Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-05-19
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS or
EVERYDAY LIFE.

0uesr Facts and Thrilling Adventures
which Show that Truth 10 Stranger
Than Fiction.
WHILE in Louisville u few days ago.
said Gerald Hastings, traveller for Il
Cincinnati jewelry house, to st.
Louis Globe-Dcmocrat reporter, |
found one OF my customers in great
stew over the loss Of couple of valu.
able diamonds. which, however. he
recovered the next day under peculiar
circumstances. The stones had been
laid on his desk in an envelope with
the end torn of. A commercial ira.
weller had come In and laid his sam
pies out on the desk. When he was
gone and the porter had cleaned up
the office the diamonds were missed.
They must have been knocked on to
the floor. The travelling man was
above suspicion. The porter was
called. lie had swept the Office and
emptied the contents into the dirt
bin. A rush was made for the bin.
fhe street cleaning wagon had taken
away the dirt. Then there was rush
to the dump. 1t was growing dark.
The spot about where the last eight
or ten loads were dumped was mark
ed and a Waterman put to guard the
place. Next day twenty loads Of this
dirt was carted back to the alley in
the rear OF the merchants home and
ten men with sleeves put to work to
search the refuse. The merchant
stood anxiously by. Load after load
was examined without result. and
there was actually but one sieve full
left to search when in 1t the envelope,
dirty and bedraggled, was found. and
in it the precious sparklers. The
men were literally rewarded.
Ar the Bicetre Hospital. in Paris,
Gays the London Daily News. the
well-known surgeon. NJ. Landry, has
performed curious operation on q
workman of Belgian nationality. The
Belgian, 1t appears, got drunk a
short time ago and was taken to the
police station at GENTLY when in n
state Of utter helplessness. While he
vas In the cells another drunkard, a
mechanical engineer named Machant,
vas brought in in a state bordering
On dclirium tremens. Machant was
In terribly excited state, and he at.
tackled his fellow.prisoner with ex.
traordinary ferocity, striking him
and, horrible to relate, biting of both
his ears. When he came to himself
Nachant became very penitent. and
asked to be taken to the bedside OF
his victim, who was now in the Bice.
tire Hospital, In order to ask his for.
Eiveness. DIR. Landry, who was
there, said "Should you like to
give him back his ears?" Certain.
w." said the man. Then" said the
doctor. ''let me cut couple OF small
slips Of flesh from your arm, and II
can be done" The man consented
and the doctor did as he had suggest.
ed. The pieces OF flesh he shaped as
yell as he could to the likeness Of q
pair Of ears, and joined them to the
wounded places. According to the
latest accounts the operation ha:
Been . complete success.
JoHX d. FOWLER Is credited with
being one Of the most truthful mer
I'm Sullivan County, New York, de
spite the fact that he Is a chronic
alderman. lie caught turtle ont
day That weighed 2OO pounds and h,
carried IL to his woodshed, where Il,
tied IL for the night. The creatur,
Was strong enough to break away anC
In the morning was nowhere to b,
found. A few days later while fish
ing John caught this big turtle again
This time John got his catch well II
hand, and, profiting by his forme
lesson. decided not to trust him to thu
woo,ished. 1t was taken to the ba.
and there John secured 1t to post o
the structure with an OK chain
-'There, you old critter," said he
1--WE got you for keeps this time. !
you get away you'll have to take tn
barn with YOU And John went t.
he'd and dreamed Of the neat littl,
sum that would come to him through
the saJe OF the snapper. He was VI
early the next morning and went n
once to the barn. He did't have I,
open the door in entering. He jus
walked in through the gap left by tn
displacement Of the whole side OF tn
structure. The snapper had pulle'
down the east end OF the barn an,
made OIL with the heavy iron chain.
ONE OF the most wonderful produc
lions OF the vegetable kingdom Is tn
''snake nut" Of British Guiana. !
is found growing in great profusiol
in that countryand specimens oft ca
occasionally be purchased through tn
regular curiosity dealers Of our larg
cities. Up to within the past doze
years this vegetable oddly wa
scarcely known to the botanists o
this country and Europe, the frs
specimens Of 1t seen in America be
ing some sent TO Professor War
about twenty years ago, but the,
were not generally found in the cab
inets OF curiosity hunters until som
years later. These wonderful nut
vary in size, some being as large as
big apple Others about the size 81 ii
average walnut. 1ase shape Of til
shell or outside portion Of the nu
gives no hint OF what the kernel
like, for ii is the form OF that part {
the nut which gives II its name.
the nut be cracked and the meat care
fully removed, il will be found to b
miniature boa constructor in ever
detail, the mimic creature appearin
10 be coiled up and asleep. Viii
the nut is unripe this kernel can b