Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06
SOMEWHAT sTRAGE,
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENj OF
EVERYDAY LIFE
Queer Episodes and Thrilling 4 ven
lures Which Show that T1h Is
Stranger than Fiction.

lures Which Show that TIth II
Stranger than Fiction.
MKs. MoIL1E HUGHES, a highly spec.
ted widow lady, living near CameEille,
Idaho, is afflicted with a uniql and
most distressing disease. Little alittle
the flesh of her entire body is turhy to
solid bone, or, in other words, shts he
coming ossiied. The disease VI first
noticed in 1886, when Mrs. Hugh was
Miss Duychink of Canon Rapid At
that time only e single finger was al cted.
Within amcnth after the time wbi Miss
Duychink first noticed the numbus and
stiffness of the finger it had bed acci-
dentally broken off while she was Ileep.
The incident gave the girl no aithere
being neither blood, nerves nor flb left
in the diseased member, but it lcited
the alarm of the family, who calld in a
physician. The broken stumpt the
finger was amputatcd back to whc the
living flesh set on and everythil was
thought to be all right. Soon thtlesh,
muscles arteries, veins and nervcsh her
hands, fingers and arms became hard
and fcelinyless as the finger hal been
before 1t was broken off. Next TIL ful
malady extended to the elbows. tllfore
arms becoming as white and as dlr as
alabastcr. Within the year the tt and
the end of the nose and ear tips owed
a like color and rigidncss. The loccss
of ossitication has now been goE on
nearly five years, and"the attcndi4 ply
sicians say that it is only a matr of
time when the entire body of Il poor
victim will be a solid bone. It il rare
disease, and the pathology of it llittle
understood.
AT Weisscnthal, small Willie in
lower Austria, rich manufacturdfrom
Vienna owns splendid castle, wire he
and his family reside during the sinner.
AS superintendent of his villa en-
ployed young man who had recied a
good education, and probably onlis &C.
count had been granted the privsge Of
dining at table with the family. blink
ing that the proprietor had becial
liking for him he resolved to ask lh one
day for the hand of one of his bttful
daughters. When he told the g&ener
of his intention the latter 1lied:
Nonsense, you don't know th4roud
spirit'of this capitalist. He net will
consent to his daughter marryingl poor
employee" II will bet my life Int he
will not dare to refuse my wishl said
Edward DaschowslSy, the sup}nten-
dent. "And l bet all I call nj own
that you will not succeed, "remartd the
gardener. "Good. l accept thbetn'
cried Daschowsky, and shook lands
with the other as sign of closE the
contract. Two days later the lily of
Daschowsky was found with bet in
the temple under tree in thd park.
Near it was 9 revolver and ch on
which the following was inscribei n the
handwriting of the suicide: 81 ltc lost
the bet. Ny debt is paid" 5 the
gardener found him later, Dasbwsky
had kept his word and made knsn his
wish to his employer, but was sfused
and threatened with instant disukal If
he ever required again to the subit.
THE anglers and lovers of fshlbout
Park Rapids, Mimi, are much dia,sted
and seriously alarmed over the jpear-
ance Of numbers of q peculiar tishh the
lakes and ponds of that viciniI and
which fish is said to be highly bison
Gus. The best naturalists, as webs the
oldest and most experienced fisheaen of
the neighborhood, have declard that
they are at loss to name the tango
fish, which are so voracious thai they
swallow all bait as soon as placedp the
water, and prevent others from dting,
while wholly uncatable themselY. It
is also believed that they are extmin-
ating the other varieties, as ialense
quantities of the latter are founs dead
every day along the shores of thslakes
and ponds. The unknown mener of
the tinny tribe is not unlike sma trout,
very plump and very tender, wa few
bones, and these large. 1t is, h3ever,
nearly black in color, except abdt the
under parts, where it is of etallic
gray, mixedwith gold, and fr red
blotches near the fins and abdt the
head. 1t presents handsome opear.
ance when in the water, about II sur
face of which it delights to lingesmak
ing it very easy game. Eaten it has a
pleasant flavor, but will produce iolent
pains in the stomach, which. if 1t al
layed, prccede death only few hours.
How these fish came into the labs no
one knows, but they first appeared
about two weeks ago, after heaY fall
of rain, when many firmly bclicveathey
accompanied it.
A CURIOUS case has been befe the
court of Samara, Russia. The dsayed
remains of woman were discoved in
the Volga. On investigation il was
found that it was the body of a pman
who about four years ago hadbeen
drowned in the Volga in statebf in
ebriety, but taken out and given alhris-
tian burial by her children in Wage a
few versts distant from Samara.i The
police discovered at last that threepcas-
ants of the village of kooromtchavherc
the woman was buried had disinerred
the body and thrown it in the rive, On
account of the droughts and faminstha
prevail in their district the peasanthav
come to the conclusion that theiHmis-
fortune was due to the displeasure the
River Volga, who had legitimate lalm
to the body of the woman drownsd in
her waters. The river was wrqged
when her body was taken out of Hand
buried, and it avenged that wro4 by
droughts and famine. They bell vcd
that if they restored the dead bog to
the Volga its wrath would be apphsed
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