Telegram-herald., 1888-08-12
SOMEWHAT STRIKING.

A GENTLEMAN OF Athens, Ca, has .
pigeon that is trained 20 do almost any
thing he tells-it- IL cr> play on the piano.
waltz, march ard crow like a rooster.
TaExE is a man living in Georgia eighty
one years old VINO has never taken chew
OF tobacco nor smoked cigar, never was
drunk, never swore and never married.
"A SWEET girl graduate" in Hemingford,
Neb., lcctured last season on The Bright
Possibilities OF the Broom." She made q
grand hit Last week she was hurried to
Mr.. Broome.
Mas BoorH, OF Washington County,
Team, died recently in the log house she
wns born in, ninety eight years ago. She
had in all that time never been further
than five miles from home
CARSON, New, reports an serolite weigh
ing ten tons that is strcaked with horn
silver, and fell upon a race course, narrow
ly missing q jockey who was exercising .
colt there at the time
providence, r l., lately advertised that
he = wanted TO sell his wife for cash or ex-
change her for q good work horse" and
further warranted her 10 be forty-o years
old, land as good rs the majority OF church
gong geople."
TIE youngest greatgrandmother on rec
ord In this country is Mrs. Mary Ann Wall
| ace Of Bagdad, Fla, who was a mother at
| eighteen, grandmother at thirty-four and
now at fifty the mother of grandmother.
PETER BUcKNAS, a young lad OF st. Cloud,
| Mimi, breaks bone every time be falls.
| His bones are so brittle as 10 snap under
the slightest blow, and, although only SIX
| years old, be has sustained sixteen fractures
| Of the arms and legs.
| II New York City some time since little
girl swallowed On open peukife handle first.
1t was found necessary to open the child's
stomach to remsvc tho knife, which opera
ton was successfully performed and the
| girls life saved.
A NATURAL soap well has been discovered
near Buffalo Gap, u. T. The soap is skinned
| from q boiling spring, and hardens by ex-
posure TO the air. IL is q mixture OF bo-
| rax. alksli and oil Tho quality is excel
lent, and the supply Is believed to be mex
haustble.
A WRITER in the Century tells OF piece
Of good fortune coming from the somnam-
| Dulistic habit. A young woman, troubled
and anxious about prize for which she was
70 compete. involving the writing OF an
essay, arose from her bed in sleep and
wrote paper upon subject upon which
she had not intended to writo when awake,
aud this essay secured for her the prize
AEoSDERFuL mechanical figure is the
r0fk Of a citizen Of Bridgeport, Conn. It's
about the size OF the average sixteen-year
old youth. An exhibition Of its ability was
! given 10 number of New York gentle
men, which included the removal of watch
from its pocket, and then. after listening
| for the tick, tho announcement in an audi
bic tone that g it's just s:30 gentlemen"
After that the timeplece is returned TO the
pocket
DURrSe a rain and thunderstorm at Fort
Valley, Ga, the other night, lightning
struck negro house inthe edge ofthe town,
| drove splinter OF wood in a voman's arm.
knocked boy complete somersault, turned
the cradle over con tanning the baby, knocked
all the chickens of tho roost. tore the block
loose from the yard dog. and, strange 10
| say, there was not any one killed. but no
aoubt everything was badly stunned for a
lew minutes