SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF | EVERYDAY LIFE. Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures Which Show that Truth is Stranger than Fiction. A B16 wolf which has terrorized the people of the Bumpas Cave region, in North Carolina, for the last two or three years, recently entered the! cabin of a mountaineer named Brown during the temporary absence’ of the | housewife, and, seizing the only oceu- | pant, an infant six months old, by! the clothing in the region of the! chest, lifted it from the rude eradle | and bore it away into the mountains. | When the mother returned to the house and missed the baby she rushed to the door in time to the wolf | and its precious burden disappear into the neighboring woods. The] distracted woman began to scream. This brought the husband, who was chopping wood not far away. to the scene in a high state of excitement. The story from the lips of the hys- terical mother almost drove the brave fellow daft, but he seized his axe, called his dog, and started in hot pur- suit. There was about two inches of snow on the ground, and it providen- tially enabled the desperate father of the kidnapped infant to strike the trail of the wolf immediately after leaving his door-yard. upon the track of the beast he rushed to the mountains with a speed born of distraction. About two miles from his cabin the tracks wolf led the pursuer under a long shelf of rock, protruding from the side of a mountain. There was no snow here and the father | trail, but he now urged his dog, which up to this time he had compelled to remain with him. The dog took the lead and the man followed, fully expecting to find the entrance to the wolf's den, from which he could hardly hope to get the baby alive. But were groundless: he soon upon his faithful dog wagging his tail and looking down at a little white bundle at his feet. It was the baby asleep and almost frozen, appare unhurt otherwise. Brown took off his and, the infant snugly in it, He soon met hi 1 three of the neighbors to had given the alarm. t remarkable rescue. The mount say that it was only s ak of “mad’’ wolf, but doubt owes its life t« petroleum given ous affection by fore it was carried away. of the oil was too much for ship. He probably sniffed about the child after layin rocks and pr and then left i seo Uncee of the Hm 1 3 st the ie his fears came souna ntly coat, whom she was a most aineers the its The nis odor wolf- it down und or eparing to make ¢ n disgust, A SINGULAR illustration of gree of credulity that is so character- istic of t Mohammedans has been bought to the notice of the London he Man chester Guardian. Af ghanistan, son of a nq heing re- duced to penury, prayed prophet to relieve his distress His prayer, red | Mohammed moon and to where the where wealth conld be obtained Afghan proceeded found a curious-lool he picked up w had a treasure { was, in his opinie could best effec city he has j hardships, and from Bombay as a ship's steward. A few days since he presented hi at the British Museum with treasure, which, alas! close ex- amination by the experts, turns out to be only a worthless piece of quartz pebble. Wheather this poor fellow was convinced of the truth or not my informant was not able to say, but there is no doubt that he is in desti- tute circumstances, He is an excel- lent linguist, speaking no fewer than seven languages, A REMARKABLE f precocity and unnatural development in a child is reported near Warren, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Brandon are the parents of a four-year-old boy, who, of course, has never attended school, and the parents have never attempted to impart the knowledge of learning to the youngster. One day recently the mother was reading aloud from the family Bible while the child was busy playing about the room. Sud denly the child exclaimed: ‘‘Oh, mamma, I can read like you.”” The mother paid no attention, but the child continued talking, repeating the assertion several times. Finally, to please the young one, the mother took him in her lap and opened the book before him. Without the least hesitation, and to the utter surprise and amazement of the parents, the child began to read, ard read passage after passage without difficulty, pro- nouncing the most difficult of bibli- | cal names with apparent ease. Up to that time the child was not consid- | ered a very bright youngster and had not scopped his baby talk. The a azed parents did not know what to masse of the suddenly developed tal. ent and called in a physician, who was as much puzzled as they. “Iptors are sometimes wonderful in their genius,’’ said Professor C. L. Milliken, of Chicago. ‘Of course the case of ‘Blind Tom,’ the remarkable musical prodigy, is well-known, but the person of whom I was thinking never became so famous, although well-known in the region about where he lived, in Eastern Ohio. When | was a boy I lived in Harrison County, Ohio, and in an adjoining county, he correspondent of t to the he says answe by appearing ing ont Ig OUl + levotee was xs working is passage mself his On Case oO Tuscarawas, I think, there was an idiot boy about twelve years old. He could neither read nor write and was incapable of learning, but could in- | stinctively give the true answer to | any problem involving figures only. | no combination of figures could con- | He had no rules and could not explain his methods, but his an- | swers were given at once, and always ! correctly. He was exhibited through- out that section of the country, i and | faculty of his brain had been ab-| sorbed by this one and his mind was really a great mathematical machine. | A Most remarkable case of som-| City. H. C.Calvert i8 a farmer of that | vicinity. He and other members of the other! 12 o'clock by a erashing An inspection of the room night at noise, It was also found that his 11-year-old son was missing. The boy had retired to his bed-room as usual. Mr. Calver found tracks in the snow under the window. He felt sure that they were those of his son, but the little fellow's clothes were in the room. The farmer followed the footprints acoss a field. A quarter of a mile away he met the boy starting back to the house and nearly frozen. He said that had dreamed that eight Indians appeared before him and said they were going to kill him. He dashed away them over rocks and ice, and they closely pur- sued him. Finally he awoke and found himself out the field. He could not remember anything about jumping through the window, and only bore a few scratches from com- ing in contact with the glass. ~ he ir i from in of ¥. \. Tt seeqling Tuere is on the lands Sword, of Chandler, Va.., a apple tree, whose circumference, five feet from the ground, is about six and one-third feet, i about thirty-seven } branches whose sight feet seven half begin and half feet from the ground and form a very compact top forty-two feet wide. 1898 the estimated crop borne forty } One- tree was over | bu ples begin ripening and fi August and so contin gather winter apples, yet on the tree a good crop of winter which i indeed keep a They 3 there Is when apples, keep well good while they frozen. are medium low apples from rot early and con young at the om was found or 1893. The idea and winter that seen Same t Lee 18 ce six the place inele of a ¢ YO3 11 1 $ \ mountain offir by time, the grave was made of sSinguin Tue advance nish few Hustrations than is sapplied by an operation in one of the London hospitals whereby the breast of a blackbird was fastened to a woman's face as a substitute her nose, which had bec so damag that it had to removed. The woman, who had been a housemaid in a hotel, had struck in the face by a descending lift, which caused the injury that led to the op- erabion. The operation has proved perfectly successful, with every ap- pearance of the woman being pro- vided with a useful nasal appendage, though how it will perform its func- tions when the cure complete re. mains to be seen. more for ed s De bed n 3 is Farisavrr, Mixx. has a freak of wmture in the shape of a young giant. A young couple living in North Fari- bault, named Shook, have a child nine months old that tips the scale at nearly eighty pounds and is over three feet in height. The child has always been healthy and is well de- veloped. His head is well shaped and | of fair size, but his limbs and body are exceedingly large for a child of his age. He is handsome, and his features are clear cut and regular. He has six developed toes on each of | his feet. Mr. and Mrs, Shook are of medium size. Avavsr Boesmer and John Pfaff got into a dispute at Columbus, Ohio, the | other day ns to which had the big-| They made a bet about | orange into his mouth, Pfaff forced a billiard ball into! his. Boemer managed to get his oranges out again, but the billiard | ball was not so yielding, and declined | to be removed. Pfaff was nearly | choked to death, when a physician | managed to extract the ivory sphere | from his mouth, but he had to cut it larger to do it. Horses have often been insured and so, too, have prize cattle and dogs, but the boxing kangaroo at the Westminster Aquarium, in London, is probably the first of its kind in whose name a policy has been taken while | out. While the directors of that In. stitution offered no objection to the payment of the premium for the kangaroo, they absolutely declined, as a superfluous expense, to defray the side features of the show. A TWELVE-YEAR-oLD boy fell from the seventh story of the Rail- road building, Denver, Col., a few weeks ago. He struck on a number of telegraph wires, bounded into the air, and finally landed on the back of The animal was killed by the shock, but the boy was only stunned, and soon recovered con- sciousness, receiving luck. Tue Emperor of Austria has gone through the annual performance of washing the feet of twelve old men. The observance is a religious one connected with Maundy-Thursday. Water was poured from a golden ewer upon the feet and then His Ma jesty dried them with a towel. He rimaced over the unpleasant work. congratulations on his gr MOVED IN THE ICE AGE. From Canada to Kentucky. A. R. Wallace st rtnightly Review that an area of Northeastern extending South to New York ind then an irregular i in li St. Le Professor tes in the F TYE EEL. i 111- ing States, s ne westward ine to C and wholly covered with a inecinnati is is di posi material, in which roel various sizes are imbedded, while other rocks, often of enormous lie upon the surface, These b have carefully American geologists, with Not only are tl whic been studied and the RE us very inte Rome tacts. we distance rom hey have been tr pO La I Yery many oretiter ele- which fr from Professor shoulder mar it of the d also by heaps of drif ex), so that Mr. Wright eral hundred feet worn example of at sev ' 3 . Have bHeen AWAY is, however, affor of Prof: “ROr of Mount above HTAN Hiteha Washing level summit ton. over 6.000) feet and identified with whose nearest crop geveral miles to the and $3.000 or 4,000 feet lower than Mount RO8 Jethlehem gneiss Je i® in ff northwest flerson Washington. Adulteration of Coffee. “Coffee.” says Dr. of San Francisco, of the most universally used beverages, excepting, perhaps, tea and beer, is usually abominably adul- terated. It would seem difficult to imitate coffee, but it is not. A fair cup of coffee is made from black walnut dust, caramel, and roasted and browned horse liver. This mix. ture has been ascertained by chemi- cal analysis to be in extensive use. Ground coffee and hotel decoctions often contain roasted and ground peas, beans, potatoes, carrots, corn, rye, and onk bark, while chicory is seldom absent. This chicory, by the way, is itself adulterated with roast. ed wheat, rye, beans, acorns, carrots, parsnips, beet root, baked livers, venetian red, colored earths, oalk derson, now one from large hotels have been known to be gathered up, carefully dried and remixed with adulterates and chicory, and sold again as pure coffee, much for ground coffee, ** Yeast powder is a substance that requires universal scrutiny. Many brands that I have examined contain ammonia, alum, plaster of paris and cream of tarter (which is of itself adulterated with alum, chalk and terra alba). Is it any wonder that people suffer with indigestion and dyspepsia, when their stomachs be- come conted with plaster of paris?” In 1802 the Unfted Btates raised 201,000,000 bushels 5f potatoes, The golden-crestod wren is the smallest English bird, Laman — | | NOTES AND COMMENTS. AFTER all, some of us are only a little ahend of the time. A French whiskers will be universally worn, Farmers of Lincoln County, Neb. do not belong to the great army of the unemployed. They are kept busy fighting chicken thieves, and the Russian thistle simultaneously. the maintenance of foundling hos- pitals and orphan asylums and has placing children in private homes until such time as they are able to care for themselves, ry advanced so far as in Germany or France. Students of forestry in England finish their course of study by a visit of three months to the most suitable forests of Germany. These annual visits have developed into a system of apprenticeship, extending over five months, from the middle of BRITISH sea captains are trying to nited States in destroying t and Atlantic, A n, signed by to take action with the U Government he dere- property North ‘hh petition ing sud COOperatio 3 tains, representing crews ag- gregating 80,000 mer and property £00 000 00. has just been pr the F t Lord of the T irs ted Now he h=--taking in which hs his property, as estimated by New Y rterof a m ouple of years he XUrious way but n an en- existence. 1 put forth by M Ih Academy of KOSROPrE DOGKS Ore, ¥ FEI IY * iii y amount oo over iii I'p to within about + Deon irely new cou A THEORY ‘ Argun responsi on fii ported that can lines total duty is insisted upon by the fifteen railway abstinence of duty insist on on Hout restriction to Lime on thirteen the companies one the employe's signature before engagement. The Rock Island Railway Company has been enforcing ¥ with great General Prince Kuropatkin issued an order to the of- of the Trans-Caspian Rail- all officials and em- vigor, ficial staf! requiring eating drinks to be reported to Tug profit-sharing system, says the Baltimore Herald, appears to have its advantages, not only as a means of inspiring greater industry, care and closer application on the part of em- ployes, but also as a preventive of strikes. There have been a number of labor disputes in New England during late years, but in all this time the Bourne mill at Fall River has been running uninterruptedly, be cause the operatives had an interest in keeping at work beyond the mere question of salary. Their prosperity Recently the ninth- One of the owners, semi-annual dividend was paid. to $50 So satisfactory be continued. Tur newspaper business in and from the capital of the German Ems pire is sometning stupendous, as ap pears from the following figures, which are furnished by the news paper department of the Berlin post offic. Last month there were pub- lished nearly forty political journals, and the wal daily Jun of these passing through the post office pe a in round numbers to 500, - 000 copies. There are 720 non-po- litical papers published in the city, and their total post office circulation smounted to more than 100,000 a day. Upward of 1,000 mail bags and 180 clerks are employed in the newspaper traffic alone. The number of news. papers and other periodicals that were published in the German Em- { pire at the beginning of the present | year was 10.546. Of these 7,680 were | printed in the German language nod the other 2,916 in some thirty uiffer- F ent languages, | Tue whale Industry was at one | time an enormous industry in the United States, It reached its height in 1854, when 602 ships and barks, { twenty-eight brigs and thirty-eight schooners, with a total tonage of { 208,800, were engaged in it. By 1876 | the fleet had dwindled down to 169 now at sea. The introduction of ker- osene and the increasing scarcity of whales seem to be the cause of this decline. Some remarkable voyages were made in the old days. The Pioneer, of New London. sailed in June, 1864, for Davis Strait and Hudson's Bay, returning in Septem- ber, 1865, with 1.891 barrels of oil and 22 650 pounds of bone, valued at £150,000, In 1847 the Envoy, of New Bedford, was sold to be broken up. but her purchaser refitted her and made a voyage worth $182 450, the other hand made Years sho im five un vessel voyage lay was only $55, Nantucket nr But, whose the captain's as the captain, vessel re turned from three ns FH years’ she She ain't got a bar’'l Y 1 Leris slag vr $ voyage clean as went out marked : * ' ile but she had a mighty fine sail.” It Cost Him $800. t in fashionable other even hair and dignifie There sa a restan- int the ad bearing, who, MTR NCeS Coie : ied 7 in upon his life Hi + was almost sf ompiexion and ff the ger nis mi ' WHS A years ago he Hix father, a wegl erect petiure « tha Was reached oat F800, and he same who made so good New ler hionable n fo mi? $ WHMIY, Ove went broke ircus wandered Virgin i 3 Or iar Ww Wis 15f iy iv AS 8B persed if less obiecti began to us ways. He them Kets sold if agreeable, ‘way a clown fell il} 1 generaiiy ne 3 tla town ng in 8 JIL LOWnH south in Dixie WAR necessary to have two clowns, nd. A circus without a clown vorse than Hamlet with the sweet eliminated, and the man ger went the young Virginian You'll have to be to-night,” he said. ** There will nothing for you to do. We'll paint you, chalk you and make you up.” J Of #0 iO second prepared to be. A MAN who is driving a horse-car in Brooklyn claims to 1.ave been a throat specialist in Vienna He doesn’t 4% much down in the motith as he used to.—Philade hia Ledger, look ———— Can You Lose the Grip? Losing ons kin'l of grip is w than take iw yeh ing anotusr, an ie thousands ure in train. ing for the fisld sports of summer motths, it in well 10 be advised by those who kaow all shout it, Mc F.C. Brookly Perguson, 1608 Atlantic Aven, March ny While un. N.Y 1, 1803, Hs says testimony to y rites {oO Lhe point i ‘Awouid like to add SUT sired dy jong list, y inying ball I sprains] my arm at the sibow } : J and shoulder. It interfered with my playing cousiderably and lost ms many good chuncwms I tried everything I could A doctor advised that the only thing to be dons wasto prolessionsily, think of, but I could get no relist, give the arm n A friend, however, recommended Bt, Jacobs Ol, which I tried, long rest, with the result that 1 was completely cured 4 sid have since pitched a great deal with ne signs of my former troubles, which, by the way, retires many 7 professional player.’ In a new y ing t eighty looms | uriven Y ils Own ei y oor Garman wet 3 of the vd co Lr Caturrh Casnot Be Cured With local applications, gs they cannnt reach the sent of the disease, Cstarrh is a blood or { constitutional disease, and in order to cure 1 iL you must take } lien. Hall's | Catarrh Care is taken internally, and acts di. | rectly on the blood and mucous surface, Hall's { Catarrh Cure is not aguack medicine, It was prescribed by one of the best p conniry for vears, a It is composed of the best 1 bined with the best blood purifiers, acting di. rectly on the mucous surfaces The perfect | combination of the two ingredients is what produces such w rin! results in curing coe ! tarrh. Send for testimonia . 4. Casey & Cr Sold by druggists, price The. rems r Arey ade $ free » - Props., Toledo, O, The camera can nov ie a photograpt flat tras 5 iv raveling py The Skill and Knowledge | Essential to the production of the most per { fect nod popular laxative remedy known have to reput ation of Figa, an it is « onceded axative. For sale by a8 enable 1} Jalifornls Fig Syrup Co SCliieve a great su ‘ite { to be the uni | druggists, o%8 In the remedy. 8 14 versal Mrs. 8. D. Ashley FOR WCMEN IX FEEBLE HEALTH . Hood's Cannot Be Too High= ly Recommended Hood & Co H Ways & ueeq have f has al i had with rheumat 100 hack As w0G0 | Barsapariiia my appetite Rheumatic Troubles and 1 felt better than f t for years b ard ie Hood's remsend ya Ceascd fore. 1 have do without 10T S used it in the family and would not i it. Iteannot be recommended { Hood esi Cure 3.8 pops hildren n > women in feshle health, nor for ¢ teething. Any { well satisfied.” Richmond, Ohio ye giving it a Tair trial w Mpa 8S 0D. Asstsy, North Get Hoods #t prompiliy an. «i Hood's Pills act vasiiy cheats, on tee Lveor and bowels. 25 counts double-summersauit off a spring- time came on that evening the Vir- ginian made a sudden resolve. In his boyhood he had turned handsprings and summersaults. He would try it again. The first clown, the real arti- cie, made his entrance in approved style. Then came the substitute. sprang. He was shot high into the air, thrown over and over, and came down with a terrific thud flat on his back. Slowly he arose, staggering weakly aroand the ring, on his face that look of comical agony which a man wears who has had the wind knocked out of him, He was greeted wich a storm of applause. The spec- tators thought that that was his part-——that he was a trick clown. They shouted, clapped their hands and howled with delight. Painfully bowing. he staggered out of the ring and then threw himself to the ground, gasping to get back his breath. Outside, in the ring, the crowd was roaring for him to appear again. The ringmaster came to him. “They're crazy over you,’ he said. “You'll have to do that again for “My lands!’ groaned the new clown, clasping his stomach, ‘‘ Do that again? See here, you owe us $500. Lot me off from doing that gain, and we'll eall it square.’ New York Tribune. A BEVEN-YEAR-OLD won of A. M, Lassiter, who is well known in Gum County, N. C., has the word “‘Ameri- cn’’ plainly visible in each eye, near the pupil. This is his birthmark. Jesse Spright, a prominent citizen of (ireen county, says that he has seen and carefully examined the phenome- non, coit’s Emulsion of cod-liver oil presents a perfect food-—palatable, easy of assimilation, and an appetizer; these are everything to those who are losing flesh and strength. The combina- tion of pure cod-liver oil, the greatest of all fat pro- i ducing foods, with Hypo- phosphites, provides a re- markable agent for Quick Flesh Building in all ail- ments that are associated with loss of flesh. Prepared hy Sestt k Bowne, Chemista, New York. Soul by wil draggists ‘Unlike the Dutch Process No Alkalies OR Other Chemicals
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