Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-11-04
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show That Truth is
Stranger Than Fiction.

Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show That Truth is
Stranger Than Fiction.
A sUNFLowER plant twelve feet high,
the stalk measuring twelve inches in cir
circumference, bearing thirty-nine
branches and supporting 154 flowers,
was exhibited at Lathrop, Mo. Two of
the branches were over nine feet long.
IT is the custom in Prussia to call on
the Emperor to be godfather to the sew
enth living son. This has happened
three or four times during the present
Williams reign, and, just now, Laborer
Schnittspan Of Friesack has invoked the
imperial godfathership on such an occa-
sion, and the Emperor has accepted.
William himself has six sons.
A KITTEN in Pittsburg has one head,
two bodies, two tails and six legs. 1t
had one spine running half way down
the body, where it divided and formed
the two lower bodies. This curious kit
ten was healthy and strong and lived
three days, until its mother noticed what
sort of looking creature it was and
killed it by biting it back OF the neck.
AN ALLIGATOR eight feet two inches in
length and weighing 220 pounds, was
caught in the Mississippi off the levee at
s.. Louis few days ago. Alligators
are quite plentiful in southwestern
rivers, but they rarely attain length OF
more than four feet So far as known
this one is by far the largest ever taken
from the Mississippi Some of its teeth
were over two inches long and very like
the teeth of shark.
An average waltz takes dancer over
about three-quarters of mile; a square
dance makes him cove. half mile. A
girl with a wel-filled programme travels
thus in one evening Twelve waltzes,
nine miles; four other dances at half a
mile apiece, which is hardly fairly big
estimate, two miles more; the intermis-
sion stroll and the trips to the dressing
room to renovate her gown and COM
plexion, half mile more; grand total,
eleven and half miles.
The figure six played prominent part
in the life OF a young woman who recently
died at Americas, Ga. She was born on
November 16, 1896 moved to Americas in
1856, Joined the church In 1864, was
married August %, 1866; was the
mother Of six children, and was buried
January 16, 1898, at the age of forty six,
after having been married twenty-siX
years. There are eleven skies in these
facts, and eleven times six makes the
year of the century in which she was
married. 1866.
A p. HINTON, of Oklahoma, is a
''boomer" So is S. S. Slowson, like
wise of Oklahoma. They were bosom
| friends, and one day Hinton traded Slow
son revolver for a watch. When the
! Cherokee Strip excitement began they
doomed along amicably for awhile, bu
finally quarrelled over jumped claim OIL
something. Then Slowson pulled ou'
ghe revolver and blazed away at Hinton
The bullet struck the watch and Hinton'i
life was saved The incident affected
Slowson to tears, and he apologized
They took a drink and then DOOMED
| HIou9 tOSttheI dSdtu.
THE only instrument used purely fo
punishment in English jails nowadays il
a crank handle weighted heavily will
lead and working heavily inside box
an indicator at a slit recording the mum
Der of revolutions made-8,00 or II, 00'
constituting days work. Among tn
purely mechanical labor is included tn
working at the crank handles of tn
huge water pump, and by cranks, too
all the meal used in prison is ground, bu
in the case of corn grinding the prisone
may rest as often as he likes, provided
he gets through his allotted task.
WHEN 600 miles off the coast of Franc
the crew Of the British steamship Wild
flower, which has just arrived in Phila
delphia, from Rouen, France, saw wit
establishment big owl alight in the RIG
ging Of the steamship. The bird WA
soon caught aud killed, and an examine
ton of its stomach showed that it ha
not eaten anything for days, having bee
driven seward by the storm. But 70
the glare of the sunshine after the storr
Idh SuOolutuY IL NOdlNl
had the power to make its way back I
the coast of France, despite the gret
distance, for owls, it is said, have en-
durance aud powers of flight equal
the homing pigeon.
The Vienna GA Progress tells tn
remarkable story: Messrs. J. II. Dunca
and Joe T. Collier were speaking {
war "reminiscences a few days ago, whe
one OF them told a remarkable circum
stance. A company of one hundred mel
OF whom the above named gentlemc
were, which was formed at Perry. Tt
night before they left for the scene
war they met at tbs church, and a goo
| old minister by tho nane OF Talley WI
called upon to pray. He prayed vei
earnestly, and among other things prayC
that not single yankee bullet migl
strike one Of these men This compar
Of one hundred men vent through Il
war, being in many fierce battles, az
not one was killed or wounded, an
about sixty Of the one hundred are no
living.
= O l.. WuHou, Of Warrcnton. Ga
comes 90 the front viii % very intelhgc
SEE % young pigs flr some time
has noticed that DIS mills cows wcu
give but little, In IA p almost mo- mil
every morning aHd he wus unable g. d