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Show ODD HAPPENINGS. While scr-tchlng his noso with ttio end ot a loaded rovolvcr a man in Paris accidentally pulled tho trlggor and blow off tho tip ot tho nosu. In tho -ildst of an electric storm tho Marlctto tiro whlstlo called out tho men, who rushed about In tho rain till tho apparatus was drenched beforo it was dlscovored tlicc lightning had. played a prank on tho department Thoro Is an qrdlnanco against turning In a false alarm. Tho death lately occurred at West-bury West-bury workhouse, Wlltshlro, England, of a 40-year-olil "baby." The person was born In Wostbury, and at tho ago of 12 monthB Its further development, both physlcially and mentally, was arrested. Throughout Its llfo It wan ' attired In baby's frocic clothes, and continued to act nnd play and had to bo fed and tckon caro of precisely as an Infant. An extraordinary sudden death oc-currrod oc-currrod iho other day in Paris, A sexagenarian wont to have his photograph photo-graph tukon. Ho snt In a chair bo- ' foro the chimera, and as the photographer photog-rapher uttered tho customary words, "Pleaso don't movo," down fell tho old man ot tho floor. It wns natural, ly supposed that tho sexagenarian was In a fainting lit, but ho wns In reality dead, as tho doctor who was sent foV testified after a brief oxamlnatlon ot tbe bodf. V |