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Show I GRAB-BAG OF ODDITIES j ' BRIEF RESUME OF THE YEAR'S HAPPENINGS DISCLOSES g FACTS WHICH FICTION CAN NOT EQUAL. all because his pet dog was ao glad to see him that he upset the politician in their greeting and the latter broke bis arm In the tumble. A mall train on the Illinois Central road was wrecked In January by striking a cow. The body was hurled against a switch and In some manner opened it, ditching the train. A pointer dog. sent from St. Paul into North Dakota for hunting training, waa frightened by the noise of a mowing machine ma-chine and ran all the way home to his owner J? miles. Jacob Harlem of Union City. Ind., dreamed one night lant January that hla father had been killed in a runaway accident. ac-cident. His terror brought on a chill, which resulted in death. An lll-ntting shoe, rubbing the heel of Benjamin Ady of Baltimore, was the cause of his death. The doctor called It blocd poisoning. A Vineland (N. J.) contractor, Feaster by name, died of fright at the sight of the surghcal Instruments laid out preparatory to an operation upon him. Harry Lehr attended a Newport theater one evening In July wearing a bright necktie with his evening clothes. The Missionary society of the Kenosha fWie.) Methodist church refused to accept ac-cept a legacy of $75,000 because the donor had met death while attending the theater. thea-ter. On January 15 a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. William Leroy of Louisville, Ky., being their fifth boy born on that day of that month since 1900. Prank Brooking of Macomb, 111., whKe tearing out a sparrow's nest, found a'tl bill among the straw. With this as rent money he put back the birds' home and they are again living with him. The steamship Alaskan, which reached New York In August from Honolulu, mads nearly 130,000 for Its owners by being delayed three daya In a storm, during which time the price of sugar, with which the vessel was loaded, rose considerably. In April last A. J. Gonder. a brakeman employed by the Ontario A Western road, predicted he would meet death while coupling; his prophecy was fact six days later. A game of seven-up broke an election deadlock In Monongahela. Pa, last February. Feb-ruary. Clark Boyd, Republican, and James Hendrickson, Democrat, each received re-ceived 113 votes for Reg-later Assessor and played cards for a decision. The Demo-i Demo-i crat won. ' ' 1 James A. Jennings, a New York electrician, electri-cian, was run over by a train and killed the morning after he had dreamed that he was dead. During; a June storm at Fort Scott thousands thou-sands of small flsha and frogs fell from the sky. The market place was covered and scores of fish were taken from the pools) left by the rain. A mule born on a farm near Lebanon came into the world with seven distinct hoofs three on the left front leg and two on the right. "No mother should he weak enough to allow her baby to scream off the key. She should carry a tuning fork and when the child Is about to begin a prolonged howl should give it the proper note." That Is the recipe for domestic harmony which Miss Ames's Weed Holbrook gave the Professional Woman's league last June. The manager of a New York City theater thea-ter solved the theater hat question In March by posting the following noticra: "Ladles will please remove their hats. Old ladies, liable to catch cold, are not bound by this request." All hats came off. In February Miss Belle Cox of Morris-town. Morris-town. N. J., slipped on the ice and broke her leg. In May she fell from a ladder and broke It again. In July she made a misstep from a car and for the third time broke the same leg. Angered by what he thought an unjust reprimand from his teacher, Walter Dale, a fourteen-year-old pupil In the Denver schools. In January took a dose of car-I car-I bolic acid and died n the midst Of hla companions. When the remains at J. J. Burnslde. one of the victims of a snowsllde at Alta, Utah. In February, were found, it was discovered that death had come not from suffocation or cold, but heat. The man had been pinned against a stove by the rush of snow. Chicago Tribune. A Wilmington, Dela., Italian, Lingo Greno, would have been kjlled by an approaching ap-proaching train if his foreman, De Witt, had not knocked him off tna track with a clod of earth. Then Oreno had his rescuer res-cuer arrested for assault Th Bishop of London received in October Octo-ber a check for 5 from an undertaker who wished to make thank offering because business for the year had been so brisk. Walter Lorraine, who lives near Buffalo, N. Y., in May brought suit for, $2000 damages dam-ages against Miss Du Clam of Niagara Falls. It seems the young woman,- carried away by her affection, hugged him hard enough to fracture a rib. Almost at the same time Miss Carrie Uugin of Janes-vllle. Janes-vllle. Wis., was so tightly clasped by her sweetheart that two of her ribs became Interlocked. Lord Flncastle, one of England's bravest brav-est men, three times decorated for hero-Ism hero-Ism in battle, waa married last January and was so nervous at the altar that his bride had to prompt allt his responses. After seven years in the cloister Sister Annette of Burlington, la., applied for a dispensation from vows that she might marry one of her music pupils. Two septuagenarians of Liverpool. Eng., celebrating their golden wedding, received among other gifts a tombstone with their names already duly Inscribed. Joseph. Fields Morris of New Bedford, N. J., acted as "best man" at his son's wedding, the ceremony being performed on the old gentleman's one hundredth birthday. Mrs. Catherine Dannbacher of Bloom, field, N. J., ftnd Mrs. Margaret Sullivan of Leominster, Mass., each received bouquets bou-quets of roses on their birthdays, one being be-ing 71 and the other 92. Each scratched herself on a thorn and in, each case death followed from blood poisoning. Otto Peterson of St. Louts was re-weddea re-weddea on his ninetieth birthday last April to his former wife, from whom he had lived apart for thirteen years. One of Tipton's (Ind.) veteran Democrats. Demo-crats. John Weaver, aged 73, committed suicide in May because his only son had voted the local Republican ticket for Mayor. Jeremiah Harrlfan of Hocksessin, Dela., escaped the clutches of the hangman after the gallows had been erected upon which he was to die. A few weeks later he died from the effects of a badly frosen foot. William P. Steele of Princeton, Md was killed while setting up a monument over his wife's grave. The tombstone fell upon him, crushing; head and chest. It was suggested to the authorities of Seville, Spain, that the city should do something to help the Society for ths Prevention Pre-vention of Cruelty to Animals. The idea was enthusiastically adopted and a monster mon-ster bull fight held in the organisation's behalf. After fruitlessly wandering over the hills of Utah for years, Patrick Sullivan, an old prospector, died of heart failure upon discovering dis-covering a rich mine near Park City. The "captains of the steamers Insulaire and Llban, which collided In June with the less of 104 lives, were tried In a Marseilles court and fined 20 cents each. A Syracuse (N. Y.) motorman brought suit last January against Archie Hale, a farmer, because when he was struck by the car he put It behind Its schedule. Edward Rose, arrested in Wilmington, Dela., for stealing a Panama hat in Honolulu, Hono-lulu, was taken back to Hawaii for trial. The hat was worth $7. Traveling expenses ex-penses for Sheriff and prisoner amounted to nearly $1000. Jerry Crandell, who lives near Saratoga, Sara-toga, N. Y., avers that one afternoon In May, during a thunder shower, a bolt of llghtidng ripped through the kitchen floor of hlsTiottaae, set fire to the woodwork, and smashed a big Jar, the water from which put out the flames. While O. C. Rothwell, candidate for Levy Court Commissioner in Wilmington, Dela., was about to vote at the September primaries lightning tore down one of his t'Olltlcal posters from a telegraph pole and mocked the ticket from his hand. He waa defeated by a large majority. Mrs. W. A. Red wick of Cooperstown, N. Y., was carrying a lighted lamp downstairs down-stairs during a storm when a bolt tore the lamp from her hand, putting It out at the same time, ripped open the woman's Shoes, but left her personally uninjured. In the stomach of a steer brought from Nebraska to the Pittsburg stockyards waa found an issue of Mr. Bryan's Commoner undigested. . . United States 8enator Ankeny of Washington Wash-ington 6 tats waa an Invalid in January, |