Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE

h(AAD -
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show that Truth is
Stranger than Fiction.
MISS SAUNDERS, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer, is a young lady of 21 years OF
age. She resides on Central avenue, be
tween Fourth aud Fifth. When She was
a little girl Z years of age, while playing
with some children, she swallowed a
piece of window-glass about half an inch
long. 1t occasioned Miss Saunders no
ANNOYANCE until a week ago, when her
right foot gave her considerable pain at
the instep, between the foot proper and
the ankle. Aswelling followed, and the
pain grew more intense. DIR. Maley was
called, and at once decided that there
was a foreign body of some sort in n of
the large veins. Making an incision
about an inch and a hal long and half
an inch deep, he picked out with his
forceps the identical piece of glass swal-
lowed when Miss Saunders was a girl.
The glass must have entered the stomach.
passed through the large intestines, and
worked through some of the smaller
ones out into a vein, and then, gradually
working downward, after IA years Of
travel at last makes its exit.
A GOOD story is told on Judge II. G.
Strive, one Of the prominent citizens OF
Seattle. While the great fire was raging,
he rushed up into his office to save some
of his most valuable books. 1t is well
known that he had accumulated a vast
amount of material which he purposed
working up into a history of Washing
ton. This material and some Of his
books were very precious to him. so as
the fire came sweeping down towards his
office he rushed upstairs and began to Sc
lect the books most valuable. IAN,
this one | will save. No, | guess this one
is more valuable" Thus he hesitated,
and among his many books, all of which
were dear to him, he was unable to de-
eide which ones to save. Just then the
cries OF fircmen were raised, and the
Judge was urged to come down and save
his life. Being thoroughly alarmed and
still undecided he turned and grabbed
the first book in reach and rushed out Of
the building. Reaching the pavement
he found he had saved-the city dircc
tory.
THE ladies who propose to establish a
home for yagabond cats on the banks OF
the Harlem river may find some hints for
the post-mortem culture of the deceased
Thomas and Maria of their happy family
through an examination of the mummied
cats in the Museum of Art in Central
Park, says the New York Sun. There
are two of these mummies, each carefully
swathed in linen, presenting as to their
heads all the characteristics of the cat,
but Iather human than otherwise as to
their bodies. The specimens of mummied
ibis, in their folds of herring-bone and
Grecian patterns, might be bodies of
babes in the woods by their external APP
pearance, but the cat is unmistakable.
Tho two feline mummies are from Blu
bastis, the sacred city Of the cat-hcaded
goddess, Bast, and this suggests the pro-
priety Of borrowing the ancient name to
designate the new sanctuary for stray
cats which is to make music for sleepless
Harlemites.
l MADE some passing remarks the
other day on the kola nut and other
vegetables Of magic, says a writer IN the
London Times. But, if possible, even
more desirable and delightful is this
'slaughing plant Not that the veget-
able itself laughs-it does not even
smile-bnt its seeds, if eaten, incite to
imm0dcrate m~irthfulness. II is de-
scribed as bearing flowers Of a bright
yellow. and soft and woolly seed-pods,
In which are inclosed small, black beans.
The natives Of ''that part of Arabia in
which the plant grow" dry and pulver-
ize these beans, and if this powder is adj
miaistered 'it makes the soberest person
behave like a circus clown, for he will
laugh, dance, sing and cut the most fan
tastic capers. The effect lasts about an
hour, at the end Of which the patient
RECEIVERS his normal gravity, and is alto
gether oblivious of his extraordinary
conduct when under the influence of the
POWDER
FRoM Clignancourt, Paris, the famous
ward which returned General Boulanger,
there was reported the other day a ter
rible case Of cruelty to a boy of twelve.
The parents of the child, it is said, had
shut him up in a wardrobe for two years
and a half and had starved him. The pc.
lice, on going to the house, found the
boy, who looked like a living skeleton.
The parents were Immediately arrested
and were hooted vigorously by a large
crowd as they were being conveyed tc
the station. The Inflated child died on
its way to the hospital. The parents arc
well off, and no explanation of their in.
human conduct has been forthcoming
The mother Of the boy was sent back tc
her dwelling, where she tried to jump
u of a window during the day, but wa.
prevented from carrying out her suicidal
intention.
A RAT got caught by the leg in 1
store and squealed loudly for mercy, say:
a Maine exchange. The proprietor Of
the store watched the rat, which con.
tinued to squeal. Finally another RAJ
crept cautiously out and walked up tC
his unfortunate companion and evident
ly took the situation in, for they seemed
- faIbr ,,stb each o4ba~ anI arr;-.I a.