The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-29
WHAT Is SAID TO HAVE
OCCURRED.
Picked Up Here and There.

Picked Up Here ana There.
Squire Yeager, Of Snowshoe,
Penn, is sevensy-three, and all his
hair is coal black.
John Cole, of Lapeer township,
Mich, has hen which makes re-
gular thing of laying 6xS l-2-inch
eggs.
A young man named Leatherers,
of Pittsford, Mich, died from the
effects Of drinking maple sap to ex-
cess.
In Burlington, VT, workmen,
while digging for new sewer, found
nine skeletons, supposed to be those
of soldiers Of the war of 1912.
MIR. Pulver, Of North Vineland,
n. j., has eaten an egg every day in
the year for the last half century.
THE total consumption up to date
amounts TO 1,521 dozen.
The largest circulation on record
is that attained by the volume
Hymns, Ancient and Modern. ="
Twenty million copies have been
sold in the eighteen years Of its ex-
lstence.
A reporter for Paris newspaper
entered a den of hyenas to prove
that it did not require any particu-
lar pluck. He was so bitten and
torn that the surgeons doubt if he
can recover.
In one Of the natural gas towns
the LEGAL paper tells some stirring
experiences that followed its intro
duction. One cook gave her mistress
prompt notice to leave, as she would
never be willing to cook Gods
meat with hell fire"
An old church in Cahokia, ILL.,,
that was built in 1884 of cedar logs,
was torn down a few days ago to
make way for a more modern build
ing. There were only wochurches
lin America-at st. Augustine and
Santa Fe-that were older.
One of the most valuable lots in
the town of Huntington, Penn, will
always remain unimproved. By the
Will Of the party who formerly owned
it the building which was then stand
ing upon it was to be let rot away,
and then a paling fence was to be
put around it and no other building
10 be erected.
Some fifteen years ago Mrs. Alb
ner Purcell, living near Greenville.
Mich, told her husband that If he
decided a certain piece of land in a
particular way shecUuld neverspeak
TO him again. He saw his oppor-
tunity and decided the property in
that particular manner. aud since
then his wife hasn't spoke to him
once.
! A Mount Pleasant (Mich. doc
tor, whose nose was pierced by a
rifle ball last week, performed an
operation upon it. In healing one
Of his nostrils was closed up, and af-
ter two trips to Detroit and finding
no relief, the doctor proceeded to
bore hole up through his nostril,
and now can smell a dinner as far
! away as anybody.
"This isn't what | expected" said
the new arrival in Guthrie. Il was
told | would find riot and blookshed
on every corner. IL seems quiet
enough" "Qu,et?" howled the
thirsty-looking Texan who had been
in the place twenty-four hours
when YOU can't even get water fol
less than ten cents a drink how in
) thunder can il be anything else!
2 am going on to Wichita, bgosh"
T The smallest oil painting in the
! world is entitled "What An Awful
. Lie" is one inch BY an inch and d
, quarter in size. verv Handsomely
. framed, and was painted By Mueller
a celebrated artist. The picture re.
. presents two monks in conversation
one Of them evidently getting off q
whopper to the other. II is exhi'
/. bited in New York.
There is a young married lady IL
Elberton. Ga. who is snake char,
. mer. She has no fear Of these rep
tiles, and she will capture with her
hands any snake she finds in tn,
woods, and has tame several Of then
for pets. Once she captured alarg,
snake that seized her hand. Thi.
. lady did not experience any troubl,
from its fangs and continued hel
sport ofcapturingthe She seem,