Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-11-03
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
sEAs0NAele HINTS AND MAT.
TIERS OF MOMENT.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth 10 Stranger
Than Fiction.

Than Fiction.
BEING a peer Of England is not. it
seems, an unhealthy heritage. Fiji
teen Of the lords have died within
year, it is true: but ten Of them are
over the allotted three score years
and ten, and four OF them were over
eighty. Evidently high life and long
lfe favor each other.
KENTUCKY raises lot of big things.
but the biggest we have heard of
lately are the two daughters of far
mer living in the Big sandy Valley.
The oldest girl, who is IL, weighs 40
pounds. and measures six feet around
the waist. The youngest daughter
is 7,weighs 17o pounds, and measures
four and half feet around the waist.
JOHN WALTON, farmer living
north Of Guthrie, Okla, came to
town with a load Of wheat and got
drunk on the proceeds. He started
home with a bottle Of carbolic acid In
his hip pocket. fell out of the wagon
and broke the bottle. and when
found the acid had eaten into his
body so badly that he was fatally in
jured.
THE Society Of Psychical Research,
Of London, has issued Census Of
Spooks." Out of IL 900 persons that
were asked II they had ever seen u
ghost, 1,6Si answered that they had.
Mr.. Balfour, of the House of Com
mons, is great ghost hunter and
he makes an earnest appeal to scien-
titic men to drop their "bigoted in
tolerence" and face the mass of
strange phenomena that the society
have reported.
ATRAMp sneaked into the Barton
winery in Fresno, Cal, the other
day, secured n demi John and under
took to take the bung out of II
3,400.gallon cask of wine while the
men were ut lunch. The force
OF the wine rs 1t issued out
knocked him down and soaked him
from head to foot. Fully LOCO gall
Ions Of wine were wasted before the
bung was replaced by the men. The
wine was valued ut ~, 900.
GEORGE LARRIMoRE, a colored man.
In his eighty.seventh year, and man
ager Of u restaurant adjoining the
city market at Tallahassee, Fla, had
rather novel experience on recent
Saturday. About 3 o'clock in the
afternoon he took OIL his shoes to rest
his feet. In taking Off his right shoe
he discovered something in 1t. Upon
examination it proved to be Il snake,
mashed as Hat rs u pancake, and 1t
was q genuine rattler, about thirteen
inches long, but too dead to wriggle.
THE flash of lightning which re-
Gently struck the new palace OF. Pots
dam, Germany, may be congratulate
cd on u measure of tact and consid-
Grafton seldom seen In connection
with the electric fluid Having
greatly endangered the safety Of the
royal building, the current instantly
hurried along the telegraph wires to
the fire alarm and set the bells ring
ing. Thereupon the palace tiremen
and the town brigade OF Potsdam
were quickly upon the spot, and the
fire was nipped in tho bud.
A BACHELOR OF Music, writing to
the Lancet, from experiments upon
the voice in which he reversed the
usual order and developed the "falset.
to" notes downward, has reached the
conclusion that all male singers and
speakers have been producing their
voices wrongly, that the proper me-
chanism for the voice in singing Is
that used in uttering ''falsetto"
notes, and that the "falsetto' Is all
shat remains OF the rightly produced
voice s.tSy years Of wrong produc.
ton.
The other night brakeman on q
freight car on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road had an unpleasant experience
on his train Mt point near Frazer.
Atthat place a tramp came hurrying
to him across the top OF the cars,
and, telling him that he was subject
to epileptic fits and that he was
about to have. one, sank down and
began writhing violently. Brakeman
Homer took hold of him and
was tightly clutched by the man and
for several miles 1t was with the
greatest effort that Horner prevent
ed the sufferer from falling from the
car and pulling him along. When the
Aluu TtCONcEcu nc Sulu lie WuB Ou ul6
way to the far west.
THE Two Republics (MexicO) notes
the erection onthasummit OF Mount
Orizaha, or, as the Mexicans call it,
Citlaltepetl (Star Mountain), Of an
iron cross seven yards high in place
OF the wooden one, erected there a
long while ago. The Two Republics
asserts that this cross Is the highest
one in America. 1t has been suppos-
ed. ii says, that the volcano Nistes,
in Guatemala, was higher than ORR
zaba, but recent measurements make
1t appear that the latter mountain Is
the highest one north on the Isthmus
OF Panama, and it Is the highest on
the western continent on which a
cross has been erected. Probably it
10 the highest one in the world.
A MEETING OF cattlemen was held
recently In Jackson Co., $. d., to dis.
cuss the matter OF Kidding ranges OF
the numberless wolves which now in