The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-11-03

WIT GLANCE THROUGH THE NEwSPAFhSe
REVEALS.


xrxz oLAxcE THROUGH THE NEwSPAfhR'
REVEALS.
Aewister in the CINCINNATI Coanaere'o'
saws. II one wishes to verify Ine s's 'i ~
thaf truth Is stranger than ncuon, ~
needs hut 10 carefully examine inc ss.'es W
daily newspapers for few days. nc nlay
select almost any topic, and IN q snort ,i,ilc
he wiz be able TO make collection o. 10
cIdenfs bearing upon It that VIII prove 20
hc bo,k curious and interesting. TO Illus
fra1e this fact, take the various ways IN
which certain persons have Dceh klile1 On
injured during the past year, as descIlDeu
in our columns and In exchanges.
During the flood last April steainDo'u
ran against the balcony OF q house at hil l
sas CitS, Mo-, and crushed to DEAN 2 hTsl,
who was sitting upon II. James Lilue, ~
Canton. Ohio, drank some cola De.I' wn.os
parakxpd his stomach, resulting III "in,Vs'
immediate death. Two young men IN A S'i.,
county, Mo-, agreed TO be photogral,rrs,u
with pissos drawn on each OMIT Ine
artist, while arranging the posii,o'l Vi os0
of fhe pistols, accidentally uiseiiaiEeu a.. ~,
.nd the hall entered the lungs OK one OF the
sittcrs. shomas }. wharton, OF ot' heuis,
sook mn a large oyster and said, "This Is
tbc Kind 81 oyster Walter Brooks chokod
10 death ON tried to swallow 1t, and
cloi,cd 70 death. Mike MarOney en-
tered a eore-Ovcn In foundry ~
pittsburgh to warm himself. Another
workman, net knowing that Maroney was
inside the oven, placed a core on the truck,
ran II in. closcd the door, and roasted him
alive. John Thompson and his brother
fried 10 stop 9, dog-fght at Green Ridge,
Penn, the latter throwing q stone, WhieH,
missing the animals, smashed ms pI0ther
Johns skull. John Lafuhuski, OF Manu-"
coke, Penn, brake bottle OF whiskey III
his pocket, satIwating his clothes. lie soon
afterward lii mitch, when his clothes took
fire and he was fatally burned. While on
parade NJ West Point, Lieutenant Archl-
laid Gibson was prevented Tor a Whoie
hour from lifting his hand 10 remove y
spidcr from his ear. AT the conclusion Oh
the parade his ear was Iuli OF blood INC
insect was not removed for TWO days, ana
Gibson finally died OF Inflammation oil the
brain.
4 sherlf's posse surrounded the resi-
idence Of n desperate thief at Pine Bun,
Ark. The thief jumped from WINDOW
and ran for the woods, with crowd after
him, the feeteSt OF whom, being mistaken
by the next feetcst for the thieI, was shot
by him. As the Rev. Mr. Petrey, OF Rock
Castle, KY, was entering his home he was
followed by n hen, which perched upon
hanging rifle; the rifle, being iostied out OF
position, fell, striking on the lock, and was
discharged. killing the minister. A boy
named Boart. at Dover Court, England,
while eating some preserves, swallowed the
sting Of 4 wasp and died before he reached
the doctors. Louis Galthwait was lowering
q forty-quart torpedo Of nitrO-glyccrlne into
a well at Rixford, Penn, when the well
made a sudden floW, struck the torpedo,
and it exploded, blowing him to pieces. a
chimney-swallow filed the muzzle Of the
gun OF Mr.. William Suggs, OF Dublin, Ga,
with clay, and when he discharged 1t the
weapon blew off his hand. A friend Of
lieutenant w. \. Moore, Of Creedmoor,
snapped a cherry-pit at him, which struck
the optic nerve OF his eye, causing paralysis
and congestion of the brain, and he mar
rowly escaped death. An old man at Louis
willie aimed kick at his wife, but lost his
balance, fell. and was fatally iniured-a les
son 20 wiic-beatcrs. Were a novelist to
present such an array OF accidents as hap
pening to his characters he would be laugh
ed at, and yet every one Of them actually
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