Daily Republican., 1883-11-15
sENSArIONAL ITEMS.


1t is not strange that cuttle.f 81
should damage vegetables growing in
the fields by the seashore, but the sur
prising news reaches us that boy ha,
been killed by ono of these hideou.
creatures. We hear that some few days
ago boy about fourteen years Of age
was fishing at Tonjokamura, Amakusa,
Hixen. and huge cuttle-f'sh stretched
two of Its tentacles out Of the water and
grasped the boys right arm. The boy
shouted for assistance as the fish was
dragging him in, and some men who
where near released the lad by cutting
the tentacles. When the boy reached
home iha arm was cold and mntiOnless,
and notwithsta nding medical aid was
called In, he died five days afterwards.
An amusing incident occurred near
Rome, Ca, the other day. A man
crossing the Eaiiroad tracks got his foot
caught fast in disjoi ted frog, and,
while trying TO get loose he saw the
Chattanooga train, on the East Tsnnes
see, Virginia and Georgia road come
oashing over the bridge Wild with
fright, the man came near breaking his
foot in his efforts to get loose. But the
train was almost upon him, and he de
cided to nnlace his shoe, pull his foot
out, and leave the shoe to be mashed.
He acted upon this thought, and as he
got his foot out. the train glided by on
another track.
A curious sentence was passed recent.
ly by Judge Krekel, Of the United
States District Court in Missouri. An
iliterate man having been convicted of
a minor offence, he was ordered by the
judge to be detained In Jail until he
should be able to read and write and
another offender, less ignorant, was
sentenced to be similarly imprisoned
until he shonld have instructed the
former in these valuable arts. II is
stated that in three weeks the man re.
appeared able to write fairly we'll from
dictation, and both pupil and master
were discharged.
A N. braska thief devotes his time en-.
tirely to th- larceny Of hogs, and with y
great success. He goes forth by night
armed with log stick, to which a
sponge is fastened, and bottle of
chloroform. The porcine victim is
lulled to rest by the an8sthetic and
borne silently away. The other night
one of the slumbering hogs rolled out of
the thiefs wagon. A kind, hearted far
mer who came along the road assisted
the thiefto load up again, amid profuse
thanks. When the farmer reached
h me he discovered that the pig was
from his own sty.
The comet which was sighted the
other day turns out to bea big one and
an old visitor. His last appearance
was in 1872, when he was supposed to
have prcsaged the last war with Great
Britain. He will be along and visible
to the naked eye next December, when
psople Who occasionally turn their eyes
az we'll as thoughts hcavenward will
witness rare and glorious spectacle in
the skies.
A somewhat original style of spend
ing honeymoon is reported from Rus
sia When Count Sherenetietf recent
" married the Countess Heyden, he
hired the steamer O ga, which took
them up the Vo'ga. The Drusina
Steamship Company, to which the
steamer belongs, received pay ment OF
$50 day, In return for which sum
the Count may travel how and where
he likes.
An unfinished figure that has stood
for many years IN "a marble yard facing
Capitol Park in the City of Washington
was intended for an Indian chief to be
placed at the main in front of the Capt.
tol, II was begun in 1858, but when halt
finished crack was dis overe' in the
stone 1t has now been sold, and is to be
chiseled down and made cherub for
a chi,d's grave in Greenwood Cemetery.
At the recent children's carnival in
Saratoga one little girl was dressed to
represent gold mine, and she looked
like forty-pound nugget. Her shoes
were gilded, her stockings were of gold
colored Al k, and her gown was mass
Of golden silk punched up 80 that it
looked like rough, irregular chunk Of
gold.
An action brought by the public prose-
cutor in Berlin for the Contiscation and
destruction of M. Zola's novels, "Pot
Bouille" and "Nana," has just been
decided, the court ordering the German
translations to be seized and destroyed.
The French originals are, however, to
remain free.
Louisa PETER Of Lancaster, Pa, who
is ti3 years Of ago, missed a train in
Philadelphia, and would not wait for
the next one. She walked home, sew
L., hat, Dan La, q
and Friday evening. She kept going
night and day, resting at the waysife AZ
intervals.
Visitors find in some of the older
houses of Nantucket, U. S., tail Dutch
clocks, with holes in the cases where
screws had been taken out. This was
done in order to banish wicked orna-
ments of brass and steel.
At Port Jervis, he who has fancy
for it, may, at low water stand on
rock in The river with one foot in New
York, the other in Pennsylvania, and
touch with his hand New Jersey.
Ladies' of distinction and with feet
that they wish to be observed, have
lately been patronizing red Pussian
leather boots.
The Harvard annex" for women is
eminently successful. Two out of a
class of five have become engaged to
their teachers.
The ratio of insane per 100000
among the poor is, 3,490; that among
the well.to-do Is 900.
In Chicago from 100 to 200 marriage
licenses are now issued in one week.
In the three fan districts Of Japan
100, 900 persons make fans.
Any time" is the name Of q Ken