The times., 1899-04-23
QUEER THINGS.
(From The New York sun.

Minnesota veteran, having given a
| public testimonial TO patent medicine
| firm that its medicine had restored him to
perfect health. is now trying TO square him
sell with the Pension Office, which pro-
poses to take him at his word and cut
him of the pension rolls.
A Goldendale, Wash. farmer. seventy
two years old, does all the work on an
eighty-acre farm, besides caring for his
stock and doing his own cooking and house
keeping.
A full-grown hog owned by farmer
near Youngsville. n. Y, was attacked in
its pen by rats during the night and killed.
The farmer discovered it half devoured
in the morning.
handsaw bearing date of 1920 was dug
up recently at North East. Pa.
| Two lawyers were married several days
/ ago in Norristown, Pa One of them was
woman.
An Indiana woman married her four
! teenth husband the other day. She was
! fifteen years old when she married first
and has averaged about one marriage every
two years since. Nine of her husbands
have been lost by divorce. She has had six
children.
Two rival sweethearts of a Washington
tState) young lady had row and one cut
the others tongue out. He will not be
able to talk unless the calfs tongue. which
has been grated on to the stub, takes hold
and grows
New York criminal, sixty-five years
OF age, was brought into court on litter
| to receive his eighteen months sentence
for manslaughter
An Oregon woman gave laudanum to her
three children, took dose herself and
blew out her brains One OF the children
will die
Five hundred Boston society people have
petitioned the mayor, also a society per-
son, to extermnate the ''odous. dirty
quarrelsome English sparrows. which add
to the discomfort of living in Boston.
The recent eruption of the volcano in
the Cariboo mining district melted the
snow on the mountain sides to such an ex-
tent as to threaten to flood all the camps
| in the valley.
An Indiana youth of nineteen has lost
his third wife by divorce. At fourteen he
married girl of twelve by parental con-
sent and treated her so badly that the
marriage was annulled. His treatment OF
the next two was no better, and for the
third time he is grass widower.
Newfoundland dog was killed by light
ming in Passaic, N. j., last week. The bolt
came down the chimney, set the house on
| fire. passed on to the back yard. where it
melted the steel chain by which the dog
was fastened, and killed him.
1t is estimated that the potato crop Of
AristOok county. Me-, will reach 5000. 900
bushels and 5000 tons of starch will be
made.
Maine woman living near Belfast Is the
happy possessor of fifteen coon cats.
Portland, Me-. has discovered a real live
Filipino in her midst. He is a naturalized
Yankee now and is the Oldest OF twenty
six children.
A Missouri paper announces that a wom-
unless the decoliete of her gown extends
TO the third knob on her backbone, while
she is not admitted in New York society
unless 1t extends to the sixth knob. This
is important If true.
The orchestra OF the High Street Opera
House. Columbus. Ohio, got UP and walked
out when the minstrel company's band
leader took the baton, that gentleman be-
ing colored
The three daughters of Pittsburg un-
dertaker received a package OF powder By
mail with instructions to use for their
compilations. Examination proved it to be
paris green.
Lebanon, Pa, woman died last week
after suffering for twenty-five years from
pin which she had swallowed.
Kentucky woman has secured a judg-
ment of $500 against man who kissed her
when she didn't want him to.
killed by train. which smashed the buggy.
but did not injure the horse that was pull
inig it nor the horse the men were leading
behind it,
Eggs sold as high as so cents dozen in
Indianapolis during the last cold snap.
which froze the hen fruit in the bud
A shotgun in the hands of a Kentucky
farmer went of by accident and one small
shot struck his wife in the calf of the leg.
hing an arta
bled to death before a doctor could reach
her.
Mr. Shoots atHim, a Rosebud Agency
Indian. has applied for a divorce from his
wife, the first instance of the kind on rec
ord.
Pennsylvania hostler shot his sweet
heart and his landlord to death. wounded
his landlords wife. aud shot at his brother
ana sister. The girl had refused to marry
him.
Twenty thousand people were vaccinated
in Louisville, KY, during one week of the
smallpox scare.
The Los Angeles, Cal. Chamber of Com
merce is trying to raise $4,000 to pay an
artificial rainmaker to coax a sprinkle from
the sky
A Kentucky girl who was the prosecuting
witness against her former sweetheart
tainted when she saw him in the court
room
One night last week a member of the
First Methodist Church OF Evanston, III.
called on the pastor, and, hearing peculiar
noises as he reached the door he peeked
In the window and saw the pastors hopeful
son with number of his student COM
panlons playing poker for money The mas
tor was not at home.
After the hailstorm of last week at
Louisville. KY. strange animal between
an alligator and a lizard with Whiskers on
its upper lip. was picked up in the street
by letter carrier. 1t was supposed to
nave come down incased in one of the large
hatlstones that fell. The carrier was
sober.
Savannah, Ga, egg dealer has shipped
LOGO dozen eggs to Havana at 81 80
dozen
An inventory of stock in Boston shows
that the city owns 1923 horses and $40
vehicles.
Over 900 canvasback ducks were feed
ing ON the Susquehanna flats near Elkton,
Md, last week.
Electric wires got mixed up in the fash
ionable residence portion of New Orleans
recently and thirty-fye houses were set
on fire. Two We're destroyed.
confidence man. arrested in Chicago |
last week, claims to have made over $780, |
600 selling brass borings for gold
Pottstown boy. using an umbrella rib |
for an arrow, shot his little sister, and |
she may die
Greenville. Miss. billiard saloon thus
advertises itself: Mr. Ira Scott has at
tached to his beautiful billiard hall lunch |
counter. telephone, etc. When a man is
not there he is not in town"
The roads in the neighborhood of |
Wheeling, w. Va, are so bad that the S. |
p. C. A. has stopped horses from travel