Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-26

around. The spring serves as u winter rem
devious for frogs.
Here is most remarkable alliterative
coincidence: An Englishman named John
Haight who lives at Haight Carroll county,
MARYLAND, will be eighty-Aght years old
the eighth day of the eighth month (AugusD
1883.
A farmer in Piscataquis county, Me-, cut
down tree and hauled it home the other
day. When he went to split it up for fire
wood he was greatly surprised to find big
bear enjoying his winter nap inside the hol-
low log.
A lady in Grant county, Va, about sew
enty years of age, recently had quite severe
attack of measles, upon recovering from
which it was found that she was entirely
cured from rheumatism, with which she had
long suffered
Mrs. Sarah Taylor, a colored woman of
Knoxville Tenn, has three married daugh-
ters BY a remarkable coincidence Mrs.
Taylor and her daughters each gave birth to
baby on the same day recently, such un-
animity is unprecedented.
The engineer in Montreal printing office
saw what he thought was a large piece of
paper on the inner rim of the tiywheel of the
engine, but five hours later, when the engine
was stopped, the object was found to be cat,
very much demoralized by its long ride
Near Charlottesville, Linn county Oregon,
few days ago Sylvester Cochran killed
large cougar while out hunting deer. He
saw deer. He saw a deer lying down and
was Just in the act Of shooting it when the
cougar jumped out of tree on the deer.
A mountain lion trotting along between
the high banks of snow on the line OF the
Denver g. Rio Grande railroad in Colorado
recently was overtaken and thrown high
into the air. The animal landed on its feet
and ran quickly away apparently uninlured.
About seventeen miles southeast OF st.
Augustine, Fla, and four miles from the
iS n hn Sh-Iyn
the ocean with diameter of fully fifty feet.
The water rushes up with such force that it
is almost impossible for q vessel to get near
1t.
A hog in Cass county. Mich, attempted to
root a rat out Of his trough, but the rat caught
him by the nose and held on, while the porker
ran around the pen as if mad, squealing
loudly all the time. The outcry attracted the
owner of the hog, who seized a hoe and killed
the rat.
A woman of Jersey City, N. j., recently
brought home strange egg as souvenir of
trip and placed it on the parlor table. One
week after she was surprised to see little
turtle break the shell of the egg and slowly
crawl out. The heat of the room had
Matched it.
A tortoise with the Inscription, 'H. Del
bert, 17l7" was found in Schuykill county,
Pennsylvania. The name proved to be that
of man who owned and cleared the land IN
the vicinity in the early colonial times On
age, part of the lettering being almost oblit-
Grated
A Georgia negress has given birth to six
teen-pound child whose fingers and toes are
webbed to their full length. One of her
neighbors brought into the world a still more
wonderful being Its two eyeballs were in
one socket and in place of a nose it had two
and -half-inch trunk, resemblirg that OF an
elephant.
At Guys hospital, London, recently, was
| received the body of a drunkarn which was
| very much bloated. Ii was found that when
punctured ana a lighted match applied to the
| gas which escaped it burned with th1 ordi-
| nary flame of carburetted hydrogen, AS
| many as dozen of these flames were burn
| ing at the same time.
Mr., and Mrs. Turknet, aged eighty and
| sixty five, respectively, who live near Cisco,
| Eastland county, Tex, have become the
happy parents Of a bouncing baby boy. The
venerable couple have raised and mar;
| ried of good-sized family, and now declare
| that they feel just young and smart enough
| to repeat the experience
| Messrs. Brock ::the English pyrotechnists
| have at their foundry q Newfoundland dog
| which revels in fireworks. He rushes into u
| shower OF sparks with as much delight as
| most Of his kind display in a cold bath; and
| on a lighted squib being thrown within his
reach he will run and trsmple the smolder-
ing stump with bis DAVIS.
| Mr.. Baker, of Embry, Kan, sent word 70
his doctor one night that Mrs Baker had q
severe attack of cholera norbus, and he
wanted him to come out st once and relieve