The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-11
SUNBEdM MS.

-Grasshoppers of Jackson county. Mich, have I'M
dergonc a change OF appetite. and have been eating
the binding Irvine from the bundles of wheat. caus-
ing farm hands the extra labor Of reminding.
Tennessee is up near the head Of the snake column
this year with the record OF Jesse shoun. who killed
on Cross Mountain. near Bristol. a rattlesnake meas
uring three inches across the head, FIVE feet in length.
and six inches in diameter. It had thirty-two rattlos
besides the button.
Great numbers of large sea turtles have been
caught in the region of Englewood. Fla. since June l,
and their meat has been sailed. The meat cured is
said to taste much like beef. Near st. Augustine q
story is told OF a mule which patrols the beach. and
finding a turtle turns It over on its back and then
goes after its own master.
-workmen in a sugar house at oaklawn. Irish
Bend, La. are puzzled to account for several explo-
sions that have occurred there when som hand has
tried to enter the vacuum pan through a manhole
with a lighted lantern. The explosions have been
similar to explosions OF fire damp. and they have
blown out portions OF the roof.
"A sexagenarian OF %altimore after dreaming
three times OF a particular private Klondike under Q
tree on the place where he was born, made o contract
with the owner of the property to divide findings
half and half. and then with his son and a friend be-
gan digging on the spot. At last accounts the son had
become disguised and quit. but the dreamer was still
with his friend in quest OF the gold mine.
"A horse which ought surely to belong to Col. War
ing's educated force is doing duty in the Baltimore
Street Cleaning Department. It broke its halter ono
night, and made its way downstairs to the basement
OF the house OF its driver and then into the bedroom
OF a boarder. where Il nosed about to see that every.
thing was horse-shape until the occupant OF the room
was aroused and had his hair bristle. shape before -
realized where he was.
There is in New Orleans a negro woman. accord
ing to the chief newspaper Of the Crescent City. who
has deeply rooted II not very clear ideas about tho
Bible, among them being the conviction that while
God wrote some parts of the great book men put in
other portions. One thing which God wrote sure
enough. says the article. is the story of the Tower Of
Babel. "Yassir. yassir. God writ dat. =" she says; mo
doubt bout dat bein' writ by God Hisself. OATS
probed. glory to de Lord. wy, dey amt no one no
where 'cept 'Mericans kin talk clair SOS you kin on
nerstan' 'em. Dat probes God writ bout dat tower"
A marriage which recalls some OF the marriages
in England in the days when a newly made husband
was held by the law responsible for anything his
bride wore on her wedding day took place at the end
OF last month in n North Carolina high road in johns
ton county. The bridegroom and his bride were bare
footed. He wore q hat and a shirt and a pair OF
trousers only, and she wore only a calico dress and q
poke bonnet. 1t is recorded in the parish records
that one Annie Sellwood was married at Chiltern All
Saints in l7l4 wearing only her shift" But her
husband had a legal reason for wanting her only In
that garment.