Daily Republican., 1883-10-10
SENSATIONAL ITEMS.

A remarkable discovery has beer
made near COrrizo, on the Little Colo
RADIO, Mexico. In an immense basin
a traveller has found petrihed forest
The trees, which are almost perfect
stand an they did when they left OF
growing and began to petrify. Many
OF them are of great size-fifteen OF
sixteen feet in circun ference. Tn,
ground Is covered to the extent O.
three hundred acres, with limbs and
twigs all petritied. The sand has beer
washed away, leaving the roots expo
sed These are petrifed too. The but
terfiies which tiuttered through the
forest glad,, the caterpillars that fed
on the leaves, the birds that perched
ON the branches, the rats and squirrels
that ran down the trees, are al petri
fed. The hollow trunks are filled
with crystals that sparkle in the sun
like precious stones. These are petrified
very much. Last, but not least, after
reading this superb, this stupendous
effort at lying, We are petritied too.
The agent of All enterprising business
house in San Francisco is shortly to un'
dertake an adventurous business jour
ney through the northern counties OF
that State. In order to make a success.
full canvass OF these counties, he will
have to scale mountains, penetrate for
ests and encounter deep snow and cold
winds, such as only the strongest con
stitution can successfully overcome
Ha will h.. arooyu IA !, Al hu tha ,,,out
Experienced guide to he found in the
State, and his NECESSARY assistants. The
agent will ride 5000 miles On horse
back. over 200 miles Of the Journey
must be Travelled on SHOWS shoes. The
whole outfit, including pack mules,
tents, etc, will cost $1,000. The start
was made October |. 1t Is scarcely
necessary to state that the courageous
agent represents a whisky firm, who
are DESTROYS of introducing new brand
of mountain dew"
William Hicks, his wife, and FIVE
children became wildly insane at Chan
lesion. ILL.,, and were committed to an
asylum. The oldest daughter had gone
home sick. Her mother refused any
medicine, claiming that she had reve-
lation from Heaven that she could wash
all sins and ills away with salt and wa
ter. Hicks got the idea that the family
were Il band Of angels under the espe-
cial care OF God The children took to
repeating passages Of Scripture and
speaking OF themselves as angels Mrs.
Hicks had been loosiug sleep while
waiting upon her sick daughter, and
during all this time she was laboring
under such Intense religious excitement
that her nervous system became over.
strained, aud AS she had apowerful in.
tiuence over the other members Of the
family they also became insane.
In the hope of getting the upper hand
of the cockrGachts in room over their
meat market, John and Charles Weber
OF Cleveland, smeared the woodwork
and furniture with gasoline. Then
they closed the door. In the evening
they asctnded with n lighted candle TO
see bow the reaches were getting along
When hey entered the room the gas
produced by the gasoline exploded, and
one of the brothers leaped from So
cond-story window and ran through the
street with his clothes ablaze. The 9TH
er brother was badly scorched, but
he managed to send out q fire alarm.
Dead birds are frequently discovered
under the electric light wires in the
morning 10y town boys in Des Moines;
Ia, who haze learned to look for them.
The current kills all which light upon
the wires while they are hot or in ope.
ration, but does not harm them when
cold, or during the day, land this deceiv-
es the feathery tribe. Quite a flock of
sparrows met their doom on the street
wires lust at twilight the other night.
They could not leave the wires after
on them, and dropped of, dead
one by one, until the seven urchins
present had their hats full. .
A statement is published that the
Prince Of Montenegro, who sometime
ago closed all the cafes and drinking
shops in his dominion, regarding them
as schools of etieminacy, extravaganza,
md corruption and abolished all titles,
20 that while formerly every other man
n Montenegro was an . exCellency,"
low even the ministers have to be con-
ent with plain g Mr." has recently is.
ued an interdict against all "luxuri-
'us wearing apparel" including era
'ats, gloves, wa'king-stickA parasols
md umbrellas. II
Last week a most strange sight was to
re seen at Turin ; a regular crowd Of!
butterflies of every bright color was
cen coming toward the town from Riv-
i They advanced In regular military
rider there was a vanguard, the larger
'ody in the middle, and rearguard,
While at the sides some of these insects,
II small numbers, seemed to be recon-
A novel appendage las been placed /
n the forks Of the small wheel OF BIZ
ycle This consists of music box, 80
ranged that the revolutions of the
Wheel set the mechanism Of the instru-
nent in motion. aud the enterprising |
,heelman Is thus RECALLED by charming
lusic on his lonely tours along the ru.
al highways. l.
A. lady who has been troubled with a
ough for several years, which sh g
bought would soon end her life, fell
own stairs the other day, which start
i a violent fit Of coughing, during
'hich she coughed up peerl shirt but
IN. Now she is getting wei the ,
ymptoms of consumption disappear
ig rapidly. IL
The natives of New Britain believe /
nat the souls of the dead are carried up
the stars by the rising moon, which
great and small according to the
lumber 1t has to bear. This is an ar.
anEement which makes necessary the =
lrther dogma that most deaths occur Ne
full moon. +
In q California cemetery large mon a
ment stood over the grave of q man, u
hose relatives were, dead. A woman
oldly had 1t removed to her own lot,
laned off Its inscription, and had it II
ttered again to suit the mortuary re- a
airements Of her family. VI