Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-01-24
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adj
ventures Which show that Truth
is Stranger than Fiction.


A VERY curious custom is that called
the woman s huat, which prevails among
some of the aboriginal tribes of ChOta
NagDOre, India. 1t Is observed when
ever any calamity falls upon the com
munity-such as, perhaps, a visitation
of cholera. The women put on mems
clothes, take up arms, and go a-hunting
not in the lungles, but In the nearest
village east Of them. They chase pigs
and fowls, take as their own everything
they kill, and levy black-maii from the
heads of the villages for the purchase of
liquor, or else they allow themselves to
be bought of for q small some OF money
and q pig. Toward evening the hunt
ing party retire to a stream, cook and
eat their meal, drink their liquor and
then return home. having acquitted
themselves during the day In q thor
OughIY masculine aud bOisterOCs man
ner. Then the village that has been
visited goes on a similar excursion to
the village east of 1t, and so on to the
eastern border of the district. By this
series of excursions it is suppC sed that
the evil spirit Is safely conducted out of
the district without offending its dignity.
AN Irish woman went into jeremiah
Kelly's emigrant Office, in Fall River,
Mass, a few weeks ago and asked for
draft for 60, directing that it be sent TO
an address which she left with Mr..
Kelly. The woman said that she had
been a servant IN a Well-tO-dO family in
Ireland forty years ago, at the time of a
famine. She gave food to the suffering
poor from the larder of the household
without the knowledge Of her mistress.
The fact that she had given away what
did not h alOy1rr IN hon, T,vavraG 11rl0T1 tho
servants mind. aud she resolved to pay
back the value Of the goods whenever
she became able. Later, she removed
to this country and began to save what
little money she could spare until she
had $40. This she took to Mr.. Kelly
with the request that he should forward
it to her old mistress, and not to tell her
whence it came. In the forty years con
ditions have greatly changed, and the
mistress was no longer rich. She wrote
that the money was indeed a treasure
to her in her present circumstances, and
she was deeply touched at her old ser
wants honesty.
AT Brunswick, Ga, James T. Lam
bright's cook had quite an experience
with hawk. His hawkship had grown
hungry from tn mornings fasting, and
suddenly determined to enjOv passing
pigeon, so at him he went. Tie pigeon
few for dear life, and recognizing that
man was its best friend, darted into the
kitchen through an open door and hid
under a table. The hawk was in hot
pursuit, and as he en- cred the door he
saw window beyond, and suppC sing
his prey had gone that way darted for
the aperture, but, to his horror, found
an invisible pane of glass, through
which his momentum clrried him and
to the ground beyond, wi ere he lay for
some time. ''WhO trOW dat brick %
sang out the cook. Mr.. Lambright
arrived on the scene just in time to dis
cover that f'da5 bc.ck'' was q hawk, and
to see him disappear after recOve- ing
from his encounter with the window
pane.
THE ChoY5 Sinb0n, a native paper Of
Yokohama, relates the circumstances Of
a deed as reFotng as those of human
blood baths sometimes taken as an anti
dOte for poison. Recently q body was
exhumed from the cemetery at Kami-
yama, and the head carried off. While
an investigation was IN progress the
authorities heard thai two men named
F'Us llzichi and ZiCtarO had been heard
speaking of the beneficial effects of
human flesh for certain diseases. On
October IS, the house of Fusakichi was
entered, when a horrible discovery was
made. A bath had been made, from
which a disagTeeable smell arose. The
police discovered in this human flesh
bath tooth and portions Of the hair of
the head which had Eeen stolen from
the cemetery by these ghOuls.
TRAVELLERS sometimes have strange
| bedfeIlows, in India. A frst-class pass
enger, by a slow passenger train run
ming between HOwrah and AssensOle,
was disagIeaably surprise ed to find on
waking from a sound sleep that some
/ thing cold had come in contact with his
! hand. On looking at the hand, what
was his horror to lind that underneath
/ 1t was a cobra As the snake was asleep,
and had not coiled itself around the
! hand, the gentleman sprang up, and
managed to evads its bite. How it got
/ into the carriage is one Of those mYs-
/ teries no one can unraVel. 1t may have
effected an entrance while the carriage
was in the siding at HOwTah, and quietly
/ enscOnced itself behind the cushions Of
/ the carriage seat.
Two HaIloweI (NLe.) sportsmen saw
an interesting family in a Maine stream.
/ They suddenly found their boat sur
/ rounded by young muskratss which were
as playful as kittens, diving and com
ing to the surface again, swimming
around the boat and looking up to it
with eyes that did not betray the least
! suspicion of danger. For some minutes
1 the men watched the man9uvres, until
] two old musk a g made their appearance.
/ The latter came out from the shore and
dove with q splash that seemed to be the
signal for the younger ones to follow,
which they quickly did.
A NOVEL contest between birds was
Witnessed recently at Fishkill, N. Y
A small gray eagle had been noticed
/ fying to and from the mountains, and
On this occasion, while the bird was
soaring in lofty majesty over some fields,
it was attacked by half a dozen crows.