The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-12-31
QUEER HAPPENINGS.
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paniuns--A I'etrffed svomsu

Cows as n Storm Geuu s--spidcrs for Conn
panions--A retrifled Woman.
There is young mother in Portland,
Oregon, whose age is but twelve weight
eighty-five, yet her infant son weighed
nine pounds at its birth.
A large bird at Keokuk, Iowa, darted
swiftly downward in its fight, and
striking lightning rod, the iron ruiz
through its body, and it remained i'm
palcd, futtering and struggling, until
death came.
A woman in Marshall county, Kansas,
who is enjoying her fifth husband, lost
her first two by hanging through vigi.
lance committees, third was sent to
the penitentiary, and the fourth com
niitted suicide.
As Jared Dingman was shaking 81 800
in gold under the nose of steam tug
owner in the Detroit river, endeavoring
to tempt him to take that amount for
his boat, the tug struck steamer and
the glittering gold was the property OF
the fishes.
A Wisconsin COW with persistent
cough that bafllod the skill # q veterin-
airy surgeon to cure died, and upon
opening her windpipe to discover the
cause of the irritation there was found
In the upper part of the lung live
striped frog of ordinary size.
Eleven children at four births was
the feat of Mrs. Scanned Hickson, OF
Shamrock, Mo. First birth, three;
second and third, two each, and OF the
last interesting occasion there were
four, all the latter being alive and do
ing we'll. Ten out of the eleven are
alive.
In Richmond, Va, On old colored
woman has been going to the depot
daily for many years to meet the incom.
ing trains, looking for letter contain
washing for soldier, and when he went
away he declared that he would return
and bring the money or send it in a
letter.
While riding horseback, John Eller,
of Alden, Iowa, saw coming from the
sky ball of fire, apparently about the
size of flour barrel. He was paralyzed
with fear, and saw the globe strike the
head of the animal he rode, when he
tainted. Upon coming to his senses he
found that the horse was dead, the head
of the animal being scared as if by a
red-hot iron.
The queerest companions for o man
are shose of an old man in New Orleans.
He has q mania for spiders, and in his
rooms are more than 500 of every shape
and color. The ceilings ale hidden by
the webs that they have spun. Occa-
sionally the old man throws handful OF
flies into the webs, and is greatly de-
lighted at seeing the spiders seize their
struggling victims.
An aged and wealthy Milwaukee
widower found wife by queer method.
In. coff'ee-grinding mill in Chicago q
female packer placed in several bundles
of coffee card saying that any gentle
man matrimonially inclined might adj
dress her. This widower found the card
while preparing his lonely breakfast
after quarrel with his housckeeper, and
now the Chicago girl is Mrs. -.
An italian fisherman recently dis
covered petrifed woman at Cascade
lake, Nevada. He was going out to
fish, and when pushing off his boat,
struck his oar against something which
attracted his attention. Upon investi.
cation petrified head protruded from
the sand on the beach. In short time
he had unearthed woman i'll COM
plete state of rctrifcation. 1t was
small in size, brown in color, scrawny
and einaciated.
Near the camp of the workmen on the
new toll road near Yankee Forks, New,
quite curiosity was recently found. /
was a mountain rams head deeply i'm
bedded III pine tree, and about SIX
feet from the ground. Tho right horn
is outside, and curls partly around the
tree, while the front of the skull and
most OF the left horn is covered with the
growth of wood. The tree is n thrifty
pine, fifteen inches through. How thai
rams head came there will always be O
mystery to scientists.
About midnight, inst after an acct
dent in the Consolated Imperial mine
Nevada, the wife of Matthew Winnie
was found on her way to tho works
She said she had been awakened JUS
#, before by her husband, who came al
mangled to her and told her he had beer
killed in the mine. She got up, dressed
herself, and started to ascertain tn,
truth of what she was only too we'll con
vinced was true. There had in reality
been fearful accident; Mr.. Winnie wa
indeed killed, and the trembling woman
went back to her children nd her desc
late home.
As John B. Coyner, farmer res;iin,
near Palestine, Ind, was watering min,
cows at pump trough, recently, the.
made stampede down the lane as fas
as their legs would carry them. Thu
cause of this sudden freak was myster,
to tho hired man, but it was not loni
before he was let into what appeared II
be the secret of the stampede. Sud
denly, although the sky was clear an'
the atmosphere still, young cyclone
not over twenty feet in breadth, darte'
down from the sky, and, striking tn
earth near the pump, twisted off fiv
large beech trees as though they wcr
weeds.