Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-01
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.


EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven
turss Which Show that Truth is
Stranger than Fiction.
WHILE flying South flock of wild
geese were attracted by number OF
tame ones sporting on Lake Keuka, neal
Hammondsport, N. Y, and hating IN
their flight descended and joined forces
with their domestic congeners. The
owner of the tame fowls, farmer named
Purdy, on seeing the wild geese alight,
seized his gun, and creeping down to
the lake shore, attempted to get shot
at the visitors. Before he could reach a
point near enough to fire, the wild flock
rose from the water and took wing. A
moment later, to Purdy's great surprise,
his own flock also rose and, following
swiftly in the wake of the strangers,
afterward the farmer noticed another
flock of geese flying, curiously enough,
northward, but was delighted to see
when on reaching the shores of the lake
that they gracefully settled down on its
placid bosom. This time he took extra
pains to conceal his approach, and on
gaining point within easy gunshot he
blaZed away and was overjoyed, for the
moment, to discover that he had killed
one of the flock, and had wounded
another. His JOY was of short duration,
however, for to his wonderment the rest
of the geese, although greatly disturbed
by the shots, quickly padded ashore and
went screeching in single file toward
Purdy's front yard. 1t was the return
of the prodigals after weeks absence,
and Purdy had killed and wounded the
finest of the lot.
ONE of the visitors to the Brazilian
gunboat Aquidaban out in the North
River at New York was DR.. j. Dias
Ribeiro of the Brazilian line of steamers
On the little finger of his left hand he
wore gold ring. Around the edge of
it was a small gold snake with an emerald
and diamond, one in either eye. One
OF the visitors to the gunboat asked Dr.
Ribeiro if it was Brazilian ring. 'It
is the badge of my profession" he
answered. NEARLY every professional
man in Brazil wears distinctive ring, so
that if you should see a number of men
clinging to strap in q street car you
could tell their profession at a glance. OF
course the artisans have no class ring
The emerald is the stone that physicians
wear. Though frequently they substi-
tute diamonds for 1t. Druggists wear a
ring of the same shape, but use topaz
stones in the snakes eyes The lawyers
wear white stone in their rings, an en-
blem of purity, suppose. Artists have
sapphire rings, and engineers, public
officials, and all professional men, as a
rule, wear the distinctive ring of their
profession. Our medical course in Brazil
requires eight years, and your medical
colleges here have courses from three to
four years. Notwithstanding the longer
course in Brazil, however, the most pop
ular physicians in Rio are Americans.
You would probably be surprised to see
how well known by name some of your
prominent New York physicians are
there"
"THERE is one of the best tobacco
drummcrs in the country" remarked a
gentleman in Kansas City as an elderly
looking man with long gray beard in
company with n young woman passed
up Wyandotte street. The gentleman
walked arm in arm with his companion
and no one would have noticed any
thing peculiar about him until he came
to crossing and then his companion
spoke to him, his step faltcred, his foot
was put out rs if afraid to advance.
His eyes were turned straight ahead and
never sought the ground. They were
sightless. The man was Mr.. James
Harrison, of Richmond, Va, and the
woman was his daughter. Mr.. Harrison
travels for tobacco factory and is re-
garded as one of the best drummers on
the road. For more than twenty years
he has made the rounds with two
daughters. First one of them
grew up from girl to woman
and was married The second
one then took her place and has since
been his constant companion. She goes
about with from store to store, helps him
with his samples at the train and the ho-
tells, attends to tickets and baggage-in
short does everything that a tender low
ing woman could do for the blind. She
is his eyes. The two are known in every
city in the country.
THE Richmond (Va.) State has the
following strange story: 'The Trappist
monastery, situated in Kentucky, is the
home of the monks upon whom the in
junction of perpetual silence is placed.
The stories that sift through to the out
side world, with more or less romantic
detail concerning the individual monks
of La Trappe, are many. There is one
told of brother at Gethsemane, which
is old, but full of dramatic suggestion.
He was soldier of Napoleon, so it was
said, and after the Emperor's first abdi
cation, took the cowl of the Brown
Brothers, and ultimately came to Gethse-
name. Forty years he lived in silence,
hearing nothing of the worlds history,
but with one item of curiosity left un-
quenched. When he came to die, and
was lifted from his hard couch and laid
upon the harder floor, strewed with
straw, when all followers of the order
must meet extremes, the abbott, as is
customary, told him he was at liberty to
ask any question he desired. What
became of the Emperor the old man
asked promptly, and then, for the first
time, learned Napoleon's fate, long years
after the restless clay had become dust. "
1T is not often that a convict is pos
sessed of a fortune of $50, 900, but one
has just died at Saltwater (Minn.) leav-
ing that amount to fellow convict. Six
years ago Walter Williams became en-
gagged to Miss Mathilde Kittleson, of
Winona County, and two days before the
day set for the wedding he borrowed
$500 of her ard ran away. In anger and
disappointment she had him traced and