Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-12-08
Some Queer Thinos.

Some Queer Things.
A grated tree in Holmes county. Miss.
last year bore peaches and this year plums:
Only seven days elapsed after the wed.
ding of man at Dubuque before he elop-
ed with the brides cousin.
Mrs. Mary Austin, of Washington, Ca,
who recently died, had been the mother of
forty-four children. Among her children
were six sets of triplets.
A boy fell from four-story window of
mill in Lewiston Me-, and was caught by
his trousers on high picket fence. He
suffered no apparent injury.
A spring in st. Tammany parish, La.
pours forth clear, cold water all day long,
but at sunset goes suddenly dry ,dischargIng
no water until the sun again rises.
Near the centre of a white oak tree re.
Gently cut in Carter county, KY, stone
weighing over one pound was found The
wood had grown solidly around it.
The seventieth anniversary of the we'd
ding Of MIR. and Mrs. Josiah Herd, of Ben.
nington, VI. has just been celebrated in the
house where they began housekeeping.
They are 81 and 81 years Of age respeo-
lively
fs.ss,E
The Rev. j. p. Jay of Memphis, refused
communion to an excommunicated MEN,
Der OF the church, and the latter attempted
to whip him. THE dominic was equal t,i
the occasion, and the other is in the hos
pital.
A ConneIlsvifle, Pa, sportsman shot a
duck on the river and it was quickly drag
ged beneath the surface OF the water.
George Ellerd trolled a about the spot
the next day and captured pike weighing
twenty two pounds, in whose stomache was
the stolen duck.
On his wedding day, july 10, 1877 Chas.
Emerson of indianapolis, engraved the
date and names Of himself and wife on a
silver half-dollar and spent it in Pittsburg.
In payment to him last week by his en-
ployers ne received back the marked half
dollar.
With only 1,200 population. Union
Springs, n. Y, has eight churches. The
last, now deing built, hasonly one male and
six female nembers. 1t is the result of A
legacy, requiring its erection within a stated
period TO prevent the money from going I'm
another direction.
4 man at Wheatland, California, reonest.
ed the Rev. Mr.. Stro ball to come and pray
with member of his family who was sick:
After the clergyman had accompanied him
short distance the man compelled him, at
the muzzle of pistol, to deliver over fis
watch and chain and the little monet he
had.
The twin daughters of Bishop Andrews
were welded to DR.. Lovett and Judge Mer-
riweather, Of Newton, Ca, but both brides
soon died. The widowerers then married
two more of the Bishops daughters. For
the second time they were bereaved, ard
they have for the third time married sisters.
A family of Madison, Ohio, nineteen
years ago, purchased a paper of pins. When
pin was needed 1t was taken from the ps.
per, and after it had served its purpose was
replaced. If pin was lost general search
was made until it was found. In this way
the one paper of pins has kept the family
supplied for nineteen years.
Here is a story for the temperance ora
tors: A party Of six camped ont in Wis
consin on cold night. After supper two
drank liquor moderately, two freely and
two let it alone. In the morning the two
temperance men arose refreshed, the light
drinkers were stiff with cold and hardly
able to rise, and the two who had drunk
freely were frozen to death.
A letter from Dallas, Texas, SAYS there