The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-11-25

A Bucks county. Pennsy lvsnia, man
has just enfed q lawsuit of forty-tvo
years stAnGius. and recovered six cents
damages.
There is young mother in Portland =,
Oregon. whose age Is bat IL, weight
81. vet her infant son weighed Lis Q
pounds Of its birth
Alsrge bird at Keokuk, Iowa. dart
ed swiftly downward in its fight. aud
striking Q lightning rod. the iron run
through its body. aud il remained i'm .
paled. Anttering and struggling until
death cane.
A woman in Marshall couuty. Kan
s,s. who is enjoying her fifth hasband. L.
lost her fret two by hanging through
vigilance COMMITTEES, n third was sent
TO the peniteutiary. and the fourth
committed suicide.
As Jared Dingmsn was shaking $500
in gold under the nose of . steam tug
owner in the Detroit river. eudeavor-
ing 10 tempt him to take that amount
for his boat. the tug struck steamer
and the glittering gold was the prop
erty of the fishes.
Eleven children at -four births was
the feat of Mrs Scanned Hickson, of
Shamrock, Mo- First birth. three;
second snd third. two each. and at the
last interesting occasion there were
four, all the latter being alive and do
ing well. Ten out Of the eleven are
alive.
An event probably without precedent
in railway annals hse just happened at
ProviDs. A passeagee train lssvfbg
Paris at 500 y. M, arrived safely at it's
destination. bat on getting down to let
the passengers out Of the cars. the guard
was astounded to find neither passen-
gers 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 ball OF fire. apparently about the
size Of flour barrel. He was para
lyzed with fear, and saw the globe
strike the head of the a-imal 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 redhot iron.
The queerest companions for man
are those of an old man :n New Or
leans. lie has a mania for spiders. and
in bis rooms are more than 500 of every
shape and color. The ceilings are hid
den by the webs that they have spun
Occasionally the old man throws q
handful Of flies lnto the webs. and is
greatly delighted at seeing the spiders
seize their struggling victims.
An aged and wealthy Milwaukee wild
over found a wife by queer method.
In a coffee grinding mill in Chicago a
iemale packer placed in several bun
lies of coffee card saying that any
gentleman mstrimonially inclined
night address her. This widower
iound the card while preparing his
onely breakfast after a.quarrel with !
,is housekeeper. and now the Chicago |
girl is Mrs -.
An Italian fisherman recently dis
covered a petrifed woman at Cascade |
lake, Nevada. He was going out to
ish. and when pushing of his boat.
truck his oar against something which
.ttracted his attention. Upon investi-
yation q petriied hand protruded FROM !
he sand on the beach. In short time
10 had unearthed Q woman in CON- |
,le,e state of pe,rificstion. 1t was
mall In size. brown in color, scrawny
md emaciated.
Near the camp OF the workmen on
he new toll road, near Yankee Forks.
ysv.. quite curiosity was rsesutlv |
ound. 1t was mountain ram's head |
leeply imbedded in q pins tree, and |
.bout six feet from the ground. The
light horn is outside, and curls partly |
Iround the tree. while the front of the |
kull and rost of the left horn is COW
red with the growth Of wood. Tire
rec is thrifty pine. fifteen inches
through. How that rams head came
here will always be mystery to
CHEMISTS. ~
About midnight, Just after the acci- |
lent in the Consolidated Imperial
dine. Nevads. the wife Of Matthew
Winnie was found on her way 10 the
works She said she had besu awaken
ID Just before by her husband. who
sme all msngled to her aud told Der
10 had been killed in the mine. She
rot mp, dressed herself. and started to |
,scertain the truth Of What she was
'uly too well convinced was true. There
lad i'm reality been fearful accident;
dr Winnie was indeed killed. and the !
ren,bliug woman went back to her
hildren and her desolate home.f
As John B Coyner. farmer residing !
lsar Palestine. Ind was wstering nine
ows at pump trough. recently. they
made a stampede down the lane ss fast
% their legs would carry them. The /
ause of this sudden freak waa q mys-
err to the hired man, but 10 was not
ong before he was let INTO what ap-
reared to be the secret of the STAN
,ede. Suddenly. although the sky was
.iear and the atmosphere still. young |
.yclone. not over tweaty feet in breadth
iarted down from the sky and striking
he earth near the pump, twisted of
i've large beech trees IS though they I
we're weeds.
In Llncoln county, Nev..- there 10 :
pripg OF ics-cold water that bubbles |
.p over q rock and disappears "a the
,ther side. and no one has been able to
ind where the water goes. Al another
,oint in the same county 10 . large |
,svsn0 ahout fwenty feet souara that /