Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-06-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In New York, Is SAID 70 eHectuaiiy cure
hay fever by a surgical operation, the
removal of a small bone from the nose
of a patient.
A little girl was walking on the street
the other day, when she saw very
bowlegged man with short coat on &.
sob, MAJ" she cried, "there's man
with a tunnel under him."
A city girl saw hen preparing to
gather her chickens under her wings
and shouted e1citedly: ooh! don't sit
down OIL those beautiful little birds,
you great ugly old rooster?"
John D. Hopper, a clerk in the en-
ploy of Joel j. Baily & Co., Philadel-
phia, has just been arrested for stealing
$27, 900 from his employers. He con-
fessed his guilt, and said he lost the
money in specializing.
During the war, Mrs. Terry, of North
Adams, Mass, nursed back to life 4
stranger, who was Frustrated with fever.
The man, who was brother Of ex-Gov-
ernor Leland Stanford of California,
died recently, leaving her $4,000.
DR.. A. NJ. Fauntleroy, late superin-
tendent of the Western Lunatic Asylum
and one of the most eminent of Virginia
physicians, died suddenly at Stanton
last Saturday evening. He was broth
er of Judge Eauntleroy, of the Suprem e
Court.
In Ohio County, KY, last Thursday
John Hunter, negro, charged with
stealing $l3, was tried and convicted,
and rs he has served three terms in the
penitentiary before, the jury fixed his
punishment at the full extent Of the law
life imprisonment.
Jacob Miller, aged sixty-two, of Lo-
bachsville, Pa, while at supper few
evenings since, WAS Informed thai let
ter containing $1,000 back pension
money had been received for him. In
hurrying to finish the meal piece of
III eat became lodged in his windpipe and
he choked to death.
John johnson, Of Brooklyn, n. y,
was locked up Saturday night for cast
ing his furniture through window
into the street. During the night he
forced his handkerchief down his throat
with two foot rule, and next day he
was found dead with handkerchief and
rule about six inches down his throat.
Charley Sheehan, Is years old, of La
fayette, Ind, went in bathing, accom-
panied by his dog. The boy could not
swim, and while padding about in
water nearly up to his neck, the dog
got on his back and pushed him down.
AS fast rs he came up the dog pushed
him under, and the boy was drowned.
The steamship Elder, which arrived
at New York Saturday from Bremen,
had on board the rhinoceros Bomby,
recently purchased in Bremen for the
Central Park Zoo for 5000. Bomby is
about II years of age, and he weighs
somewhere in the neightorhood of two
and a-half tons. lie is about ten feet
long.
An Arkansas farmer writes that last
year, when 'coons made havoc in his
cornfield, he went to the drug store to
buy strvchnine with which To kill them.
By mistake the druggist gave him NOR
phine, and the next morning he found
his field full of sleeping 'coOns. He
advises the use of morphine instead of
strychnine.
There is 4 cave about four miles from
Houston, Texas, about 100 feet long, GO
feet broad, and from to l6 feet in
height, where numberlcss bats roost by
day. 1t is said that there are so many
that it takes them nearly an hour to get
into the cave each morning, and in the
rush hundreds are killed 1t is proposed
to form company to collect and utilize
batskins.
A greedy hen, belonging to Mrs.
Hummer, of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, ate so
much that her crop became clogged and
she was in danger ofdying. Mrs. Hum
mer was equally to the emergency.
She clipped the feathers off the crop,
then opened il with "a sharp knife, re-
moved the contents, deftly seweG it up
again, and the hen is now the mother
of fine broodo chicks.
There seems to be conspiracy be.
tween two hens, a horse, and the dog OF
a South Windham farmer to deprive
him of his rights in eggs. One of the
hens daily lays an egg in the dog house
ard the dog daily eats it. The other hen
lays her egg In the horses manger and
he eats it. Indeed, so fond is the steed
of fresh eggs that he sometimes lifts the
hen off the nest to see ifthe egg has
been laid.
On a recent night the garden OF Jos.
Texter, in Fetterman, Pa, was visited
by Il severe frost that destroyed his ear
ly vegetables, blistered his fruit trees,
and frozc his grapeyines. Gardens ly-
ing near, and some adjoining his, and
quite AS exposed. were not injured in
the least. The reporter who tells of this
suggestively says: "Mr. Texter Is an
honest citizen, has no bad habits, and is
a moral man.
In Manchester, Va, Il girl lG years
old, named Mamie Banks, saturated her
clothes with kerosene oil and then set
them on fire, and was so burned that she