The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-05-31
WON FROM DISASTER
SUCCESS AT TIMES FELLOWS SEEM
ING ILL rUcX.


closed Cape Monies Gold Secret.
The Origin of Tinted Paper.
The Baku petroleum deposits, which
have yielded millions of pounds worth
Of fine oil, are situated in Russian eau
casus.
Years ago a number of cattle were
placed on several tracts of land well
covered with heritage. The animals,
however, refused to feed at first, but
later, in their hunger, they ate up the
grass ravenously. All Of them were
| taken i'll, and a number died.
The cause of their death puzzled the
! owner for some time. In the long run
he discovered with the assistance of an
Englishman, that below the meadows
We're rich oil springs which caused the
grass to be poisoned with paraflin. The
loss of his cattle brought a fortune.
\ summer or two back a sea wall on
the Suffolk coast was blown down dur
ing a strong gale, and when the tide
rose many acres OF low lying land were
! flooded by the sea. The farmers who
rented the land were in despair, and in
order to save their crops they started
draining the water off.
Two days later the water sodden
meadows were a sight wonderful to be-
hold They were one thick carpet of
fine mackerel! A big school of the fish
had swept in through the breach in the
embankment and been carried to the
fields by the incoming sea.
The farmers hired scores of carts to
collect the mackerel, and within TWEEN
ty-four hours the fish had been packed
into boxes and were en- route to Bill
lingsgate, where they were sold for
over 5000.
Starving, i'll clad and bootless, Robert
Hyams, a homeless Jew, wandered to
the top of lonely hill on the Yorkshire
moors There was strong gale blow
ing from the east, and to protect him
self from the cold blast he entered a
big shed of wood and gorse on the sum
NIT which was used to store fodder for
the sheep.
Stepping through the door, which
opened to the eastward, he was aston
ished to find inside over sixty wild
ducks, half stunned, but quacking VIC
lently. He slammed the door to and
started catching the birds and wiring
ing their necks.
The shed lay right in the flight lines
of the myriads of wild ducks that come
to Britain from the north, and, flying
low in their hundreds, some of them
had entered the door of the shed, which
had been left open by the shepherds,
and stunned themselves on the rear
wall.
Hyams sold the lucky haul for a sum
exceeding IS, and with this he was able
10 clothe himself respectfully and thus
find employment.
On the beach which fringes the preci-
pieces below Cape Nome there is now a
prosperous city peopled by 10000 min
ers, but at che time, and not so very
long ago, the spot was uninhabited.
The discovery of the gold in the dis
trict and its ultimate prosperity was
entirely due to a seal.
Two American hunters had wounded
the strange creature, and it led them a
pretty dance across the ice and into
an unknown bay, where the seal was
killed after badly wounding one of the
hunters.
In its death struggles the seal flung
up the ground, and the hunters, to their
agreeable surprise, found themselves
on a golden strand-the richest one in
the world.
The death Of mule brought great
wealth to Frederick Butler, a Klon-
diker, who took part in the memorable
rush to the gold fields of Yukon. He
left his mule standing one day on a
plot OF land far away from the
claims" and another miner who had
grudge against his fellow digger shot
the animal in the neck with his re-
volver.
The mule fell and in its agony kick
ed up the ground with its hoofs. When
its owner returned he found several
pebbles" of strange weight and shape |
lying around the dead animal He
cleansed the supposed pebbles and they
proved to be nuggets of virgin gold.
The dying mule had struck one of the
richest veins in Klondike.
A similar case OF gold being discov-
cred by an animal occurred in Scotland |
in 1868. A dog, badly wounded by a
shot from a gamekeeper's gun, scratch
ed up some gold on ground which was |
afterward known as the Dunrobin gold |
mines, near Golspie. Over 100000 !
worth Of the precious metal was wash
ed out Of the mine by the owner of the
fortune bringing dog.
The Patori silver mines in Spain |
were also discovered by a wounded |
dog, and it is said that the famous dia-
mond mines at Kimberley were first
revealed to a wide awake Boer by
SOW which he had shot
Gold to the value Of some hundreds
Of pounds was dug out Of portion of
the ground belonging to a Mr.. Ireton of |