SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY-DAY LIFE.
Funny Episodes and Thrilling Ad
ventures Which Show that Truth
is Stranger than Fiction.
f/'rA NEVER get to talking abou;
v snakes without thinking of a
trick a big fellow and 1 once
played on some neighboring
young men of about our
Pges," says a resident* of
Hcranton, Penn. "The}' had
built a weir to catch eols in,
•ft and one night my friend and
.1 went there to rob them of
the catch. The other fellow
waded in with a bag, and I was on
horseback close by waiting to take the
bag of stolen goods and dash off at b oak
neck speed, lie to cut across lots on foot.
He had the strongest jaws and the finest
set of teeth I ever saw, and after he had
poked in the water awhile ho spoke low
to me and said : 'AI, I've got hold of the
biggest eel I over handled, and he's
wound himself around rav arm. He's
a whopper, and I can't get him loose.
I'm going to bite his head off.' And ho
did bite it off with one snap. I got
home all right with the bagful, and
when lie joined me we dumped the eels
on the barn floor and tinned the light
from ihe lantern 011 the heap. The
enormous eel proved to be a great slug
gish black-back water snake. There
was nothing poisonous about it, and it
was as clean and harmless as an eel, but
he turned pale as quick as he saw it,
and for half and hour his imagination
had complete control of his stomach."
TIIF. (Jape Town Argus prints the follow
ing story of the funeral of a native Afri
can King : From Old Calabar c lines the
account of the way in which the king's
grave was prepared for the reception of
his body. The hole was a large one and
deep. Lying in the same grave were ■
nine of the king's youngest wives, and
their deaths had been brought about in
the most cruel manner. Each of the
poor creatures had both her wrists and
ankles broken, so that they could nei her
walk no' crawl. In that stale, atid suf
fering lie most cruel pain, the unfor.u
nate <rea! ures were placed at the bottom
of the grave, seven of them lying side by
side. The body of the king was thou
laid on them in a transverse direction.
The two remaining women were la d by
the side of the k ng, lying exactly like
the monarch's body. No food or water i
was given !o the- poor creatures, who,
were left in that position to die. It a
sail that deatli did not, as a rule, take
place for four or live days. Four men
were stationed round the gra\ o, armed
with clubs, ready to knock back with
these weapons any of the women who,
notwithstanding their maimed condi
tion, wero able to crawl to the side of
the grave.
ONE of the most remarkable and ex
citing experiences ever recorded in con
nection with the settlement of the Nor
thern Wisconsin wilderness is recorded
from Unity, a small station on the Wis
cousin Central Railway. A woodman
named Kleinert, together with his two
small children —a boy and a girl—went
into tho woods ft short distance from the
station, Kleinert, as is customary with
settlers, taking along witli him his Win
ches'er rifle. Ho had become some
what separated from 1 lie children, when
he was s artled by hearing the little boy
screaming at the top of his voice, anu,
upon running to the spot, was horrified
to find that a large back bear had sud- |
denly dashed from the dense thicket {
near which the children were picking I
berries, and catching up the little girl, j
was making off with her through the
woods at n rapid rate. Tho screams of
his child, who w as in tho clutches of the
bear, nerved Kleinert to immediate ac
tion, and grasping his rifle he hurridly
followed through the woods in the direc
tion from which the screams proceeded.
Owing to tho densene.ss of the forest he
could see nei; her the child nor bear, and
was manly guided by the streaming of
tho child/ After he had proceeded
about twenty rods lie suddenly came
upon tho bear, who was stand.ng upon
lus haunches in a little opening with
tho child struggling and streaming at
bis feet. The bear showed fight and
made ready to pounce upon Kleinert,
when he brought his trusty Winchester
into use and fired, shooting the bear,
through tho head and killing him in- j
stantly. Beyond being scratched by
the bear's claws and her clothing torn I
to shreds, the little girl was unharmed. \
A DISCOVERY, referring to tho iron age, I
has been made at Gloppen, on the j
coast of Norway. A burial chamber,
twelve feet in length, and formed of
stono slabs, lias been uncovered, con
taining t.lio remains of a man. The find
in the chamber includes a bucket, orna
mented with bronze, made of lime wood,
two lanceheads of iron twelve inches
long, a double edged sword in scabbard,
with a ferrule of bronze, an iron shield,
a bronze buckle, some Roman gold
coins, perforated and worn us ornaments,
a glass beaker, green and blue in color,
and ornamented with etched tracings,
a pair of bronze scales, some iron arrow
heads, and a pair of shears in a wooden ,
case. On the body lay two largo red j
stones and some bronze ornaments, j
having, no doubt, formed part of a belt, j
while some bear's hair and claws seem |
to indicate that tho body rested upon a
bear's skin. Tho most remarkablo part I
of the find is, however, that the lining
of the coat around the neck was in a
perfect state of preservation, and re
vealed rich embroidery of images of
animals, an object of unique value, and
that in tho hands had been placed three
interlaced wooden lings, resembling tho
well-known puzzle lings, an object never
before discovered in ancient graves, and
which has given Norwegian archaeolo
gists much food for speculation.
WHILE plowing near Pleasant Hill,
111., recently, writes a correspondent, j
A. .13. Ighel, a farmer, noticed three of
his dogs in mortal combat with some-1
thing a short distance away. A great;
dust was raised, and for sorno distance (
the grass and weeds had been smothoved
or trod down. Igsol hurried to the spot,
and to his horror found tho dogs on
gaged in a terrible fight with a monster
snake. 'I ho dogs had been fighting for
half an hour or longer, with tho snake
before Igsel arrived. Tho largest of the
dogs, a huge cur, got the snake by the
back of the head and held on until it
lay quiet. When satisfied that the ;
monster was dead, Igsel approached
and was struck with awe by tho enorm
ity of the reptile. He took the body to
town, where it was viewed by hundreds, j
B}* actual measurement tho snake
measured 18 feet. 7 inches in length, and j
5 feet from the head it was 2} inches in j
circumference. This immense rep'.ile
has often been seen in the bottoms by j
fishermen, but all offor's to capture it,
have proved unavailing. Some pooplo
declare the snake recently esca] od from :
a floating dime museum at Clarksville. ;
Mo.
L. H. BUITTOV and .TOIIII Murray, of
New Lisbon, 0., brought to that place
from Carrolton a monstor rattlesnake.
Liammation of natural histories fails
to show any record of his equal in size, ;
the greate-t length allowed his species i
ranging from seven to eight feet. This
one is over nine feet. He is fif'een
inches in circumference and lias twelve
attles at present, some having been ;
b oken off. He is a diamond rattler, a j
species confined to the Atlantic coast I
from Florida to North Carolina and the ;
largest of all rattlers. The snake was j
captured in Florida by two negros, who
make a business of killing them for j
their hides. On account of his great 1
size they took this alive. They per- |
formed the rather delicate opera 4 ion by i
p'acing a trap over a hole in the sand j
into which they had seen him crawn after j
a turtle. He was shipped North as a I
present to Bird Kriper, of Corroiton, |
who soon found himself with the biggest
kind of a white elephant on his hands.
A PARTY is being organized in Oregon
to search for tho famous Lost Cabin,
which is supposed to contain 1,000
ounces of gold, gathered many years
ago. A party of minors years ago, it is
said, discovered wonderfully rich dig
gings somewhere on the Cascade Moun
tains and took out 1,000 ounces of the ;
metal. One night they were surprised '
by hostile Indians, and all but two were i
murdered. The survivors finally found I
their way into the settlement of the
Willamette Valley nearly dead from
hardship and hunger. Their story j
gained considerable belief, and they or- '
gani/.ed party after party to search for
the lost cabin, all of which ended in '
disaster and suffering. At this late day i
an old-timer turns up with ihe maps of !
these men who died years ago, and will
pilot a party into tho country that is be
lieved to contain the richest diggings in
the world.
A MAN having been seen with a wheel
barrow in Mount Feake Cemetery, Walt
ham, Mass., in the night recently, an
nvestigation was made, which led to
the discovery that a dog had been buried
in the lot of H. K. Hall, a Boston mer
chant. Mr. Hall admitted that the ani
mal had been buried by his orders by ro
quest of his wife. Ho claimed that lie j
had a right to do so. Tho trustees of
tho cemetery referred to the City Solici
tor, whoso opinion in substance was that
no person has a right under tho form of j
deed issued to bury any dumb animal in |
a lot; that any one so doing can bo ;
legally restrained from it, and an in
junction served on them. At the meet
ing of the Board Mr. llall was ordered
to remove the remains of the dog.
MR. C. R. WINTER WOOD, of Martins
ville, Ilf., has had quite a remarkable
experience with a turtle. In 1874 ho |
caught a small turtle, and, just for
amusement, cut the figures represent- 1
ing that year on the under shell of tho
reptile, and then turned it loose. Ho
forgot all about the circumstance until
five years later, when lie again captured
the terrapin. Tho mark was yet plainly
to be seen. Ho freshened it up and
then cut his initials, " C. 11. W.," be
neath it, after which ho again turned it
loose. Recently lie again found tho
turtle, not fifty yards from where it was
the other two times, and it did not seem
to be a particle larger. The marks arc
still quite plain.
THE Emperor of Morocco is soon to
receive from London two handsome car
riages of Oriental design. A hansom cab of
green and gold, to bo led by mules, is one
of them. The other is a palanquin to bo
carried by mules. The seat is so ar
ranged that the Emperor con sit cross- j
legged if lie wants to. One of tho most
suggestive features of the vehicle is a
little cupboard on the right side con- j
taining a four chambered revolver and
ammunition. On the other side is a
sword and other weapons, also writing
materials. Has tho Emperor heard that
the pen is mightier than the sword ?
THE heads of the Danish police have 1
introduced away of suppressing intern- 1
perance which is both simple and or- j
lginal. If a man is found drunk in the
streets or at public places a cab is hired
and he is taken homo. If he is too in
toxicated to be communicated with, he ■
is taken to a police station and kept (ill
he is able to give his address, when he
is taken home by cab. The publican
who has given tho last glass of drink to
tho victim is made responsible for tho
cab-fares, which sometimes amount to a
considerable sum.
AERIAL navigation has reached this
surprising stage of progress: At the
late Parisian "Congress" on tho use of
balloons und carrier pigeons in time of
war, it was resolved " that aeronauts in
time of war should bo treated as belli
gerents if they were soldiers, but as
spies if they were spies. M. Janssens,
of tho Acudemy of Sciences, expressed
his belief tha* in tho next century the
problem of aerial navigation would be
solved!
A Whale Chase by Indians.
Tho Origonian to-day published a
thrilling account of a whalo-ehase by
Indians of the Neah Bay reservation
oft* Cape Flattery, in which one canoe
#as lost and seven Indians were
drowned.
The wa'es were discovered spouting
off the coast, and, following the customs
of tho Indians, a report of the fact was
made to the medicine man, who called a
hurried council and allotted a number
of picked men to tho different canoes.
Incantations were then hold wherein
a certain harpoon was blessed by the
dreamer or medicine man and handed
to the thrower, with the warning not to
let it go from his hands except so orderel
by the dreamer himself, lest their efforts
in the chase should prove abortive.
The ceremonies over, the dreamer
seated himself in tho stern of the canoe,
and the thrower, armed with the pro
phetic harpoon, which must bo tho first
one hurled, took his position in tho bow
of the boat.
They were then to run through tho
serf by the members of the tribe, who
were to accompany them, closely foi
l-wed by two other canoes fully manned,
which, according to instructions, kept
astern of the first, bat close at hand.
"The whnle was successfully har
pooned. but at sundown it commenced
to blow a regular Nor Wester and the
sea became so heavy that the canoes
were obliged to disconnect and leave
their victim to tire himself out battling
with the air-floats secured to him.
That night tho wind increased in ve
locity and the sea ran mountains high,
and on tho following day only two of
the canoes wore discoverable. By this
t'ine the whale was dead, and tho surviv
ing canoes towed him to land. In tho
evening the Indians of the surrounding
country who had been reached by tho
runners assembled, and a "cu'.tus pot
latch "was held. Formerly the cultus
put'atcli was a meeting of the Indians
to trade among themselves, but since
tho advent of the whites it lias degene
rated into a drunken debauch.
On this occasion the ceremonies
opened with incantations over the eyes
of the whale, after which the skin of
the animal was passed around to bo
eaten by the guests raw, being con
sidered by thorn a rare tidbit. After
this the flowing bowl was brought forth,
and the howling and mourning after the
: lost Indians was plainly heard a mile
, dibtaut abovo the booming of the surf.
"C. • . .
CARL DUNDEE.
He Encounters Several Sbarpers and
Comes Out Ahead.
"Well?" queried Sergt. Bendall as
Carl Dunder entered tho police station
the other day with his hat worn jauntily
on his ear,
"Vliell, sergeant, I vhas going by uud
I slmst dropped in a little time."
"Glad to see you. You haven't been
down in some time."
"No. I liaf some fellers come around
to seo me again, und I vlius busy."
"Swindled again, I presume."
"Sergeant I" said Mr. Dunbar, as he
flushed clear back to his cars. "Maype
I vims some haystacks, und maype I
know enough to take care of myself. I
vliasn't so shmart as a polieenums, but
I can come in when she rains."
"Well, perhaps. What wero the fel
lows after ?"
"My wife she likes to go to Lansing, '*
replied Mr. Dunder, after getting over
his mad a little, "und I goes py der
depot to puy a ticket."
"How mooch vlius dot ticket to Lans
ing?"
"Two-forty."
"No less for cash ?"
"No, sir."
"I gif you two-twenty."
"No, sir.' 1
* 'Two-twenty five."
"No, sir."
" Don I goes py dot way of Shack son,
und you doau't get a cent."
"But that must have cost at least $5."
"A lecdlo more ash dot, but you seo
dot under railroad doun' got one cent,
und it makes her so mad ash liefer
vlius."
"Well, what else?"
"A chap comes in uiy place last week
und looks all around and says:
"Vlias d.s Carl Dander?"
"Ho vlius."
"I vims glad to see you. I hear
aboudt you all oafor. Mr. Dunder, I
have some preparation hero dot if you
rub on your feet no shark vliill bite you.
1 warrant it or give you back your
money."
" And you bought it?"
"Hold on, sergeant, lie liaf sliust
twelve bottles left. Ho uslcs mo SI a
bottle."
"But you ?"
"Doun' take mo for some fools. I
offer him two shillings a bottle uud lie
takes it. He likes to beats me, but I
knock him oildt. I vhas too sharp for
him."
"But what do you want of tho stufl'?"
"To keep sharks avluiy."
"But where are the sharks?"
Mr. Dunder looked embarrassed, and
as he did not reply the sergeant queried:
"I heard something about a suit well
up your way. What sort of a scheme
was that?"
"Vliell, if I rnako a mistake on dot
shark-grease I know I vhas all right on
dot salt well. Homo fellers put oop a
shop on mo, but I knock 'em all to
pieces. A man comes in my place und
looks all around und drinks some beer
und says:
"Vhas you Carl Dunder?"
"I vims."
"Vliell, I liko to tell you dot I pelief
I can make a salt well in your back yard.
If so you vhas der reediest man in De
troit in two weeks, I like to bore and seo
if I can find salt."
"How mooch vhas der cost?"
"Vliell, you vhas a good feller und
always use der poys square und so I
make it shcap to you. 1 bores down for
one lioonered dollar."
"Who you take me for?"
"But dat vhas shea})."
"I gif you shunt twenty-five dollar
und no more, und if you doan' like dot
you go right oudt."
"Did ho bore?" asked tho sergeant.
"Yes. He comes right to my price.
Ho bores for two days."
"Find any salt ?"
"Not ono drop."
"Ami you paid him 825!"
"I did."
"Mr. Dunder, I really hate to say
anything to wound your feelings, but
if you aren't tho greenest, liay-seedest,
pumkin headest—''
"Sergeant!" interrupted the old man
as lie backed for the door, "keep quiet 1
Doan' ah peak to mo! Gif mo some
show to go avliay und commit der sui
cide! I vhas in dis country ten years,
but I doan' make her oudt yet. No
podyvhas two times der same. I vlias
so discouraged dot I go und hang my
self. Goodby, und see dot I vhas kept
groen in my grafe!"
An Appreciative Statesman,
Quite a number of years have passed
since there was a hot contest for tho
election of Governor of Virginia. But
about the last exciting battle which tho
gioat political parties indulged in
long before tho present Governor was
thought of for the position—there was a
man named Jones who entered into tho
canvass with ardor and worked night
and day for the success of his favorite,
Jones was not much of a speaker, but
he subscribed tho money which paid the
expenses of stump orators, and never
rested until his man was elected, and
then Jones shouted and shook hands
with every one, as politicians always do
when their party is triumphant.
After tho inauguration Jones called
upon tho Governor, and the Govornor
received his friend with much cor
diality.
"Jones," said tho Governor, "I've
been thinking what I can do for you.
You worked hard for me and should
havo something."
"Don't mention it, Governor," said
our friond, with a gratifiod look. "To
bo sure I worked hard, lmt then patriots
should serve their country."
"And all patriots should be rewarded,
Jones, when tho time arrives. Now, I
have been thinking how I could compli
ment von. You hold a position as Jus
tice (j tho Peace, don't you?"
"Oh, yes; but it is nearly expired I" ;
replied our friend, with eagerness, ex- 1
porting a Judgeship at least.
"Well, I'll tell you what I'll do,
Jones," said tho Governor blandly, lay
ing a hand upon his arm and smi.l.ig
sweetly upon him. "If it expires dur
ing my administration I'll renew it."
Jones says that from that time until
the present he has not mingled with
politics or politicians—and Jones is
l ight.—[Richmand (Va.) Dispatch.
Jealousy Among Liverymen.
If there is one class of men among
whom jealousy can be more bitter than
among liverymen no one has ever heard
of the class. The liverymen all claim
to have tho fastest horses, the finest
bred horses, the handsomest buggies,
the most costly harness. They are al
ways on the lookout for something new
in tho line of vehicles, and as soon ns
one catches a new feature all tho others
are after the same thing. When one
liveryman gets a fine double team every
other liveryman feels called upon to gol
- finer one to beat tho rest on the road.
Ho they go, and as a result the lively
stable keeper is always poor, despite his
high prices for rigs. —[St. Louis Star
Hayings,
NOTES AND COM MENU S.
THE opening of the new dry dock at
the Norfolk navy yard insures docking
facilities for tho largest of our men of
war, or of those of foreign powers likely
to visit our ports. The need of such
docks has grown with the modern vessel
of greater length and wider 1 am. and
congress appropriated a sum . lliiciei.t
to construct one at Norfolk, am ther at
League Island, and a third at the
Brooklyn navy yard. The policy of
placing shipbuilding plants in our other
navy yards will necesdta e the construe
tion of similar docks elsewhere. They
are built of timber, instead of granite,
and at a less first cost, and with alar
less outlay for expenses are found as
durable as the older granite docks.
New gate appliances, and more power
ful pumps for emptying them when once
. tilled, place the new docks on a pur v.'i h
the best possessed by any maritime na
tion.
A GOVERNMENT report publ'shcd re
cently, gave the mineral output of the
United States for the a ear at consider
ably more than $500,000,000, placing it
far ahead of any other country in the
world. Following upon that Professor
Femow, of the forest div sion of the De
partment of Agriculture, leports an
enormous consumption of limber
throughout the Un on during the year,
and estimates tho value of tho forests
cut down at $700,000,000 ; thus it may
be seen that the United States drew up
on its natural resources in those two
lines alone in twelve months for sl,-
200,000,000.
A REMARKABLE fact 18 the cIIUDgO
which the recent storm has wrought in
the New-Jersey coast line. For oeiitu
ries its beaches have been gra lually
succumbing to the force of the waves.
Sc entitle observers place the average
loss at twelve feet a year along the
whole coast. In the southern ] art of
the State the wear is especially marked.
Sandy Hook, on the contrary, lias ex
tended itself a mile and a ha f within
tho last hundred years, and is still gain
ing from accumu ations ; but at lhn no
gut tho loss has been '2OO yards in forty
years. Tho recent great storm has
greatly helped this destruction.
THE New York Medical Journal ex
plains the physical degeneracy of Amer
ican women by saying that household
utensils are all too big for women to
handle with comfort. But this is an ex
planation that doesn't explain. For the
greatest evidences of physical degener
acy are tho women who never under any
circumstances hand'o these heavy
household utensils. While, on the other
hand, tho women who do handle them
are, as a rule, well developed physically.
Perhaps tho physical degeneracy of so
many women is due to the fact that they
don't handle household utensils enough.
THE Senate commit eo invest gating
the question of reclaiming arid lands by
irrigation hold a meet ng at Denver,
Col. Testimony was taken to the effect
that the entire eastern portion of the
State could be irrigated by the reser
voir system and hundreds of thousands
of acres of land now worthless converted
into the best agricultural land ; that
the storage system was undoubtedly tho
most practical, and if one-half the water
which went to waste every year was
stored, there would be more than suffic
ient to reclaim every acre of land in tho
State.
THE oldest officer in our army in age
and by entry into service is Second
] Jen tenant Michael Moore, of the re
tired list. Ho was born in Brooklyn,
N. Y., in 1700, and enlisted at Covent
or's Island in April, 1812. Ho enlisted
ns a drummer in tho Thirteenth Infan
try. From 1841 until 1809 ho was in
charge of tho music boys on Governor's
Island, where all infantry recruits woro
sent in those days. He was appointed
Second Lieutenant in tho Ninth In fan
try in 1869. He was retired for age in
1870. He lives with a married daughter j
i] Brooklyn.
Tirr. Boston Courier says that the re
markably high death rate ■ n that cty
tins last summer is mainly due to tho im
pure water which the citizens arc com
pelled to drink. Nearly all the residents
of one districtaro drinking a liquid which
the Courier says, " is nothing more than
the dillution of a large part of the sew
age of another city and of ono or two
towns."
THE largest county in the United
States is Custer County, Mon ami,
which contains 36,0CR) square miles, be
ing larger in extent than the States of
Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Delaware and Rhode Island. One
tenth of our present population could
find a means of livlihood in this ono
county, and then it would not be so
populous as Belgium.
THE successful trial trip of the new
cruiser Baltimore, on which sho made a
speed of almost twenty knots an hour
and developed about 1,300-ho:se power
in excess of the '9,000 contrac'od for, in
sures our having a cruiser second to
none of her class afloat. The lino qual
ities displayed in heavy seas have
proven her a staunch and powerful ves
sel in every respect.
A KANSAS City editor was recently
killed, so every one supposed, by a
stroke of lightning. It has since been
learnod that he died of surprise. He
found a man who admitted his inability
to run a newspaper better than the
editor.
Snow As a Non-Conductor.
It has been practically shown that in '
the bad conducting property of snow
tlieie is a romaruab.o protecting power
in the economy of nature. However
cold the air and the surface of the miow
may be, if there is considerable thick
ness of snow, tho temperature of the
surface of the soil underneath does not
fall below the freozing point. Thus the
snow is actually a warm covering to the
vegetation, for on its removal in alpine
slopes by the ethereal mildness of the
spring, the surface of the earth is seen
ti be gorgeously verdant and studded
with beautiful flower bloom. But,
though the snow is a beneficent proteo- j
tion to the plant w< rid in cold olimates,
it is oliilliug to the atmosphere. The
radiation from the snow in a cloudless
sky considerably lowers the temperature
of tho superincumbent air, and in ex
tensive snow-clad lands, when tho win
ter is protracted, the chilling effect is
very manifest. The surface of the snow
receives so little heat from the earth
that it gets cooled down to hoar frost in
a brilliant layer, glistening in tho
weaker sunlight. Thus the ground may
be of a temperature above freezing,
when the snow surface is bitterly cold.
However, animals which live in the air
have the power of locomotion to keep up
tho body's temperatu eby act ive work.
Tho plants in a cold winter would die or
become stunted without the protection
of the snow mantle, whereas animals
that can keep themselves warm by ex
ercise do not sutt'er by the necessary loss
of tho heat of the earth, which is pre
vented by the snow covering from pass
ing through to them, [Good Words,
Chinese Business Methods.
Tho Chiuese merchants keep as full a
' set of books as our merchants do, and
they do business on a smaller margin,
writes a Pekiu correspondent. They
keep account of stock and daily sales,
and I have some of their ledgers. Tho J
Pekin banks have a clear ing-house sys
tem. Each depositor has from his
banker a book with two columns, in ono
of which are entered li s deposits and in
j the other his drafts. He pays hiscredi
| tors by checks on the bank and in tho
evening sen Is his book t> be balanced. I
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