Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1883 — QUEER STORIES. [ARTICLE]

QUEER STORIES.

A woman in Milan, Tenn., died in a few moments after having been stung in the nose by a bee. An Englishman bequeathed his two daughters their weight in £1 bank notea One of the girls received £54,200, and the ■other £59,344. The reasen given by a Camden, Oneida county, *nan, for not marrying again is that his lot in the cemetery is now full, he having recently burled his sixth wife thera The wife of J. W. Wise, of Spurlington, Ky., is a grandmother at 31 years of aga She Was ma rled at the age of 14, and her daughter was married at the same age A boy in Wi’mington, N- C., was bitten in one of his fingers by a rattlesnake He seized a hatchet and cut off bis finger before the poison had time to spread through his system. Alive mule was blown twenty yards by a boiler explosion near Clarendon, 8. 0. The brute lit on its feet and took a kicking position, prepared to resent .any further disturbance. In a replevin suit at Stevensville, Montana, relating to a y air of reins bought at auction for 50 cents the unsuccessful litigant paid in more than |590. Over 100 witnesses were examined. * Letters depo lted in the Ottumwa (Iowa) postoffice in 1800 have just come to light. They were discovered in tearing down the building. They had been lost through a defect In the slide The lightn'ng knocked the razor out of the hand of a female barber while she was shaving a customer in Gloucester, Mass, which inspires a contemporary to remark that female barbers are too magnetic. John Heuse, of 1 eading, Pa, was in the South when the war broke out, and he wrote to his wife that he had been forced to jo n the rebel army. Nothing more was heard from him ana he Was mourned as dead. Recently he returned home. He says that when the rebel army marched to Gettysburg he one night made his escape, but •’/as recaptured and put on board a war vessel, where he remained for some time and then made his e cape. He traveled westward. was taken prisoner bv Indians and was held .captive for fifteen years. He learned a number of Indian dialects and became a member of a tribe. He made his escape at last, went to France and returned to America via Cuba.