The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-10
POINTS FOR THE CURIOUS
A PoUND CAKEMYsTERY.

ABOUND CAKE MYSTERY.
For several days Mrs. ] Ohm MalsbY
has been keeping nice pound cake
in her bureau, which she was saving
for the first preacher who might
drop in. Imagine her surprise when
she opened the drawer to find a
highland moccasin, two feet long,
coiled up on her nice white cake.
The snake was killed and the cake
thrown away. How the snake got
there is mystery Walton (FtG)
Nel0S.
WHAT A BLACK ANT DID.
A young man of Danbury recently
eat a piece of cake in dark room
and a large black ant which was on
the cake fastened to his palate. His
friends succeeded in severing the
body, but the head continued to
hang on with death-like grip to the
young mans palate, how could it he
removed without the aid Of a doc
tor. The doctor could relieve its
hold only by crushing the head of
the ant with pair of forceps.
A MAMMOTH APPLE TREE.
Mr.. Abel Schofeld, an Adair
county farmer, who lives about
twelve miles southeast of Kirkville,
has perhaps the largest apple tree
in his orchard that can be foun . in
North Missouri. 1t measures 6
feet and 10 inches in circumference
near the ground, and feet at a dis
.ance of six feet from the ground.
The largest limb measures 4 feet
and 10 inches. This mammoth of
the orchard has yielded forty bush
els each year for the last ten years,
and the fruit is Of an excellent quail
ity.-Adair County (Mo) Journal
ABEAR IN A BEAN POT.
A party of California hunters
camped in ravine one night, and.
as usual, put a pot of beans on to
cook. While sitting around the fire
telling yarns and weeping smoke
tears, an immense bear joined the
circle. whipped the covers off the
pot, and, without so much as by
your leave, thrust his paw into the
.seething supper. Roaring with pain
and establishment, he as quickly
drew it out again, overturned the
pot with one vigorous blow and
throwing the hot beans into the
young mems faces, numbered off
growing into the darkness.
AFTER DEATH.
In the philosophical collections of
Mulferus there is an account OF a
woman buried at Nuremburg whose
grave, being opened forty-three
years after her death, hair was
found issuing through the clefts of
the coffin. When the cover was re-
moved the whole shape of the cof-
fin was visible, but was covered
from the crown of the head to the
sole of the foot with thick-set hair,
long and curled. The sexton was
about to handle the head when the
whole fell apart at once, and moth.
ing remained but a handful of hair.
There was neither skull nor any
other bone left, yet the hair was
SOLID and strong. Mr.. Arnold relates
the case of d man who was hanged
on the galloWs for petty theft, as
was formerly the custom in Eng
land, whose body was covered with
growing hair before it was cut
down from the galloWs.
THE WRESTLING FISH OF NEVADA
One of the most singular of the
fish family is doubtless the whist
ling sucker, which is sometimes
caught in Walker lake. The fish
when caught emits o plaintive
whistle, which will almost persuade
an angler with any tenderness of
heart to throw it back into the
water. Charley Kimball has one
which was caught in O net when
quite young. He keeps it in tank
and has taught it to know him and
whistle when it is hungry. When
its master approaches the fish pushes
its nose and mouth barely out of the
water, and, making a pucker with
its lips which the human pucker
does not nearly equal, whistles some
shrill notes. It appears 10 have
some of the parrot characteristics,
and Kimball thinks that in time he
can teach it to whistle part of some
simple tune.-Walker Lake (Neb0
Bulletin.
ON THE WHEELS.
One night recently as the stage
was approaching Woodford canyon,
n. T., the team began to fag
wonderfully, and the driver was at
loss to account for it. After
stopping to rest q few minutes
they were unable to start again.
The driver got down and took a Ian.
tern to examine the running-gear.
when, to his establishment, he found,
as he supposed, that a rope had been
tied between the two wheels.
Laying his hand on the rope. he
started back with yell OF horror
on discovering that live snake had
twisted itself between the hind and
fore wheels, and was holding the
stage as securely as if the wheels
had been tied with an inch rope
The passengers got out and tackled
tho cnaRo with alI1hc apd e+onoo