The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-15

done up in sl and s bills filehed from her last employer. A New Orleans of- fieer apprehended still more singular thief. He frankly admits he had been ldozing a bit.
 As he loIled in a shaded spot in park, what walked him was, very oddly, an alarm clock buzzing at his ear. He Jumped up at the same instant that his left foot was trodden upon by run hing man who had in his hand the lcIanging clock. The officer called lstentorian ''Halt!" and the fellow stop bed. Just then a head was thrust from neighboring widow, and the cry of Thief, thief!'' rang out upon the early morning air. The owner of the time pieee had been desirous of taking o'clock train 1t seemed. But instead of the clock, 1t was the thief-how strange 6 thief he learned a short time after. tThe fellow was found to have in his rooms the most amazing collection of clocks of every order He loved to take Time by the forelock. Stealing clocks Twas his way of having good time. But The might have foreseen so plain a fate as awaited him. The ordor of onions lwere not more marked, the propensity of murder to out were not more certain, ithan his liability sooner or later to come up with inexorable destiny in the Eshape of a 40-cent alarm, It is strik- ling illustration of the same text that is Iset forth with equal power in Anna Karenina."
 FREAKS OF LIGHTNING.
 In the occurrences of any summer I lfehtnin is almost certain to play g tstriking part The usual performances of lightning are of a pretty fiashy char lacter, and we are so accustomed to tales of miraculous escapes that to rank iamong the seasons stories thee yarn must be something extramundane. They I do tell of party of campers in the Moosic Mountains of Pennsylvania, IWhose company the lightning eourted with offensive intimacy. It struck III Eoakz tree that was four feet thick, split lit in half, and gently laid one piece ldown in front of their tent The falling timber skinned the ear of one of the iparty. One of the men was cleaning q. bicycle outside the canvas, The bolt made pair of pinwheels out of 1t and lover them set off a portrait of George Washington, an American flag, and l"Good Night" in colored fire. The same lbolt branded skull and crossbones on the cheeek of another of the party and Ifizzed all their ginger ale. A harvest lhand out in Kansas had cross burnt into his forehead by a stroke of light lining several days ago. II naturally in lcapacitated him for work for few |days, and the harvesting of Kansas crops is seriously retarded in conse- lquence. In town in Ohio fireman was at work with his company during Ia storm. A bolt struck the spray he was lsending up, came down the stream. melted the nozzle in his hands. and killed him where he stood.
 4 man sat in Chicago park last month. Suddenly-th things always occur suddenly suddenly, right there lin broad daylight, there was enacted before his eyes by ghosts q murder. The shock was so great that he was clapped,
 a nadnan, into an asylum an hour af-
 terWard. At an insane asylum in New
 York some of the female Inmates were coaxed into nail driving contest The population Tn the neighborhood heard of lit, and lynching was spoken of. A South Carolina man who has been all lmost totally blind since childhood lcame to town one day spent the morn ling in conversation at the corner groc- Iery, and in getting upto go accidentally pushed his hat rim into his eyes. His
 vision has been perfect ever since. An Iemploye of a New York State lumber lcamp heard rustling back of the tent
 one night. He concluded that the camp lpig had once more escaped, and suc-
 ceeded in chasing it back into the pen tafter three hours hard work Next morning he went round to the pen to Esee that the pig was still secure, and
 found that the animal he had chased
 in was a black bear, and his work was lall for nothing.
 The streets of some California mining towns have been literally paved with
 gold; that is, with ore too poor to be lprofitable worked. Yet after a hard rair lthe inhabitants have often picked up 8
 $40 nugget, and not always the same nugget. Some residents of Tampa are hunting all over the Florida Keys fol Igold supposed to have been hidder
 there by the pirate Maxine, The United
 States Government is trying to locate 1.-two small islands in the Pacific that ars
 playtng a shell game on the geogra.
 phers. In. short length of time. they
 were raised above the ocean wave, an6
 now have all but disappeared.
 A little Illinois boy went swimming 1T
 Ia pleasure pond and felt something lseize his foot. In panic he rushed ou
 of the water, and saw that he had push. led a diamond ring on one of his toes. I
 Twas plainly worth several hundred dol liars. The owner was found, and the generous lady took, the boy right bacl Unto her kitchen and gave him a greai lbig piece of apple pie.
 A FEW OTHERS.
 Word reached the New orleans polio ithat an elephant had broken loose il the town from a traveling circus, ant
 Twas devouring the populace. Officers ] were sent out broadcast, hunting il vain for the beast. They inquired al they went. One said it was simply bear, and had eaten only two people l Another declared it was nothing but ISt. Bernard dog that had bitten a boy