The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-25
Queer Happenings.


Queer happenings.
A Bucks county, Pennsylvania, man
has just ended a lawsuit of fort ioriv two, two
years standing, aud recovered six cents
damagee.
There 10 young mother in Portland,
Oregon. whose age is but twelve, weight
eighty five, yet her infant son weighed
nine pounds at its birth.
large bird at Keokuk, Iowa, darled
swiftly downward in its fight and strik.
ing iightning-rod, the iron run through
its body, and it remained impaled, fl1t-
tering and struggling, urtil death came.
who is enjoying her fifth husband, lost
her. FIRST two by hanging through yigi.
lance committees, third was sent to the
penitentiary and tho fourth committed
suicide.
AS Jard Dingman was shaking 81 500
in gold under the nose of o steam tug
owner in the Detroit river, endeavorine
to tempt him to take that amount fer
his boat, the tug struck steamer and
the glittering gold was the property of
tho fishes.
y Wisconsin COW with n persistent
cough that bafiled the skill Of q ycteri.
nary surgeon to cure died, and upon
opening her windpipe to discover the
cause of the irritation there was found
in .!,e upper par! ef the lung live "trip
ed frog of ordinary size.
Eleven children at four birtbs was tho
feat Of Mrs. Scanned Hckson, of Sham.
roch, Mo. First birth, three; second
and third. two each, aud at tho last in.
tercsting occasion there were four, all the
latter boipg alive and doing we'll. Ten
out of eleven are alive.
An eTent probably without precedent
in railvsy animals has just happened ut
Proyins. A passenger tra;n leaving
Paris at 800 p. IN. arrived safely at its
destination, hut on getting down to let
the passengers out OF the cars the guard
was astounded to find neither passengers
nor passenger cars. They had forgotten
to hook the care on at Paris.
While riding horseback john Eller, OF
Alden, Iowa, saw coming from the sky a
| ball of fire, apparently about the size OF
-four barrel. He was paralyzed. with
fear, and paw tho globe strike the head
Of the animal io rode, when lie tainted
Upon coming to his senses he found that
| the horse was dead, the head of the aui.
NAL being scared as if by red.hot iron
The qneerest companions for n man
are those of an old man in New Orleans,
He ha- 4 mania for spiders, and in his
rooms are more than 900 of every shape
and color. The ceilings are hidden BY
the webbs that they have spun. Occa.
sionally the old man throws handful OF
flies into the webs, and isgreatly delight
ed at seeing the spiders seize their strug-
Cling victims.
An aged and wealthy Milwaukee wild
over found wife by q queer method.
In coffee grinding mill in Chicago a
female packer placed in several boundles
Of coffee n card saying that any gentle
man matrimoniaily inclined might ad-
dress her. This widower found the
card while preparing his lonely break
fast after quarrel with his housekesper
and now the Chicago girls is Mrs. -.
An Italian fisherman recently discov-
ed petrified woman at Cascade Lake,
Nev. He was going ont 10 fish, and
when pushing off his boat, struck his oar
against something which attracted his
attention. Upon investigation a petri-
fled hand protruded from the sand on the
beach. In short time he had unearth-
ed g woman in complete state Of petri.
fication. 1t was small in size, brown in
color, scrawny and emaciated.
About midnight, just after the acci.
dent in the Consolidated Imperial Mine
Nevada, the wife Of Matthew Winnie
was found on her way to the works. She
said she had been awakened just before
by her husband, who came ali mangieG
to her and told her he had been killed in
tie mine. She got up, dressed hersel
and started to ascertain the truth oi
That she was only too well convinced
was true. There had in reality been {
fearful accident; Mr.. Winnie was indeed
killed, and the trembling woman went
back to her children and her desolate
home.
As Iehn =. Coyaer, G E::.ac. .os;i::.;
near Palestine, Ind, was watering nnt
COWS at pump trough, recently, they
made stampede down the lano as fasl
as their legs would carry taem. Th,
cause of this sudden freak wac myster,
TO the hired man, but it WIS not Ions
before he gee let into what appeared t.
be the secret of the stampede. Sudden
", although the sky was clear and tn,
atmosphere clsS-. a young cyclone, moi
over i~outy feet in breadth, darted dow.
from tho sky, and, striking the eartt
near, the pump, twisted of five larg
peach trees as though th'y were weeds
In Lincoln county, New, SSere is
spring Of ice.cod water that bubbles u,
over rock and disappears on the othe
side, ,oand no one has beeo able to fint
where the water goes. At another poin
In the same county in large spring
about twenty feet square, that is appa
rently only some eighteen inches deep
with g sandy bottom. The sand can b
plainly seen, but on looking cin&er it il
perceived that this sand ia in perpetua
state OF unrest, and no bottom has eve
been found. 1t is said that n teamster, oil
reaching this spring one day, deceive,
by its apparent shallowness, concluded t
soak one of his wagon wheels to cure tn
fooseness Of its tire. He took it off an,
rolled It into the. as he thought, shallo,
water. he never laid his eyes on tha
wagon wheel again.
a WORLD OF GooD.-One of the n1os
popular medicines now before she Amer
ican public is Hop Bitters. You see /
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