Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-05-09
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Funny Episodes and Thrilling Adj
ventures Which Show That Truth
is Stranger Than Fiction.

which occurred the other night at CIncln
natl, Ohio, was one OF the strangest thai
ever occurred in this country The
boys death was due to foreign substances
in the stomach. He had been under 8
physician s care for four years, and hao
given a great deal of trouble He was
strong as giant, but had no physical
feeling. He had placed his hand on g
hot stove and watched it roast Moth
ing seemed to materially injure him Of
give him pain. He had been run oven
by oneof Ohm Robinson S circus wagons,
He had fallen from the top of the bridge
over Spring Grove avenue, a distance OF
forty feet, and once walked out of u
two-story window Any one of the
casualties would have probably killed a
boy in normal condition, but he never
broke a bone. He was Scared all
over, and surgeons sewed up great cuts
while he sat and amused himself. Al
though he was bright child at four OF
five years Of age he soon began to grow
stupid and was inclined to idiocy. His
hearing had nearly gone and he had
ceased to talk. In his stomach was
found strange variety, consisting of a
green ball OF yarn, marbles, nickels, a
large undigested apple core and other
small articles. The cause of his death
was the green ball of yarn, which con
tanned large needle. 1t stuck at the
stomach entrance and killed him.
THEY say in the Pacific Islands, speak
ing of the distribution of species, that
they never heard of our common house
fly, which is now great nuisance there,
until il was distributed from port to
port by European vessels. In the new
islands that are occasionally discovered
there is no such insect as our house
fly. Some years ago great matted mass
OF living and deeayed vegetation that
had formed in the Upper Paragua broke
away during a freshet and drifted 1000
miles to Buenos Ayres, where the peo-
pie were very much astonished by the
sudden appearance of many wild ami
mails and reptiles that had taken refuge
ON the floating island to escape the
deluge. Stanley in his first letter gives
an interesting instance of one means of
distributing species when he says that
in the heart of the great African forest,
where no white man had preceded him,
he planted corn, beans, tobacco, and
other vegetables, some of which had
certainly never been seen there before,
though Congo gardens for hundreds of
miles up the river have been greatly
enriched by innovations from this
country and Europe.
The Bergdoll Brewing Company, of
Philadelphia, some time ago received a
prairie wolf from the far West. They
considered it such a doeile beast that
they determined to put it on
duty on their premises as watch dog.
After night these animals are said to be
come vicious, and it is Thought that the
wolf would be a splendida animal to keep
guard over the beer. The wolf, however,
played the truant, and began TO be de
structive around the premises and III
the neighborhood. A watch was put on
the animal, and it succeeded in eluding
the close inspection OF the watch, and
continued his destructive FRANKS. Fl
nally the company got tired of him, and
thought it took more time and close in
spection 10 watch the animal than
the services he rendered them, and they
to make present to the ZOO
logical gardens, and accordingly sent
him there. The wolf waa put in a cage
and succeeded in eowing all the others.
Bun HARPER, Of Carroll county,
Georgia, tells Of "A very peculiar circum-
stance which happened ut John Mich
sons, tenant on L. Creels place, the
other day Mr. Nicholson's children
had pat bottle of linseed oil on the
bed. and it was iuImed over. The oil
went through the bel clothing and into
the feather bed. Mrs. Nicholson washed
the oil ont the fess she could, and the
bed YVES used tive nights On the third
day she ssas away from home, and on
comiugin she found there was n peculiar
scent iu the house, like feathers burn
ing. She went to the bed, raised the
and on examining the sheet dis
covered that it had been scorched. The
beltick was also scorched, and the lady
cut it open and took out a very large
bulk Of feathers that were on fire. The
question IS, did the linseed oil set the
feathers ON fire TIE fire did not get in
to the bed otherwise
n TRAY i-kE Nho recently returned
from Peilin asserts that there is plenty /
to smell in that city, but cry little to
see. Mos. OF the show places such as
the Tempe Of Heaven and the Marble
Bridge have ore 10y one been closed to
outside baybar.aas,' who cannot even
bride tEeir way. The houses are all
very low and mean, the streets are
wholly unpaved and are always very
muddy and dusty, and as there are no (
sewers or ces spools the filthiness of the /
town is indescribable He adds that
tie public buildings are small, and in a
decayed and tumble-down condition, /
and the nearest one can get to the en-
peror's palace IS to climb to the top of
some building outside the sacred inclos- {
IRE and surTeptitiously peep over the
wall through an opera glass. Even then
he does not see much.
c. H. PERKINS aud family, Of jackson
Township, Hancock County, Ohio, have
had most extraordinary experience.
struck the house, tearing off /
the tin sporting and part Of the weather
and all Of the cornice. It !
passed down the nine leading from the /