Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-01-26
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY DAY LIFE.

EVERY DAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show That Truth Is
stranger Than Fiction.
A LARGE party of men, headed by
Harry eager of Seattle, enjoyed a big
coyote drive on the sagebrush plains
twenty miles southeast of Boise, Idaho.
After an exciting chase thirty splendid
specimens of the peculiar animal lay dead
upon the frozen ground. At this season
OF the year the skin of the coyote is
heavy and glossy, aud of considerable
commercial value. eager and his party
sought the animals for their warm coats,
which they will have made into gar
ments. The hunters were provided with
pack of fierce hounds and the party
spread out over the plains to encircle a
rocky butte much frequented by coyotes.
The dogs made the frosty air re-echo
with their deep notes. Within an hour
after the commencement of the hunt
twenty-one fine coyotes had been killed
and skinned. The hounds were then
sent into growth of sagebrush in little
hollow in one of the abrupt slopes of the
butte. The dogs cornered four big
coyotes, and battle royal followed
The coyotes fought like four-footed
fiends, and they badly injured five
splendid hounds before they succumbed.
Their skins were nearly torn from their
bodies during the struggle, and were
worthless. A few minutes later eight
big COYOTES were started out of another
bunch of sagebrush. The cowardly
animals darted across the plain and tried
to conceal themselves in large flock of
sheep. They had no fight in them and
did not offer to modest the sheep, upon
which they usually prey. After much
difficulty the coyotes were driven into
the sagebrush again, and then the hounds
quickly dispatched five of them.
''FoR years, a" said steady New York
churchgoer, 81 had been sitting in the
same pew and in the same seat, the end
seat by the aisle. Usually the other
places are occupied by members of my
family, for we all attend church pretty
regularly, but one Sunday recently when,
for one reason and another, they had all
stayed at home, sat in my pew alone.
Seeing plenty of room there the usher
brought to sit with me a stranger. l
was, of course, glad to welcome him. l
did not get up aud step out into the aisle
so that he might pass in by me, but l
moved along to the other end of the pew
and let him sit in my place. When l
had seen him comfortably seated and
handed him "a hymn book, and had
turned toward the pulpit again, l was
surprised to find that everything in the
church seemed new and strange to me.
| For a long time had been accustomed
TO seeing the backs of the heads OF those
| Of my friends and neighbors who sit in
| front of me, and the sides of their faces,
from a certain point OF view. | saw
them now from another point of view,
and they all seemed to look very differ
emily. / saw children who appeared
from their demeanor to be regular at
PENDANTS at church, but whom had never
noticed there before; they had been there
of course, but my view of them had been
c.t off by the heads and shoulders OF
other persons. The preacher appeared
to me in another light, and it seemed as
though his sermon, coming as 1T did
along new angle, came with new power
Indeed, it was almost like visiting new
church. The fact is that we are all such
creatures of habit that we are apt to bt
surprised if we depart even little way
from the road we are accustomed tC
travel"
In a little village in Sussex, England,
there is veritable milky way of lilies
where thousands of white blossoms shec
their perfume, and where women
! gardeners tend and pack and ship tht
fragrant product. Twenty-Five years age
single lily bulb was given to Mrs
Bates, a farmers daughter, who tended
the Gift with the devotion women bestov
on flowers, and when sixteen bulbs hac
, resulted from the original one, and Mrs
Bates, finding that her children, as sh'
called. them, had outgrown the sum.
window where they grew, she PLANTED
them in the corner of the garden. Tel
wears ago daughter of Mrs. Bates, in
(, spired by the enterprise Of the time, sen
some blossoms to the London market
and now, in association with her sisters
has made the Bates lilies famous TO
: their beauty ana perfection. .Th
daughters are keen business women, In
, terviewing their buyers at the o'clocl
market, selling without the interference
Of agents to private customers, florists
u and commission merchants. The averag
product is COO dozens a week, which ar
packed by women in the gardens
: Women arc taking up Horticulture to
!, considerable extent in England, and a
the Horticultural College landscape an
! kitchen gardening arc taught by lectures
. demonstrations, and practical work.
;. is an interesting fact that application
are received at the college faster tina
: women can be trained.
. "'TRUE to DEATH" says St. Peters
burg contemporary, lis mild phrase i
& comparison with the expression. 'Tru
!. to hard labor in the Ural mines An
: vet such heroism as the latter phrase de
. scribes can be found among Polish girls
y A wedding was recently performed
Minsk which illustrated this fact. tn
n groom, Cesar Pozniak, was brought
y church in heavy chains; the bride, Mar
Kanovitcheva, maid in one of II
! wealthiest houses of the city, came
q church accompanied by her friends
. carriages. Cesar Pozniak was an artisa
4 of good behavior and appearance; but
4 was accused of murder and condemne
to hard labor in the Ural mines forte
u years. Maria was in love with him befo
m the accusation took place, and woul