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Curious Things Of Life

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
March
Year
1889
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Secólo, a Milán newspaper, s publishng tho Biblo iu 210 half penny parte of eight ages cacli and 900 wood cuta. A prisoner in a Citiciiinati station houso atempted suicido witb an oi'dinaiy brass pin y opening arteries in bis wrist. A celluloid ipnholder recently oxploded in ,he pocket of a mnn's vest, burning a hole in lis coat and sliirt and tearing out tho pocket. A much abusod man in Palatka, Fia., wrote to oneof his enemies, calling him an ass, and thonghtleniy signad himsclf "yours raternally." A man in Chicago who had a habit of wallowing toothpicks died the other day and ihe little píece of wood were found sticking insido of him Fiftyclc.il matea participated at a ball at üincinnati ;i few iii;hts ago and danced and enjoyed :n mselvee as if they beard every traiu of ín ■ mude. A man in "stern Dakota saw a blizzard xrn. li Btartod on tho topof a bare hill eaid was a ball l "hite fog no larger than liis íat whun he Hret saw it. A London surgeon says that business men who occuiy ::! is above the Lhird story got lightji aíUff i frtw years, and unlessmakinga hange, become mildly insane. A man named Corbct, of Bundorna Castlo, íngland, made a bot that his leg was tlie ïandsomest in the county or kingdom, and taked on bic part his magnifieent estates. The bod; -.í a man found hanging to a trea n Missouri bad tliis card pinned to it: '"I die eeause 1 ara too durned lazy to live. If the est of you foei as 1 do you will let mo bang iere until iny bones fall of their own accord." Wbile a man at Carlisle, Pa., was running a planer liis coat tail got tangled and was ortunately toru olí. A bit of wood iu his ocket bloeked a cog wheel and saved his Ufe. he wool ras a piece of John Brown's scafoíd. The longert quesUoo on record is a hypohetical question put by the defenso in a murder tiial in New York state recently to ;he expert uitnesses on insanity. Thequesion oovered i enty type written pages of egal cap. A cyclonc liftod a vessel out of tho water at Disston City, Fia., carried it some distanco and then, dropping tho craft, drove its mast so far Lato the uní that the stick couldn't lw Irawn out , and t herefore was cut off in order to release tbe boat A nnique doublé ivedding took place at the lome of Mr and Mrs. Charles Creesy in 3everly, Mas. A mother and daughter married a fatiior and a son. The older couple are 4 and 1 ; years of age respcctively, and ,he younger couple 21 years each. Aman In D.ivenport, la., whilo going to ho bank with u handful of loóse sil ver, slipped down and scattered his mouey broadcast. He quickly gathered up the pioces, and uponcountiny it found he not only had all ho had dropH'fi. nut also an extra dollar that some one elso had lost A correspondent writing from Arizona says that :;t tho timo the law was passed making it an o.Tcnse for Indians to appear in a city minus thoir trousers, the red men acceptèd the decrea with their usual stoicism. They wou 11 on rry their pantaloous on their arms until they reached the city limits, whereupon they would don them, removiug the obnoxious garnienta when they left the city. There is a malden lady in a city not far from Elberton, Ga., who is so constituted that she cannot live out of water but a short while at a t me. Af ter remaining away from a bath tub for a couple of hours, she commences to füint and almost suffocates, and to procure relief must at once cover her entire body in coM water. She has in her room a pool of tres!) water, and in this sho spendsa greater pari of her time, both winter and slimmer

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