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Show Queer Tales. "In one of my voyages from Capetown to England. - write.- a traveler "I .shared my cabin with a peculiar man, whose nam.' wi Lasarua He made me promise that If he should die during tho voyage 1 would prevent his burial at sea. lie said that fin a prevtoua voyage he hod fallen sick and was taken for dead and put Into a sack for burial. K quartermaster had been put on to W&tCh Ua body until It was lime for the funeral. When the burial party arrived the quartermaster informed the captain that he thought the body had niov.ii in the ack. The sack was opened and Lazarus eventually tnme to life once more Such was the story L.azarus told me. Lazarus was a thin man. with a sallow sal-low face. Ho hud an enormous appetite, and appeared at every meal, to which he devoted his whole energies. The good feeding only appeared to add to his corpse-llk-i app. aran. . ne evening, sure enough, when we were about half wav to our voyage's end he a .pat ently died once more. The doctors look him In charge this time, however, nnd he came out of hi trance without any shotted-sack episode He was met nt the London docks by a number of relatives and friends, all of whom looked as If they might be suffering from the same complulnt. e A French Count was kept prisoner in his own house In Paris for five years His Jailers were his two servants, who wanted his property. The nobleman Is Count do Bamplgny d'Issoncour'l He la years old His servants were an old uinn an(j ni3 Wife, who had been j th,. fount's service for twenty years Wh.-n the p,,,.,. nrok Into ti e k. use feu ,Uiv np.i they found the Count and the two servants The Count declared that the couple had kept him in a constant state of terror and had prevented him from leaving the place. Thej had further compelled him to take doses of ether and to make a will leaving to them tho whole of his property, the estimated es-timated value of which Is over J3bu,000 Then was a queer railroad accident In Bcftlth Africa recently Instead of running Into something the train threw something out. The object thrown out was a while child. The baby was sitting on a table In one of the saloons of an express train. Tn rounding a sharp curve the child was shot out of the window. The distracted mother quickly stopped the train. Search being made along the line, the youngster was found 1 1 1 1 1 - the worse for Its experience, but crying vigorously Chicago News |