Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-03
CURIOUS EFFECTS
palnfu,. hut Not Serious. Accidents Have
 Upon Some People.

Painful, but Not Serious, Accidents Have
 Upon Some People,
 Tt has been my i'll luek,' said Hor- ace Mafston, of Portland, Me, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, several times to witness painful accidents. and tbev had once or twice a curious effect on the sufferer. Years ago I was stand Ing beside a gun at a state muster at Augusta, when salute to the gov. ernor who had just come on the field was being fired. The cannon used was Of the old-fashioned kind, and it was 9sematurely discharged, with the re s0lt that the index finger of the right hand of the man ramming the load nome was blown off The shock, to- gether with the Judgement Of flying particles of powder, had the effect of driving the blood back from the wound, during which fragment of timt the injured man calmly examined his manglea hand; but when the blood did come back it came with 8 rush, ane fairly bubbled out in torrent. The mans ealmness left him as if by magic at the sight of the blood. and with loud scream he keeled over in 8 dead taint. They used to tell story there of two men who were working on op. posite sides of buzz saw. The atten ton of one becoming momentarily dis tracted. he ran his finger against the saw, and the severed piece dropped on the other side where his partner was working That worthy picked 1t up, and with the casual remark. Bill. you've dropped something, handed it back to its owner Bill didnt faint, but 1t Is only owing to the superior burst of speed developed by his part ner that he is not doing time for homicide with extenuating cjrcum- stances at Thomaston today
 Whale Disturber.
 Last year the sardine fishery on the Biscayan coasts was a good deal spoiH by the presence of a large whale, which seemed to have got itself "cor- nered" in the wedge of the bay or which the Bidassoa's estuary makes the apex. All the sea here, for some thing like 200 miles out, is shallow. so one can imagine the commotiop that rather badly hustered whals would make on finding himself threat ened by stranding among the sardine population. Naturally enough the l fishery did not prosper with sueh a large disturbing influence about. But l 1t is not little singular that this l year again, so far as the season has gone, little has been doing, and surely l this cannot he occasioned by fear of l last years whale. But whatever the reason, the fact is too true that the sound of the lookout mans horn has been seldom heard (they post a man on vatch for sardines in the bay. whose duty it is to sound his horn on their appearance, to summon the fish ermen to the boats1, even though the ceremony of the "Interlo S1.e los sar- dinos" has taken place, with all it's childish pageantry, in all the BiseayaD villages that the sardlne fishery con- cerns. Luckily the Basques are not wholly dependent upon their fisher les; but. of course, their degree Of sue cess makes difference to thpm.- Gbicagn News.
 Ali Interesting Old Manuscript.
 An interesting old manuscript has just been unearthed and added to the Central Public Library at Hampstead. England It's date is about 1893, and | t is entitled Strange News from Hampstead, giving an account how divers evil spirits did on Saturday, the 17th day of March last, appear in the night on the new walk near ye Wells and tear up hundred trees by the roots and afterwarde almost killed 8 Black Cow, tooke the blood and then vanished away"
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