Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-05-31
Strange Accidents and Incidents.

Savilian Beebe, of Salem, Conn,
made big haul with his eel spear
few days ago, says the St. Louis
Globe Democrat. Last July. among
the people who sojourned at Essex,
was wealthy Cincinnati family. \
young lady member of this family
went out boat riding one evening and
during the trip she lost valuable
gold bracelet from her arm. The
bracelet was in the form of a gold
chain that fastened with hook. A
few days ago Beebe, who usually
makes about two ceiling trips to the
Connecticut river during the year,
hitched up his horses and drove down.
He worked all day like beaver and
succeeded in getting but one very
small eel. He then ran his knife into
the eel's throat and showed it toward
its tail. When about half way down
the point of the knife struck some
thing that refused to be cut. He
slashed into the eel's middle To his
astonishment a long metal chain, as
bright as if new, lay lengthwise of
the stomach. He showed the chain
to his wife. Mrs. Beebe took the
thing and examined it. On the heel
of the clasp the name of the young
woman who lost the bracelet last
summer was engraved. The circum-
stances of the lost bracelet were known
to the people of Salem, and after
breakfast Savilian hitched up his
horse and headed for Essex, where he
delivered the bracelet to the people
with whom the Cincinnati family
boarded and received the $50 reward.
Strange freaks are played by wind
blown sand in the New Mexico
River valleys and mountain canons.
In the canons one may see cliffs and
natural stone pillars cut into fantas-
tic forms by the natural sand blasts
formed by the winds sucking up and
down these narrow passes. In broad
river valleys, the Rio Grande espe-
cially, great areas of sand hills are
seen tossed up like giant waves of the
sea. These shift their positions slowly,
travelling in the direction Of the pre-
vailing winds, until they scatter on
the plain or encounter some obstruc'
tion, such as a mountain side, against
which they heap. Not only valuable
lands but towns may be buried in this
invading element. Thus along the
Pecos River, at distances from twenty
to forty miles below the town of Eddy,
in southeastern New Mexico, there
are five old deserted pueblos or vii
lagos built by ancient agricultural In
dians which, it is estimated once con-
tanned population Of from 10000 to
$1,000 people. Now the villages are
nearly buried in sand blown from the
hills that bound the valley. Vestiges
of a canal to these towns have been
discovered leading from a canon near
by which once furnished water but Is
now filled with sand.
At Madras, some time ago, valu-
able lion, having incautiously allowed
its tail to stray into an adjoining cage,
the tail was seized by an evil-disposed
leopard, close to the lions body, when
as the lion attempted to escape, almost
the whole of the skin of his tail was
stripped off. This was followed by
such an amount of inflammation that
the lion life was in danger. Surgeon
Major Miller, brother of the late Pro-
fessor Miller, of Edinburg the surgeon
to the Governor of Madras, volun-
teered to perform amputation. The
lion was seized in his cage and his
head covered with cap containing a
considerable quantity of chloroform.
He was then dragged to the edge Of
the cage and the tail passed through
the bars, where DR.. Miller cleverly
performed hi. operation. The animal
made a good recovery.
A fossil curiosity in the shape of a
MAMMOTH tooth was found a few
days ago in West Seattle by Joseph s
Richards. The tooth was found at
the foot of the bluff, not far from the
beach, and was covered with clay at
the time, indicating that it had been
unearthed by the breaking away OF
the hill. The crown of the tooth,
which was of an oval shape, measured
I! inches in its largest diameter, 81
inches in it's smallest diameter and Is
inches in circumference. The poste-
rior edge of the tooth was inches IN
length, the interior edge 6 inches, the
largest circumference % inches and
the weight 9. pounds. 1t is supposed
frop, tho