The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-10-29
CURIOUS FACTS.

A 10-year-old lad in Henry county, Ala. !,
got hold of a quart bottle of whisky and
drank all Of it. The next day he died.
A colt near Depere, Wis, was struck by a
spent rife bullet, which passed through its
body just back of its ribs. The animal went
on grazing as if nothing had happened.
J.B. Wells, of Red Bluff, Cal, cut down q
sound oak, and four feet from the butt, in a
little cavity in the heart of the tree, were five
small and healthy frogs. They were a little
off in color, but all right.
A bachelor of East Grand Forks, d. T.,
gave dance. Among the guests We're twenty
unmarried young women. During the even
ing the host proposed marriage to fifteen Of
them. They all declined with thanks.
young man found "A handbag in a car
riage at Tuscola, Ills. 1t contained S35, and
belonged SO young widow in Atwood, and
when the young man returned it to her she
rewarded him by marrying him the next day
Last spring Mrs. Park, of Liberty, No =,
lost gold ring in her garden. The other
day her son pulled up large sunhower grow
ing there, and tightly encircling one of the
roots was the ring through which the root
had grown.
A 6-year-old girl in Florida dropped her
kitten down well over fifty feet deep, and
at her earnest entreaty her father lowered
her down by the well rope. She got the
kitten out all right and was pulled up again
damp, but happy
Citizens of Sioux Falls, D. T., discovered
one day that the town clock had stopped. A
watchman climbed into the tower to find out
what was the matter He discovered u pigeon
cit tba ~ tha If la
dial. The clock began marking time again
as soon as the bird flew away.
A little girl in Burlington, Vt, had in
herited so good memory of an uncle whose
funeral had been attended by her mother not
long before this little girls birth that she
could give Il full description Of him, and
knew his picture at once the first time she
saw it.-Popular Science Monthly
Near Zionville, Pa, one morning recently,
a calf was killed. By noon the skin was at
the tannery, was tanned and turned over to a
shoemaker that evening, and by the next
morning was made into pair of boots, which
were worn by the man who owned the calf
that had worn the skin the day before.
Charles E. Caughln and his wife, each
about Is years old had no faith in the banks
of Philadelphia and kept the result of their
years Of saving in a strong box at the foot of
their bed. A few days ago when Caughlin
opened the box to get some money he found
none; $500 had been stolen, and the old
folks are left destitute.
A curious marriage ceremony took place
recently in Nuremberg, Germany, the bride be-
ing the well known armless artistic, Fraulein
Hausmann. She welded her impessal1o, Herr
Hauschild, and signed her marriage contract
with her feet Rings We're exchanged, and
the wedding ring Of the bride was placed on
the fourth toe of her right foot.
A young woman picking her way across
the railroad tracks in Indianapolis saw a
brakeman wave his hand TO her from the top
Of a departing freight train. She smiled
sweetly and waved back. The next thing she
knew she was yanked off the track by flag
man, just in time to escape backing train,
which the brakeman had seen and had tried
in uain to warn her of.