Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-24
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

A hemlock tree recently cut down in APP
pleton, Me, showed $50 grains, and this
was taken as an indication that the tree
was nearly four centuries old.
Romano and Lost Springs are towns in
kansas. The population of each is about
zoo people. Neither tow has an idle man
or boy or u~noccupied house. Neither has a
saloon and dogs are unknown.
An alligator, the first of its species found
in the Colorado river, measured eleven feet
in length and thirty-eight inches around. 1t
was lassooed recently by a cowboy, who,
having landed it, tied it to a tree.
In 1862 ]. r. Stearns of Saco, Me-, lent
500 to a young man who had an offer in
the far west. The understanding was that
the money was to be repaid quarterly. A
few days ago Mr.. Stearns received a check
for $40, as the first installment.
Percy Boedecker, 10 years old, while
walking in his sleep at his home in Mount
Vernon a few nights ago fell from the roof,
a distance Of thirty-five feet. He struck a
tent in the yard before reaching the ground,
and when picked up was not only unhurt,
but still sound asleep.
According to the latest New York City
directory, just published, the honored
name of Smith still holds first place in
point of numbers in the borough of Man
haitian, but the name of Brown, though still
holding a second place, is hard pushed by
the mann of Cohen, while the Cohens, the
Coins and the Kohns, taken collectively,
NHSNSt Al LII lac DIoNhoy IN lONlt
and the Brauns.
A stranger from central Illinois, who was
arrested in Chicago on suspicion of his
being the long man" notorious some time
ago for his bold robbing of shopkeepers in
company with the short man" was kept
in confinement until his parents came on
and identified him, and now he has sued the
city for $4,000 damages for false arrest.
Adam Hudson, the colored janitor Of the
Stevens building in New York, has left a
fortune of over 10000. He had been an
employee of the Stevens family for fifty
years and was the autocrat of the building
of which he was %janitor, having more to
say than any tenant, or even, at times, the
owners themselves, who stood by him
through thick and thin. His salary was
1880.
A food strike is going on at the London
general postofice, 5000 of the clerks re-
fusing to patronize the official caterer, ard
taking their lunches in with them in par
cells. They object to the quality and price,
and to the long waits. Formerly the
clerks dubbed together and managed their
own catering, but the government took the
matter out of their hands. They are not
allowed to leave the building during Office
hours.
Mrs. Johanna Regain of Chicago seized a
thief whom she found lurking in the hall
way of her own house, but lost her grip and
he escaped to the street. She followed,
Selling a brick as she ran, and when she
caught up with the fleeing man she aimed
the missile and called out for him to halt
in such a tone that he looked around.
Thereupon on the strength of what he saw
he turned pale with fear and, distrusting
all the Jokes he had heard concerning a
woman's AIM, surrendered. The paper that
tells the story refrains from presenting
Mrs. Regan's portrait.
Charles Broadway Rouss, the blind mil
lionaire Of New York, who is said to have
offered a million dollars for the restoration
of his sight, is perhaps in a way to have
the opportunity to pay the money. His
offer las beer regarded as a standing one,
aud has brought such a large number of
specialists and doctors Of all kinds with
cures that for the past two years Mr..
Rouss has employed John i. Martin,
afflicted with the same sort of blindness to
test the many treatments offered. Now Mr..
Martin is under the care of DR.. Cassidy,
and with some new methods is reported as
beginning to regain his vision.
The new blast furnace of the Union Iron
works, at Buffalo, N. Y, will soon be com
pleted and put in operation.