Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-03-17
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS or
EVERYDAY LIFE.

EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Faets and Thrilling Advsn.
lures which Show that Truth 10
Stranger Than Fiction.
THOMPSON CAMPBELL OF Butte,
Mont, has five sapphires taken from
the gizzard Of Montana turkey. The
sapphires IRE all of good size and one
of them weighs about two karats.
GOVERNOR PETER TURNEY, Of Ten.
nessec, though seventy years Of age,
Is still an enthusiastic deer and fox
hunter. Uncle" Tim Dyer, Of vinal
Haven, Me-, has just celebrated his
ninetieth birthday by taking alone
and unaided, fishing in an open dory,
a halibut weighing 832 pounds. J.
q. Rich, OF Bethel, Me-, who Is now
seventy-three years Of age, has rec
ord Of having killed seventy-three
bears. It IL evident that the Ameri-
car Nestor can do something besides
talk.
One Of the most striking phenome.
ma of the Adirondack region Is the
carrying power Of the human voice in
still weather upon the lakes great and
small. Persons ashore easily hear
the ordinary conversation of others
who IRE so far out upon the lake as to
be undistinguishablc and as q great
many Adirondack visitors habitually
violate the law touching the slaughter
! of deer, all such offenders are extreme
ly careful not even to whisper word
that might betrny their guilt when
rowing upon the lakes.
A MOST remarkable case, and mi.
raculous as well is reported by Mr..
A. J. Jickery, who lives about three
miles from Hartwcll, Ga. Mrs. Ant.
witch, the wife Of German laborer
living on Mr.. Vickery's place, was
stricken with severe illness about
twelve years ago, which totally de.
prived her OF the power of speech, In
which condition she remained until
the night Of the cyclone last summer
when the house in which they lived
was blown down, some Of the timber
falling on her. She was then heard
to utter some inaudible sound, and
about the LIST Of December last she
suddenly and wholly regained her vo
cal powers, and can now talk rs wei
us she ever did. Mrs. Antvitch Is be
tween fifty and sixty years OF age
This might be an interesting case To-
the medical profession.
A STRANGE freak OF nature was dis
covered here near Reading the othe
afternoon. While Swoyer and ID,
Long were snwinAa white oak log
which they procured from the farm
Of George >. Sell, n farmer OF Maxa
tawny township, near Bowers Station
their circular saw, which IL five fee,
six inches In diameter, struck piec,
Of quartz which tore every tooth on
Of the big saw. The stone was 81.
inches in diameter, and embedded II
the trunk thirty feet from the grount
and inside the solid wood. There 1
considerable speculation as to hoy
the stone got into the trunk OF tn
tree. There Is no quartz within
mile from the place where the ire
stood. II must have been there 70
. over two hundred years, as the tree
| 1t Is believed, was several centurie
! old. The tree was one OF the YER
largest in that section.
A GERMAN resident OF New Yor
saved $20S the other day by cremat
ing his fathers body before shippin
1t to Europe for intcrment ut hi
native place. The cost of shipping
, corpse Is $500, and the STEAMSHIP
, companies IRE anything but anxlou
. to take them ut that. The agents G
the companies take the horrors ut tn
offer OF such freight, and some OF tn
seamen IRE sure to desert II they &c
the slightest inkling Of the fact tina
, dead man Is to sail with them
Z They have superstition that disas
ter Is sure to overtake vessel thu
D carries corpse. When the shippe
. told the agent that he wanted to sen
. his fathers body to Germany he fel
very uncomfortable, but when he 50,
the small box, which contained tn
remains, and learned that the bod
4 had been reduced to ashes, he fel
9 better, and charged but ~, instea
' Of $500.
. THE big four.masted ship Lucipara
which sails from Glasgow, recent
made q voyage from Sharpness t
} Sydney, New South Wales. Will
. sailing along between the Cape O
:. Good Hope and Australia the shi
{ ran into u hurricane, or was over
taken by one, about midnight. Sud
denly the sea, which had been dan
! gerously high, became calm, and t.
those on the ship 1t seemed as II tn
: surface of the ocean had been sub
jccted to an enormous pressure, b.
. which the waves We're stilled. With
out warming the men were almos
blinded by sheet of flame which en-
veloped the ship from stem to ster
and reached half way up the masts
This wave of flame surged back an
forth, fore and aft, for few seconds
and was then snutred out as suddenl
as it appeared, leaving captain an
crew cropping about in intense dark
8 ness. The binding glare was eS
tremely painful to the eyes, blu
caused no damage either to the mel
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