Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-07-04
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Ad-
ventures Which Show That Truth
is Stranger Than Fiction.


Or the remarkable personages in New
Haven, Conn. ,one of those most worthy
- note is BOY of fifteen years, the
son of Tinothy Dwight, ID. d., Presi-
dent OF Yale College. At the age of
thir-~.r, - had acquired an education
far In advance of the average man, was
fitted to enter Yale, and had mastered
all the Greek and Latin which is re-
quired at any college in this country.
At that time his age prevented him from
entering Yale, but he will enter the col
lege this fall and among other things
will study the Greek and Latin au-
thors for two years, with whom he was
familiar two years ago. The little fellow
has used up the two years which inter
vened between the time of the completion
of his fitting and arrival at an age which
would admit him to college, in studying
Arabic and Syriac, and he has n good
knowledge of these languages. To see
the little youngster (for he only weighs
seventy-five or eighty pounds) going
! along the street in roundabout jacket
and his sandy locks sticking out from
under the visor of his cap, no one would
think that this youthful compendium
of the classics was more than an ordin-
airy little grammar school kid.
THE body of John Meyers, passenger
train engineer on the Wabash, was bur-
led in Dubuque, Iowa. He was stricken
with paralysis while on his engine just
before reaching the end OF his run at
Sparta, Mo. He knew that his time had
come, and told his fireman he had only
few hours to live. Summoning all his
strength, he pulled open the throttle of
his engine, and made the great machine
fairly bound in order to reach the sta
ton of Sparta before he became perfect
ly helpless As the train dashed along
the rigor became more intense, and
when he dashed into the station no was
almost completely paralyzed. His left
arm alone was capable of action, and
with it he shut off steam and stopped
his train at the station. He was carried
from his cab, and before his wife and
children could reach his bedside he was
speechless, and died in a few minutes.
A WAITER at Boston hotel says there
is rat of unusual intelligence which
haunts the hotel kitchen, and, when oc-
casion offers, steals food from the cook.
He says this rat ought to be caught and
exhibited as q marvel at the dime
museums. Several stories of sagacity
are told about this rodent, Of which the
following is one: "a few evenings ago"
said the waiter, 81 had occasion to go |
down into the kitchen. 1t was dusky
when arrived, and MS soon as my eyes
would permit me to get used to the light |
/ saw large rat walk deliberately up to
a dish of doughnuts and begin to take |
them out one by one and string them ON |
his tail, as you would string beads. |
When he had put ON five and loaded his /
tail all up, he turned around, took the |
end of his tail between his teeth, and /
walked off as if he were going to mus
ter"
WHILE prowling around among the
wrecked building in the vicinity of Main 1
street, Johnstown, a Braddock man dis /
covered a half-drowned cat that had
found lcdgment in a hole near the top |
of house. He climbed up to where it |
was at the risk of his life, and brought it 1
down. There didn't seem to b. much 1
life in it, but after washing the mud off
of it, and keeping it under his coat for
awhile it began to revive. When he
brought it up TO the station a great
crowd gathered around him, and he was
offered big prices for "Flood Tom." as
he called his pet He refused all offers,
and said that he intended to keep it as
long as it lived, and then stuff its skin
and keep it in glass cage. As near as
could be judged it wasa Maltese, but its
fur was so mud stained that its color
was not well established.
A GENTLEMAN living near Milwaukee,
Wis, writes that he has collie that is
a great tree climber, and it is hard lines
for squirrel tackling q tree that the
dog can make his way up. Straight
trees are too much for him, of course,
but where there is a lean to it he is all
right. Jack is what the collie is called,
md he always had craze for squirrel
hunting and was so eager in the chase
thnt he got in the way OF sclambling up
inclined trunks, finally becoming very .
expert. He has been known to go up a ,
Tree to height of forty feet above the :
ground. When returning he hugs the
surface of the tree as closely as possible ,
md backs down, digging his short claws h,
INTO the bark until near the earth, when
ne jumps. -[St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ,
EVEN carrier-pigeons seem to miss
heir route now and then. Captain Nor s
is of the schooner Galena, which re-
emily arrived at Charleston, S. c., re-
oorts that on the second day after leav-
ng New York his vessel was boarded by !
! pigeon SO exhausted from its long
light that it could be caught without !
my trouble. On one leg it still bore a
of rubber band with ''SS" :
tamped on it, but the message attached
o that band had been lost. No land q
nd NO other vessel were in sipht at the