Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—The bite of a black spider caused the death of a Norristown (Pa.) child, two years old, a few days ago. —The sun caused a false alarm at New York, the other day, an automatic telegraph wire running under a skylight being so heated that the thurmstadt was affected as if by fire. —Evidently organ-grinders have no rights whatever in this country. One of them found it necessary, at Pottstown, Pa., the other day, to compel a woman to pay for the music she had listened to by pointing a pi&tol at her head. —A young Sacramento lady a year ago commenced using arsenic for her complexion and bleaching her hair. After a few months she began to complain of terrible headaches, and has finally been sent to Stockton a hopeless lunatic. —A boy named Crowley, an inmate of the New York Juvenile Asylum, dreamed the other night that he was struck by lightning and killed. He related the story at the breakfast table next morning. In less than an hour after, while playing ball, he was struck by the bat ams killed instantly. —Miss Lida Hutton, sitting on a porch at her home at Avondale, Ohio, on the 4th, suddenly fell dead, as was at first supposed, from apoplexy, Igit an examination of her body disclosed the fact that a bullet had entered her breast and passed out at her back, kill, ing her instantly. It was not* known where the shot came from. —The Conneotieutese are well known to be an ingenious and economical people. Unfinished houses are by law exempt from taxation—a circumstanc# of which a resident of Cos Cob has availed himself to leave up the scaffolding rodhd his house and a window unfinished. In this condition he has occupied it for years, defying the baffled Tax-Collector. —Samuel. Craig, a ship rigger, by the aid of ropes looped and knotted, climbed to the apex pf the Bunker Hill Monument on the 4th, and placed a small American flag on the lightning rod. This feat was accomplished some years ago by Joseph Till, who was aided, however, by a platform, while Craig simply depended on the lightning rod and a few ropes. —The Scranton (Pa.) Republican of a recent date, says: “Recently there was quite a rivalry among the dealers in milk, and the result is a great reduction in prices. Five cents a quart seemed the standard figure, but even this was beaten-by a dealer who started selling it for four cents, and established a regular route. He secured a brisk business, and among his customers was Mr. Fritz, the harness-maker, who bought a dollars’ -worth of tickets, A day or two after there was a commotion in the household. A lizard was seen swimming about in themilk-pitch-or. The thought thaf somebody might have swallowed the reptile, which measured about an inch and a half in length, made the matter all the more exciting, and the milkman was speedily advised of the circumstance. He explained the presence of the reptile? by the fact that he kept his milk-cans near the spring for cleanliness, and the lizard went in to get a drink of pure four-cent milk.