Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-24

pear to JOIN or run into one Just below
the Adam apple. The freak has only
one arm, but three legs, the extra limb
sticking back like kangaroo's tail, ,and
serving as prop when the baby is
placed on it's feet. At birth the thing
weighed three pounds, but now weighs
eighteen. 1t can take nouishment with
either mouth or both at the same time
from two nurses. The mother is a large,
notwithstanding woman. She cannot
explain the cause of the strange deform-
ity of her child.
A Strange Creature.
In going over my plantation few
days ago | saw some COW tracks, says n
correspondent of the Jackson Miss.
Argus. The tracks were in place,
strange to say. that a COW could not
possibly have gotten into. Moved by
curiosity followed the tracks, and di-
rectly L came upon al don't know
whether you would call it wild man or
beast. 1t had hoofs like a COW, hair
like a COW, a short tail something like
a deer, hands like a man, and extra
large eyes. 1t walked like man bent
half forward. On getting a scent of
me it gave peculiar whistle like
deer, raised its head, and dashed away.
| was greftly excited, but as soon as |
recovered sufficiently | went to see
my neighbor, Joe Wright. He asked
me not to say anything about it, as he
thought he could get q large steel trap
with wings like q partridge net for
800. and catch the creature. In case
this plan failed Mr.. Wright said he
would offer a $500 reward for it alive, or
$3.50 for its hide. Mr.. Wright already
circus wagon and says that if he could
get this curiosity our fortune would be
made. Neighbor Wright is married
man and didn't move fast enough for
me, for. honestly, am afraid to move
about my premises. | went to Marshal
Malone, but he didn't give me much
encouragement. Then | went to Mar
shall Coon. He said he was mo de-
tective and did not consider it his busi
ness to tackle Il wild man in the woods,
but if it came to town and cut up any
devilment he would carry it before the
mayor" spoke to the sheriff about it
and he said he would do all in his power
to capture it, and. with this object in
view, has ordered fine bloodhound.
He wants $50 men to meet him in jack
son on the fourth Sunday in this month,
but as for myself, l am going to stay at
Neighbor Balls till that animal is
| either caught or run out of the country.
| | think it will be very dangerous for
| black folks to gather blackberries until
| it is caught or killed.
~ Saved by Oil.
Another wreck deserves attention
| because Of its bearing upon problem
| now deeply interesting seafarers the
world over. 1t happened in 1916, and
Superintendent Darby is our authority,
says Scribners. A wild gale had sud
denly sprung up, and he and his men
were patrolling the beach, when they
deserted large schooner running
right down before the storm dead on to
| the lee shore. The sea was breaking
everywhere as far as the eye could
reach, and it seemed impossible for any
vessel to live in it for moment; yet on
| the schooner came, passing breaker
after breaker uninjured, the extraor-
| dinary thing being that, although the
| huge waves raised their curled heads
almost to the top of her masts, and the
fall of any of them upon her deck would
| have crushed her like an eggshell, not
| one seemed permitted to touch her. On
| the contrary, rs if by miracle, the sea
| became smooth ere it reached her, and
| she left n shining track behind. After
some minutes of thrilling suspense she
was hurled high and dry upon the beach,
| and every one of her crew rescued un-
| injured.
| Then came the explanation OF the
| strange phenomenon which had so mys-
| titled Superintendent Darby. Two large
casks filled with fish oil had been dashed
in the fore-rigging, and securely lashed
| beside them, two of the strongest sail
ors in the crew with long wooden ladies
| i'm hand, had been throwing the Oil high
up in the air, where 1T was caught by
the wind and carried far too leeward in
advance of the vessel, spreading over
the sea with such effect that, while il
was raging, pitching and breaking all
about her, not u barrel of water fell
upon the Amos deck. | believe this
may with safety be claimed as one ol
the earliest recorded instances of the
practical application of oil to the
troubled waters.
| Lightning's Freaks
While Mr.. and Mrs. Bigham, OF Flor
ence, S. c., were sitting, in company
with the latters little sister; in one o.
the rooms of their residence, Lightning
struck the east end of the house, de-
molishing that part of the structure en-
tirely, striking Mr.. Bigham on the
head and running down his right side
tearing the shoe entirely from his foot
His wife was thrown about six feet into
the centre of the room, and both were
covered with the falling timbers and
seriously bruised. The sister who was