The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-06
Queer Happenings.

Nine people were burned and II fro
zen to death in Kentucky during the
| recent blizzard.
In Cumberland county, N. j., the far
mers are catching crows and selling
them to trap shooters.
A Vineland, N. j., girl was frightfully
burned last week by the explosion of a
coffee pot boiling on the stove.
A farmer near Noblesville. Ind, SO
years of age, has never had teeth, and
all four of his children are toothless.
A Michigan legislator proposes to
make liquor drinkers pay a license of
IS per year forilthe privilege of drink
ing. al
The pride of the life of the late Mrs.
Mrs. Elizabeth hSkeats of London was
that she was the mother of six police
men.
A Massa chusetts farmer is being sued
for sneezing SO loud on the public high
way as to cause the plaintiffs horse to
run away.
A Pennsylvania coal miner was
frozen to death last week standing up
in snow drift with his dinner pail in
his hand.
lola, Kan. gave big dance recently
to raise funds with which to buy a cork
leg for one of her INDECENT citizens who
was shy Il leg.
A mouse threw women's prayer
meeting at Chester, Pa, into wild dis
order one evening last week by running
down the aisle.
A st. Louis man committed suicide
last week by putting rubber tube into
a barrel of whiskey and filling himself
beyond the limit.
A lot of Bourbon county, Kentucky,
cattle went into a. tobacco barn for
shelter during the last snow and 20 of
them died from eating the tobacco.
A Pineville, KY, barber has this sign
displayed IF you don't come in and
let me shave you, + am going to close
my shop and go to hoeing corn
Charles GKraus of, Cincinnati is suing
for divorce on the ground that his wife
never let him know she had a glass
eye until after they were married.
Twelve thousand dozens of eggs are
shipped every week, 1t is said, from
Sloan Springs Ark. 1t would mean
ruin to close the hatchways of that
town.
Three young women in various parts
of the country had all the hair burned
off their heads last week by the acct
dental ignition of the celluloid combs
they wore.
Mr. Daggett, member of the Wiscon-
sin legislature from Bear creek, has in
troduced a joint resolution to appoint
a commission to draft laws preventing
women from tight lacing.
A Kentucky farmer noticing a tree
on his place filled with something that
looked like black fruit, inspected it
more closely and discovered that hum
dreds Of blackbirds were frozen to the
limbs.
An Indianapolis woman wants d.
worse set aside on the ground that there
was no ground, as her husband
drummer, kissed her 500 times on the
last day he was at home.
A New England coal miner was
troubled with a pain in his back and
one day last week he went to doctor
about it. The doctor looked him over
and took four inches of knife blade out
of him. He had been stabbed in the
back eight years before and the blade
had broken Off
The authorities of Wellington, Kas.,
proposed to give the name of the first
prisoner confined in the new Jail to that
institution, and it was, called Horton
Jail, because Mrs Horton was the first
She proved to be innocent and now she
is suing the county for damages on ac-
count of the jail's name.
At a Topeka dining table one day this
week a member of the Kansas house
made the remark that certain member
must have been drunk when he made
the motion to strike out the enacting
clause of a bill which was being dis
cussed by the diners. II examined the
enacting clause carefully he said.
land found that it did not differ in
any respect from the enacting clause
of any other bill" And then he Won
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