Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-08-02

sEAsoNAoLG HINTS AND MAT
TERs o. MOMENT.


ouesr Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth u Stranger
Than Fiction.
THE first white child born in In
diana Is still living. His name Is
Aquilla Robertson. He is ninety
years Of age and lives at Deputy,
Jefferson County.
AN enterprising robin has built it's
nest in an empty beer can at PURIFY
Station, London. The can lies in the
grass close to the signal wires. where
trains are passing and repassing all
day.
AN American physician in Toxic Is
doing rushing business by straight
ening the slant in the eyes of the
Japanese. A fine silk thread draws
up the eyelids and holds them in
place. A few neat stitches are all
that are required.
RUBE JAGGERs, of Middle Valley,
Mich, has q cocker spaniel which
has developed the extraordinary habit
of walking backward. The dog has
become greatly emaciated for lack OF
food. Every time he starts for a
bone he runs away from it, and the
exercise and worry has reduced him
to skeleton.
COLLECTIONS are present-day fad.
One eccentric young woman has one
of the oldest fancies, which is that Of
collecting wishbones. She has a vast
assortment strung about her own
room, and any number of others put
away in boxes. Among them are
those of particularly large and par
ticularly small birds, including one
of humming bird.
GEORGE BUNBARY, Of Dublin, is
said to be the fastest shorthand
writer in the world, writing at the
enormous speed Of two hundred and
fifty words per minute and being
able to continue that rate for hours.
A speed of three hundred words per
minute has been attained, but on
matter that has been written time
and again.
GEORGE HUMPHREYS, OF Wraggles
Run, Penn, has such a small mouth
that he is obliged to subsist almost
entirely upon liquid food taken
through a tube. His jaws have
play of but one-quarter OF an inch Mt
the mouth, and he finds it difficult to
chew anything but his words, which
he does in such manner that no one
but his step aunt can understand
him.
NEAR Milton, Ohio, there is a slight
elevation known as Sherky Hill,
which appears to have been the work
of mound builders. Years ago it was
much given to a quivering motion.
Recently it has begun to "shiver"
again, and it's action is more violent
than ever, The Indians believed
there was great tortoise under the
hill ana that the shaking was caused
by it's efforts to release itself.
WHEN an Auburn (Me.) pussy took
the first census of her brand new
family the other day her back arched
in CONSERVATION. One kitten had but
one eye and this was squarely in the
centre of its forehead. Another
had seven toes on one foot, third
lacked a tail and the fourth and last
was all there and no more, but it
looked lonesome in the midst Of the
aggregation of freaks. All kittens
we're apparently hearty but out of de-
ference to the mother cats evident
feelings the curiosities were con-
signed to the silent tomb.
MORGAN COUNTY, KY, can boast OF
the most remarkable man in the
State. James w. Hasty, sixty-five-
year-old bachelor, was born within
two miles of this place. Jim is
gunsmith and watch fixer, and has
not been five miles away from here
in twenty-five years. He lives in his
shop. keeps house by himself with
dog and two cats and never saw
railroad train or county seat in
thirty years. He never kissed one Of
the fair sex in his life, and says he
can hardly imagine how such fruit
would taste. He has no bad habits
and is strictly moral.
w. G.. MAY, Of White Oak, KY,
while fishing in White Oak Creek,
ran his hand under log, when it ac-
identally found it's way into the
mouth of large pike. Thinking he
had found something good to eat, the
fish at once proceeded to swallow Mr..
Nays arm up to the elbow. Mr..
May made desperate efforts to free
himself from his finny foe, but in
vain, until he pulled his antagonist
on to the bank and called on friend
to assist in extricating his arm from
the vise-like grip Of this gamest Of
game fish, whose long, sharp teeth
were buried deep into his biceps.
The fish was beautiful specimen of
his species, weighing twenty-three
pounds, and the largest of his kind
caught in that section during several
years past.
TWELVE years ago James Erisinger,
who now lives near Prospect, Butler
County, was driving along the Gen.
treville road in u blackboard, swung
underneath which was nitro
glycerine torpedo which was being
taken to an oil well. The wheel of
the vehicle struck stone which few
up and struck the loaded torpedo