SOMEWHAT STRANGE. Sis m—— ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS EVERYDAY LINE, m—— ine Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven- tures Which Show That Truth Stranger Than Filetion. Some weeks ago a son of J, Francis, of Moro, Me., saw what he supposed was a big rabbit with a heifer in the field. The cattle were pastured in a back lot near the woods. The boy as he approached saw that it was not a rabbit. He easily caught the animal, which proved to be a oung caribou, und carried it home in is ars. It was apparently a day old, and was weak and staggering. A nurs- ing bottle was secured, and the little caribou was fed on milk. OF allowed to nurse from and striking its foster mother with its feet, that the farmer feared the might injure it, and now he feeds it with milk by hand three times a dav. All this time it has evinced a fondness for its first foster mother, the heifer. The little fellow is flourishing, ances. be led into the woods, where and play. But at the slightest unusuul noise, it will immediately seamper home. It is a buck, and its horns are just com- ing through. Austin has returned to Kansas City from most remarkable cases the Pension De- partment has had to do with, R. Wilson, who lived at Horton, Kas. for a wound in the left knee, received at Thompson's Station, while he was a member of an lilinois regiment. The de- partment found, on investigation, that another William R, Wilson was drawing a pension for a similar injury, and for services in the same company and regi- ment, Mr. Austin followed Wilson to found that his description was exactly similar to that of the lilinois pensioner. Without making known his business, he questioned Wilson, who proved beyond 4 doubt that he had a cousin in the same company, bearing the same name, of the same age nd description, and wounded in the sume part of the body. Nor long ago the strange discovery was made in Pristina, Turkey, that a young woman named Hanko had been serving for more than three years in the riftecuth Regiment in the place of her brother, Auli Redscheb, with especially meritorious conduct, It had never oc curred in the Turkish Army before that a woman unveiled had lived among men ported to the Sultan. When the latter learned that the young girl had under- taken the daring step to keep from mi i tary service her brother, who was the only support of her aged mother, the Emperor gave her the Schefukat, order of the third class, and a pension for life of five Turkish pounds per month, The brave girl was sent home immediate. iy, and her brother was allowed to con- tinue there with Lis mother. Siras Bauer, a farmer of Huntingdon County, Penn., had a singular and painful experience. Distrustful of banks, fie drew out several hundred dollars he possessed from two banks, and then hid iia treausure in the lining of his coat Then he went out to work in a field and hung his coat upon a gate post. There the cont was espied by a multitude of hungry grasshoppers sal badly eaten by them. The grasshoppers bored holes through the greenbucks, and the farmer has been compelled to send the fray ments of his money to Washington to secure new bills. The mooey wus muti- lated almost beyond redemption. Mr, Bauer says when he recovers his money he will put it back ia the bank, A vouss Baltimore lady who visited a milliner's shop two iaonths ago was appalled one of her thousand dollar earrings. many advertisaments, The other day a lady residing fa Alabama wrote to the millinery firm that the bonnet which she had purchased of them had arrived safe. iy, sud that she was particularly well pleased to find a diamond entangled in the lace trimmings. She concluded her letter by saying she was anxious to re- turn the diamond to its owner, Wasrs have become so much of a pes in Eogland as to be a national nuisance They swarm in houses and in bed chambers they rob orchards more effec tively than a whole school of boys, and they destroy the finest peaches on the wall and the juiciest plums in the gar aen. of these hot tempered thieves will sally lucky if you donot get well stung.” Buaix surgeons of to-day are beginning to understand such occurrences as that which turned Barnett Grimsley, a farm- er's boy, into the ablest Baptist preacher Virginia. Young Grimsley, when sixjeen, was cutting wood with a com. ion, when the other fellow’s axe w off the handle, struck him on the head, and cracked his skull. The acci. dent; instead of hurting him in any re- gpoct, seemed to give his brain more om to grow, aud he became known in years as Grimsley the eloquent. mrovs phenomenon has just oo. at the village Gamlingay, - Cam- pahire, England. A dense cloud fed to be passing over, which , to the astonish. re, it was seen to be a shower of ants und similar winged in- sects, People and the ground became smothered with them, and they swarmed in millions. Every step taken is said to have crushed hundreds of them, Dowx in the Indian Territ the other day a Choctaw woman left her Te ny work. e y ah made off, gle gmbbug th the deed. Seizing his Winchester, he jumped on his horse ‘and chased the bird for miles, Finally the bird lit on a high tree to rest and Shobe shot it through the wing. It tried to fly but fluttired slowly to earth and was dispatched. The child was only slightly scratched. Tur umbrella has rarely been enumer- ated among antiques, but John Bickel, of Harrisburg, Penn., has one which he says is 103 years old. It has always been in the possession of the Bickel family— it has never been loaned. This ancient rain-shudder has a frame of peculiar construction, which isnow covered with design, Russia tliat *‘physicians shall have the treatment of their patients. In case of the application they must inform the administrative authorities, at same time giving the names of the phy- sicians in whose presence the was hypnotized.” ing on a leaf must have wondered how such a soft, flabby, slimy animal can knife, formidable mouth he has. The mouth, Mus. Maritpa Sivpsox, burg, Ky., who died recently, has been | known us the “sad lady" for a third of a { century, during which time she has never been seen to smile. Her husband's { mysterious disappearance had the effect of changing her merry disposition of | young womanhood in the twiokling of an eye. Her life has been devoted to noble charitivs, Ax irrigating onnal at Riverside, Cal, about twenty-two miles long, hus been gradually becoming unfit for use in its twelve vears of service on account of holes bored in its banks by gophers, The waste of water finally became so short time ago that it was de- cided to regrade the whole canal and cover the sides with cement. A curious example of the destructive ways of rats can be seen in the window of a little plumbing shop on West Broad. way, New York City, where a section of lead pipe is shown in which a large hole has been burrowed by rodents, The plumber says they were after a drink of the water they heard running through the pipe. Tux coast between Hythe and Dunge pess has suddenly become infested with wasps, which are causing the inhabitants a great deal of inconvenience At Dym- church two sheep were stung to duath, the insects attacking the throats of the animals, causing t great sufferiog and eventually choking them Lem GorMANDIZING competitions used to be a popular form of entertainment in Alas ka. An immense trough was filled with meats, bear and mountain goat, fish, ber- ries and oil. Then families vied with one another as to which could eat the most, and many serious have re- sulted from the jealousy of the losers, fights A Mi. Tarvnor, of Tacoma, Washing. recently returned from Lake . that the mioers about the atch all the trout they wish with their bf He a man with one push up four not of which weighed less than a pound. Mi, Who Chel inKe Aan, savs £ ir shovels, RaW ¥ scoop nan, oue Asosxa the exhibits in the show win dow of 1 New York dental establishment i border around the ob jects displayed of nearly six thousand tecth which have been pulled from the patrons’ jaws, Ace is 8 fan ¥ other onbixc to a report by the Freach Minister of Finance 148.308 families in France have claimed exemption from certain taxes recently voted by the Par linment on account of seven or more children. having Penrnars the greatest oddity of recent date is the action of the Rev. Dr. Mclao- tyre of Denver, who has asked his church to reduce his salary from $5,000 to $1,000. How Elephants Drink, usually given drink from large wooden troughs filled with well water by means of a pump, and it is commonly an ele- phact that fills this trough, says a writer in the Manchester T%mes. Every morn- ing he goes regularly to his task. India a correspondent of a paper saw a a large elephant engaged in pumping i such a trough full of water. He coun- { tinues: “In passing 1 noticed that one of two tree trunks which supported the trough at either end bad rolled from its place, so that the trough, still elevated ut one extremity, would begin to empty itself assoon as the water reached the level of the top at the other end, which lay on the ground. the elephant would discover anything wrong. Soon the water began to run off | at the end which had lost its support. him lacked much of being full he con- | | phenomenon. He seemed to find it diffi icult to explain. ‘Three times he re- | turned to his pumping and three times sorbed looker-on, impatient to see what would be done. Soon a lively flapping of the ears indicated the dawning of light, He went and smelled of the tree trunk which had roiled from under the trough. I thought for amoment that he was going to put it in its place again, But it was not, as I soon understood, the end which ran over that disturbed his mind, but the end which he found it im- possible to fill. Raising the ugh, which he then allowed to rest tor an stant upon one of his huge feet, he rolled sway the second supporting log with his Sk and Thon 0h Joo trots own, $0 that it rested at both ends on the ground, He then returned to the pump and com- pleted his tas Tne stockholders in the fire insurance companies are ing over the fre. quenoy of fires t year. ‘Fire and Water” states that in 1891 there was $79,247,870 worth of y destroyed by fire; in 1802 there was 878,067,230, and this year 1893, thus far, $98,101,300, FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS, THE LITTLE ELV. I met a little Elf-man, once, | Down where the lilies blow, I asked him why he was #0 swall And why he dido't grow, He slightly frowned, and with his eye He looked me through and through. “I'm quite as big for me,” said he, ‘*As you are big for you.” (St, Nicholas, A PONY'S TRICKS, A ten month-old pony has been | trained to do many tricks by his youth ful master, son of a farmer of Hender- ison, N, C. walk up to any designated person and { shake hands and kiss him. Blindfold it and paw it up. He will feign sick | ness, count artioles of any specified num i he indicates what artioles he likes best; will fire a pistol, and will do many other wonderful things. —{Chicago Herald. THE FOX, THE BADGER AND RABBITS, The fox noses the rabbits out at times and scratches them out. As to the badger, what could be more delicate for his very accommodating appetite than tender young rabbits? They put flesh on to his ribs after his fast —often a long and compulsory in winter. Bo he digs for them in a most businesslike man per, just like a mole, they are exactly—his nose tells him that and in less than two minutes the fore | part of him is buried; all you will see will be his hind legs working vigorously and a lot of earth moving. But he gets his rabbits; hungry stomachs are hard to reason with, The badger is, | know, ns a rule, nocturnal in his habits, so is a fOX, but where the places that they fre quent are quiet and secluded they will at times hunt by day for food, A vixen and her mate at times reverse the order of things: like humans, woodland wild creatures are governed by circum- stances I have at different times met with the fox and badger in spots where | certain: iy did not expect to see them, snd when I have gone where, according to my reckoning, they ought to have been—so far as locality could relied they were not re Very contradictory ex peri hoes for wis i things, — od’'s Magazine, one their be on has in Jo Black we one PEEPSY AND THE MOON. Peepsy was a {it t her FEA tle girl who was trying ft he little brother to sleep: bu moon in UU i 8Xy as he lay in his y ’ and cried for it I'o g go to sleep, Peepsy said she would for him his Now she wond pr MIisSe the nn out hin get him to oot it get it a On 3 $ 1 ell snnlod 5% saw on the hill opposite the cottage door thou t hie her, would get it belore it up hig : y» high for her i hair, and time she ial was on a peg, ox without th would reach thst went As heard the Be without she trudg slong the hillside she kKatvdids and their might, “Have courage, will reach the moon.” After awhile she met an ox], who said to ber, “To-who, ehild, who?" an “My name is Peepsy. May | please pass, as | og after the moon tor my little brot Then other owls flew down when they heard her voice, and began to } That frightened Peepsy so much that shie ran on, prety soon cme to Lhe and pisce where the moon was, How far it reach it She Crickels singing i with all and they se Pe ened to py, and u SAY. She awered, ja was! She could not called on the stars to give it a push and send it down the hill, They only kept on twinkling at her Pretty soon a ng cradle-shaped piece of the moon fell and rolled down the hill right into the cottage door. The moon said, “Keep it to rock the baby in every night, ss I have twelve new moons every year.” Peepsy then woke up and found she had not really been after the moon, but dreamed all this. — [Child's Garden, BIRDS BGaa, Are any of you boys and girls fond of I suppose some of you have some nice colletions, at least if you go into the country. 1 am sure any of you would have liked to be with me the other afternoon, when | was fortunate enough to see a most beautiful collection of bird's eggs, belonging to two boys their lives in South America. Everyone themselves, and they mumber over 200 | designed and made by the eldest boy, who is a clever earpenter. 1 do not think I have seen i rettier than ‘the varied colors of these foreign birds’ | egas-—~deep violet and pale mauve, corai- | pink, apple-green spotted with crimson, pearly white, sapphire and azare blue, { and, indeed, all the hues of the rain- bow. One case was filled with bum. ming birds’ eggs These were more fantastically colored than the others even, and some of them were not bigger than a tioy pea. The humming birds themselves, my young friends told me, are some of them as emall as bees, and so gorgeous io their plumage that the tiny things look like living jewels as they flash hither and thither in the sun, It took these i three years to make this oollection, and they informed me that now they had come to live in New York they were going to start a collection of Northern birds’ egge. 1 agreed with them that this would be very interesting, but begged theiu before we parted never to rob a nest of all its contents, I don’t fancy I used to think much myself of what u cruel thing this was to do until a few years ago. One spri two robins built their nest in some thick bushes near my sitting-room window. We were all very much interested in the dear little home, and when we found four eggs inside the hest took every pre- eaution to prevent it from being dis. tarbed. But one morning, when we went as usual to peep at the nest, we found some oruel hand (whose we could pever discover) had robbed it of all ite contonts and left it half destroyed. We felt dreadfully sorry, but thought the birdies would perhaps build again. But no; when they returned and found their beloved home broken un, their grief was painful to see. Uttering all the wiile the most piteous cries, they fruntically flew in circles high above the nest: then they hopped all round and beneath the bushes, thinking, | suppose, poor miles, that the eggs had fallen out. For two the third we did not notice them about, partly right, for the father bird really gone, and did not return again, - - ® so HNL SAA. AH LH RSM Many Men of Lettors. genius and snd famous authors, many celebrities have written vile hands, and there are notable men to-day whose eali graphy is almost illegible, says the New castle (England) Chronicle, Jonguin Miller serawls ip the most haphazard kind of fashion. 1 have before me a bit of his masuscript, and it is fo a sort of sense uncanny to think that this jll- broken her heart, York Re corder, [New Facts About Insects, Female spiders are much larger and The goat is provided with a regular which the air ean be withdrawn, Several species of moths never eat after attaining a perfect state. They have no mouths and live but a few hours, The greatest destroyer of the aphis is the apparently harmless lady bird, which devours them by thousands, infected pork that 80,000 have been found to the cubic inch, The trichinm found in are somelimes 30 DUMmMerous Wasps are the most inveterate ene mies fa af flies, Heaumur savs he has Known one wasp to Kill a thousand flies a day. o sexton beetles will bury as mole it to two men feeryer length ol n hour, a feat equivale ring a whale in lhe same ants of Bouth feet high #, the Nests of the termite Africa are o grouped Logelhicr ¢ and ten twelve i 11 t ladies! in ciustet varieties of ologist thoug! the aver 400 000 y Lhe entom un the Works on on horsefly has 16.000 eves, therefore, <¢ t the the aller Oy SUD appears like an i seen ant is always attended y carry of her 1¢ ser 5 (HM no, ' vi fet Ore sErvanss 4 £ she lays Ir of Lt nossiiie : wings stost pos. constructed sCRie us thie same 3 of Afr id be ICA, privale residences a mile higl that 1.000, h as are found t equal io lLeuwenhoecek cale HaAgu oe waler, ize a grain of sand. WO 00) of anid sot « It is estimated that the farmers of the lose 8100 000, 000 annually depredations of various Kinds ited States the mn ia, swearing on the Ileard, In the g ays of od wid 4 times past the y be sacred —or al least, veneration, which thing. In have always een great importance In he days of Clovis, beard worship was at . ght, and no man was considered a4 perfect male human being unless pro- vided with a full suit of whiskers, fter the battle of Tolbiac, in which Clovis’ armies routed those of Alaric, an was Deid ob ect of to about the same fu “ ahiicotas of hairs” scribble is really poetry; it in type you can hardly believe that the well turned rhyme and the happy thought have been disguised in that blotted, Bg board as a sign of humility and submission sting request aroused the ire of the fiery Alaric, who refused to even entertain the the conquerors two of the Ambassadors by their beards and led them out of the room. were forced to return to ard acknowledge the which (he conquered forced them to submit, whereupon the monarch and the emissaries swore upon their beards to be avenged. On indignities (7 subsequent engagements of the two Jeard."—{8t. Louis Republic. INCREASE OF WHITES, The Negro Population of the South Decreasing. The New Orleans Picayune has been gathering interesting statistics in regard to the negro population in the South, They show that the ratio of increase of the white population of that section is about double that of the negro, and that the increase in the latter is not so larg under a state of freedom as it was under slavery. According to the census records of 1890, prepared by Dr. J. 8. Billings, of the United States Army, Superintead. ent of the Department of Vital Statistics, the mortality among the negroes in the cities was startling, and it was greater in the cities of Washington and Baltimore than in New Orleans or other Southern ities The following table speaks for tsell: : Death Yate Children under white: 1 ack. While Fanta... 8 HE WE Baitimor, .... covers =, ™ “ It will be seen that the mortality among negro children wader b years of age was nearly twice as great in Wash. ington and Baltimore as in New Orleans, These reports show that despite the evils of slay more ¢ after Carlyle’s manuscript was cramped and “What, have you got that man here?” exclaimed a Scotch compositor, who had obtained a situation in London and found his first ‘‘take” of “‘copy” was a page of Carivle. “Why, 1 just fled from Scotland to get awny from him.” Francis Jeffrey wrote a miserable hand. Sydney Smith chafled him about it constantly. In of his letters, speaking of the efforts he had made w decipher Jeflrey's manuscript, he says “I have tried to read from left to right, and Mrs. Sydney Smith from right to left, and we can neither of us de cipher a single word of jt” jut the champion bad writer was Horace Gree ley, the famous editor of the New York Tribune. ““1f DBels had his writing on the wall,” sald a compositor ‘he would have been more terrified than he was.” of the misinterpretati mo ol ers One of the best is that of his refusal 1« lecture at Sandwich, [1 it Over worked and growing old,” he wrote in reply to the invitation “I shall 1] 3. On the whole it seems I must to lecture henceforth except in i if ; ali; 1 10 visit my own immediate vVicinily, I do " The Committee one $ ii RIZAT Ben There are a dozen good stories Greciey let “nin be on February det ine at cannoli promise [ilinois on that errand of lnvitation pored over the graphy, and believed at | had read AnCH, they wrote, association next wint hand Y our penmansh Pp ginest, it (OOK some Li it: but that your are quite satisfactory get ¥ it correctly iro lectar We succeded, 1a say time-—Feb, Sand terms, $00 We may mi other suggest, be able to eng snrdirqry ookkeeping. “Talking alu Mii to a Press aiterasont Yankton wh infil Ww Bristune, whom nd Dakotas erp} Gas € in we NY al i % t | owed |} He had copie the top of the oid ture of a after it three siraight marks was a scene showing a man at tal ing. Then appeared a bed with a m in it. In amount column there 3 a prota of a doll, and alter it two letters After the picture of the ms here were forty-two marks, Alter the view of a man in bed there were fourteen marks, 1 looked at count, then at the proprietor, and told him it would take me a week to anawe that conundrum I was completely stumped, and when that hotel man ciphered the account for me it was this “The picture of the soldier walking meant March, and the three marks sup plied the date, March 3, when 1 began boarding. The man at table with forty two marks after it indicated that 1 had eaten forty-two meals, The man in bed with fourteen marks showed that 1 had slept in the house fourteen nights. The doll with RS after it meant ‘dollars,’ and in the figure columns appeared the fig ures 14. which was the smount him tots Press and Dakotan Lis the ~ cating ¢ f the ao ae Bread and Dispepsia, The conclusion ths, wnest bread is unfit for dyapeptics, sometities jumped at becapse ill eth cts are noticed to follow its use, is erroneous. On the contrary, it has been pointed out by Beuchard and others that farinaceous food is peculiarly adapted to some dyspeptic patients Old London. Rarely does an American get a chance to shock staid old London. But there was one man in Chicago yesterday who lately gave the town authorities and dig pitaries us spasm of astonishment that they will not soon forget, He is a small man with just a sprinkle { gray in his inky bair. He bas deeply sparkling «ye that never blinks, snd is as quick and alert ms the tight, snugly knit and wirey muscies on his iron legs and arms. His mouth is that of u disciplinsrian, and yet is capable of the warmest possible smile, He is Chief George C. Hale of the Kansas City fire department, He has but recently re. turned from the international fire con- uress at London, where Le and bis pine syile men with their trained fire horses, water tower, swinging barnesses, and a score of other odd devices, were not only made the lions of the hour but also awarded fn handsome medal each as the best fire fighters on earth. Chief Hale briefly related yesterday his experience in the tight little island. “On June 12,” he said, “the contest came off. There was only one company entered against us—one of the metropoi- itan fire bricades of London They went first,” 1 watched them jump out of their bunks, button up their and buckle on their great belts, 1 had brass poles provided for my wen to slide down The Buglish firemen looked at them and down less dangerous stairway, “They went into the gold Conts on suspiciously then scrambled thie next building for their horses, as the sanitary laws of London not permit horses be stabled in buildings containing sleeping apartinents, had n harpess and slip the t he engine Finally when out rowd went mad with euthusi- do 0 1 ) put < the 1 OL t mgue ol t hey ih in piace, they Came the great « faim “When the judge announced the time, minute and enteen seconds, 8 crowd gathered about and began to ban- ter me. ‘Eh, America, what do you think of that? one oid cried, ciap- pring me soundly on the shoulder, | told him it was good work. 1 knew we could getout in Jess than a minute, but | wanted to increase the English agony as Ve got all ready. At we tumbled out of we ripped. Clang Hey one £0 man i : much ss possible. : clang of the bell bed, i ; went the harness on the horses, and the) rushed to ti There was 8 ruml ok and ' down the pol yan ed 1 ¥ in a regular grabbed me What's the mat { violence A and ITY bn - ad We were in has © T! © our exibition . They said us. 1 of my 1 Herman Greggs— ers. You can im the Britons uld rush up a lad hrow himself into mid- of ilts snd and turn pring and then tear up the ladder pring i 80ND were of we wo of when one of them wo der twenty feet, t couple grab a nozzie BOmMersn a hand again. “*Chief Hale and his men were the ¥ Americans present at the compe- Representatives from Russia, ortugal, France, Germany and Belgium also in attiendance. Mr. Hsle further gave exhibitions in the Royal Agricultural Hall st Islington and Vie. torin Park, London, and in Glasgow. on tition P were chard recommends that only the crust or 1 dyspeptics, partieularly these whose stomachs are dilated, The reason of this is explained by the fact that baking tem. porarily, though not permanently, ar rests the fermentation of dough, it is again heated by the warmth of the stomach the fermentation is renewed. In cases where the bread is toasted brown through, the fermentation is stopped permanently. —| New York World, Hangman's Stone, a There is a large bowlder lying ina field near Foremark, England, which is known throughout Derbyshire as “Hang- man's Stove.” The exposed portion of the bowlder rises about 8 feet above the surface of the surrounding field and has a narrow ditch or indentation running across the top. The mark, so tradition nye, was e in this way: A sheep Jog siaiom the: bowler 6 ros, placed i to his boot above the flat surface of the sheep tied with partments are crude, buildings are con- structed with more care and with a view to greater pro 'v:ction from fire in Europe than in this country.” Chicago Inter- Ocean, Types In the Midway Plaisance. C— It is in the exact degree of the facial angle,as has sometimes been said, that uil the difference lies between the poet and the philanthropist, the criminal and the saint. One is tempted as one looks at these faces here, however, 10 go even farther than this, and to say that the degree to the angle has been given by conditions outside the power of the un- enlightened individual to control, condi- tions that belong to great epochs, to races, tribes and ations. Hungry ges some faces you see the salynission of the ignoble, in others the cunning of the trickster, or again the alertness of the noble hunter. You read a nation's history almost in the facial angle. You its capacities by an old mathematical rule. For instance, if vou wished to dis- cover the mental and moral capacities of a race, the angle of whosas typical face was pitched at a certain number of degrees, you would square the animal man (tHe base of the trinngle), whose mensare you would find in the lower part of the face, and square the ideal man (the perpendie- ular of the triangle), whose measure you would find running trom below the ear to the top of the head, add these and ex.
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