Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-19
SINGULARIrIES.

A sponge eight feet in circumference is on
exhibition at a store in New York.
While digging. in his ear with a pin Charles
Mowers Of Shippensburg, Pa, did himself
an injury which resulted in lockjaw.
A hen at Chambersburg, Pa, began the
new year by laying an egg weighing four
and q half ounces, with a sort of bay-win-
dow attachment on either side,
Antrim, N. H., with a population of about
1900, boasts OF four nonogenarians and
twenty-five octogenarians. Twenty.one of
these tw%enty-nine old people are women.
A B%ellaire, Mich. tailor has made a pair
OF pants out OF 300 different kinds Of cloth
for a fortune-hunting youth, who wants to
create the Impression that he is the most
economical mau on earth. The pants cost
500.
A Berlin professor while dissecting a
shark found in its stomach u dolphin weigh
ing LIS pounds, forty-three fish, O decom-
posed seal, a human arm and four human
legs. Notwithstanding this 'feedi' the brute
was probably after a bait when he was cap.
tured.
Jerry Owens, q young man of Martins
vile, Ind. while hunting on islands formed
oy the swollen river, came upon a large ball
OF snakes which had been driven from their
winter quarters by the water and the pleas
ant weather. He killed all at a single shot,
and on ~disengagipg them found monster
Dlacksnakes and five gartersnakes.
As an Illustration of the queer blunders
sometimes made by compositors the follow
ing is noted: A country correspondent in
giving an account of u certain pastoral able
address, to a Meadville paper, wrote that he
was full Of fire and ylgor." When the
proof came In 1t gave the somewhat startling
information that the minister was "full Of
pie and vinegar - b u
The incessant b%arkihgldf his dog induced
John Brown of Lorimer, fba., to investigate,
and as he emerged frompthe kitchen door
and passed into the yardh he was seized by a
big bear with which he had q tussle. He
As Bruln wore 8 muzzle 1T is thought he
escaped from travelling italians. n
Charley Sprouse, who Sftes in West Fork,
near Parkersburg, caught "a big pike which
weighed twenty-nine pounds, in q strange
manner, a day or two hgaL The rise in the
Kanawha overfowed the picket fence around
Sprouse's garden. When the waite fell the
couldn't get out and was Captured. y"
A young lady In the town Of Minsk, Russia,
purchased a pair of gloves a la Sarah Bern.
hardt. Immediately after putting them on
her hands began TO itch. The next DAY her
arms were covered with sores, and a week
later she died OF blood poisoning. The doc
tors suppose that the skin belonged to an
animal that had some Contagious malady.
Ia the VINE cellar under the Hotel de Vile,
Bremen, there are twelve cases of holy wine,
each case inscribed with the name of one OF
the apostles. 1t was deposited in it's present
resting place 2j5 years ago. One case of
this wine. consisting OF five OK hofts OF 2O4
bottles, cost 500 rix dollars in 1924. Includ-
ing the expense OF keeping up the cellar, in-
terest on the original outlay. aud upon inter
est, one of those OK hofts would today cost
a55. 65I $40 rix dollars. or about g., coo, 600 a
bottle. 2
Nine. Sembrich has been singing in Der.
lin, and IL is said that the quality and range