The free press., 1894-08-23
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
SEASONABLE HINTS AND MAT =
TIERS OF MOMENT.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth Is Stranger
Than Fiction.

Than Fiction.
ARIEL BIGwEN. of Carroll County,
Ohio. has a razor hog which he has
trained to run under his buggy like
coach dog. The animal has devel-
oped considerable speed, and can now
hump himself along, and keeps up
with the vehicle when the horse is
going at 10 gait.
ABOUT four miles outside the City
of Mexico, a large hairy spider was
discovered, which had on one of its
legs a gold ring with the initials q,
Y. to j. j. The ring would fit the
finger of two-months-old child. The
ring appeared to retard the spider,
movements considerably.
CoLUMBIANA COUNTY, Ohio, is once
more to the front, and this time with
a maltese cat that clucks like set
ting hen. The chicks in the barn
yard are so completely deceived that
the cluck will bring them running in
an instant. One of the sober old
roosters sQuawks like mad and flaps
his wings whenever the cat makes
the unnatural sound.
A YOUNG woman IN Dion, France,
lost her upper lip in railway accl-
dent, and a skillful surgeon sue cess
fully grated strips of skin from a
man face. The patient is much NOR
titled because mustache has made
its appearance. She could withstand
this if the hair didn't tickle her nose
and cause her to sneeze. This has
ruined her complexion absolutely.
MAHLoN GRIMES, of Gardiner, Me-,
never saw an elephant until last sum-
mer. He was so astonished at the
manner in which the animal control
led his trunk that his lower jaw
dropped and was dislocated. 1t cost
Grimes So to get his face fixed, and
when he found he had been robbed Of
his grandfather silver watch, he
said he didn't think heap of ele-
plants anyway.
SOMETHING new is the i3ea of TAX
ing carrier pigeon with you when
you start for Europe, and letting it
loose with message far out at sea,
to be carried back to some loved one.
There is woman in Philadelphia
with a loft of carrier pigeons, who
loans the birds for this purpose. A
few days ago DR.. T. II. Andrews. of
the Bryn Mawr Hotel got message
at noon attached to carrier pigeon
which had been written by friend
$50 miles out at sea early the same
morning.
ISAAC Hoop, colored, sixty-eight
years old, of Philadelphia, laughed so
heartily at an alleged joke that he
dislocated his jaw He was sent to
the Pennsylvania Hospital, where the
doctors, after much difficulty, put
the bone back in its place. Hood,
who is generally known by the soubr-
quet of Pop" is a good-natured old
man, and when Sam Johnson came
along and said something funny Pop
started to laugh and could not stop
until his jaw bone got out of place.
At the hospital Pop told the doctors
he could not remember exactly what
the Joke was, but said that it was
mighty funny anyhow.
THE sting of honey bee resulted
in the sudden death of James
d. Godshalk, leading business man
of Lansdale, Penn. Several days ago
he was extracting honey from hive,
when pugnacious little bee lighted
upon his chin and sank his poison
laden weapon through the skin. God
shalk at once suffered the most in
tense pain. He had often been stung
in handling bees, but had never ex-
perienced such agony before. He
applied a few simple remedies, such
as all agriculturists know of, and
then went to physician. The doc
tor said the bees fang had penetra-
ted the pneumogastric nerve, and
that the heart and lungs were greatly
affected by the poison. Godshalk
grew worse all the while, suffering
the most intense pain. Medicine
failed to relieve him, and he died in
a few days.
AN attendant at the Rome On. Y.)
State Custodial Asylum a day or two
ago found hen with singular mater
nal tastes. The hen had shown
great prediction to sit, and was
finally found on nest in the barn.
The attendant took her out of the
nest, and was amazed to find that she
had been sitting on five wee kittens.
The hen evinced so strong an affec-
tion for her queer family that it was
almost impossible to keep her away
from the nest. In spite of the pains
taken she was back on the nest again
the next day, but all except one of
the kittens had been taken away. 1t
is supposed that she came across the
kittens in their home and, after
driving the mother away, adopted
them as her own, and that when she
was taken off the nest the old cat
carried all but one Of her kittens
away.