Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-12-31
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven.
lures Which Show that TruSh Is
Stranger than Fiction.

ONE of the many anecdotes of the late
DIR. Leidy, the anatomist is to the follow
ing effect, says the Philadelphia Record.
The doctor had heard of two petrified
bodies being accidentally disinterred in
an ancient graveyard down town. Very
anxious to secure them for the Universi-
ty OF Pennsylvania, he soon found the
oihcial known as the superintendent of
the yard. That dignitary, however,
wouldn't hear of such sacrilege. AS the
doctor prepared to retrace his way, quite
disappointed at his failure, the superin-
tendent, in a dwawling, half-conciliatory
tone, ejaculated: 81 tell you what I'll do {;
I'll give up the bodies to the order Of
relatives" This hint was sufficient.
Returning home, the doctor hired furni-
ture wagon, and, fortified with hastily
written order reading, "Please deliver to
bearer the bodies of my grandfather and
grandmother" drove to the cemetery.
The coveted specimens were obtained,
and are exhibited to this day in the mu-
scum Of the university.
THE Clifton Bridge by Bristol has
long been regarded as the great suicide
bridge of England, and on q recent week
it scored its thirty-second victim. 1t is
curious how any man can want to take
his life from such spot, as the scenery
of the surrounding country is exquisitely
beautiful; but the attraction, of course,
is, that the bridge, which is suspension
one, is very high and the valley below is
exceedingly rocky, so that when once the
l atal Loo l.., Al.
possibility of anything in the nature of
a hitch occurring to thwart the compile
tion of the desperate design. The latest
victim is Mr.. Stuart Boucher, of Bath, q
gentleman of Independent means, whose
mangled body was found recently on the
high rocks on the Somerset side of the
river.
WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON, who is q
trained observer of plants and animals
satisfied himself some time ago that q
rooster makes the tapping noise that ac-
companies his growing by striking his
wings together over his back The pop
ular notion is that the bird produces the
noise by striking his wings against his
hard, fat thighs. Mr. Gibson discussed
the subject with'a farmer once, and the
latter laughed at the artists idea and
said: Ive been brought up among
chickens, ana L guess L know how d
rooster flaps his wings" every good,
said MIR. Gibson, "but you watch you
own fowls for week, and tell me wha
you think then" The scornful farmer
promised, and returned at the end of the
week with the humble confession thai
MIR. Gibson was right.
Ar 'he mex. asslzes IN LONDON the ira
Vi now kihu ~, OF thieVes promises 10 p'
interesting, lheir method was to vlsl
unoooupieo houses III the ne OUTSKIRTS Oh 'n'
oiny oisy ~ 'no uuy 'i''o. my oroVe up II
o'1sai' oairluses, ana "heh they Iouh.
nou1uy aI nome the mouse was marked
n 'n1 hSh' 'hoy caihe III wagon, orok'
WI wv .no .ouee,aiiu oarteu OH 'heir poo.y
taken, and that parties were in the house
! they simply offered to sell photographs
and albums. One of the members rod,
bicycle, and took his notes of thu
houses that were good for robbing. MIR
ana Mrs. Clarke were the leaders of the
gang. They lived in one of the suburbs
were highly respected by all their neigh
oors, and were extensively invited to tea
parties, dinners, &c.
OyE of the opeerest sunorst;t;ons tbo
ever entered the human head ia that ~
finding the bodv of drowned man h,
means of his shirt Last snr;no n,oy
was drowned in the river in fron} of th,
East St. Louis levee Search was mad,
with boats for tbe bodv hut without sno
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THERE is n most remarkable swonnipo
horse iockev in Belfast Me. name1
Lie Walter, saws Il local paper. .Just
to give his bow an idea how to pet olono
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