Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-03-25
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY DAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.

In August LlVerpoOl resident proceed
ing To Bombay took out with him cat
which he intended to present to a friend
in India. Some days after the arrival of
the steamer in Bombay pussy WAS missed,
and though she was searched for high
and low, she was nowhere to be found
Her owner had quite given her up for
lost when he received intelligence from
England that the cat had made her APP
pearance at her old Liverpool home on
the 25th of October, as calm and col
lected as though a trip to InGia and back
was quite in the ordinary course of her
life. The facts are vouched for by
Bombay paper, and there is no reason to
doubt their substantial accuracy, but it
is not made clear whether the eat was
not slowed away in the steamer in which
she went out to India, and carried back
on its return voyage in the ordinary
course Under any circumstances her
adventures are, however, sufficiently re-
markable to deserve recording.
THE jasperized wood of Arizona has
become well known by reason of the
many cabinet specimens, paper weights,
and decorative slabs of it that are sent
to the Eastern cities, but this is by no
means the only petriied forest in this
country. In the Hoodoo district of the
Yellowstone many stumps of trees are
found converted to stone, some of them
showing knots, grain of the wood, and
bark as plainly Us the living tree, and
the pebbly beaches of the Yellowstone
River are strewn with tons of fragments
of fossil wood In the dreary desert of
the Dakota Bad Lands leaf impressions
are frequently found in the hardened
clay, and at Little Missouri, at the point
known as the Burning Mountain, where
a coal seam has been on fire since nobody
knows when, there are half a dozen tree
trunks about thirty feet long This is
remarkable on account of the almost
total lack of tree life in this region at
present.
A HUNTER and a wolf had an interest
ing mutual surprise party to themselves
in the hills near Helena, Montana, few
days ago The hunter, arrayed in a
heavy wof-skin overcoat, fur side out
ward, was examining some traps set the
previous night He was STOPPING over
one, rearranging the bait, when there
was the sound of fierce growl and a
heavy weight fell suddenly on his back,
bearing him to the ground, so that he
barely missed being caught in his own
trap He managed to Shake himself
free, and recovering his feet found facing
him full-grown buffalo wolf. The
wolf seemed quite as much surprised as
the hunter, and they looked at each
other for some seconds before the fight,
which ended in the death of the wolf,
began. The brute evidently was fooled
by the overcoat and the hunters stoop-
ing position, and mistook him for
another wolf.
THE accounts of the depredations Of
wolves in portions of Russia, are appear
ing almost daily. Inavillage near Arch
angel a peasant, who was slcepingo on TOP
of the oven, as is the custom, was
awakened by feeling a sudden pain in
his foot. He sprang up in time to leave
four of his toes in the jaw of an immense
wolf, which had just prepared itself for
a comfortable meal With a howl the
man sprang down to the floor The
wolf sprang on his back With a great
effort the peasant succeeded in shaking
him off for an instant, and Selling con
venient axe soon dispatched the animal
1t had entered through a window in The
outside room of the hut, near which d
candle was burning-a very unusua
thing for wolf to do, as they fear 6
light more than anything else. The
hunger must be terrific indeed which
can allay this fear.
A STRANGE romance was ended by the
death near Stonersyille, Penn, recently
of Mary Refs, who for fifty years led
lonely life because her parents forbad,
an early marriage. She was seventy
eight years old When girl she fell il
love with young man whom her parent
did not admire and they forbade
marriage This broke Mary's heart anC
her home had no more charms for her
She preferred to live by herself and sh
refused to accept the hospitality offriend
or neighbors, saying that all the worlC
was against her Twenty years ago sh
moved into the little stone house, anc
after that she rarely saw anybody. o.
a recent Monday friend called an,
offered to help her in any way, but tn
aged lady refused aid Her body wa
discovered on her kitchen floor and S2C
was found in the little house of the re
cluse.
In some Of the New England town
and villages it is still customary to rin'
church or factory bell at o'clock a
night, and no further back than WA
times it was a general practice in elite
of over 10000 people This custol
perpetuatcs the curfcw loouvrc fcu
cover fire. of William the Couqucror'
time. when church bells were rung {
notify the people that it was time 0
bank the fires and put out the light.
There Is % strong New England elemcu
in Brooklyn, and it may be owing % thi
fact that the practice has been main
tanned IN the uoIghborin. city of RING
ing the city Hall bell at 0 o'clock ever
night u Is % good thing ON some %
counts, because il enables the resident
OF the vicinity 90 set their clocks al
watches.
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