Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-09
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with eighteen ears, and suffered no subse-
quent discomfort.
A man in Washington County, Penn,
has bantam rooster that is so familiar
with cat that it can get on the feline'a
back and crow without the cats taking
any notice of it.
The Tinto River, in Spain. possesses
remarkable qualities. Its waters are
yellow rs the topaz. harden the sand and
petrify 1t in most surprising manner.
If stone fall into the river and rests
upon another they both become perfectly
united and conglutinated in a year. No
fish live in its stream.
When an Armenian maiden attains her
seventeenth year and is not engaged to
be married, she must undergo a strange
punishment. She is forced to fast three
days; then for twenty-four hours her
food is salt fish and she is not permitted
to quench her thirst.
Poisonous snakes are so numerous in
Venezuela that snake bite is almost as
common there as in India. But there
are fewer fatalities, for the natives have
| discovered that plant known as the
ocumillo, when powdered and applied to
the wound, results in cure in almost
every case.
The japanese tattooers not only pic
turc dragons and flowers and musmces
on the bodies Of their patrons, but to
meet the artistic demands of Europeans
they now produce in colors an exact
photograph OF any cherished friend
whose image the tattooed person may de-
sire to have constantly with him.
Professor A. L. Bubach, an attache of
the Imperial Museum of Berlin, who.
with nine trnsty men, has been making
explorations in Northern and Western
Brazil, sends this extraordinary in
formation to the directors of tho institu-
ticn named above: Have had wonderful
luck. We already have over 5000 I'M
named specimens in natural history, in.
Guiding snake 81 feet long, with long
tusks like boar, and horn feet long
on its forehead"
Of the IA huge masses of mcteoric
iron which fell on spot less than 81
square miles in area near Fort Duncan.
Mexico, the largest is beehive shaped
and is buried five feet in the soil and
rises four feet above the surface. The
second mass in point of size has been
moved to the National Museum at
Washington. 1t weighs over 1000
pounds. The other IL pieces weigh
from 974 to $50 pounds. The whole
mass of fragments as mentioned above
are scattered over an area of 81 square
miles, with Fort Duncan at about the
center of the point of dispersion.
The recent French experiment upon 80
nf IN, oh
for compression as u test of strength was
man was able to produce with his right
grams, the weakest 40, the average being
56. One curious conclusion arrived at
as result of the experiment was this !:
The short men were all very nearly as
strong as the tall ones, the average diff
ference between groups Of the two sizes
being only three Kilograms. The force
OF the strongest woman of the so
amounted to only A Kilograms, and that
of the weakest to only 16, while the
average was only SO Kilograms.
Mind waves which strike separated
friends at the same time and make each
sit down and write to the other after six
months or six years of silence are |
common enough. But the case of two
brothers living in the south comes a |
little nearer the rarity of cases high in
the investigations of the Psychical Re-
search Society. 1t appears that recently |
a Mr.. McCrory of Oglethorpe decided ut
a certain hour on certain night to visit |
his brother, who lived in Florida. 1t
had been long time since the two
brothers had seen each other, and the
strange part of it is that ut the very hour
on the same night the Florida man had
decided to visit his brother in Georgia.
They both started about the same time
and were both cminently successful, for
each reached the home of the other about
the same time and was much surprised to
find the other gone.
A strange story comes from Hawkes.
vile, Ky, apropos of the news lately
received there Of the drowning at St.
Joseph, Mo-, of l.. ID. Davidson. 1t was
in the tfties that an old Gypsy woman.
for some real or fancied injury, cursed
Mrs. Jane Davidson, mother of the
drowned man, and told her that she and
all her family would die violent deaths.
Not long afterward Mrs. Davi1son's hus-
band was fatally injured by a bomb,
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tention of injuring some enemy of his.
William, the oldest son, was shot to
death by the home guards during the
war. James, another son, attempted to
club dog to death with gun, which
exploded, killing him. Nathaniel, a
third son was shot to death by the
Owensville police by mistake, and now
the fourth son is drowned. Only one
child and the mother still live, and thew Z
expect to die violent deaths.
A couple of car loads of old iron and
unk reached New York the other day.
consigned to some large junk dealers
here. The stuff was thrown into carts
md hauled to their yards, where it was
iuEped out on the ground to be over
lauled and separated by the hands en-
'loyed for that purpose. Among the
OF was curious conical piece OF cast
ron with copper cap fitted over one
nd. One of the workman set his cold
hiscl to this, and another raised his d
ledge to strike it, when the boss han. u