The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-05-02

SOME SINGULAR OCCUkkENCESs
"A young lady in Hartford, o.,
has been badly poisoned by the aniline
dye in new blue veil that she wore.
: "A human goose, named O'Donnell.
of Madison, Ind, lately accomplished
the cannibalistic feat OF eating twenty
four boiled goose eggs inside of thirty
minutes.
An Ohio farmer was lately annoyed
by the inroads of sheep upon his grain
field, and raised the height of his fence.
A ram was the only one of the flock that
could then leap it, but he enabled his
companions to do 80 by placing himself
alongside and offering his back for
them to jump on before clearing it.
In the little village of Brandon,
State of Texas. there now dwells James
Is. Brandon, a man of means and fan
cier of pet pups. Some time ago Mr.
Brandon observed that the smallest of
his small dogs had become the butt of
his fellows of the kennel, so the little
one was given bed in the chicken
house. When a month had passed it
was noticed that the banished dog would
not bark any more, but evinced desire
to crow. A week later the dog actually
did crow, and now joins the chanticleer
chorus every morning. His crow is
perfect imitation of that of a full-spurred
rooster.
The Harrisburg Patriot states that
when the remains of Mr.. Benjamin
Singerly, formerly State Printer of
Pennsylvania, were disinterred at Pitts
burgh, short time ago, for the pur-
pose of removal to Philadelphia, they
were found to have undergone petrif-
cation. The entire face and form
seemed as if chiseled in marble, every
feature and ineament being as perfect
as in life. Mr.. Singerly weighed at the
time of his death, some two years ago,
nearly 400 pounds, but the petrified
corpse weighed $50 pounds, and block
and tackle were found necessary to
raise it from the grave.
The singular prick of pin is thus
related by the Pittsburgh Post: Mrs.
John Weber, wife of South Side grocer,
is lying at the point of death. The lady
had q little sore on her left hand, and
two or three weeks ago pricked the sore
purposely with the point of pin. Soon
afterward the sore became still more in
famed; the hand began to swell, then
the swelling entered the arm, and final
ly extended to the shoulder and body.
Mrs. Weber is stout, large woman and
had been the very picture of health.
The attending physician at one time
LOT of h.
but desisted. Mrs. Weber is in feeble
condition, and not expected to live.
More than a score of years ago two
young men, sitting on rock in the
gold fields of California, shook hands
and swore to be partners in business. No
articles of co-partnership were signed.
The verbal contract was between Dom
mick and Martin O'Mally, brothers.
Neyt day Martin started for Australia,
Dominick remaining in California.
Several years passed. Martin settled at
Westport, six miles north of Madison,
Wis. A year later he was joined by
Dominick. Each had kept a firm ac-
count and drawn the wages agreed
upon, paying himself from the firms
funds in his own pocket. The firms
earnings were invested in 800 acres of
Westport land. Martin married. The
firm kept right on. Dominick lost an
arm. He was sent to Paris, at the firms
expense, for wooden one. Dominick
married. A household of children
were born to both. Dominick went to
the Legislature. The children grew up
to be pretty big little ones. Last week
the brothers saw that complications
might arise unless the property should
be divided before their death, and the
partnership was dissolved. The vast
estate was divided in O few hours with
out growl.
"A singular accident lately occurred
at Sharpsburg, Nd, during the
progress of an immersion of convicts in
the Potomac river, at that place. The
crowd that had gathered to witness the
ceremony comprised several hundred
persons, and large number of them
climbed upon several canal boats lying
at the waters edge to gain good view
of the dimensions. Just as the cere-
monies were about to begin, the matches
of one canal boat gave way, precipitat-
ing nearly forty persons into the hold.
The excitement for time was very
great, and the cries and groans of those
injured could be heard for a long dist
ance. The ceremonies of immersion
were interrupted, and all attention was
devoted to the relief of those who had |
suffered by the accident. Of the forty
persons who fell into the hold of the
boat all received injuries more or less
severe, and, by trampling upon each
other, internal injuries were sustained |
by some which NAV prove fatal.