SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven- | tures which Show that Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. | Tue big storage buildings in New York are managed in a fashion that | impresses visitors with a belief that the science of discipline has entered | all fields of activity, When the furni- | ture is taken from the house it is| packed into a huge covered van. The | van is locked in the presence of the owner of the goods, and he takes the key. Then he goes to the storage | house, the van is driven on a freight | elevator and is lifted to the seventh | or eighth story, where the owner has leased a room. The van is backed up to the door of the room and the goods are taken out and packed skillfully within the room. The owner sits in an arm chair and watches it all. | Then the door is locked and the key | handed him, the wagon is wheeled on the elevator. the iron doors leading to the corridor are and locked, and all hands descend to the first floor. If the owner wishes to go to his storeroom at a stipulated time the attendant unlocks the door and admits him to the elevator. The door locked behind He is taken to the floor in which room is situated, another door is unlocked, and he passes over toa second attend- ant, who takes a list of the things the owner wishes to have removed from room. The owner is again taken out, the door unlocked, and he is i over to the first attendant, wh veys him to the office. Nobody can obtain to the rooms without going through this laborious routine and the result is that petty pilfering and stealing from tirely unknown. The cost of it than might be expected. The rooms are leased at anywhere from $3 to $15 a month. OxE of the most peculiar wills ever filed for probate in Belgium is that of Mme. Meens, whose first husband bore the name of Verhaegen. Mme. Meens died in Antwerp, where she lived in a handsome palace in the Avenue des Arts, a few months ago. She left her estate to all the relatives up to the twelfth degree of kinship, on both the father’s and mother's sides of her first husband. The only condition was that they should make good their claims within six months. The news of the contents of the w created great interest Belgium, where the name Verhatgen is a com- mon one. As the widow was reputed to be worth hundreds of millions, the ambitious relatives hastened to file their claims. As a result, the court is obliged to pass upon the alleged rights of 14.504 heirs. The poor peo- ple are doomed to disappointment, as the estate turned out to be worth only about three millions. So many law- yers have been engaged that their fees alone will swallow up this amount. At a recent hearing of the one of the advocates grimly remarked upon looking at the great number of his brethren It Mme, Meens had left her property to all the advocates of Be igium.”’ closed is him. his his passed con- SCCeRS the rooms is f it all is en- less in Case, seems as if AMONG the few are not much advertised in these days are the shores of the Dead Sea; are not ‘‘marine resorts’ body ever goes to them stated. however, that who is proprietor of the locality in question— and an American specula- tor have laid their heads together and devised a plan for its exploitation. [ts waters possess plenty of salt, bit- amen and sulphur, which will be use- ful for commercial purposes; and the associations of the neighborhood, it is hoped, will prove attractive to tour. ists. Two large and heavy for local products and a lighter one for passenger trafic—have ac- cordingly been conveyed to Jerusa- lem. and thence to the Dead Sea, saya the Illustrated London News. A pickle manufactory is to be erected | on its shores. It is thought that] every visitor would like to carry away at least one bottle as a souvenir. It | is curious, however, that not a word is said about preserving the Dead Sea fruit, which has a world-wide reputa- tation. seaside places that they because n It the Sultan is Now vessel g——one Farmer Joussox, of Linn County, Kansas, made up his mind that he would have an artesian well not long ago, so he got the necessary machin- ery and set to work to dig it. At the depth of ninety feet the auger enterad a cave, to which there seemed to be no bottom, and instantly a stream of hot air began to pour out with so much force that the tools were with | difficulty prevented from blowingout. | The air was so hot that the men at | work were soon compelled to leave it, | and then the drill was foreed out of | the well, followed by a rush of air that sounded like the roar of a blast | furnace. The strike was made in the | middle of December, and the flow] continues as strong as at first. Sci- entists have tried to make out that the flow was natural gas, but experi-| ments with it prove it to be simply atmospheric air. Mr. Johnson pro- poses to pipe it into his house for warming and cooking purposes, It is #0 hot that an egg held in the current of air is roasted hard in five minutes. Sapte McALISTER, a colored woman, died at her home in Springfield, Ohio. ‘She was, doubtless, the largest woman in the world, and in early woman- hood soon ‘‘ outgrew’’ the position of cook. A showman, who had an eye for money-making business, hearing of her avoirdupois, made an engage. ment with ** Fat Sallie,’’ and together they traveled from land to land. He dressed her well; in fact did every- thing for her comfort and enjoyment except to divide profits. At one time Miss Sallie weighed even 750 | shape of a 9-year-old white child. Her pounds. She was conveyed from depot | name is Lizzie Benle, and her parents to depot while on her tours in an are among the best. people in Jackson armchair of large dimensions, which | County. She weighs 192 pounds and was placed in a wagon, and as she |is possessed of enormous strength, was entirely too large to get through | She can with the greatest ease Tift the door of any passenger car ghe {and carry off an anvil weighing 225 was taken through the sliding doors pounds, and carry off a big man who of the baggage car and rode there | could scarcely lift her from the in her own armchair. She was a kind, ground. Her hair is very long, and amiable and good woman. The coffin | she has regular, beautiful features. in which she was buried could not be |, ooo got into the body of a big two-horse |... farm wagon. wedding was Fla., recently when School- | master MeAddin failed to show up A. T. 8S. Jexkixs, of Alabama, told {and marry Arch Jacobs’ daughter, a St. Louis reporter the other day | Mr. Jacobs had cooked for the ocea- that in his State. at Stevenson, there sion eight turkeys, five is a colored man who makes a living chickens and any amount of small by catching snakes, Said the relator trash. ‘“‘He is frequently seen at the depot spoiled in hoes, Brussers. Belgium, has exhibited heads from his pockets. There are no | ,..0y¢ eleven pounds very large snakes in that section, hence surgeon who has examined him care- his pay is small, but he obtains enough fully puts his age at forty-five. to live on by supplying small shows or rr 8 . curiosity-seekers by selling the rep- - - tiles either alive or stuffed. He spends LANGUAGE OF MONKEYS. his entire time in the woods and along m— town to try to sell his product. The reptiles are not afraid of him, and he seems to know intuitively where they have their holes. It makes no differ ence as to what species they man has them, and can pull them out of Garner. Mr. BR. 1. Garner, the with a penchant for viewed on his return from representative of the London Sketch, le is deseribed as imen of the man MONKevs, Was belong, over their | It is has caught 200 rat- middle height with mag this colored control “a handsome spec- le American, of build of manner fin de sie holes and handle them at will estimated that he tlesnakes alone been bitten, WhiLe Amos Quick near Little Equinunk covered something lying muscular ster # wa i110 and has never vet tic atiractior 0 8 question as to what { rit ¥ nit tO y the £1 Lilt ion simian was Pa. alongside of said hae ais [ cannot give the exact date, but 4 many vears ago | noticed, in a double hich he | yoo in the Zoological at took to be a wildeat. hind | Cincinnati. a ¢ib-nose mandril toward parts were visible, and cautiously ap- | whom the other occupants proaching he poured one barrel of his | of ymall apes gun into what protruded. The sions of ject aimed at proved to be an im- NeW-COTner eatamount, and thus: rudely | 4s he passed the intrude awakened it fairly tore around with | yade the sam rage. Mr. Quick’s hound ran up and | dently to indie tackled 1 wounded but x with one sweep of its powerful fore. arm and sharp claws it laid the prone on the ground badly won By this time Amos had good range, and the conten other barrel finished the He proved to be the finest an old log on the dry leaves w Gardens Only its . # number showed unmistakable The mandril wasa and each of t ob- aversion 3 3 He monkeys, mense f in It i te preservation safety, sound. Was evi. from others i } % * ne monster iniury S00 as to encouragd tne to do GO | thie i of abled Wi rattler gotten of the catamount family seer and animal section in years Wis 0 being & " I » ptehed my Or, rati ordinary wii in the desert part of cat. for ti latte 3 ded midable-looking tant double the size of the ere three mant was 63 feet and £4 WOrs the at nag FREDERICK STOYA, an xe square Burlington, N. J served as a surgeon enoineer in 1: Of lnttice Of 1 Ten Of fine § aims to have PY i ihe 8 : we Franco- i in amps of for a Ded who « ¢ 3 3 piece 3 3 +1 nen canvg same in size was stretched across it Prussian war, has succeeds ing chicken nails the 11 two of his fingers Last November Stoya mashed two fingers of his ri hand, necessitating amputation first joint. About two later, after the fingers had heal nicely Stoya conceived idea of grafting nails on and he se lected and killed a healthy voung chicken. W hile the body was yet palpitating removed tw the chicken’s nails. Then, ¢ Frow- Ts 3.3 1 AH ft) | 1 i on at This was rolled p dur ng the hung on one side of the ay, and rht | CBE Above the bed 1 hung mosquito tt and thiz simples answered adr loantlie wv th eis y NEES at | netting arrangeme irabls y confi the weeks irably I can confi began to jOyed more the the stumps ing sleep than in the forest I travelled ont of country ricfrosl POCO RE08 of that also at d : i * CLASEeR O01 Indagd over a large ex- found that the different $ i ne t iif ore i lang though they had variou linlect i 3 ties RDOKS areal lifting the skin of the wounded finge hoe in : hire chicken nails and | ! awaited The bas, a speci shimpanzee, but the have now become thoroughly f The to protect wounded fingers. the sught home with me two kula kam- nserted developments 1 ie ha ied of poenmor S¢8 nt serve the endas of and the death sOene Was vers 1 often pathetic I an i . asked mv opin. ion of the Darwinian theory While from re. Sarvapor Peoaxt, under sentence death at Tacoma, Wash i affold had was pardoned by the Supreme Tw 108 Con vieted of for whose } ice been | think we owe much to Darwin $5 : ay a scientific point of view. my to think that (ON? ches do not lead mis the mur- human race has ey der of averred that the | ¢ any deed was committed by the Mafia and declared that he would rather hanged than released because of the murderous brotherhood. At onetime Ones when the prisoner's hanging was im- | t4 be minent, the Sheriff issued of elaborate invitations to his execu tion, on black cards with lettering, and a picture of Pecani in the upper left-hand corner. Pecani was glad to get out of peril of hang. ing, despite his fears of the Mafia alved from apes his une le, he class La Fontaine in Modern Guise. be bo had il to be ground of the paving stone upon a time, when corn carried to the mi a number | the corr end was put one round bala oe and a large other sack seit 5 seri in the gilt i it. and thus was flung over the saddle, savs the Biloxi (Miss) Herald hile the old man w hunting u ha while the old man was hunting up the it was of waiting i One morning stone, the boy whose turn igo to the mill tired and divided the corn half and half is each end of the bag and slung it over the horse and pointed with pride his brilliant idea when his father ap- peared with the stone. The old man shook the corn back end of the sack and put the stone in its ac- customed end, then gave the boy n larruping for his smartness and told him that hig ancestors for a hundred years back and more had carried corn to the mill in that manner, and what trey had done was good enough for {him. Afterward the boy ran away to | sen and the old man lost his service. | The moral to this is # 143 : git A most singular occurrence hap- pened in a recent fox hunt in Grafton County, N. H. A fox was started and after a lively chase reynard being closely pressed, ran into a cleft in some rocks. A foxhound was imme- to into one fissure at his heels with such velocity that he stuck fast in a narrow space self the fox turned and went out where we came in, squeezing over or under the dog in some way. The dog was | wedged so tightly in the narrow space that the hunters were unable to release him for a day or two. A motreERLY old hen clucking and fussing about a warehouse and wagon corral in Lordsburg, N. M., defended her chickens against a big, hungry | rat so successfully that, after a battle | royal, she left him disabled on the field at the end of the second round. So vindictively had she punished her enemy that a spectator killed him as an act of mercy. Now she is the most respected and proudest fowl in Lordsburg, and the loeal paper an. nounces that the boys of the estab- lishment are ready to back her against ny rat in the Territory for ‘‘money, marbles, or chalk.” ley did. ARS NOB Queer Pets. A well-known New Orleans lady has for a pet, given to her by that de- lightful writer, Julian Ralph, a tiny flying squirrel, and which, by special request, she named ‘Beastie. The little thing sleeps all day and plays all night, and always carries about with it a wad of white cotton, in which when it is tired of play it de- liberately rolls itself up and retires from public view. Alas, how nice it would be if we could at will thus easily retire from the jibe and prod of the maddening arowd. Another well-known woman owns a couple of small turtles which she has now had for about twelve years, and there ix a lady who makes a specialty of cur dogs, and another who has a wonderful uncaged canary, and a third who has a queer monkey, and the finest talking parrot in the South is owned by a famous flower and bird lover and she has taught it to cone verse almost ks well as a human be- ing. ~=New Orleans Picayune, Oxg of the few places in this coun. try where the curfew bell is yet rung is Fayetteville, N. C. The village has been settled more than two cen turies, and the practice has never lapsed. Indeed, so quiet and undis- turbed by the outside world has this community remained that the curfow has there almost its original signifi. cance, and it is considered time for all good folk to be indoors when its summons is heard. The village has also a town erier, but it is not alone among Southern towns in this respect GurLey, in the Point Rock Valley, North Alabama, has a prodigy in the Minneapolis, Minn., makes 25,000 barrels of flour a day. THE JOKER'S BUDGET. MEN OF THE PRESS. A Base Slander-- Doubtful tion, Ete., Ete. A BASE BLANDER, who it's me,”’ said the Pullman porter, was in a communicative mood, these jokes in the papers about por- ters making big money.’ “They are they?’ **1 should say they are. this trip, for made fourteen exaggerations are Now take ['ve geventy- instance; only dollars and There was a lot of women hardly ever tip a fellow. —|{ Judge. DOUBTFUL BLISS, Willie which sadness, Wibbles there [ am Y -n-n-8 said with a lurked a about of smile shade VOrwy even with kindly ; affection.” possibly What makes vou think so? You know how fond she is of that poodle Jack Perkins gave her on her birthday? Yes.’ ‘Well Tries thao 1 t hat s0 much of that poodle. vening she told had inwst e reminded —{ Washing WHYS won star Artiste] painted to keep the wolf this picture from the door, Dealer (after inspecting it)—Well ; where the he'll skip Free Press, hang it on the knob wolf gee it, and th, —! Detroit can quick MEAN OF HIM Mrs ishand Hi f life uch perfect hes Peachblow—Why does your Carry such i tremendous whet Flicker—{h Mer ARIre A PUZZLING 18 your wif asked ar te of Gus De Smit! your pardon lied rus boy from H igar-bhow i k out of the milk I know how wv wax the reply. B mnia Iv = ply sugar-bowl an piicher 4 fyrst tir i the sug | Texas Siftin A WISE GENERAL Merchant—Why the deuce th vou shut the door? Insurance vO Are 13 fee | Dy I'm fool enough cut off my ! : 2 . treat? WIND | sn Larkin—Don’t you think this crank epidemic is dreadful? Borrowe—Quite the boy. Just as soon as a dun shows up nowadays | send for the po- Dreadful? It's a in disguise, —{ Puck. contrary ms simwnly or) lice blessing BARGAIN AND RALL. Mrs. Winks—When is Miss Hard- cash to marry the Count? Mrs. Binks—On Monday, Mrs. Winks—{h, of course ! 1 might have known Monday is a bar- gain day.—{ New York Weekly. HUNTED ITEM. Hunter—~Well, farmer, you told us your place was a good placesfor hunt- ing: now we have tramped it for three hours and found no game, Farmer—J ust calculate, as a general thing, the less game there is the more hunting vou have, don't gee what you are kicking about. ~{ Texas Siftings. soy, 1 so 1 0 Pipkin—They Chappie getting and attempting out, Potts—=With what result? Pipkin—Never touched ‘em. WONDER, tell full to a story about the other night blow his brains PREDICTION FULFILLED, Mrs, Jason—Lord ‘a’ mercy! That cartridge. Mr. Jason—I allers said that boy days. —[ Indianapolis Journal. WEAR WOMAN, Mrs, Gumpps—What do you think of this? Prof. Beraper says women make better violinists than men. Mr. Gumpps=Of course! can’t make so much noise, New York Weekly, CONROLING, Tourist—Look here, guide, where are you taking me to? This swamp looks as if any number of people had perished here, Guilde—Yes, your honor; but most of them were found afte: a fortnight ’'s search, HOBPITABLE. Cobble—How did Miss Twickea- ham treat you last night? Stone—0Oh, she asked me to call Cobble—When? Btone-—Rome other night. —{Truth. A BURE BIGN, “Glory, Tildy, hyars a letter {um Sammie at lass! Well, well, well!” What he say?’ ‘I dunno. 1 kain't “How know Bammie? ‘I reckonnize de blots. —{ Harper's Weekly. read it.”’ dat hit's you f'um PAPA'R MISTAK] this i ““Oh, papa, you are too good; dinmond belt is a poem ! “Belt! Why, my bought that for a necklace i You dear old soul! How did you | +41 le thing | Life. | wip rirl, dear ever expect me to get that li neck? '-— Brookive A BISTISNCTION. Stranger—Is this a boarding house? | Lady at the Door (haughtily )—-No oil took | boarders! Lady at the woe oe Vis Certainly IRREGULAR, Miss Aby See] inine term { clothes, The Boys—Lau M aie Aby PE {Prius One boy—Chinamar ht again -New York Press Lis, = money of the Milwaukee Ver- i Ove id the fs 11% } | nxing i IDICB ZO He y #1 hum cord + Johns fake an ont Pa—He takes severa f Detroit Free pa. does n when hie As a soldier? No, as a kid TH her~What eo about eclipses? Bright Boy — Thess SOMewiere AVERAGE ECLIPSE, an vou tell me generally News i Js, weed { gironcd THI Wayside Bi got a job? Lingering Luke—Wot ver doin? Wayside riums. = Judge. LATEST = Did you know Id Bill—Sweepin’ out aqua- HIS ROL1 Sententious Old Lady—And what | part do you play in the great drama | of life? Ragsley — Walkin [ Puck. gont leman, = | Where There Is No Afternoon. DEAD LETTER OFFICE. Sam's Unmailable Letters. The oddest class of unmailable ters are the misdirected, These form a cures study, and are accorded cureful special treatment. They number about two thousand daily. They are forwarded daily from the mailing offices, not being detained or advertised as dead letters are. Post- masters are unable to deliver them on account of some error or deficiency or because the writing this work ot. The clerks on and Very or in handling these letters deliver many thousands yearly. OrrOrS haste occur from corrector For instance a let- ter may be addressed 40 Milk street, Joston. NX. H Of it musi mean Boston because with Often woe | Psd Massachusetis is the only Boston we have imbered named and nm the State i nd so on. Very frequently s of ~ i d from tl ind pro- F106 18 Sue] id 3 i CIreon., by Dicks such a lett } Kalb Counts Miss urred auK Hay fed for Has- for CATS an i menoch address of special oddity, the clerk is jittl ques LETTER I ( PostMasTER.~1U pon the dell letter, please obtain able 10 the party the Dead letter cannot be del ation of your post-mnarking st: and this circular to the with vour next return ters, duly numbered list, Form No. 1522 8 the envel addressed vere ve seven days, = Dena f un. a sew here hat there was an il on forward. T velope surmise of some » title take place A le 1 Silver Mountain, Col wa meant for 8il Green Blue Colo..”’ ' 3 rile v3 rer POaraseoiogy er Peak : another written Mound, 11 Mound. Agair f was intended for Black Cock Cop- f y for Copperas Hill For instance, a Rhode Island addressed Baylies, Church Home, corner There Herkimer St. '—nothing mi Herkimer streets and a number of church homes &0 the address might have been m definite. The the Church y Brooklyn, New Another odd : 1 y init in Miss of letter written was ine. clerk sent the Charity York Cine and are {hd 1 1 A Oni to guide U PS interpreted | another It bel Sch i 00 other read Ory Bry Camden, iled at Cedar y “Mr. J. more. clerk as and was safely New Jersey. A Hill, Ohio R. Dodge ian Mr. Dodge was known to the statistician of the Agricultural Department at Washington, D. C., to forward the letter. an attempted witti- cism like this is perpetrated lattor gy etier nn was addressed $« SNtatictio ae ¥103 the Occasionally “Sylvester Brown, a red-faced scrub, To whom this letter wants to go, Is chopping cord-wood for his grab, In Silver City. Idaho.” Hunting Wild with Tame Turkeys. can be trained to said Major A. S. Willis. ‘1 owned one called Dick, in Pike County, Tennessee, that obtained a State reputation. 1 “Tame turkeys hunt wild ones. Strangers to Washington often re. mafk upon the custom of addressing one at all times of the day by the uniform salutation, ‘Good morning.’’ It sounds odd to a Westerner to hear one address him with “Good morn. ing’ at b o'clock in the afternoon. This custom is as old as the Congress partments. It is said to be directly of Congress provide fora “morning hour,” which extends from 12to 2 which occurs be- "Frequently the regular order is not resumed, and the morning hour is extended until 4 or 0 o'clock, especially in the latter days of Congress and when there is a great jam of business. In the execu- tive departments reference is made to the “morning work’' during the en- tire day. This is all, of course, official parlance. The custom has grown so that it extends throughout social life and in all sorts of private business, until it is morning until all Govern- ment business is at an end in Wash- ington. When the sun goes down and twilight sets in it is *'Good evening.” It is never afternoon in the national capital, —Indianapolis Journal, ness’ in Congress, but then I thought he was a phenom. Since his death, however, 1 have discovered that the talent for hunting wild turkeys is not uncom. mon among tame ones, The call of the wild fowl differs from that of the domestic one, but the latter can easily learn the former's calls if the hunter i& patient enough to teach him. The tame turkey can be taught so that he can be taken to the woods, and will then send forth the challenge call. If a turkey cock is within hearing an answering note of defiance is invariably made. This is replied to, and finally the wHd turkey will come very cautiously until he soos the tame one, as he is a suspie- ious creature. But when he sees the turkey his fears are gone, and he starts at once to do battie. Then the trained turkey runs and the hunter shoots. “The advantages of this method of hunting are very great. Whilea hunter can imitate a turkey eall pretty closely, there is an accompa- niment made by striking the ground with the wings which cannot be re. produced, and without this the game is suspicious. The hunting turkey must be taken in hand her very ung and constantly drilled, but the patience required very little skill need to exist upon the part of the trainer.”’—{St. Louis Globe Democrat, :
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