Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-29
SlNGULARlTlES.

At Halifax, recently, a perfectly formed
egg, shell and all, about the size of a robins
egg, was found in the yolk of a hens egg.
DAn Australian family Of freaks has just
been brought to England, consisting of four
children, the youngest of whom is eight
years old, five feet eleven in height and
weighs $50 pounds.
A child lately born near Maysville, KY,
according to a dispatch from that place, has
no arms, but q protuberance extending a few
inches from each shoulder and terminating in
the fingers. 'Its legs are very short and
stubby and turn backward"
Lightning played a queer caper on a ranch
near Buffalo, Wyo. Ter, recently. 1t struck
a barb wire fence. and for a distance of 400
yards melted the barbs without ~iniuring the
strands, and pulled one end Of the staples
holding the wires to the posts.
John Roll, residing in Redmon, Ill, is the
owner of a horse that is twenty hands high,
weighs $500 pounds, and is said to be the
largest horse in the world. 1t IS five years
old, never was off Rolls farm, never has
been broken, and has never been shod. The
blacksmith at Redmon is afraid to shoe the
horse.
"You had better take that pipe out of your
mouth, it will draw lightning" said a colored
man near AGREE, Ga, as Nellie Brown, a
colored cook, was smoking a pipe in her door:
Nellie fell dead. The lightning struck her
upon the top of the head. The colored people
believe the pipe drew the lightning.
Jim Blevlns, living near White Rock, Tex,
killed a very large chicken snake a few days
ago, and noticing the snakes body was I'M
usually large and ill-shaped, made an incision
and found it to contain a large cow horn and
in the horn a prairie rat. 1t is supposed that
the snake chased the rat into the horn, and
to secure the rat swallowed the horn.
A Jersey cow down in Georgia was so in
| consolable for her calf, which died at six
Sryaolro old that chn yp1r11 nNithnr nnf rnr
allow herself to be MIXED, and became no
end of a nuisance. In this extremity her
owner was advised to put the calf's hide
where she could see and smell it, and now
and licking the hide while the milkmaid
deity draws from her several gallons of rich
milk.
A young woman on her way home from
church in Mentone, Ind, the other night was
caught IN a thunder shower and struck by
LIGHTNING. 1t is reported that though ter
ribly frightened she managed to reach
home. On examination she found that the
| fluid had bent two of the hairpins on her
head and actually melted one, but the skin
was not abraded, and she was not injured a
particle.
Some strange things were brought up from
| the earth while drilling wells near Albany,
Ga. White pine logs were brought up from
q depth of 700 feet. Mr.. Merritt, at a depth
of twenty-seven feet. dug through a mass of
seven feet of petrifed bones. They were
thigh bones, ribs, finger bones, teeth, and
with these remains of some forgotten race,
immense bones of animals now extinct. A
Mr.. Bowles. in digging ont for a mill founda-
ton, came upon the shore OF an ancient
ocean. This sand showed the ripples from
the waves and was covered with marine re-
| mains, shells, sharks teeth and bones of
deep sea monsters.
The schooner Paul Boynton at Portland
Me-, from Georges Banks, brought a fish
which as yet lacks Identification 1t was
caught in deep water on a halibut trawl and
weighs 175 pounds and is about as large as
the top of a hogshead, being almost as broad
as it is long. When caught it was a bright
red color, and marked with beautiful silver
spots that varied in size from about the di-
mansions of a five cent piece to a silver dol
lar. After being out of water some time IT
turned, except the fins, to a purple color, the
silver marks remaining unchanged. A fin is
situated just back of the gills and well up on
each side of the body, and another Is located
underneath. The tail is short and broad.