The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15
CURRENT CURIOSITIES.

o"iAh6 WHICH NC WOulu leap ulSn III the
air and then writhe in agony. While a
policeman went in search of weapon
to kill the animal and end his misery
the dog jumped into the pond, in spite
OF his evident aversion to the water,
walked twenty or thirty feet from the
bank toward the middle, and there de-
iberately drowned himself.
CRAZY WOMAN CURED BY A LIGHTNING
STROKE.
from the Waterbury (Ct) Americana
Last week the house of James Buck
ingham, in Milford, was struck by
lightning and was somewhat damaged.
The most remarkable circumstance in
connection with it is that Mrs. Buck
ingham, who has been deranged for
several years, had her reason complete
ly restored by the shock, thus showing
the benefits of electricity as remedial
agent in such cases. Mr.. Buckingham
says he would not have cared had his
house been burned, so long as his wife's
health was restored.
MONSTER sALMoN-TRoUT.
from the Troy On. " Times.l
Trojan sportsmen claim the honor of
having captured the largest representa-
tive of the finny tribe ever taken from
any of the Northern lakes, and that the
honor is accorded them in a recently
published work ON the Adirondacks.
The fish was salmon-trout, was taken
from Round pend, on the north branch
of the Saranac, by the late Carrot
Quackenbush and party, and weighed
fifty-two pounds and a fraction. The
head of the fish alone weighed over
eight pounds. The monster was seen
after its capture by many reputable
residents of the Adirondacks, who fully
substantiate this statement. The fish
was caught while trolling. The above
capture was made in 1868 or 1854.
BUTTON CARRIED IN THE EAR FOR
YEARS.
tFrom the Bridgeport (Ct) Standard
A young lady living in town few
miles from Bridgeport got shirt bat
ton into her ear while child, and, all
efforts to extract it proving unavailing
at the time, it was allowed to remain.
Since then she has been subject to ter
rible attacks of headache, which caused
her severe suffering. She has Old sew
eral occasions felt large lump in her
ear, but, as she could not get it out, she
thought no more about it, till one day
it fell upon the floor. An examination
showed that it was the shirt button
which had been ia her ear since child
hood, and it was incased in wax. Since
the button was removed her attacks of
headache have disappeared.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF DRoPsY.
From the Little Rock ARK } Gazette.l
Mr.. John r. Walker, of the drug firm
of Cook & Walker, is dead, having rem
dered unto the earth the body that is
the earth's, and unto God the soul that
is Gods, late night before last. Mr..
Walkers sufferings were almost unpar-
alleled. About four years ago he was
seized with that terrible disease, dropsy.
1t soon became necessary to tap him,
after which he partially regained his
health. But the hand of the disease
that had grappled him still remained,
and, after time, he was again stricken
down, when it again became necessary
to tap him. Since then he has been
tapped sixty-three times. One hundred
gallons of water, aggregating from these
tappings, were drawn from his body.
But even this temporary relief failed to
be produced by tapping, and a week ago
last Friday, while behind the counter at
his store, he sank to the floor, never to
rise again.
HOW SNAKE CURED ANOTHER SNAKE.
Norfolk ya) Cor. Philadelphia Times.l
The presiding elder of the Muir
freesboro district of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, which in
cludes about dozen counties in the
tells the following remarkable snake
story, upon the authority of one of the
pious itinerants under his ecclesiastical
direction. There can be no doubt of its
| entire truth, strange as the narrative is,
and it suggests the existence of many a
mystery in the economy of the lower
orders of creation that has thus far
eluded the most minute and searching
scientific investigation. When the min
lister was boy he went out one day
with his bow and arrows and loitered
leisurely along the roadside, testing his
craftsmanship upon various objects.
Coming to where a shallow brook,
called in the South branch,
crossed the highway, he observed
snake of the deadly species
known as the moccasin, basking in the
sunlight. He shot all his arrows at the
formidable reptile, wounding him in
several places, and repeated the pastime
till the snake wac, to all appearance,
dead. Seeing party of colored per-
sons approaching at distance, the boy
took the wounded snake in his hands
and laid him in coil in the middle of
the path, and then hid himself in the
bushes to see what the negroes would
do when they came to the spot. In
few moments another snake of the same
kind glided out from the thicket and
went up to his wounded fellow and ex-
amined him. Then, darting back into
the covert, he returned with some
leaves in his mouth, pieces of which be
placed carefully upon the wounds, max
ing them adhere like plasters. The APP
parently-dead snake Immediately began
to revive, and soon recovered his power
of locomotion and crawled away into
the woods. Have snakes doctors?
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