St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-12-23
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
lures Which Show That Truth is
Stranger Than Fiction.

DURING the last Paraguayan War it
was noticed that the men who had been
without salt for three months, and who
had been wounded, however sliyht, died
of their wounds because they would not
heal.
TIE Maharajah of Mysore has decided.
If possible, to put an end to marriages |
between children, or rather infants Of hiS
kingdom. He issued an edict recer -,
f"rbiuding gi'ls under eight yea ~
boys under fourteen to marry .1
future no man aged fifty ~ ~ l, sno
wed cir! under tourtee I, a. H.
ARC a5"u se'ar m ~ n Gppo n in Mysorc, but
and capable 20 &c al! eneiSe''I ;'"n
CEASED to promuIgate.
cd Extraordinary occurrence is report
! rr4o41l near GalaShitls, Scotland. A
10Y nanel Brockie, the son Of shep-
herd at Buckhoim, was out with the
sheep, when he WAS bitten on the finger
, by an I'D Ter. He became alarmed lest
the bite should prove fatal, and resolved
to cut the finger IF close to the palm.
/ Th' he attempted to do with his pocket
knife, but as it would not cut through
the bone he cut it away at the first Joint.
He then went to the nearest farmhouse,
whence he was driven to GalaShlels.
Hero doctor amputated the remainder
Of the finger.
GEORGE ANDERsoNa and William Hunt,
farmers, who lived near Corning, Mo-,
were engaged in boring well when
their drill struck rock and broke short
off 1t was necessary for someone to go
down into the we'll to dislodge the drill,
and Anderson went. After he had
reached the bottom, 100 feet deep, Hunt
locked over the ed &c to see what he was
| doing, and by some misfortune missed
his footing and tumbled headlong into
the shaft. His head colIided with that
of Anderson and the skulls of both were
crushed, killing them instantly.
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massa
chlsetts is to decide whether a creditor
who invades debtors bedroom and
wakes him up carly in the morning In
o der to present his bill is guilty of an
assault. The aggravating party in the
~"
y rson Is his customer, who SAYS that he
forbade the mikman to invade his prl-
vacv, aud was awakened by being shaken
by the shoulder when suffering from a
severe headache The lower court en-.
tered iudg mcnt for the mlkman, and the
ptain;itf appealed to the full bench Of
the Supreme Court.
SEVERAL wild turkeys that had a love
for swallowing shining particles that had
! been shot ty hunter on one OF the
branches near San Diego, Tex, melted
him quite sum in gold, which he found
in their craws, which they had picked up.
In South Africa ostrichcs have been sue
ccsslulIy employed in finding gold de-
posts. A drove of the birds are turned
loose to feed in the territory where the
precious metal is supposed to exist.
. They arc then giv,n an cmetic and the
ejccta carefully examined for nuggets.
and if any are fond til trail of the bird
is followed until the diggings are dis
covered.
TIE full-rigged ship, the Harry Will
liams met with peculiar accident while
passing under the Brooklyn bridge re-
Gently. a sail was at work near the
top of the malnmast as the ship ap-
preached the strL 'ture. The malnmast
was unusually high, and rs the ship
swept down the river carpenter at work
on the briuge yelled to the sailor, who
slid down just in time to save himself.
The foremost passed under safely, but
the top of the mainmast struck the
bridge and about six feet of the stick
was snapped Off. 1t was said at the
bridge entrance that this was the first
accident of the kind recorded since the
bridge was erected.
LAWYER BUNKER, of Ellsworth, Me-,
rec, ntly had an unprecedented contest
with al angry bull tn the Hancock coun-
ty fair grounds at that P lace. He seized
the angry beast by the horns, and, alter
an exciting tussle, actually succeeded in
downing the bull. Since then the young
farmers of the county have been practis-
ing at this hazardous wrestling, and most
any average sized man will now boast OF
his ability to upset any bull in the coun'
ty. Competitive challenges have been
the natural outcome, and Bucksport has
lust issued a defiance to Ellsworth to
match its star against any ''rarsler"
(wrestler) in the latter place, "horns
holt, best two out of thee bulls"
PROBABLY few men have had a more
thrilling fifteen seconds or SO than had
the driver Of heavy load of giant pow
der in Oregon few days ago. He was
plotting Il four horse team drawing 9
wagon containing 5000 pounds of giant
powder over rough road into Tilla
nook. A rickety bridge spanning {
narrow ravine gave way under the load
and the whole outfit was dumped down
into the dry bed of the creek. There
was no explosion, and the driver, horses,
wagon and powder were hauled out al
right. The driver has not recorded his
t sensations as he felt the bridge giving
wav and during the few seconds between
then aud the time the load landed safely
again.
cit was decidedly a grim ornament,
said society young man In the New
York Sun, "that I saw recently at the
house of well-known civil engineer
whose career had some time been in the
Rocky Mountains. 1t was necklace
composed of the finger nails Of a young
Sioux brave slain by a Ute warrior, who
with the scalp of his victim, had taker
this trophy of his proves. Strange te
say, this necklace was instrinsically very
handsome The characteristic shapeIines:
of the Indians arm and hand, ideally
perfect even 10 the finger tips, was illus
a.
necklace of ten pieces was in color :