St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-01
4 )MEWHAT STRANGE.
AGA IDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer racts and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show That Truth Ia
stp;ma. 'er Than Fiction,


Tnfg III tie port Of Taltal. Chile. is
the fore 18th curiosity which is rhcr
of an othe s. This is n three-veclSs.o
baby, who's right hand bears the impri
of a ,sumaA face. The face occupi
nearly the W, hole palm, and is as clear
outlinect as il drawn on porcelain. 1t
the cou Nena nce of little child abo,
three Yea rs Old lying asleep, with II
cvelashes 1rawh in fine dark lines on tt
full cheek. T. The mouth seems to |
slightly par. Vd and tire lips are delcatel
tinted. TIL, baby whose palm contain
this singular portraitnrc is the child {
Garcia Mcron , and Mrs Meron declare
that the facet the Infants palm is tha
of little girl! The lost about thgce month
before the babyFs birth. Relatives an
intimate friend: profess to be able to Sc
the strong resel hbIance to the dead child
When thu, baby was first put in il
mothers al ms SIZE looked at the hands
and, wita. loud cry, tainted away, bu
OH coming TO herself exhibited the littl
crature's ha ads to the attendants, VIII
saw at once the strange likeness to tn
dead and 9, sn : sister. Mrs. Meron wa
at first mucl frightened over the singula
circumstance N'ut was at last convinced
that this straG re portrait was sent t,
comfort her. "a ,ysicians say, however
that the mother'N, caress of the dead chile
impressed the uhlA IN infant, who merel.
repeated her mentM pictures of the LITTLE
girl as she last behelA it. The image OF
the palm was much G carer the first few
days of the babyrs Life Il IAN now, and il
thought to be gradually fading away
The family are very sensit We on the sub
iect, and have refused to 81 ow the child
except to relatives and ma ost intimate
friends.
"INDIAN JOHN" an aged columbia
River Indian, was recently COMM tied to
the county poor farm near Portland. Ore.
According to the testimony of pioA> GERS
he is the oldest Indian in the Nofthwestt.
his age being placed at more tban 125
years. Deputy District Attorney Hall,
who has been a resident of Portland
thirty five years, says that when he first
knew "Indian John, he was reputeXs to
be at least 100. He was always a friend
of the white men. 1t is related that
when DR.. Whitman was murdered at;
Walla Walla, and the Indians talked Of
attacking Portland. John was one of
those who left The Da,les, went to the
city, and warned the settlers to be pre-
pared for raid. John, whose mind is
still clear, relates the following story:
"Many years before | became Chief of
the Columbia River Indians, my tribe
was saved from destruction in a remark
able manner. One day the Klickitats
came down into their lands and camped
in q bottom Under a vast, overhanging
cliff near the Sandy bridge. My tribe
were few in number. but brave. They
would not fly and could not fight their
enemies, who were very numerous. So
during the MI ht they appealed to the
Great Spirit to destroy their enemies,
and in answer to their prayers he felled
the rock, and the Klickitats were buried
beneath it. Not man escaped"
A STORY comes from San Francisco,
to the effect that the British ship Drum
craig on recent voyage from that city
around the Horn, saw vessel frozen up
in an iceberg. The weather was heavy
and foggy, and the Drumcraig was max
ing fair Roadway. when q slight accident
compelled her to lie to. Suddenly out
of the fog in front doomed up huge
iceberg. Had it not been for the &C
cident the Drumcraig would have run
right on to the berg. As the damage on
the ship was being repaired the iceberg
veered around and there was disclosed a
sight that struck terror into every heart.
On the berg, high above the water mark,
was wooden bark of ab~ut 1000 tons
The Ice completely surrounded her hull
up as high as her decks, and her masts
and rigging were hung with icicles.
From her build it was evident that the
bark had been launched years ago. With
his glasses the captain made out two
bodies in the ships shrouds. The crew
would have refused to make any inves-
tigation even had not the rough sea pre-
vented. So the derelict, frozen fast in
the iceberg, is probably sailing in
southern polar seas.
A CURIOUS specimen of the collapsed
boom towns that are to be found in parts
of the West is Sullivan, some ten miles |
from Denver, Col 1t was started by the |
pIOulOtcIS VI tuC SCIlcLlc vi tllC DtuNCI |
Water Company to dam the subterranean
flow of Cherry creek and pump it into
m enormous reservoir for the use of the
people of Denver The work was an
engineering failure, and a financial one,
as many Eastern bondholders found out
While the boom lasted thousands of men
were employed, buildings sprang up like
mushrooms, prices of corner lots scared,
and there was even bitter post office
fight. A year and half ago operations
stopped, there was an exodus of specula-
tors, tradesmen and laborers, the post
Office was shut up, and Sullivan's great
ness was thing of the past. Among
the acres of ~building materials, sand
stone, trusses, pipes, boiler stacks and
plates, ETC.. abandoned when the crash
came, the coyote sometimes picks his T
way now, and he is the only guest at the
hotel that was once the sight /
of the place.
ALL THE doctors in Bucks County,
Penn, are puzzled over the case of little
five year-old Justis Storck, whose eyes
seem law to themselves. One day the
boy is crossed-eyed, while the next his
eyes are perfectly straight, and this Gu
rious alienation has been going on for
years. The nonplused doctors call it a
case of intermittent strabismus--probably
The only one on record-and, despairing
of curing it, will soon give the surgeons
of the Medico Chirurgical hospital in
an opportunity to study
the matter, as the father of the afflicted
boy has decided to send him to that in
stitution for treatment One day the