The Pensacola journal., 1906-08-19
Quaint and Curious
Things i'm Florida

more fragile were unhjured. Mrs
Keck was alone dn the house at the
time and her escape from death seems
mira culouS. She was working i'm the
kitchen when the storm came ON, and
as it became severe she set aside heI
work and went to the front room to
wait while the storm passed over
She sat in am easy chair near the
window with a small table just before
her, and when the shock came, the
table was thrown across the room and
the castings of the window by which
she sat torn off, but she escaped with
out the slightest Injury. No fire re-
suited from the stroke, although SOME
parts of the woodwork were blacken-
ed as if gunpower had exploded
against it. The damage to the build
ing was fully covered by insurance.
Jensen Cor. st. Lucie Tribune.
Meteorite at Live Oak.
On Tuesday evening of this week
while Mrs. A. L. McClendon was sit
ting ON the veranda of her home, she
saw a vivid flash and heard a noise
like a stone striking the fence directly
I'll u1O1lI uCI. HOHC 'Wrto q ICh
feet of it and rushing out, picked up
the stone. 1t proved to be a meteroite
about the size of small egg and was
hot when picked up The stone looks
like the common variety of iron stone,
Is of a brown color and IS heavy. 1t
is ON exhibition at this objective
Oak Democrat.
Wonderful Fish Stories.
South Beach suburbanftes come to
town every day with wonderful fish
stories The last catch heard from
was made wednesday, and If the fish
ernran is to be believed forty bushes
were landed Soms Of the fish tip
ped the scales at forty pounds. The
man who brought the news ds forty
years old, and has been a member of
the South Beach colony forty hours
st. Augustine Record.
A Disguised Fisherman.
A good story is told by ST. Angus
tine gentleman who happened to be in
West Palm Beach last week He was
on the wharf on the shores of Lake
Worth, enjoying the beauties of M
ture. which abound in great variety in
this favored place, when hts attention
was drawn to a well-dreSsed yourg
man who had been fishing from the
wharf for some time without success
After while the fisherman was joiE-
ed by very nice looking young lady
wearing a bright new rmg. She was
evidently a mascot, for shortly after
She came he caught a large trout
which must have weighed or Z
pounds. After looking at it, she
screamed: "Oh, John! John, it's alive
isn't It? IT'S alive, You must throw
1t right back into the waterl" which
he did. The man disgustedly picked
up his fishing tackle and went away,
the lady followng."-St. Augustine
Record.
Enjoy the Electric Car.
Trust an Indian for patronizing that
which is new and exhibiting a keen
interest for the curious This norm.
ing quite bunch of them, including a
number of boys and women, came in
from the Everglades, and for the first
time in their lives gazed upon a stree,
car. AT first 1T was a curiosity to them,
and they watched n with amazement,
the lack of locomotive power appar-
entity being the unfathomable feature:
but, trust the Indian for initiating. The
white man was riding, and he would
ride, too. Then the whole tribe piled
on the car and took a ride to the de-
pot, not once but several times in sue
cession. and they are still riding AT
frequent intervals and enjoying them
selves as one Of the boys said: "Fine:
heap good; fine."-Miami Metropoi.s