Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1874 — HAPS AND MISHAPS. [ARTICLE]

HAPS AND MISHAPS.

—Mr. Henry Tallert, of Chicago, about ten weeks ago suddenly lost his | speech, owing to paralysis of his palate. ; A few days ago be regained his speech as suddenly as he had lost it, and has j since suffered no inconvenience from his . late affliction. 1 —Aaron Bowers, a colored dining- | room servant at the Grand Hotel, CinI cinnati, while going up on an elevator ; from the laundry with a basket of linen, j the other djiy, put htodrCad out as he was | passing the first floor to speak to a comrade, and he was caught against the ceiling and instantly killed. | —rThe other day Mr. Hart, of Newcasj tie, Ind., came home from a bunt and set his gun up in a corner. As Mrs. Hart was passing around about her household duties she accidentally knocked the gun down. The fall discharged the load, which passed through the bottom of her foot, inflicting a frightful and possibly fatal wound. —A minister lately baptized an infant in a chutcb in Northumberland County, Pa,, and after the ceremony was surprised by a request that the child might be allowed to drink the water used in the sacrament, the reason being that, if it should drink the water with which it had been baptized, sickness could be kept from it through life. —Anson Thompson, of Port Henry, N.. Y«, h%d a fashion of taking a nap on his door-step after dinner. The door-step was an old boat turned up-side down. Some of his watermen friends thought they would rouse him one day lately, so they placed a glycerine cartridge under his bed and exploded it to see the fun. The cartridge tore a hole about sixteen inches long and ten inches wide in the boat and continued the hole* nearly the same size in Thompson’s side. He was blown to his feet, looked around, saw his friends running away and fell dead. —A man named Mike Long died recently at Granton, N. J., from taking an overdose of medicine. It appears that he had the fever and ague. A physician prepared and gave him a bottle of medicine composed of quinine and other ingredients, with instructions to take a teaspoonful every three hours. Long, after the doctor left, remarked to one of the inmates of the house: “ Be jabbers, and it’s too much trouble to be bothered about the time; I will take it all at once,” and he did so. He was quickly prostrated. The doctor was sent for,-but nothing could he done to save him. He died in tw r enty-four hours after he had taken the overdose. —The new season of snake stories opens promisingly with two reptilian marvels. In Sussex County, N. J., an angry snake which had made a dart at a dodging man struck its venomous fangs into a tree instead, and within an hour thereafter the tree wilted, all the leaves fell off, and it is now but a shriveled trunk. According to the second story, a family living near Liberty Mills, Orange County, Va., found lately in the bottom of a tea-kettle, which has been used to boil the water for their coffee at breakfast, the body of a black snake which had been boiled to death. The horrifying discovery caused unspeakableconsternation amongst the cofl'ee-drinkers, none of whom, —however, were injured by the abominable distillation