Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-07-22
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS 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.
A DESPERATE battle took place near
Turnwood, n. j., between a famished
female bear and the wife of Amos Corey,
a woodsman on the upper Beaver Kill.
For several days bear tracks had been
seen in the neighborhood and once,
few days ago, a good sized bear had been
seen crossing the road near Corey's cabin.
Saturday morning Corey started with
rife and dogs to hunt down the animal"
and had been gone about an Lour, when
his wife heard great commotion in the
dooryard. Just then little dog ran into
the house yelping with terror and COW
cred with blood. Mrs. Corey, thinking
of the bear, seized keen-bladed ak
from the rack and shutting her baby and
little boy in bedroom, ran into the yard.
There she saw huge bear rolling and
iumbling among the sawdust and chips
of the wood pile, while over it lowered
a swarm of honey bees. The bear had
upset half dozen hives of bees and the
little creatures were having their revenge.
Mrs. Corey watched the battle for awhile,
and then made a stroke at bruin with the
ak, infiicting severe wound in the ami
malls side. With howl the bear rushed
upon her, unmindful of the bees. Rising
upon its hind feet it advanced upon the
woman and tried to hug her. Mrs.
Corey piled the AK with energy, and
after several blows brought it down with
tremendous force on the bears head,
splitting it in twain with the sharp -edged
weapon. During the battle she received
one blow from one of the BEARS paws
which badly lacerated one of her arms.
After the bear had been killed the bees
swarmed about Mrs. Corey singing her
severely. They finally rested on the
bushes near by where she succeeded in
prised to find that two little cubs had
come out of the brush and were smelling
about their dead mother. She captured
them, and after feeding them with W arm
milk they became quite tame. She will
keep the cubs and raise them.
"THE Japanese Students" says an
American teaching in that country, "are
very fond of using long, high-sounding
words. One day l told the story Of
Jack and the Beanstalk' to one of my
classes of young men, and asked them to
reproduce it in writing. used the SIM
plest possible English in order to make
it easy for them to understand, and what
was my surprise when came to correct
the papers, to find the first one took up
began as follows: "Once upon a time
there lived poor widow, who, for GER
tain pecuniary considerations, was obliged
to sell her cow Another one wrote /:
Jack said to the fairy, please tell me the
way to the nearest hotel and still an
other wrote: The giant said to the hen
that laid the golden egg, 'Borned an egg.
Borned another same way A student
asked one of the teachers in our theologi
cal school to please teach him idiotic
English. A student in some other school
was asked to make a translation out OF
the proverb, 'Out of sight out of mind.
This was the result: The blind are in
sane"
MORTIMER MENDEs, the artist, travel
ing in the East looking for sub jects, has
come upon a curious form of courtship
Sketching one day in Burmah, he no
ticed man a little distance off glaring
fercely straight ahead of him at some
object he could not see from his position
The man sat with the same fixed glare
the whole afternoon, and was at it again
next morning. Mr.. Mendes had the
curiosity to ask an English visitor what
he meant. The reply was, ooh, he is
in love!" and it was explained that this
was the method of courtship. The
object of the mans attentive gaze was a
girl in a neighboring bazaar. When a
young man falls in love, he has to seat
himself at a certain distance from his
adored one, and wait for her to do the
rest. If she looks in his direction once
or twice on the first or second day he is
wildly encouraged, and if on the third
day she mods and smiles, it is time to go
to the parents with reference to the
marriage settlements.
The SPORTING REVIEW is authority
for the statement that Connecticut pos
sesses a sportsman who cannot see, but
who nevertheless can bring down bird
Oh bhO wing Will utdlutSS uuAl
His name is William Hill, and there are
many men with perfect vision who can
not do es good work with the shotgun as
he. Hill has been blind for many years,
but he has always been such an enthusiast
tic sportsman that he would not allow his
infrmity to keep him out of the woods.
His frat shooting was at random when
ever he heard a partridge rise from the
bushes with whir and fly away, but his
acute ears soon became able to locate
the direction of the birds flight, and
he would fire ahead of the point at
which he believed the bird to be.
After considerable practice he became
so expert that nearly every shot told.
and now when he goes hunting
he always takes home a large string
of birds If they are plentiful in the
woods.
A YOUNG woodchooper named George
Ellis started out recently in the foothills
Of the Coast range in California in ques
of wild hogs which he proposed to con
vert into fresh pork. lie travelled all da
through mud, slop and rain, looking will
anxious eyes for the rowing swine, anC
just as the shades OF night began to settl
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