Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-04

out his hand to catch a wounded quail
he was suddenly shocked to discover an
enormous rattlesnake in the line of the
bird. He approached the birds again
with his gun cooked and ready for
sudden shot, and learned that the snake
was dead. When he fired at the birds
he killed the snake and six quail, al
though none of the birds or the serpent
were in view. The snake had eight
rattles and button aud was 81 feet in
length.
FoR several months the Austrian san
itary authorities have guarded the
frontier from the importation of Russian
caviar, and presumably that from the
Elbe has also been shut out Caviar,
which consists Of prepared eggs of the
sturgeo. was placed under the ban on
the grouno that it was medium for the
transportation OF The cholera germ. To
test the matter the Austrian Minister OF
the Interior ordered a thorough investi-
CATION to be made at the hygienic labora-
tory in Vienna. There noted bactcrlolo-
gists infected quantity of caviar with
bacilli from Tonquin and from Hamburg,
as many as 1873, 800 being placed in the
caviar. At the end of twenty-four hours
there were but hundred left, and at
the end of forty-cight there were none at
all. This experiment was repeated
several times, with about the same result
Lovers of til delic' cy--the caviar, not
the bacili-may therefore continue to
eat it without fear. II is a cholera killer
instead of a propagation.
A KENTUCKY Baptist minister say,
that some years ago Il Baptist Church IL
that State tried man for kissing his
wife. The formulated charge was en-
tered "Unbccoming leyity.n The gentle.
man accused had been from home several
weeks on business, and on his return be
met his wife at the meeting house, and
in the presence of the congregation en-
braced her with sounding smack on
the lips. Some OF the staid old deacons
were 50 shocked at such levity in the
house Of God that the gentleman was
araigle1 on the above charge, and cs-
capcl dismissal from the church by
agreeing TO do his kissing at home in the
future.
\ CUaIoUs story is told Of the recent
funeral OF an old farmer of Maine. who,
after spending his life in tilling a rocky
farm and raising numerous family, died
and left his hard earned property to two
sons. The sons placed their fathers re-
mains in rough coffin and started for
the burying ground. bearing it upon
their shoulders. They took short cut
through the woods, and had not gone
far when a deer crossed the path. The
sight stirred their sportsman instincts,
and depositing the coffin in the bushes,
they ran back for their dogs and guns,
and were soon on glorious hunt. Other
game turned up, the hunt was prolonged,
and it was not till four days afterward
that they remembered their father :
corpse in the bushes and returned to
bury it.
Two girls have lately had strange
experience IN country house, situated
in Dcvonshirc, England, at which they
were visiting They were given a room
reported to be haunted by woman with
a bloody face Just as they got into bed
on the first night of their stay, woman
whose face was all CORY rushed into the
room. The girls were frightened into
Mysteries and the alarmed household
found them shivering and screaming
under the coverets while dead woman
lay beside the bed. The supposed ghost
was lady's maid who had broken a
blood vessel while crossing the hall and
ran into the girls room for assistance,
which their insensate fright prevented
them giving
THE peasants of the Russian village of
Jagodziasts, il Lithuania. wreaked their
vengeance on suspected horse thief
recently by setting fire to his dwelling
during the night, while he, his wife,
mother, and family of five children were
within, and burning the whole family TO
death. The peasants stood around the
hut, and when the inmates rushed out
they were thrust back into the burning
house with pitchforks and scythes. One
Of the women was murdered outright in
the attempt to force her back into the
flames. The peasants gave themselves
up to the Russian police, and will most
probably be imprisoned for year and
then cXilcd to another part Of the coun-
try.
A CASE was reported recently of an
engineer being killed by his head strik-
ing against sagged telegraph pole as
he leaned from his CAB window. and
several instances are lately noted of
brakemen being swept from the roof Of
cars by bridges. But perhaps the most
singular accident of this kind occurred
in Missouri. An engineer Of an Iron
Mountain train was leaning out Of his
cab window passing Williamsyille when
he was caught by the mail catcher, the
iron pole and hook arrangement for
catching the mails from moving trains,
and pulled clean from his engine, through
the window falling beside the track az
his train passed on. He was seriously
injured.
IIo-NE-A-Go, one OF the chiefs Of the
Osages, the richest Indians IN the coun-
try, recently exhibited himself TO the
wondering gaze of the people Of Kansas
City. He wore his first hat for the oe-
casion, and q brand new pairof blankets
Tho chief enioyed himself hugely 10 rho
metropolis OF the KaN aud showed hii
acquaintance with civilization by rc-
marking that he sass more pretty women