Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1883 — Odd Stories from Far and Near. [ARTICLE]

Odd Stories from Far and Near.

Houma, La., has a thirteen-year old , girl with a light brown beard two inches long. At Snapps, in Woodruff county, Ark, a well flows water that is as sour as vinegar. Spurgeon has been jailed in Nelson ■ county, Va., for stealing the feathers from his neighbors’ geese. A very large snow-white heron was killed recantly at Meacox Bay, L. 1., by Wm. Squires, Jr., of Bridgehampton. A ticket tw*enty years old was tendered , and accepted recently on the Consolidated road for a ride between Hartford and Boston. * A man employed in the comb works at

Wappinger’s Falls, N. Y, converses and writes in seven languages. Heia in roduced drenmstanoee. A loaded gun fell from the ceiling where it hung in a house at Engfesville, Pa., and a child playing in the room was instantly killed by its accidental discharge. > In Cass county, HL, there is not a parson of color, and there n°ver was a ballot cast in the county by a negro, nor a seat oocpied in a school roem by a colored child. A fox pursued by hounds was sees coming directly for the house of Mrs George Kingsbury, of Chaplin, Conn. She opened the doors front and rear, and shot it as it bounded through. So overwhelmingly in debt is Pickens county, Alabama, that property can hardly be given away. A few days ago 885 acres of fine timber land and a mill in good condition brought but $2lO. On a Vicksburg church spire a large hawk perched itself upon the cross, and it remained five days. Then some one shot it. The hawk had no sooner fallen than another took its place. It still sits there, to the disturbance of ths superstitious. L On the back of Miss Delia Moqcrieff, of Boston, is burned in by lightning a representation of the large elm tree which stands within a few feet of a plaza where she was sitting when the house was struck by a thunderbolt She suffered no injury whatever-