Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-03-04
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY DAY LIFE
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.

THE German village of Grambke Is
greatly excited over case of persistent
somnolency in the person of the daughter
of one of the town officials. The girl,
a pretty, slender child of some thirteen
years of age, has been in a continual
sleep since the second week in May, and
even now does not show the least trace
of arousing from her protracted slnmber
During the first week of her enforced
sleep the family seemed grieved to the
verge of distraction and all was mourn
ing in the house where the child lay in
the embrace of deaths twin brother. .
After awhile, however, when it was
noticed that she would swallow liquid
nourishment, their fears for her safety
seemed to abate to a certain degree, and
now, after lapse of more than half a
year. the family go about their daily
labors as if the little maid were really
dead and half forgotten Highest medi-
cal authorities have been consulted, but
all efforts to keep her awake have re-
suited in total failures.
A FACTORY for the manufacture OF
petritied human corpses has, 1T is alleged,
been discovered in Fresno, Cal. At least
four petritied people are said to have
been manufactured and shipped to mu-
seums from this place. 1t may be re-
membered that a petritied man created
considerable talk in Utah last fall. and
that reports of the curiosity were printed
In Eastern papers. The thing was seen
by natural history expertsand pronounced
fraud, but it Melted considerable money
for the ''minersn who discovered it.
The objects were very carefully made,
the bones of the arms and legs being
followed out, and in one case one arm
and foot was broken off to show the
internal structure. The fake factory, it
is said, stole a genuine mummitied man,
a dried body found on the plains, from
the Health Officer of Fresno, fixed it up
little, and shipped it to museum in
the East.
WITHIN annie or two of Dewitteville,
n. Y hive two old maiden ladies, Misses
Lucinda and Martha Skinner, respectively
seyenty-four and seventy-six years old,
who have lived together for the past
forty-seven years without speaking to
each ether. The two inherited the house
in which they reside from their father in
lS42, and quarreling year or two after
divided households, though remaining
under the same roof. Each has done her
own cooking and waits on herself even
In illness, never entering the rooms occu-
pied by the other--in fact, leading as
separate lives as if dwelling in different
counties. Neither ever speaks of the
other, and no explanation has ever been
made as to the quarrel that occasioned
this peculiar family arrangement, though
the neighbors declare that the cause was
disagreement over u stewpan, worth
perhaps fifty cents. Both sisters are
worth in their own right over $4,000.
E. L. WAKEMAN, the American news
paper man, gives bit of his London ex-
perience as follows: ''In London and
other British cities the American will
notice little signs at street corners, in
crowded, marrow thoroughfares, in park
ways and at all sudden turnings traversed
by vehicles, reading, Keep to the left. )
Some years ago when | first noticed this
1t worried me. | wanted to understand
1t, and, like a true American, perhaps
protest about it a little. | approached
London policeman, with the earnest in
quiry: Beg pardon, officer, but might
ask why, in London, everything goes
''To the left'p Like one of Mrs. Jar
ley's figures, his head moved stately. He
regarded me one awful official moment
with contemptuous pity. His head
moved back again. Then, with wither-
ing scorn, he answered: AN wy
shouldn't itp | had never thought of
that
The inaccuracy of women with regard
to their age is the subject of some curl
GUS testimony by French President of
Assize. The only instances in which he
finds correct dates given by women are
when they are under twenty-five or over
eighty-tiye. AT these periods of life, he
says, they are to be trusted. At all other
periods the sure controlling tendency is
20 understate. The magistrate has been
able to give a rule for guidance. He
finds that female prisoners invariably
state THEM ages as twenty nine, thirty
nine, forty-ni@e or fifty nine, and from
this remarkable circumstance he deduces
his rule. If their ages are in the forties
they boldly set them down in thirties.
but, conscience asserting itself, they
keep as near the truth as they can and
fix them at thirty-nine.
Nor many months ago an account was
received from Russia of the bringing to
life by means Of the application of cleo
tricity of patient who had apparently
died from the effects of lightning stroke.
A resuseitation of a different character.
although by the same agency, has Just
been effected in Scotland. A man who
was bathing was seized with cramps and
sank, being two minutes below water.
For some time after he was rescued life
was thought to be extinct An cleo
trlcal apparatus was procured, and the
current was passed between the nape of
ihe neck and the heart. Within very
short time animation was restored and
ihe man soon recovered
A COUPLE OF weeks ago, saws Glas.
TOW paper, man ia that city was 50
~sied away by the "Yum- Yum trio ia
the performance Of The Mikado that.
lacking abouquet with which o. express
his admiration for the young singers. he
pulled a whiskeY bottle out 1t ais pocket
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