SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures Which Show that Truth is Stranger Than Fiction cal amateur photographer, of Oil picture of a rattlesnake biting a man, and, so far as known, the picture is the only one of the kind in existence. it was obtained by accident. Dr. C. J. Reynolds, formerly of Oil City, has been a few days in the woods in that vicinity assisting Gruber catch snakes for the latter's museum, and to illustrate the cess to his friends in Pittsburgh, he graphs. The box of snakes already captured, together with the photograph outfit, was taken to a ledge of rocks near Siverlyville by Dr. Reynolds, Pete and Beveridge. The snakes were then photographed in different postures, and as a climax it was decided to illustrate how the biggest snake of the lot was captured. It was placed on top of a huge mass of rock, and the doctor posed as if he had just caught sight of the reptile, and was motioning to Pete, who was climbing up the face of the rock. In his anxiety to get a good pose, Dr. Reynolds failed to notice that while had worked his way to the edge of the rock. When Pete put his hand over self, the snake, over five feet long, struck savagely at the moving finger. Its teeth grazed the ball of the thumb, cut the skin, but did not draw blood, and a quantity of venom spread itself over the thumb, but was washed off with the contents of a bottle of ammonia and did not do any damage. The photographer was so startled by the snakestriking that he convulsively squeezed the bulb connecting the shutter of his camera, and secured what is probably the most unique photograph in the State. Ox a recent morning McCollum, living three miles from Farmer's Valley, Penn., went out to feed his cow he found her lying in a pool of blood in the barnyard. There were gashes in her flesh, on her lower left side, her legs were stripped of their flesh in many places, and her horns were covered with blood. She was still alive, but was shot ‘ her misery. As there was not a foo of ground in the barnyard that was not torn, and as the soil wasdrenched with blood, and the barn and fence were spotted with it, it was plain that a desperate conflict had occurred during the night between the cow and some fierce animal. There a break in the barnyard fence, show- ing where the trespassing animal had entered. David Marcy, neighbor of MceCollum’s, to feed stock the same g, discovered that a large and vicious Berkshire boar of his had broken from his en- closure. Marcy started to search for his missing boar, and heard of the plight in which MeCollum had found his cow and barnyard. He was sure that the bloody duel that had taken place ti the night before was to én i was on going his mornin there bee tween his boar and the cow, and this was made certain when he found the boar half buried in the soft mud on the edge of a swamp a quarter of a mile from MeCollum’s. The mud was red with blood for several feet around the boar. This had flowed from eleven holes in the animal's side where the cow had gored him. One of the boar’s eyes was out, one of his tusks broken off, and his flesh was frightfully ripped. He was nearly dead and was shot. Harry Moore, who for years was an engineer in Mexico, states that there are queer laws down there, He gives the following as a fact: “I was walking fares of marked the City of Mexico,” re- Mr. Moore, “when a man came along and tickled one of the hind legs of a mule. The animal pricked up his ears and both hind legs landing squarely in the face of his tormentor. The man was picked up and carried unconscious into a house near by. The poor A policeman came riding up at full speed, asked the cause of the excite- ment, and on being informed, arrested the mule and took the animal off to jail. A trial was had and the judge, without jury, sentenced the mule to the penitentiary for life, assessing a fine of eighteen cents a day against the owner to keep the mule in feed.” Mr. Moore Wells Fargo Express Company has a dog at their office in the City of Mex- times for biting and snapping at Mex- ican pedestrians, SoMEe twenty years ago a Kiamath River Indian, had a difficulty with was killed, and at the same time killed one of the other Indians. Sev. eral years later one of the surviving Indians died. The Indian killed by the other three in the trouble above referred to had a boy about one year old at the time. The boy being now twenty-one years old, and knowing from his mother the circumstance of his father's death, watched a good opportunity to kill the only survive. ing murderer of his father. He pre- tended at all times to be very friend- ly with the surviving Indian of the difficulty, but a few days ago, while smiling pleasantly before his vietim, suddenly puiled a sharp knife from beneath his coat and slashed him across the body, from the effests of which wound the murderer of his | father died in a very short time, and {the young assassin skipped to parts { unknown, Tue honorary freedom confers a in By in the ancient borough of Rye, { Sussex, one of the Cinque ports, { long been overlooked, but which was brought to light again the other day { by a searcher among its ancient rec. ords, the possessor of the honorary { freedom of this: small but dis- { tinguished borough secures the right { and privilege of kissing the Mayor: ess. At Hungerford, in connection | with the festivities of Hocktide, | there are two officials known as { “‘tuth men,’’ who have the privilege | of taking a kiss from each member of the fair sex. They are appointed an- nually by the chief constable, who is head man of all the commoners. { his subjects, and recently issued the | following peculiar order: “After | bringing our sacrifices tothe highest { being, we heard upon our return to the palace, near the gate leading to a wateh in a fleta at that place, and recently a eolored man unearthed it. plece was found to be in fairly good condition, “Aunt! Ruopa STEARNS cele brated her 101st birthday at High- gate Center, Vt., the otherday. De- spite her great age, Mrs. Stearns # o'clock every morning and stove. ON TOP OF MT. ARARAT, Nothing but Snow Covers the Peak Where the Ark Was Moored. “Mount Ararat has two tops, a few hundred yards apart, sloping, on the eastern and western extremities, into rather prominent abutments, and separated by a snow valley, or de- noise caused by talking. This shows | that the people have not the proper regard for the majesty of the ruler, | and also that the officers of the body- { guard have failed | properly. The officers who were on | punished, therefore, by the Ministry {of War. In the future, however, all officers. however, high or low, must a noise sc improper shall not | occur in our presence,” see tha | Georce Fox, of Angels Camp, Cal- | averas County, Cal., has a two-year- old colt which is to a certain a natural curiosity. For some months past the colt has had a tender spot near its right ear, and recently it re- sulted in an open wound. After try- ing in vain to heal it its owner de- cided to take the animal to a doctor of Stockton to have the treated. The doctor after examination made an i his scalpel, and, taking | strong forceps in his hand, | from the place a well-formed extent careful witli 5 ’ OF a neision Molar COIOr ex and ike those in the colt's tooth, in form, shape actly | The colt improved at wound is healing. mouth once and thé IN one of the big down town build ings in New York there is rant whose walls tirely of mirrors ling to the person n are The effect who look COM dining room from the street ways, The curtains prevent hi anything except the cei In these hb mirrored all that the Of course walls, owever contain, ine is astonishing to sce A room rything Appears every and it man eating his and is sufficiently verted with his hestd in the air. The novel to attract Soup §¢ down his feet =i 3 times, Crowds nt i of James AX interest : ithy © story is tol a \ Ww. Ellsworth himself by spending thousands of dollars every to his vari- weal ollector named who 111808 year in making additions 18. Recently he cos 11 Ous coliection LID ar that in possession of an 1804 dol has an interesting history, as its ex- istence Wn It that a colored man received lar from his dying father, kept it as a was not kn appears the dol- who hwl of remembering The Years Driefus, means the year he became a freedman negro kept the coin for forty and finally sold it to a Mr. A Maixe dog was presented by his Lubec owner to a man at Eastport the water and . Lubec side, but the current strong. He came back crestfallen. luck. But the third time he got to of his old owner. He and a half. swam a | of Babu Raj Kuma Roy, Zemnidar of Narail, india, recently, the proces- | sion was a most imposing one, the bridegroom party alone consisting of 1,200 to 1,500 men. A notable novation in the shape of an Indian female string band, which drove with the procession in a wagonette, tracted a great deal of attention. ate Miss Eminy T. Gerry, a daughter of Elbridge Gerry, one of the signers Allen and Sachtleben, the two young Americans who made a bicycle tour round the world. ‘*The eastern top, on which were standing, was quite extensive, and to 40 feet lower than western neighbor. Both tops hummocks the huge dome Ararat, like the humps on the back of a camel, on neither of which is there a vestige of anything but BNOW. “There remained just as little trace of the crosses left by Parrot and Chodzko of the ark itself. We the pictures we had seen in our nursery-books, which ree $0 are on one as presented this mountain-top covered with green grass, and Noah stepping of the in warm sunshine the recedi WAVES: and nd this very spot covered wit] Nor did whatever of a former oxist out ark the bright before now we looked aroun and saw perpetual Waitit | RIOW. We S08 RNY eV perhaps the i Ml WH nave was nothing except Pp r ress] here etual snow-field i was and almost 1 . all » SEN Lree—ilil Wihs All northwest low » town HWiOH CARPENTRY FOR BOYS. A Pair of Horses. a carpenter shop a pis HORSE, A GOOD soft ash, 4 feet Jong. 1 1-2 inches thick and 8 inches wide. Saw this in half, making two pieces each 2 feet long for the heads of the horses for the top of the legs will fit as her old-fashioned home in | possession of faculties of mind and | body. THE rare instance of the coming of age of a whole trio of triplets was | eelebented recently at Whitenast, near Leamington, England. die soon after birth, but occasionally they survive and reach maturity. One case is on record of quadruplets, all of whom were reared. | CHicaeo hasa federation of women’s | clubs numbering twenty-two. organise zations. One of these is called the | Olio Club, and is interested in almost | everything under the sun, It has a | peculiar rule to the effect that the President may address any member | whose name she forgets as “Mrs. Tipps.” Carr, Corxerivs NYE, a pensioner of the War of 1812, recently zele- brated his ninety-eighth birthday at his home in Lynn, Mass. He was born in Fairfield, Me., and spent most of his life there until eighteen years ago. His first vote was cast for James Monroe. W, A, TWENTY yoars ago Van Bickle, of New Brunswick, N. J., lost | quarter inches thick and two inches wide for the legs, and level the top ot each as shown in - i ~ fig. 2. Serew each 1 head, and level the bottom of each as shown in fig. 8, sc the horse will stance firmly on the floor, At either end of the horse and just under the projecting end of the headpiece, fasten a hoard fei Tied. This will help to strengthen the horse and prevent it from rock. ing. Take care to make the joints at the top of the legs with the head tight and secure, so the finished horses will be solid and not wobbly. i dnd Killed the Alligator on Dry Land. The hide of an alligator more than six feet in length was brought to Dawson Baturday. The ‘gator was killed in a field eight miles south of Dawson by a colored boy. It had crawled over a high rail fence on the way from one pond to another. [It took two shots from a gun to kill it. Alligators often travel great dis. tances over dry land in moving from one body of water to another.—{At- lanta Constitution, rE ——————— ——— wedish copper mine has been work without loterruption for 800 years, "a COLONEL CODY TALKS. HE BELIEVES IN WOMAN SUF. FRAGE. sued by Autograph Hunters.- Ideas on Other Subjects. Big men are always gentle to wo- mon, 80 | was not afraid to intervemew Buffalo Bill. school, he answered up according to rifle as well. “Now,” said the Colonel. after in- troducing me to his stalwart busi- ness manager, Major John Burke, “what do you want to know?’ ‘To begin with, Colonel, do you consider this life of yours the ideal life—I mean is it the life you would choose in preference to any other? I do not, of course, refer to the *show’ part of it, but to cise, the hunting, riding, short. the open-air life.” “I wouldn't lead any ohetr kind of lite,”” answered the cowboy chief; 1 ete. , no, sir!’ The Colonel went up one in my es- timation after this You seldom meet a man who has had the gumption 10 grasp the life he likes i 18. The Wal Hii confession, or to confess it if he hi 5 “1 worLns’ ANSWER THAT QUES- TION SAID MAJOR BURK gtreet broker tells von + fis 42 Ive ar from that he lor 2 he madd in the n actor yes back parlor! man would fession mode Would Before Major Burke int “The Colo the I proce produced by t with the wo- “* Why shouldn't women pre men that are brave and strong? ed the Colonel : brave—why wrse lovers aver that it does * Emphatically no. door life makes a man value women's society intensely. The men out West, where there are greatest respect women, women as the Western fellows.” ** Well, sir, have you any ideas on woman's suffrage? This is the ques- tion of the hour, you know, other- wise I wouldn't thrust it on you.” Col. Cody confessed that he had not thought much about it. ** But. now that you speak of it,”’ he said, “1am in favor of women voting. Why not? Women are developing wonderfully just now, and can do many things which they couldn’t do twenty years ago. I think its a good few women, have the and admiration for to occupy their minds. changed, and, whereas. a8 woman would have been hooted a few years back if she had dared to work in an office along with men, now we recog- nize that so long as she does her better there than wasting her time at home playing with the eat. doesn’t care about voting, to the polls every time.” “Do you think the majority of women capable of voting?’ “Yes, quite as much as the ma- jority of men.’ ‘‘Hurrah! Colonel, you're on our gide!’’ “Of course, I am.’ “Then you don’t condemn women’s clubs?” “Far from it. I'd a good deal rather feel that my daughter was at a club slong with intellectual ladies than out with some men, In fact I think it in a capital ides.”’ “Do you approve of physical cul- ture for girls 1 Jorainly, it makes them grace- ful.” “I would like to know something about your boys. Are they the ter- rors painted by the dime novelists?’ The Colonel smiled. “They're the best hearted, pluckiest, most faith. ful fellows anywhere. Will stick by me and each other till the last. They're a bit wild sometimes, after they've been in the saddle for a few days at a stretch and not a drop to drink=-nowhere to get t—miles Doh anywhere, Then they have a wild 5 ’ ipoll, Th ¢ reaction is perfectly nat. CHINA'S GREAT SEAL. “What will in the future. race is dying out. you do for buffalo “There are not enough left to breed difference. The show won't shut up because of the buffalo,” At this point in the interview an It occurred several times during the interview, ‘“Are you engaged, Col, Cody—we saw that you were “Oh, I've excused myself minute,” answered the Colonel. only being interviewed.” He of the process as gently as he of manicure or chiropody. “Well, then, will you write us your autograph-—we should value it 80 much?’’ for a “I'm spoke might The hero of the saddle complied. And then I heard, “Thank you so, Fe And they went home delighted. Then the interview went on where it had left off. Here 1 caught sigh and handsome ring which the Cow- boy Chief d as 1 admired it Lhe following story wore, an given me by Prince 3 heir presump- of Ring now. Bavaria, w will came 1o see my NON several Grn. ings in rbhout my bue He thoueht he in £ i * 5 4 that we put tacks ind { or otherwise i m to make them buck. He toll me that h . t bell it wa soe way that wird « t morning fie AUTOGRAPH HUNTERS, was standing near, and knowing the danger, begged him to come further off. “But he wanted to see everything, there was time to pre- vent it, the horse had given a violent plunge, and horse, rider. cook and I met a man riding up to me in great Make haste, Guv'nor, the Prince is killed, we think.’ “When I got there he was insen- But he is a game old fellow, sible, soon up again. He was quite con- vinced about the genuineness of the bucking horses, and gave handsome to Langdon and the horse, The ring is a marquise of diamonds royal arms and the Prince's mono gram. “Now,” said Buffalo Bill, as he “No, thank you, that's all.” And if he isn't a pet with the wo- men he ought to be. Don’t you think so?~{J. M. W, in N. Y. Re- corder. Why Two People Look Alike. The fact that two people who live long together tend to grow alike, is accounted for by unconscious mimic. ry reacting upon the muscles of ex- pression in the same way that a ruling passion does. This tendency to facial imitation is very generale in fact, almost universale-and may be so marked as to be easily noticed ; #0 that when two people are engaged in animated conversation, the ex- pression of the listener may often be soon to echo that of the speaker. How ‘‘infectious’” is a smile or a laugh, even when the idea which gave rise to it in the first case is not srunsterred | == [Blackwood's Maga- ne. How Annam, Under French Protec tion Destroyed Her Badge of Ser- vitude, Among the many unique curiosi- ties in M. Jules Patenotre's collec tion at the French Legation at Wash- ington is an imprint of the great Chi. nese imperial seal. The loss of the original die which the imprint repre- sents was one of the greatest disap- pointments in the career of the clev- er diplomut. He wanted it for his collection, but the Orientals were a little too many for him at that time, and this is how it happened. The French had been carrying on the war in Tonquin during the early part of 1853, and finally suceeeded in { forcing China to surrender her claim | of suzerninty over the empire of nam in favor of a French protecto- | rate. All the State documents of the Aunamite up to this period had not horne national seal, | likewise the imperial seal of China us a mark of vassalage. When on June 6, 1885, however, Patenotre obtained } i » to the treaty giving An, tect ion of France «al was brought of Annamite Pate- fi= only the but statesmen and notre, in his report bed the ur parlor Ther fice, degeri ‘We { table in reside from took « sents 7 ri sffi os fleet and garrison at upon the woe were naval rs Courbet’'s French Admiral officers from the i He. The great seal | the table. It was fiv and made of Roig o the Prime Mini 1 that it was not yet nterestine relie on at seal was nothis olten silver.’ And that is why fr 3 a town about Lf | y. Upon reachi to tablishme nt, of the wault, an old-fash- ioned affair, which locked with a key ‘and which the safe and i books of the concern, could not be | opened. ! The man examined the lock and i then the key, his kit, took | out a bit of wire and began to dig a mass of dirt. dust and lint out of the key. Then he inserted it in the lock, and while the proprietor, with a sickly smiie, looked on, turned the implement and opened the door. “What's your charge?’ asked the manufacturer, “Fifty doliars,”’ replied the expert. “Does any one know you are in town?’ “No.” “Well, then, here's sixty dollars,” remarked the manufacturer. “I'll give you ten dollars extra if you'll take the first train back to New York without telling any one the price I've | paid to have a man dig the dirt out (of a key for me.”’—{New York Her- ald. contained opened Sleeps Without Pillows. | “I happened to be in Kansas City while the Convention was on,” said F. 8. Nies, “and owing to the crowded condition of the hotels was | compelled to double up with a | stranger. He was a very pleasant man | of German descent and did nothing | erratic until he went to bed. Then | he removed the castors from the legs | at the head of the bed, so as to make | it lower than the foot, placed his pil« | lows at the foot of the bed, and went to sleep with his head at least twelve inches lower than his feet, He slept the sleep of the just and had to E called half a dozen times in the morn- ing. We went down to breakfast together, and I ridiculed him for his | peculiar sleeping posture. He quoted some German scientist with a five- syllable name as his authority, and #0 convinced me of the fact that it is entirely a mistake that pillows and bolsters are necessary that last night I discarded both and found to my surprise that he was right. The dis. covery was a revelation to me, but it is certain that tosome people, at least, a pillow Is a nuisance instead of a com- ort, if they only knew the fact.’ [8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. Ss a hele mands 15 hel dally M mush
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