SOMEWHAT STRANGE.'
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven
tures Which Show that Truth is
Stranger than Fiction.
A CURIOUS freak of a somnambulist re
cently occurred near Dewitteville, N. Y.,
which nearly cost the sleep-walker,
Horace Ransome, his life. Ransome is
£ a young man, but has always been mor
bidly afraid of venturing into the water;
but on a recent night arose from his bed
while asleep, and made his way to a
large submerged rock about fifty feet
from the of Lake Chautauqua.* Ran
some says that he is entirely ignorant of
the act of swimming, never having been
in water over two feet deep in his life,
but it is said that it is an impossibility
for him to have reached the spot where
he was found without swimming, and
the only conclusion to be arrived at is
that he must have unconsciously struck
out on finding himself in the lake. An
other remarkable feature of the affair is
how the somnambulist could have re
mained asleep after entering the water,
which is quite cold, but the adventure
was too perilous to have been a hoax.
Ransome was found a short while after
dawn standing on the rock and holding
j) up his head to keep himself from drown
™ ing, the water reaching nearly to his
chin. He was utterly prostrated with
the shock and the exertion, and for some
days suffered inteusly from rheumatism
brought on by his cold bath. He says
his first knowledge of what he bad done
was when he found himself endeavoring
to keep his footing on the slippery rock,
and was then afraid to try to swim to the
shore. He has a faint recollection of
having a dream, in which a woman was
drowning before his eyes, and of plung
ing in to save her.
THERE is much excitement over the
discovery of a portion of the treasure
buried by the Bonner party in 1840-7.
In the early days of gold excitement the
Bonner party attempted to cross the
mountains into California by an untried
pass. They were snowed up in the moun
tains, and suffered great hardships,
many dying from cold and starvation.
Relief expeditions were sent out, and a
> few survivors were rescued. During
their sufferings tho party buried a quan
tity of treasure, the amount of which,
is estimated by some at SIO,OOO. A
search has frequently been made for this
treasure, but .without success. There is
authentic history of the burial of several
hundred dollars by Mrs. Graves, one of
the members of the party, on March 3,
1847, near the shores of Donner Lake, j
and it is supposed it was this money
which was found recently by a miner
named Reynolds, who was prospecting
on the hillside near the lake. He found
a spot where tho earth had been torn up
by a fallen tree, and his attention was
accidentally called to some dark-looking
pieces of metal lying on the top of the |
ground. lie picked up ten one dollar
pieces, and upon investigation uncovered
a large quantity of silver. The coins are I
antiquated, of all dates prior to 1843.
TIIE old Jacob Tourtellottc homestead !
in Bust Thompson, Mass., which was
built over one hundred years ago, has
obtained great local notoriety from a cu
rious incident. For many years Mr. and
Mrs. Windsor Bates and Mrs. Sally
Bates, mother of Windsor Bates, lived
there and were known as industrious,
plain honest people. Mrs. Sally Bates
died March 20, 1885, at the age of nine
ty-live. Some time ago a travelling pho
tographer took a view of the premises.
The pictuie shows the house from the
front with Mr. Bates holding a horse,
and his wife seated on a chair, while at
one of the windows in the sitting-room
can be seen the life-like picture of Mr. j
Bates' dead mother, Mrs. Sally Bates.
The face stands out clear and bright,
and has been recognized by many former
friends and acquaintances. Mr. Bates
- says that when the house was taken not
a picture of any kind was hanging in the
room. Nor is it a reflection from any
one standing by. He says it was the
custom of his mother, when attracted to
the front of the house, to rush up to this
very window, stand on tiptoe and peer
up aud down the road exactly as the
image appears in tho photograph.
FT. WORTH, Texas, possesses a cow
which is unique in being carniverous and
a cannibal, /is well as an infanticide. Her
peculiar propensity was discovered while
she was yet a calf by the finding of the
bones of a cat, which was in the habit of
frequenting the stall where she was con
fined, and the blood smear d upon the
calf's mouth revealed the startling fact
that puss hud actually been eaten by her.
Since then she lias been seen to catch
mice and rats venturing near her aud de
vour them alive, while she has twice
killed and eaten her day-old calves. She
exhibits no peculiarity beyond her car
nivorous appetite, but appears gentle
enough, ana has never been known to be-
ill humoredly, except when insight
of freshly-killed meat or when shown
blood. She is of common breed, and was
calved on the ranch of William Sunder
land, in Potter County, and is now the
property of James Link. She feeds on
grass, corn, etc., but will eat eagerly any
moisel of meat thrown her, and for sev
eral days after tasting flesh will refuse
with disgust all other food. She is now
nearly six years old.
ON his recent homeward trip from San
Francisco C. P. Huntington aud his
party had a unique experience. The
special train bearing them left San Fran
cisco, aud, after passing through some
beautiful sections of country, stopping
at Oroville, Los Angeles. Santa Monica,
Deming, El Paso, San Antonio, aud
Houston, approached New Orleans. For
about twenty miles before reaching the
last-named city the train passed over a
soft, yielding track through what ap
peared to be a lake. That particular
section of country was flooded from the
great crevasse in the Mississippi River
about five miles above New Orleans.
This lake was full of large black snakes,
many of which stretched their repulsive
bodies across the track. Some of them
were five feet long and as thick as a
man's arm. Neither the flood nor the
reptiles stopped the train.
THOMAS RODBARD, aged 81 years, died
recently at his residence in Germantown,
of paralysis of the heart. He had a pre
sentiment of when he would die, and
expired at that hour. He told his
daughter-in-law that he would draw his
last 'breath at 11 o'clock. Ten minutes
}>revious to that hour he reminded her of
lis statement, and as the hour drew high
he grew weaker and quietly passed away.
Two Frenchmen appealed at a linen
factory in Jaroslay, in the Volga, a few
weeks ago, and told the manufacturer
that they were French Commissioners
with an order for a cloth case in which
to wrap the Eiffel Tower in winter. They
presented so many sealed documents and
letters with the signatures of celebrated
Frenchmen that the manufacturer swal
lowed their marvelous story and agreed
to take the huge contract. The "com
missioner 1 ' required from him $1,200 as
an earnest of hi* intention to turn out
the tower's new clothes and left him
with directions that he should g > to
Paris at once to communicate further
with the city officials and to measure the
tower. He went, with several assistants
who were to help him determine the
details of the undertaking, and thereby
spent S3OO more to learn that he had
been swindled.
THE Osage Indians are the wealthiest
redskins in the United States. They
have a large fund to draw upon in tho
United States Treasury, and it is esti
mated that each member of the Osage
tribe—men, women and children—is
worth $15,000. Outside of the Osage
tribe are many individual Indians who
are growing rich. This is especially
true of the members of the five civilized
tribes—the Cherokces, Creeks, Choc
saws, and Seminolcs—which live in the
Indian Territory and have a government
of their own. The interest money due
them by the Government is paid to them
regularly without question, because they
are perfectly competent to take care of
their own affairs. Many of them are
well to do; and if all of their race had
their business ability there is no reason
why the majority should not be inde
pendent.
ACCORDING to the New York World
44 The blue-jay liar who hails from As
toria, Cal., is about as picturesque as
any. He says that Andrew Young
recently discovered that blue-jays were
digging up potatoes, flying with them iu
their bills and dropping them into a hole
in a hollow tree on his ranch for future
use. The potatoes fell through to the
ground, and Mr. Young immediately
had a large idea. He harvested the po
tatoes on his own ranch aud the blue
jays then turned their attention to tho
potato patches of his neighbors. This
matter arranged, Mr. Young carried
the potatoes away in a sack as fast as
the birds dropped them into the tree,
and in this way he harvested fifty bushels
as a gift via the blue-jay express from his
neighbors. The snake liar will have to
eat some attic salt and brighten up his
faculties."
A YOUNG man living in a suburban
village of Paris, France, who for a long
time has been unable to walk without
crutches, astonished his friends by rising
at midnight of a recent day and walking
ten miles without artificial aid. He then
returned to bed and awoke next morning
with no feeling of weariness and entirely
oblivious of what had occurred. His
physicians arc puzzled.
MANY people, one time and another,
have had no roof for their heads; but
Peter Conlin, of the Ohio Penitentiary,
is probably the flrst instance of a man
having no roof for his mouth. There is
an abnormal opening up into his head
three or four inches deep, which he has
to keep tilled with cotton so that his
food will not get into it.
A NATURAL curiosity made its appear
ance on a breakfast table in New York
city recently. Within a fresh Leghorn
hen's egg, of the usual size, was found
what appeared to be a perfectly formed
egg about as big as a sparrow's egg, lack
ing only the hard shell, but inclosed in
a membrane remarkably tirm.
A VERITABLE curiosity has been cap
tured in Africa. It is an elephant larger
than the lsite lamented Jumbo, pea-green
in color, trunkless, and has tusks that
brauch out something like the horns of
a deer. It is in possession of a native
king, who will not part with it.
JAWS OF BEASTS.
Queer Ways in Which Some of Them
Are Fastened.
"Jaws are funny things. The croco
dile's lower jaw is not socketed in tho
skull, as is the case with other animals,
but the skull is socketed in tho jaw, so
that the animal can lift the upper part of
its head as upon a hinge, and so capturo
whatever prey may be at hand without
going to the troubUi.of getting upon its
legs. This is a great saving of exertion
to the saurian, which delights in wooing
soft repose upon the buxom mud bank.
It wa9 Herodotus, the father of history,
who flrst commented in recorded writing
upon this surprising circumstance re
specting the crocodile."
So Osteologist Lucas of the Smith
sonian Institution was saying to a Star
writer, and ho added:
"You can And another example of na
ture's adaptation to the jaw to use in the
case of certain carnivores, like the otter
- a big we/ BJI that lias acquired aquatic
habits. The jaws of such beasts are so
fixed in the sockets that dislocation is im
possible. In some instances you cannot,
even after the animal is dead, separate
the jaw from the head. This arrange
ment is evidently designed to enable the
beast to bile to the greatest advantage
without danger that tho chewiug appa
ratus will come loose.
"The elephant's jaw, on the other
hand, not being intended for biting but
for grinding vegetable food, is an
appendage almost separate from the
rest of the skull. Although enormously
h avy it lias only a small articulation
connecting it with the upper skull, and
its whole weight is carried by the
muscles, in which it may bo said to be
slung, so that it can grind back and
forth.
"A snake's lower jaw is attached to a
sort of outrigger extending back from
its skull. Also the two halves of the
jaw arc connected by elastic ligaments,
so that it'tinds no dilliculty in so stretch
ing its mouth sideways and perpendicu
larly as to be able to swallow animals
much bigger than itself. Some deep
sea Ashes are similarly rigged.
"The human jaw is very loosely sock
eted in the skull, so that it is often dis
located by the mere net of yawning.
Not being intended for biting purposes,
offensive or defeusivc, no attention
seems to have been paid by nature in
making it fast.
"While we are speaking on this sub
ject I may as well show you this little
stuffed Ash, which has no more popular
name than 'autennarius.' It angles for
smaller Ashes with this appendage on
top of its head, which is designed to
imitate a worm. The autennarius keeps
its imitation worm wriggling just above
its mouth and, when a victim comes
within reach, it is gobbled promptly, the
jaw of the angler being set vertically in
stead of horizontally, so that it can re
ceive the game by simply opening at the
top, a gentle suction assisting the per
fonnauce."—[Washington Star.
Platinum and Silver on the Sun.
Up to 1888 platinum had not as yet
exhibited its presence in the sun's at
mosphere. In that year some traces of
it were found. Recent investigation
establishes beyond a doubt the fact that
it exists in the " great orb of day," as
| well as upon the earth. The same inves
| tigations which, of course, were made
! with the solar spec trum, confirm the
| belief in tho presence of silver and bis-
I muth in the sun also.—[St.Louis Repub
! lie.
FOUND BY HIS FAMILY.
A Soldier at Last Regains the San
ity He Lost at Shiloh.
All doubt as to the identity of the
poor, half-demented old soldier, the pa
thetic story of whose wanderings from
poor house to poor house since he was
reported killed at the battle of Shiloh
has been told in the newspapers, has
now been cleared up.
Though his faithful old wife and
other relatives felt sure they recognized
hini us William Newby, his owu memory
was very weak and indistinct at first.
There were neighbors, too, who doubted
still that the veritable William Newby
had come back. They had cause when
they thought of the long-dead soldier
lying in the Shiloh trenches and ac
counted for on the army records as. Wil
liam Newby. They had deeper cause
to doubt when they saw the strauge
wreck claimed to be William Newby
look into the faces of his wife and chil
dren and mutter sadly: t4 I do not know
you. I was never married."
But on Saturday, says a recent letter
from Mill Shoals, 111., to the New York
World, the awakening came. Standing
opposite his wliitc-haired wife, with her
voice still sounding in his ears and the
familiar scenes of his boyhood spreadiug
before his eyes, memory returned to
William Newby in a flash.
4, Phcb," said the poor old wreck,
calling his wife by the dear name he had
murmured in farewell thirty years be
fore, 4 'l know you uow. You are my
wife and I have come home to you ami
the children."
And the faithful woman who had been
waiting hopefully, but fearfully, for such
a recognition burst out sobbing and
threw her arms around her husband's
neck.
"I knew you the very moment I set
eyes on you, William," she cried. "I
would have known you anywhere."
On Sunday last there was a big dinner
at the Ncwby farm. The entire Newby
family was there. During the progress
of the meal the old man laid down his
knife and fork, and looked long and
earnestly at his wife.
"I declare, Pheb," he said, "I don't
believe you've changed a bit since the
day I left you to go to the frout. It
must have been the fault of my old eyes
that I didn't know you at flrst."
During the days following the sudden
return of his memory Newby had evinced
the most insatiate curiosity as to the life
of his family in the many years of his
absence, seeking to trace a resemblance
between the children of 18G1 and tho
middle-aged men aud women of 1891.
He was especially interested in hearing
how his wife had "managed" as a
widow, and whether his loved ones had
known "hard times" while he was wan
dering half-witted and helpless.
Mrs. Newby is still hardly able to
talk of her husband's homeless wander
ings without tears.
"I can stand all the story well enough,"
she said, "except when I think of his
having been in the White County Poor
house right here, three miles from his
own home, for eighteen months before
we found him. That seems cruel al
most."
"And its the poorest poorhouse I
struck in all my experience," said Newby,
laughing, "even if it is in my own
county."
It transpires that about two years ago
Newby drifted through his native county.
Within two miles of his own farm his
own nephew took the pitiful-looking
tramp into his house aud gave him a
good dinner. Newby told his wife of
this Sunday, adding:
"And you know, Pheb, everything
seemed mighty familiar to me then, but
somehow or other I couldn't straighten
it out, and I went away just like a
stranger."
Newby is now able to tell a lucid story
of what happened to him after he fell at
Shiloh. lie was flrst shot in the leg and
then in the head, the latter wound ren
dering him unconscious. When he again
knew what w/is going on he was a pris
oner on the way to Andersonville. Ho
lound he had been taken from the field
the very night of the flight. After his
release from Andersonville came the long
years of lialf-crazed wandering and poor
house existeuce. Finally, just how loug
ngo Newby does not remember, there
crept into his mind a feeling that he must
"get back to Illinois."
It is now known that the dead soldier
lying in the trenches at Shiloh, for thirty
years thought to be Newby, is the miss
ing Hy Morris, of Company C, Fortieth
Illinois Volunteers. His mystery has
been cleared with that of William
Newby.
Consultation at Sea.
A certain physician in a large New
England town had acquired an unenvia
ble reputation for making his bills as
large as possible without much regard to
the state of his patients' purses. There
were people who furthermore said that
it really seemed as if there were "visits"
on hi 9 bills which never had existeuce
unywhere else.
But he was a skilful physician, and
his tendency to overrate his services only
served to amuse some of his patients
who had plenty of money, and were not
especially sharp in looking after it.
"Why," said one mau to another,
speaking of the doctor, "he brought my
daughter Jeunie up from her attack of
pneumonia, when two other physicians
had said there was no hope for her; but
when she wus quite well again he
charged me for three culls he made, to
"inquire iu a friendly way how she was
getting on!"
"That seems a little forced," admitted
the other man, "but it's nothing com
pared to an experience I had with him,
at the seashore a year ago. We happened
to be in bathing at the same time one
day, and I swam up to him, aud inquired
for his wife.
" 'She's very well,' said the doctor.
" 'And your daughters?' I asked.
" 'They're perfectly well,both of them,'
replied he, rather shortly, I thought. So
I said, 'l'm delighted to hear it; remem
ber me to them,' and swam away.
"And what do you think I received
from him a week or two later? An
itemized bill—one item.
" 'To consultatiou at sea, five dol
lars 1'"
Although no ono has ever seen that
bill, the story clings to the doctor's
name to this day, after a lapse of many
years.—[Youth's Companion.
This Tree Fed on Itself.
A large poplar lately blown down in
the gardens of the Royal Botanic Sociely
of Englaud was found to have a network
of loots running almost around tho trunk,
between the bark and the wood, at some
distance from the ground. The tree had
evidently been getting its nourishment,
not from the soil, but from decaying
portions of itself. [Trenton (N. J.)
American.
J The Pennsylvania ltailrond Company car
ried six hum/red thousand more passengers
in 1890 than in 1889.
Who Are You T
A citizen of Detroit, who has resided
here for nearly twenty years, and who
has for the past dozen years run a small
oarpenter shop on liis own hook, got a
check on one of the hanks the other day
and stepped in to have it cashed.
-Have to be identified, sir," replied
the cashier, as he handed back the
paper.
"But I am John Blank, the careen*
ter."
"Possibly yon are, but you'll have to
bring some one who knows you."
"I'll bring twenty in five minutes!"
somewhat tartly exclaimed the man as
he walked out.
Standing on the steps of the bank he
scanned the faces of the passers-by, and
to his own great surprise it was ten min
utes before he saw the phiz of a friend.
The two entered the bank, and the
latter said to the cashier:
"I know tliie man to be John Blank."
"But, who are you?"
"I'm Stephen Dash."
"Never heard of you. He must bring
some one whom I know is responsi
ble."
"See here! This is all nonsense I"
exclaimed the owner of the check, who
was in a hurry.
"Perhaps so," was the cool reply.
"Mr. Dash, do you positively know this
man to be John Blank?"
"Of course I do."
"Have you ever had a legal paper with
his signature?"
"No-o."
"Ever pay him an account or (collect
one by that name?"
"I guess not."
"Could you safely make affidavit that
that is his real name?"
"I—l—don't believe I could. I've
just heard him called John Blank.'.
Mr. Blank brought in three othor
men, each one of whom Btarted in with
the greatest confidence, but came out
of the littio end of the horn when asked
the usual questions. At length he re
mombered a man to whom he sold a
piece of property to three or four years
ago, and he walked half a mite to bring
him to the bnuk.
"You identify him as John Blank, do
you ?" queried the teller.
"Well, he signed that name to the
deed."
"Would you make oath that he is the
same person ?"
"Um! Um! I think he is.",
"But will you sign a bond to make
this S2OO good if he isn't?"
"Oh, no! Now that I look at him
more closely I begin to see a differ
ence."
"What!" shouted Blank. "Haven't I
lived within stone's throw of you for ten
years?
"Y-e-s," was the hesitating reply.
"Didn't I build your barn for you?"
"I—l gness you did."
"Haven't you seen me almost every
day for years and years?"
"Well, I've seen you or somebody
who looks very much like you, I think
you are John Blank, but of course I
can't swear to it."
The money was paid and the teller
afterwards said:
"He was the right party, of course,
but had I carried out our rule to the
letter I doubt if he could have found a
man among all his neighbors to swear
to his identity. I don't believe we have
ten men in Detroit who can prove their
legal identity without taking an hour's
time to do it. One man knows anothor
as Smith, Jones, Green, but that isn't
legal knowledge, and it would bother
some of our leading merchants to fur
nish legal proofs to establish the fact
that they are the persons they claim to
be."— Free. Press.
For Dyftpopttia.
For a long time it was supposed that
the gastric juice in the stomach of a
shark was the strongest thing to be had
in beast or fish, but it lias been discov
ered that an ostrich can dissolve what ,
would kill a shark. One at Cape Colo- i
ny gobbled down a stone weighing
twelve ounces, and when killed the
weight of the stone had been reduced to
five ounceH.
Onliu College in Honolulu has just re
ceived £50,000 Irom Charles It. Bishop.
That
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That is—you can get it from
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The followiug remarkable story, told
by an eye witness, is entitled to a place
among the instances of intelligence
among the lower animals. A cook was
much annoyed to find his pastry shelves
attacked by ants. By careful watching
it was discovered that they came out
twice a day in search of food, at about
7 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon.
How were the pies to be protected
against the invaders?
He did not have long to wait, for at
G:SO o'clock he noticed that off in the
left-hand corner of the puntry was a
line of ants slowly making their way in
the direction of the pies. They seemed
like a vast army coming forth to attack
the enemy. In front was a leader, who
was larger than any of the others, and
who always kept a little ahead of his
troops.
They were of the sort known as the
medium-sized red ant, which is regarded
as the most intelligent of its kind, whoso
scientific name is formica rubra.
About forty ants out of the 500 stepped
out and joined the leader. The general
and his aids held a couucil, and then
proceeded to examine the circle of mo
lasses. Certain portions of it seemed
to be as&igued to the different ants, and
each selected unerringly the point in
the section under his charge where the
stream of molassos was narrowest.
Then the leader made his tour of in
spection.
The order to march was given, and j
the ants all made their way, to a hole i
in the wall in which the plastering was
loose.
Z Here they broke ranks and sot about
carrying pieces of plaster to the place
in the molasses which had been ugreed
upon as the narrowest. To and fro
they went, from the nail hole to the
molasses, until at 11:30 o'clock they
had thrown a bridge across. They
then formed themselves in line and
marched over, and by 11:45 every ant
was eating pie. Chicago Tribune,
Ambiguous,
He is a very discreet man who nover
says either too much or too little.
At a business meeting, reports the
Lowell Citizen, the chairman an
nounced:
"Brother Skinner submits his resig
nation as a member of this society.
What action shall be taken upou it?"
"I move you, sir," said one of the par
liamentarians present, "that the resigna
tion be accepted, and that a vote of
thanks be tendered to Brother Skin
ner."
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