Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-04
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY DAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show Tat Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.


A LARGE party of men, headed by
Harry eager of Seattle, enjoyed big
coyote drive on the sagebrush plains
twenty miles southeast of Boise Idaho.
After an exciting chase thirty splendid
specimens of the peculiar animal lay dead
upon the frozen ground. At this season
OF the year the skin of the coyote is
heavy aud glossy, and of considerable
commercial value. eager and his party
sought the animals for their warm coats,
which they viii! have made into gar
mcnts The hunters were provided with
a pack of fierce hounds and the party
spread out over the plains to encirclc II
rocky butte much frequented by coyotes.
The dogs made the frosty air re echo
with their deep notes. Within an hour
after the commencement of the hunt
twenty fine coyotes had been killed
and skinned. The hounds were then
sent into growth of sagebrush in a little
hollow in one of the abrupt slopes Of the
butte. The dogs cornered four big
coyotes and battle royal followed.
The coyotes fought like four-footod
tiends, and they badly injured five
splendid hounds before they succumbed.
. Their skins were nearly torn from their
bodies during the struggle, and were
worthless. A few minutes later eight
big coyotes were started out of another
bunch of sagebrush. The cowardly
animals darted across the plain and tried
to conceal themselves in large flock of
sheep They had no fight in them and
did not offer to modest the sheep, upon
which they usually prey. After much
difficulty the coyotes were driven into
the sagcbrush again, aud then the hounds
quickly dispatched five of them.
'FoR years, said steady New York
-churchgoer, II had been sitting in the
same pew and in the same seat, the end
seat by the aisle. Usually the other
places are occupied by members of my
family, for we all attend church pretty
Regularly, but one Sunday recently when,
for one reason and another they had all
stayed at home, / sat in my pew alone.
Seeing plenty of room there the usher
brought to sit with Inc a stranger.
was, of course, glad to welcome him. |
did not get up and step out into the aisle
SO that he might pass in by me, but |
moved along to the other end of the pew
aud let him sit in my place. When
had seen him comfortably seated and
handed him hymn book, and had
turned toward the pulpit again, was
surprised to find that everything in the
church seemed new and strange to me.
For a long time had been accustomed
to seeing the backs of the heads OF those
of my friends and neighbors who sit in
front of me- and the sides of their faces,
from a certain point of view | saw
them now from another point of view,
and they all seemed to look very differ
emily. saw children who appeared
from their demeanor to be regular at
pendants at church, but whom had never
noticed there before; they had been there
of course but my view of them had been
cut off by the heads and shoulders of
other persons The preacher appeared
ito me inanother light, aud it seemed as
though his sermon, coming as it did
along new angle, came with new power.
Indeed, it was almost like visiting a new
church. The fact is that we are all such
creatures OF habit that we are apt to be
surprised if we depart even little way
from the road we are accustomed to
travel"
In a little village in Sussex, England,
there is Il veritablc milky way of lilies,
where thousands of white blossoms shed
their perfume, and where women
gardeners tend and pack and ship the
fragrant product. Twenty-Five years ago
a single lily bulb was given to Mrs.
Bates, farmers daughter, who tended
the gift with the devotion women bcstow
on flowers, and when sixteen bulbs had
resulted from the original one, and Mrs.
Bates finding that her children, as she
called them, had outgrown the sunny
window where they grew, she planted
tthem in the corner of the garden. Ten
years ago a daughter of Mrs. Bates, in
Spired by the enterprise of the time, sent
some blossoms to the London market,
and now, in association with her sisters,
R.as made the Bates lilies famous fol-
their beauty and perfection. The
daughters are keen business women, in.
tcrviewing their buyers ut the 6 O'Clock
market, selling without the interference
al agents to private customers, florists,
and commission merchants. The average
product is 600 dozens "a week, which arc
1packcd by women in the gardens
Women are taking up Horticulture to a
considerable extent in England and al
'the Horticultural College landscape and
Kitchen gardening arc taught by lectures,
demonstrations, and practical work. II
is sn interesting fact that applications
are received at the college faster than
womcn can be trained
"'TRUE to DEATH" says st. Peters.
burg contemporary, ''is mild phrase in
comparison with the expression. True
10 hard labor In the Ural mines. And
yet such hcrosm rs the latter phrase de.
'scribes can be found among Polish girls.
A wedding was recently performed il
Minsk which illustrated this fact. Tn,
groom, Cesar Pokniak, was brought 10
church In heavy chains the bride, Maria
kanovitchcya, o maid in one Of tn,
wealthiest houses OF the city. came 81
church accompanied by her friends iu
carriages. Gear Pofnuk was au artisan
al good beh4eIor and appearance; but b,
wss accused OF murder and condemned
IA hard labor iu the uml mines Zoe Cen
YEATS Maria wls II i0yeWlth him hcfar,