Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-22
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.

ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven.
lures Which Show That Truth 1.
Stranger Than Fiction.
THE proprietor of cigar shop in
Philadelphia, died of black diphtheria a
few days ago, and that the danger of con.
tagion might be avoided, his body, in its
coffin, was placed in the show window OF
his store during the funeral services
that his friends might pass by on the out
side. All the neighbors focked to see
the somewhat uncanny spectacle.
IT may not be generally known that
Paris is the greatest postage stamp mar
ket in the world. There is a regular
bourse held every Thursday and Sunday
in a corner OF the Champs EIysees. where
hundreds OF men, women end boys con-
gregate with their postage stamp albums
and packages of stamps for sale and ex-
change. 1t is said that thousands of
francs change hands there every market
day.
THE town of Hart, Ca, boasts a
notable specimen Of the albino negro.
lhe man was once pure black, but for
years his skin has been changing until
now he is white all over with for the ex-
ception of few dark spots. Not only
is he white, but much whittier than most
white men, his changed skin being of q
clear, milky Wilderness. The TRANSFORMED
ton has been natural and unattended by
any pain or Inconvenience.
Posi- OFFICE officials in Portland. Me.
were surprised to have among the nail
deposited there a day or two ago a
registered letter that would have gone
for the usual ten cent fee and postage
but bore stamp of the four. dollar de-
nomination. The stamp collecting fad
was suggested as an explanation, the
stamp that had been used being regarded
an uncanceled one.
FARMER CUsHMAN, of Chenanco
County, N: Y, thinks we are going to
have very severe winter, for the fol-
lowing reasons: Corn husks are very
thick; hogs melt runs jagged; the
breastbone of May goose shows spots
resembling the canals Of Mars; the ducks
are flying in U shaped instead of "
shaped tiocks, and green frogs are chang
ing their skins and seeking springs for
winter quarters.
A FAMILY residing in Washington, Ca,
was considerably shocked during an cleo
trical storm a short time ago by the
lightning striking the telegraph and cleo
81,
After the storm had subsidized it was as
certsined that large fig bush in the
garden had been struck, and a hen and
three chickens, which had sought shelter
under the broad leaves, killed. The
chickens were found under the hen, which
was sitting in natural position, with not
I feather rutfled.
How French!" was probably the ex-
clamation Of most people when they read
of the dramatic suicide of the young
woman at Clichy, France, the other day.
While the train conveying the Russian
visitors to Versailles was crossing the
Seine she stood on parallel bridge
waving French and Russian flags, and.
shouting. ~ see and l die. Long live
Russia!" she jumped into the river and
covered it was found that she was clothed
only in garments made out of French
and Russian flags.
BALTIMORE has a blind boatman. His
boat was stolen by some worthless fell
lows the other day, and subsequently
abandoned and picked up. He claimed
1t, and when told that he must identify
it did so, not by telling its color and
model. as man with good eyes might
do. but by giving the positions of all the
nails and the chunks in the boat, where
splinters had been knocked off, and so
on. Then, being admitted, he went all
over it with his careful touch. finally
said: Eyes, it is mine," and rowed
away, successfully avoiding the dozens
of other boats, tugs, ETC., that were NOV
ing around.
A TERRIBLE ballooning accident is re-
ported from Piedmont. An aeronaut |
named Charbonnet, who was married on
4 Wednes lay, subsequently assembled in
a balloon with his bride, with the inten-
lion of making a wedding trip in this
manner across the Alps. The pair were
by another aeronaut to
assist in the navigation of the balloon,
md the start was made under favorable
circumstances, but in the evening, when
n the vicinity of Ceres. north of Turin,
something went wrong with the balloon.
It descended with great velocity, and
inally struck the ground with terrible
'orce. Charbonnet was killed, and his
wife and the assistant were both serious
y injured.
UP till five or six years ago it was an
thing to find a woman who
moked cigarette of an evening. Now
is so common, so the English papers
Issure US, that nearly all women count
Imong their acquaintance one or two
women who smoke either internationally
II regularly. Advanced clubs find it
Necessary TO set apart ladies' smoking
DOM. The report that one of the rail-
way companies has found it expedient
o reserve smoking carriage for the
benefit of lady smokers is premature but
t is believed that before many years it