Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-02-09
CURIOSITY or THE NEWS.
How the Daily Paper is Freighted with
Strange Things.

How tho Daily Paper 10 Fre1Enreu Win
strange Things.
A man seeking the unusual in litera-
ture need not look outside his news
paper. The news of the day Is freight
ed with strange things.
From Eldorado, Iowa. comes the
story of Henry Shafer. who. though
still young man, has been struck by
lightning three times; was wounded,
MANNED and left for dead in a mine
cave-in: fell through a trestle-bridge,
breaking three ribs; was shot and
blown twenty-five feet by the prema-
ture explosion of cannon. losing an
eye. one arm and two fingers; was
crushed under a ton of clay, breaking
both legs and several ribs; fell fifty
feet down cliff in an Eldorado stone
quarry. and was thrown from horse
and dragged twenty rods along
barbed-wire fence"
A despatch from Wilkes-Barre says:
"Mrs. James Kastmere, of Edwards
vile, is cutting a new set of teeth at
the age of sizty-eight. She has worn
false teeth for thirty years."
Voltaire Township, Kan, sends the
news that "a. S. Clifford was stunned
by a meteor few evenings ago. Just
as he stepped from his house he saw
an approaching streak of light, and
turned toward the door, calling as he
did so to the rest of the family to
come and see the meteor. His hand
had hardly reached the door knob
when he sank down, struck by q
meteor He regained himself in a mo-
ment, but his sight was affected"
Paterson, N. j., sends word that
peter Frank, fruit dealer, after
carrying a large bunch of bananas
from one part of his store to another,
found an alligator six inches long in
his hair"
Duluth, Mimi. contributes this: "a
stopped several minutes by six black
bears. incidentally a dozen women
were frightened when the motorman
stopped the car and called to the con-
ductor that there were bears on the
track"
This comes from Memphis: "While
digging in one of the forts of the
mound builders. thought to be as old
as the pyramids, farmer living near
here found an earthen vessel contain
ing part IF an ear of corn. He planted
a few grains. and in spite of their
great age, they sprouted and bore.
The yield was sparse. the grains small
and sooty. very hard and of shape
never before seen in the Mississippi
Valley"
A telegram from Victoria. 3. c., says
that ''the whaling steamer Orion, Cap
tain Balloon, figured in an exciting
adventure last week, the outcome of
which was for two hours in doubt,
While a monster sulpll1lr-bottom whale.
seventy-nine feet in length, flowed the
steamer seward at a better than
fifteen knot speed"
Indianapolis reports that ga dream
pillow. stuffed with feathers from
twenty three fowls. is one of the treas
ured effects of Mrs. Bessie Martin,
wife of Eddie Martin. and to obtain
it she has filed a replevin suit against
L
Moore. Justice of the Peace"
Cripple Greek, Col. reports that &c.
3. Barrett, of Wichita, Kan, seventy
four years old, and his great grand
son, Hal Brentlinger. four years old,
climbed to the summit of Pixies Peak
and returned after an absence of TWEEN
ty-six hours"
Charleston, S. c.. says: 1.-The Clyde
Steamship Company brough' carload
of ants to port few days ago from
New York.
San Francisco sends word that
"Jean Bernadou, native of France, has
had a nail removed from his arm
which had been travelling through his
body for twenty years"
New York furnishes the story that
the freight steamer st. Andrew struck
a sleeping whale. 'The officer OH the
bridge also saw the whale and de-
cided that it was asleep. He set the
ships whistle footing, but the whale
did not move 1t was not used to
alarm clocks run by steam. But it
woke I'D with a start when the stem
of the st. Andrew hit it near its tail,
and, waving bloody fiukes in the air.
vanished under the sea. leaving a
red wake. 1t appeared again appar-
emily only slightly damaged, and took
a look at the freighter, perhaps with a
view of recognizing her next time."-
Washington Star.