The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-09
More Curiou Occurrences, Good
Luck and Bad.

A priest of Puchkirken, in Styrla, who
had a careless habit of leaving his pens IN
the ink stand point upward, pr,cked him-
self in the palm of the hand and died at
ter eight weeks OF agony from blood
poisoning. Mrs. Mary Ferguson, OF
Brooklyn, was killed in three days ny i
prick from a PIN IN the finger. \ schoo!
girl at Franklin, Ind, fell and put Out
her eye with the slate-pencil she was car
rying; Mary Rolla, of Lincoln, ILL.,, fell
and drove the stem OF the to~bacco-plpe
she was smoking through her tongue.
Both accidents belong to a most numer.
Gus and fatal class. A Cincinnati inebrl~
ate puts his open penkniie into his peck.
ct and, falling, received a fatal wound
which he insisted had been given him by
an enemy. Mrs. Crowley was caught up
in the streets Of Paterson by a passing 10
connective and carried thirty miles on the
cow-catcher without receiving serious IN
jury, ard Mr.. J. B. Hays, "a trackwalker
was struck by a train running torty-fve
miles an hour without being hurt. Ii
Philomena Lang, of Chicago, had not e n
deavored to pull her dog away FROM III
front OF an approaching locomotive she
would not have been killed. At Niblos
Garden, Samuel Nixon, one Of the sol
diers in michael Strogoff,'' was shot
twice in the leg, the audience applauding
his realistic writhing at indianapolis.
Albert Mathey selected the monent at
which a annon was discharged in ''Ihe
World" to peep under the door, receiv
ing the blank cartridge in the face. At
Kingston, n. Y, Master Shoot, aged
eight, attempting to produce an imita-
ton of ''Zazel s. mortar act with a fire
cracker and a chair, threw himself back
ward out Of a third story window, and
at Harrisburg, Pa. a seven-year-old boy,
playing circus, stood on his mead till he
brought on a fatal attack of brain-fever.
Mr.. Rhea, of Norfolk, Va, fell dead
while romping with a large of
children on the sand, and the little ones.
thinking the tit a part of the game, en-
joyed it greatly. DR.. Rudisill. of For
syth, Ca, bowled himself over while
playing ten-pins and broke his leg. A
bee flew into the mouth of Nh. Van Me
of Oroville, New, and stung him so
that the throat closed up, ard ne died
instantly. AT Markham, in England. an
owl whipped three boys who had taken
young, binding one for life. In one
street IN London two children were killed
by g~amecocks within "A month. As a
michigan youth was leading a borse by
the halter the animal leaped suddenly to
one side and the jerk broke the BOYS
neck. In the Liverpool w~orkhouse. Ell
Zen Colman, aged lO4, died Of swallow
ING a pinch of snuff. Mrs. Halves, Of
Leicester, while caughing, swallowed
of her false teeth, and was strangled
accident Thomas Clarke.
'f Wakefield, Eng, while attempting to
pun a dart armed with a needle THROUGH
. tuoe, sucked into his winpipe and died.
At Ntstheld, Tex, james Worsewerth.
by a terrible storm in an open
held, was pelted TO death by hallstones
cincinnati clerk. while removing an
article from the shop window with a
BRASS rod, touched an electric-lioht wire
was hurled through the plate-glass
upon the sidewalk. Jacob Bohrer.
l brewery hand in Morrisania. turned i
'tream OF compressed air into a hogshead
beer and the barrel exploded. killing
I'm. \ woman of Wooler, N%orthum-
)'riand, carrying home a facot bv a
strap passed rounL her head, leaned the
against a fence to rest herself
1t slipped over aud the strap .tran'
yea her-a common accident .Jula
'oei, of Ennis, Tex. tried to crawl into
he locked house through a window
the sash fell on her neck and she
vas ~strangled. Mr.. Terrill. Monroe \
y, while fencing his child's grave. trim.
PED and fell upon it, breaking his meek
IN the rail he was carrying. Mrs. Sni
OF Wellsville. Pa, caught her foot
a ragged oil-cloth, AMI, pitching head.
onS upoB the stove, broke her necL
)eacon Ellis, of Rumford, r. +. cut his
land while opening a bottle OF cemmnn-
VINE IN church, the wound brinoino
N lockJaw. At Troy a young man sci
ire to his eyeglasses, which were framed
q ceiluloid, and finally, at Plainfeld n
-, a fireman had the side IF bis hoo