Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-03-20
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ASSAbAA 40 AMI 4NOlOENT6 VI
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show that Truth is
Stranger than Fiction.
A SPECIAL to the st. Louis Globe Dem
ocrat from Kosciusko, Miss, says: One OF
the most eccentric men who ever lived in
the State Of Mississippi is Frank o., Of
this place. He is now 95 years Of age,
and hiseccentTicities, always great, have
increased with his years. Seventy years
ago he was young lawyer and stood
high at the bar as man Of wonderful
attachments. He was engaged to be
married to beautiful girl who died a
short time before the wedding was to
have taken place. After tho death of
his affianced he developed number Of
peculiarities. He kept up his studies,
but instead Of devoting his attention to
the practice Of law, he went into any
thing and everything by which money
could be made. His hair and beard were
allowed to grow, his clothes became rag
ged, his shoes worn out and tied on BY
means Of twine. Soon he refused to buy
clothes and walked the streets with a
blanket wrapped around him in Indian
fashion. He built house without doors.
the entrance being from underneath,
like that Of a turkey pen. Yet with all
his eccentricitiesr and miserly habits he
was respected bnsacc6unt Of his great in
tellect, which seemed to be still unim-
paired. A few yeatsago he married q
widow with several grown children, Civ
ing each Of the children farm on his
wedding day, but the marriage did not
effect any change in his mode Of life. He
still occupies his hut, while his wife lives
in another house. Even at his great age
he retains his faculties, and there is no
sharper trader than he in the State, his
wealth being probably greater than that
OF any other man In northern Missis-
sippi.
A CERTAIN young man Of Louisville,
KY, who is very prominent in social
circles, and whose name is withheld, as
he is very sensitive on the subject, has
upon his neck most curious formation.
1t lies Just below the band of his shirt
collar, which he wears high to conceal it,
and is lump of flesh that is an exact
could be ! morn fa;thfnl rsnresentat;oS S
of the fruit, the tiny globules being pres
ent, with even the barely perceptible fla
ments between, and only the color being
lacking. But the most remarkable
feature Of this mark is that it is small and
fiabby all the year until the season when
blackberries ripen, when it swells and
grows tirmer, keeping pace In its enlarge
ment with the ripening Of the fruit. This
growth Is attended with no pain, but
occasions an intense itching sensation.
He has consulted many of the most emil
nent OF physicians both in America and
abroad about 1t, but all unite in warning
him not to interfere with it, as he suffers
no real inconvenience from its presence,
An English physician, who has recently
been knighted, told him that he had met
with similar case in a lady of rank, who
had upon her facc q large, pendent piece
OF fiesh resembling mulberry. She was
anxious to get rid OF it, deeming it de-
1ormlty, but the doctor In question re-
fused TO remove 1t, upon which she ap-
Piled 70 another physician, who cut it
on. But she only survived the opera
tl0n q lew days, dying, however, from no
apparent cause.
RENsLER B. DAYTON, of Speonk, L. I.
is interested in chickens, and recently had
q hen setting which, through perversity