Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-31
ODD HAPPENINGS OF 1905
Play Of Human Lights and Shadows in the
Minor Events Of the Year.
RPPLES ON THE CURRENT OF ulFI
The Marvellous, the I.auRhnbIe and the
Pathetic Feature i'm the Pro-
cession of Days-An In
teresting Record.


teresting Record.
When the dying year was young farm
hand near st. Paul drank q small bottle
of nitroglycerin on a wager on the way
home he was overcome ny the cold. and
when his friends tried to thaw him out
he lost his winnings and everything else
save two buttons.
Until the first frost there were to be
seen on a tree near Thames.
England. several semi-roasted apples An
auto had caught fire beneath the branches
and the flames had cooked the fruit while
destroying the car
Last February the herring came down
Departure bay, B. c., in such numbers
that their rush through the waters sounded
like escaping steam. This lasted twenty
one hours, at the end OF which time nearly
1000 tons of fish were in and near the chan
mel, aforementioned by their own density
LIES Little Ironies.
General Dokstouroh, running upstairs 70
thank the minister of war for ordering
him to the front (he had begged TO be al
lowed to die soldiers DEATH. was claimed
by heart disease at the top step.
The only essay entered for the annual
prize offered by the Partisan Academy Of
Moral and Political Sciences did not re-
ceive the award. as it was too illcgible to
be read
Sir Alfred Harmsworth offered Sj,J re-
ward for information which might lead TO
the arrest OF certain reckless motorist
who turned out TO be Sir Alfr"d's brother
Dying in poverty IN "a san Francisco
hospital, Luscomb Searvs received word
that the British government aad just al
/ lowed his claim of $1,000 arising from
losses during the Boer war.
Told of the GentIer Sex.
In October Mrs Ella Goltz of Ports
| mouth o., swore out warrant for Il cir
Gus elephant, which had eaten her gold
watch and smashed in a brand new Paris
| hat.
A Cologne dairymaid was arrested FOR
bathing herself daily in the milk she later
| sold.
negress living near Atlanta, Ga. has
to have her shoes made to order. Finished,
they are twenty-three inches long and
weigh eighteen pounds.
A June bride entered a grocery store at
Fort Fairfield, Nc. to buy IAN empty
barrel of -four that she might make hen
coop for her dog"
Stranger Than Fiction.
At the exact hour of the assassination OF
the Russian Grand Duke Sergius his god
daughter, in the Alexis palace, declares he
| opened the door of her room, covered
| with bleeding wounds and exclaimed
Look, young princess!"
Ember Mason, who lives near Independ.
ence City, Mo. has built his own coffin
from tree he planted when he first came
to Jackson county sevcnty-two years ago
while an Irish merchant was buried in the
spring. his requiem being sung from q
photograph record he himself had made
just before death.
St Louis attorneys found in February
missing heiress to an estate through TIL,
continuous cries of pet parrot of the de
ceased. Il want to see my Baltimore
baby!" was the clue which led to sue
cess in the city named.
Our Four-Footed Friends.
During l. Manchurian engagement
Japanese officer found a Picking spanie
wandering lost between the opposing lines
1t came to whistle and was at once affec
tionate. Later, when the charge sounded
the dog started forth with his new friends
but, as it could not keep up with the rush
the Jap tucked it under his left arm, ant
so led his men to victory.
|
fort, being taken to a country seat othe
than the one where it had been born
turned back home" after two unhapp,
days. covering the 800 intervening miles il
safety.
A veteran police horse October Is
climbed the steps of a house on Forty
fourth street, New York, and thumpe
with his hoofs on the door, helping arous
the sleeping tenants Of the smoke-fille
rooms.
Some Weird wills.
An Australian detective died in Apri
dividing a $4,000 property into six shares
seeming eQuable to him. These division
were specified in writing, placed in scale
envelopes the six heirs drawing them wit
no clew to the contents.
Baron Rothschild was named sole benz
fciary under the will OF a Nice mise
. Abraham Frdler, who left him $4,000 o
: the principle that money must see
y money" The baron hunted up the rels
i tives of the departed and gave each a
equal share.
= This, the last will and testament of m
: John Thomas" read certain documer
= in Montreal last July. Il give all m
y things to my relations TO be divided anon
:, them the best way possible n. B.-If an,
u body kicks up row he isn't TO have an!
thing"
Red Tape and the Law.
le In a law suit at Aberdeen, Wash, over
II horse whose death the owner attributed
ID a man who had hired it, the court decid,
the animal had committed suicide.
l. Traced by an impression OF his teeth
/ a half eaten apple left in house
NJ Basle Switzerland, burglar has co
in fessed and been sentenced.
In May the famous Stevens against Smi
"cow case" was closed in Colorado, wi
n a total of $500 attorneys fees, plus cou
charges The COW, worth only $50 in L
i first place, has been dead fifteen years,
BY Way of Compensation.
Rudolph Mailer, a new York civil enl
neer, was uncivil enough TO hug Nj
., Gladys Chapman. overlooking the fact III
a he did not know the lady. The magistra
~ thought the embrace worth six months q