Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-05-13

weeks during February and the begin
ming of this month. When the storm
which showed them up came they ex-
hausted their stock of provisions and
had killed eleven elk. They lost their
game and were three days without food.
when they killed an eagle Later they
found an elk powerless in the deep snow.
They lived on elk and eagle alone for
over a month. The snow was eight to
fifteen feet deep, and they could not
make any progress through it. Even
tually they reached deserted camp and
found an axe, with which they split
wood and made rude snowshoes, by
means of which they got back to civil
zation.
THE novel charge of stealing a house
and the furniture it contained. together
with a sheep corral. a load of hay, and
other sundries, and carting the whole
business away, was preferred against a
man in WalIa Walla, Wash, the other
day. He was formerly resident of that
town, and year ago he took upa ranch,
adjoining a sheep farm, in Yakima
county. The owner of the farm alleges
that during the absence of his men the
accused tore down the house and the
sheep corral and removed them, together
with the household furniture, a ton of
hay, and other things, to his farm, on
which he rebuilt the house, putting the
furniture into it. The accused says it
is plot to get him out of the country,
the sheepmen wanting the water on his
farm.
AN example of marvellous industry
and power to overcome adverse circum-
stances is given by Max Meyer, who was
born blind in Berlin twenty-eight years
ago. He received his first instruction
from teacher of the blind and later
attended the Sophien- Real Gymnasium,
a scientific college in Berlin. He was
always among the best students in the
college and passed a brilliant final ex-
animation. File entered the University
of Berlin few years ago, to study
mathematics, mechanics and philosophy.
He took the degree of Phi. d. few
weeks ago, preparing dissertation upon
the ditferential calculus which excited
the admiration of bis professors
AN authentic whale story comes from
Grand Manan, in the Bay of Fundy,
which rivals any told in the country for
years, says the Boston Herald. Two
Grand Manan fishermen, Cronk and
Winchester, cast their anchor off their
boat and threw out their lines in quest
of cod! Suddenly their boat began to
move through the wster, and a whale
rose to the surface. The anchor was
fastened in his, blowho9e, and with the
boat blowing through the water after
him, he started toward the shore, got
into shoal water and stranded. Cronk
and Winchester killed bis whaleship
with axes. and sold the carcass for $50.
CAPTAIN Frederick p: Cornell died at
his home in, Warren, r, L., after brief
illness, in the 73d year of his age. He
was native of Dartmouth, Mass, and
made several whaling voyages in com
mand of New Bedford and Warren
vessels. Once he was dragged down by
whale by a. coil of nope encircling his
leg. With presence of mind and pluck
he drew his sheath knife, and, slashing
it across his leg at the rope, severed the
latter with the second blow when 80
feet below the surface. This blow saved
his life.
A STRANGE case is reported from Lew
iston, Me-, of a, man named Whitman
who possesses wonderful power at his
fingers tips. When lie holds his arms
at an angle of As degrees he becomes
Samson in strength. He easily lifts
cows, toys with. fat men on tables as
though they were but feathers, shifts
pianos and does many other wonderful
things. Strangest of aIl, he has been
offered enormous salaries by museum
managers and has declined them because
of modesty.
THREE tall men live at Castle Hill,
Me- Allie, Elihu and Elidad Frank are
their Names. and laid along in line on
the floor they measure twenty-one feet
to an inch in their stocking feet and
without their caps on. Two of them are
more than seven feet in height and the
other isa little less Old Mr.. Frank,
their father is, remembered as being
taller than any one Of them. Their oc-
cupation is put down as woodsmen,
farmers, hunters and borse-swoppers.
ANOTHER instance of the complete
petrifaction of human body is reported,
this time at Carlyle, H. The remains Of
John Russell who was buried there six
years ago, were exhumed and were found
changed to stone, the features and form
being faithfully preserved.