Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-10-01
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
0ueer Episodes and Thrilling Adyen-
lures Which Show that Truth Is
Stranger than Fiction.

lures Which Show that Truth Is
Stranger than Fiction.
THE boldest robbery of grain ever
known in Kansas is reported from King
man county. John Myrick, Il farmer
from the southwestern part of the county,
had rented piece of wheat land close to
Norwich. After cutting and stacking
his crop safely he went home. The
rented land is a long way from his own
place and Myrick is therefore unknown
to the neighborhood of Norwich, so that
when stranger presented himself under
the name of Myrick there was no one to
question his title to the wheat. After
being in Norwich couple of days the
supposed Myrick had his plans perfected.
A threshing outfit was engaged and
teamsters to cart the grain to Norwich,
the work to be done at night because of
tendency to sunstroke which prevented
his working in the sun alleged by the
supposed Myrick. The plans worked to
perfection. Before morning the greater
part of the wheat had been threshed and
delivered to a buyer in Norwich and the
money for the grain was safely in the
robbers pocket. BY telling the threshcrs
to be there the next night to finish up
the stranger avoided paying forthe work
already done, but when evening came no
Myrick appeared, and it was afterward
ascertained that the man had left Nor
wich by an early morning east-bound
train, taking with him the proceeds,
about 81 ,000
A YOUNG medical student in New York
had a remarkable experience recently.
He belongs to that sort of young men
who are compelled to depend almost en-
tirely upon their own resources to obtain
their education, and he spends his even
ings in downtown office. For long
time he was accosted by q professional
beggar, strapping big fellow, with u
stiff neck, while passing through City
Hall Park. The beggar accosted him
night after night in an insolent manner.
Frequently it was difficult for the medi-
cal student to get rid of the heggar, and
they rarely parted without an exchange
OF epithets. This thing went on for some
time, and then the beggar suddenly dis
appeared One morning shortly after
this the medical student went into the
dissecting room to dissect body He
was surprised to find that the body
assigned to him was that of the trouble
some beggar. The student had often
wondered what was the matter with the
fellows neck, and now he had an oppor-
tunity to find out. He dissected the
body, and found that layer of bone had
grown down the neck preventing the
head from being moved backward or for
ward. One of the attendants mounted
the skeleton for the student, and it now
stands complete in his room at the foot
of the bed.
In the Island of Corsica, near the head
waters of the Tavignavo River and
about twenty-five miles from the city of
Corte, there is u ten-acre field which is
simply subterranean lake covered with
soil to depth of about eighteen inches.
On the soil this year there was cultivated
piece of wheat which produced thirty
five bushels to the acre. A curious per-
son who desires to investigate for him
self, and who will take the trouble to dig
hole the depth of q spade handle, will
find that he has dug entirely through the
thin covering of soil to the surface of u
lake which is from 30 to so feet in depth.
Through the opening thus made fish may
be caught which have neither eyes nor
scales. The ground is black mari,
and, in all probability, covers what was
once an open body of water, but which
centuries of accumulating vegetable
matter has increased to thickness suf-
ficient to produce an excellent crop.
All work on the soil which covers this
subterranean lake must of necessity be
done by hand, the soil not being of suhi-
cieat strength to bear horse and
machinery. 1t is called "Corte's won
der"
"THE logger in an English canal tun-
mel has hard time of it" says travel
er. II went through two canal tunnels
this summer. The canals are Just the
width of one of the small barges used,
and but very little higher than the board
which runs from the alleged cabin to the
tow-line pole. AS it is impossible for a
horse to tow the barge the animal is led
around or over the hill, and logger lies
on his back on the board referred to,
and, raising his legs from his hips,
pushes the boat along by pressing on the
dilapidated roof of the tunnel. As sat
and watched the man in this unnatural
position felt the depth of human misery
had been discovered at last. The work
is arduous, the light very bad, the at
mosphere almost fetid, the labor degrad-
ing, and the effect almost equivalent to
making a man cripple. Yet the most
the 'legger' can make is seventy five
cents day, and when traffic is light or
there is ice on the canal he makes little
or nothing. The old Jail treadmill was