The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-12
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts na rhr',''n. Aaven.
lures whie{ Show That Truth is
T4an Fiction.

Queer Facts And rhrilllu. Aaven.
lures which Show That Truth is
Stranger Than Fiction.
"RoME was saved by a goose, aud |
was wrecked by one said a lady the
other day. as she hobbled around on her
crutch. We naturally inquired how this
| occurred, and she continued: I" might
go further with the comparison. Rome
had a sleeping sentinel and l had a
| drunken, frolicsomc driver. 1t was more
than twenty years ago when took seat
in a stage coach one morning in Central
Maine for IL twenty mile ride to the cars
Of the Maine Central Railroad. The
driver was a great, lusty, jolly fellow,
who had too intimate acquaintance with
the bottle fiend. He was feeling pretty
frisky that morning, and when the sun
was well risen and the earth began to
warm up he became positively gay. We
passed a farmhouse where there were
all sorts of animals and crea-
lures lowering round, waiting Tor
breakfast. They were SO numer-
Gus they crowded out into the road,
and as we drove into them with our
spanking four-horsc team there was a
scurrying among them in all directions
to get out of the way. One goose, in
stead OF getti e to one side as the others
had done, scud Kissing along the road
ahead of the horses, lodging this way
and that, but never getting quite out OF
the way. The driver braced himself and
began to handle his lines like an expert,
and to swing from one side of the road
10 the other in pursuit of the goose. The
stage rocked back and forth like a ship
at sea. This continued for some dis
lance. He was trying to run over the
goose. At last the bird veercd out of
the road up over the bank, and out went
the horses and coach over the bank, too.
1t was too much for the coach and it
tipped over. 1t killed the goose and
broke my hip, besides injuring other
passengers" ''They had to pay for
that folly, didn't they?" we inquired.
"Well, the owners of the line paid me
1900, and got off cheap at that, for
am crippled for life. They had to pay
the others, too, including the owner OF
the goose"
A CURIOUS circumstance that may be
looked upon as a confirmation OF the
doctrine of mental telepathy took place
in New Orleans recently, i'll a family Of
Importance in the history OF the State.
This family numbers among its members
a lady and her twin brother, q young
man who for the past few years has been
in business in New Zealand, but who has
been expected home on a visit to his
sister. One evening lately the lady
was sitting surrounded by friends,
when all at once she gave a pierre
ing cry, and placing her hand to her
side fell fainting to the floor. On
~reviving, she declared that she had
been suddenly stabbed just above the
heart and under the left arm, in
dicating the spot. She was assured
that she was laboring under the purest
Imagination, but was hard to convince
that this was the case, so plainly had
SIZE felt the knife enter her body. That
night a little daughter was born to her,
and the child was found to be marked
or the places indicated by the mother as
the wounds she had imagined. The
marks on the child looked as if they
might be the ~cicatlix Of old knife wounds.
The neSt day a cablegram was received
from friends of the twin brother in New
Zealand, informing his sister that he
had been stabbed to death by a native
in a quarrel. and the date given of the
young mans death was that of the night
when his sister had felt the pang of a
knife entering her own body. She pre-
vailed on her husband to inquire by
cable where her brothers murderer had
struck him, and to complete the coinci-
dence learned that he had been stabbed
twice, once above the heart and again
under the left arm. She is convinced
that through her affinity with her broth
or she felt his death even as he received
it.
The Bucksport correspondent of the
Bangor News tells of q sailor hailing
from that town whose thrilling adven
lures and hair-breadth escapes would Fill
a volume. He is known to fame as Geo.
A. Jordan. He has fallen overheard.
been thrown overheard and jumped
overheard. He has fallen from the
mainmast head, foremost head, mizzen-
mast head, and down the hatch times
innumerable. He has been caught in
the main sheet, knocked senseless by
thrashing blocks and first mates and
picked up for dead on twcnty-seven
different occasions. He has been slashed
up in fights ashore and jammed up in
the dock. Has been wrecked a dozen
times, and has hoated without food OF
water for a week or more on several occa-
sions. When skipper Of the banker J.
j. Cowell, on the Grand Banks, his cable
was caught by a whale and the vessel
was towed for several hours at lightning
speed, with the bow almost under water.
In spite Of all these little incidents Jor-
dan is still tough and hearty, and fur
nishes interesting newspaper items occa-
sionally. Last fall he was mate of the
schooner Waterloo, was knocked over
board by the boom and was in
the water some time without
any support till the vessel could
about and pick him up. His last
escapade occurred at Rockland. The
crew of the schooner Pearl had a drunken
.carousal during the absence of the cap
tain, and in some way set the vessel on
fire. Jordan was one of the crew, and
with his clothes on fire was on the point
of jumping overheard when he was cap
tured and the fire ~extinguished. He will
be on deck again soon, ready for more
adventures.
IF Cleopatra were alive to-day Says the
New York Evening Sum, the length of
her nose would have little to do in de-
termining her career. Noses, as other
traits in the present advanced state of