The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-08-09

its body. After several minutes of bitter
warfare the life of .hc snake was crushed
out 10y puSsy's teeth. When the coils of
the snake were cut away, the cat was
nearly dead. It's first blow, however. was
so sudden. and its grip is vise-iike.
that the RATHER was unable to sink its
poison fangs in her flesh. Pussy was
resUscitated, and when her fractured ribs
mend she will be all right.
Ok Randall's Island, New York City,
in the children's hospital. there is little
girl of twelve years who is the particular
pride of all the attendants. The child,
after severe attack of scarlet fever, was
left totally blind and deaf, but her powers
of speech remained, and, as is always the
case, her sound senses became far more
acute than they had been before she was
stricken by sickness. Her mind is singu-
larly bright and active. and she has made
such good use of her power of speech
and feeling that she knows all the chill
dren in the ward by name, and can tell
who they are by the peculiar sound of
their footballs. Every newcomer is pre-
sented to her. She lays her hand on the
strangers head, and repeats all the names
she knows, until at the right one the
child in front of her mods her head.
After this, the little blind prodigy never
forgcts the newcomer
THE novel spectacle was presented in
the corridor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
In New York, on a recent Saturday night
ola Belgian poodle of large size walking
about with a small pipe in his mouth and
occasionally emitting cloud of smoke
from between his teeth. The dog was
handsome one of his breed, with silken,
light brown hair covering its round bar
relied body and intelligent face, while his
limbs were slender and hairless. The
animal is the property of Mr.. Max Somer-
vile, of Philadelphia, wealthy Amcri-
can who spends most of his time in Paris,
where he picked up his four footed COM
panion some years ago. The poodle
thinks as much of his aftcr-dinner pipe as
human smokers do Of their pipes or
cigars, and carries it around in his teeth
long after the few whiffs of smoke he is
permitted to indulge in have ended his
refreshment.
A Resident of Martinsville, Ind,
named Jerry Givens, has received letter
from rich uncle in California which in
dictates that the young man is likely to be
adopted and made his heir. A strange
family history is recalled by this incident.
There was an arrangement between the
man now in California and the father of
young Jerry, who is long since dead
Henry, the elder brother, drifted to the
far West and discovered the whereabouts
of his young heir only through apublica-
ton which narrated remarkable adven-
ture in which the latter was engaged.
Some time ago, while hunting in the
White River bottoms, he encountered
great nest of snakes. This circumstance
gained wide reputation in the papers, and
finally caught the eye of the elder Civ
ems.
\ FEW days ago there was received at
the Treasury Department in Washington
a most peculiar bank note. 1t was of the
$50 or so denomination, according to
which side was examined, for, by some
remarkable mistake, one side was printed
with the general face of a twenty dollar
bill, while the other had all the figures
and devices of so. The note was re-
turned to the Treasury by the cashier of
the First Washington National Bank of
Jersey City. An investigation was made
at Washington, and il was found that two
of these notes had been issued, but no
one knew where the other was. 1: now
turns out that the second one is also in
Jersey. 1t is in the possession of Howard
Bailey of the Newark Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company.
A NEW genius in the begging line has
made his appearance in New York. He
is dressed like a respectable longshOre-
man, is careful to keep himself neat and
clean, and always carries bunch of cot
ton and two dimes about with him. He
stuffs the cotton in one check, assumes an
expression of intense misery. puts the
dimes in the hand that is not engaged
in rubbing his swollen check, and asks
the first benevolent looking man he meets
for nickle to complete the sum of TWEEN
ty-tive cents necessary to have a tooth
extracted.
A CABLEGRAM from Berlin announces
that Captain Kund has discovered tribe
of dwarfs, hiterto unknown, who live in
the dense forests forming part of the Ger
man colony of CAMERON in Africa. They
lead nomad lives, wandering about the
forests, through which they make their
way with surprising rapidity. They call
themselves the Bod aeli and are hunters
of the elephant, which they kill with
lanccs. These little people live about
200 miles north of the dwarfs whom Du
Chailiu discovered wears ago.
MARGARET KINNEY of Alpena, Mich,
has been asleep for two years. She lies
motionless on the bed for two weeks at a
time, taking neither food nor drink.
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