Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-20
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Ice still remains in Mascoma lake, N. H.,
and many neighboring hill roods are blocked
with snow.
The latest southern outrage is a Ten
nessee boy, ten years old, who eats all the
flies he can catch.
Big Winnie johnson, who tips the beam at
S1lL pounds, is the latest attraction of a Bal
timOre dime museum.
In a Pittsburg iron mill last week a mans
nose was cut off and a physician had it on
again inside of an hour.
A horse that was sick with lung fever at
Manchester, N. H., was fed on milk for a
week. He came out all right.
A spike.nosed pike was caught in Lake
Elysian, Wisconsin, that weighed 1872 pounds
and measured six feet two inches in length.
Certificates of deposits footing up some
$4,000, were found in the pack of a tramp
peddler who lately died in a Pennsylvania
poorhOuSe.
Joseph E. MARITIME of Albuquerque, N. M,
at last accounts had lived three days with a
bullet hole in his brain through which the
brain was oozing.
An alligator was killed in the Ashley river,
South Carolina, which weighed 255 pounds
and was 8 feet s inches long. 1t was sent to
Pierre Lorillard. New York.
A woman in Perry county, Kentucky, has
a circular hole in one Of her eyelids through
which she can sec when both eyes are closed.
She sleeps with one eye open, so to speak.
Tracheotomy was performed on a London
car horse. The operation proved successful,
and the animal is again at work giving as
| good service as when in the best of health.
1t is said that a stoclman at Neuces coun-
| ty, Texas, has Il cow five years old which re-
joices in eighteen horns, two on her head
after the usual fashion,, and four upon each
| leg.
A Connecticut milkman lost ten cows in
one night. The flooring of the stable gave
way and the cows which were fastened by
halters to upright posts, hanged by the neck
until dead.
Frank Collins, a st. Cloud. MINI, Eek
pressman, lit a cigar and, finding it would
not draw. cut it in two and discovered a car
| fridge in the middle with the ball pointing
to the smaller end.
4 A Reading horse that was in the habit of
scratching his nose with his hoof got its foot
in its mouth and it remained there one whole
| night before the animal was relieved from
its uncomfortable predicament.
An autopsy on three cows that met mys-
| FERROUS deaths near Decatur, ILL.,, revealed a
quantity of twine-almost a balm the
stomach of each. The Irvine wss of the king
| used on one of the farm machines.
Among the various prizes offered at a dog
show III San Francisco was one for the quiet
| est animal. The surprise of the Judges was
| great when they found that the winner was
a dog which had died and been stuffed two
| years before.
| n CUlChGu was hlllcu HI tnc IuTm OIL MT.
McFadden, Oh the Big Potlach, near
Cameron, Idaho, and when the craw was
opened a piece of go d was found about the
size OF a pea. A turkey was also killed hav-
ing pieces of gold in its craw.
A monster toad, weighing sixty-six pounds
and measuring nearly three feet around the
body, is said to have been found at Juillac,
| France, and sold for $3.50 to a manufactured
ut st. Etienne. Its oroaking bears a close
resemblance to the DarK ing of a dog.
hnnlpnpnn .aI,. ~ tha a,,- I.-.Il...
consisting OF a piece of carnelian beautifully
carved in the shape of a boat, was recently
dug up near Alton, Ill. II is about i've inches
long and a gem of artistic lapidary work. II
has been identified as a sacred badge stone
worn by some prehistoric chief.
Captain benjamin Baker, OF Key West,
Fla, has brought from Key Largo quite a
curiosity in the shape of a sweet potato, which
has the almost complete form of a coiled
snake, The potato was grown among stones,
and the shape which ii now has was made
from the peculiar formation of the stones in
the ground.
James Addington, of East Aurora, N. Y,
has a meerschaum pipe that Is probably the
finest in the country, for it is valued at $500.
The pipe is thirteen inches in length from
the bowl to the tip of the m~outhpiece, and is
an exquisite piece Of handsome carving. IL
took the workman three years to complete
the task OF making 1t.
James Cass, of Prairie G rove, Ark, picked
up an old bomb ON his farm the other day and
threw it into a brush fire that was burning
near BY. The bomb had lain there ever since
the Prairie Grove battle, twenty five years
ago, but it was in good condition and ex-
ploded, scattering missiles in every direction.
No one was hurt, but several people mar
rowly escaped injury from the missiles.
The ~four-year-old child of w. Stringer mel
with a strange death at little Rock, Ark. MIR.
| Stringer is something of a chicken fancier
and kept half a dozen game cocks in his back
yard. His little son started TO play there, aud
soon found that chasing one of the game
cocks was an exciting diversion. Suddenly
low furiously, knocking him down aud gait
ing him about the head. The boy was cut
and picked in a horrible manner before he
was rescued, and died of commissions in a
few minutes.
There is a religious sect in illinois which