Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1879 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A Sullivan, Me., woman attacked a wildcat, which was killing her geese, the other day, empty-handed, and strangled it in the snow. —William Lane, of Hamden, Conn., has been tim'd $5 and costs, about sls, for willfully and maliciously disturbing a meeting in church by whispering three times. —William Yates, aged thirty, a weaver of Upton, Mass., was .found frozen to death in the woods the other day. He had taken off his coat and wrapped it around a bottle of rum. —A negro in Houston County, Ga., bit the finger of one of his oolored fellow-citizens some time ago. A bone felon formed in the finger, inflammation set in, and a few days ago the bitten negro died. —A San Francisco man, whose business partner publicly charged hiiowith overdrawing his account, etc., has obtalneu a vent leu lor •3,000 UaMunges against him in a suit Tor slander, after a ten-days’ trial. —Near Ashland, Ore., early one morning recently, a forest of pine trees was seen bending down as though bowed by a terrific gale of wind. At the same time not a breath of air was in motion. During the previous night a furious storm had passed over the forest, accompanied by rain and snow, and the steady force of the wind had bent the trees and held them in that nosition.Until the faliiug snow and the freezing!rain had fastened them in unyielding bonds of ice, and so they regained until the sun had set them free. —A singular incident occurred during a theatrical performance in Toledo, Ohio, the other night. While the audience was convulsed with laughter over the oomedy which was enacting a man sat in tbe parquet deliberately reading a newspaper and not paying the slightest heed to what was going’ on. One of the actors endured it as long as he could, and at last advanced to the footlights and informed thegentleman that be must put up his paper or the play would not be finished. Ho was also informed that if the entertainment did hot amuse him his money would be refunded at the box-office. The gallery applauded aud the pit roared, the offender folded up his paper, and during the rest of the performance no one in the house appeared more interested than he did.

—John Nichols, a farmer of Thompson, Susquehanna County, Pa., while walking in the woods on bis farm thirty years ago ran a twig into bis right ear. A piece of it broke off inlds head. He became deaf, and at times suffered intense pains in his head. Recently this pain became unusually acute and continued without cessation for nearly two weeks. At the end of that time Mr. Nichols felt a pricking sensation in his left ear, and with a pair of tweezers pulled out a round !>iece of wood three-quarters of an inch ong and an eighth of an inch in diameter. Mr. Nichols wae atonce relieved of pain and his hearing was restored. He has no doubt that the piece of wood is the bit of twig that was thrust into his ear thirty years ago. If so, it passed through his head from one ear to the other- The wood is perfectly sound. —The Rome (N. Y.) Sentinel has a curious story about a married couple in Springfield. It says: “When a Massachusetts woman forms a habit it is all a waste of time for her husband to try to break her of It.' Well kpowtng his wife's disposition to make him a present regularly at the anniversary of his birthday, a citizen of the Bay State, who likewise forcibly realized the fact that economy was an absolute necessity in his household, said to his wife, * This year yon must not undertake to make me a present, I insist. It would be absurd to do so at this time, when we need everything we can rake and scrape. I give you fair notice that if you do carry out your former custom this year I will burn up the present as surely as you make it.’ So the wife bethought herself. She could not bear the idea of being deprived of her annual pleasure. Therefore she gathered together her dimes and bought for her dearly beloved, as a birthday present, a ton of coal.” - - , Alcohoi. will clean out the inside of, an inMtah'4‘.' “it will also clean out the inside of a pocketbook a little more thoroughly and quicker than Anything else on record,*— Exchange. / *j