| Show FOUR CURIOUS TALES they may ile 11 true trite itne if so are strait ker ger chati an old negro woman lit in athens ala has a curious birthmark ile her r loft left our oar Is bhappu like a bunch of grabbs and pendant from tho the side ot of lor her head by a of 0 alesh pre preventing benting a most ro marka markn lilo blo appearance her hearing on oil that tilde fildo Is of 0 courso very ory defective but otherwise sho she suffers tic no inconvenience front from her pecullar marki which as aa no gracis always do site bho attributes to a pitcha malice when tit in health tho the oblong balls of losli flesh which represent tile grapes aro are fann and pill plump mp but aro are oiled by sickness ono one of tho the queer sights in ili N Y Is said to bo be a little ingro boy the streets a remarkable romark ablo Ins in stanco of tenacity of life in ill tho thet shape of it chicken lion which lost its lead head over four months ugo ago but continues well c and hourly hearty the iho creature cic aturo walks about scratching lit in the earth and appearing quite unconscious of its loss it Is fed by crati lim ing the f food coil down doimi tho the so sobered veroll guidt Kull tand and evidently thrives under this peculiar method of feeding for it is lit in condition lion tho the boy who owns it says that it lays regularly ropal arly and ami lias Is actually ally mado a nest and raised a brood brodil of chickens since sanco the loss of 0 its licad head it lias has however shod shed nearly nil all of its feathers except those of lla its tall and silo shows ws no signs ot of over having any moro more dr meldrew of Pe denolice nolice als rocell cantly oy performed an operation on oil a young lady of that place liy bv which a lenion seed was removed from her tit throat rout anti and which abich had sprouted since it 1 lodged there boino three months ago in ili order to rot got nt at the seed it was waa necessary to silt lit the windpipe wind pipe a very dangerous and rare oper operation aaion which was performed willio tile lady was under tinder the influence of chloroform hut but tile hood was wag found to have put forth several vigorous shoots which had attached themselves orthly firmly to tile walls walla of the alio organ and had to bo be cut away A tow few miles from richmond tox tex in bentleys mod is n i natural curiosity tho alio like of which la Is perhaps to bo be found now herot ulso else lit in tile world it ii an all on enormous oak treo literally aus suspended in ili tile air the mystery of its suspension la Is that numerous hunting parties having camped beneath it during a period 0 of f many years their fires have gradually burned tho the trunk entirely away for a distance of six feet but its largo and hP spreading branches aro are so closely on entwined tw ined in those of the trees giving closely about it that it la supported by thorn them just liow low its huge hiiro bulk Is flour islieb Is a mystery but that it iti Is well swoll nourished is evident for it Is green and |
