The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-12
ODD THINGS THAT HAPPEN.

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 coloret
man who had died during the day and stole thu
suit of clothes he was to be buried in.
Little Johnnie Bixby. a three-year-old. o
Jackson. Mich. swallowed n siX-inch bras.
chain one day last week, and got over it with,
out any pathetic obituary poetry being writer
about him.
A Chicago woman. after eight attempts al
suicide by hanging. has at last succeeded.
The weather was so cold in Kansas last week
that a prisoner who broke out of Jail over
night came back to keep from freezing.
A Londoner. who doesn't smoke. but always
takes a cigar when he dimes out.at dinner. has
n collection of fifty years accumulation. all duly
labelled and dated.
Mrs. Lottie Bunker. n Chicago wheel lady,
has a record of 10000 miles for last year and
$4,000 miles for the past three years. She be.
came Mrs. Bunker before she took to wheeling,
An iceboat, going at the rate of n mile n min
ute up in the Bar Harbor neighborhood. ran
ashore among the rocks and didn't kill her
crew. They picked up a cord of toothpicks, but
no iceboat
Miss Maxwell Of Elmira. N. Y. was married
last week to Mr.. Franz Of Wllliamsport, Pa.
over seventy miles OF long-distance telephone.
The fair bride did it that way in order not to
A Ballville. o.. schoolteacher has been asked
to resign because he punished his scholars by
m iv6inb 6a mem hn1 hold their noses in a small ring
punishment came under the head OF cruel
One firm in Kentucky has this season shipped
out OF the state $4,000 turkeys. weighing
100000 pounds. Most Of them went to
A slot machine concern in Youngstown, O..
says that o its profit last year on 200 machines
A Philadolnhia man nat+arnin, ,no. NJ.
iork, woman. committed suicide last week by
packing himself in n trunk and taking poison.
ton. IND. the other day. the choppers noticed n
peculiar odor or gas. nnd tossing n lighted pa
roar, aud the tree was destroyed by the names
IL Is thought a root penetrated u natural gas
About this time last year Alexander Bailey. a
maze OLD Hoosier Of elghty-eight
living near HLlIsboro, Ind. married Miss Jennie
Scott, aged 81 years. and last week Mrs. Bailey
less to remark that Mr.. Bailey is the proudest
man IN the wild and woody West.
Sheriff Palm OF Oldham county, Ky. is thrifty
lie has q sweetheart in Jeifersonville, Ind,
opposite Louisville. and having occasion to 20
hang a negro on up in Oldham, he concluded
he would Kill two birds with one stone and
save an extra trip and expense. ana married
tho girl. He returned with his bride and the
Al Atchison printer. back from the army. in
symphony show, got Mozart's Twelfth Mass on
the oil IA Mozarts Twelfth Massachusetts,.
In line with the discussions arising fire.
Gucntly as to the changing Of the climate In
inns latitude. i may be stated that last week a
and a Louisville LkyD Jury sent a man to the
lunatic asylum as the result of a sunstroke.
An order for 10000 900 feet OF Lumber has
been received at the Vancouver iB. O. mills
ior railroad construction in China. II will
take Fix years for the mills to I'll il.
An Interesting young man OF Lima. o.. last
week shot his sweetheart. his rival and him
been more rgmmendable II he had begun at
thG other end OF the list OF fatalities.
me February meeting oil the Optimist Club
q Cinclnpati was presided over by its Presi-
dent, >. NJ. FELTON,, Ia New York, over n long
distance telephone. He performed All the
functions OF the Office successfully, and several
responses to toastS were made by absent mem
bsrs IN the same way, Each guest had a teie-
phone receiver by his side at the table The
glub was not charged full rates for the service,
hence I retains its name.
me, A-ray was tried on n littlo Girl of Pauls-
boro, n, j., who has been treated two yonrs for
nasal c%atarril,, and a gutta-perrha button was
dlscoVered IN her nose, She is better now.
POstmaster Turtle Of Carthage, Mo, after
waiting thirty-iour years for SS.2b owed him
Dy the government FOR one extra days service
as Il Soldieri in the civil war and for clothing.
mas JUST received u check for the amount.
An octopus has appeared in Kaw Valley.
Kan, IN the shape Of "A protective combine OF
tarmgfs 70 hold up. the price of potatoes.
a Cleveland [. Jury has Just decided that IL
oclocR Is as late asa young man should sit up
counting ms girl. That Jury is evidently COM
A Kentucky farmer, aged 80 years. has an
bounced himself as u candidate for the Legis-
lature.