St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22
A YEAR OF SURPRISES.
Such Was 1892, to Say Nothing
of Miracles and Monsters.
Boston Transcript


| Boston Transcript.
Undoubtedly 1892 will be long remem-
bered in history as year of miracles, a
| twelvemonth in which more impoSsibili-
! ties occurred and the unexpected hap
pened oftener than in any other CORE
| spending period of which there is rec
ord. Politicians who left every
thing to the intelligence of the
| American people were surprised
and panied at the result OF
the "leaving." The impOssibilities of
thousands of Massachusetts, Republic
ans voting for two governors at once
and thousands of Ohio Democrats
| throwing away their votes for twenty
| two electors and working like beavers
to choose one have occurred. These
things were so generally conceded to be
| impossible that the unexpected becomes
a matter of course. and the travellers
tales that are finding their way into the
newspapers cause no ripple OF excite
| ment beyond the headlines.
One of our contemporaries published
a tale which in other years would have
been called startling about all Indian
| falling into spring III Montana and
coming to light again by emerging from
another spring in British Columbia, 200
miles distant. OF course. the unfOrtu-
nate Indian died of fatigue in travelling
200 miles underground, and science is
thereby deprived of the data necessary
to determine the commercial value of
this subterranean waterway.
A year of miracles is naturally a year
OF monsters, and we are not SURPRISED
at reading that sort of water dragon
has been making havoc with travellers
in Idaho. This monster caught a tra-
Weller who was bathing in Lake ChelOn,
and was dragged ashore. The said
monster then and there chung to the
aforesaid bather and resisted all at
tempts to rescue him made by the other
travellers. Stretching its huge wings,
the monster flew up into the air and
then plunged down into Lake Chelon
with the unfortunate bather, whom he
devOured at leisure.
People who may be curious about
monsters will be pleased at learning
that this Idaho monster had the legs
and body of all alligator, with the head
and eyes of serpent, ana huge WINGS,
being altogether a most terrible wild
fowl. In general, it may described as
resembling the great monster OF the
MOiaVe desert, whose infreQuent ap-
pearances are graphically chronicled in
the animal department OF the st. Louis
Globe-DemOcrat.
1t will doubtless occur to the reader
that one has heard but little since Cot
ton Mather'S day OF the monsters and
miracles of New England. This is not
due to any lack of versatility in the ami
mails of New England, but is traceaDle
to the deep-rooted incredulity OF the
people and the operations of the Nc
Kinley bill. Our animals have protean
.I..I. - 30 tn of hn
West, and can as re adily take strange,
snake OF Northern New Hampshire. i'll
visible to the members of the Dart
mouth faculty, but seen by students
making their way across the campus
| late at night, Is a familiar instance.
Cotton Mather did not see the two
headed snake of Cape Ann, but he heard
! of it, which is much the same thing. 1t
| might be seen by some people under
certain conditions today. Anybody who
sees the winged wolves of the Kenne-
bee chasing the wild geese as they fly
| southwark will never forget the sight.
1t is one of the strangest in nature.
Flying squirrels abound i'll our New
England forests, which ale also full of
bears and other creatures too numerous
to mention.
AT LHlS moment mysterious animal
believed to be Canadian lynx is
thought to be haunting the woods be-
tween Brookline and Newton. Several
persons have seen it, and it is said to
have broken up session Of the Brook
line Browning club by bowling deris-
lively under the window just as an ex-
pert was explaining that 1.-The Flight of
the Duchess" meant the very reverse of
what the ordinary acceptance OF the
English language would imply. The
animals of New England are physically
the equals and intellectually the supe-
riorS of those OF the West and South.
Clerical Half-Fares Revoked.