Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
SOMEWHAT STRANGE
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS op
EVERYDAY LIFE.


Queer Episodes and Thrilling A dven.
lures Which Show that Truth Ia
Stranger than Fiction.
Tns Columbus, Ga, Enquirer. son +o,,,
strange story of curiosity IN t .,,e
shape of well-detined profile &c '" .
female figure in pewter mao." ~
about two and one-half hv tbraa "; curing
aud weighing four and 6xao ;nines
o oan',e Inc hgnre, which is plain from
ABOUT the head to the knees, is formed in
a sort OF canopy, and the manner in
whlch II is fashioned, as we'll "a tho
source from which it came, is exceedingly
curious ana Interesting. 1t was in th;s
WISE: Mrs. M. b. Walker, living ut
sixth avenue between Tenth and
Eleventh streets, had placed medium.
sized stick of oak wood ON the fire in nm
open fireplace in her kitchen. and nc
soon as the stick became thoroncblv
heated she observed what appeared to he
molten lead running from the middle If
the stick on to the hearth, where Il
formed the singular curiosity above do.
scribed. As soon as the lead becama
cool and solicited she pried it from tho
bricks with a case knife and wns acton
ished beyond measure to find II Fashioned
IN tho shape Of female figure. It was
carried to Pekor's jewelry store, where
Mr.. Pekor, after investigation, pro.
nounced the material pure pewter. How
the metal came in the wood is something
that cannot be explained. The wood was
IN an ordinary load, and was the only
piece, so fur, that has proved to be a
pewter mine, us it were The fact that
this pewter was inside of the log, and
when melted formed in the curious
shape described, is certainly very singu-
lar, and it will be regarded as great
curiosity.
A VERY pretty little romance comes
from Austell, village of Georgia.
Richard Horning was a poor, hard-work-
ing farm laborer there, who received
very little encouragement from the girls
OF the settlement. One, however, Miss
Oshields, as poor as himself, did not re-
lect his advances, and they were first
friends and then lovers. Horning woke
up one morning and discovered that he
was heir to $25O00O in the old country.
He at once went for his fortune, secured
1t and then fastened back to his love,
whom he fitted out in great style and car
ried off to place her in the best schools
he could find, that she might have an ed
ucation suitable to the station she is to
hold as his wife.
HE Hindoo nose ring is said to be
doomed. At meeting of tho
Cutchee Veesa Oswal caste. held
at Mandyie Bunder, it was resolved
that instead OF ring women should wear
flower in the nose. Inasmuch as the
nose ring had led to ''much unfavorable
comment, henceforth wearing nose rings
would lead to a fine of ten rupees and
four annas, in addition to forfeiture of
the ornaments
CAPTAIN BENJAMIN THOMPSON, Of Ken
nebunkport, Me-, SO years old, had oc-
casion to fix pulley on the ridgepole
of his barn the other day. To perform
the work it was necessary to pull lad
der up over three stagings and then place
it in position ON the roof, but the old
gentleman did the job, being afraid, he
said, to ntrust it to his son Horace, aged
so, as the latter was stiff and clumsy and
might fall.
A LITTLE son of Janitor Parry, Of
Mears' Hall, Scranton, Penn, was put to
bed shortly after ten clock on recent
night apparently in good health Some
time later the father went into the room
and found the child stretched out sti # and
cold, as if dead. He was almost frantic
with grief at the supposed loss of his
child and his lamentations were painful
to hear. The mother hurried to the bed
side Of her boy and clasped him to her
breast. The little fellow opened his ewes
and resumed his breathing while the
mother was tenderly kissing his ashen
lips. Of a sudden the color came back to
bis cheeks, his limbs relaxed their rigid
ity, and in few minutes he was as lively
as ever before. The cause Of this sudden
cessation Of life, as it seemed, is attri-
buted to stagnation Of the blood. The
fond mothers caresses sent the life cur
rent again coursing through the child s
veins, started the pulsations Of the heart
and brought the virtually dead child back
to life. Mr.. and Mrs. Parry were over
joyed beyond measure when they became
aware Of the fact that their beloved child
whom they had thought dead was only
affected with temporary cessation OF
Vitality.
AN artful Chinaman was recently ar
rested in Tucson, Ariz., as an invader.
He had accumulated seven thousand dol
lars, the product Of several years labor
in Mexico. Deeming this sum sufficient
to give him ease and comfort for life in
the flowery land of his birth, he sent his
savings to China, then crossed to Arizona,
with the hope that the United States au-
thorities would arrest him under the
Chinese Exclusion law, and send him to
China at the expense Of the government.
The willy Mongolian's design was to save
his passage money.
JOHN Wn1rAAN, the man who lifts 60C
pounds with his teeth, pushed a freight
car weighing 10000 along switch on
North street, Baltimore, on recent
morning, in the presence OF about 3oC
people. 1t would have required tho
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