Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-30
SOMEWHAT STRANGE
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS d
EVERYDAY LIFE /
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Advsn
lures Which Show that Truth is
Stranger than Fiction.

Queer Episodes and Thrilling Advsn
lures Which Show that Truth il
Stranger than Fiction.
A VERY peculiar case Of perverte,
vision has been presented to DR.. E. W
: Brickley, an ocu!ist of this city, write
York penn. correspondent of In,
Philadelphia Press. a little girl of te,
years, the daughter of one of this city
most respected citizens, was discoverre
by her school teacher to be unable Il,
read her reading exercise unless tn,
book was held upside down. Til,
teacher, Miss Busser, Immediately com
municated the fact to her parents, an d
they became very much worried. Til,
oculist was called in and an examination
made of the child's eyes. They were
found to be entirely normal The oal,
conclusion arrived at was that the
strange freak OF vision was the result o
habit of trying to read with the book
pages in an unnatural position, habit
contracted some years ago when tn.
child was first sent to school. At this
time the child in writing numbers upon
u slate always made them upside down,
and as it was never observed or corrected
she gradually drilted into the habit Of
reading the same way. The only meas
OF cure possible is to teach the child
everything over again, as though she
never knew anything before. This will
be carefully done, and a cure of this
really phenomenal case is anXiousl .
looked tor in the near future.
A slSGuLARLy pathetic incident &C
cured in the Justice OF Peace Court, Dun
dee, Scotland, recently. Christina Smith,
described as sack sewer, was charged
with keeping dog without u license.
MIR. Halliburton, OF the Inland Revenue,
stated that the poor woman, to his
knowledge, had year after year been in
the same prcdicamcnt as that in which
she was now placed. 1t was hard case.
The woman had no money, but she
would persist in keeping her dog. Ac
cused. in reply to the bench, stated tina:
she would do her best to paw for a
license. She had done that in wears
past, and if she only had the time she
was sure she, could do it again. Mr..
Halliburton said that he had on several
occasions paid for the license, but, TO do
accused justice, she had always repa;o
him the money by instalmcnts. The
court held that i; must impos. penalty
but it would make it us small as possible
viz. twenty five cents. After consulta-
ton among the justices they resolved.
out OF sympathy for the tcnder-hcarted
Old lady, to pay the fine and take out a
license for the dog. The poor woman
CONTESTED her thanks to the justices.
and left the court agrceably surprised
with justices justice.
On recent morning at ST. Paul. Ind,
was witnessed strange scene-that of a
dog committing suicide. The dog.
large white one. was standing in the
middle of the Big -Four Railroad track
on the Flatroch River bridge, and
freight train was rapidly approaching,
but the dog lay down fiat and the train
passed over him, when he got up ana
trotted away. He soon returned, when
another train came and found hun stand
ing facing it, in the centre of the same
bridge, bnt again lay flat down and let
the train pass over him. Again the dog
rose up, and, after looking around, trot-
ted away, but soon returned, and. going
out on the bridge, made spring and
leap directly at the wing wall OF enc of
the abutments, which he struck with
such force as to dash out his brains by
crushing in his skull The dogs pccu- |
liar actions were watched with interest
by several men working near by, and it
f s.I y /. t t.s dog deliberately con-
PERHAPS one of the mos, unique and
remarkable institutions in the world 8
the ''Bone Circulating Library" an
and Surgeons, New York City. In this
room, which is fitted up with shelves,
cases, etc, just as any other library room,
are hundreds Of thousands OF human
bones of all sizes, shapes and forms.
The bones, which are numbered aud
labeled, are placed in order ON the shelves
and in the cases, an attendant being
always on hand to act in the same capacity
as librarian. It is his duty to keep
track of the bones lent; to enter them
upon books, and 20 see that they are
returned uninjured Duriag the day
eoores of students flock in and out of this
uncanny place, carving packages of
strange appearance in their hands or
sticking out Of their coat pockets. These
packages are made up Of human .bones
which they are returning or taking from
this Bone Circulating Library"
R1cuMoND, Me-, is the home of a
clown goat which is source of much
amusement all along the kenncbec. He
is great pet among the steamboat men,
and regular visitor at the wharf when
steamers arrive or depart. Ore day
recently Billy's owner missed him, but
two days afterward, when the steamer
Kennebec arrived, the goat walked
calmly down the gangplank, dressed in
a pair of old trousers, swallow tail coat
and stovepipe hat. He had been to
Boston with his friends, the deck hands,
and came home with an increased dignity
of bearing naturally consequent upon y
visit to that learned town. When lady
in the waiting room petted him the goat
whipped her veil from her face and
swallowed it IN o twinkling. Then he
went home in his new togs, which he has
probably since eaten.
One of the most puzzling cases vet
found by physicians is that of James