Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1883 — ODD HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

ODD HAPPENINGS.

An eight-day clock that had been given to the w.fe of Douglas Ottinger, at Erie, Pa, as a wedding present by her husband, stopped at the very moment she died, and cannot bo started again. It cast a gloom over the entire assemblage, when, at a Dallas church fair, the minister's son walked up to the grab-bag and pricecake table, and asked that the game be explained to him beford he bought any chips At the Children’s Home inCincinnati a boy 5 y'ears of age fell into a well forty-five feet deep, at the bottom of which a man was digging. The boy sighted on the back of thewell-digger, out neither was hurt A boot of a pinon-tree found by Edward Austin in New Mexico, is knotted and* twisted so that it forms a perfect resell blance to two human beiifgs standing face to face, with hands clashed and arms $x- | tended.