The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-04-23
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE


lures which show that Truth i
Stranger than Fiction.
A REMARKABLE instance Of the hole
superstition has upon the mind OF ever
the educated and religious was recent,
exhibited IN the case Of Mrs. Rebecc,
Byrnes, Of Helena, Ark, a lady noted
for her intellectual attachments and pioui
life. One morning. arising in whsr
seemed her usual health and spirits, sh,
summoned her children TO come to her
One son was residing in Topeka, Kan,
and one in New Orleans, and two
daughters were married and living in
Sedalia, No., but, obedient to their
mothers call, they came at once, though
ignorant of the reason of their summons.
When all were about her the lady in
formed them that she had q dream in
which her husband, who had been dead
for nearly fifteen years, had warned her
that she had only ten more days Of life.
She sent for her children to bid them
good-by, which she proceeded to do with
much caimness, but with the air of one
who had not the slightest doubt that she
was already dying, Her friends at
tempted to reason with her and to point
out the folly of placing such perfect con-
fdence in a dream, but all to no purpose,
for the lady persisted in asserting that
she would depart from earth on such a
day and exactly at a certain hour. Her
pastor demonstrated with her, and even
brought the severest censure to bear on
her superstitious credulity, and at last
Mrs. Byrnes ceased to speak of the mat
ter, so that her family began to think
that she had conquered her fancy. She
continued in excellent health and pursued
her usual daily life, but just before the
hour she had predicted would be that OF
her dream, she sought her children and
babe them goodby. then seating herself
quietly in an armchair, expired Just as
the hour was struck. The physicians
declare that her death was due solely to
her imagination.
THE Liverpool England) Post tells of
strange adventure of venturesome
small boy. 1t appears that he played |
truant and feared to return home atnight.
Somehow he managed to get into the !
station yard at Chorley, with the intention
OF passing the night in one of the passen-
ger coaches Carriages they call them in 1
but he failed to gain access,
the doors being locked. He then crept
under the guard rods, between the axle |
OF the wheel and the car floor, and be- |
tween which the brake rods pass. In /
this position he went to sleep and at 5 |
o'clock a. IN. the train started for Wigan.
The lad was actually brought to Wigan
and again taken back to Chorley, still
fast asleep and clutching the rods. When
discovered, after the train had returned
to Chorley, he was still asleep. When
awakened and told of his perilous eigh-
teen miles journey, he was inclined to
it, and only laughed at the
frightened look on the faces of the rail-
way employees. Had he made single
movement while on the journey death
would have been certain.
II HAVE seen anA-~-------. ---ss. ,--a--ass.4-
tories, writes a correspondent, but
hink this one beats them. One day last
all it happened that not far from my
house board was resting on two bar
els, which were about ten feet apart, and
had laid an old discarded
traw hat on the board, the crown lying
N the board. An old hen, which was a
,reat pet with the family, saw this ar
and evidently decided that
he old hat was just the thing for nest.
10 lle carefully hoped into it and laid !
l. egg. We decided to humor her !
Vhim, and, therefore, fastened the hat to
he board. She continued to lay in this
ueer nest for some time But one day :
be hat became unfastened in some way
nd blew off the board. When Biddy {
aw this, she began to sing disconso- ,
ltely, and we thought she would give up !
be hat and seek another nest, But we /
'ere mistaken. In a little while she i
sized the hat in her bill and few with it !
n the board, where, after great deal of h
lssing, she adjusted it so that she could r
" in it. After that we fastened. it SO i
nat it could not blow of. > - !
l. is estimated in the Allahabad !
ioneer that the treasure lying idle in !
le shape of boards or ornaments I
to 81, $50, 900, 900. A compe- I
mt authority guesses that Gin Amritsar }
ty alone there are jewels to the value of :
20 million pounds sterling.n As regards
'me other districts, the figures that have b
zen furnished are not less astonishing. t;
he miserable waste of Montgomery is
timated to possess about fifty lakhs in I
The hillsides and valleys of h
ulu are put at three lakhs and half. b
Jhelum two-fifths of the wealth of "
e distriet is said to be vested in prop s
ty of this nature, and in Kohat, sspro- a,
IDLY one of the poorest districts of the d
ovlnee in this respect the estimate is W
ken at 500 rupees for each Hindoo d
mily and ten rupees for each Mussul- u
an family, and lakh in the aggregate "
r the Nawab and other Raue, making a N
tai for the district of seventy-fve N
xhs." A lakh is worth about $35, 600.
A LARGE grey eagle was killed after A
tier struggle by Gideon Alter, farmer "
ar Atlanta, Ohio, one afternoon pl
GENTLY. He is magnificent specimen. sa
assuring seven feet eight inches from pl
, 20 tip and weighing eleven pounds. tn
er saw the eagle perched in large To
e and shot at it, one shot penetrating IN
e neck, and the bird fell. Alter went pr
70 get his game, when the Infatuated &C
gle made at him. 1t sprang at his head dc
d scratched and snapped him. The To
N 7 was about concluding that his end or
q come as the monstrous bird dashed pa
sinst him. Selling 8 stout club, he
de 81 it IL a terrific manner. but the