Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-21

and pic ures on the walls. Among the
latter framed separately under glass
and hanging in different parts of the
room, we're three plain silver coffin
plates, engraved in the usual way, with
names, ages, and dates of death of men,
b Is of the family. This was the first
instance of my experience of this GUS
tom, which, lean, was common in the
neighborhocd. Afterwa I met with
the same custom in various parts of
other New England States"
JOHN HENRY BUoKwALTER, owner of
a fine old country seat near hunixville-
Penn, has a pig that has disgrao e him.
self a1d his relatives. Gaining access
to the cellar in some way as yet unex-
planned, the animal was attracted by its
bouquet to n laTel of pa rticularly fire
cider, the bunghole of which had b zen
clrelessly stopped, and knocking the
plug Lack and forth with his snout in
prying after the cider, he managed to
get it out. The nectar within Instantly
poured forth in puddle, aud the pig
drank till he wa helplessly drunk He
was finally seized by his legsand Eauled
away, where he slept off the effects of his
dissipation.
OK Saturday afternoon, says Vienna
correspondent of the London News, the
son of hospital porter was walking
with his mother, for whom he was carry
ing bag which they were to deliver to
q pro essor in anatomy. A tall man
followed them, and suddenly seized the
bag and disappe red with it. The thief
will have had an pleasant surprise on
opening the bag, as it contained the
head of corpse, which had been de
tatched for post mortem eXaminat on
of the brain, and which the boy was
carrying to the Anatomical Institute.
The blg and its contents have not been
recovered yet.
A NOVEL combat, witnessed by several
persons, took place ON the farm of
man named Hougham, near hebyville,
Ind, be yween large chicken hawk and
an old SOW which had troop OF little
pigs at her heels, one of which the
hawk sw5oped down upon and was
aboat to carry off when the mother
came to the rescue. Instead of flying
away the hawk turned on the sow, striv-
ing to sink talons into her eyes and
striking her heavy blows over the head
w tn it's powerful wings until the brute
was bewildered. The hawk was rapidly
getting the b st of the fight when one
of the spectators, Mccain, slipped up
and captured it.
Mrs. MICHAEL G. FTTzaERALD, the
wife of laborer Mt the works of tie
Pullman Palace Car Company in Will
mington, Del, gave birth to child
which had two h ads and two hearts.
1t had only one stomach and two arms
and two legs. Othe wise al its parts
we're dual. One head rested or each
shoulder, and where the head should
have tested there was q round covering
of flesh. The heads were both well
formed and were covered with hair
The child died soon after birth. The
birth is termed by physi clans Gee
rcgyme," and is II phenomenon for
which they cannot account.
AN Italian organ grinder with mon
key, visited Ike ne, N. H., re emily.
One day t, o monkey was missing and
weeks search fail d to find him. At
the end OF tlat time the animal rushed
up to its owler with eGery manifesto
tion of delight. The monkey looked
e ac atel AMI showed signs of brutal
ire tmen'. Inves stigat on showed that
it had b en- stolen by two boys and kept
in n Carr, t, whence it had escaped by
feigning death. For hours he did not
mo q mu O. and the cap ,ors think
ipg i d. ad threw it ON an ash heap. 1t
recovered immed a ely ard by good for
tuLe soon found its master.
JAMES BLUNDEnn, of Riyerton, Mich,
met with peculiar ace dent a few days
ago. He had shot q squirrel, and was
holding it up for his dog to admire, but
the latter wanted to bite it, and in his
effors to do so hit the hamme o. the
gun, upon which Mr.. Bl ndell WIS can
ing, with his paw The gun went of,
and Mr.. Blundell hid bloody ditch
plowed aross Lis chest. The wound
as not quite ia al, but it makes him
dizzy every time his mind rever S, like
Maud Mul!er's, to what might have
been.
The execution last month of man
for murder, in Andalusia, Spain, wv nty-
four hours after reprieye had been
actually signed by the Queen and for
warded, Ii o o;casioned so much excite
in Spain that the government has drawn
up bill to giye to tel graphic me-
s GO in such ca o, the foice of formal
! wlitten oede". in this case the authori-
ties ch rged with the execution were
no ife by TELEGRAPH thlt the repcieve
had b en- signed and vas then ol its
way, bit theY insisted that they were
powerless to delay the execution i'll the
abs nee OF the formal documents.
MARTIN MAaRAMRAT, of Mississippi,
had II fight with an alligator in a swamp.
He killel m after long Struggle, bat
in trying to get it home he was CAUGHT
in quag nire. He SINK to his wa st,
.and wou d have gone further hut Ee
clasp2d his ans around the al;g1tor's n
tall Ten days later he was found dead,
having made desperate efforts to BITE
through the gators hide and set flesh
enough to sustain life.
AMERICAN wild turkeys have been sue
cessfully acclimatized in Austria on that
portion of the estate of Count Breuner
which is known rs the Danubian mead
ows, and great .flocks of them are to be
seen in his forests. 1t is said that u
brown Norfolk turkey in Eegland may
be made to resemble the American wild
bird in color and flavor by examining it
with walnuts, soaked in water, q week
before it is killed.
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