Wichita eagle., 1889-04-12
SINGULAR SUBJECTS.


In certain parts Of Scotland the hard.
headed Scotchman drinks from the skull Of
a suicide for the cure OF epilepsy.
Iris said that Shawnee County, Kan, has
mother and daughter who are both pupils IN
the same school. and both of the school age.
The largest rat on record was captured
the other day in the city hall at Macon, ga
Its weight was said to have been fully i've
pounds.
A LADY of Knoxville, Tenn, was some
what overcome by being made thirdly
grandmother, and all on the same day, by
each of her three daughters.
A YOUNG lady whose pocket had been
picked found therein valuable diamond
ring. She supposedly ring to have been
dropped by the thief in the act of rifiing her
pocket.
PARKs FERRY. N. Y, has an infant prod
ICY in the person Of Wallace Parks, Jr., who
is four years DID, weighs sixty-two pounds
and has the physical development OF a
twelve-year-old boy.
THE youngest smoker in the country is
an infantile Cincinnatian, about three years
Of age, who looks with disdain upon the
common herd while he serenely puffs the
fumes of an able-bodied cigar.
A PHILADELPHIA lady of fashion is ac-
companied in her travels by a singular pet.
1t is an automatic pug-dog, which, when
wound up, goes through many of the move
ments of living cog. The lady calls her
novel pet Brook because she expects it
to go on forever.
A SMALL trout with two heads has been
discovered recently in the fish hatchery at
Ionia, Mich. The heads are each perfectly
formed and the bodies unite at the back fin.
The little fellow is described as looking like
an animated bootjack, and asalively Wrig-
gler as any fish in the pond
a NOVEL mode of amusement is in vogue
among the Washoe and Pinto Indians Of
Nevada. 1t is to pit their squaws against
each other in regular go-as-you-please
'scrapping' match While the squaws are
tearing each other to pieces, their noble
lords squat around smoking and betting
GRASS VALLEY, Cal, rejoices in a native
born Chinese-American belle. She is about
fourteen years old, and dresses and con-
ducts herself in the most approved Ameri-
can manner. She is the daughter of Tin
10y, wealthy Chinaman, who is very
proud of his daughters many accomplish
mentS.
GILBERT HEAL, of Weston, Me-, is a very
old man for one who has had but twenty-siX
birthdays, for he was born in Georgetown,
Me-, il 1873. But the fact that he was born
On the 29th Of February easily accounts for
his poverty in birthdays. He is in fairly
good health, and seems likely to see another
birthday.
THERE is s curious well in Williamsburgh
County, S. &. 1t is about twenty feet deep,
and the water ON one side of 1t is all the
| time bubbling up as if boiling. On the other
side the water is continually Sizing and
popping as though confined in a hot vessel.
The noise can be heard some distance from
the we'll The water is cold and fine.
A NOVEL mode of capturing woodchucks
is practised by man in Webster County,
". Va He attaches ball of wicking TO
the shell Of small terrapin, and setting
fire to the ball, starts the reptile into the
woodchucks burrow. This sends the ami
NAL out at the other hole where the hunter
is ready to receive him. The terrapin soon
follows and is recaptured.
AT ithaca, N. Y, the other day a run
away horse entered the room of house in
! which were a hot stove and a bed upon
which lay a sick girl. After knocking the
stove over the plunging animal attempted
/ to get on the bed, but it gave way beneath
| his fore feet, and the invalid had narrow
escape from being crushed. The horse was
finally secured, but left the house looking
/ as if hurricane had effected an entrance.
A BoAT-LoAD of Chinese women were re-
Gently landed at San Francisco, as was
learned, for immoral purposes, whereupon
the police set about reloading them for an
immediate return trip to their native
shores The women being unwilling to re-
/ turn, there ensued such battle as is rarely,
4 if ever, witnessed. After much trouble
they were reshipped and sailed away, hurl-
/ ing fragments e broken china at the re-
/ treating home # the brave