Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-01-07

coolheaded enough to pause when he had
climbed about goo feet and indulge in an
acrobatic performance. lie was warmly
applauded by the enormous crowd OF
spectators which always gathers on the
Dukes birthday anniversary.
4 CURIOUS freak of nature has taken
place in the person Of a Young man named
Jones, aged - years, living at Stamping
Ground. Ky About two years ago he
complained of a severe pain in his left
shoulder and arm to the elbow. He
when the part affected began to change
color until it became dark brown. and
at the same time the pain diminished
until it finally ceased, when it was
noticed (this was about year ago. that
a thick growth of brown hair had made
its appearance on the brown or disco,ored
parts, extending from the elbow to the
collar bone, covering the shoulder blade,
and at this time the hair is over one inch
in length, the pain has entirely dis
appeared, and the young man has almost
twice the strength in that arm that he
has in the other
GEORGE B. CLARK of Derby Village,
Conn, had extraordinary luck bagging a
partridge a'few days ago. He was driv-
ing along q country road at the edge of
a wood in Woodbridge, when his dog,
that had been scouting about the forest,
flushed couple of cartridges. The
birds burst out of the brush with great
whirr, flying side by side, and as they
were passing over Mr.. Clark's head he
made a sudden vicious cut with his whip
at them. Curiously, the long stiff whip
stock smotc one of the birds and broke
her neck. The selectman exhibited his
bird to all his ncighborS, triumphantly
declaring that he is the only man in the
world who ever stopped partridge on
the wing with whip.
TIE little village of Bcrsted, near
BognOr, possesses an unique curiosity in
the form of an inn room papered with
postage stamps. The apartment is fanci-
fully decorated with many descriptions of
used stamps, and even the passage leading
to the room is similarly papcred. Some
five years was occupied in making tn
NOiICNllOus NlllCn IlNlllDNlS SOllC tHOu-
sands of stamps The room being com
pleted in 1887 received the name of the
Jubilee Stamp Room Indeed, some
members of the royal family, interested
in the collection, are said to have added
to it number of stamps on their Own
account.
THERE is a big hotel in San Francisco
that pays delicate attention to its guests,
and also gets some valuable advertising
for itself, by the liberal use of flowers
among the guests There, when man
and wife arrives, and are ushered into
the most cherries of habitations, a hotel
bedroom, the desolation is soon relieved
by bell-boy coming with basket Of
flowers, which he says "AIr. -, the
manager of the house, sends to Mrs.
Blank, with his compliments. This
little attention has made the hotel
famous.
THE great attraction at the London
Aquarium continues to be the "sluggingn
matches between Professor Laudermann
and an Australian kangaroo. The kan
CARGO is seven feet in height, and accord
ing to all reports he is no mean "slugger. .
Several men who faced him for few
rounds are now in the hospital Sarah
Bernhardt offered the Professor s., 600
for the kangaroo, but he is considered
worth many times that sum.
WILLIAM SPooNER, about seventy
years of age, died suddenly at Milan,
fHopn rannuti,, He hnl l.,
neighbours house and eaten breakfast.
when he dropped dead He was a
singular character For eight years he
has refused to live in a house, and for a
number of years lived in hollow tree,
doing his own cooking and washing.
He was robbed of several thousand
dollars and this loss probably unbalanced
his mind and caused him to live a her
mit's life.
A WOMAN in Kingston. n. Y, recently
met with an accident which neccssitated
the amputation of one of her feet. Her
husband is buried in st. Mary's cemetery
in that city, and as she expects to be
Inferred in the same grave with him she
caused it to be opened and the foot
buried there Is this the burial by
installments' SYSTEM
A JUNGLE man. was recently caught
in China and is now being exhibited in
Ceylon. The creature stands two feet in
height, has u head and a face like
monkey and body which, but for its
diminutive size appears to be similar to
that Of human being. The hands and
feet are perfect The missing link is
about four years old and is attracting a
great deal of attention.
WHILE some Wesleyan students were
practising baseball on the college campus,
one OF them saw what he supposed to be
the ball rapidly approaching him. He
put out his hands to catch it, when much
to his surprise it was found to be full
grown quail The bird was given to
Ornithologist L. II. Hubbard.
10 ERnuIra 4.