The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-01
NEWS AND OTHER SUTiNGs.

/ braska. instead of dying developed hydro
/ phobia, and bit fourteen head Of cattle all OF
{ which died.
S. B. Durfey, mate OF the steamer Ari-
zOOa, had his foot badly jsmmed. Thomas
Eclectric Oil cured it Nothing equal to It
/ for quick pain reIiever.
Measurements have shown the thick
ness of the human hair to vary from the
! 25e to the 600th part OF an inch. Blonde
/ hair is the finest and red hair the cosrsest.
Maggie Green. of Sodus Mich. aged 10,
ought to be a lucky little girl She has on
on exhibition at tie Benton Harbor Fair q.
! 125 specimens of four-leaved clover, picked
with her own hand and arranged on card.
| board.
A child was admitted into q Dublin
/ hospital recently, suffering from wounds
/ caused by rats, which attacked the mother
also on her attempting to drive them away
/ from the cradle. The child bad been Sc
| verely bitten about the hands and face.
How many bald heads you see Work,
worry, disease. dissipation. Those do It,
Parker's Hair Balssm stops falling hair aud
restores gloss and youthful color. Excep-
| tiOnally clean, elegant, q perfect dressing,
not greasy. Prevents dandruff.
The secret of successful advertising "a to
tell the truth. When We say that Drey-
/ doppel's Borax Soap is the best and cheapest
/ soap you eau use for all purposes, it is plain
/ statement OF fact. and tae best way to salts
! fy yourself Is to try a pound
/ Statistics, more or less accurate, show
| that John Rull is by no means the beef eater
that be is cracked up to be. Enelishmen
eat but an average of As pounds a year,
while the Australians average $50 pounds,
and the citizens Of the United States $50
! pounds.
The pet dog of a prominent New York
| family, which died the other dav. was in
TERED In the family vault at PouRhkeepsie
| 10 rosewood casket, with a solid silver
plate on the lid bearing the name of the Cog.
A number OF friends of the deceased were
present.
One Otthe attractions at the South Bend
Ind fair is monster OK that weighs 25o
pounds, is 6 feet inches high, IL feet
inches around the chest, and lS feet from
tip of horns to end of tail. Standing along
side the OK is diminutIve COW that walks
ander him with ease.
HcIe lS q wise OOR IN hOrQen, haniCO-
/ ba. he slipped his collar the other day,
and when his master called refused to come,
evidently fearing punishment but in the
night he returned, managed to get the col
I lar over his head, and in the morning was
[ found chained TO his kennel, waRR!ng his
tail in conscious virtue.
Cardinal Newman, now 81 years old,
/ rises every morning at O'Clock and after
his devotinns, sweeps out his room, which
is uncarppted, makes his bed, takes his
breakfast and then shaves himself He has
an IRISH servant. james Cusach, but about
the only service be renders is TO amuse the
, Cardinal with his wit and uis IrIsh bulls
Chief Justice Waite, of the Supreme
! Court, says that there is no way by which
the convicted Chicago Ana rchIsts can enter
the United States Courts unless on a oues-
tion OF Federal law aud a showing that In
some waV their constitutional rights have
been violated The fact that they are for
eieners, and not citizens Of the United
States would have no bearing whatever.
1t is reported from Caseyville, Ky.. that
while Mrs. Graham, the wife Of one of the
most prom iuent farmers In that neipbbor
hood, was passing through some weeds on
the side of patch in the garden, she stirred
up swarm of humble bees, which stuus
her about the hands, face and Leck in a
horrible manner, resulting In her death a
, few hours later
Willie Gordon. a twelve year-oId boy of
/ Winnipeg, was arrested on n charge Of
stealing hens and after two days imprisop-
ment was tried and acquitted. He felt the
disgrace of the imprisonment keenIy. and
when the boys made fun OF him decided to
kill himself. He did not like to die alone.
but, after vainly trying to induce a com.
paDiOn to take poison with him, swallowed
a large dose of strychniBe and died.
"A 6ve-leRged sheep was observed N a
drove that was shipped from Mt Vernon,
Ill, recently In appearance it was like
an ordinary sheep, being a ram with q fine
pair OF horns. The fifth leg was on the
right side near the front shoulder, and
seemed TO be a :Ore-leg. 1t reached to
about four inches of The ground, and was
very well formed. 1t suffered no inconyep-
ience.
/ "A passenger train which arrived at Den
yer, Colorado, on Sunday last, from Salt
Lake, had a very narrow escape from a fear
full dis ster. The train. consisting of
going through the Black Canyon, It
a speed of 20 miles per hour, when several
cars ran of the track. Fortunately the
tr ain WAS stopped in time to prevent it from
being hurled into the depths below. Sew.
era cars were badly damaged. There were
about one hundred p see ipers in peril.
Here Is a story of a man who didn't
read the newspapers. He lives on the
Cumberland Mountains, Md, where a
gentleman of Lancaster met him q few
days ago. The two got To talking about
. the war and General Grant, when the
mountaneer stated that he had fought un-
der the latter. He finally dropped a thun-
deTbOit on the Laucsstrian by asking
How is the old General, anyhow, and
where is he now liviu % He was very
much surprised when told that be had been
dead and buried year and more ard at
tempted To excuse his ignorance by saying
that he seldom got down into the settlement