The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-12-16
Odd stories from Nil Around.

4 grated fruit tree In Holmes county,
Miss last year bore peaches AMI ,hls year
p!um-.
Oniy seven days elapsed after the we'd
dlng Of man al Dubuque, before he
clipped win the brides cousia.
Mrs Mary Austin, .! Washington, Ga g,
who recently died, had been tine mother at
forty TOUR children. Among her children
were SIX sets of triples.
\ 10, feil from four-story window M "a
mill IN Lewiston, Me. and was caught hy
ms trousers On nigh picket fence. lie
Suffered no apparent injury.
| A spring in ST. Tammany parish, La,
pours forth clear, cold water all day long,
Dat at sunset goes suddenly dry, dis
charging no water until the sun again
! Ii>es.
Near the center of y white oak tree re
ceatly cut in Carter county, Ky, a stone,
/ weighing over one pound, was found. The
! wuOd had grown solidly around it,
! The SEVENTEEN anniversary OF the we'd
dug of Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Hurd, OF Ben
ningham, W., has just been celebrated in
the house where they began Housekeeping.
They are 81 and 81 years OF age respec-
lively.
The Rev. J. p. Jay, of Memphis, refused
communion to an communicated mem
Der Of his church, and the latter attempted
To whip him. The dominic was equal to
the occasion, and the other is in the hos
pital.
AZ Methodist camp meeting at Ora
ham, n c. u boy II years OF age, who had
been dumb from his birth, suddenly
sprang To the preachers platform, and in a
clear voice protested religion and became
an c4hOrter.
An Investigation as to the Cause OF the
failure of thermometer clock in PresQue
Isle, Nc, to keep time, revealed Il large
cord of spiders web attached to the low.
er end of the pendulum, thus shortening
tie stroke.
4 Conceivable (Pa) sportsman shot a
duck on the river, and it was quickly
dragged beneath the surface of the water. |!
George Ellerd trolled about the spot the
next day and captured a pike weighing
,wenty-onc pounds, in whose stomach was
the stolen duck
On his wedding day, July TO- 1877,
Charles Emerson, of Indianapolis, en-
sraved the date and the names of himself |
and wife on silver halfdollar and spent
it in Plttsburg. In payment to him last
week by his employers he received back
the marked halfdollar.
A Toronto lady, IN hurry to start for
church, took from closet a pair Of her
husbands trousers by mistake for her dol |
man, threw them across her arm, and did
not discover her mistake until she had
thrown the trousers over the back Of the
pew in front of her
With only 1900 population, Union
Springs, N. Y, has eight churches. The
last, now being built, has only one male
and SIX female members. II is the result
of legacy, requiring It's erection within a
stated period to prevent the money from
going liz another direction.
A man at WheatIand, Cal, requested the
Rev. Mr.. Stroball to come and pray with q
member of his family who was sick. AT.
ter the clergyman had accompanied hlm a
short distance, the man compelled him, at
the muzzlc of a pistol, to deliver over his
watch anl cham and the little money he
had.
The twin daughters OF Bishop Andrews
were welded to DR.. Lovett and Judge
Merriweather, OF Newton, GA, but both
b idcs soon died. The widowers then
married two more OF the Bishops daugh-
ters. For the second time they were be
reaved, and they have for the third time
married sisters.
Here is mesmeric tale, that comes
from Oregon: A woman named Furnes, a
professional clairvoyan,, became enamored
Of a young banker at Portland, and mes
merized him at one OF her sittings. This
done, she joined hands with HIM, and they
were married by munster present, whom
she mesmerized for the purpose.
A family of Madison, o., nineteen years
ago purchased paper Of pins. When
pin was needed 1t was taken from the pa
per, ana after it had served its purpose was
replaced, If a PIN was lost, general search
was made until 1t was found In this way
the one paper of pins has kept the family
supplied for nineteen years.
Here is a story for temperance orators
A party OF six camped out IN Wisconsin
on cold night After supper two drank
liquor moderately, two freely, aud two let
1t alone. In the morning the temperance
men arose refreshed, the light drinkers
were stiff with cold and hardly able to
rise and the two who had drank freely
were frozen 10 death.