a century ago the catches of sperm and right whales to be excellent there, and many whalers are now of the opinion Southern seas will again afford a able ficld for operations. Tux red glow of the planet Mars has puzzled everybody but a French astroro- mer, who gives it as his opinion that the vegetation of that far away world is erim. son instead of green, © also says that he hasn't the least doubt but there
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