——— SOMEWHAT STRANGE. | ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. ‘ af vears her senior, her husband being thon alive. The parents of the | children were accused of aiding nnd | abetting them. As the girl was only | six years of age she could not plead | Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven- | tures which Show that Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. | Maxnty Cone of North Walcott N.Y, | in company with two companions, as walking along the beach from | Red creek to Port bay when a large fish was observed floating on its back twenty rods out in the lake. It was thought to be dead, but its large size led Mr. Cole to desire its possession. So, stripping off his clothes, he] plunged into the water, thinking to | tow the fish to land. As he drew | near the fish he noticed about four | feet of rope dangling from its gills, | He seized the rope and started to tow the monster to shore, but the fish was not nearly so dead as it had seemed, and in an instant shot off in a direct line for the Canadian shore, dragging Mr. Cole after it. Mr. Cole, being a plucky man and a fine swim- mer. made up his mind to hang to the rope. A desperate struggle ensued. first the fish had the advantage and then the man. This was kept up for a full hour. Then the fish succumbed and was towed to the beach more dead than alive. Mr. Cole was so ex- hausted that he was unable to speak. The captive was found to be an On- tario sturgeon weighing over seventy- five pounds. It is supposed that it had been caught and anchored by a rope through its gills somewhere up the lake, but had escaped. AxoTHER life, probably, has been sacrificed in the pursuit of the Peg- leg mine in the California desert. The story of the Pegleg is the old one of a wondrously rich gold mine, ac cidentally discovered, abandoned per- force, and lost. Of many ex- peditions which have started out to find it all have failed, while many persons have perished in this pursuit on the arid sands. 8S. N. Pratt, a San Francisco man, made four unsuccessful trips in search of the mine. with the result that he be- came more sure than ever that the mine existed and that he could find it. He barely escaped with his life from his last trip a year ago, but Jast fall he started put again. He could not met a companion in his un dertaking, so started alone Salton with a horse and pack and he has not heard of sis he plunged into the desert. A party started out from Los Angeles a week ago in search Pratt. It l } the desert + 4 y i from mule, been ce will follow his trail, or the one he most likely took, and will remain in the desert until they find something to tell of his fate, During the of Sampson Wearn, of Beaver Falls, Penn. the doctor in attendance insisted that the patient’s heart was on the wrong side. After his death an autopsy by Prs. Kring, Sheets and McCarter re- vealed the fact that the claim was well grounded. On opening the dead man's right breast the heart, of nor- mal appearance, weight and confor- mation, was disclosed, but there was practically, no lung on that The left lung was properly placed, the usual size, and in apparently healthy condition; and to the wall of the chest cavity, at the back, was a miniature lung, or the frag- ment of one. It had never perfortned any service as a lung, as its construe. tion and could not have of illness side of close character permitted the function of breathing ete.. for the revitalizing of blood passed over it by the misplaced heart on the same side with it. Wearn had breathed all his life with one lung. and seemed to have had enough of the breath of life under ordinary con- ditions. A curtors affair is reported from Belfast, Me. Mr. Moody, a druggist of that place, the other day turned upside down a pasteboard box, which had been sitting on his shelves for months with medicines in it, to shake the dirt out of it, when he was astonished to discover that the dust from the shelves had adhered to the bottom of the box in such a way | as to make a distinct portrait of a face. He looked at it closely, and | discovered that it was an exact like- ness of his father. The portrait is! that of an elderly man, with white hair and beard. The eyes, nose and mouth are regular, and the bust is perfect. A great many people came to see it, and all agreed that it was a | portrait of Dr. Moody, who founded | the drug store, and carried it on until | his death some time ago. The spirit-| unlists of the place are jubilant and | declare that the portrait is the work | of the spirit of Dr. Moody himself. | : Tue other morning when the freight | train from the East arrived in Reno, Nev., a man emerged from a car loaded with long-horned steers. He | told a reporter that when endeavor- ing to secure free passage on the cat- tle train leaving Winnemucen the night before one of the railroad boys said that he would let him into a car where he could ride as long as he wanted to keep company with the steers. To the surprise of the rail road man the offer was accepted, and the tramp jumped in. He says he rode the greater part of the 175 miles between Winnemucca and Reno astride one of the animals, and when he got eold or tired of that position he stood in among them, where he found it quite warm and comfortable, ‘and would have continued on his ourney westward had it not been for unger and the absence of any milch cows in the ear; so he got off at Reno to rustle a little grub, Recestiy s litt girl six was tried al the Clapan) Criminal Sessions srs of committed bigamy . i mer partner. For three days these while their respecteve parents were being charged with abetting the of- It is pleasant to be able to record that the jury at length re- turned a verdict of not guilty, and the youngsters went cheerily home again with the smallest possible con- of what sll the bother was Jaco Srriiexcenr, who lives near Piedmont, W. Va., lost a good many chickens last November, owing to a He set a steel fox trap in the top ofa | catch the owl. One night the trap disappeared, and after that the chick- were not molested, Stullinger supposed the owl would starve to death with the trap on his legs, but he was mistaken, for on the 9th of January the owl was caught again, twenty miles from Piedmont, this time by Ebenezer Kitzmiller. Ebene- zer had been annoyed by an owl since Christmas, and set a trap for the bird near chicken house. The owl got caught and found two traps too much baggage to carry away, It ens his had one on each leg : il A class from QUEER story comes, with first- recommendation way England. Thirty-three years ago, in 1860, a member of the Chaplir family died at Blankney, Lincoln- shire, and was laid in the family tomb. This particular Chaplin was a naturalist, and, a his other pets, had a large, gray bat. That bat Ww as permitted to enter the tomb and was sealed up along with the corpse of his dead master. In 1866 the vault was opened, and to the sur- the all mong alive prise of all, the bat was alive and fat, On four different occasions since the Chaplins have looked after the wel- fare of their dead each time it has been reported that the bat was still in the land the living, although occupying quarters with the dead. He was 1892, relative’s pet, and of soon n last Eriswortit De Fraxce has been sentenced for life to the United States Prison at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He robbed a wheelbarrow containing ['nited States mail at Gordon, Neb., in October and secured only one cent trouble. There is no penalty under the law. In ing him to life imprisonment at Sioux Falls Judge Dundy expressed his sor- row that such was the law, and he said he thought the penalty as too severe The Judge said that he thought fi years would be suffici , and added that if De France would behave him- self and promise to hereafter lead an upright life, at the expiration certain period of years he would willingly be one to sign a petitgon his pardon. for his other sentencs ve ant of a for Tuenre used to be asow in E ngland which would partridges ok rabbits and snipe far better than the majority of trained dogs. For some she would point’ pheasants, black game, | seen be occult rega- never stand a hare had been often known to stand a partridge at forty yards, She would back the dogs in the field though the latter, from jealousy, per- haps, and a feeling that they were suffering an indignity by worked in porcine company, would never back her. Her last owner was a Colonel Sykes, and after she became fat and sluggish, though would point game as well as before, she was killed, weighing at her death 700 pounds. however 51 she SOND being n she A max who died recently in Berlin, Rensselaer county, N.Y, at the ag: of 73, left a record which he began when he was 18 years old and continued for fifty-two years. The book, filled with methodical entries, shows that in the man had smoked 628.715 cigars, of which he had received 48,629 as presents, while | for the remaining 085,086 he paid about $10,483. In fifty-two years, drunk 28.786 glasses of beer and | 86,081 glasses of spirits, for all of which he spent $5,850. The diary closes with these words: “I have | tried all things; [I have seen] many; [I have accomplished no- Wie making, says the New York | Sun, is a trade that occupies many | people in the down-town Hebrew quarter, because thousands of central European Hebrews in that region re- quire their women upon marrying to hide their natural hair behind wigs. | These wigs are usually dark reddish | brown in color, and they form a most | unattractive style of head-dress. The only wig-makers in town whose handiwork is always beautiful are’ those that make doll's wigs. These are almost invariably flowing blond | curls, because the taste for brunette | dolls seems to be as yet undeveloped. A Rocuester man was confined to the house for three weeks because of the bite of a large spider. He held a policy in an accident insurance com- pany and put in a claim for $25 a week, the total being $75. The com- pany refused to pay because the poli- o} szbmped it from lability for ac- cidents caused by contact with poisonous substances. The party in- sured will at once commences test action. The case is likely to bring out some novel points as to insur. ance, A tanap lump of beeswax was re. cently found in the Nehalem River ). Its dimensions were about by 2 feet, and on one of the sides three letters, but so indistinct that they could not be deciphered. It was found near the spot on the posed to have gone ashore vears ago, and where so much wax twenty years past, “W. 8. Durst re- He attended a turkey shooting which occurred a short distance from the city last Sat- urday. He was fortunate enough to make successful shot, and on remarkable item : as were discovered in its crop. One is size and much as the fowl.” THERE was a constant stream of people pouring into the Stanwix Hall to a freak of nature which on exhibition there. IL was a calf with nine legs, two heads, seven jaws, four ears, two tails and weigh- ing 115 pounds, The calf was dead when born and the mother died soon after giving birth to it. ago Bee was Virginia, which has been educating Choctaw Indians for more than twenty years and has a number of Mexican and Japanese students, has now received one of the first Coreans to enter college in this country—Mr. Surh Beung Kiu, of Seoul. The only other Corean stu- dent in America is at the University of Pennsylvania. loanoke College, Ax English woman, while in fit depression, swallowed with suicidal intent. a of razor, a operat fon formed, of gastrotomy and the razor fully removed The stomach was sewed factorily. isin was was incision in sat Wes Brakeman Molloy of fornia was run over and had his legs smashed, he felt no pain at all, even He 111 if when the doctor ent them off, died very soon, however, and his sensibility to pain was doubtless but a precursor of death. AMONG rived at a party of the Toritzo-Sergievaki Mon- St. Petersburg, recently, a of 113 He had tramped from Luga, some eighty-five pilgrims who ar- asiery in was man Years, mn les, and showed no weariness, When the Justices Enter the Court. has made its capitol. It make a trip to t before innovation the Another appearance at 1% worth while to he building just 12 o'clock every dav to witness if The room in Court Justices adorn themselves with which the Supreme robes is across the in which the a few the at- tiring room would open and fort hwith would their lowing silk chamber Hitherto ments before noon the door of hall from the court meets mao- emerge the solemn justices of the by the way, is the main passageway through the eapitol—would stand a court official and another man would be stationed opposite side letween this guard the justices would tin one aide corridor-which on the walk and 8 moment later disappear behind the heav v door of the entrance of the private corridor to the bench But this simple and modest method has been relegated to the past it is different now. When the justices are now ready to apartment four They bear A two hoy they jenve their attiring OUD Messengers appear. two pieces of plush covered rope. man stands on each side of the doors and sceross the corridor stretch their plush-covered barrier Through the avenue thus formed the black-gowned justices walk, the brilliant plush covering gleaming like a streak of fire against their sombre robes. While the procession marches across the people are held back at a safe distance. must Not crowd patience. possess its soul in until the last black covered ropes taken down and the or- dinary course of travel allowed to re- sume. —{ Washington Post, inhabited Only By Hogs. In the northern part of Limestone County, Alabama, says a writer in the consisting of more than 1,000 acres which is not on the map of the State, nor can it be found in the register's office of that county. It is a vast wilderness, inhab- hogs. It is a free hunting ground every year, more for the sport than for anything else. The hogs are wild and cannot be domesticated. Their yield is said to be enormous. Tom Booth, of Pulaski, Tenn., secured a power to tame them, but failed. He kept them a year and at the end of that time they were as wild as at first. The more he fed them the thin- ner they beeame. Within the year they consumed 400 bushels of corn and were as lean as church mice. Dur ing that time the sow had five litters of pigs, numbering 210. Mr. Booth could not tame any of these nor get them fat a, to make even soap grease, Final J he gave them to a colored man, who now considers him- self under no obligations to Mr. Booth. The flesh of these hogs re- sembles horseflesh. It is as tough as coon skin, and a large-sized hog of this species rendered would not make grease enonigh to fry a skillet of bat- ter cakes, hey go through a garden like a shovel-plow, and no vegetable escapes them. They can crowd through a crack that would hardly admit a mouse and their sharp noses act as levers for garden gates. The Tennessseans make great fun of Ala- ROCKING STONES. HUGE BCULDERS THAT ARE DELICATELY BALANCED. Connecticut Has Some Specimens interest. There are | stones,” but about two years | ologist published the statement that he knew of less than half a dozen a number of ‘‘rocking are boulders enough in the of them are more or less { balanced, but of i stones, that | it is safe to say that there are | more of them than the number | have named,” says a Norwich (Conn.) correspondent, not | published far and wide, and in three | months was contradicted forty times mainly by dwellers in rural towns in all parts of New England. Three rocking stones were reported in one town in Massachusetts more of them liths, Eight or ten were reported in New Hampshire and several in { Maine, while end of rocking | stones were located in Connecticut {and Rhode Island | known, these States | ly caught the greatest | rocky debris of the i thickly bestrewn with bou { all sorts and shapes. In this coun- try alone rural observers cited not less than a dozen or instances of perfect rocking stones. tecently an influential Mystic cit. has declared less than five perfed {in little Quiambaug, southern end of and or were mammoth mono- one no since, as is wel which evident- part of the glacial era, are } g it ders of nore izen that there are no t rocking stones seashore hamlet My sti n ind the Of the The an near this juiet little village,’ boast of rocking other town of its size in the United States can do. Good author iwo good New England Massachusetts and one at the Hales farm, at n fashioned seashore evident ones are not counts he savs, ¢ More sfones than ities say that only speci mens exist in one in Noank quaint | hamlet a not far from My stic that fiown On Kno the t therefore presen well k hat thes of ti 4 na Rn ‘But there is no doubt t are ne glacial period as found anywhere from a stone the land of Miss $ excejlent the examples any hy They vary in size fork weigh 3 ghing three ton ir t ' Nancy J. Moredox to forty-five t« the by Another stone is found of Elias Davis and sf Ambrose Miner “Perhaps the best specimen of tl whole lot is the rocking stone on the land of Miss Moredock it is about four feet feet! wide and three feet and it oscillates it Can rocked by the pressure of two fingers It is and ® Of i. = weighing farm oOo upied one Ms. Oo James Lord on the lands two on the farm long (8 11) high about five inches, be sot on a sloping ledge it looks as if it eould be easily rolled off and fown the hill, but the strength of half a dozen combined cou id of ils place men not stir it an inch out The rock has been a great play-house for children, and the oldest inhabi- tants can remember the spot as their earliest play-ground All of these rocking are in the immediate neighborhood of Fort Hill, where the ence powerful and illus- trious Pequot Indians made their last stand against the whites, in the lat- ter part of the seventeeth century, a region that is thickly dotted with lonely isolated, sentinel-like, tall boulders. At Fort Hill, near Mystic, werlooking the ocean, the Pequots, {with all their braves, squaws and pappooses, were gathered in their largest and strongest fort. when Capt. Jack Mason and his band of Puritan braves, coming from Saybrook, at the mouth of the Connecticut River, stormed the fort, burned the red | men’s wigwams and massacred most | of the warriors, with the women and | children whoswere not burned in the | wigwams, The descendants of Capt. John Mason's soldiers—the people of Mys- tic and Noanck—a year ago dragged | a great boulder, with thirty yoke of oxen, from | lonely pasture near the famous rock- ling stones and cut and carved it in ‘a handsome monolith, which they gliones § people, in honor of the Pequot massa- ! cre on the summit of Fort Hill. | great I sides an appropriate inscription in | commemoration of that mighty deed spicuous objects along the Sound p as seen from the ocean. It twenty-eight or thirty tons. In an own green. two miles north of this eity, there is a similar monolith that was erected a great many years ago at the grave of Capt. Mason. Boulders, some of which weigh thousands of tons, are altogether too lentiful in Connecticut and Rhode sland to have any commercial value, but not many months ago a wealthy Ohio gentleman journeyed to the Quonochontang (R. I.) boulder lain, on the shote of the vg h, Jee uged a tic er there and shipp A Bigunti home in the West, Its weight was over thirty tons. In tmhaporiing it from its site on the plain six miles to the Niantic Rail. road station, several teamsters, with fifteen or twenty yoke of oxen, were days. It cost the Ohio to get the big stone him. It is now the cen. in parallel rows, or like companies of soldiers on parade, is one of the most by nature in 8 haphazard way ling their and withal so posture as the famed stone Stonehenge, England. rows A LIGHTHOUSE TRAGEDY. Destruction of the First Structure on Minot's Ledge. The Minot's lighthouse on It is the second upon the ledge. structure erected The first lighthouse the sea. Begun in 1847 and completed in November, 1848 was over- whelmed in April IN] Its dest tion was the most tray ec event history of our " The gonal tower supported upon wrought. iron ad braces, The piles penetrated five feet inte rock the braces, ti a half feet above the rock constricted at fi storage bulky had fastened to sixty-three feet above the rock, a five ruc. in the ment. structure was an octa- piles strengthen y the th irtv-four and he keeper had wm for a piu of art the and-a-h in an Along hoisted up to the platf landed convenient : 3 3 i hawser which he fad hored to a seven-ton ite block, Wore i there d grat this hawser articles nr ALi These ‘improvements’ were —gnd fatal: not, however to the who for he biel keeper had made t shore when the sts hem Wis on } COIN e rn historic 3 t has over the coast. April 14 strong easteriv g Mor day hat time there was on th two axsistant Xeepers and a friend the principal keeper came fri lighter ed at and Tuesday the ‘ohasset ite northeast quarter from which t!} lements Minot's accumu huael thar nur hems then YOR OF as rejoice In the es of w 16th it ated £ oy 03 nd-torn had increased t and the tower was 20 completely heavy ses } : by the anxious watchers at ( About {« hi 10 jed in the al I of it could be seen rou ohasset the was washed 3 4 Ur O Clock n eYening 3 * a of 16th the i Then the watchers knew that the water had risen to feet of the atform asliore within seven At nightfall it that the light was Yurning was ohserved at fitful ten o'clock night finally Ate K « the morning of Thursday, April 17. jt at the tower was it 1st ervais uni ngs 1 int that when it iost to sight ne Oo clone turn of the flood, when the out- streaming tide and the inrn ricane met at Minot's, a violent ing of the lighthouse bel After that n di f nol the s was heard. sound rose above the About six in the morning a man walk al the shore saw a chair washed up a little distance ahead of hin Exan - ing it, he recognized it as having been in the watch-room of ti After this discovery no one 8 torm K Mg QO Ci ng tower had any doubts of the tragedy which had been enacted behind the eurtain of the storm. When it seen over Minot's Ledge but the sea, its white crests streaming phantly in the gale, It is believed by those competent to judge of such matters that the de- TY which the platform structed by the keeper offered to the ser upon the structure, this hawser was struck by a sea it There seems also little doubt that the sum appropriated by Congress for building of the lighthouse was in- Peculiar Law Swit. A suit of the most peculiar na- ture ever known is about to be brought in a Massachusetts court, for the recovery of a policy on the life of a man hung as far back as 1858. “In 1851," says the Insurance Herald, “C. C. Merritt, of Spring- Bimons gave his note and turned over to Merritt a policy for $500 in the State Mutual on his own life. Two years afterwards Si- mons was arrested in California, and hanged. Mr. Merritt attempted to collect the insurance, but found that the policy contained a clause providing that if the insured came to his death by public execution under due form of law, the policy should be void. It has now been learned that Simons was innocent of the erime for which he was hanged, the real mur. derer having made a confession. Mr. Merritt is preparing to sue the com- pany for the amount of the policy, with interest.” If the facts are as stated by the Herald, some adequate allowance should be made by the company to the creditor, even should the claim be barred by any statue of limitation, To demand full interest, however, for the entire period, would be most u le.~{ Atlanta Con- stitution, Diamonds so small that fifteen carat have been THE LIMEKILN CLUB, Hon. Standoff Johnson's Appeal Tor the Cakewalk. When the rougine proceedings of the Limekiln Clab Saturday night meeting had been disposed of, Bro. Gardner arose and announced that was in the antercom and anxious to address the club on the subject of the cakewalk—a matter dear to the heart of every colored man, woman and child in this fair land. He had not but was considered the highest and best authority in the United States. On motion of Givea- it was decided that should be given an opportunity speak While the Reception mittee were absent from the room Bro. Gardner ordered two more can- dles to be lighted and one of the alley windows lowered i and shindig Watkins mamuel Shin both coughs which can | heard BO rods against the wind home The Hon. Johnsor in by the Reception Committe: y he 10 Com- Jones from the op and have of whom consumptive WO re was then brought and re- He Hi-formed nan of ith whiskers on his chin, ceived in an enthusiastic manner WHE AB We IWO-s1 OY middle nye. w and there was a certain magnetism He nanas with calm left his CE¥0O3 gemeanor ight and Bro, Gardner and Bir sas in a very hearty mannerand My fren's a crisis history of de cull’d I sie of Ameri i While de white man has bin offici about NOOK Walpole began lias arrove de CH in sy | riohts his us political an Civili nig * 1 ivalely con- greatest 3 handed ight at de san tarob us of ce most sacreq Vere . jist of Hi} h tf Con Newspapers an of Con- griss who am pledged of 'm De obi an’ den sudder f er} Dut heard de alarm a Wrong 10 . . ’ v3 of 6(XK) (KX) people (Yells eive de pro- I shall visit wid thie same + {ongriss = e of indig- BWeeDit ober dis kentry dat mbie in his w ir (Vociferous What am de cakewalk $ 3 ran BDDIA LSE | answer a socia ystitt un handed De mil- hered walk as to wed cher night as well Continued a praver : fur thir { innoe is Sun oved by de ole an’ de It chile alike am to de white fol or 1 ny young am to us what a soiree ks, bnt bekase we git a heap mo fur ut of it do white am mad t want to abolish it we bw nag our ns shall sok to de tyrants’ heel. or shall we riz up in our majesty to uphold our favor of shed- 4 ; shod blood rights? our {Loud eries in “1 expected it said the Hon as the dust settled down and the splinters ceased fis ing “gy fully believed 1 could count on de Brudder Gardner down to Elder Toots De kentry looks to dis club to takede to maintain it. De cakewalk must be presarved an bin handed down to us. De white man has deprived us of our possum bakes, our persimmon festivals an’ our yam but he must stop right dar. Let him bewa’ befo’ dis kentry swims in blood an’ revels in gore. (Wild ap- plause.) Arterde meetin’ has broke in two 30’ will find me in de ante- room wid a protest ready fur yo'r sig- natures. 1 hope an’ expect ebery member to sign it an’ de names of sich as am willing to die, if needs be, to uphold our cause will be marked by a cross in red ink an’ presarved among de heroes and martyrs of de fucher, — St. Louis Republic. ————s- Respect the Feelings of Others. A ARS “Had 1 a daughter to train,’’ sald a woman of the world. ‘one accom- lisliment above all should be taught Porto make herself agreeable with- out descending to make fun of other people. Much, if not most of the fun current among young folks, consists in picking others to pieces. Bright people are given to using their wit very freely on others who have the misfortune to come near them. Wo- men especially regard the world out- side their immediate cirele as created to afford them amusement not of the most amiable kind. They are not dis- criminating enough to see what underlies and offsets the peculiarity which provokes their fun. The ill dressed, hurried woman is commonly trying to carry affairs whose burdens her critics would shirk shamelessly. No wonder if the brave spirit ps aw with- u the load she can but inst
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