Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-01-10
HUMAN ODDITIES IN 1905.


Those who may think that life is be- |
coming unduly monotonous and that So
ciety Is petrifvinq into a cold and dreary |
Journalism. should consider a few of the |
odd events and the freak record smashers |
of 1905. as observed and set down by the !
chroniclers of the period The incidents
cited are but samples and might be null
tiplied indefinitely. Who can be melan.
choiv when such things are going oni
For instance. on one of those rare .Iune
DAYS that the poets tell about. Phila-
deinhia woman willed her sister $3.50 on
condition that She would always allow
their father to have "all the cigars he
wants and also all the vests he likes 10
wearn
piltshurp furnished several episodes
that livcued things up n bit. A brave
woman IN that city wore hoopskirts
through the streets causing a crowd TO
assemble which imbeded traffic and had
TO be dispersed bv the police. Another
pittsburn woman. finding that a tele-
phone company was preparing TO string
wires about her house and had already
dug six holes for poles. became exceed
ngv wroth. Having six children, She
deposited a child in each hole and then
dclied the worllmen 10 proceed.
Pancakes broke nm an Iowa home in
the snappv DAYS of February when flap
lacks are supposed 10 hit the right spot
At Sanborn. Mrs Carrie Fields got a di.
vorce from Dir. L. S. Fields because the
husband did not like her make Of pan
cakes and ridiculed them. She testified
that the expression on the doctors face
while eating the cakes was such that it
might work permanent injury to her
health
The high water mark in family QUAR-
rels was reached in Kansas CITY. One
raw january morning found Mrs. Their
esa sohuiul and her husband John in the
police court. where judicial aid was in
yoked to shake John loose from his do
nestle moorines. Theresa had given him
800 to leave her and never return, but
he kept his promise only till the money
was spent. Then the wife confded in the
court that she and John were married in
| Germany IA years AGO and had quarreled
every day since. which means a total of
more than 5000 ouarrels.
The champion ice cream eater of 1905
was not, as many might suppose. senti-
mental young woman, but a husky street
car conductor of West PHILADELPHIA. A
wager of 81 and Garqantuan appetite
| inspired Raw Vincent TO the pastronomic
/ feat of hiding away Is plates of ice
cream. q pork sandwich and a glass of
milk to TOP off with. all within two hours
and without a subsequent funeral notice
With record of having served more
| than 2.500OOO drinks at the Bellevue
Stratford Hotel. Philadelphia, Tomasso
Ruqqo IN March celebrated the 23d ami
versarv of his eplovment there. his drink
| checks figuring up SGll.9l5.
1t is well known that a good deal of
beer is drunk in Munich at all times, but
during an unusual hot wave in Septem-
Der the thirsty inhabitants of that CITY
made record. The heat lasted a week.
during which time $4,000 gallons Of beer
was consumed. or two and one-half gall
Ions for every man. woman and child in
the city.
",rhe average length Of married life
seems to be two months remarked
Judge Dunno, in March. when a lot of
divorve cases was being disposed of in
his court. This was before he was elect
ed mayor of Chicago
On the same dav II divorces were
granted bv three Cook county Judges, in
Guiding Judge Dunno. who had the larg-
est urist i'm the legal hopper The average
time consumed bv the hearings which
preceded the issuance of the DEGREES was
eight minutes. One hearing oulv took
three inutes. Three took only four
minutes each. No more than Is minutes
was devoted 10 any of the II cases. This
Is a divorce clearing house record that II
wonld be hard to beat.
Divorces being SO often the sequence of
marriage. this seems an onportune point
af which 10 insert the st. Joseph. Mich.
record i'm wedloel,. Figures indicate that
The wholesale marriage record of St
.Iosepb for 1908 would eclipse that Of any
previous wear. More than 10000 licenses
had then been issued and the rush was
still as great as during the summer.
on November 10Th the Rev. J Z. Tor.
qcnsen. widely known as the marrying
PREACHER. died at his home in Chicago. He
Ind nerformed N 600 marriage cerenonie.
during the 36 vears he was a minister. II
h believed he held the worlds record fol
tvinp nuptial knots
rbe vear's hest record for maternity
was furnished bv Indiana. On October
2sth Mrs. Clara Krauss of Coal CITY CAV,
hirth to her 10Th child Her record i'm.
ch,des no twins. This noble mother. who
Is DOING what She can to prevent rae,
suicide. has been married only 25 wear.
and Il now only al.
Among the centenarian tobacco user.
who came proudlv 10 the front in IN,
mast veor Cranma Eliza Fountain ot
! WAYNE county. Ia. seems 10 have wor
p the blue ribbon. When She celebrated
her lO2d birthday. in October. admirin,
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