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sturgeon, was placed under the pan on
the ground that Ii was medium for the
transportation of The cholera germ. To
test the matter the Austrian Minister oil
the Interior ordered thorough investi-
CATION TO be made at the hygienic labora-
tory in Vienna. There noted bactcriolo-
gists infected quantity of caviar with
bacilli from Tonquin and from Hamburg,
as many as 1913, 800 being placed in the
caviar. At the end OF twenty-four hours
there were but hundred left, and at
the end of forty.eight there were none at
all. This experiment was repeated
several times, with about the same result
Lovers of this delicscy-the caviar, not
the bacilli-may therefore continue to
eat it without fear. 1t is cholera killer
instead of propagation.
A KENTUCKY Baptist minister says
that some years ago Baptist Church in
that State tried q man for kissing his
wife. The formulated charge was en-
tered "Unbecoming levity." The gentle.
man accused had been from home several
weeks on business, and on his return he
met his wife at the meeting house, and
in the presence of the congregation en-
braced her with sounding smack on
the lips. Some of the staid old deacons
were so shocked at such levity in the
house of God that the gentleman was
airaigned on the above charge, and es-
capcd dismissal from the church by
agreeing to do his kissing at home in the
future.
A CURIOUS story is told of the recent
funeral of an old farmer of Maine, who,
after spending his life in tilling rocky
farm and raising numerous family, died
and left his hard earned property to two
sons. The sons placed their fathers re-
mains in a rough coffin and started for
the burying ground, bearing it upon
their shoulders They took short cut
through the woods, and had not gone
far when deer crossed the path. The
sight stirred their sportsman instincts,
and depositing the coffin in the bushes,
they ran back for their dogs and guns,
aud were soon on glorious hunt. Other
game turned up, the hunt was prolonged,
and it was not till four days afterward
that they remembered their fathers
corpse in the bushes and returned to
| bury it.
Two girls have lately had a strange
experience IN a country house, situated
in Devonshire, England, at which they
were visiting They were given room
reported to be haunted by woman with
a bloody face. Just as they got into bed
on the first night of their stay, woman
whose face was all CORY rushed into the
ROOM The girls were frightened into
mysteries and the alarmed household
found them shivering and screaming
under the coverlets while dead woman
lay beside the bed The supposed ghost
was lady's maid who had broken q
blood vessel while crossing the hall and
ran into the girls room for assistance,
which their insensate fright prevented
them giving.
The peasants of the Russian village OF
Jagodziasts, in Lithuania, wreaked their
vengeance on a suspected horse thief
recently by setting fire to his dwelling
during the night, while he, his wife,
mother, and family Of five children were
within, and burning the whole family to
death. The peasants stood around the
hut, and when the inmates rushed out
they were thrust back into the burning
house with pitchforks and scythes. One
of the women was murdered outright in
the attempt to force her back into the
flames. The peasants gave themselves
up to the Russian police, and will most
probably be imprisoned for year ano
then exiled to another part Of the coun.
try.
A CASE was reported recently of an
engineer being killed by his head strik
ing against a sagged telegraph pole a:
} he leaned from his cab window, ant
} several instances are lately noted o.
brakemen being swept from the roof o
cars by bridges. But perhaps the mos
: singular accident of this kind occurred
in Missouri. An engineer of an lrol
Mountain train was leaning out of hi
, cab window passing Williamsville when
he was caught by the mail catcher, thu
Iron, pole and hook arrangement TO
! catching the mails from moving trains
and pulled clean from his engine, through
the window, falling beside the track a
his train passed on. He was sGriousl.
. injured.
r Ho-NE-A-Go, one of the chiefs of tn
Q Osages, the richest Indians in the coun
. try. recently exhibited himself to tn
( wondering gaze of the people of Kansa
? CITY. He wore his first hat for che oc
, casion. and a brandnew pair of blankets
G The chief enjoyed himself hugely in tn
e metropolis of the Kaw and showed hi
!. acquaintance with civilization by re
a marking that he saw more pretty wome
t there in ore day than in all his life else
1 where.
|, RECENTLY it was discovered that tn
t wooden roof of fine old church i
5 Arundel, England, dating from 1886
n was entirely honeycombed by some un
known insect. The beams were so friabl
: rs to be easily rubbed to pieces betwee
n the fingers, and the wonder was that tn
G whole roof had not fallen to ruin in tn
d attempt to remove it.
: IN st. Petersburg coachman wa
. killed by lightning while driving, an
n the footmnn sitting by his side was NJ
C injured. The lightning struck tn
O coachman's head, destroyed his cap al
a tore his clothes, passed through his bod
e and tore hole through the cushions O
o which he was sitting. \ No damage WI
n done to the carriage except breaking Il
n glass, and the occupants were MT IL
@ jured.
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