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Show QUEER AND CURIOUS. When a steamer passes over the Port Huron tunnel the noise of the wheel can readily be heard in the hole, which is at least forty feet under the water. While sleeping in the railroad station at Pittsburg a traveler dreamed that his father was drowning before his eyes, and his pitiful appeals for help almost created a panic. . On the occasion of a recent fete at the ! country seat of a wealthy woman all the cows on the estate wore necklaces of wide yellow satin ribbon and had their horns tied with narrower ribbon oi the same color. P. Thompson, of Pine Canyon, Cai., cut a bee tree recently. In taking out the honey he found several hawk's eggs incorporated in different layers of comb. The comb had been built around the eggs in such a manner as to leave them In the center. A house in Georgetown, D. C, has recently re-cently been shingled for the first time since 1803, and the carpenter says he has found sawed shingles that had been laid within ten years in much worse condition condi-tion than the shaved pine shingles which had -been in wear eighty-seven years. |