The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-21
wild Man Wore Corsets

A wild man who has been terroriz-
ing kearney. N. J., for months. was
captured by Special officer Cuthbert
on the meadows there and sent yester-
day to the Hudson county Jail. Cuth-
bert's wife and children saw the man
come from the meadows. He made a
dash at the party. but their screams
drove the fellow back into the swamp
grass. A posse was organized, but
Cuthbert caught the man alone.
The prisoners hair grew to his
shoulders. A heavy black beard COW
cred his chest. 1t was found he wore
corsets. He said he had them on to
protect him from mosquitoes as well
as to preserve his form.
The man said he was Robert
O'Brien. forty-dve years, formerly Of
Providence, r. 1. His recent home,
he stated. had been In natural cave
just across the stream from the Snake
Hill penitentiary, to which he was
committed.-New York World.
Becomes New Woman at 81.
Mary Smith, of Lynn, who cele-
brated her ninety-seventh birthday
May "a, has surprised her friends by
growing a new head of hair. For SO
years Mrs. Smiths hair has been as
white as snow. About a year ago it
began to come out, and in a little
while she was bald. Now the new
hair, thick, black. and curly, is COM
ing in, and there promises to be a
luxurant growth.
About twenty years ago Mrs. Smith
Most her last tooth. Since then she
has worn false teeth. Now, with the
growing of the new hair, she is cutting
| new teeth. Four front teeth already
have appeared and she is now cutting
| two molars.
| Mrs. Smith is the widow of a form
er mayor of Lynn and is in excellent
health.-Lynn (Mass.) dispatch to
Philadelphia Record.
Family's Third Set of Triplets.
| The stork last night left two boys
and one girl at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Nicholas Spangler. of Industry
This is the third set of triplets born in
this family. and all are living.
/ Four years ago family named En-
| gleson, living in the same house, were
also favored with triplets, and pre-
1 vious to that woman. who was for
eigner, gave birth to three children al
one time in the same dwelling, 50 that
the humble residence has been one OF
| the richest in children in the country
Being a presidential year, the two
boys born to Mr.. and Mrs. Spangler
will be. named William Taft and Will
liam Jennings Bryan, while the cir
baby has escaped the presidential con-
tagion SO far, except that some of the
lneighbors insist she be named Alice
Roosevelt Spangler.-Pittsburg (Pa-)
Dispatch to New York World.
Coughed Up Brass Key.
Norman, the 6-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Nero, swallowed {
brass key three inches long, and FOL
| three days the neighbors were in :
highly nervous state, owing to the par
| ents being Christian Scientists and re
fusing to call in medical aid to relieve
the boy.
After two days the boy was seizet
with coughing spell. and during al
especially violent retching threw III
the key. The parents assert that tn
key was expelled from the child
stomach through the prayers of tn
sect, which numbers about 90 in thi
city. and the event is causing mucl
talk among the church people. TIL
boy was not i'll while the key was il
his stomach, and physicians who hav
investigated the case are as puzzled a
the neighbors who interested them
selves in the affair.-Eldwood (Ind.
dispatch to Indianapolis News.