Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-27
SINGULARlTIES.

An alligator nest, found in Rick Greek,
Fla, last week, contained forty-three young
saurians.
An Italian beggar, arrested in New York,
confessed that he had not washed himself in
fifteen years.
A striped bass weighing fifty,three pounds
was caught at the mouth of the Croton river
the other day.
A calf was born on the farm of Michael
Gibbons, Cambria county, Pennsylvania,
without the remotest sign of a tail.
OA spike-nosed pike was caught in Lake
Ulysian, Wisconsin that weighed 1872 pounds
and measured 6 feet 2 inchef in length.
James Hunt, of Catoosa county, received a
pair of rabbit ears from Texas Monday,
that measured six inches from end to end.
A nugget of ruby ore, weighing 1000
pounds and estimated to be worth $4,000 was
taken from a mine near Elko, Cal, a few days
ago.
Men employed in the Idaho mine at Grass
!. Valley, Cal, report that the recent earth
quake in that vicinity was felt below the
1,600-foot level.
Joseph Davis of Wayne county, w. Va,
has a daughter aged six years who weighs
$50 pounds. This is believed to be the larg-
est child of its age in the world.
M. Jovis, a French aeronaut, is making a
balloon, nearly two hundred feet in height,
in which he proposes to sail through the air
across the Atlantic next autumn.
:'Nig," a black benoh-legged fyce, way
down in Georgia, has just died of grief for
loss of his playmate, q big bob-tail cat, who
some DAYS ago got to the end of his nine
lives
Tho surgaons of Eria Do - ,yo+cb;nn
with interest a man who had some five inches
of skull carried away by the explosion of a
circular saw, yet threatens to get well in
spite of it.
A queer flower which grows in Yucatan is
the mantle little handl of the guarIImo n 10
in the exact shape of the human hand, with
four fingers, thumb, nails and knuckles, ali
complete.
A ranchmau at Sayara. Colo. has n Mo
that has a norfect DOGS head with dnn5s
hair covering the head and neck. Excent.
ing this and a short bushy tail the rest of the
animal is like a pig.
III TT Kirknotricx of uowbipsy;ua n,
made a rad on the rats that had invaded his
corn crib a few DAYS AGO. and when the hat
tie ended it was discovered that 2l5 of the
rodents had met sudden death.
An animal having a head and f~orefeet like
a squirrel and hind feet like a coon has been
killed near Augusta. Nv. Several hunters
of that section, when shown the carcass de.
cIared they had NOT seen one like II before
Mr. scott of vanceburg Nv bov,nno,
last made mn his mind and nod y ~ nTit = az
ing, has buried the embaImed bodies of his
three children. which he has carried from
place To place for the last seventeen wears
A borso stolon from on ohio fou,oar tu,o
venrS aSo eame bn am ,h hn ot ~" a aar h5 Two
self bayin% a saddIe and and briiSie I nS Il Ao n rnns
traced hack for over forty niles n the i;n no
,nhora ha 49, 80 T,T;s nS w ~ itn
clam him.
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chicken inst two dave Ola IN bis IA, s"S1 q
inst aftar he hod 81 az .o ~ wnS1e ,N
fanned ito winds and c,o,,yeS az n1earIu ounpd
distinctly as any rooster, though not So
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diggars in ussEeil " co~utu KonsaS oS WI,
nj y denth of 135 feet hcneath the ear,h;ss
surface Remains If tish and 500 ,.entiias
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