Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1908-04-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NARROW ESCAPES FROM DEATH. m be in the eery jaws of death and yet to escape, not with life only, but practically unscathed, is an experience which comes to many le in the course of their existence, so that Pe°P by the skin of their the saying ' to escape teeth," expresses more than a mere exaggeration. Very recently a lad of fifteen, engaged in glass bevelling works in London, went through an experience which would have ended fatally ninety-timee out of a hundred. His apron caught in the main shaft of the driving wiheel, end he was carried completely round, but, although he was entirely stripped of his Clothing during his revolution as if he had been preparing for a }lath, yet, with the exception of & grazed leg and a terrible fright, he wholly escaped injury. Some years ago a tall man and a short one were seated opposite one another, and next the window, in the same compartment. A goods train laden with steel rails passed them. One of these rails 'had got displaced and projected from one of the trucks. This terrible weapon ripped up the aides of several coaches More it was turned aside. It transpired that it took off the hat of the short man, and would doubtless 'have taken off the head of his tall companion, had he not been stooping to tie his bootlace at the time. On one of the stations of the Midland railway an exciting incident took place recently. A mother and her widowed daughter were standing on the platform with a midde-aged man, who was presumably engaged to the young widow. The man walked to the edge of the platform to see if the train was coning. From some cause or other he fell on the line end lay apparently stunned. Although a train was heard approaching the young lady heroically jumped on the line and strove to drag him elear, and, in the confusion and terror of the moment, the mother also got upon the track. The train, which was a g train, travelling at twenty-five miles an hour, was upon them instantly, but, though it passed over all three, only the man was killed. I.'he daughter, in giving evidence at the inquest, said she held her mother down, and if the man had not raised his head—which was fractured, his only injury—he would probably have escaped also. A less remarkable case, but still one which would generally have proved fatal, seems to go to substantiate the saying that children and drunkards are under a special Providence, for the young man who fell in front of a train on its way to the Mumbles, was said to be intoxicated at the time. Fortunately, the train was ace proceeding at a great speed, and was =aptly pulled up, but too late to save the man being pushed several yards by e th front plate of the engine. His only injnrieswere a few bruises- The story of a remarkable escape from self-sought death comes from Paris. A Young gilt, deserted by her lover, attempted to commit suicide by stopping up the chinks of her room, and then lighting a pan of charcoal. This lethal chamber was, however, not at all to the mind of a oat which happened to be in the, room. Feeling a sense of suffocation, and following the instinct of self-preservation, it sprang through the glass of the window, and thus saved the life of its 'mistress, with whom second thoughts brought truer wisdom. Falls  from great heights which have failed to result fatally have often been instanced, but a pecul4ar case of this kind happened recently at Dover, where the lucky individuals were dogs a.nd not human beings. Some coursing was taking place near the cliffs, when a rabbit jumped over, followed by two clops. They fell two hundred feet to the rocks below, and although the rabbit was killed by the fall, the dogs were found running about, little worse for their desperate leap.—J. J. Allinson, Thry.bergh Park, Rotherham. .  went again to his lordship, and being introduced, said, I have come, my lard, respecting the field of wheat adjoining such a wood." His lordship immediately recollected the circumstance.. "Well, my friend, did I not allow you sufficient to remunerate you for your loss?" "Yes, my lard; but I find that I have sustained no loss at all; for where the horses had most cut up the land the crop is most promising. I have, therefore, brought back the e.,50." " Ah!" exclaimed the venerable Earl, "that is what I like; this is as it should be between man and man." He then went into another room, and returning with a cheque for £lOO, presented it to the farmer, saying, "Take care of thtis, and when your eldest son is of age present it to him, and tell him the occasion that produced it."—James Fitzpatrick, 23, Stationstreet, Waterhouses, Durham.  Win be Paid by the