Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-08-14
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show that Truth is
Stranger than Fiction.


A CLERGYMAN tells this story in thu
Chicago Advance: "a little time ago
was going from Chicago to Cleveland
Three or four of us men struck up an ac'
quaintance, as they Il don't smoke)
struck up light in the smoking room.
Each gave little biography of his recent
life. II have been to Chicago, said Mr..
A. B., ''to collect some conscience
money. A good many years ago | made
an invention. 1t was stolen from me by
some Chicago people. / spent much
money in trying to get my rights, and did
not get them. Two weeks ago | received
letter from the house in Chicago which
had been manufacturing and selling my
invention, saying that if would come TO
Chicago should hear of something to my
interest l went to the place appointed
and met gentleman who said: You are
A. Ar Yes Our house has for years
been making and selling an invention OF
yours. | have recently become Chris
tian. know l have done wrong, and +
want now to do all l can to right that
wrong. Will you please say how much
money we shall pay you for the wrong
we have done your / thanked him, and
said wanted time to reflect. l took the
time and gave an answer. Turning to
the cashier, the gentleman said: make
out check for so much, a sum double
the amount had named. That check
was certified, and l now have it in my
pocket am glad to to tell this incl
! dent, for many reasons, one of which is
( that it tends to answer the charge that is
/ frequently made that being Christian
makes no difference with ones business
habits"
WHILE blasting stone from the Mar
bingham quarry, near Fort Dodge, Iowa,
there was recently discovered the prints
Of a gigantic foot on a shelf of rock
which had been covered with earth and
vegetation, but which was displaced by
the explosion. The foot is apparently
that of human being, though provided
with nails of great length and curved
slightly at the end, as can be seen by the
deeper indentations at the ends of the
marks. The prints are seven in number,
varying considerably in distinctness. each
measuring fraction less than two feet in
length, and broad in proportion. The
toes are shorter than is usual in the
human foot and spread much wider
apart, but the heel is narrow and round
ing. The prints al point in the same
direction, and are from four to four md
half feet apart, the most clearly defined
sinking about two inches into the rock.
There is, in addition to the foot-marks,
indications of some heavy object having
been dragged over the rocks after the
creature whose tracks arc there. This
object was probably club, to Judge by
the marks it made. The ledge of rocks
on which this valuable record Of a pre-
historic age is to be seen. was
detached with the greatest care.
but an unfortunate fall broke the
piece right across the footprint most
clearly defined The breakage will be
repaired as skilfully as possible with
cement, and the rock forwarded to the
Museum of Geology and Paleontology at
Dubuque.
A DUEL recently took place in a travel
ing circus temporarily stationed in
village outside Paris, and very curious /
were the consequences. 1.-TWO acrobats,
says despatch to the London Daily |
Telegraph, "quarrelled, and resolved to .
fight duel. The place chosen was the
riug-after the public performance, of
cause.-the conditions being two shots
at 20 PAGES. AS usual, neither of the
combatants was hurt, and their wounded
honors being satisfied the incident termi-
mated. The duelists and their seconds
overlooked the presence of two members
OF their company, who were quietly
munching nuts in a corner. These were
two trained monkeys, who had been
taught to ride around the ring dressed
up as soldiers, and to fire pistols en- route.
The monkeys saw the performance of
their masters, and when the way was
clear they resolved to initiate it. Gravely
loading their pistols they faced each
other-not at twenty-five PAGES, but ut
five-and fired. They both fell dead,
one with its head nearly blown off and
the other shot in the breast. At the
sound of the shots the master of the
circus rushed in and found the bodies of
the initiative duelists in the ring. with
the still smoking pistols lying by them. "
On recent morning at the Kincaid
Manufacturing Company's mill near Grit
fin, Ca, Charlie Ballard, a son of Riley
Ballard, had the misfortune to have his
nose entirely severed from his face by
fast-running belt which had slipped off
from pulley, and the edge striking him
on the side of the nose cut entirely
through. DR.. ]. NJ. Kelley was sum
moned to the wounded mans relief as :
soon as possible, and he responded at
once. When he reached the place.
which was about a mile out, and had I
seen the injured man, he inquired for the
nose, which it seems no one in the excite |
ment caused by the accident had thought
Of. A search was made for the missing s
and it was found in pile Of |
trash on the floor where it had fallen; it I
was taken and washed in hot water until {
i became waFn and was put back in
place, the wound properly dressed, aud j
when done hardly showed that it had ever I
been severed from the face. and it is !
likely to get well. The space of time I
between the accident and that of placing