St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-11-19
SOMEW HAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY DAY LIFE

Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven.
lures Which Show That Truth is
Stranger
4 STORY comes here from Tecumseh,
in the Pottawatomie country, Oklahoma,
that seems to be well authenticated. 1t
is to the effect that between Tccumseh
and Purcell, on the banks Of the Cana
dian river, lives John James, a negro,
with his wife and half dozen children.
One daI q scvcn-ycar- son took the
baby, aged eight months, out for ride
IL his wagon. Soon after the boy rushed
into the house naked and stated that he
had so;e in swimming and left the baby
in the wagon on the bank Suddenly
the wagon started down on the bank,
and it and the baby plunged into the
river and sank out of sight. The parents
ran to the stream, but could find no
traces of the baby. Help was secured
and the river was dragged, but though
the wagon was soon pulled out no baby
could be found, and after three days the
searchers gave up and funeral services
were held in memory of the little one.
4 few days after the funeral the father
and brother of the drowned child sue
coedcd in landing an immense catfish
that had swallowed the hook on their set
lines. What was their horror, when
they came to clean the fish, TO find within
It's stomach the remains of the missing
child. The body was badly mutilated.
The remains Of the child were replaced
in collin with some portions of the fish,
from whith they could not be well scpa-
rated, and another funeral was held.
THE Grand Duke George, the Cars
second son, who, ever since his enforced
return, through illness, from his Indian
tour has been under medical treatment
for pulmonary disease, has been living at
Abhas Tuman, in the Caucasus A
private letter from the place states that
His Imperial EIighness is undergoing a
most remarkable course of treatment
The walls in his apartments are bare and
unpapercd, the furniture is of plain
wood or cane, without upholstcripg or
stuff covering Of any kind, and his bed
consists only of the thinncst of mattresses.
Throughout the past winter only a very
moderate fire has been kept up, while
the windows Of the Grand Dukes room
have been continuously open. His at
PENDANTS have suffered drcadiully from
the cold, but his medical advisers hold
that this low temperature is very bene-
fetal to their imperial patient, as it tends
to destroy the bacillus and prevent the
formation of tuberclcs. They maintain
that the progress of the disease has been
arrested, and express hopes that if the
treatment which they prescribe is perse-
vered with the Grand Duke will in two
years time have completely recovered
AT $50 o'clock in the morning a
daughter waso born to the Emperor and
Empress Of Germany. This little daugh-
ter is the seventh child of her royal
parents, and in consequence, if the
legends be true concerning the seventh
child, will be lucky all the days of her
life. A multitude of legends and an
atmosphere Of superstitious reverence
have in all time and in all ages clustered
about the number seven To this day in
Cornwall and in certain parts of Ireland
the belief is firmly fixed in the minds of
the pcasantry that the touch of the
seventh child of a seventh child is GER
tain cure for the kings evil or scrofula,
and one man who lived in Bristol, Eng
land, was called doctor till his death /
simply because he happened to be q
seventh SON.. He was aropcnaker by |
trade.
A TRAVELLER describes a strange forma-
ton in Mitchell Cou ty, Texas, which,
in our time at least, will be reminder
Of the days when the buffalo roa;no1 the
plains of the great West. cat the june
ton of two creeks" he writes, sis a
bed of friabIe gray sandstone mixed with
coarse gravel. Water passing Over the
ledge has worn away a part of it, and
has created fall of thirty feet. The
loose gravel carried round and round in
the eddies has gradually bored holes in
the sandstone. These holes are from
5hrec to six feet wide, circular, and from
30 to 100 feet deep There are from
fifteen to twenty of them, all filled with
resh water By the long continued
;hurning Of the gravel they have been
made jug shaped or cistern-like, and in
'one instances the wall dividing two
wells has been cut through. This must
have been a favoritc watering place with
he buffalo. In the solid rock is cut
!eap trLil down to the water. And
where the descent is steepcst the foot
marks are over six inches deep, showing
hat every animal passing there put its
DOT exactly in the spot occupied by
hose which had preceded it."
AN extraordinary story about stamps
ms been recalled by the recent death, at
ighty-four years, of Miss Penelope
every, of Derby, England. About 1859
/ paragraph went the rounds of the
,ress to the effect that a wealthy and
eccentric individual had announced his
determination to send his daughter to Il
unless she could collect in a
siven time an almost impossible number
If cancelled postage stamps. Miss Every
Ipplicd to friend who had interested
himself in the case, and by some misun-
lcrstanding second paragraph was
published associating Miss Every's name
With the task of collecting stamps towards
hc ransom. immediately Egginton
Hall the residence of her fathcr-was
with English and foreign
lamps to the number of 1900, 900. The
INVASION was SO great that Miss Every
vas obliged to ask in the papers that no
urther supplies might be sent. The
etters which accompanied many of the
onsignments were bound up into portly
'olumes, and they might yet be seen in
he family library.
In Oldtown is man who is making