The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-04-23

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but rot a trNce did We discover Of tn
engine, which had vanished as con,
pletely as If il had never existed. Fou
years aiterward it was found az 4 dept
OF over 100 feet aud was raised. w
then ascertained that there was scareel
q bit Of rust on il, the breaks were few
and, after a little tinkering. ii was pu
upon the road again. The sand la,
Kept out the air and prevented the irol
from oxidizing.n
WHILE a huge pine log was being
sawed into timber at a saw mill on
small creek some two miles from Athens
Ca, as the wOrkmen were turning i
over preparatory to ''squaring il, what
was their establishment to see the head
OF huge frog bob cut, where he wa.
imbedded and barely escaped being cut
by the saw. How in the world his frog
ship got there is a mystery, as he was
completely incased without any possible
means Of ingress or egress. As the log
was the fourth or fifth from the butt 81
the tree, the frog must have had his
apartment some fifty or sixty feet from
the ground. The tree was perfectly
sound with the exception OF a decayed
spot some inches below the Theoretically
sealed prison of the frog The animal
was very fat and was unable to move
when pulled out Of his den.
on the farm of Aaron LETTERS, about
one mile east of the little town of Gle
ments, there was killed a large black
snake, inside of which there was found
q china egg. Last June Mr.. LETTERS had
some hens Matching in the hen house.
Upon going there one morning to feed
and water them, what was his surprise
to find all the eggs gone, including the
china egg, which was in a nest by itself.
Being rather anxious TO find out what
was robbing him of his eggs, Mr. LETTERS
made complete search OF the hen house,
but could not find any trace of how his
eggs so mysteriously disappeared. The
mystery remained unsolved until one day
recently, when Mr.. LETTERS killed big
black-snake, inside Of which he found
his china egg.
A NOVEL method of swindling has
been brought to light by the Custom
House authorities at New York city.
There are in the seizure room several
books, including half dozen copies of
the Bible, in which were found con-
cealed jewelry and other articles of con-
value. The method adopted
by the smugglers was to cut an oblong
cavity in these books in such manner
that when the volumes were closed, they
would form boxes which served as re-
ceptacles for the Struggled property.
Another ingenious method of defrauding
Uncle Sam was brought to light. In the
latter instance an iron tube about six
feet in length and four inches in Diane
ter was plugged at the ends and made TO
a piece of solid shafting for
The interior of the tube was
illed with small steel screws intended |
'or the use of watchmakers and other |
of delicate machine y.
THE scientific enterprise of modern /
,riminals was illustrated by a recent /
discovery in the Faubourg St. Antoine,
Paris, France, where the police raidcd a
unk store keeper, who had connected
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d telephones with the dens of several
burglars. The termini OF his
wires were all in cellars, and in deliver
ng message he observed the additional
of shrouding his head in
Voollen blankets. Midnight was his
avorite time for more underground COM
nunlons, but that very excess of circnm-
pection at last seems to have led to his
uin. Amateur detectives noticed his
octurnal expeditions and followed him
0 his hiding-place, with results which
e tried in vain to avert by lavish
ribery.
A KANSAS paper tells an interesting
ow story. The COW in question recently
Isl her calf. After it died, she trans
srred her affections to the fourteen !
ear-old son Of her owner, for whom she
Ianifests a strange fondness. She ticks !
i'm just as she would calf, and no one ..
ut the boy can DO anything with the
umb creature. The other day the lad
nd occasion to go to town, and as he
manned away until after milking time,
Is sister put on a suit Of his clothes and
ent into the harnyard and succeeded in :
the COW until she tthe cow I
lppened to see the boy coming up the !
'ad, when she kicked the pail over and !
ade bound in the direction of the I
,uth, showing the most unmistakable .
licences of delight. I
THE most expensive meal ever eaten s
7 man or beast in this country was par y
ken of by mule belonging to Frank r
i'll, who, lives few miles from Bolton, G
sxas. Mr.. Hill went to his lot to feed v
S stock. He pulled Of his coat and I,
ing it on the fence. In an envelope, 2
hich was in the side pocket, he had +
10 in currency and several notes and /,
counts. In some way this envelope @
opped out of his pocket and a mule, 4
hich was wandering around the lot, Il
cked it up and began munching it, !,
hen Mr.. Hill realized the situation it r,
rs too late to recover the envelope or q
oney. Both had been thoroughly T
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Az anecdote is going the rounds in 81
istralia concerning the manner in "
lich well-known leading actor sup b
led the accidental absence of neces- 81
y article Of makeup" he was
lying Macbeth, and when he came to
murder scene he asked in vain for
e blood with which he had intended to
brue his hands. After abusing the ea
operty man roundly for his neglect. the is
.or, struck with happy thought, sud ia
MY hit the functionaTy on the nose, so b