The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-01-21
Miscellaneous News Items.

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GB-A Chinaman, who become snow
blind while working on the Central Pacific
Railway, applied at San Francisco police
station on the Sd inst, for official permits
sion to have himself shot.
EB-The small pox has broken out in a
colony of religious people known as the
"omish," residing in Springfield town
ship, few miles north of Fort Wayne,
Ind. They disbeieve in vaccination.
tB-Thirteen years ago G. p. Pepper, of
Waukesha, Wis, was buried in a well,
where he remained seven hours, but was
fished out alive, and now yearly celebrates
what he calls the anniversary of his "resur-
rection."
GB A family, consisting of husband,
wife and child, recently died in Labette
county, Kansas, without nurse, or medical
attendance, and their bodies lay four days
before any one would bury them.
a3S- Mrs. Sherman, who was sentenced to
imprisonment for life at New Haven, has
made a confession in which she acknowl-
edges having killed eight persons-two
husbands and six children. 1t is believed
she has killed still others.
EB- A marriage took place recently at
North Stonington, Conn, in which the
bride had to be carried in the arms of her
husband, she having met with an accident
two years ago, which deprived her of the
use of her limbs
tB- An Iowa man had to have an eye
brow amputated recently to make room
for new one that was growing under the
skin. The medical fraternity say it is the
first instance of the kind in their expe-
rience, and that this fellow can "brow-
beat" any man they ever knew.
E5B Near Muscatine, Illinois, sleigh
filled with ladies and gentlemen, ran off the
side bridge and was precipitated fifteen
feet to the ice below. Miss Binsee was
instantly killed; Mr.. Thomson and B. Ratz
was seriously injured, and several others
were bruised.
CB- We have recently heard of new use
for mica, viz, for putting between the up
per and lower soles of shoes to exclude
dampness 1t is also becoming much used
for decorative purposes, transparent signs,
ETC., and for making smaltz for painters
use by grinding into small pieces.
CB-A lady in Leavenworth, Kan, re-
moved fine set of false teeth for the pur-
pose of masticating little "taffy." She
threw what she supposed to be the taffy
wrappings in the snow, and afterwards
discovered that it was her teeth. She will
find them when the snow melts. In the
meantime she will gum it.
GB-At the Morgue in Paris there is al
ways a detective in plain clothes, whose
business it is to observe the impression
which the sight of the bodies make upon
the spectators. Many murderers have thus
been discovered. They seem to be led by
a fearful fascination to go thither to look
upon their victims.
8 ey-It was Daniel who said Many shall
run to and fro, and knowledge sEall be in
creased" He clearly referred to reporters
in tl,is remark, and this suggests the idea
that Daniel was in that line himself; it is
certain at all events that he was allowed to
pass in free to see the lions.
GB They appear to be cursed with some
very bad preaching in Iowa. A minister
in Hardin county, in hat State, lately had
to sue for his salary, which amounted tc
the muniicent sum of $3.50, and the de.
fense set up was want of consideration
The preaching wasn't worth the money
Perhaps the salvation of that community
was not of sufficient Importance to justif,
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