St. Landry democrat., 1894-02-24
SOMEWHAT STRANGE,
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
lures which Show That Truth is
Stranger Than Fiction.

lures which Show Ghat Truth
Stranger Than Fiction.
ONE of the most remarkable AMI pu2
ZllnG stories Of somuamDuism has re
Gently come to light. The subject WA
a young ccc'csiHstc at a seminary. Til
bishop Of the diocese was SO ,cypI
Interested that he went nightly to til
young mans chamber. He saw lim re
out Of bed, secure paper compose an,
write sermons. On finishing page h,
read it aloud. When word iii pleu~e,
HIM he wrote a correction with grra
cxactness. The bishop had seen be
ginning OF some Of these SomnumbuIjstiC
sermons, and thought them we'll com
posed and correctly written, CUriou> tC
! ascertain whether the Young man ,l>cl
his eyes, the bishop put a card unicr hi
! fhln III SUCH MANNER aI to prevent hin
seeing the paper on the table before
: HIM, but he still continued to WRITE Not
! yet satisfied whether or not he cOuiI dis
! tnyu,h different objects pl ,ced before
him, the bishop took away the piece of
| paper on which he wrote and substituted
/
lie always perceived the change because
tie pieces Of paper were of different sizes.
" hen piece of paper exactly like his
own was substituted he used it, and
wrote his corrections on the places cor
responding to those OF his own paper.
1t was by this means that portions of his
nocturnal compositions were obtained.
His most astonishing production was Il
piece OF music written with great eNacti-
tudc. He used a can" for Il ruler. The
clcfs, the flats and the >harps were all
in their right places. The notes were
all madcas circles, and those requiring it
were atterwarl blackenri with ink.
The words were all written below, but
once they We're in such large character.
that they did not come directly below
their proper notes, and pvrcciving this
he erased them all and wrote them over
again.
BANK notes have curious histories at
tackled to them in the way of human
comedy, tragedy and melOdrama, saws
the New York Home Journal A rolIrc-
tor at Paris Of such curipsitics rot hold
some Years ago, Of q g. Bank of England
note which had somewhat of tra2ic in
tcrcSt connected with it. Some sixty
odd years ago the cashier of u Liverpool
merchant had received in tender for a
business payment Bank Of England
note which he held up to the scrutiny
Of the light, SO as to make sure of its
genuin, ness. He observed some purti-
ally lndistnct red marks or words traced
out on tie front Of the note beside tho
lettering and on the margin Curiosity
tempted him to try TO decipher the words
50 inscribed With great difficulty 80
talntly written were they and so much
o5literatcd, the words were found to
form the following sentence: If this
note should fall into the hands of John
Dean, of Longhill, near Carlisle, he will
learn hereby that his brother is lanyuish-
lng prisoner at A Algiers' Mr. Dean,
on beng shown the note, last no time in
asking the government of the Dew to
make intcrvession for his brothers free
dom. 1t Itappca1e4 that for eleven loug
years the latter had been slave to the |
Dey Of Alyiers, and that his family and |
relatives believed him to be dead With |
a piece Of wood he had traced in his own |
blood on the bank note tn" message
which WAS to procure his release. The |
government aided the efforts of his |
brother to set him free. this beng accom-
pll>hed on payment Of ransom to the |
Dcy. Unfortunately the captive did not |
long enjoy his liberty, his Lodily suffer
ings while working as slave in Algiers
having undermined his constitution.
a WRITER Of thrilling stories of ad
venture for boys wou d tnd a plot
ready to his hand in the charges brought
against two Frenchmen named Roriqllc,
brothers, who are at present awaiting
their trial al Brest. According to the
case for the prosecution, these men are
latter day pirates Ola particularly daring
description. On December 10, 1891 the
French schooner Ninroahiti, trading
with Tahiti, left that place under the
of native skipper named
Tehac Tara. The first mate was
Joseph Roriquc, one Of the accused, and
he crew consisted of an Englishman
named William Gibson, who was the
upercargo, four natives, and II half
,aste, who acted as cook The vessel
arricd 40, 600 francs worth of goods. to
)e exchanged in some South Sea islands
or mother,of pearl and other products.
vt one of these out-of-thc c-way ports
Joseph Roriques brother, Alexander, {
anne on board, and the two thon planned ]
he mutiny. The Captain and the
Inglishman were shot, and the crew, all
nut the cook, were killed by means of t
'olsopcd food; whereupon the brothers
ook command of the vessel, painted out i
he name, substituting that of "Lc Roi." {
nd making a descent on little island, t
orccd some of the inhabitants to come t
nd man the ship. Possibly they might s
ave remained undiscovered, but for the /
lct that some time afterward they i
lrcatened to kill the half-castc, who
lereupon went and gave information to ,
le authorities of one of the Caroline :.
;lands
A CHILD has been born at Birmine- G
Am, England, which bears a strong re- !
emblance to frog. Its skin is warty a
I'd Geld and clammy to the touch. Il
! hen it cries it is said to make an un- /
lrthly squeaking noise, sounding much c
ore like the croakjng of frog than c
lie crying of a child. Its form in gen h
al, AS well as: the contour of its limbs c
ssts , srs.si(nus Ra i its eyes, also sug-
t.. IT, - 80 "s na srachia- 44- 95I
II ,E5TT*s n! zach hand and four toes