Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-01-27
STRANGE STORIES.


Union (Ga) Local: A friend this
week presented us with a parsnip
that measures Ia inches in circumfer-
ence and four feet in length.
Judge James +. Smith, of Dixon,
Ky, comes to the front in the veget-
able line with mammoth raddish
2la inches in length.
A colored woman in Abbeville
county, S. c., has given birth to
a child with four legs and four arms.
1t lives, despite the numerousness of
its members.
Breckenridge Netcs: Our next
door neighbor, Mrs. Miller, planted
two grains of popcorn in her garden
last spring, and the other day gath
cred % full grown ears from one of
the stalks.
There is a sweet-potato war in pro-
gross between York and Chester
counties, S. G. York is the last
county te parade its force, and it
claims a lot of 30 bushels of the
tubers, of which the smallest potato
weighs four and quarter pounds.
The oldest deed in America is in
possession of Maj. Leland, of New
York 1t is dated 1910, eighteen
years after the discovery by Colum-
bus, and conveys Fishers Island, in
Long Island Sound, from certain In
dian Chief to John Cabot, whose
signature it bears.
Cleburne (Tex.) Telegram: The
biggest discovery in the snake line
is recently ought to light by a lady
in Somervell county, who recently
killed two black snakes, one of which
has on the back of the head the pic
ture of woman. The latter is on ex
hibition at DR.. Willingham's, in Glen
Rose.
Highland (Va) Recorder: George
Revercomb, living on the Bullpasture,
has violin in his possession which
was made in 172l. A card found
within the drum bears the inscript-
ton: " Stradivarius cremonefs taci-
ebat Antonius." 1t is in good con-
dition, has an excellent tone, and is
q rare relic handed down through
nearly five generations, and, if well
preserved, is good for as many more.
Jacksonville (Fla.) Times: There
are on exhibition in the front win
dow of Ashmeads's bookstore two
specimens of what Florida may do
when she tries. One is the sprig of a
coffee tree with several clusters of
the ripe, red berry thereon, grown at
the Arlington nurseries by Albert L.
Bidwell. The other Is Canton
pomela, a sort of giant orange. 1t
measures Il inches in circumference,
and weighs nearly four pounds. 1t
was raised in Orange county.
Elizabethtown (Ky) Ne,cs: Mr..
Partridge, of Cecilian Junction, is
the owner of a dog and cat that
are very much attached to one an
other The cat is in the habit of
making frequent visits to MIR. John
Heller's. Whenever the dog misses
his companion he at once goes to
Mr.. Heller's. picks up the cat in his
mouth and starts home. On the
way between the two places is a
fence, and when the intelligent ca
nine comes to it, he puts the cat
through, crawls under himself, picks
up his barden, and marches home
triumphantly.
At Oxford, Ala, the other day, a
COW climbed up into the front part of
Mr.. James Wrights wagon, which
frightened the mules hitched to it
and they ran at full speed. Mr..
Wright, finding that there were no
room on the front seat for both him
and the COW, crawled to the hind end
and tumbled out The COW enlivened
the scene by believing at a fearful
rate, the mules responding III char
acteristic style. They ran about a
mile and halted when the COW stepped
down. The amusing feature of the
scene was highly entertaining.
Richmond (Va) Whig: Mr.. Bene-
dict, of the Richmond post office,
brought to this Office yesterday a
mouse which John Benedict, his
little son, captured at their residence,
No. SIG North Twenty seventh street.
The mouse, strange to say, has de-
veloped into a vocalist, if such a
word can be applied to it, for the
little thing sings and chirps all night.
like bird. Last night it was placed
in cage in the reporters sanctum,
and for hours sang and chirped with
the ease and sweetness of a prima
donna, though on not SO grand a
scale.