The morning times., 1896-01-19


Eighteen ninety-five was conspicuous
for "A remarkable Number Of curious audcX-
trdordinary happenings. One of The
straugest stories or the year was that con
ceruing Il Miss Drake, who lives near
Lynn, Knox county, KY. Miss Drake is
thirteen years Old. About a year ago she
developed II fierce aud uncomfortable ap-
petite for tobacco. She chcwed the weed
vora aciously, consuming g:uch as four
pounds week at first. Gradually she in
creased the quantity, and tess than two
weeks ago her weekly allowance was five
puuEds OF tobacco. She chews leaf tobacco.
entirely. Physicians seem unable TO con-
troll her appetite. In The year she lost
fort y-five pounds. Unless cured she viii
not live many months longer.
WATER DRIVES HIM TO SLEEP.
Amos j. Manning. OF Mount Carmel
Pa, says the New York Press, slartles the
people of his acquaintance and the physi-
claus for miles around by sleeping for u
month or six weeks at a time. Sleep is
apt to ovCrtake him at any time. When
awake re usually finds employment in one
of the coal miucs around Mount Carmel
He is thirty-one years old and ordinarily
enjoys fairly good health. When in u sleep
ing state foods administered 10 him. Man
ninG's trouble is believed by some physi-
clans To be due a pressure Of water on the
brain.
HER CORPSE HER SECURITY.
Mrs. L. Stagl OF No 1921 California street,
ST. LOUIS, is Il prepossessiug woman about
thirty years old Recently she was in need
OF money. and so she Inserted the following
advertisement in one OF the local papers:
LADY Thirty, wishes to assign her
body after death for assistance now. Adj
dress 6. 675, this office.
An enterprising reporter called on her
and found that sue had changed her mind
| about assigning her body" Her tenn
porary financial embarrassment had been
| tided over. for the time being, at least.
DEATH TRIED THE BOAST.
IF / were TO be killed today Id have
fifty white friends who would each contrib
ute nalf a dollar TO pay for my funeral
said Perry Derry. in u Joking manner 70
some friends in Glen Loeb, Pa That night
he was struck by train and so badly in
| Iured that he died in Phila delphia hos
pital n few hours later. lie was only four
feet tall, fifty years old. spoke five Ian
guages rluent!y. and was for number of
years the body servant OF A. T. stewart
the New York millionaire.
BULLET-PROOF MOUTH.
| Wilmer Lefferts of No. 5O1O FoulErod
street. Frankford. Pa, stopped q bulieu
! with his mouth. Il feat that he does not
| care To accomplish again. a revolver in
the hands OF a playmate was accidentally
| discharged The bullet passed through
/ young Lcfferrs upper lip, knocked out .
| tooth and fcll on lis tongue.
JACK THE EAR-CLIPPER.
! A well-dIess-d Iunatic was fer some de-
| at large in Paris. His mania for cutting OF,
| the lubcs OF p Oplc's ears has caused the
disfigurement of a large number Of other
wise gonG-!ouking Parisians- He usually
/ did his work with pair Of scissors. Boys
were mostly his victims.
BEES ON a BENDER.
| Bumhlebec opium fiends were found IN
/ great quantities ON FinhoOk farm in Bucks
| county, Pa. Thousands OF tees gathered
about the poppy plants which grew on the
! farm, slipped the seductive juice and We're
| found hours afterward in deep stupor. The
sight attracted hundreds of people to
| the spot.
FISH HAD HUMAN TEETH.
When fishing in pond near East stroIds-
burg, Pa. George PARCEL accidentally dis
lodged his false teeth Il nj they dropped from
his mouth to the bottom OF the stream.
few days later, while fishing in the same
place, PARCEL caught an unusually large
fish. When it was cut open the missing
in lfp
fish. PARCEL now wears the teeth as usual.
NATURAL REINS AND BRIDLE.
Certainly the bearded freak OF the Uni
ted States is James Brown. who lives near
the village OF BealingtOn. BEaXton county
W. Va. His mustache is the longest in the
world, being exactly six feet from tip to tip
Brown hasn't shaved since the war. He
| is more than six feet tall, and has the buIu
of Hercules.
WHOLE SCHOOL IN MYSTERIES.
An endemic OF ST. yilus' dance seized
lupon the school children OF Rehiingen'
VILLAGE near Trier. on the Mozelle- II be
gan during a violent thunderstorm, when
! Katharine SchnCb-l. aged 12, ledped from
| her seat ana began dancing in wildly hys-
| tcrical manner. The sight OF Katharine
] involuntary actions 50 dlttttt4 bh' O'u'i
school children that they were seized by an
| irresistible. desire to initiate her. They
surang from their seats and in i short time
| the entire. school was in an uproar. Ply
sicians were summoned and the scho1
closed for three weeks
| CATS HAVE A CHRISTMAS.
on Christmas Day. at her home in Balti-
more. Mrs K. Dorsey Coale gave her large
! and extraordinary variety OF cats cat
| at-honc'' reception. Big cats, little cats,
ugly cats, pretty cats. young cats, old cats,
white, black, ard gray cats were grouped
| about the handsome parlor Of the Coale
| house in Park avenue. AMI feaStCd AMI
pettcd For their especial h"Deflt Christ
| mas tree had been erected on the tree
| hung imitation kittens, iuicy-lookinS mice
and rats, little jugs of milk, bits of raw
meat, and boxes OF catnip. After all these
dainties had been dis tributed to the
-"gucsts," they Were comfortably tucked ID
| bed.
| STEAMBOAT LEAFS FALLS
The Northwest M9ga zine says that in
| runuiuc Il steamboat from Rainy Lake
| River TO Rainy Lake, In northern Mime
| sofa, the craft was Compeile,l 10 plunge over
falls ten feet high. With the force OF 'he
| current and a full head OF steam the vessel
| shot out OF water full length, exposing