Show WORLDS WORLD QUEER FOLK s MANY OF THEM IN ACTUAL LIFE AND IN BOOKS Freaks and Caprices of Nature Added to Almost Dally a Source of 01 Wonder and Matter for loa Study We read In the old books catalogued by Sy booksellers as quaint books like the Wonderful Museum or the Eccentric Eccentric Eccentric Ec centric Biography about misers hermits hermits her hor- mits gargantuan e eaters strong men men mell with horns harns women with whisk whiskers ers era and we wonder at the freaks and caprices of or nature but there Is 15 ma mar material material every overy year for tor still more encyclopedic encyclopedic encyclopedic en en- volumes year books of or Living Marvels Read the pers verso There are wild men mea In the New England states Mr John D D. Rockefeller Rocke Rocker feller felter not nat believing In holidays because because because be be- cause they too often orten lead lend to extravagance extra extra- extravagance kept the tho laborers on his estate hard at work on September 1 L. Letters to the New York Times inform Inform Inform In In- form us that thero there are persons otherwise otherwise otherwise other other- wise sane who are endeavoring to color meerschaum pipes There was a hermit In the heart of London a few years ago He lived In Ina a cellar the sole vestige of or a house hause houseIn In Clare Market pulled down dawn and forgotten forgotten for far gotten by its owners Tradesmen of or the he neighborhood gave him food and he was lazily happy until a journalist discovered him The Tho hermit was then Interviewed and photographed phed and the workhouse authorities pulled him out of or his cellar and cleaned him so that his ils glory glary as a hermit faded Mr Chris Granger of Brooklyn on August 24 ate 39 lobsters weighing from a pound to a pound and a quarter Not long lang ago he ate a pound 15 bluefish six green peppers nine potatoes two loaves of at bread at a sitting and and heeding heed ing not physicians phys who advise against drink at table galy put down dawn 10 bottles hot bat ties of or be beer r. r Truly this Is ta a little world of or great wonders Go 00 back a few years years- Did not John I Ruskin deserve a a. place In an of or Wonders We do not refer to his handing over Mrs Ruskin to his artistic friend Mr we WB do donot donot donot not allude to his crusade against railways railways rail rail- I ways and factories When he suffered from tram any malady he always asked what would be the tho worst for him then be he ordered It and ate It The physicians told him that pepper was dangerous He scattered It profusely over every dish An obstinate man when he was most disobedient reck reek recklessly lessly perverse he recovered Some of us remember the old man who for 40 years had bad a telescope at Fifth Firth avenue and Twenty-third Twenty street In New York Mr Fred Frederick rIck 3 J. J Seybold Sey- Sey bold bald known to thousands only as the professor This learned stargazer invited Invited Invited In In- the public by little placards to see the Man In the Moon or the Mighty He had studied medicine medi medI- clue cine chemistry law Ho Bo was waa a profound profound pro- pro found round astronomer and an Ingenious Inventor He was a member of the rand army Why did he become a street astronomer No one knows and when he died a few days ago in ina ina ina a hospital at Hoboken all that could be said of him was that he died chiefly from starvation Living on the canal cana barge on the Hudson he had bad buTh t tall all his papers Did Edward Harrigan J live ave him In mind when he W the part of or tho the street astronomy t In n Squatter Soy SOi F was not one of or Han Haiti e ebest 1 best best patis y yet yet the performs aYee a amusing Hale HalEl to M Hei Herald ld u f Corn EM land land- Dacon n Fry cl eight M slices of or bacon sand fend Dd take takeout takeout takeout out cp the platter then try fry the fat tat one half can of of- con cona until Emil slightly brown pour Into this four tour eggs well beaten beat n. n with a milk add a bit bitof of 01 butter IV aA s stir until eggs are coo Cooko o |