Chicago eagle., 1893-11-25
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven'
lures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.

the coast OF FlOIlud viii a NiSuihiSA-
ence of five feet six inches.
J. w. GARRISON, of Flat Creek, \. C.,
boasts of pig which has two heads, two
sets of teeth, three eyes, two tails and
six legs.
4 WOMAN nar ed Marin Smeaton, re-
siding in the suburbs of Cincinnati, al
though past the age of ninety one, has
within the last year cut four new teeth.
ALITTLE dog at Woburn, Mass, whose
master had taken passenger train, fol-
lowed it on run to the next station,
which it reached only 200 yards behind
the iron horse.
AFTER a separation of sixty four years
William Shaw, an Inmate OF the Bing-
hamton, N. Y. county farm, has been
restored to his fam ly. Mr.. Shaw is re-
puted to be nearly 105 years old.
A LIVING curiosity is in the possession
of Henry Gerbending, of Fort Wayne,
Ind. 1t is freak of nature in the shape
of three kittens which are inseparably
Joined at the hips. There are three
heads, six fore feet and only three be-
hind.
SAMUEL LETTERS, an aged resident of
Moraine, n. D., who has been great
sufferer from rheumatism for over twenty
years, has been entirely, and, it is
thought, permanently cured by slight
stroke of lightning.
A HORSE that fell down well on the
Bailey farm in Polk County, Oregon, re-
Gently was rescued in a novel manner.
Straw was thrown down the well, and
the horse tramped it and rose until he
was able to climb out,
AN English sparrow met curious and
untimely death in London recently in
trying to take drink of water from the
famous Temple fountain. A gold fish,
it is declared by witnesses, jumped up
and seized the bird by the leg. A sec
ond fish did likewise by the birds other
leg, and between them the sparrow found
watery grave.
THREE years ago William Brown, OF
Lost Creek, Pa, walked down noun
tain path to the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad tracks just in time to have
his leg cut off by passing train. A few
weeks ago he was on the same mountain
walked down the same path, and at the
spot of his former misfortune, he trippeo
and fell and had his remaining leg take4
off by the same train.
A NATURAL wonder of British Guian,
is Mount Roraima, peak famed for 1t!
inaccessibiity and peculiar formation
1t is only 5000 feet high, but the las
1900 feet of the ascent baffled the at
tempt at exploration until 1884. Thi
main peak is solid wall Of sandstone
fat at the top, except for depression
and cavities worn by the rainfall. From
the tabletop are supplied innumerabl
streams, and equally numerous lakes il
the depressions make natural reservoirs
A FLOWER lately discovered in tn
Isthmus of Tehuantepec is white in tn
morning, red at noon and blue at night
and is called the chameleon flower in dc
fault of any botanical name. 1t is prob
ably species of the hibiscus mutabilis
The colors do not pass abruptly from on
shade to the other, but change gradual
from the white of the morning to tn
pink and red and thence to the blue a
night. The Tehuantepec tree grows t
the size of guava tree and gives out
slight perfume when the flower is OF
red color.
A PROPOSAL fox hunt at st. Joseph
Mo, recently, was prevented by the pei
sistency of the hounds. The tale read
fol@ A 60 folr ntf N
sight of the crowd and freed. The dog
were released, and before the fox ha
got twenty feet away had killed it. Th
crowd patiently waited half mile away
AS sort of consolation race the fox wa
attached to bicycle and tho cycle
started off before the people, and tn
dogs caught the fox within dozer step
and pulled it loose, and that ended tn
sport"
The English papers tell the followin
story of badly malformed lamb: Nj
w. Hewitt, of Harrington Mills, has
eve which this spring yeaned lam
that is certainly curiously and wor
drously made. 1t has two eyes, both /
the centre of Me forehead and in singl
socket, both covered with one cyclic
One ear is situated at the back of tn
head and the other directly under II
lower jaw, near the hinge. 1t has n
tail, but in the place Of that very nece
sary appendage fifth leg almost as Ion
as the other four, fully equipped wit
hair, hoofs, etc. II was living at la
accounts, being amest three months ole
The oldest one Of the white elephants
which was born in 1770, died in its ten
pie at Bangkok in November last. Ever.
one knows that the white elephant, befol
whom a whole people bow the knee,
the emblem of the Kingdom of Siam.
is honored with the most beautiful pres
ents, for the Indians, full OF the idea q
metamorphosis, ftill believe that so mi
jestic an animal could only be animate
by the spirit OF heaven or OF an empero
Each white elephant possesses its palac
vessel Of gold and harness resplens
ent with jewels. Several mandarins nj
attached 20 lis service and ieed il vii
cakes aud sugar cane. The King
siam is the only person before whom
hows the knee, and a similar salutatiC
ia rendered u by the monarch
A raw days ago William Bell Was =
leased from prison at birmingham, Ala