The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-09-27
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

"A deserted baby in Buffalo had pc
culiar nose. A detective learned that the
parents lived in Simcoe, Canada, but he
did not know their names. He went to
Simcoe and hunted for somebody with q
nose like the baby's. At length he met a
man in the street whose nose was of that
kind, and who proved to be the baby's
father. 34A
"A Georgia paper says: "a young
man, who offered to substantiate his story
by trustworthy witnesses, told the follow
ing in our hearing the other day: He cut
down large tree-oak, we believe-to
saw up into plow-stocks. In splitting the
timber, after saving to proper length,
there was found imbedded somewhere
near the heart of the tIee-which was
about two and half feet through
large scorpion, of the blunt-tailed, red
headed variety, so often seen in the
woods. In size, the scorpion was as large
as the fore fngcr of a good sized mans
hand, and as soon as the timber was split
from around it the scorpion jumped off as
spry as cricket. Notwithstanding the fact
that, according to the grain of the wood,
it had been imprisoned in the timber for
upward of eighteen years, and had eaten
out place downward several inches in the
middle of the tree. In the language Of
the narrator, he was as fat as buck
and had good use of all of his faculties"
The case of Mrs. Angeline Smith, of
Marlboro, Mass, is an interesting one for
surgeons. In 1874 her nephew assaulted
her with an ak, crushing in her skull and
terribly decorating her scalp. Her death
was deemed certain, but she is still alive.
The scalp wound was drawn together by
ligatures over the broken skull, but it did
not heal. Pieces of exfoliated bone which
had been shattered by the blows were con-
stantly working out, leaving the brain ex-
posed so that its pulsations could be plain
ly seen. and there was a constant suppur-
alton directly on the brain which it was
supposed must produce death within
very short time. To-day, however, Mrs.
Smith is as hearty, robust and able bodied
q woman in appearance as any in the
town. Still she has gaping wound on
her head. The exfoliati0n Of bone goes
on continually, and the suppuration never
ceases; but this does not prevent her from
keeping house, doing her own work, and
getting time to do pretty good business
at her trade Of sewing bonnets.-N. Y.
Post
There is curious case at Rockport,
says the Boston Globe, of the singular at
tachment sometimes instituted between
man and the lower animals. A Mr.. Hale
has been for long time accustomed to
throw some bite of food for some cells in
little brook that runs along the back of
his lot. Latterly he observed that they
seemed to be waiting for his visit, and
with little training they were induced to
eat food directly from his hand. Then
they learned to play and fOndle about his
fingers, held in the water, and enjoyed his
caressea. More recently the largest one Of
the four, huge fellow, over two feet long
and very large around, allows Mr.. II. to
take him entirely out Of the water, slide
him about freely from hand to hand, ap-
parently enjoying the novel gymnastics.
When Mr.. h. goes to the brook he calls
them with peculiar whistle, and they
soon come rushing down stream. Not
long ago he brought them his usual lunch
VI tish and mackerel, when only the large
one came. The eel waited few mo-
ments, then turned down stream and soon
came back. bringing his tsrdy family to
supper. This shows there is no tolch Of
lhe human in them. for sny ordinary bioed
boardor would have pitched in without
waiting and cleared The table.