St. Landry democrat., 1894-02-10
SOMEWHAT STRANGE
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.

Queer Facts and Thrilling. Adven
lures which Show That Truth il
Stranger Than Fiction.
A MASTER thief Of Tccumseh, Mich
took his degree when he luggcd off
| beehive with its thousands of inhabit
| ants.
ANDREW CARTEN, a Texan veteran
| after carrying IA Mimic ball around il
| his head 20 years, now carries it in his
| pocket 1t seems to be lasting attach
| ment.
IT is only the poorest classes in Chin;
who cat the flesh of old and tough dray
| horses. The wcll-tO-dO feast on the meat
of a special breed Of horscs-small, deli
! cate, and specially fattened for the mar
kct.
J. Q. A. PATTERSON, of San Francisco
| builds houses in odd moments out OF
business hours He has built fourteen,
all without any assistance whatever,
acting by turn as mason, carpenter and
painter.
A LLANELLy preacher recently injured
his nose and hastily stuck a piece of
paper on the wound before entering the
pulpit. Wien he came down to close
range after service it was found that the
paper was from the end of spool and
bore the legend 900 yards long,
FHLIPPE MARGANIs, the most famous
brigand of modern Greece, WHO recently
surrendered to the police, did so at the
requt st of his wife. The latter wIote
and told him that she was threatened
with imprisonment, and to save her and
her children she begged that he abandon
his evil life and submit to the auth ri
ties. Mar4aniS. who was thrifty, QuixD-
tic and politician, will be treated very
leniently by the Greek authorities.
SOMEBODY curious in such little things
has discovered that the letter n has IL
place somewhere in tie name of each Of
the Presidents Of the United States cX-
cept Zachary Taylor Rutherford b
Hayes and Jane; A. Garfield (omitting
Nice-Prcsidcnts who sue 'ccdcu to tie
Presidency. THIS industrious person
devolves no advantage til relrom, except
the possible slight encouragement af-
forded to the small American boy, a
natural born citizen, who has an \ in his
name.
LIEUT.. c. L. COLLINS, Inspector of
Small Arms Practice in the Department
of the Colorado, says in his annual re-
port that the competitions in target
shooting have shown that men with
light blue eyes tank highest, followed in
their order by dark blue, slate blue,
light brown, dark brown and black In
the colored troops light blue eyes again
stand at The top. How large proper
ton Of the color"d troops have light blue
eyes is not stated in the published alb
stract of his report. Tall men shoot
more accurately chan shot men.
A sETrLrR named Lewis, living in
cabin on Il tributary of the Mckenzie, near
Eugene, Ore, who had long been m ssing
from his home, turned up at a settlement
a few miles from his cabin last week, al
most dead, and with his mind sadly i'm
paired from the terrible experience of be
ing for two months lost in the forest
covered Mountains of that region. He |
had nothing with him hut his rifle and
buX If Matches With the one b. Sc
cured game for his b istence-drcr,
elk and bt ar-and wi h the other built |
fires for warmth. Part of the time he !
was in snow scv. raj feet deep, with no |
shelter and but little clothing
THE African Steamship Company's |
steamer Winnebah. which has Just ar
rived from West Africa at Liverpool.
had most unusual experience when
steaning between the attitudes o. Care
Verde and St. Louis, Senegal For sixty
miles the vessel steamed through locusts,
which were so closely packed together
on the top of the water that they COM
plctcly covered the surface for miles
around; indeed, they appeared to be ly-
ng on the sea as far as the eye could
each. The locustS had, no doubt, been
blown from the Morocco coast into the
lea. They resembed gigantic grasshop.
oers, and one which was secured was five
inches in length. OF course, all the To-
GUSTS had been drowned.
JANIToR EASTMAN, of the new school
house in Perryvilc, Me-, says that while
he pupils were at play in the yard the
,thcr day he looked out of the window
md saw number of them gathered
around little girl. Their actions indi-
.ated alarm and he went out to see what
he trouble was. He found the child to
,c sound asleep, while yet standing upon
Ter feet. Janitor Eastman took the girl ;
n his arms and carried her into one of
he teachers private rooms and fixed I'D
Ted and pillow for her out of shawls and {
arious kinds Of wraps. Here she re t
NAMED for over an hour, sleeping as
oundly and as peacefully as though in s
er more comfortable bed at home. After t
er nap she appeared refreshed and Was t
a9er for play again.
PHOTOGRAPHY played an Important {
art in suit at Cincinnati The suit is t
ne of local standing, involving the S
tie of 200 acres Of valuable farm |
lnds. 1t is based on deed made t
early seventy-fve years ago by the I
wners Of the land, and turns on the |
oint whether the deed had five sigma q
Tres Or only four. In order to test this t
uestion it was decided to have the deed Il
and the clerk of the f
)urt was ordered to give the matter his c
ersonal supervision. For that purpose G
was taken to Washington aud sub
tilted to an expert photographer of that
ty. The original deed, discolored and
'llow with age, showed traces of four g.
gnatures and space where there {,
light have been fifth, but ss44-+.pa @-A--s- e
The photographing was done in the :,
essence of the clerk of the clerk of the =