Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

The SAaster or Hindoo Bible, for.
bids woman to see dancing, hear mu.
sic, wear jewels, blacken her eyebrows,
eat dainty food, sit at window, or view
herself at a mirror, during the absence
of her husband; and it allows him to di.
vorcc her if she has no sons, INJURIES his
property, scolds him, quarrels with an.
other woman, or presumes to eat before
he has finished his meal. 7oit ,-..it
Near the village of Dubno, province
of Vladimir, Russia, a number of dogs
attacked woman and tore her to pieces.
A peasant; who happened to see tho
woman struggling with the infuTiated
dogs, and who tried to save her, was
nearly killed himself. He was rescued
by the combined efforts of seven peas
ants. These dogs belong to rich man
who takes a barbaric pleasure In keep
ing the peasants in dread Of them. q.
There is in Hart County. KY,
what Is known as the 8 Sun-down
Spring." 1t is said that the water Of
this spring flows necessarily during the
day in a stream the size of a man 8 arm.
but as the sun nears the western horizon
it grows perceptibly less, making a pe-
culiar sound, heard at q distance OF
fifty feet, and then, just TO the, minute
the sun sets, stops running. This phe-
nomenon occurs daily. "a ''s'
A convict escaped from an Alabama
prison with q ball and chain attached TO
one leg. He carried the irons in his
arms until he came to river, when he
sat down to file them off. His pursucrs
came up, and he was compelled to
choose between surrender and the for.
lorn hope of swimming the stream with
the weight. He decided upon the latter
and plunged into the water. Although
he was powerful swimmer, and had =
plank to buoy him, he was drowned.
-"Old Alexander better known
throughout the New England States ~
the, :. Wandering Jew, y has been thrown
into Middlebury Jail for attempting to
fire the house of the TOwn-farm Master
in Cornwall, where he was kept as ,
town charge. He is Scotchman. aged
eighty-three, and a graduate of sEdin-
burgh University, with q fine education
and a retentive memory. For over fifty
five years he has tramped about, ap-
pearing once a year in Vermont, and
disappearing as suddenly rs he came.
and he has been mystery to all. jHo
is over six feet tall and has . voice
which, when he is displeased, sounds
like the roar of lion.
Jasper James Cargill, student in
the California College, at Mendocino.
made a heavy wager that he could walk
and run 600 miles in six days. He be-
lieved that the plan usually adopted by
pedestrians, that of doing their utmost
during the first twenty -four hours. was .
mistake, because it brought about ex-
haustion at the beginning of the journey.
His time table was for an even hundred
miles every day. He proved wonder
full walker, and apparently demonstrated
the soundness of his theory. On each
of the first four days he covered exactly
100 miles, in an average of twenty
hours. On the fifth day, however, he
fell ill, and was compelled to stop. He
intends to repeat the experiment.
Fifty wears ago Commodore Patter-
son, commander of the naval forces OF
the United States in Louisiana, led an
expedition against Jean iLafitte. the
Chief of Barataria Island, attacked tho
500 men found there and captured the
seven small vessels which were drawn
up in miniature battle array. 1t has
been thought in New Orleans that La
fitte was freebooter and pirate, and
many sensational stories of his advent
ures have been published. The Pea
ys.ne has discovered among the dusty
records of the United States District
Court an account of the libel proceed
ings brought by Daniel 7. Patterson
and George T. Ross, the commanders
of the naval and military forces OF the
United States, containing evidence that
Lafitte made his captures under the
Carthagenian flag and was in communi.
cation with Carthagenia.