Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-02

ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS or
EVERYDAY LIFE
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven
lures Which show that Truth 10
Stranger than Fiction.

ural oddly is known by the whole Mos
lem sect ~ the 1.-THE Palace of the Sacred
Fh.. The fish, which are kept in
small clear pool at the rear OF the build
ing, are very communicating specimens
OF the finny tribe, much resembling dace
or club. The old sheik who had charge
of the place, has much faith in his sacred
fish. lie says they are all Moslems, and
that they are inhabited by the souls of
departed saints. One, large black fish,
the sheik of the piscatorial saints. as il
were, seldom shows himself, but the
Others may be counted by the thousand.
The old shcik says that during the
Crimean war many of the older fishes
went off under the sea to Sebastopol to
fight the Russians, and that hundreds of
them came back wounded. The people
in and around Tripoli think that anyone
who would be so indiscreet as to eat ono
of these sacred fish would die sudden
death. This belief has been rife
for years. AS long ago as 1856,
DIR. Jessup, the American Consul at
Tripoli. hearing the story, caught some,
and had them cooked. lie ate them but
said that they were coarse and unpalata-
bic; otherwise not hurtful.
In Southern Egypt, near the Nubian
border, there lives rich retired Parsce
whose sole ambition is 10 enlarge col
lection of skeletons of eminent persons.
In his tropical garden, amid fountains,
flowers, rare eXotics, statuary and bowers
Of equatorial vcrdurc, stand dozens of
skeletons of famous warriors, statesmen,
kings, queens, lawyers, ecclesiasts, etc.
This earthly paradise barring the pres
encc of the skeletons) is four acres in cX-
tent and is surrounded by high stone
wall, provided with four grated iron
DOORS 1t is believed that he keeps n
score Of men in every community in the
world constantly on the lookout for
raritics in his CHASTITY line. To "A cores
pendent of Berlin newspaper he adj
mitted that he was the owner of the
bones of George III. of England, and
even limited that he would like to have
the bones OF our Washington to stand
beside them. Is it not possible that this
crank has the bones of A. L. Stewart
and those Of other Americans that are
missing?
Mrs. JANE McKEENE, an old lady in
Lewiston. Me-, who was recently taken
to the insane asylum, had been very &C.
centric for years while working in the
cotton mills, and number of stories are
told of her peculiarities. At one time
she had lot of cockroaches in box
near her looms which she would feed
regularly every day. Whether they ate
the food provided them by their bene-
factress Is not known, but she took good
care of them and they increased in num-
bcrs until at last the superintendent dis
covered them and had them removed.
The old lady cried bitterly that her pets
and whoever had such pets before
were removed. They say she used to
drop a silver coin in the canal each day,
which she said went to feed her husband
and boy, who were drowned at sea. Her
boys clothes, which she carried under
her arm, she never parted with. Every
morning she took the bundle to her
| work and each night returned with it.
A STRANGE story is furnished from
Dubuque, Iowa, the truth of which is
vouched for by the city officials. Not
long ago Michael Conlcy died soon after
being discovered on the jefferson House
premises. His body was taken to the
morguc and the old clothes he wore when
| found were thrown aside. When his
daughter in Chickasaw County heard of
his death she fell into swoon. In her
dreams she saw the clothes he wore when
| dying, and received from him message
saying he had saved up a roll of bills in
his shirt. On recovering she demanded
that some one go to Dubuque and get
the clothes. To quiet her mind her
brother visited the city, received the
clothes from the coroner and found the
| money sewed on the shirt with piece
of her red dress, exactly as she had de-
scribed, though she knew nothing
about the patch nor the money until
after her fathers death.
A COLORADO Iancher relates the fol-
lowing tall story ''As most people know.
black wool brings from five TO ten cents
less per pound than the corresponding
grade of white wool. In order 10 insure
the separation of the inferior product,
rs our shearing operations progressed,
we once placed the black sheep in u pen
by themselves. There were sixty-three
of the black sheep thus isolated in the
corral on the night | speak of. Some
llHlc uuTlLp TIC uuIhHcSSu WOll COyOtc,
as we call it, entered the pen and killed
eve and two lambs. On the following
morning we were greatly surprised to
| find the wool on the remaining sixty had
turned perfectly white from terror"
AN extraordinary case of suicide is re-
ported from Havre, France. A stranger
who was attending the deyotions in the
Church of Saint Michel tho other day
was suddenly seen in flames. The parish
priest ran TO his rescue and scorched him
self severely in endeavoriHg to envclop
the man with his overcoat. Before any
effective assistance could bc rendered the
stranger was burned to death. The de-
ceased, it appears. had saturated his
clothes with paraffine and had covered
his garments all over with bits of fire
wood and luciier matches, and while
knceling down before the altar had
poured some petroleum over himself and
had ignitcd it.
THERE arc hundreds of little Boston
girls, from five to nine years old, learn
ing to play the violin. They are
almost entirely the children of well to-
do parents, who desire their daughters to
have an accomplishment something out
of. the ordinary. These little ones, of
course, cannot handle an ordinary violin
at first and begin their lessons on a min
iature affair. Usually they know moth
ing of music when they begin and have
to learn that and the technique of the
instrument together. Girls make better