Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A citizen of New Hartford, Conn., found two big eggs in a nest in the woods recently, and put thehi under a sitting hen. In four weeks he had a young eagle, which he is keeping. —A coffee-pot was an exhibit in a case in a Cleveland court, it was of a patent pattern, and the dealer refused to take it back, as he said he would do when the housekeeper, who had taken it on trial, could not make it work. Her husband sued the merchant for its value, but the man of traffic placed it over a gasoline stove in the court-room, and served the Judge and jury with such acceptable coffee that they could not help rendering a verdict in his favoi. —A lad at North Hampton, Vt., while watching some men loading ice a few days ago, tried his hand at lowering the ice into the wagon. He seized a cake weighing 112 pounds, and, in order to hold it, twisted a rope around his foot. The rope getting too hot as it passed through his hands, he let go his hold, and was immediately carried to the top of the building, whero he was suspended in the air by one leg, head downward. He was quickly relieved from his perilous position, well frightened but not hurt. —Pat McCarty, who lives in Anderson County, about four miles from Lawrenceburg, was a badly-scared Irishman. He was sitting on his porch one day last week, when his little child, about fifteen months old, crawled out to a rose-bush, and bending down, appeared to be intent upon some object underneath it. He called the child several times, bat it made no response and did not-move.— This so-astonished him that lie-went to the - bush, and, peering under, saw the child’s face within two inches of the head of an enormous snake, which was coiled about the root. He seized tho little one and ran with it into the house. Iji appeared perfectly helpless, and Pat was so frightened that he was almost as helpless as tho child. —Baltimore (Mil.) Bulletin. —Eddie W. Pauck, a, thirteen-year-old St. Louis boy, was killed, on tho 4th, under the following circumstances: Through traffic with his playfellows he had come into possession uL a small single-barreled cartridge pistol, and having tired of his deadly toy Concluded to exchange it for a miniature cannon owned by a neighbor boy. With that object in view the lad left his home immediately after breakfast. After a short search he found the boy and they together stepped into an adiacent store, to examine and discuss the merits of the weapon in question. Eddie took the pistol from his pants pockot and remarking, “ See how easy it works,” pulled back the hammer. “It would kill a man, too,” he continued, turning his hand and resting the cold muzzle against his breast. Perhaps he had forgotten that it was loaded or that the hammer was raised, for his finger pressed the trigger, there was a sharp, spiteful report, and with one swilt flush of agony upon his young face ho sunk to the floor. A preliminary inquest held developed the fact that the small leaden pellet had penetrated the heart.

The wife of a Hartford clergyman thought her pretty servant girl was becoming too intimate with tne owner of the tenement where they lived, a widower, who occupied rooms in the same building, and, finally, in a fit of indignation, said: “Pack up your things and leave my house.” The girl left but returned m the afternoon, and entering said to her late mistress, “ I am Mrs. —— ; now pack up your things and leave my house.” The servant girl had married the landlord, and the order was enforced. —Bismarck never sends away a manuscript or a letter without carefully re* vising it “It is no credit,” he says, “to be right where it wouid be inexcusable to be wrosg, 4 ’