River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25
Queer HaDDeningS.

Queer Happenings.
A Bucks County, Pennsylvania, man
has just ended lawsuit of forty-two
years standing, and recovered six cents
damages.
There is young mother in Portland
Oregon. whose age is but -, weight s.,
yet her infant son weighed nine pounds
at its birth
A large bird at Keokuk, Iowa., dart
ed swiftly downward in its flight, and
striking a lightning rod, the iron run
through its body, and it remained im-
paled, fluttering and struggling until
death came
4 woman in Marshall county, Kansas,
who is enjoying her fifth husband, lost
her first two by hanging through vigi-
lence committees, a third was sent to
the penitentary, and the fourth COM
mitted 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.
Eleven children at four births was
the feat of Mrs Scanned Hickson of
Shamrock, Mo. First birth, three;
second and third two each, and at the
last interesting occasion there were
four, all of the latter being alive and
doing well. Ten out ofthe eleven are
alive.
A NV;-o,,,s;,, oo,,, Nth n ,,o,.o;s+ ont
cough that batiied the skill of veter-
mary surgeon to cure, died, and upon
opening her windpipe to discover the
cause of the irratation there was found
in the upper part of the lung a live
striped frog of ordinary size.
In Richmond, Va, an old colored
woman has been going to the depot
for many years to meet the incoming
trains, looking for letter containing
S25. After the war she did the wash
ing for a soldier, and when he went
away he declared that he would return
and bring the money or send it in a
letter.
An event probably without precedent
in railway annals has just happened at
Provins. y passenger train leaving
Paris at $40 2. NJ, arrived safely at its
destination, but on getting down to let
| the passengers out of the cars, the
guard was astounded to find neither
! passengers nor passenger cars. They
! ned forgotten to hook the cars ON at
Paris.
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 paralyz-
ed with fear, and saw the globe strike
the head ofthe 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 il
by red-hot iron.
he queerest companions for man
ar, those ofan old man III New Orleans.
He has mania for spiders, and in his
rooms are lAore than 500 of every
shape and color. The ceilings are
hidden by the webs that they have
spun. Occassionly the old man throws
handful of flies into the webs and Is
greatly delighted at seeing the spiders
seize their struggling victims.
An aged and wealthy Milwaukee
widower found wife by queer
method. In a colfee-grinding mill in
Chicago female packer placed in
several bundles of coffee card saying
that any gentleman matrimonially in
clined might address her This widow
er found the card while preparing his
! lonely breakfast after quarrel with
! his housekeeper, and now the Chicago
girl is Mrs
An Italian fisherman recently dis.
covered petrilied woman in Cascade
Lake, Nevada He was going out &c
fish, and when pushing off his boat
struck his oar against something that
attracted his attention. Upon investi-
CATION a petrified hand protruded from
| the sand on the beach. In a short time
| he had unearthed woman in com
plete state eff petrifaction. 1t was
small in size, brown in color scrawny
and emaciated.
Near the camp of the workmen on
the new toll road, near Yankee Forks
New, quite a curiosity was recently
| found. 1t was mountain rams head
deeply imbedded in pine tree, and
about six feet from the ground. The
right horn is outside and curls partly
about the tree, while the front of the
| skull and most of the left horn is i'm
| bedded in the wood. The tree is a
thrifty pine, fifteen inches through.
How the rams head came there will
always be mystery to scientists.
About midnight just after the acct
dent in the Consolidated Imperial
Mine, Nevada, the wife Of Mathew
Winnie was found on her way to the
works. She said she had been awak-
ened Just before by her husband, who
came all mangled to her and told her
he had been killed in the mine. She
got up dressed herself and started to
ascertain the truth of what she was too
well convinced was true. There had
in reality been fearful accident, Mr..
Winnie had indeed been killed, and the
trembling woman went back to her
children and her desolate home.
As John B. Coyner, farmer resid-
ing near Palestine, was watering nine
cows alta pump trough, recently, they
made a stampede down the lane us
fast us their legs could carry them.
The cause of this sudden freak was a
mystery to the hired man, and it was
not long before he was let into what
appeared to be the secret of the stam-
pede. Suddenly, although the sky
was clear and the atmosphere still, a
young cyclone not over twenty feet in
breadth, darted down from the sky
and striking the earth near the pump,
twisted off five large beech trees as
though they were weeds.
THE IRISH IN AMERICA.