Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-08
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

There is a musical school district down in
Rockport, Me. There are only twenty-eight
| families. but they possess eleven violins nine
organs, six pianos, two banjos and one
guitar.
candidate for the postmaatership at
Waldoboro Me-, owns 625 hens and chickens,
and urges as one claim for the position that
man that can manage a big flock of hens
successfully is equal to any public trust.
The dame owners of cows in the vicinity
of Wichita (Kan.) packing houses, when the
cream Is ripe, set the churn on the front
end OF a car. One round trip and "churnin's S
done" the motorman taking the buttermilk
as an equivalent for the mechanical agita-
tion impaired.
Upon the Kaufman farm, in Springfield
township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, is Il
rose tree of the crimson Rambler variety,
which Is noted for its remarkable growth
and abundance of flowers. 1t bears a beau
tiful crimson flower and last year had $3.50
blossoms and buds.
A tropical leather-back turtle, weighing
6S5 pounds, got astray into Chesapeake bay
a few days ago and was captured by some
stout fishermen. 1t Is six feet five INCHES
long and three feet eight inches broad. The
shell is black and rather soft, like leather,
and seven longitudinal ridges run down the
back from head to tail.
A tramp dog of Poughkeepsie is now
probably the happiest and proudest of his
kind in the possession of brand-new collar,
bearing the word Hero" and a license.
One day last week James Young, a blind
man from the Batavia school, who is visit
ing his parents in Poughkeepsie, attempted
to cross a street in front OF a big brewery
truck. Before anyone could reach MN a
etrange dog bounded forward and, catching
him by the trousers, pulled him out OF
danger purse was at once made up III
the crowd with which the collar and license
were purchased
William Austin is the tall man OF Sandy
county, North Carolina. He was II years
old on April 13 measures six feet nine ana
three-quarter inches in his stocking feet and
is still growing. He weighs 225 pounds and
is apparently a skeleton now, but with large
bones and muscles He lifted, when only
10 year old, bale OF cotton weighing over
500 pounds and carried 1t some twenty-five
yards. Only recently three northern gentle
ment offered him S. 900 TO go in training
for five years to fight the champion OF the
world. He has never smoked, chewed or
drank any intoxicants and looks the picture
of health.
Chicago exhibits with pride a matchmaker
who has lived exclusively on beer for nineteen
years without being apparently any the worse
for his restricted and monotonous diet. The
brewing interests may make much of the
sustaining character OF their product, and the
teetotal folk will have to answer the argu-
ment as best they can. Having been recon
strueted internally by surgical means, the
unparalleled malt worm, whose name is
Joseph Beschlagengaul-a beer name II there
ever was one-nOw branches out upon
mixed diet which takes in pretty nearly
everything except raw dog and omnibus
horses, and is taking on weight at the rate
OF two and half pounds day The case
rs a curious one. and from the point OF view
OF the beer trade in general is OF great
sIgnihcance and interest,