Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1883 — ODD HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

ODD HAPPENINGS.

A goat bitten by a mad dog la Graysvllla, Oa, butted its own brains out * Liohthwo struck in tue oven lake, la Lauderdale county, Tenn., during a thunderstorm, and killed hundreds of Usk Muss Bam, of Greene county, Virginia, dropped deed just ss he was raising hiehand to swear that bis tax list was oorraot Aubukh (Kr.) jail has not bad an Hr tor to long that the look baa become maty and will not admit a key, and the hornets have taken possession of the interior. A smußon wanders at sweet wIU about a house in Moundsville, W. Va. It is aooompanled by an indescribable sound, whloh penetrates the air for miles around, and seems to originate in the earth. Six sheep owned by David Avery, of Bast Claremont, Mass, ware killed by lightning recently. The animals wars walking in a line, one behind the ether, and were lying dead in that position when found. The lightning struck at other points without serious damage. Nobthakttpt, Mass., has a woman of mors than ordinary pluck. Ber husband has not boon able to dress or feed himself for several years, end besides oaring for Mm the wife does all thawork for a large family, has an excellent vegetable garden which aha manages bv herself, audalso has in her yard large broods es ducks end Chickens Ha Baurrunr, of Escambia,'Ala., noticed afrcojeotlon from his oow*s stomach which, upon dose examination, proved to be a pocket-knife, open, with the point of the blade nrojecAing on the outside. Be took hold of the knife blade, and says it bounded out like the oork out of a beer bottle. He hae the knife, beside other proof of the acts. Vauwtiki Ybsxb, a convict in the Ohio penitentiary, obtained a large iron spoon from the dining-room, and made a strenuous effort to swallow it. but falling in that he forced it down his viroat with snob a violence that the handle broke in turn When the doctor arrived Yeake waa lying on his back eyes rolling; and his had evidently found the •poonunpolaftable! for he did what ho oould to aooaMratethn process of extracting it, which was finally accomplished, ‘