The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-06-20
Remarkable Escapes OF Emit
Ren1 Men.

! Some years ago young man holding q
subordinate position in the East India Com.
panys service twice attempted to deprieye
| himself of life by swapping loaded pistol
at his head. Each time the pistol missed
| fire: A friend entering his room shortly
afterward, he requested him to fire out Of
| the window; it went off without any difficul
| ty. Satisfied that the weapon had been du.
| ly primed and loaded, the young man sprang
up exclaiming: Il must be reserved for
something great" and from that moment
gave up the idea Of suicide, which for some
time previous had been upermost in his
thoughts. That young man afterwards be-
came Lord Give.
Two brothers were on one occasion walk
ing together, when violent storm of thun-
der and lightning overlook them One was
struck dead on the spot, the other was
spared, else would the name Of the great
reformer, Martin Luther, have been un-
known to mankind
The holy st. Augustine, having to preach
at distant town, took with him a guide,
who, by some uDaccolntable means, mistook
the usual road and fell into by-path. He
afterwards discovered that his enemies.
having heard of his movements, had placed
the henselves in the proper road with the de-
sign of numbering him.
Bacon ike sculptor, when boy Of five
years old, fell into pit of a soap boiler, and
must have perished had not a workman,
just entered the yard observed the top of
his heed, and Immediately delivered him.
When Oliver Cromwell was an infant,
monkey snatcbed him from his cradle, leap
ed with him through window. and ran
along the leads of the house. The utmost
alarm was excited among the inmates, and
various were the devices used to lescue the
child from the guardianship of his newly
found protector. All were alike unavailing;
his would-ba rescuers had lost courage, and
were in despair of ever seeing the baby alive
again, when the monker quietly yetraced its
steps and deposited its burden safely on the
bed. On a subsequent occasion, the wat
ter' had well nigh qucnched his Unsuitable
ambition. He fell into deep pond, from
drowning in which clergyman named
Johnston was the sole instrument of his res
cue.
AT the siege of Leicester, young soldier,
about seventeen years Of age, was drawn
out for sentry duty. One of his comrads
was very anxious to take his place No OBJ
jections was made, and this man went. He
was hot dead while on guard. The young
man FIRST drawn afterwards became the au
thor of the ''Pilgrm's Progress
Doddridge, when born was so weakly an
infant he was supposed to be dead A
nurse standing by ianced she saw some
Signs OF vltallty' Illus the feeble. spark of
HE was saved from beng exlInguIShed, and
al en'inent au'hor and consistent Christian
prSScrVtn q, TO the world.
John wesley whena chlid, was only just
preserved from IRE; Almost the moment
after ne was rescued, the roof or the house
Where ne had been tell IN. VI Phillip Hen
ry similar instance Is recorded
'ohh AnoX' the rer owned Scotch reform,
ef' was always won't TO SIT at, the head OF
tRe table win ms Book to to ttho wnd.w
Qh 51 one particular evening, without being
ape 70 aocount Tor 1t, he would neither