Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-18

6uiA'J.
A COUPLE of boys captured shark
weighing 400 pounds off South Stamford,
Conn.,, the other day. The boys were
out with boat and seine. Suddenly,
well up in the coarse sedge, they saw q
monster fish OF some sort. They didn't
try the seine business ON him-that was
useless. But they so managed with boat
and bushes that the big fish seemed
afraid to try to reach deeper water, and
the falling tide finally left him aground.
Then the boys out with jack-knives and
went at the fish in regular harpoon style,
and soon had him in such shape that he
wouldn't kick. The fish was just thir-
teen feet long.
THE Atlanta Constitution tells OF
strictly temperate Georgia man who rec
emily saw large chicken snake enter his
barn and swallow the only egg in a nest
on the inside of the wall. The snake
then sighted a nest on the outside, and
to reach it put about half of its body
through space between the timbers.
The snake in this position swallowed an
egg from the nest ON the outside. 1t
then backed through the space until the
egg in the part of the body next to the
head came against the timber. 1t could
go no further. After working hard for
some time trying release itself, the reptile
died.
DURING thunder storm in Colorado
lumber-camp Mexican was struck on the
head by lightning, which ran down one
side of his face, over the shoulder, trans
versely across the breast, down around
one leg, and out through the shoe-top.
His face was badly burned, and the course
of the current over him was marked bya
red brand. His clothes were torn from
him, and the sole of his shoe completely
torn off. He lay apparently dead, and
was left at the place until the storm was
over. After lying in the rain for two
hours he was resuscitated, and is now as
we'll as ever except for the burn.
A LADY in Calamus, a small town west
of Peoria, Iowa, has been suffering for
six months with severe attack of neur-
algia, being affected particularly in the
upper part of the head. She had taken
a regular course of medication without
receiving any relief. A few days ago
while combing her hair the comb met an
obstruction, which caused her sharp pain
and headache. An examination resulted
in the discovery and extraction from the
scalp of common steel sewing needle.
How it got there is not known, but it is
thought that the needle worked up from
the lower part of the body.
A CURIOUS case of death is that report
ed from Toronto, where woman is said
to have died from seasickness. Such in
stances are of very infrequent occurrence,
although, of course, they are liable to
happen at any time. But the general
disturbance of the system that is common
to unseasoned travellers on the ocean, al
though sufficiently severe at the time, is
not Of fatal tendency. And in this
case the victim of seasickness had never
been at sea. She had travelled only on
the lakes, and there the nausea that end
ed her life was induced.
THE queer-looking Tower building,
although only twenty feet in width, is
one of the tallest buildings in New York.
The walls are practically framework of
iron columns, fastened together top and
bottom by beams of steel. Expansion
joints of the metal work allow for the
expansion and contraction produced by
changes in the temperature of the weather.
On the hottest day in August the build
ing is 175 feet and 2 inches high. The
coldest day in midwinter finds it just one
inch shorter.
E. A. GARLAND, Wisconsin man, has
invented peculiar clock. 1t consists of
three eggshells set on pivots, one to de-
note the hours, one the minutes and the
other the seconds The shells revolve
on the pivots without apparent mechan-
ism to give them motion. Mr.. Garland
intends making one with glass balls and
hanging an incandescent lamp in each
ball, so the clock can be made to serve as
a lamp as well as timepiece.
MIR. DARIUS L. GoFF, a mill-owner of
Pawtucket, r. l., has in the hall of his
house wonderful clock. 1t is wound
by the opening and closing of the 'front.'
door. 1t lights the gas jet in the hall in
the evening and turns it out at bed
In the morning it wakes the servants,
then arouses the family, and lastly rings
the breakfast 1t strikes the hour
in all the rooms of the house simultane-
ously.
SwEATy horses are peculiarly obnox-
ious to bees. A Pennsylvania farmer,
ignorant or careless of this fact. stopped
near dozen or more hives of the honey
makers, which fiercely, and probably
fatally, attacked the team, causing
runaway that injured his daughter ter
ribiy and covered his face and arms with
so many stings that they had to be re-
moved with fine-tooth COMP.
A THIEF recently caught in New York
City claims that his conscience would al
low him to take but thirty eight dollars
out or sixty when he was toying with an
old lady's roll of bills. But the Judge
declared that "a thief with half con-
science was as bad as thief with no con-
science at all, "and he proceeded to sem
tence him.
A FAMILY in Parkersburg, W. Va, ha
been losing meats so often from the wei
where they had been put to keep cool
and fresh that they set watch finally
and discovered the thief to be black
snake seven feet long.
HENRY FRozER, of Caernarvon, Pa, q
tobacco grower, encountered large cop
perhead snake and killed it. The reptile
was cut open, when thirty-five young
snakes made their debut, and were also
speedily dispatched.