Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-09-08

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mander-in-Chief and the lieutenant
escaped with some severe Commissions,
the former having one of his ankles
sprained.
THE Savannah GA News tells this
remarkable story: Near Idlewild
Park, Thursday, while John J. Bur-
rus, n farmer, was engaged in pre-.
pairing ground for sweet potatoes, lie
discovered II chicken snake about five
feet long, which he killed. Noticing
that IL was Of unusual size i'm proper
tion to its length, he cut it in two to
make u post-mortem examination,
and found that the stomach con-
tanned two large.sized opal glass
eggs. Mr.. Burrus says that when a
boy he was visiting cooper who
lived near Tallahassee by the name Of
Wells Hamlin. and while there, u
setting hen had been driven from
her nest by a large chicken snake.
The snake was soon after killed,
opened In his presence, and eighteen
eggs taken from its body. He fur.
thcrmore said that the eggs were put
back under the faithful old hen, and
that every egg Matched out lively
young chicken.
IT is dangerous to crafty curiosity
or violate precedent at the Chinese
Imperial Court. The Empress Dow.
ager Is great stickler for etiquette.
Recently she required the services Of
DIR. Ii Te-chang. Vice.President Of
the Imperial Academy Of Physicians
at Picking, for one of the members OF
her suite ut Eho Park Palace. The
learned doctor had never been inside
these famous palace grounds, and his
curiosity was fired to see the many
curious objects of which he had heard
wonderful tales. So he bribed eu-
much to show him around the grounds
While the two were leisurely walking
about and enjoying themselves, the
Empress spicd them. She ut once
despatched servants to punish their
cilrontcry. The eunuch was seized,
thrown on his face, and accommo-
dated with fifty blows of the bamboo
on the calves of his fat legs. The doc.
tor was locked three months pay
and received severe reprimand
while his assistant was ordered never
to venture again into the Empress
presence. The affair created scnsa.
ton, because Of the high position OF
the physician and of the humiliating
punishment dealt out to him.
THE most striking cases OF lapsed
memory are to be found in persons
who have had n severe illness, or mr..
temporarily diseased mentally. Tho
more common form of the malady,
too, Is the forgetting Of every Incl.
dent OF the past save one, on which
the morbid mind never ceases to
harp. A very pathetic case OF the
kind Is recorded in Beck's Medical
Jurisprudence" 1t Is that OF o
young clergyman who was acciden.
tally shot In the forehead just two
days before his marriage was to have
taken place. For u long time his life
was despaired Of. He recovered, but
mis- mental faculties had become i'm.
paired. He remembered nothing but
the idea Of the approaching marriage.
Everything was absorbed In that one
recollection; his whole conversation
related to tho preparation for the
event. He would never speak on any
other subject; II was always within
two days OF his wedding. Years
went on, youth passed away, and
still In a couple OF days more his
marriage would take place. In this
condition the unfortunate man reach.
ed his eightieth year, and no doubt
sank into the grave with the one life.
long idea as the last thought Of his
mind.
A REAL infant phenomenon keeps
all the medical men and pedagogues
Of the good old town OF Brunswick,
Germany, In state OF wonder and
delight. The little son OF u local
butcher. II baby Just two years old,
can read with perfect ease anything
written or printed In German or Lat.
In characters. A few weeks ago three
Brunswick doctors Ind the baby In.
troduced to them ut the house OF one
OF the learned gentlemen. The first
thing the little one did when
brought into the consulting
room was to stand on his toes at
the table, reading out from the books
that were lying about. All that could
be ascertained as to the why and
wherefore OF this uncanny accom-.
plishment Is that, when the baby was
eighteen months old, and his grand
mother took him out, he always i'm
mediately caught sight OF the inscrip.
tions over shops, and asked about
them rs only u small child can ask,
till he had fathomed tho meaning Of
the letters. 1t was the same ut home;
books and newspapers had greater
destinations than lollipops and toys,
and whatever the parents playfully
told him he remembered, with tho
result that Mt the age OF two years,
he reads with perfect ease. Apart
from his accomplishment in reading,
the boys development is quito nor.
nal.
An inhabitant OF Voro, in Finland,
named sellquist, who for a long time
past has been living on bad terms
with his wife, had lately narrow
escape from being poisoned by her.
She called at chemists, and asked
for some rat poison. AS these crea-
lures are very rarely seen in that
neighborhood, the chemist had his
suspicious aroused, and gave the
woman perfectly harmless drug.
On second thoughts he decided to
mention the matter to the husband,
and requested HIM to say nothing
about 1t to his wife. In the evening,
as she was DreDnrinp the norri1pa