Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-31
SING ULA RITES.

A boot SOLE the bottom covered with iron,
was found imbedded iu chunk of coal a,
Benton Harbor the other day.
French scientists are puzzling over a spider
| which was discovered in cavity in a stone
| 1t is estimated that the stone must be al
| least 1000 years old; this notwiths landing
| however, the spider is quite lively and very
| youthful in its antics. 1t is blind and has nc
| mouth.
Nancy Hatch, a Yazoo, Miss, negress be-
! gan to turn white seven years ago, and now
| she would almost be taken for
most tho only remnant OF heI
former black skin is dark line about hen
neck.
Two months ago Mrs. William Deninger
Watson of Jeffersonville, Ind, gave birth to
son. He weighs now only two pounds, is
sixteen inches tall, his arms are eight inches
in length and his head ten and one-half inches
in circumference His face looks like that OF
an old man and Is covered with hair. The
child is healthy
Baltimore mulatto girl Is turning pink
in spots, ana has gone to a hospital for treat
ment. The spots increase in size in the
spring and fall at which time the girl says
she feels very languid. At these periods
she also loses her appetite. Her hair Is also
undergoing change, but here the colors
which appear in spots, are pure white.
A curious phenomenon has been reported
from the village of Kirnujarwi, near Paja,
Lapland During the winter the earth be-
came spontaneously heated in many places
to such degree that the snow and ice melted
at those places, and it was impossible to
touch those spots without burning one's
hand. The cause of this phenomenon is not
yet explained.
There is a hor1e on James McCloud's farm
in South Dakota which has eight feet; other
wise it is perfectly formed in every respect
Not until the fetlock joint is reached in the
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any difference between this horse aud any
other. AT the pasteru joint, however, the
branch begins, and two perfectly formed
hoofs are found on each of the four legs.
A curious phenomenon is reported from
Jewett City, Conn. George Rood was re-
Gently struck by thunderbot and badly
burned, and suffers intensely still. His whole
body is so charge with electricity that when
he puts his hands together they stick, and
only by violent rubbing can they be sepa-
rated If his feet touch it Is the same. The
severe burns are beginning TO heal and his
appetite is good, but he cannot stand up.
A lobster recently caught in Belfast Bay,
Me-, weighed twonty-threc pounds ana
measured thlrty-seven inches from the end
of his tall to the end Of the longest claw
twenty inches around the body ana seventeen
inches around the large claw. Barnacles ad-
hered to the claws and body. The monster
was too large to onter the trap, but as the
trap was drawn up became entaugcd in the
A well known family in Minneapolis are
distinguished by similar birthmark, said 10
have been borne by every member OF the
family for the past two hundred years. II is
a small gash like knife wound at the base
of the neck narrowly escaping the spinal cord.
which resembles a fresh STAB, with raw lips,
refuses TO be healed, and at times Deeds pro
fuscly and even alarmingly. II is about
three inches in length and varies In depth
from an inch TO an inch and half, and as the
bearer grows older and becoming more angry
and occasions greater loss of blood. Physi-
clans pronounce IL TO be of cancerous ma
ture, hereditary and remarkable in the his
tory of medicine.
The rotifer, microscopic animal, was first
discovered by Russian mcroscopist, next
found twice in Philadelphia, once in Illinois,
and some years ago in Trenton 1t has now
been rediscovered in New Jersey. The crea-
ture Is blessed in having two stomachs, which
it can fill with other animals, and apparently
enjoy itself by digesting them in spite of
of their wriggling. The rotifer can only rest
on a small leaf or other object, hold its mouth
widely open, and waits for Providence to fill
1t by means of some wandering animal that
shah blunder iuto the trap aud be done for.