The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03

SfStapce.
 It was impossible for MT. FitzGerald to raise himself as he had broken his right leg There he remained for seven long hours. supported by a rope and suspended over a precipicc at height of 1o,500 feet, Could a more horrible situation be imagined? There he had to remain all those weary hours hanging between life and death,
 It was the old guide who succeeded m supporting Mir, FitzGerald the whole or the time. Old Amer stood notion less for seven hours. with his legs prop- pea against boulder, the whole weight of MT. FitzGerald being upon his body. Eventually, when help arrived, poor old Amer appeared utterly ex- hausted by the vast strain being put upon him. Eight guides and two phy- sicians conveyed MT. FitzGerald to AL agna. It is needless to say that all tine inhabitants warmly cheered old Amer as he came down the mountain.
 tourist named Gregorex has been on the edge of precipice a much lon ger time than this. but still he was not suspended in midair MT. Gregorex
 was found on a narrow ledge of rock
 p the snir. where he had been six days. Of course he had been the whole
 the time there without food or drink. and if he had moved he would have fal-
 len down the side of precipice 500
 Feet deep. It is surprising how long
 Ife may be maintained in the midst of
 cold. For instance. in Westmoreland. a sheep had been discovered which was
 buried on Dent Fell for twenty-two- days. It was got from the crevasse
 thawed out. when 1t was able to walk a mile and 8 half home.
 There has been built recently great factory chimney tn connection with Lowfield Mill, Belfield. near Roehdale. One day three workmen named Walter Dempsey. Joseph Evans and Samuel Bardsley. were engaged in winding up some of the material for the top when 1t became entangler in the scaffolding and would move neither up nor down. Thus it was that the men were effectu- ally imprisoned in their aerial position at the top of the chimney.
 Eventually the Rochdale steeplejack, Joseph Smith, was summoned to the. scene and he devised a nethpd of es- cape. Acting upon his advice, one of the men tore his shirt into strings and tied the pieces together 10 form rope. One end of this shirt rope was let down and to it was tied a good stout rope, which was hauled up to the top of the chimney and made secure. After this a saddle was fastened 10 the end of the rope and 1t was hoisted up, and eventu- ally the men were lowerSu safely to the kTOunQ dILGF IOuT uOuIS tIupIl5OnhtCAt.
 The other day an errand boy, with a medicine box on his arm, jumped on the back axle of cab at Teignmouth. The result was that the wheel of the conveyance dragged his box into the spokes and the boy after it. The sboy's head was on the outside of tho wheel and his legs inside. and In this position he was dragged distance of 400 yards. At every turn of the wheel he revolved. and yet at the end of his remarkable ride he was not hurt.
 Some little time ago the Keighley po- lice were attracted to q pawnbroker's shop in Park street by the shouts of a man. There they found that the man had the upper part of his body pro- truding through the glass panel Of a door. When the officers asked the man what he was doing he replied that he was wedged in and could not get out
 Then the constabIes tugged and pull ed and jerked and pushed at the human carcass fastened in the door, but 1t was firmly wedged. It was necessary to break in the door before they could possibly release the man. When po- liceman got inside the house to break the door he found a considerable num- Der of articles already packed in readi- ness for removal.
 This is surely one of the most comical captures of a burglar ever known. When upon trial he appealed to be sent to Armley Jail instead or having to lie on the bare boards of KeiRhley Po- lice stattoIi,s he told the magistrate, amid considerable amount of laugh ter, that for a long time he would not like to have to sit and sleep on bare blanks:
 Lance Sergeant Murphy of the Sim gapore water police has had remark able adventure. It was set him to arrest two notorious gamblers, who had taken refuge on barge moored off the boat quay. Immediately the men sighted him they dived under the water. Seargent Murphy. however, was not batfled. for he dived in after them and found the two criminals in the sliry mud at the bottom of the harbor. There he seized hold of them and brought them to the surface. He swan straight-away to the adjoining steps with his captives. and took them off to the police station.
 A blind boy. who was left in charge af bakers horse and van near the Clifton suspension bridge at Bristol, had a most marvellous escape from a cruel death. The horse walked straight over the cliffs and fell to the bottom, a distance of 200 feet. The boy him self tumbled into a tree. whence he was afterwards extrieated unhnrt, while at the foot of the cliff the cart was found smashed to atoms. The escape does not end here, as 1t was found that the pony was un- injured.
 The stout old ship Fanny Kerr has had miraculous escape. She was on fire in the Pacific Ocean in May of last year while on voyage from New South Wales. to San Francisco. A short time ago this ship drifted ashore at South Cape, Formosa. She must have been a de- relict vessel for over twelve months, and during the time she was abandon ed 1t is calculated that she drifted nearly 4,Oo0 miles. This Is not bad for a ship that had been abandoned as un- seaworthy.
 A remarkable escape from death is that of a girl who was admitted to tho St. Bartholomew's Hospital in Ro- chester This female patient was the daughter of a local police officer. and by some accident she had needle thrust right into her heart. A re- markable operation was performed at the hospital, as a result of which, after a considerable amount of suffer- Ing on the girls part, the needle was removed from her heart
 At the thirty-first Congress of the German Chirurgical Association. held at Berlin, very remarkable patient was introduced to the Congress. This was a young man who. attempting sui side, shot himself with a small caliber gun. The bullet had penetrated his heart, but the wound had healed up very rapidly. The Roentgen rays 1 were turned upon the mans heart and he bullet was discovered in the right | ventricIe, bouncing about with each peat The man was for all the world ,s thnnQh his heart were a rattle 1