Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-24
SOMEWHAT STRANGE,
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.

Queer Facts ana Thrilling Adven.
lures Which Show That Truth IL
Stranger Than Fiction.
A PECULIAR result of lightning was
noticed near Dion. in France, after a
severe thunder storm. A bolt struck a
small pond just outside the city and it
was discovered that the electric shock
had killed all the fish in the pond, about
1000 in number.
PEOPLE fond of tracing condolences
may make note of the asserted fact that
Mrs. Elizabeth Payne. Of Galloway
County. Mo-. who recently celebrated
her eighty third birthday. has numbered
among her descendants sixty grandchil.
dren, Of whom thirteen are dead, and
sixty great grandchildren of whom thr-
teen are dead.
Az execution in the Indian Territory
is "a unique proceeding. A few days ago
II became the duty OF sheriff to legally
slny Choctaw. Two men held the
crimin,l's hands. The sheriff knelt five
PAGES in front. aimed at bit of white
paper pinned over the Indians heart and
shot HIM dead.
A TEXAS man was sitting in dark
rom recently when he was attracted by
the b"zzing of II goldcoIored bug.
Taxing the appearance Of the bug rs a
favorable omen, he followed it. 1t
stopped directly over au old we'll in u
deserted field; thou the man went to
digging and presently discovered II num-
Der of gold dollars and some few silver
coins.
lT is said that interesting experiments
as to the ability of animals in counting
have been made by II Russian physician,
who estimates that horse can count to
20, dog to 10 and cat to 6. A single
illustration will show the physicians
method. The horse OF certain peasant
had the habit of stopping to rest from
blowing when he reached the twentieth
furrow. and could not be induced to take
any rest until the full twenty burrows
had been finished. He never found a
horse that had Il capacity beyond twenty
five.
IT is stated by the London Lancet
that "The English professional classes,
who head the list as the tallest of adult
males, attain the average height Of feet
vt inches. Next on the list come the
American males, and minute fraction
behind come the English of all classes.
Most European nations average for the
adult male 5 feet inches; but the Aus
TRANS, Spaniard and Portuguese Just fall
short of this standard"
THE Binghamton On. " Leader tells
OF grocer in that city who, while
taking Sunday afternoon nap, fell into
deep sleep, and while in that condition
went TO his place Of business, opened his
store and was moving some OF his goods
out on the walk and making other prepa-
rations for the days trade, when he was
awakened by a friend. He had worked
so hard that he was dripping with per-
ppiration.
A CINCINNATI paper mentions . sharp
trick played by Shoemaker to attract
custom. He had q bold sign printed,
"Shoes mended for nothing next week, -
and displayed it in front of his shop.
Early Monday morning such a rush of
business set in that he was compelled to
call in another workman to assist him.
The next day some of his patrons began
to call for their shoes, and were greatly
surprised when he demanded pay. They
referred him to the sign in the window.
''You haven't read it very carefully" he
replied, 'it says next week!'
THERE is a place in Dorset, England,
known as White Farm. All the farm
buildings, the house itself and even all
the. animals on the place arc white
Rabbits, cats, guinea pigs, hens, horses,
cows, donkeys and all the creatures are
spotless. But this is not the most re-
markable feature. The free and indie
pendent British men and maids who till
the soil and churn the butter are COM
PEELED to attire themselves in white
smocks and white frocks to bear out the
general impression Of whiteness.
THE Duchess dues, whose reputation
As a sportswoman is as familiar almost
to Americans 40 to the people Of her ma.
tive France. has very remarkable pack
OF hounds. 1t is composed of just 100
dogs, all exactly alike to the eye of the
ordinary observer, for they are all white
with brown spots. Their mistress, how
ever, can readily distinguish them, and
she looks after them as carefully as a
colonel after the soldiers in his command,
Every morning when at her country es-
tate she visits the kennels, and the
hounds are made to line up before her
like militiamen on review.
The Japs for the most part arc non
meat eating race; indeed, in central
Japan and in out-of. the way parts the
inhabitants have never tasted such food.
fact partly due. no doubt, to economic
reasons. meat diet being an expensive
luxury in the far east Statistics of a
recent year go to prove that out of the
1921, 500 head of cattle existing in the
country only the comparatively small
number of s4,7t1 were slaughtered for
purposes Of food. The tendencies of
Japan being thus inclined toward vege-
tarianism, case of positively inhuman
exception to this state of things is all
the more astonishing. 1t appears that
quite recently in the prefecture of Meji a
native was discovered digging up the
body of newly buried child, with the