Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-10-28
STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.

Queer Facts and Thrilling lIdven-
lures Which Show That Truth is
Stranger Than Fiction.
john WETHERED, farmer of Man
chester. Ind, soaked some seeds in alco-
hol and put them on his barn floor.
| Sparrows stole them, and we're soon as
drunk as lords. Cats killed 100 of the
feathered sots, and ate all they could
hold, and then the cats were drunk,
| too.
BUSINESS must be dull on the Santa Fe
Railroad The other day the brakeman
of an accommodating accommodation
train stopped the train to chase rae
coon into a we'll Next day they
brought along a ladder and one of
them went into the we'll and caught Old
Zip.
SARAH Cross, of Bristol KY, is more
than fifty years old, but is only % inches
in height Her face and head are fully
developed, her features show no lack Of
intelligence, and she talks with as much
freedom as if she were well developed
woman.
Towns COUNTY, Ga, boasts of novel
specimen of the "white" negro. This
one has been turning" for several years,
until the left side of his face is perfectly
white, while the right side remains al
most jet black. Negroes whose skin
changes from black to a light, brown or
reddish white are not uncommon in the
South, but the change mostly shows
in blotches, giving them notified APP
pearance.
THAT there is gold in wool" has been
found literally as well as figuratively
true. According to an Australian con-
temporary, some gold dust was discov-
cred in a London wool-sorting room,
and was traced to a parcel of Califor-
nian feeces. When the pasturage was
explored, valuable placer" was found
on the estate.
Mrs JAMES ROSE of Otterville, Mo,
had bird in q cage hanging in the yard.
A blacksnake, according to the local
editor, who cannot lie, thrust his head
through the bars and swallowed the
bird as far MS the wire would let him.
There he stuck, and was killed. And the
bird still sings in the cage.
A QUEER lawsuit was that brought re-
Gently in London police court by a
gentleman who had claimed that he had
been swindled in buying dog 1t was
fox terrier warranted to howl whenever
some over-musical neighbors commenced
their performances. But the dog wouldn't,
and the purchaser wanted to recover
what he cost
Our in Wayne County, Kan, is a CON
siderable grove of pine trees seven miles
square, all of whose lower branches have
been broken off. This puzzles new
corners, but old settlers remember that
the mischief was done several years ago,
when an enormous swarm of pigeons
came and roasted on all the trees and
broke them down.
UNCLE JOE ARDLE, an old Georgia
colored man living on the Savannah
River, thinks it about time to take to the
woods. After the earthquake of 1886
he was afraid to live on the ground. so
he built hat in the branches of huge
oak tree. where he lived contentedIy
until the storm of few weeks blew him
and his hut clear out of the tree and al
most into the river.
IL 1894 family of Crooks, who had
come from Bolton, England, to Mans
field, Mass, began a correspondence
with relatives at home. The correspond.
ence has been kept up since without
a break by some member of the fami-
lies, but the correspondents had not
seen each other until this year, when Mr.
Thomas Crook of Bolton, coming to the
Fair found and visited three generations
of Crooks in Mansfield
THE oldest industry in England,
which dates back to prehistoric times, is
still being carried on at Brandon in Suf-
folk. Many people of that village earn
their living by making fints with which
to strike fire and for gunlocks. finder
boxes with flint and steel are largely used
in Spain and Italy, and by travellers in
sparsely settled and uncivilized lands,
and gun-fints 90 to Africa, where flint
lock muskets are still in use.
4 NOVEL way of smuggling has Just
been brought to light by the French
authorities on the Franco-Swiss frontier
1t has been discovered that about twenty
two thousand watches, valued at two
millions francs, have entered France in
the space of six months without having
paid the duty. A great portion of these
were discovered packed in tins Of con.
densed milk company, from which, of
course, the milk had been taken out and
then carefully closed up again.
An old farmer named Irwin is buried
a; the top Of one Of the barren noun
tains that tower over the Clarified and
Mahoning Railroad, between Blooms
Run and Bridgeport, Penn. Many years
ago the old man was working on his
land, and he found grave in the rock
which was filled with leaves and other
stuff. He made a request that his re-
mains be buried in that lonely spot in
the stone grave made by unknown hands.
Ii Is said that the grave was such q snug
/ tit that shovel could hardly be run