Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-24
FREAKS AT LARGE.

| A Mississippi river steamboat roUstabou
drinks half gallon of whisky day.
An Alabama farmer has taught all his
children to read with their books upside
down.
People in Madison county. Kentucky, who
| have paid their taxes are entitled to be mar
! ried free by the sheriff.
Geigersvlle, KY is the birthplace of a
| boy who was an inveterate tobacco chewer
| before he was year old
Mississippi woman who chews tobacco
and drinks whisky thinks that women have
| all the rights" they need
| New Hampshire girl of % never tasted
hot bread until three weeks ago, when she
stopped with friends at Boston hotel.
| South Carolina widow became her own
| mother-in-law recently, that is to say she
! is now the wife of her husbands father.
| Minnesota girl can distinguish no color,
everything being white to her, and she is
compelled TO wear dark glasses to protect her
| eyes from the glare.
| West Virginia man is so peculiarly af-
| fected by riding on train that he has to
| chain himself to a seat to prevent his jump
| ing out of the car window
The servants in a school for girls in Con-
necticut while cleaning up the rooms after
| the school closed, discovered S,67S wads of
chewing gum stuck about in various places
The Chicago Board of Trade has the largest
branch telegraph Office in the world. There
are 170 operators on the floor every working
day, and $4,000 messages have been handled
in single day during the short working
hours of the Board of Trade day.
A dog addicted to chewing tobacco is
owred' by John Holden. a Philadelphia
butcher The dog is an improvement upon
the average tobacco chewer, in that he doesn't
spit on the floor of trolley car. He takes
bit of weed, and, holding it between his
fore paws, sucks all the substance out of
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three years.
The strike of the "housesmiths" in New
York calls attention in forcible way to
another industrial revolution that has taken
place SO quietly as to be almost unnoticed.
1t is so recent that probably nine-tsnths
know what "housesmith" is. They will
hear good deal of him in the future, how
ever. On the new iron structure which Is
the business building OF the future he is
more important than the carpenter.
Charles LOTUS of Hazleton, Pa. aged 22
years, coughed up a we'll developed lizard
recently Previous to that he had been
aiiing and his physicians thought he had
consumption. After relieving himself OF the
reptile he seemed to recover. A few days
later he was taken with convulsions. lie
could not be relieved, and 1t became evident
that he was suffering from internal trouble.
specialist in stomach diseases says there
is brood of the reptiles in his stomach, and
unless a strong emetic will take effect there
is little hopes of his recovery.
Nine. Zenowsky. who, although the wife
Of a Russian, Is an American, has made
fortune by the invention OF a new material
manufactured from lard and valuable for
use in making paper flowers, tissue paper
and various other purposes. The Invention
came about from the fact that Nine: zen
owsay was doing light housekeeping In two
rooms, and having placed paper OF iard
on the window sill she noticed that
chemical change produced by the weather had
taken place In the lard next the paper,
making a thin substance like transparent
paper. Experimenting, she was at last able
to produce this substance artifcially.
The strike OF the molders at the General
Electric companys works in Lynn. Mass,
developed novel and singular feature, the
like Of watch has probably never been
recorded AS soon as the strike was de-
ciared a full batch OF non-union men were
engaged and set TO work. There is usually
more or less depression among hands en-
gagged under Euch circumstances, and to
counteract this tendency and to create
cheerful confidence among the new men the
company introduced an orchestra into the
iron foundry. The musicians discoursed
sweet music nightly for the entertainment
and edihcation OF the non-union employees.
who slept within the walls OF the foundry.
while the unions plckets endeayored TO
keep warm without by stepping In time with