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 forty.two
years standing, and recovered six cents
damages.
There is young mother in Portland,
Oregon, whose age is but twelve, weight
eighty.tive, yet her infant son weighed
nine pounds at its birth.
A large bird at Keokuk, Iowa, darled
swiftly downward in its fight and strik-
ing a lghtning-rod, the iron run through
its body, and it remained impaled, fut-
tering 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, a third was sent to the
penitentiary and the fourth committed
suicide.
As lard Dingman vas shaking 81 500
in gold under the nose of steam tug
owner in the Detroit river, endeavoring
to tempt hius 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 bafled the skill of veteri.
nary 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 strip.
ed frog of ordinary size.
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feat of Mrs. Scanned Hickson, of Sham
roch, Mo. First birth, three; second
and third, two each, and at the last in
tercsting occasion there were four, all the
latter being alive and doing we'll. Ten
out of eleven are alive.
An event probably without precedent
in railway animals has just happened at
Provins. A passenger train leaving
Paris at $50 P. m. 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 had forgotten
to hook the cars 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
flour barrel. He was paralyzed, with
fear, and aaw tho 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 ami
NAL being scared as if by red-hot iron.
The quecrest companions for man
are those of an old man in New Orleans.
He has mania for spiders, and in bis
rooms are more than 500 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 q wife by queer method.
In coffee grinding mill in Chicago a
female packer placed in several boundles
of coffee card saying that any gentle
man matrimonially inclined might ad-
dress her. This widower found the
card while preparing his lonely break
fast after quarrel with his housekeeper
and now the Chicago girls is Mrs.
An Italian fisherman recently discov.
ed petrified woman at Cascade Lake,
New. He was going out to fish, and
when pushing of his boat, struck his oar
against something which attracted bis
attention. Upon investigation a petri-
fed hand protruded from the sand on the
beach. In short time he had unearth-
ed woman in complete state of petri'
fcation. 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 all mangled
to her and told her lie had been killed in
the mine. She got up, dressed herself
and started to ascertain the truth Of
what she was only too we'll convinced
was true. There had in reality been 9
fearful accident; Mr.. Winnie was indeed
killed, and the trembling woman went
back to her children and her desolate
home.
AS John B. Coyner, farmer residing
near Palestine, Ind, was watering nine
COWS at pump trough, recently, they
made stampede down the lane as fast
rs their legs would carry them. The
cause of this sudden freak vas mystery
to the hired man, but it was not long
before he was let into what appeared tt
be the secret of the stampede. Sudden
ly. although the sky was clear and the
atmosphere clear, q young cyclone. not
over twenty feet in breadth, darted dowr
from the sky, and, striking the earth
near the pump, twisted off five large
peach trees as though they we're weeds
In Lincoln county, New, there is q
spring of ice.cold water that bubbles VI
over rock and disappears on the othe
side, land no one has beeo able to fine
where the water goes. At another poin
in the same county in o large spring
about twenty feet square, that is appa'
rently only some eighteen inches deep
with sandy bottom. The sand can b.
plainly seen, but on looking closer it j:
perceived that this sand is in a perpetual
state of unrest, aud no bottom has cyeI
been found. 1t is said that teanster, OF
reaching this spring one day, deceived
by its apparent shallowness, concluded tt
soak one of his wagon wheels to cure th'
looseness of its tire. He took it of ant
rolled It into the, as he thought, shallow
water. Hc never laid his eyes on tina
wagon wheel again.
A WORLD OF GooD.-One of the mos
popular medicines now before the Amer
ican public is Hop Btters. You see i
everywhere. People take it with gool