Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-08-25
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ABEL BtawEx, Of Carroll County,
Ohio, has 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 ut o 4.15 gait.
ABOUT four miles outside the City
Of Mexico, a large hairy spider was
discovered, which had on one OF Its
legs o gold ring with the initials q,
Y. to j. j. The ring would ft the
finger Of two.months.old child. The
ring appeared to retard the spiders
movements considerably.
CoLUMBIANA COUNTY, Ohio, is once
more to the front, and this time with
maltese cat that clucks like q 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
ROSTERS 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 a railway acci-
dent, and q skillful surgeon sue cess.
fully grated strips Of skin from q
mans face. The patient Is much NOR.
tilted because o mustache has made
its appearance. She could withstand
this II the hair didn't tickle her nose
and cause her to sneeze. This has
ruined her complexion absolutely.
MAHIoN GRIMES, OF Gardiner, Me-,
never saw an elephant until last sum.
mer. He was SO astonished ut the
manner in which the animal control.
led his trunk that his lower Jaw
dropped and was dislocated. It cost
Grimes ~ to get his face fixed, and
when he found he had been robbed OF
his grandfather's silver watch, he
said he didn't think heap Of ele-
plants anyway.
SOMETHING new Is the idea OF tax.
ing carrier pigeon with you when
you start for Europe, and letting 1t
loose with message far out ut sea,
to be carried back to some loved one.
There Is q woman In Philadelphia
with q loft Of carrier pigeons, who
loans the birds for this purpose. A
few days ago DIR. 7. II. Andrews. OF
the Bryn Mawr Hotel, got message
at noon attached to q carrier pigeon
which had been written by q friend
$50 miles out ut seq early the same
morning.
isaac HOOP, colored, sixty.eight
years old, Of Philadelphia, laughed 80
heartily ut IN alleged joke that he
disloeated his jaw. He was sent to
the Pennsylvania Hospital, where the
doctors, utter much difficulty, put
the bono back In Its place. Hood,
who Is generally known by the soubri.
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 1t was
mighty funny anyhow.
The sting Of honey bee resulted
In tho sudden death OF James
d. Godshalk, u leading business man
OF Lansdale, Penn. Several days age
he was extracting honey from a hive,
when pugnacious little bee lighted
upon his chin and sank his poison.
laden weapon through the skin. God
shalk ut once suffered tho most In.
tense pain. He had often been stunl
In handling bees, but had never ex.
perienced such agony before. He
applied o few simple remedies, such
as oil agrlculturists know Of, and
then went to q physician. The doc.
tor said the bees fang had penetra.
ted the pneumogastrlc nerve, and
that the heart and lungs were greatly
affected by the poison. GodshalI
grew worse oil the while, suffering
the most intense pain. Medicine
failed to relieve him, and he died In
Q few days.
An attendant at the Rome IN. Y,
State Custodial Asylum q day or two
ago found o hen with singular mater
nal tastes. The hen had shown o
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.
Tho hen evinced 50 strong an afiec.
ton for her queer family that 1t 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
tho 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 OIL the nest the old cat
carried all but one OF her kittens
away.
THERE is bright young boy IN
Chicago who has struck out an en-
tircly new line OF business for him.
self, and Is said to be making a COM
Portable living out of 1t. HIS occu-
patton Is securing seats for ladies In
street cars Mt the crowded corner OF
State and Madison streets. The
thoroughfaIe Is always crowded there
during the daylight hours, and more
people board the cars than they will
hold, and many always have to stand,
Women have their rights in Chicago,
the right, ut least, to stand up, Il