Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1887 — SOMEWHAT STRANGE. [ARTICLE]

SOMEWHAT STRANGE.

A young woman of Holyoke,Mass., alighted from a tram with an elastic bounce, and her salsa teeth fell to the platform and noisily rattled along the boards. At Mesterton, England, a ferret entered the bed in which a four month’s child was sleeping. When discovered the infant had one eye torn ont and the flesh of its face lacerated in a dreadful manner. It died in a short time. John Gentle is the name of a Kansas man who has licked all his neighhors, been in jail half a dozen limes, rnn away from two wives, and is now locked up for shooting at the Judge. He should have been oalled Peaceful John. In Brown county, Illinois, is the home of a man who is in his eighty-Bixth year, and has never seen a piano, never been within ten miles of a railway never wore a collar and necktie, and never had on a pair of socks since he can remember. «

Frank Moxie, of Dakota, was about to be married, but was busy with a game of poker. The minister who was to perform the seremony went to inform him that the company was waiting, got interested and took a hand, and the wedding had to be postponed. A covered farm wagon, eastward bound, passed through a Nebraska town a few days ago', containing the owner of the outfit, his wife and five children, a live buffalo, an antelope, a pair of wolves, a pair of swifts or ’prairie foxes, and a box of white rats, besides a considerable Btore of provisions. Michigan has some mean men, and the captain of the propeller Messenger is one of them. He discovered a schooner oil her beam ends, and when the captain of the schooner refused to pay SIOO for being towed into port the propeller steamed away.

Major Black, of Sumpter, Ga., owned a guinea hen that wanted to sit. Her nest was broken up several times; and at length, with every appearance of dejection she walked to the well, and, witharasping cry, plunged head first into the water. When she was taken out she was dead. kt s funeral the other day at Golona, lowa, it was noticed that the face of the dead was covered with perspiration,and, although wiped away by the undertaker, large drops of moisture soon gathered again. The body was buried, however, and now many residents of the town assert the belief that the supposed dead man was buried ahvm ? . • James Williamson, of Toronto, Ohio, captured a live crow in his corn field. While carrying it home he was attacked by hundreds of other crows. He first tried to run away; t.ien he made a vigorous attempt to defend himself with a club; next he songlit shelter in a shed where the besieging crows kept him a prisoner for more than an hour. The Savannah News perpetrates the fallowing: A lady at Indian Spring has a hqn that is quite a curiosity. It has a coat of hair in place of feathers. Although it is only a chicken, still it is a wonderful freak of nature. It came from a flock of ordinary chickens, and the cause of its singular coat is a mystery. It lays, sits and hatches like other chickens, and some of its offspring aTe like the parent, but she has not yet succeeded in bringing them to maturity.