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terics had run out. The stroke rcchsrged
| the batteries and the occupants Of the
| machine ran Il homo.
] 4 bolt struck the home Of Kelar Crca-
/ gen at Ringrold. Md. running around his
! straw hat to above his left ear. then down
, the side of his neck to his body. tearing the
shirt collar. then down his right leg tear
| ing the shoe in half and splitting the great
toe. His skin was scorchcd. but his hair
/ was not even singcd.
The chatelaine OF the castle OF Bcnaton-
! naire France, was sitting in a chair when
struck by a bolt She was herself unn-
jured. but on the back of her dress was
found perfect picture of the chair. TO its
minutest detail
what's In Namet
To commemorate the years yellow foyer
! epidemic a New orleans couple named
their baby Stegomya Fuclata Wilson.
! "Old Tabhy," chief Of n tribe of Utah
Indians, died in October of a cataleptic 1T.
) "Damsite" is to be the name OF one ot
! Texas new postofiiccs There are irriga-
| ton works there.
At a wedding in Poplar Eng, the brides
J name was Wedlcck and the brldegroom's
Marriage.
Poultry in odd Roles
| A brown African goose i'm North Attle-
| boro, Mass, amazed its owner by pro-
duCing an egg measuring eleven and seven
eighths inches in circumference, while "A
hen at Clevcrton. Eng, was so extrava-
giant as TO include three yolks in one she'll
1t was fortunate for Mamie Gaulson OF
! Fort Dodge, la, that she had chicken for
dinner on January p, for I'm the gzzard
Of the fowl she found a nockluce she had
lost two years before.
Mass, has a hen which lays eggs each
| bearing the initial NJ tor w ON the shell.
Every time this fowl lays an egg she
pcclls on the kitchen window till her
mistress gathers in the acquisition.
Tragedies In Miniature.
IL might as well be dead as alive. I've
nothing To- I've for" As a tramp on the
road near Lahigh England. said this he
was struck by lightning dying instantly
During the singing Of a pathetic song, pic
turing "the old home" scenes, "a young man
in Il Chicago theater shot himself. (Feb-
ruary)
Sent to bed in punishment for a little
Wughtinoss, which, it trdnspircd later, he
ana not commit, Harry Amber. 14-ycar-
cd London boy, hanged himself
At Stoke-on-Trent, England. in September
Mr. Latham assisted in caring for a boy
killed by Il dray. The face was bruised be-
|ond recognition, but "a more thorough ex-
animation of the body showed the rescucr
he had been working over his own son.
knnsnsesque.
y Topeka girl, Mabel Hudson, saved her
fathers wheat crop from a threatening rain
by giving hugs and kisses as prizes to the
laborers who shocked tho most grain
Kansas has prohibited the printing OF
menu cards in any language save English.
The worst hail storm in the history of the
state visited the eastern counties last
July The stones fiat in shape, were manS
Of them twelve inches across. Hogs wer,
killed and horses and cows, blinded by the
missiles, stampeded into the wire fencing
and were badly cut up.
, Some oddities I'm Divorce.
Abraham Leakin, a New York tailor
, brought action in July for divorce from hi.
wife, Dvos alleging that "she" is a man
, They had been married eleven years.
, A Long Island man, whose wife had de
cided to establish residence in Sioux Falls
a that she might divorce him, Travelled ives
with her, as she was unaccustomed to goin,
about alone-and didn't like to- anyway
A Manchester. England, mechanic applied
, for separation from his wife on the groun,
! of her goodness" "She puts in so mucI
time prayin' for me" said he, that sh
-. has no time for homework, an have to d
the cookin'."
About the Old Folks.
James Barnes, aged So, completed ii
September the walk from New York to De
Moines, Ia, while in that same month L
B. Barrett, 70. of Wichita, Kan. climbe
p Pixies Peak, making the round trip i
| twenty-six hours.
v The roster of the Mississippi Agricul
n tural college bears the name of Williar
stanifer who. at 20, has started his col
, legiate education.
: Logan township, Michigan, has produce
a the prize bridegroom in George Sintor
q who, at 9S, and with six grandchildren
d has just welded a Miss Maud Love, age
a.
just Happened by Chance.
!, A house in Saybrook. Conn, was set o
}, fire in April by the rays of sunlight &c
- cused on curtain by a goldfish globe
d A Canadian farmer, hurting slede
h hammer at fleeing fox in June unearthe
aluable silver and nickel mine.
= Sam White of Riverside, Cal, becam
r, the father of a boy on Washington's brit
n day. OF his nine other sons one was Dor
k on February 20 two on April Fools da
l. one on Inauguration day, one on "Groun,
n hogs day" February p, and one c
Thanksgiving.
e, Babies and Funerals.
NJ Marie Won Mater, a 5-year-old Ne
" Yorker, lost a doll in Central park. adve
lg tised for it, and received seven dolls
y answer.
y In February, in accordance with her wi
Mrs. Constance Miller of New Rochell
n. Y, was cremated her ashes placed
a a work basket of which she had be,
to fond, and then buried in her own yard.
I'd Babies arrived last Good Friday I'm Il
homes OF twin sisters, living within a bio,
in of each other on Colgan street, Loui
at vile. There was but 6fty-six minutes d
n ference in the time of the births.
At his last request Welchman vi
tn died in February, was buried in his Su
tn day clothes, his sealskin cap on his hea
TT his walking stick by his side. his pipe
he his fingers, and plenty of tobacco in !
pouch.-Chicago Tribune.
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