The Irish standard., 1886-10-02
THE IRISH STANDARD SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1885.
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1 HUNDREDS Of acres Of ground at Big
Flat: CAL, were covered with very small
frogs after hard shower tue osher day.
! The little fellows were not Larger than
crickets, and just as lively.
A PHYSICIAN in Woodstock. N. B., took
some virus from the arm Of a child whom
he had vaccinated, and the child's father
sued him for the value of the vaccine
matter, and got verdict for $50.
SAVANNAH. Ga, has policeman who
can sleep soundly while walking The
other night he slumbered through q heavy
shower, and was much surprised when he
awoke and found himself drencne l..
A WOMAN recently arrived at Portland,
/ Ore, from Montana, whose entire wealth
consisted of ten children the eldest ten
years old. There were one set of triplets,
two sets of twins and three singles"
| THE Briton's idea of tile geography of
! the United States continues to be past
| finding out, even when he's British Amer
| lean. A Victoria newspaper gravely tells
of disastrous forest fires in Milwaukee, u
| The Palmer Journal tells Of citizen who,
when the fire-beil rang the other evening,
rushed to the man at the rope, shouting:
'Stop Stop ringing that Lell right away I!
You mustn't do it! It'll wake up my
! baby.''
WISCONSIN farmer, going down q Hill
with a load of hay, locked one of the whe lis
of the wagon. The friction of the wheel
upon the ground struck a spark which ig-
! nited the hay and started hre that re-
| CURED eleven men to e1tinguish.
JAMES ARMSTRONG, OF Loure, Can, q
well-to-do farmer, aged eighty three years,
fell in love with maiden Of saventy-si
summers, who rejected his suit There
upon he made lis will foequeathiug her all
his property, and then hangel himself.
A DAKOTA farmer, while stacking straw,
placed his vest, in the pocket of which
were $50, under The edge of the, ,stack for
safe keeping. He forgot ths vest. and ths
next day the stack was struck by light
ming and burned, and the vest and the
money with it,
"A BRocKToN (Mass. shoemaker has spent
deal OF valuable time in king pair OF
shoes out of S52 different pieces of leather.
Each tip contains 100 small diamond
shaped pieces Fourteen different kinds
Of leather were used, and various colored
silks were used in doing the stitching.
a YOUNG colored man of Buffalo is maxi
ing money by giving most remarkable
musical performances. He holds his mouth
open. taps his skull with beer mallet and
thus plays tunes in tones not unlike those
of the xylophone. He seems not only to
have wooden head but an empty one,
also.
AT Conshohocken, Pa, the other even
ing, while Miss Gertrude Grant was sing
ing with party OF friends she suddenly
became dumb, not being able to sing or
speak u word. A physician was called who
said the attack was hystericai, but soon
after she was partially paralyzed She is
recovering slowly.
FoUR years ago David Lindly; of Louis
vile, was under tree when it was struck
by lightning, and was rendered uncon-
scious, but not injured. Ever since when
there is thunder storm, David tingles all
over, as il in contact with an electric bat
terry, and any person can receive slight
electric shock by catching hold Of his hands
at such a time.