St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-08-26
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
Stranger Than Fiction.
ABOUT year ago a great meteor fel
at or near Table Mountain, says tn
Oroville (Cal. Mercury. The fall of tn
visitor from unknown spheres and tn
CONSERVATION it caused among those VIII
were witnesses was told in a graph
manner to reporter of this paper b,
Professor George II. Stout, Supcrintend
ent of Schools, and created wide in
1erest. Searching parties were organized
and several scientific gentlemen cam,
here to get if possible piece of tn,
meteor. MIR. Stout received letters from
all over the United States and even from
Europe. But despite strenuous efforts
no trace of the mysterious mass could
be found. The other day, however,
Charles E. Bloomfield, who resides some
miles to the west of where this meteo,
was supposed to have struck, discovered
what is undoubtedly fragment of the
same. He was ploughing his field when
the implement tdrned up a mineral mass
which Mr.. Bloomfield Immediately rec,
ognlzed as not being of the ordinary
character. He brought the same to Orc
vile and it was put on exhibition at
Norton & Ekman's drug store. The
fragment weighs fifty pounds, is Of a
flint or brownish color on the surface,
and for its size is remarkably heavy.
Assayer Ekman says that the mass is
mostly composed of iron, although he
has, as yet made no regular assay. He
says that there is no doubt of its being
OF meteoric origin, and will at once test
1t and find what its component parts are.
He will also send samples of the meteor
to different scientists.
DocToR JOHN ASH of Macoupiu Coun-
ty, Illinois, has received from Pcnnsyl-
vania, as a keepsake and memento of
early history in the Ash family, terra
pin or land turtle now in the neighbour
hood Of century old. Almost hun
dred years ago, when Joseph Ash, DR..
Ash's grandfather, was young man,
himself and girl afterwards his wife,
were out walking near their home in the
keystone State, when they espied tur-
tie at the roadside Picking it up, Mr..
Ash took out his knife and cut the initials
of his lady friend and his own upon the
back of the turtle, then turning it loose.
For years it disappeared, and until two
weeks since was only once seen, so far as
goes the recollection of any member of
the family. A few days ago there was
big reunion of the Ash family at the old
at which the Doctor was pres
CT tn l.
before the date of the meeting the old
turtle, with the initials plainly visible
upon his back, was found wandering
around on a portion of the homestead
grounds. Just below the letters is the !!
date, 1854" Doctor Ash will keep and !;
care for his turtleship. /
A CURIOSITY in the line of snake is
TO he seen at the New England news
stand, says the Minneapolis Tribune 1t |
IS "a boa constructor, and came from |
South America with q cargo of bananas. |
The snake is three feet long and about ;
Four inches in greatest circumference. !
On its long journey it was kept comatose
IN refrigerator, but hardly had it been
when Minnesota's sun began to
.haw it out A fruit vender of this city
Vas marching out of the store with the
5unch of bananas hung over his shoulder,
when a bystander called out to him.
The man turned about and saw thesnake
IN level with his eyes, looking at him q
IS though wondering what next was to v
,e expected. The bananas were dropped,
md the vendors optics fairly bulged out
If his head. He might possibly have
heard of finding tarantulas in bunch of
but boa constructor was too
much. The snake was fed the other day
or the first time after his five weeks fast.
mouse was dropped into his box lie
wound himself about his victim and
queezed the life out of it, and then
wallowed it whole.
AN employe of the Western of France
Railway Company has hit upon highly
riginal plan for preventing his wife from
adding about in way of which he dis
pproves. Before going to his daily duty
lr. Lehuby, for such is his name, has
cen in the habit of locking his wife up I
, large trunk. By an ingenious CON {
-ivance the lid was made so that it could
e raised few inches, for the admission I
f air. The most remarkable thing per- '
APPS in remarkable case is the fact that ,
10 wife, who acknowledged that her
usband had the strongest grounds for /
cling dissatisfied with her conduct, seems S
, have been consenting party to her !
lforced seclusion Nevertheless, the t
cts becoming known, proceedings were S
stituted by the police authorities, and q
he correctional tribunal of Louviers has y
NJ. Lehuby to pay fine Of r
N dollars. s
IT is q common belief in India that if \
cobra is killed and the remains are left
bungalow, Others of the species will '
, attracted to the spot. About nine :
onths ago Colonel Ilderton killed very G
rye cobra in the compound of the bun 5
low at Dinapore, and had its skin
uffcd and set up by native mochee. {,
nee then the compound has been in 4
sted with these snakes, and no less D
an eight full-grown cobras, measuring =
OH four feet eight inches to five feet .
ur inches, have been killed there, one !.
which was sitting up, with its hood a
tended, contemplating the house where IL
6 remains of its preserved friend were. 81
is a curious fact that every snake when
und was making in the direction of the o.
ngalow, and most of them showed OF
hit when tackled No cobras have &C
en- seen in other parts of the station. a.
The curious statement is published in
Q organ of the Palestine Exploration :
ind, on the authority of Doctor Lorter, G.
at the Dead Sea loses every day by
x. rnt;n,, ,cayoral ,,,iII;on tong 20 ua+ar n.