Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-13
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OFF
EVERYDAY LIFE.

lures Which Show That Truth
Stranger Than Fiction.
A suNFLowER plant twelve feet high
the stalk measuring twelve inches in 81,
circumference, bearing thirty-nin
branches and supporting 1914 flowers
was exhibited at Lathrop, Mo. Two o
the branches were over nine feet long.
IT is the custom in Prussia to call Of
the Emperor to be godfather to the sew
enth living SOD. This has happcne,
three or four times during the presen
Williams reign. and, just now, Lahore
Schnittspan Of Friesuck has invoked tn
imperial godfathcrship on such an coca
sion, and the Emperor has accepted
William himself has six sons.
A KITTEN in Pittsburg has one head
two bodies, two tails and six legs. /
had one spine running half way dowr
the body, where it divided and formed
til" two lower bodies. This curious kit
ten was healthy and strong and lived
'hrce days, until its mother noticed wha,
sort OF looking creature it was and
Killed it by biting it back of the neck.
AN ALLIGATOR eight feet two inches in
length and weighing go pounds, was
caught in the Mississippi off the levce at
81. Louis few days ago. Allicators
are quite plentiful in southwestern
rivers but they rarely attain q length OF
more than four feet. So fur as known
this one is by far the largest ever taken
from tie Mississippi. Some of its teeth
were over two inches long and very like
the teeth Of Il shark.
AN average waltz takes dancer over
ABOUT three quarters of q mile; Il square
dance makes him cover half mile. A
girl with a.welitilled programme travels
thus in one evening: Twelve waltzcs.
nine miles; four other dances at half a
mile apiece, which is hardly q fairly big
estimate, two miles more; the intermis-
sion stroll aad the trips to the dressing
room to renovate her gown and com
pleXion, half a mile more; grand total
eleven and one half miles.
Tue figure six played prominent part
IN NE iite OF a young woman who recently
dlou at Americas. ia. She was born on
November Is, 1916; moved to Americas in
1906, Joined the church III 1864, was
married August 2j, 1856; was the
mother OF six children, and was buried
january IL, 1898, at the age of forty-six,
after having been married twenty.six
years. There are eleven skies in these
lacts, and eleven times six makes the
year OF the century in which she was
married, 1856.
A. 7. HINTON. of Oklahoma. is q
"boomer." So is S. S. Slowson' like.
wise OF oklahoma. They were bosom
friends, and one day Hinton traded Slow
son revolver for q watch. When the
cherokee Strip excitement began they
doomed along amicably for awhile, but
hnaiIy quarrelled over II jumped claim or
something. Then Slowson pulled out
1 tnc revolver and blazed away at Hinton. |
The bullet struck the watch and Hinton's
ME was saved. The incident affected
Siowson to tears, and he apolouized. |
ihey took drink and then DOOMED |
along together again.
The only instrument used purelv for
in English jails NOWADAYS is
a crank handle weighted heavily with
leaa ana working heavily inside box,
!, an indicator at slit recording the num-
oe1 OF revolutions inade-8, 600 or Ii, 600
constituting days work. Among the
purely mechanical labor is included the
working at the crank handles of the
huge water pump, and by cranks, too.
Ill the meal used in prison is ground, but
IN the case OF corn grinding the prisoner
may rest as often as he likes, provided
he gets through his allotted task.
WHEN GOO miles off the coast of France
The crew of the British steamship Wild
lower, which has Just arrived in Phila-
leiphia, from Rouen. France, saw with
big owl alisht in the rio. !
sing OF the steamship. The bird was
'oon caught aud killed. and an eyamin,.
,ioh OF Its stomach showed that it had
,ot eaten anything for days, having been
ifiVen seward by the storm. But Tor
ne glare OF the sunshine after the storm
lau subsidized, it would undoubtedly have t
,ao the power to make its way back to j
ne coast of France, despite the great (
Instance, Tor owls, it is said, have en- a
urance and powers of flight equal to I
ne hcming pigeon. s
The Vienna (Ga) Progress tells this I
story: Mcssrs. J. r. Duncan
nd Joe I. Collier were speaking of a
lar "reminiscences few DAYS ago. when (,
ne OF them told "a remarkable circum- !,
,ance. a company of ono hundred men.
whom the above named gentlemen
ere, which was formed at Perry. Tn,
lght before they left for the scene of lo
ar they met at this church, and a rood tt
q minister by the name OF Talley was Of
HE'D upon to pray He prayed verv a,
rnes'iy, and among other things prlvea ii
at not single yankee bullet might pl
rlke one of these men. This companv b,
one hundred men went through the b!
'r, being in many fierce battles. and sc
It one was killed or wounded. and W.
out sixty of the one hundred are now no
ing. III
l.. WLuoIT, of Warrenton. Ca. VI
mes to the front with very intellipent SIS
OF young pigs. For some time he up
noticed that his milk cows would u"
70 but little, in fact almost no milk ~
cry morning, and he was unable TO ac, oe
Int for this. 1t was at first thouobt AM
It they were being MIXED by some oel
!, so watch WaS pla.nl % uO