St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-11-18
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling sHiven-
lures Which Show That Truth is
Stranger han Fiction.

| queer tacLS ana 1hflilin1 saiVeIl
lures Which Show That Truth i
Stranger I han Fiction.
JoHN WETHERED, q farmer Of Nan
| Che sttr, Ind, soaked some seeds in alec
ko! and put them Oh his barn floor
SparroWs stole Them and were soon a
drunk as lords. Cats killed 100 Of tn
fcathcrcd sotS, and ate all they coul(
hold, and then the cats We're drunk
too.
| Business must be dull on the Santa F.
Rai!road The other day the brakeman
of an accommodating accommodations
train stopped the train to chase a rae
coon INTO q well. Next day they
brought along a ladder and one O.
them went into the well and caught Ole
Zip.
Towns COUNTY, Ga, boasts of move
specimen of the "whtc' negro. This
[ one has been "turning' for several years,
| until the left side of his face is perfectly
| white, while the right side remains al
most jet black. Negroes whose skin
changes from black to ligh* brown or
reddish white are not uncommon in the
| South, but the change mostly shows
in blotches, giving them a notified APP
| pcarance.
THAT there is gold in wool'' has been
found literally as well as tiguratively
true. According to an Australian con-
temporary, some gold dust was discov-
cred in a London wool-sorling room,
aud was traced to q parcel OF Calfor-
MAN tecces. When the pastura@c was
explored, valuable "plucer" was found
on the estate.
Mrs. JAMES ROSE of Otterville, Mo,
had a bird in q cage hanging in the yard
A blacksnAkc, according to the local
through the bars and swallowed the
bird as far as the wire would let him.
There he stuck, and was killed. And the
bird still sings in the cage
A QUEER lawsuit was that brought re-
Gently in London police court by
gentleman who had claimed that he had
been swindled in buying dog 1t was
a fox terrier warranted to howl whenever
some oVer-musical ncighbors commenced
their performances. But the dog wouldn't,
and the purchaser wanted to recover
what he cost
OUT in Wayne County, Kan, is con-
sdera lie grove of pine trees seven miles
square, all of whose lower branches have
been broken off. This puzzles new
corners, but old settlers remember that
the mischief was done several wears ago,
when an enormous swarm of pigeons
came and roasted on all the trees and
broke them down.
UNCLE JoH AKDLE, an OLE Georgia
col0rcd man living Oh the Savannah
River thinks it about time to take TO the
woods. After the earthquake Of 1856
he was afraid to live on the ground, 50
he built hat in the branches Of Il huge ,
oak tree, where lie lived contcntcuiy |
until the storm Of few weeks blew him |
and his hut clear out Of the tree and al
most into the river
IN 1891 {, family Of Crooks, who had .
come from Bolton, England, to Mans
field Mass, began a corrcspondcncc
with relatives at home. The c0rrcsl Dad
encc has been kept up since with ut
a break by some member Of the tumi-
les, but the corrcS pondcuts had not
seen each other until this year, when Mr..
Thomas Crook of Is ,lton, coming to the
Fair, found and wired three generations
of Crooks in Manstield.
THE oldest industry in England,
which dates back to prehistoric times is
HAHN. I,s1, -
folk. Many people OF that village caru
their living by making tlints with which
to strike fire and for yunlocks. FINDER
boxes with flint and steel arc largely used
IN Spain and Italy. and by travellers in
'parsely settled and unciviIized lands,
md gun-tints go to Africa, where flint
ock muskets are still in use.
4 NOVEL way of smuggling has lust
9cen brought to light by the French ,
authorities on the Franco Swiss frontier.
t has been disco vercd that about twenty
NO thousand watches, valued at two
Millions francs, have entered France in
he space of six months without having
'md the duty. y great portion of these
we're discovered packed in tins of con-
lensed milk company, from which. of :,
curse, the milk had been taken out aud !
hen carefully closed up again. y
AN old farmer named Irwin is buried L
t the top Of one Of the barren noun n
aims that tower over the Cearfeld and S
lahoning Railroad. between Blooms V
'un and Bridgeport, Penn. Many years G
go the old man was working on his Il
and, and he found Il grave in the rock t
'hich was filled with leaves and other c
-uit. lie made request that his re- IL
lains be buried in that lonely spot in Is
ne stone grave made by unknown hands. \
IS said that the grave was such snug Il
t that shovel could hardly be run II
own between the coffin and stony walls c.
f the grave. t.
A STAG hunt was in progress the other .
ay at Exmoor IL England, and the ter u
tied animal finally became very hard
ressed. He tore over hill, dale and d
and finally, in very headlong ',
shlon, took refuge in the dining room ~ ~
one DR.. Bndd. Two young feminine =,
udds We're being served with dinner at u
le moment the stag plunged in. Their ~
respected visitor lacked up against l.
lie sideboard and faced the pack of
FUNDS, who had promptly followed him
. The hunters came up in moment,
He'd off their dogs, secured the deer by
rope, and dragged him out to receive ye
8 coup de grace outside. The Misses P
udd, instead of fainting or having g
7sterics, professed themselves delighted us
it'll the adventure and insisted on the re
lnters staying to dinner, which they n