The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-10-18
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
SEASONABLE HINTS AND MAT
TIERS OF MOMENT
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show hat Truth is Stranger
Than Fiction.

Which Show tn at Truth is Stranger
| Than Fiction.
A FARMER living about ten miles
from Wauseon, Ohio, the other day
went to town and had policy on
| his barn issued to him. The locomo-
| tive that took him home set fire to
the structure he had just insured.
THOMAS H. HOOP. known as the
"Hoosier Blue Man." died the other
day in Jefferson, Ind. His skin was
as blue as an indigo ba5. The false
complexion was brought on many
years ago by taking large doses OF nj
trate of silver as a cure for epilepsy.
He was cured of the malady, but the
remedy turned his skin blue.
EUGENE DICKSON swallowed a green
fly at ST. Louis, Mo-, the other after
noon and died next day. He was
playing in the kitchen, and, laughing
heartily at some incident which had
happened, swallowed the fly. About
an hour afterward he became so ill
that it was necessary to call a physi-
clan. Notwithstanding the efforts
of the medical attendant the child
grew worse very rapidly and died in
terrible agony.
SOME amateur theatricals at Lee
Summit, Mo-, the other evening end
ed in real tragedy. A local COM
pany was playing Il melodrama to the
great delight of the assembled citi-
zens, when the detective in the play,
in effecting the arrest of the heavy
villain, pointed revolver at him and
pulled the trigger. 1t was a "didn t.
know-it-was- loaded case, and the
unfortunate villain, p. Letherman,
popular young gentleman of the
town, fell to the floor with bullet in
his brain.
THE Jenkins family, who reside at
Leesville, Ohio, are in possession OF
a cat which has three distinct eyes.
The animal is near a year old and
great pct People visit the jenkins
home daily out of curiosity, and the
cat is the centre of attraction. The
two eyes are in their usual places,
but the additional one is directly
back of the cats left ear. The cat
has perfect use of the three organs
and blinks all at once. The cat is
invaluable as mouse catcher, for it
can see before and in the rear at the
same time.
A MOST remarkable and unusual
meeting of sisters and brothers oc-
CURED at the dry goods store of w.
d. Oldham & Co., in Kentucky. A
Mrs. Rhodus, from Paint Lick, Gar
rard county, came into the store and
there met her two brothers, William
and Joseph Sans, whom she had not
met in eighteen years. When girl
she married and moved to Garrard,
and had never been back since. The
remarkable part of the story is that
she lives at Paint Lick and her BROTH
ers at Waco, q distance of only six
teen miles. There has never been
any unkind feeling between the men
and the sister, but fate had SO ordain-
ed it that they had never met until
recently.
MoRGANTowN, N. c., thinks that it
has one of the characteristics of the
celestial city. 1t has streets Of gold.
The other day Mr.. Hinton was
crossing Union street in that town
when something glittering struck his
eye. He pick it up and found it to
be lump of yellow metal of irregu-
lar shape. He took it to jeweller,
who pronounced it to be nugget of
almost pure gold worth several dol
lars. The streets Of Morgantown
were macadamized with stone from
placer gold mines just outside the
city limits. The mines were worked
in so crude fashion that it is be-
lieved by many that they still con-
tain valuable deposits of gold though
Mr.. Hinton is the first to strike it
rich on the street.
FIFTEEN young ladies from Vienna
comprising ladies Of English birth,
American, Prussian and Tyrolese
nationality, arranged recently to
walk from Vienna to Dresden, dis
lance Of $50 miles. Only one Of these
ladies was married. The dress agreed
upon was light gray silk, broad
brimmed straw hat, sight protectors,
knapsack with % pounds of pro-
visions, revolver and waterproof
caps. After five days walking the
small town Of Gmund was reached,
but the lady tourists were in q rather
bad state, nine declaring they could
walk no further on account of the
heat, the heavy knapsack and un-
suitable boots. AS the others did
not care to proceed any further
alone, the whole party made up their
minds to go to Berlin by rail.
ONE day last month red-tailed
hawk caught little chicken on
Farmer Riley Pearce's place in Ben
ton, Conn. The mother of the chicken
was tied to a peg in the ground with a
few feet of clothes line, and she
pitched upon the hawk and gave bat
tie to it till Mrs. Pearce dashed out
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