Show I Peculiar Accidents Some most interesting facts con concerning freakish accidents are re- re related related re related in Popular Science Monthly illustrating Volta Voltaire's i s saying that it is the danger least that soonest comes come to us Among others he relates s the following ving P Wiggins ins Kansas aviator was bitten by a n rattlesnake that had somehow gotten into gotten into his bis plane while flying at an op altitude of about a mile but landed and ob- ob obtained ob obtained tamed treatment in time to save his life lile Caesar of Lyons France was struck by lightning five times S during his lifetime yet finally died of pneumonia Some years ago General Castil- Castil Castil I a Nicaraguan Nic revolutionist was struck by a falling meteor while sitting in his bis tent one ni night ht and was killed His superstitious soldiers b believed that the Almi Almighty had thus shown disapproval of their cause so they abandoned the revolution Mathematicians have figured I that an American will be struck by a meteor about once every 9 9 i years on an average They I will also calculate that a son pet living to the age of 70 has one I chance in of being struck by lightning About 1000 persons are lre injured injured ed d in bathtubs to everyone every one hurt hart hurtin in railroad accidents About Americans arc are killed every very year yearby yearby I by accidents in and about their homes about as many as asare asare are killed by automobiles asI I Most lost ironical of the accidents enumerated by our writer was wasI I that in which a man was painfully injured by the falling of a n horse horse- horseshoe horseshoe horseshoe shoe he had nailed over his door door tor for lor luck |