Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — POINTS FOR THE CURIOUS. [ARTICLE]

POINTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

An Ohio man, aroused out of his slumbers by a burglar, pursued the fellow with a shotgun, but did not succeed in sh'ootlng him.' Soon the burglar came to a river and plunged in, but, not being a swimmer, he sank and was drowned. And now the Grand Jury has indicted the household for murder in the first degree for not going to the assistance of the drowning man. This is strange, in view of the fact that had he previously shot the burglar nothing would have been done to him. : Bessie Colby, 9 years old, a lineal descendant of Isabel, sister of Gen. John Stark, of the Revolution, living in Fryeburg,' Me, encountered near the house a poisonous adder four feet long. Seizing the snake in her hands she carried it alive to the house, iwhere her 1 step-mother killed it, though so frightened that she nearly fainted, ana was ill for two days afterward Several persons lh that vicinity are said to have died from the bite of this species of serpent, and why this mammoth specimen did not bite the child is a mystery. Bessie says, “When he tried to bite I tuck a tick in his mouf."