Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-09-15
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
INTERESTING NOTES AND MAT.
TEAS or MOMENT.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth 10 Stranger

Which Show that Truth 10 Stranger ,
Than Fiction.
THE South American method Of
killing bass with blow gun Is being
tried with fair success by pothunt-
ing fisherman in the Potomac River
near Washington.
THE children born in Gibraltar rest
under the belief (until they reach
a reasoning age) that the sun sets
every night with u bang. This Is be.
cause they have become accustomed
to hearing the sunset gun.
In Paris the bones of the dead
have been removed year after year
from the cemeteries to the cata-
combs, until the number of skele-
tons assembled, more or less com.
plete, amounts to G,OOO,OOO.
THERE are numerous cases on rec.
ord Of spontaneous combustion OF
the human body. In all such cases (
the victims have been such slaves to
the liquor habit that their systems
have become permeat" I'd with alcohol.
A CURIOUS feature OF the various
eholera epidcmics which swept over |
Europe Is the fact that in every one |
the mortality ut Rome and Madrid |
was greatest on Sundays, Mt London
and Berlin on Wednesdays, and ut
Paris on SATURDAYS.
THOMAS FLANAGAN, Of Elwood,
Ind, has in his possession n full
grown rooster that Is freak Of ma
ture. 1t has two sets OF legs and
feet fully developed and while two
only are used in walking. the others
90 through all the movements Incl
dent thereto. They are situated be-
hind the others and ut the knee
Joints bend in the opposite direction.
THE man who first remarked that
Glove will find u way" must have
Ind n prophetic knowledge Of the
case of Private George Walker and
Miss Julia Coleman. lie was put on
guard duty on the Panhandle trucks
when the hour set for his marriage
approached, and, as he could not
procure a furlough, he sent for Miss
Coleman and u minister, and the
wedding took place on the railroad
where he was doing duty.
TIE oldest Of all birds nests Is
the one built by the tontobane, u
South African songstcr. 1t Is built
of cotton, and always upon tho tree
producing the material. In con-
structing the domicile the female
works inside and the male outside,
where he builds sentinel box for his
own special use. He sits In the box
and keeps watch or sings nearly oil
the time, and when danger comes In
the form of hawk or II snake he
warns the family, but never enters
the main nest.
An electrical storm In st. Louis
recently deprived many aquariums,
both In residences and show windows,
Of their silver and gold fish. Thun.
der and lightning Is judged by old
fishermen and proprictors OF animal
stores to be the cause OF the death OF
the fish, which IRE found floating on
their backs for several mornings
after an electric storm. A st. Louis
electrician gives It us his opinion
that the conclusion OF the thunder
breaks the air chambers which by
compression cause the fish to sink
and by expansion to rise to the sur
face.
SOME remarkable instances OF alb
sencc of mind in great men are to bt
found in collections OF ana. a
Dutchman seems to have surpassed
anything OF the kind yet pcrpetrated
He Is n widower, and he presented
himself day or two ago ut the Reg
istcr's In Il little village near Amster
dam to give notice OF his INTENDED
marriage. On being asked the nam
Of the bride, however, he declared
that he could not remember 1t, ant
he had to be sent away In order thu
he might get the desired inforna
ton.
THAT OF the sea otter Is OF all fur
the most valuable, as high rs vi 10
having been paid for single skin
At the latest London fur sale vi 90
was paid, the lower price being du
to u poorer quality, us the averas
advance In price this year has bee
about Is per cent. This seems n
extremely large sum to pay for
skin not more than two yards lon
by three-quarters Of yard Wild
Russians, however, consider thu
$3.50 Is not an extraordinary price t
pay for Il piece sufficiently large I
make coat collar, for which I'll
skin Of the sea otter Is used, as 1t
supposed to have the property ofpr
venting the breath from freezing.
Two living German princes hay
distinguished themselves by becon
ing practicing physicians--Duke Ia
Theodor, Of the royal house OF 81
varia, having completed course
study, has made u speciality OF ey
diseases as they occur among Il
poor and in April, 1903, successful
performed his two thousandth oper
ton for cataract Prince Louis Fero
nand, his cousin, besides being g
gagged in practice, works in the labo
atory, and has recently made u
etiology and pathology OF pleurisy o
iects OF special clinical and bacteri
logical studies. He has lately pu
lished u monograph concernil
twenty-three patients suffering fro
pleuritis who came under his obs'
walton.
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