Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-06-03
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show That Truth Ia
Stranger Than Fiction.


the question of color of horse is a very
important one with a Russian, and
gentlemen of means would never permit
other than a white, gray, or black horse
to occupy a position in their stable.
Their particular fad is to drive a cross
match span composed of black and a
white horse. The majority of Russian
horses, however, are grays. OF course
there are some mixed coors, but these
are used only by the poorer classes of
peasants for rough work in the interior
districts. So high 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 12j wears of
Government control of breeding has so
nearly reduced the question of trans
uniting colors to a science that the
Government will have only white or
gray stations in service, claiming that
color goes with the sire almost univers-
ally. Seventy-tive per cent. OF the
Russian race horses are white or gray.
IT APPEARS from British consular re-
ports just published that there is "A place
on the face of the globe where intoxca-
ton, instead of being regarded as vice,
is looked upon as a virtue, 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 <ufficient to maintain himself in
ldleness 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. Month 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 Of instructions becomes grldu-
ally less necessary.
The town of Warrcnton, Ga, was
treated to some excellent music few
days since and the producer was one.
armed colored lad who halls from
Florida. The wonderful feature about I
this talented musician is that he CT |
forms splendid!y on three instruments at t
tho SANG time, guitar, h2;p and call !,
possible for him to perform this great
feat. His arm his off near the elbow.
g z tbs I9 tast2ss q sick .9.Q.t The
klze 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 his 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 a spcn-
did dancer. ...
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SAYS medical practitioner Of loag cx-
perience: 81 believe that good many
people who are supposed to die of
hydrophobia scare themselves to death.
They are bitten by dog-pqrfectly /
harmless dog, usually-and theysbrood
over it and worry about it until they
develop all the symptoms Of hydro
nh I Df |
alleged poisoning by rabies by putting
'he patient under chloroform and watch
ing him during the stupor when he was
coming out of it. IL the commissions
then the case would be
genuine, but if, in that interval, the
patient had forgotten what allied him,
should laugh him out of it. Dog bites
are the commoDest of injuries Even a
rabid dog may bite man without pro-
ducng any i'll effects.
In other countries than England there
are peculiar and unaccountable pro-
of proper names. The ISL
and of Terra Nuova. off the coast of
Honduras, is called "Turneff." 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 a county
called "Kirkoobree. . of which the cor
rect spelling is Kirkcudbrght. Then
there is the Toliver family in this country,
whose name is. properly spelled Italia
ferro.
FouR miles southwest of Mount Yer
non, Texas, is a great phenomenon on
The farm of Marvel lIolbcrt. Last July
he dug a well. Going to the depth Of
fifty feet and getting no water, work
was suspended and the we'll covered up
Oue day recently Mr. lIolbert, passing
by uncovered the we'll and 10 his sur
prise hot steam gushed ont In his face,
and on examination il was found that
vein Of hot water about six inches In
had burst To- through the bottom
and stand. 40 "a depth of eighteen feet.
boiling Ike telkyttle over slow Gee
QrrsS NiCuuuns f1nlucs. tlr domc
iie pets b. indicated hy tho llft chat iu
the grounds VI tbe f1yulda.V cher. s5r
ts0 monument erected h{ De Ma.uus
oulef GU Che memfF Hl tto INr which i.
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