Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-06-30
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
lures which show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.

Stranger Than Fiction.
Mrs. w. A. ADAMS, living on West
Fourth street, had an experience, says
the Sedalla Mo-, Democrat, that she Is
quite likely to remember whenever she
bakes bread again. In her baking she
uses one of the large double bread pans
that is hinged on one side and shuts
down like lid. The pan has double
bottom. the lower one of which is usually
filed with water for steaming purposes.
Like all good housewives, she carefully
made her bread and placed II in the oven.
The stove had been well heated and was
roasting hot. Everything went along
all right until the hired girl began to
wonder at the strange odor that filled
the kitchen. An investigation was be-
gun, and it was determined that some
thing was burning. The oven was
opened and Mrs. Adams started to sec if
her bread was scorching. The pan was
partly pulled out when the colored girl,
who had been looking on, fell back with
a scream that indicated near attack of
Mysteries. A snake about two feet long
was lying coiled on top of the pan and
was burned TO crisp Its mouth was
wide open, rs if it had been repeatedly
striking itself with its fangs in the death
agony. Even though roasted snake is an
unusual delicacy, yet the thing that
causes the housewife to wonder is how
the snake got into that stove. The rep
tile was too badly charred to identify the
species. A special search for snakes will
be made whenever bread Is baked in that
house again.
AT THE Gloversville, N. Y, Hair Com
pany's works the other morning the CEN
trifugal machine, heavy revolving iron
concern used for cleaning hair, was
packed full of that material and running
under great pressure at the rate of a
thousand revolutions q minute, when it
suddenly exploded. filling that portion
of the mill with flying hair and pieces of
iron and doing great amount of damage.
A man named Helwig had narrow es-
cape of his life. He was sitting in IN
armchair some distance away, and a
piece of iron weighing about 200 pounds
flew so closely as to chip off piece of
his chair, and. passing through the
building, buried itself in the ground.
In THE upper reservoir at Mountain
View Cemetery Oakland, CAL, are
planted large number of German carp
the fishes now rseging in size from
four to seven inches in length. The
reservoir borders Blair Park on the west,
and the menagcrie at the park consists of
n big "tom" cat. tom" is an expert
fisher cat. He crceps along the margin
of the reservoir, and when carp pokes
up its nose into the grass at the edge of
the lake to feed, tom" deity pulls his
carpship out and eats him. This is a
true cat and fish story, and no diagram
is considered necessary to prove it.
THE two-masted schooner james A.
Fisher, which struck on the Jersey coast,
near Cape May, On. j. inlet, forty-nine
years ago, and sunk in the quicksands,
will soon be afoat again, a perfect
vessel as of yore. She was buried so
deeply in the sand that not even her
masts or rigging have been visible, but
the recent storm unearthed her bleached
bones from her seeming tomb. The
vessel is in remarkably perfect condition,
not even bulwark being crushed in.
The cargo of corn was dug out of her
hold few days ago, black, but in per-
feet shape. Watches, shoes, and the
clothing of the crew were brought to
| light. The watch showed the exact
hour at which 1t had stopped ticking
forty-nine years ago, the pipes and
tobacco were just as left by the Inflated
crew. The cargo consisted of a full load
of corn shipped at Duck river, Delaware
bay, for New York. She sunk so soon
in the sand that the crews clothing and
paraphernalia, as we'll as the entire cargo,
went down. Captain Andrews and sew
eral of the crew were frozen to death,
and the steward drowned in attempting
to reach the mainland.
FARMER Corseglia of South Jersey has
sent to the Philadelphia Record a rather
neat thing in the wayof freak eggs, the
production of one of his Cochin hens.
What the hen tried to do was to lay two
eggs at once, but she only partially sue
ceeded. Having produced one COM
plete egg, correct in size and shape, she
managed, in trying to instantly dupli-
cate it, to inclose it in flexible sac of
semi-opaque skin, which also contained
the complete yolk and white of another
egg. The effect was, therefore, that of
of hard egg and an egg that has been
dropped out of its shell, both inclosed in
a seamless bag about four inches long
and two inches wide. After accomplish
ing this very unusual feat Farmer Cor
seglias Cochin hen raised such disturb
ance in order to call attention to her
achievement that she was set upon by
half the feathered Inhabitants of the
barnyard and forced to roost on the hen
house roof to escape their jealous wrath.
The row having attracted farm hands
notice he investigated the cause and the
Cochin's prize production was carefully
placed in a cigar box filled with bran
and taken to Farmer Corseglia
TWENTY odd years ago Captain E. A.
Matwick of Portland, late master of the
bark Rose Junes, found stowaway on
board his vessel just after leaving Ger
man port for the United States. Calling
the ragged and halfstarved boy aft, Cap
tain Warwick, who never was noted for
amiability, asked what he meant by
coming on board his vessel, and told him
to prepare for the soundest thrashing he
ever got. The boy replied that thrash
ing was just what he expected. This
excited Captain Marwick's curiosity and
he questioned the boy who said that he
had been accustomed to daily furnishings
at home and thought that he could not
possibly fare worse as stowaway on an
American merchantman. AT this Captain
Marwick's anger changed to admiration
for the plucky lad, whom he soon after
ward adopted. The old Captain has
now retired from the sea, and the poor
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