Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-01-14
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show that Truth Is
Stranger than Fiction.

tribe, at Pine Ridge Agency, in South
Dakota, has pair of pets which are not
only strange and interesting, but are USE
full as well. These are two large bald
eagles. The young Indians at the
agency are fond of hunting, but are not
allowed to own or carry guns, and the re-
suit is that they are compelled to use
the bow and arrow, which they use with
great expertness. The boy shot an old
eagle and wounded it. 1t flew to its
nest, and he followed until he saw where
the home of the bird was. He then killed
the wounded bird, and waited till its mate
appeared, and also killed it. Climbing
to the nest, he found two young ones,
which he took home with him and began
course of training which has resulted
in his having the birds SO fully under
control that they come and 60 at his COM
mand. He takes them out, and when he
sights any quarry he turns his eagles
loose, after fastening their beaks so that
they cannot eat the animal, and the
pirds immediately give chase and bring
down the prey. The eagles are now
about year and half old, and are
large and strong enough to bring down a
tawn. The boy is the most successful
hunter of the tribe, and never goes out
without bringing home some game, from
rabbit to deer. The officers at this
place want the eagles, and have offered
the boy what probably appeared to him
to be fabulous sums for them, but he
steadily refuses all offers.
The other morning Frank Smiley, who
up to year ago was in business at
Franklin, Ind, and who now resides in
indianapolis, dropped into the former
place. No one knew him. The Frank
Smiley whom every one knew wore q full
beard and mustache and had n very thick
growth of hair. The apparent stranger
had an entirely bald head, smooth face,
no eyelashes or eyebrows. He ap-
preached several lifelong friends, but no
one recognized him. Then entering the
grocery store where he had dealt for
years he asked the grocer if he knew
him. The grocer looked and shook his
head. "Why, l am Frank Smiley" said
the caller, and he told this story: "Not
long ago l had severe attack of ln
grippe. My head roared constantly.
One morning while sitting at the break
fast table | saw that some hairs had fall
en- into my plate. put my hand to my
mustache and it fell off in punches. |
next put my hand to my head and my
hair fell out in the same way. went to
a barber and he rubbed solution on my
head, but instead of helping it he rubbed
every remaining hair off. My beard,
eyelashes, and eyebrows came out in the
same manner and have not had Il shave
since. But my headache left me and |
never felt better in my life."
GIUSEPPE PALMERI, a young Italian
lawyer, was defending John Salmono be-
for Recorder Smyth, in the Court of Gen
eral Sessions in New York. The de-
tendant was accused of snatching SIS
from friend in Mott street and running
away. The lawyer asked his client if It
were not fact that it was impossible for
him to have run, because his leg had
been recently broken. 'I will tell you.
Tor your own information" remarked the
Recorder to the young lawyer, "that ex-
perlence has shown that scarcely any
thing is impossible. l had a man tried
before me some time ago, charged with
robbing drunken sailor of his watch
and chain. He did not have any arms,
both having been cut off in an accident.
His lawyer tried to convince the iury
that it was impossible for the prisoner to
have robbed the sailor because of the
fact that he had no arms. The evidence
was strongly against him and tho iury
found him guilty. Before | sentenced
him | fonnd that he was well known
along the water fronts as an expert thief.
He abstracted the sailors watch and
chain with his teeth. He is now in State
prison doing long term. You see,
scarcely anything is impossible" The
ury convicted Salmono.
The Baltimore quad in the Western
Union office had been keeping four op-
orators in New York and four more in
Baltimore very busy when it suddenly
refused to work. There were no other
instruments available and connection
with Baltimore was completely lost
Messages were piling up on the table
and the traffic chief, whose business il il
to see that there is no delay to dispatches,
was almost distracted. Electricians
were sent for and they began thorough
examination OF the Instruments. After
half an hours search the source of the
froble was discovered. 1t proved to be
a Croton bug. 1t stood on the instru-
ment which regulates the passage of the
electric current from the dynamo to tho
wire in such way as to connect with
its fore and hind legs the positive and
the negative currents of the battery.
which are necessarily separated by insu
lation. The bug was dead, of course,
and the current of 250 volts had fairly
glued it to the belt, thereby forming a
conductor and temporarily interrupting
business between New York and Balti-
more for more than half an hour
Mr.. THOMAS STEVENS in his book
"Through Russia on u Mustang" de-
scribes a visit TO convent cemetery i'm
st. Petersburg. He writes: The weird
est thing in the cemetery was grave
that is simply glass house, containing
vault or cellar with trap-door and
steps leading down into it. The sister
told us its story. After twenty years of
married life, during which their prayer
for offspring had been unans wered,
a couple were finally presented with
daughter in 1873. Three years
later the newcomer died. The
unhappy parents had the body en-
balmed and placed in coffin
with glass opening above the face.
The tomb in question was built and the
coffin deposited in the crypt. Every
day for fourteen years past the mother
had visited the house, descended through
the trap-door, and spent some time look
ing into the face of the little one
through the glass. No change had taken
place in its appearance. This last item
told ue with n rip &c hana.t l.,