Chicago eagle., 1893-03-04

1891, laden with Ss0, 600 worth OF ma
hogany. She was fran Mexico bound
for New York. She has already drifted
since being abandoned off Cape Hatteras
over 8, 900 miles.
1T seems very strange that people will
persist in keeping pets that are dangerous
TO their own lives and the lives of those
about them. One of the latest of such
cases to come to the front is that of the
Dells, of Cripple Creek, Col, who re-
Gently brought young mountain lion
from their ranch to their home there,
and kept him chained in kennel in the
yard The other day some little children
were playing about near where the lion
was lying before his kennel, and one of
them four year-old boy, ran up close
to the savage beast In a moment the
lion was upon him, and before the baby
could berescued he was horribly mangled
by the animals teeth and claws. The
beast was killed, and the Deils have
been arrested.
AN interesting variety of the widely
ditfused ''lost mincn mysteries is engag-
ing the attention Of prospectors in the
region around Pueblo Nuevo. Durango,
Mex. A burro donkey loaded with
$1,000 worth OF bar silver started as one
of train from mine near Pueblo Nuevo
for Durango. Somehow it became de-
tached from the train among the noun
tains and, unobserved, wandered away.
All the efforts of the drivers and guards
to find the buuo and the silver have so
far failed, although their vigorous search
for it has been joined by the prospectors
and the people generally in the vicinity
Practical railroad men account it a
great triumph that they have knocked
out the old theory that every engineer
must have his own pet engine and must
not be asked to run any other. Until
only a few years ago this was the rule
even ON the greatest roads Each engi-
neer grew accustomed to and fond of an
engine and believed he could get good
work out of it, while a stranger to it
would be sure to have the same trouble
that he would expect with strange
engine. That is all changed now, and
engineers are expected to leave their SEN
timental notions at home and take out
whatever engine they are assigned to.
A CITIZEN of La Grande, Wash, had
has attention drawn, in some unexplain-
able way, to a watch which a stranger,
standing on the depot platform, drew
from his pocket. He asked to be allowed
to examine it, and exclaimed that it was
his brothers watch. The stranger told
how he took the watch from the pocket
of a Union soldier whose body he helped
to bury after one of the battles o. the
civil war, over twenty-six years ago.
The La Grande mar clearly identified the
watch as the one his brother wore when
he set out for the front.
THE heavy snow falls brought calamity
in curious way to the Chinese pheasants
that are to be found in some parts of the
Northwest. The sleet and snow stuck
to their long tails in such a way that the
birds were unable to fly. The country
boys saw their opportunity and captured
the birds by dozens. The birds are said
to be worth $40 pair alive and in good
condition, and three boys in one family
in Oregon caught nearly three dozen.
A DELEGATION of ladies of the w. C.
Il. U. visited the county Jail at Canton,
Ohio, one day recently, and held religi-
Gus services. An hour after they left,
William Green, who was committed for
larceny, hanged himself to his cell door.
He left note saying that the prayers of
the visitors had affected him, and that
his awakened conscience could not bear
the contemplation of his own wicked
ness.
AMONG the wilder tribes of the eau
casus every child is taught to use the
dagger almost as soon as he can walk.
The children first learn to stab water
without making a splash and by inces-
SAINT practice acquire extraordinary COM
mand over the weapon.
A PECULIAR Siamese-twin pair of
pheasants was shot, on the wing, by
sportsman near Bellefonte, Penn, few
days ago. Both birds we're perfectly de-
veloped, and were connected by fieshy
link, half an inch thick. just in front of
the wings.