The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-10-19
Strange Happenings

At a small railway station in Connecticut
The country people TO the number Of one
hundred fell in line to kiss a young bride
goodbye.
Angelina Stevens, of Galveston, Texas,
asks for divorce from her husband on the
ground that he is poor and because she has
an offer of marriage from q wealthier man.
A new island covering three acres has ap.
peared IN Lake Winnepiseogee. 1t is not an
upheaval of the earth, but the drought that
has caused 1t. No one ever saw It before.
A welLto.do man of Clarion, Iowa, sent
the remains of his wife TO Illinois to be bur-
led, in trunk, to save express charges. To
get the body in the trunk, It was unjointed
at the hips and knees.
The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago
railroad company having sold tickets from
Louisville to indianapolis for 81, the Cincin-
natl and indianapolis company sold tickets
next day to indianapolis for five cents and
threw in chrome.
If the Cape Cod canal, the Florida canal,
the Jordan Valley canal, and the irrigatlng
canal TO the Desert of Sahara were all opened
at once the Gulf stream and tides would be
so fused up that physical geography would
have to be rewritten.
John W. Steith, an eccentric old man OF
ST. Louis, died, and two weeks later his will
was found in an old stove. He willed ST.
10000 of other peoples property to various
charities, and left the court house to an
evangelist for "Big Bethel"
At a camp meeting near Wilmington, N.
c., snakes suddenly appeared among the
worshippers, and when some fifty women
had tainted and several persons were bitten
the meeting was broken up. 1t Is manifest
that the people down there stand in sore
need of the administrations of Murphy.
Examination of the Worcester (Mass.)
town records show that, In ITO, o six-year-
old boy had his ear bitten off by horse, and
the selectmen drew up certificate showing
the manner Of the injury and recorded 1t on
the town books, so that the loss should not
be preiudicial to the boy when he grew up.
A London cab-driver was recently fined
twenty shillings for careless driving, whereas
he really should have been given medal for
clever steering. He ran down apoor cripple
hobbling along with two canes, but instead
of hurting him, the two shafts fitted under
the cripple's bent arms, and he was borne
gracefully down the street TIL the cab was
stopped. r ....-... .....r..
Montgomery was accused of q. crime at
Taylorville, Ill. Consumption moved faster
than justice, and he died before the time
appointed for his trial. A few hours before
his death he summoned his neighbors TO his
bedside and submitted TO them the evidence
which he had intended TO produce In court.
He added solemn protestation Of lnno-
cence, and was comforted by vote Of "not
guilty."
Mrs. Alphonso Bradford, resident of Hy-
annis, Cape Cod, became very nervous dur
ing a heated discussion on spirltualism and
talked herself exhausted, when she fell into
a trance. At first IL was thought that she
was dead, but close examination showedt that
| life was not extinct. She has not yet recov-
cred consciousness. Mrs. Bradford had q
somewhat similar experience twelve years
ago, aud remained unconscious for twenty
two days.
VIM. McKittrick Of Stapleton, L. l., found
chicken In his garden some time ago, and
has since trained II TO eat from his hand. AL
ways after obtaining her morning meal the
hen hastens to her nest-box and deposits an
egg. Two weeks ago Mr.. McKittrick fell III.
The hen missed him and became nervous
and irritable. The hen was taken up stairs
to the sick chamber, where her owner fed
her. When the meal was finished she sprang
on the bed and left an egg there. Every day
since then the hen climbs two pairs Of stairs
to the sick room.