Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-01-21
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY DAY LiFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.


,ntoxication. 1t is known as the fly
clown mushroom, and is also very album
lant in Scotland. The fungus is
/ gathered in the hottest part of the year,
| and is then hung up by string In the
air to dry. Some are dry before gathered,
and these are stated to be far more mar
cotic than those artifcially preserved.
Usually the fungus is rolled up like a
bolus, and taken without chewing, for,
if masticatcd, it is said to disorder the
stomach. One large or two small fungus
produce what is looked upon as pleasant
state of intoxication for one day. The
effect is the same as that produced on
taking a quantity of spirits or wine, ex-
cept it is delayed from one to two hours
after the bolus has been swallowed. At
first it produces very cheerful emotions
Of the mind. 1t renders some persons
exceedingly active, and is stimulant to
muscular exertion. Thus, if a person
affected by it wishes to step over a straw
or small stick it impels him to take a
Jump sufficient to clear low hodge or
the trunk of tree. 1t keeps those fond
Of music perpetually singing, and under
its influences talkative person can neither
keep secrets nor silence; hence it is a
source of danger to ladies and poll
ticians.
THERE was on exhibition at Dunbar's
canning factory at Bay St. Louis, Miss,
great curiosity in the shape of a fish,
called q devil fish or butterfly fish, or
sea bull bat fish. Captain Eugene Favre,
of the schooner Saint Peter, captured
the bio fellow in four feet of water in
Cat Island spit. He was shot five times
before being killed, and it took six stall
wart men to manage him. His weight is
estimated at 5000 pounds. His measure
was taken by Captain Favre, of the Saint
Peter, and found to be seven feet long,
with tail seven feet in length; width of
mouth two feet; between the eyes it
measured seven feet, and from tips of
wings thirteen feet, The captain of the
Saint Peter says he has been on the water
for twenty-five years, and never saw
anything like his capture, and that this
fish is the first OF its kind ever seen IL
these waters. The fish drew a large
crowd to the factory, where the Saint
Peter was anchored Sailed down he
would season several barrels Of swee
potatoes, and feed the employees of thu
factory for several weeks.
THE penny-in-the-slot machine ha
been adapted to the use of the elephant
at the Manchester, England, Zoo.
When visitor gives the elephant
penny the animal drops it in a slot an(
gets biscuit There is no use in try
ing to deceive the animals by half
! pennies. Those despised coins ar
, always flung in the face of the giver
The other day visitor gave a bah
elephant number of half-pennies il
succession, but all were thrown back
: The animal was then given two halt
+ pennies at the same time. The creature
demeanor changed. For more than tiv
. minutes he held the two coins in hi
Trunk rubbing them together and seem
: ing to be pondering deeply. At last h
+ dropped the two half pence in the DO
o together, with the result that the CON
I bined weight gave him the desire
n biscuit, at which he gambolled about i
b manner which exhibited extravagan
: delight.
h MARsHY LYLEs, an old colored woman
S who lives two miles below Sylvania Ga
and is now over seventy years of age
IS started to school for the first time tn
o other morning. For three score yeal
d and ten she has walked this footstooi
C intellectual darkness, and there is bot
# humor and pathos in the picture of tn
!, old woman vending her way to the lit
Y school house in the woods. Marshy h,
e been blessed with a numerous progen
5. and has children and grandchildren
r numbers, and even great grandchildre
y lover of the Scripture and her obje,
? in starting to school now, she says,
e that it may aid her in studying the Bib
IS and thus help her on to glory. Ever
5, morning with dinner bucket and spellir
re book in hand she goes along with Il
r children to the log academy and the
lie pours over the mystic letters which see
hard enough indeed to her fetter(
# mind.
70 In May, 1887, Adelia Hubbell
lie Greenfield Hill, Conn., went out
Of walk on her mothers estate. As 81
Of walked along over the fields she spied
il large and ugly-looking ram owned by
l. neighbor, Miss Agnes Murray Mi
~ Hubbell, instead of climbing a tree OF
n, stone wall and hurting recriminations
IN the beast, advanced toward him. Wher
e. upon the ram lowering his head charg,
an at Miss Hubbell. There were no W
lie nesses to the collision, but Judging fro
G. the result it was tremendous one, (
Miss Hubbell was i'll for long tim
and the ram got his head tangled up
her skirts and died Of sufTocation. VIII
Miss Hubbell recovered she sued Mi
nc Murray for damages and Miss MUIR
IS began counter suit for the loss of {
re ram. Judge Hall at Bridgeport decid
y. that Miss Hubbcll was entitled to Sl7
OF damages, but Miss Murray probal
N won't get a cent.
u A MOST extraordinary story comes IRE
= Boise City, Idaho, which is said To
well authenticated. 1t says that VIII
I" three travellers were nc the upper end
~ Lake Chelan recently one Ut them we
~ into the water t0 battle he was seiz
W hy the foot hy mafiuo monster ii
nl was being pulled into deep water Wh
w his screams attracted che attention Of