Some Peculiar Accidents

A prominent oculist of this city gives the following list of queer accidents that have come under his observation tecently : A little boy, 10 years oíd, was standing in front of a bird fancier's shop ■when an aged parrot seemed to take a sudden animosity to the child and dartEd at him, pecking out one eye before he could get out of th9 way. Some lineruen left a lot of short wire lying on Euterpe street after repairing the telephoue coniiectious in that district. Án oíd negro womaii who was on her way to market early the nest inorning stepped on oue end of a bit of this Vire, when the other end flew up, striking her in the eye and blinding ber. A milker employed at one of the dairy farms near the city was milking a cow that had got her tail rnatted and taugled with cockleburs. In the course of the milking the cow witcbed her tail into the man 's face, the mass of Irars striking him in one eye and completely destroying the sight of it. A lad shooting at sparrows with an airgun hit his little brother in the eye and blinded him for life. Tommy Peats, the handsome, bright eyed 7-year-old son of a widow, feil down stairs backward. When his mother got to him and picked him up, the boy was asleep, the shock having affected hiïn in this singular njanner, and in an hour after, wheii he opened his eyes, they were badly and irrovocably crossed. A poor lad who is affected with epilepsy during a recent attack feil against the steani coils in his father's office, bnrning and blistering his eyes so badly that the sight is gone. As the Louisville and Nashville passenger train was coming into the city some ruthless person threw a stone at the day coach, shattering one of the Windows. The partióles of glass flew into the face of a man sitting by the window, as inany as 40 of them embeddicg themselves in his eyes alone. Most tnarvelous to relate, every bit of glass has been abstracted and the man 's