The Arizona champion., 1884-05-24
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
Novelties in the Way of Circumstance, Incident and Fact.
A FOUND AND A QUARTER BABY.


 Near the little village called Enon, ten miles southeast of Fort Worth, lives Mir. P. J. Manning, whose wife gave birth to twins about two weeks ago. Dr. Chambers says that the eldest, when born, weighed about one and quarter pounds, and the other about five and a half pounds, aplump child. The smaller of the two could have been placed in a glass tumbler with ease. Its legs are not as large as mans index finger, and it's length would not exceed that of the entire hand. The doctor reports the little fellow thriving.-[ Fort Worth Ga zette.
 FoUR-YEAR OLD WONDER.
 The town of Felicity, Ohio, is just now enjoying something in the nature Of sensation. There lives in the village an aged colored couple by the name of Bright. With the aged people lives a little grandchild, Lizzie Higgins. Three weeks ago some one sent this 4-year-old child a primer. The child has never attended school in her life, neither had she at any time received private instruc- tion, yet she read the book from begin ming to end aloud. So astonished and alarmed were her gra idparents when she began to read that they bust into ,ears, supposing her possessed of some supernatural agency. A few days since the wife of Postmaster Molen, being skeptical, selected letter from num- Der, and handed it to her with the re- quest that she read the address. This she did correctly. Professor Ullery, principal of the public schools, took her to his house and tried his powers in various ways, and he says she both reads and pronounces correctly. The great number of people that are visiting her pronounce her wonderful child, and no one pretends to account for her faculty of reading without ever having learned to do so.-[Cincinnati Gazette. SNAKE STORIES.
 A green snake was found by couple of gentlemen in the Roanoke valley, writhing and twisting at the foot of a beech tree. It proved to be horned hoop snake, which in rolling down Q hill after some game had struck the tree with such force as to drive it's horns an | inch into tba solid wood
 A reporter of the Americus, Ga., Recorder, while in Magnolia Dell on Wednesday, saw fierce battle between king snake and moccasin in the water. The fight lasted about twenty minutes. Stones and sticks were thrown in, but there was no getting the snakes apart. When the reporter left nothing | could be seen of the moccasin, but the red body of the king snake was occasion ally to be seen as he pulled himself out of the mud.
 Prof Bell found a couple of torpid coach whip snakes while in camp near Santa Rosa, Fla. He put them in a neat package and laid it on a stump. On the following day, which was warm and pleasant, young lady and gentleman out driving, discovered the package and appropriated it. As the young lady un- tied the string the coachwhips shot out like arrows. She tumbled out of the buggy on one side and he on the other, while the horse ran away.
 A 2O-months' old child in Granite vile, Cal, while standing in the door way of it's home, was charmed by a rattlesnake, which coiled itself in front of him. It was but two feet away, and was gently moving its head backward and forward, and looking at the child with two eyes like flames. The child s sister, aged 12, pulled her little brother away, when the reptile glided swiftly out of sight. The child seemed stupi- | fled for sometime afterward.
 THE TORNADO TRICKS.
 A signboard marked "Six miles to Montgomery, Ala.," was found in the mountains after the tornado, 220 miles from Montgomery.
 gentleman of Brightwood, Ind, sat with child upon each knee during the cyclone. She house was demolished and the man killed, but neither of the children were injured.
 Daniel Watson of Rockingham, N. O., kept his gun near the head of his bed. When he was found after the storm, his gun had been discharged and the entire charge had passed through his body.
 Near Indianapolis horse and buggy containing two men going in the face of the storm were sepapated, the buggy being blown ::through fence, leaving the horse in the street. Neither the men nor the animal was injured.
 A chest lodged ia the yard of Mrs. Charles Filters, near Wheeling, W. Va. which, among other things, contained many letters that had been written while the writer was in the army, and were addressed to his sweetheart (now his wife). The owner of the chest lived in Industry, Pa.
 Near Xenia, Ohio, Capt. Godfather with his team took refuge in a covered bridge. It was swept away from it's foundation, his horses were killed, and his wagon demolished, but the captain escaped without injury. He was found held tightly in the water up to his neck by fallen timbers.
 Robert Wilson had just retired to bed when the wind struck his home at Rock ingham N. c. His clothing lay upon a chair, and in his vest was gold watch. He was blown into the garden, and his watch was found hanging by the chain in the top of a high tree near by. It was