Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1883 — THINGS CURIOUS AND NOTABLE. [ARTICLE]

THINGS CURIOUS AND NOTABLE.

B. D. Barnes, of Wilson county, N. 0., is the possessor of a well-developed pig that has horns similar to a lamb’s, one over each eye. A curiosity for pomologists to ponder over comes from Hamilton county, Fla., in the shape of an appla It is a perfectly formed specimen, being half russet and half bellflower. The Jumbo radish was grown in Florida. At least Owen* Keen claims to have in his possession a specimen of this vegetable measuring two feet in length and eight inches in diameter and weighing fifteen pounds. A queer and an easy method of shoemaking is practiced by the dwellers on the island of St Helena. It consists of wrapping around the foot the soft, warm skin ot the pot-fish, which, in drying, retains the shape of the foot For twenty-nine years there has been a Tow Society connected with the Baptist church at Hemel, East Prussia. It buys worn-out cables and ropes of vessels, picks them to pieces and sells the tow to ship-re-pairers for calking purposes. Thousands of dollars has been received in this way. The Glasgow Daily Mail is responsible for the statement that, while two miners were at work taking down the coal in the splint seam at the Ferniegare colliery, at a depth of nearly 100 fathoms from the surface, a frog leaped from the face of the coal in quite a lively state. The coal, which was very hard, showed a cavity that had been the singular abode of the frog. The animal at the time of writing was still alive, but much attenuated. It measured eight inches in length. A child has been born in Turkish Kurdistan with a full beard and mustache, a perfect set of thirty-two teeth, and no fewer than forty distinct and well-formed fingers Naturally such a prodigy attracted great attention, but several visitors it at their cost, for it snipped its thirty-two teeth at everybody who came within range with such energy and success'that it became necessary to extract all the front ones, It is a wonderful thing to see the infant lying in its cradle, stroking its beard with its forty fingers.