The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-01-03

ODDITIES IN FACT AND FICTION.

The average locomotive engine con-
tains 5000 pieces.
Taraxicum Bebee, one of the leading
citizens of Spoopenburg, H., has
most peculiar lachrymal affection.
Whenever he is excited by grief or any
other tear-starting emotion he weeps
Opaque drops of water. These tears
drop from the inner corners of his eyes,
at intervals OF two minutes, and give
him intense pain. He has glass vase
in which these drops are collected.
Mr.. Bebee cries on the slightest provo
cation.
A Justice Of the Peace at Lockport,
N. Y, has been called upon to decide a
curious wager. Robert Greer bet Will
liam Bludsoe that he could eat 1000
eggs in twenty minutes. he claimed
to have won the wager when he ate five
square inches of shad roe. In deciding
the bet the Justice remarked: what
shadders we are; what shadroes we
pursue" Greer lost.
1t is estimated by engineers who have
studied the subject that 5000, 600
horse power goes to waste every hour
over Niagara Falls.
Gottlieb Won Klackenberg, a South
African Boer. has two racing ostriches
One of them has developed speed of
twenty-five miles an hour, and has a
stride of fourteen feet. The breeding
% ~, fn, rani,,TY huG
been seriously interfered with by the
passage of an anti betting law by the
English Government.
A gray parrot, the property of bar
Der in Moncton, N. B., has been taught
to sing two verses of Rule Britannia. "
The bird becomes violently excited
whenever it hears yankee Doodle"
whistled, and plucks the feathers from
it's breast, all the while shrieking in
defiant notes its disapproval of the air.
1t has been asserted that when rail
road express train stops very suddenly,
the passengers suffer i'll the same de-
gree as though they had fallen from q
third-story window. The Pittsburg
Dispatch" is authority for this state
ment. AS the majority Of persons who
have fallen from third-story windows
have been killed, it is impossible to
secure their testimony on the subject
and quickly stopped train passengers
refuse to make the test
German engineers find that search
lights on board war vessels form excel
lent targets for the enemy, so they have
devised system of mirrors whereby
the real source of the light may be
concealed. There will be no trace of
superstition in the i'll luck that is sure
to follow the breaking of one of these
retlectors.
Bud Burlington, Texas desperate,
killed so many men between 1865 and
1870 that he cannot remember theiI
names. He is now a reformed man,
and seeks to offer reparation by making
inquiries through the section of the
State where he did the most killing fol-
the names of his victims. He will erect
u handsome monument to each of them.
ihNiN W 40 q lhli VI ShON az
ford, Me-, recently, and Silas Grew
and Petibone Lamack made move
wager. Grew bet 81 and barrel OF
crab apples that he could eat more
snowballs than Lamack. He did man
age to dispose of seven, all as large al
pippin, and won the bet, but the doc
tors bill and the liniment from tn,
druggist cost more than the dollar ant
the value of the apples. Lamacl
avoided cramps by melting his snow
balls and drinking the water.
A caterpillar with three distinc
heads was found on an elm tree il
Edward Rhoad's garden, Dover. Del.
last week.
1t is said that Jimmy, the Kid, ex
bank burglar, is now studying diligent
ly and will shortly appear ON the stag,
in an original play entitled 9Th
Broken Cop, or the Bloody Revenge o
Pantata."