The times., 1899-03-08
ODD THINGS THAT HAPPEN:
A Collection of Curious Incidents in
Everyday Life.
(Frorn the New York sun

(From the New York sum
. The meanest thief on record has turned
up-or rather hasn't turned up-in Battle
Creek. Mich He broke into the house
Of a co.crsd man who had died during
the day and stole the suit Of clothes he
was TO be buried in.
Little Johnnie Bixby. S-year-old. of
jackson. Mich. swallowed a siX-nch brass
chain one day last week. and got over it
without any pathetic obituary poetry be
ing written about him.
Chicago woman. after eight attempts
at suicide 10y hanging. has at last sue
ceeded.
The weather was so cold in Kansas last
week that prisoner who broke out OF
jai! overnight came back to keep from
freezing.
\ Londoner. who doesn't smoke but al
ways takes a cigar when he dimes out. has
a collection of fifty years accumulation.
all duly labeled and dated.
Mrs. Lottic Bunker. a Chicago wheel
lady. has record Of 1aOG0 miles for last
year and 5000 miles for the past three
years. She became Mrs. Bunker before she
took to wheeling
An ioobcat going at the rate of a mile a
minute up in the Bar Harbor neighbor-
hood. ran ashore among the rocks and
didn't kill her crew. They picked up a
cord Of toothpicks. but no iceboat
Miss Maxwell. of Eimira, n. Y. was mar
ried last week TO Mr.. Franz. OF Williams
port, Pa, over seventy miles of long-dis-
tanCe telephone. The fair bride did it that
way iE order not to be like other folks
4 BaIlville. Ohio, schooteacher has been
asked to resign because he punished his
scholars by making them hold their noses
in a small ring which he had drawn On
the blackboard. The punishment came IN
der the head of cruel and unusual
One firm in Kentucky has this season
shipped out of the State l3S.0O0 turk ays.
weighing LOCO, ,0G0 pounds Most Of them
went TO Boston.
\ slot machine concern in Youngstown
Ohio says that its profit last year on 200
machines was $4,000.
\ Philadelphia man, patterning after q
New York woman, committed suicide last
week by packing himself in Il trunk and
taking poison.
In chopping down a hollow tree near
Coyington, Ind, the other day. the chop
pers noticed a peculiar cior OF gas. and
tossing lighted paper into the hollow
there was 4 flash ani n roar. and the tree
was destroyed by the flames. Il is thought
root penetrated natural gas pocket.
About this lime last year Alexander
Bailey. hale. old Ecosier. Of eighty light
summers living near EillsborO, Ind, mar
ried Miss Jennie Scott, aged 81 years. and
last week Mrs Bailey became the happy
mother OF twins. II is needless to remark
that Mr. Bailey is the proudest man in the
wild and woolly West.
Sheriff Palm. Of Oldham county, Ky. is
thrifty. He has sweetheart in JefIersOn-
vile. Ind, opposite Louisville. and having
occasion to 20 over there last week TO
borrow 4 scaifold to hang negro on up
in Oldham, he concluded ne would kill two
birds with one stone and save an extra
trip and expense, and married the girl. He
returned with his bride and the scafold.
An AtchisCn printer back from the army.
in setting up a musical programme for a
Kansas symphony show. got Mozart 5
Twelfth Mass on the bill as Mozart s
Twelfth Massachusetts,.
In line with the discussion arising fire.
quentiy as to- the changing OF the climate
in this latitude. it may be stated that last
week 2 man died in Newark. y. J.. Of
hydrophobia, and a Louisville tKy1 jury
sent a man 10 the lunatic asylum As the
result Of a sunstroke.
An order for 100 0OG 900 feet of lumber
has been received at the Vancouver tB.
C, mills for railroad construction in China.
1t Will take six years for the mills to fill it.
An interesting young man of Lima. Ohio.
last week shot his sweetheart, his rival,
and himself in the order named His act
would have been more commendable if he
had begun at the other end of the list of
fatalities.
The February meeting of the
opumist Club of Cincinnati was
presided over by its president. s.
u. FELTON,, in New York, over
"A long distance telephone. He performed
all the functions of the Office successfully,
and several responses to tOasts were made
10y absent members in the same way. Each
guest had a telephone receiver by his side
Al the table. The club was not charged
full rates for the service. hence it retain:
its name.
The X-ray was tried on a little cir! Of
Paulsboro, \. j.. who has been treated two
years for nasal catarrh, and a -percha
button was discovered in her nose. She !:
better now.
Postmaster Tuttle, OF Carthage No, af-
ter waiting thirty-four years for $S.2t
owed him by the Government for one extr.
days service as soldier in the Civil VA
and for clothing. has just received 1 checl
for the amount.
An octopus has appeared in Kaw Valley
Kan. in the shape Of protective c0mbin,
OF farmers to hold up the price OF potatoes
Cleveland, Ohio. jury has just decide,
that IL O'Clock is as late as a young maj
should sit UP cOuTting his girl. The iur
WAS evidently composed OF fathers witl
daughters
Kentucky farmer aged 50 years. hal
announced himself as Z candidate for tht