The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-07
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water hyacinths have become an obstruction u
navigation In the canals OF New Orleans and in thd
Bayou Sale ana the Bayou Tecbe. 9
-Caterpillars have been doing Q great deal OF dam.
age to hay and potatoes around GAINESVILLE. Fla, going
thoroughly over one field after another.
Farmers about Miller. S. d.. have with avidity
chosen helpers from among q lot of boys who went
about the State seeking employment on the farms.
Mayhem has detractcd from the popularity Of
tennis as an amusement in an Indiana town not far
from indianapolis. The quarrel which resulted in 10
grew out of 4 disputed game.
One mile from Indianapolis. in Fishtrap Lake. Q
sea serpent is reported. 1t ia said to DO twenty fees
long ald to have q girth equal to the circumference
OF a beer barrel.
Two proposed entertainments, the chief feature
of which was to be the chasing OF = creased pig. have
been interdicted at Portland, Me-. by the Society for
the Protection OF Animals.
Wheat and corn have done so well in Central Kan.
sas that It is computed that the money receipts from
these sources will he greater by one-third in that part
of the State this season than last.
There Is a peddler in New Hampshire who should
be able to use his own name as q cry. He 10 shabel
Saba Shade, and he has just received at Concord q
license to vend anywhere In the State.
Tho clerk OF Marion county. Ky, has Just re-
ceived the papers in the case Of the marriage OF John
Krogniski and Miss Teresa stillet OF Falcon, in that
T~AN o~'SA SoA ohos
Burke Perkins. % years old. whose children
number twenty-four and whose grandchildren arc
uncounted. the other day welded Mrs. Elizabeth
ooings, rs years old. In the town OF Greenville, o.
As = lover OF honey bees David N. Kepley OF
Louisville has kept q hive in his dooryard. One OF tho
bees alighted on his nose one day and stung the tip Of
It. His face turned purple. and for several hous
two doctors thought he was at the point of death.
He recovered.
A peculiar instance of impulsive reck,essness 10
reported from Paris. Ark. where q 16-year-old girl
who bad been reproved by her mother Jumped out Of
q third-story window. and her l9.yearold sister who
saw her became excited and Immediately jumped out
after her. Both were hurt seriously.
DIR. r. E. Stewart of Goldendale, Wash, . collector
OF curios, has found two Indian arrow heads. each
attached to a bone six inches long. the other end OF
which is pierced. ready for tho insertion of an arrow.
Tho bones are carved deliberately. The doctor sent
his nnd to the Smithsonian Institution.
when W. c. Woodward of Barnard. Vt. went
after his cows and set his dog a; them the whole herd
OF seventeen made for the dog at once with lowered
horns. The dog turned tail and ran tow ard its master.
Mr.. Woodward was knocked down and all the COWS
ran over him. but he was stepped on only once o.
each leg.
That there may Justly be hope. even when all
seems hopeless, In the case OF a person overcome in
the water, received a fresh illustration a few days
ago up in Ashland, Wis. August Anderson. 10 years
old, was pulled out OF the water after he had been
submerged for five minutes. and he recovered con.
sciousness after an hour.
-George Vim. a Windsor, VT, jeweller, was much
surprised the other morning at the way In which a
bat with three young ones got away from him. II,
had found the four In front OF his house. and he took
tn m In aud put them on a table. The old bat. which
had shown nght. then turned on its back and feigned
death. This little ones fastened themselves to It. ard
the old one Topped instantly and new away, taking
Its family along.
Ono OF tho Oldest women teachers in the public
schools OF Portland, Or has the Klondik. fever. and
proposes going north. The Clerk OF the Board Of III.
ucation. . California forty miner. Adv ses her 10 lake
up a load OF candles. cigars, and nuts rather han 70
try any other way OF making money or a living there.
lie recalls the visit OF 4 woman with such a cargo TO
California camp, and Gays that she cleared 81 900 DO.
tween Saturday and Monday,
Carpenter Middaugh Of Ottawa, Kan. Is suffering
under a peculiar %arhiction, He struck his heal on the
sharp corner or a cupboard In his house seven months
ago. but beyond q slight wound over the eyebrow no
experienced no immediate Inconvenience because Of
the mtShap. and lie paid little attention 10; Il. on a
hunting expedition he was about to MAKE a shot,
when he found that with hs left oye closed be- was
blind Now the other eye has been affected sympa'
thetlcAliy.
Auditor W. D. @. spike OF Pierce county. or.
camping with his family on Dead Mans Island. had
q lively experience with a bear that some ~ his
party, out blackberryinG. had stirred W. n" was
carrying an iron'bound milk can. and came out from
among the underbrush Just as the bear was about TO
strike a woman. lie yelled. an the bear turned for
him and knocked the can from bis grasp. II looked
dark for him, when he managed to get the can, which
was q wide-mouthod one. and by a quick tura
damned It over tho bears head. the terror OF the
party WAS turned 70 laughter. and ths bear Wa AhSA