The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

toe. His skin was scorched but his hair was not even singed.
 The chatelaine of the castle of Bena- tonnaire, France. was sitting in a chair when struck by bolt. She was herself unintured, but on the back of her dress was found perfect pict- ore of the chair. to its minutest detail.
 Stranger Than Fiction.
 At the very 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 Prin- cess!"
 Ember Mason, who lives near Inde- pendence City, Mo, has built his own coffin from tree he planted when he first came to Jackson County. 72 years ago; while an Irish merchant was buried in the Spring. his requiem being sung from a photograph record he himself had made just before death. St. Louis attorneys found in Feb ruary missing heiress to an estate, through the continuous cries of pet parrot of the deceased T want to see my Baltimore baby" was the clue which led to success in the city named. Poultry in odd Roles. A brown African goose in North | Attlebore, Mass. amazed its owner by l producing an egg measuring II 7-S | inches in circumference, while hen at CIeVerton. England. was so extrav- agant as to include three yolks in one shell.
 It was fortunate for Mamie Gaulson. of Fort Dodge, Ia, that she had chick en for dinner on January 21, for in the gizzard of the fowl she found necklace she had lost two years ago.
 Mrs. Lucy Seymour. of Great Bar | rington, Mass, has hen which lays g. 4zI \ L1r on the she'll Every time this fowl | lays an egg she pecks on the kitchen window till her mistress gathers in the acquisition.
 Tragedies fin Little. might as well be dead as alive. I've nothing to live for" As tramp on the road near. Lehigh. England. said this. he was struck by lightning dying instantly.
 song. picturing the home" scenes, a young man in d Chicago theatre. shot himself (Febraury)
 Sent to bed in punishment for lit- | tie naughtiness, which, 1t transpired later he did not commit, Harry Ambler, 14-year-old London boy, hung him self
 At Stoke-on-Trent, England, in Sept
 ember. a MT. Latham assisted in caring
 for boy killed by dray The face was bruised beyond recognizing, but a more thorough examination of the body showed the rescuer he had been
 working over his own son.
 Kansasesque "BIeedings."
 A Topeka girl. Mabel Huston. saved her fathers wheat crop from threat ening rain by giving hugs and kisses as prizes to the laborers who shocked the most grain
 Kansas has prohibited the print ing of menu cards in any language save English.
 The worst hail storm in the history
 of the State visited the eastern count ies late in July. The stones flat in shape. were many of them 12 inches
 across. Hogs were killed. and horses and cows. blinded by the missels,
 stampeded into the wire fencing and
 were badly cut up.
 Divers DlvOrces.
 Abraham Leakin, a New York tailor. brought action in July from his wife Dvosi, allegin that she" Is man. They had been married II years. A long island gentleman. whose wife had decided to establish residence in l Sioux Falls that she might divorce him, travelled west with her. as she was unaccustOmed to going about alone.-and didn't like to. anyway. A Manchester, England. mechanic l applied for separation from his wife on the ground of her goodness She l puts in so much time prayin' for me, | said he, 'sthat she has no time for