San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-01-14
A YEAR OF SURPRISES.
Such Was 1892, to say Nothing Of
Alleged Miracles and Monsters

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Alleged Miracles and Monsters.
Boston Transcript:
Undoubtedly 1892 will be long re-
membered iD history as q year Of
miracles, q twelve month in which
more impossibililies occurred and the
unexpected happened Orteuer than in
any other corresponding period OF
which there is record. Politicians
who left everything to the ibtelll-
gence of the A merican people were
surprised aud paine ut The result OF
the leaving The impossioIliues OF
thousands of Massachusetts Repub
Iicans voting for two GovsTDors nj
once and thousands of Ohio Demo
Gratis throwing away their votes tor
twenty. two electors aud working like
beavers to choose one have occurred.
These things were ~ generally cbu
c.d, d to be imp possible that the un-
expected becomes q matter of c'urse,
and the travellers tales that are fiud-
ing their way into the newspapers
cause no ripple Of excitement beyond
the headlines.
One of our con tenn poraries pub
lished q tale which in other years
would have been called startling
about an Indian falling INTO a spring
In Montana and coming to light again
by emerging from another spriug IN
British Columbia, 200 miles distant.
Of course, the unfortunate IDdian
died of fatigue in travelling 200 miles
underground. and science is thereby
deprived of the data necessary to de-
termine the commercial value of this
subterranean waterway.
A year of miracles is naturally q
year of monsters and we are not sur
prised abreadiDg that sort of water
dragon has been making havoc with
travellers in Idaho This monster
caught q traveller who was bathing in
Lake Chelon and was dragged ashore.
The said monster then and there
chung to the aforesaid bather and re-
sisted all attempts to rescue him made
by the other travellers. Stretching
It's huge wings, the monster flew up
in the air and then plunged down in
to Lake ChelOn with the unfortunate
bather, whom he devOured at leisure
People who may be curious about
mOnsle rs will be pleased at learning
that this Idaho monster had the legs
head and eyes of q serpent, and huge
wings, being altogether most terri
bic wild fowl. In general 1t may be
described as resembling the great
monster of the Mojsve Desert whose
infrequent appearances are graphical
ly cnronicled in the animal depsrt-
ment of the st. Louis Globe Demo-
crat.
1t will doubtless occur to the reader
that one has heard but little since
Cotton Mather's days of the mons ers
and miracles of New England. This
is not due to any lack of versatility
in the animals OF New England but IL
tracea Die to the deep-rOOted iucred-
ulity OF the people and the operations
of the Mckinley bill. Our animals
have prOtean capabilities quite equal
to those of the West, and can as read
lily take strange, unheard-Of shape
The great snow snake of Northern
New Hampshire. invisible to the
members OF the Dartmouth faculty,
but seen by students making their
way across the campus late at night,
10 familiar instance.
Cotton Mather did not ses the two
headed snake of Cape Ann, but he
heard of 1t, which is much the same
thing. Ir might he seen by some
people under certain conditions to,
day. Anybody who sees the winged
wolves of the Kennehec chasing the
wild geese as they fly southwark will
never forget the sight. IL is one OF
the strangest in nature. Flying
squirrels abound in our New England
forests, which are also foil of bears
and other creatures too numerous to
mention.
At this moment q mysterious ami
NAL believed to be a Canadian lynx is
thought to be haunting the woods
between Brook line and Newton. Sew
eral persons have seen 1t, and IL is
said to have broken up a session Of
the BrOokline Browning club 10y
bowling derisTvely under the window
just as an expert was explaining that
the Flight of the Duchess meant the
very reverse of what the ordinary ac-
ceptance of the English language
would imply. The animals of New
England are physically the equals
and intellectually the superiors OF
those of the west and south.
Racing In England