St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-22
SOMEWH STRANGE.
ACCIDENT AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.

lures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.
ACCORDING to the Chicago Horscman,
the question OF color of q horse is u very
important one with Russian, and
gentlemen of means would never permit
other than Il white, gray, or black horse
to occupy Il position in their stable.
Their particular fad is to drive cross
match span composed of a black and a
white horse. The majority of Russian
horses, however, arc grays. OF course
there are some mixed colors, but these
are used only by the poorer classes of
peasants for rough work in the interior
districts. So high u value does the
Russian place upon color that the Govern
/ ment will have none but white Or gray
stations on their breeding farms. In
Russia horsemen believe that the gray
horse possesses far more courage, is
capable of standing the rigors of their
| Winters better, has greater powers Of
! endurance, and better blood than that
| Of any other color. Their 1875 years of
| Government control of breeding has SO
| nearly reduced the question of trans
hitting colors to science that the
Government will have only white or
gray stations in service, claiming that
color goes with the sire almost univcrs-
ally. Seyenty-tive per cent. of the
| Russian race horses are white or gray.
| IT APPEARS from British consular re-
! ports just published that there is place
on the face of the globe where intoXica-
| IF haI l1I VIZ
! is looked upon as q vir5ue, and where
drunken laborers are actually at a
premium. This peculiar condition Of
affairs prevails in the Portuguese posses
sons of South Africa. 1t seems that the
natives there, when employed for any
definite object, have to be carefully and
| laboriously instructed how to perform
their work. If man be temperate in
| his habits he will in one or two months
earn sufficient to maintain himself in
idleness for nearly year, and the con-
sequence is that he returns to his home,
and the instructions which have been
given to him are entirely lost. With an
Incorporate native the opposite state Of
affairs exists. Mouth after month, on
the receipt of his wages, he spends his
entire earnings in liquor, and never
| having sufficient funds to take him home,
remains with his employer for years, be-
coming more and more valuable as time
passes by reason of the fact that the
repetition constructions becomes gradu
ally less necessary.
THE town of Warrenton, Ca, was
| treated to some excellent music few
days since and the producer was a one
armed colored lad who halls from
| Florida The wonderful feature about
| this talented musician is that he per
forms splendidly on three instruments at
| the same time, guitar, harp and a call
bell. Having only one arm it seems i'm
possible for him to perform this great
feat. His arm his off near the elbow,
so to this he fastcns stick about the
size of your little finger and eight inches
| in length, which he uses to beat on the
guitar strings instead of picking them.
| On his shoulder he has a rack to hold
] the harp in place and he works the bell
with his foot. 1t is indeed wonderful
! how he can handle these Instruments
with such accuracy. He is also SPLEEN
! did dancer.
| SAYS medical practitioner of long ex-
pericnce: Il believe that good many
people who are supposed to die of
| hydrophObia scare themselves to death.
They are bitten by a dog-perfectly
harmless do,,, usually--and they brood
over it and worry about it until they
develop all the symptoms of hydro
phobia. | should test every case Of
alleged poisoning by rabies by putting
| the patient under chloroform and watch
! ING hitn during the stupor when he was
; coming out of it. If the commissions
! continued then the case would be
genuine, but it, in that interval, the
patient had forgotten what allied him, |
should laugh him out of it. Dog bites
are the commonest of in jurles. Even q
rabid dog may bite man without pro-
lucing any i'll ctfects.'
In other countries than England there
are peculiar and unaccountable pre-
nunciations of proper names The isl
and of Terra Nuova, off the coast of
Honduras, is called "Turnetf.' The
Boca d'Agua, in Jamaica, is called
'Bogwalk, " and the Aqua Alta, in the
same country, is known as the 'Wag
water' In Scotland there is q county
called "Kirkoobree, . of which the cor
rect spelling is Kirkcudbright. Then
there is the Tollver family in this country,
whose name is properly spelled Talia
(erro.
FOUR miles southwest of Mount Yer
non, Texas, is great phenomenon on
the farm of Marvel Holbert. Last July
he dug well. Going to the depth of
| fifty feet and getting no water, work
was suspended and the we'll covered up.
One day recently Mr. Holbert, passing
by, uncovered the well, and to his sur
prise hot steam gushed out in his face,
and on examination it was found that Il
vein of hot water about six inches in
diameter had burst in through the bottom
and stands at a depth of eighteen feet,
| boiling like teakettlc over slow fire.
QUEEN VIcToRIA's fondness for domcs-
| tic pets is Indicated by the fact that in
the grounds of the royal dairy there are
| two monuments erected by her Ma iestys
order to the memory of two dogs which
| she once held dear. One of these canine
| favorites was a dachshund named Boy,
which departed life in 1862; the other a
Scottish terrier Boz, once the property
of the Duchess of Kent and afterwards
the Queens favorite. Her Majesty is
nowadays especially interested in collies.
The office chair occupied by ex-Post-
master General Wanamaker, although of
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