The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-21
A Toledo Man Falls Over a Prec.
ipice at Niagara. a.


A Toledo Man Falls Over Prec-
ipioe at Niagara. 81
[From the Toledo Bladel
A Toledo excursion party visited Nj
agara On sunday. Among them was
Hermann Weigel. About 4:3O in the af-
ternoon Mr.. Weigel, his wife, and a
number of others were standing on the
brow OF the hill, just above the Clifton
house, on the Canadian side. At the
point where they were standing there
was sheer fall ofsomething more than
eighty feet from the ground to the rIYeI
banks.
Mr.. Weigel WAS standing very close
to the edge, looking down to the river
below. His wife stood just behind him,
and had hold. of his coat. Sne was
frightened at the manner III which he
stood, and telling him not to stand SO
close to the edge gently pulled his coat
to have him come back. Mr.. W. replied
that she need not be afraid; lie Was all
right and would not tall, at the same
time giving a little jerk to get his coat
out OF his wiie's hands. That jerk was
too much; he lost his balance and fell
headlong over that irightful preciplce,
striking on the sharp rocks, eighty feet
below. For an instant the little group
was dumb. Not a thing could be done,
SO horritied were they at the dreadful
calamity.
Finally one of them mustered up
courage enough to look over the bank,
and he saw the unfortunate man lying
on the rocky shore beneath. The news
OF the accident spread like wildhre, and
III lew minutes the bank was crowded
with people. just then Patrolman Dan
Sullivan, who was with the party, came
up, and hearing what had happened,
started at once 10 get the remains before
they were carried off by the water. With
the assistance of gentleman who re-
sides at the falls, Dan. started on his
dangerous trip down the preclpice, which
was as perpendicular as wall. Here
he could put his foot on u piece of shelly
ing rock, there he caught little shrub,
and once he dropped about tour feet into
small sapling, which bent with his
weight. Above him stood the friends
with bated breath, expecting every mill
ute to see him dashed to pieces BY the
rock. But slowly and steadily the in
Lrepid officer, who knows not what fear
is, descended until he reached the bot
tom.
Only short distance from the waters
edge was all that remained.Of Hermann
WeIgel, who Duta few minutes before
was alive and we'll. 1t seems that when
he tellhe struck his head upon a sharply
pointed stone, which crushed his skull
and killed him Instantly. The ody was
teartulIy bruised and mangled.
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A young clergyman, modest almost to
bashiulness, was once asked by a .coun-
Try apothecary, of contrary character,
in public and crowded assembly,, and
in a tone OF voice sufficient to eaten the
attention Of the whole company, "How
happened it that the patciarchs lived to
sucn extreme old age j" 70 which ques.
ton the clergyman replied, "Pernaps
they took no physlc."
An Alabama Sheriff took his negro
prisoner to Jail, went out and became
drunk, was arrested anu locked up in
the same cell with the negro, slept in
the same bed with him at night, was
tried in the morning, fined $40 for drunk
enness, and then brought up the negro
tor trial as if he himself were circum-
spect and staid officer of the law.
A good joke is going the rounds of the
western part of this State at the expense
OF The erudiLe editor of QUE OF the Mlchl-
gan daIIies, who, on discovering a fire,
rushed out on the street shouting. "Con-
conflIgrationll cOnhagra-
tion!!! approximate hither with tue i'm
plements OF deluge and eXtinguish this
combustion." q
Editors are coming to the front.
Henry Watterson, of the Louisville
journal, has been elected to Con-
gress; Marble, late OF the World, is
urged for GJYerner OF NV Yo k; Mr..
OF the Boston Herald, has been
offered seat in Congress, and an
editor OF aTexas paper has been arrested
Tor stealing amule. a
The three reasons which certain
good old woman presented for objecLing
to her new pastor, were certainly Strik-
ing ones. she said in the tirsl place that
he read his sermon; in the second, that
he did not know how to read it well;
and in the third place, that it was not
worth reading. Ha-
A man In Boone County, Iowa, grew
weary of his WlIe's absence on Il visit to
her mother-n-law, and hurried her re-
turn by haVinga photograph OF his house
taken with himself anu neignbJ bJr's
wife standing on the porch. This he
sent to his better hall, and she returned
by the first train. -- ....-.-..,
Dom Pedro's call on the Emperor OF
Germany was purely Informal. LII took
place at A. Nj. William just had time
TO poke his head out OIL the widow, was
mistaken by Dom Pedro tor the COOK,
wAom he tod To give mis- respects TO his
master, and then uarted oil 10 catch the
5:15 train. 81 @''f Pc.
"Steam is great thing" remarked
traveller in railroad Car TO his Uis q us.
$50 it is" was the reply; 81 owe my
fortune to it," "Monsleur is manager
Of company" sNo." "An engineer,
pernaps? mo, have lost a number
of relatives by railroad accidents."
In suburban school a teacher gave
out the word "psalter" to class in
spelling. 1t was "poser to all till it
reached the foot of the class, when "a
curly-leaded little fellow spelled it COR
rectlv, and on being asked 10 define it,
shouted ont "More salt"
81 have the reputation" said silly
fop to a bright young lady, "of having
the softest lips that ever pressed those
of beauty" "Indeedp exclaimed the
young lady, spontaneously adding,
Then as like as two chips are your
head and your lips"
A California paper says pork-packers
in the East are sending to that coast a
"new wrinkle" in smoked meat-small
pigs being cured entire, so that the pur-
aha q T. obtains from Tire same mack avat