The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-19
ESCAPES FROM DEATH
REAPER BOILED EVEN WHEN HE IS ORIGINAL.
Instances to Prove It-Dog Who Left
 His Tail Under the Wheels Rose Brady Sewed Button !. on Her Finger.

and in stranger sequence than anything vaudeviiie.s says The New York Tribune. Within the. last two weeks the newspa- pers of the country have chronicled in stant deaths and miraculous escapes un- til the ordinary person who leans tO the pessimstic might easily despair of ever dying a natural death with his boots off. It is only that the escapes equal in number the fatalities which lends er- cou agement to. the depressed individual who may keep statistics.
 One of the most startling and realistic of escapes from instant death comes from a rock quarry near Beatrice, Neh.. Edward Nolan, a laborer, was working in ock quarry when q friend appeared son the bank above, holding up a pocket flask in the winter sunlight. Nolan made record-breaking time up .he bank bottle to his lips about ten tons of earth and stone caved In upon the spot where he had stood only thirty seconds before. It is awful to contemplate what wouSi have happened had Nolan been a total abst aincr.
 Near Indianapolis, Ind, Thomas Sloane had close call when meteor, about as large as hts fist, struck in the opening through it, burned his leg in a painful manner, and then entered the earth to such a depth that his neighbors are still
 Escaped by His Tail.
 liilS tS tIulle as tipoe d call us Ddiiltl Dewitt's dog had in chasing Ike Browns cat in Portland, Ind. Ponto was in full tilt after the gray tabby, which, with bristiing tail. shot across the railroad tracks. A limited train which had got a through signal was coming at forty five miles an hour down the track. The cat cleared 1t. but Ponto's tail was cut on. leaving him only about four and or- half inches of wagging length.
 Max 5Vochner, a 1Sryear-od schoolbJy of Oakland, Cat, adsearache for week before a doctor was called in, to discover that white navy bean with a curled up sprout an inch long was buried in the ear. Max had been trying to pass a. bean by sleight of hand from an ear to his kneepan, had failed, and then forgot all about it.. He will know beans next time.
 For several months Miss Florence Blu chanan of Jackson, Tenn, has not been coming up to her record in ice cream stunts. Her best fellow had not con- pllined, but she had. and eminent phy- scians' had been consulted. all to no pur- pose. On December E, however. the -nys- tery was explained. when d six-inch liz ard. alive, came from her stomach. Of culirse. mo lizard likes ice cream, and tho whole mystery was explained. The Memphis Scimitar telling the story. adds in soberness: Miss Buchanan now bids fair to live long and be happy, and, whatever fate may attend her, she will have a reptile story to relate to her de- scendants that will be true, if 1t is hor- rifying.
 a. Soup or a Headstone.
 Alonzo. Nash, near Yellow River, Ga, was playing with an old gun barrel, which, of course, was not loaded. Alorzo was filling it with mud and water and sloshing around generally one afternoon. and when supper tim. came he dropped it, leaving the mud and water to freeze in the barrel. Next morning he put the ech of,the barrel in the fire and was blowing down the muzzle, when. the .un- expected happened. Ii is still uncertain whether Alonzo will have pretty head stone over his grave or whether he will live on soup the rest of his life.
 Time was. long ago. when stove blew up, that the owner was arrested for steal ing wood that had been loaded This does not hold good in these days of wa. ter backs ins kitchen ranges, and when Mrs. J. H. Handwerker of Memphis, Tenn. built a fire in her stove the other morning and then saw most of it go out through the roof she had only sympathy in her hurts. The water back was frozen up and the steam generated ruined the range.
 Amos Dusenberry, clad in shirt sleeves and corduroy trousers was forced to leap from the fourth floor of burning hotel at Rochester, Ind. Amos struck shade -etrated the base of the corduroys, hold ing him suspended head down, thirty feet from the ground, until the bucket brigade went up after him.
 At Gainesville, O., q Lake Shore Road brakeman named Hess stepped from. side track, backward, just in time for the cOwcatcher of the Lake Shore llm- ited to catch him. He was thrown twen- ty feet into a ditch. but got up and walked 200 yards to the station. There physicians found that he had not bone broken and few bruises.
 Edward McHarnes, an employe of knitting works at Pontiac, Mich, went into a room one night to clean a shaft which was making more revolutions in a minute than all South America ever had. When McHarnes came to he was lying on the floor with only shoes and stockings on his feet, and he was feel ing sorer than a member of the Altgeld Democracy in Chicago. No bones were broken however, and, as it was dark night. McHarnes Fot home without scan- dalizing the neighborhood.
 Sewed Button on Her Finger.
 Rose Brady, 17 years old. is employed in an overall factory in Mission Street. San Francisco. Rose was working at machine which was riveting buttons on pants in sucH a way that d shingle nall never would have to be substituted for it when all at once the machine drove a button shank through her finger riv- citing the overalls to her finger at the first joint. Rose let go of holler worse than d Chicago bridgetender who has to sweep off the snow. It was thought her finger would have to be amputated, but physician finally cut the button out. saving the member.
 Woolen underwear my scratch in the early Indian summer, but if the person V years skirts and expects to Haunt around an open fire only asbestos can beat the wool. as proved by tho experience of the 2-year-olI son of J. G. Boydston of Co., lumbus. 0. Little Willie got mixed up with the grate and when his mother saw him the reporter said he was "a seeth ing mass of flames" The mother threv q woolen rug over the child and when the smoke had rolled away little Willie was only slightly slnged. wooden un- derskirt keeping off the fire.
 The 2-year-old son of J. Wesley Won NeiJa of Schuylkill Haven. Pa.. did quite as intcros osting q trick. however. without even winking. Little John w. in run ming across the fiber tripped over the last part of his name and fell on the soft spot in the top of his head. An eight-ouncc carpet tack chanced to be standing on its head just where the child brain. The mother pulled the tack out, and. says The Philadelphia Ledger. so far there have been no serious ef- fects'
 In Lincoln, Neb.. a few days ago two negroes got into controversy touching tine merits of the IIayPauncefote treaty. The negro who was getting the worst of the arS umeut. suddenly drew dagger and plunged it in the right spot just to miss two ribs. Fortunately, however. ] big suspender buckle caught the point Of the knife and broke the blade half Tn club Since that fight on December l9 it is said that nearly every negro in Lincoln who had been wearing belt has discarded it for pair of suspenders with big buckles.
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