Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-03-01

printed ElUnouC the names ~ tne
writers, has made genuine sensAs
ton. Two chapters have been de-
voted to tentative offers Of marriage
from scions OF British nobility.
AN extraordinary story comes from
Caboolture, Australia, where the
facts are said to be vouched for by q
minister of religion. The statement
is that girl OF eleven years old has
for some months past been regularly
pulling out a large number Of splint-
ers Of wood from her body. The
number thus extracted so far is said
to be 1000, sometimes as many as
sixty splinters day being pulled
out, ranging up to two inches in
length. Their extraction causes the
girl no pain, and no theory as to their
origin has yet been originated.
A. X. KLAM, Of Reading, Penn. has
had his nose cut of, but not to spite
his face, rather to benefit it. He is
said to be a handsome young man,
but unhappily was afflicted with a
nose so big that it quite spoiled his
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continual remarks, both from his
friends and enemies. He went at last
to surgeon to have the redundancy
of nose removed. The operation was
successfully performed, and to-day
Mr.. Klam is happy in the pos session
of a nose which is straight, comedy
and of moderate proportions.
A CURIOUS fatality seems to have
attached itself to the family of Cap
tain Wilson, the African fighter. All
the members of It that have died
have been the victims of acct
dent or violence, except his mother,
who few weeks ago succumbed to
an attack Of paralysis. The hus-
bands of two of Captain Wilson's Sis
tiers were drowned, as were two BROTH
ers in South Africa. There remains
now the eldest son, DR.. George Will
son, a pioneer of sanitary science and
a lover of fox-hunting.
A BEGGAR at Pesth, Hungary, who
was arrested for throwing himself
into the river with intentions of COM
hitting suicide, was discharged after
telling his remarkable story. He
was an aged and shriveled specimen
of humanity, with long, patriarchal
beard, and acknowledged that he was
past ninety-four years of age. His
excuse for attempting to take his
own life was that he was no longer
able to take care of his father and
mother, who were aged 125 and 120
years respectively.
THERE lives one mile south Of
huntsville, Va, a colored woman
eighty-three years old, whose name is
Levina Bayler. Years ago she lost her
teeth, but is now cutting another set.
Some months ago her gums became
very sore, and now two teeth have
made their appearance, and several
more are nearly in sight, The old
woman is much pleased with her new
teeth, and expressed much delight to
your correspondent at so soon being
able to "chaw hard ag'in.'
CAPTAIN PIERCE THOMPSON, of
Southport, Me-, made his first voyage
when ten years old, commanded his
vessel at eighteen, and is still follow
ing the sea at seventy-four. His son
sails with him as mate. Captain
Thompson is devout Methodist and
has prayers on shipboard every day,
and full religious services on Sunday.
He was never wrecked, never lost a
man and laughs at the idea of turn
ing landlubber and retiring from sea-
faring life.
Rev. JOHN A. BURK, of Baltimore,
recently received a barrel of oysters
from Reedville, Northampton County,
Va. Upon opening one of the shells,
the two parts of which were joined as
if they held an oyster, live fish two
and one-half inches long fell from the
shell and began to wriggle. The fish
was put in water and is still alive.
There was no oyster in the shell, the
fish being the sole occupant.
AT the great Italian Penitentiary
of Porto Allegro, in Sardinia, there
has just died an old convict named
Giuseppe Ramas. who was sentenced
to penal servitude for life more than
thirty years ago for selling sausages
made of human flesh. During the
course of his trial the grewsome fact
was brought to light that he had
assassinated no less than sixteen
persons for this object.
FARMER George Lee died at Madi-
son, Ind, recently, from the effects
of peculiar accident. He was stoop-
ing to milk his COW, his head resting
against her flank, when she gave a
sudden lurch which thrust his head
downward, bending him almost dou-
BILE, dislocating his spine and para
Lying his body from his hips down.
He leaves a wife and three chill
| dren.
II. TALBOT, who is only a young
fellow, had one of his heels cut of at
the Victor mine in Missouri by a
walking beam of the pumps; leg
broken in the crusher at Rising Sun;
same leg rebroken at the ice plant !;
an eye put out at the Spencer & Nc
Coney mine by the explosion of a
cap, and got general bruises by drop
ping into 30-foot shaft.
THE luck OF the Rev. Mr.. Scarrow,
OF Russell, Kan, runs to funerals.
Within ono vaak he hold aaryicas for