South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.

Queer Facts and Thrilling Atlven-
lures Which Show That Truth is
Stranger Than Fiction.
SOME weeks ago a son of J. Francis
of Moro. Me-, saw what he supposed was u
big rabbit with heifer in the field. The
cattle were pastured in u back lot near
the woods. The boy as he approached
saw that it was not rabbit. He easily
caught the animal, which proved to be a
young caribou, and carried it home in
his arms. 1t was apparently day old.
and was weak and staggering. A nurs-
ing bottle was secured, and the little
caribou was fed on milk. Very soor il
followed the boy about the room. II yas
allowed to nurse from a cow for some
weeks, till it grew SO boisterous. butting
and striking its foster mother with its
feet, that the farmer feared the COW
might injure it, and now lie feeds it with
milk by hand three times u day. All
TINS time 1t has evinced n fondncss for
It's hrst foster mother, the hcifer. The
little fellow is fourisning, to all appear
ances: 1t is very tame, aud delights to
be led into the woods, where it will run
ana play. But at the slightest unusual
Aotsc, it will Immediately soamper home.
1t is buck, and its horns are just COM
ing through.
UNITED States Pension Examiner r. J.
Austin has returned to Kansas City from
thorough Investigation Of ono of the
most remarkable cases the Pension De-
partmcnt Ens hud 20 do with. William
II. Wilson, who lived NJ Horton. Kas..
applied about year ago for pension
for wound in the left knee, received at
Thompson's Station, while he was a
member of an Illinois regiment. The dc.
partment found, on investigation, that
Lnothcr William II. Wilson was drawing
pension for similar injury, and for
services in the same company aud regi-
ment. Dir. Austin followed Wilson to
Rulc, Neb., where he is now living, and
found that his description was exactly
similar to that of the Illinois pensioner.
without making known his business, he
questioned Wilson, who proved beyond
doubt that he had a cousin in the same
company, bearing the same name, of the
same age ind description, and wounded
In the sume part of the body. ~
Nor long ago the strange discovery
was made in Pristina, Turkey, that a
young woman named Hanko had been
serving tor more than three years in the
rlfteeuth Regiment in the place of her
brother, Aali Redscheb, with especially
neritorious conduct. 1t had never oc-
CURED In the Turkish Army before that
q woman unveiled had lived among men
Tor such long time, and the case was re-
ported to the Sultan. When the latter
lee5ned that the young girl had under
taken the daring step to keep from mi j.
tary service her brother. who was the
only support OF her aged mother,
the Emperor gave her the. Schefakat,
order of the third class, and O pension for
life of five Turkish pounds per month.
The brave girl was sent home Immediate
~, and her brother was allowed to con-
tinue there with his mother:
SILAs Bauer, farmer of Huntinrdon
County, Penn, had a singular and
painful experience: DistrustfuI of banks.
he drew out several hundred dollars he
possessed from two banks, and then hid
ms trcausnre in the lining of his cont.
Then he went out to work in n field and
nung his coat upon gate post. There
the coat was espied by multitude of
hungry gTasshoppers md badly eaten by
them. The grasshoppers bored holes
through the greenbacks, and the farmer
has been compelled to send the frar
ments OF his money to Washington to
secure new bills. The money was mutt.
lated almost beyond redemption. Mr..
Bauer says when he RECEIVERS his money
he will put it buck in the bank.
A YOUNG Baltimore lady who visited
mlllincr's shop two months ago was
appalled, on reaching home after her
shopping tour to find that she had lost
one OF her thousand dollar diamond
earrings. There was much weeping and
many advertisements. The other day
lady residing "a Alabama wrote to the
millinery firm that the bonnet which she
had purchased Of them had arrived safe.
~, aud that she was particularly well
pleased to find diamond entappled in
the lace trimmings. She concluded her
letter by saying she was anxious to re-
turn the diamond to its owner.
VASES have become so much of pes
in England as to be national nuisance
They swarm in houses and in bed
chambers they rob orchards more effcc
lively than whole school of bows. md
they destroy the finest peaches on the
wall and the juiciest pums in the gar
den. "1f'you pick up ripe pear under
your favoritc tree" says London Jour
nal, "the chances are that half q dozen
of these hot. tempered thieves will sally
out OF it, and you may hold yourself
lucky II you do not get we'll stupg."
BRArS surgeons of to-day are beginning
to understand such occurrences US that
which turned Barnett Grimslev, a farm.
er's boy. into the nblest Baptist preacher
in Virginia. Young Grimslcy. when
sixteen, was cutting wood with com.
panion, when the other fellows axe
hew oil the handle, struck him on the
head, aud cracked his skull. The acci.
dcut, ius,cad of hurting him iu any re-.
spect, seemed to give his brain more
room to grow, aud he became known 10
later years as Griinslcy the eloquent.
A CURIOUS phenomenon has Just oc.
ourred Mt the village Gamlingay, in Cam.
bridgcsbire, England. A dense cloud
was observed to be passing over, which
suddenly burst; and, to the astouish.
meat of the villagers, it was seen 10 be
a shower Of ants and similar winged in
sects. People and the ground beca he
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