Show IN THE ODD CORNER I 1 QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS AND EVENTS an act of daring iraln Ir ln and na courage champion champlan talking I 1 arnots brot A mant owing I 1 unil nou lu Is well represented bilut lne lote ah ahl let our love loe be still till a foiled flower A lure i moss blushing to be seen hoar III gits its I 1 aim airn anil and beamut for or that hour ahen hen may meet without the cla between I 1 let et not a I 1 reath of I 1 caslon ailon ai lon dare t to blow ite its tender jimh lafa alart 1 let ot not the sunI tain lili sith too ardent blow i 10 I 1 ro r ane tl it e dem dewy y s at ita its heart ahl keep it fol led like a I 1 thing ith itt te kcira irs an I 1 amilt a its bloom anil and fra a 4 rai ci c nu me still 1 let et t the he n hohet 0 it at ell aronn armin I 1 it clial nor with fill rude touch its til pleading nesa ness curne curse lie ile thou content am a I 1 to kno know not see rho glowing blo winf life the treasured wealth within to frei our of ii irit flower still fresh and frer freb fre b and guart ili hugh ita its smile from flame ani will ah keep it hobyl once the veil nell with iran d raa ra A no onan non the rose blooms bloom sIts ilg balmy goul soul III fly fin aa As ltd d of ol 01 oil I 1 in hadrit sa yet in corn scorn th awakened a wakened god from I 1 eche is che a daring cio I 1 flowers it 1 is well known that there ire luminous hi m uil mali but it la Is not so gener goner it ly known that there are lu minnis flowers the light with which cei flowers and plants salue at night Is pronounced b i et recent observer one of the stra strangest niest phenomenon of the tile vegetable kingdom this luminosity Is not a new net discovery having ben bon b en noted by I 1 antl beus and I 1 y etheri aiace but attention Is being newly directed direct td to the phenomenon and au an attempt made to chirl late its nature among tho the flowers bit that become Iti luminous minous after dark are the common nasturtium the lie gouth african and gome sonie of tha the and in brazil there li a grass which atch at certain bours of at the night shines with a bright light it aia aa at one time thought that the lum hal hat an electric origin but dr ljoseph hooker thought it due to a slow heatless combustion of same oart dart of 0 tho the plant it Is evidently phosphor ascent akin to the light ot of the glowworm and to that of 0 substances used in pro dilLing luminous paint it re the last maimed aa as being brightest after a sunny day when much light may have lein absorbed beginning to show some time after sunset and tad fail ing some time before dawn that bom vital process may also be concerned Is probable an act of daring hail and courage an unusual accident to i ret cockatoo was once the occasion of an act of no me little daring and courage I 1 ho lie poor bird had got hopelessly caught b its chain to the spite of a church hollow ay jail london Io nilon and an all intreri I 1 man undertook to mount the spire tal bring down the bird to her owner for this purpose several long lad ad cipry wre drawn up tip to the top of the church tower and then spliced together an I 1 reared up against the steeple T the he dangerous ascent waa was then made amid the CT ty oat intense excitement on oil the part of a large assem assemblage blige of spectators ind the imprisoned cockatoo set free rhe rescuer eald said that perilous as were ibe the ascent and descent they were as noth ing compared to the anxious moments when standing on the tile top round of the ladder he waa was engaged with his left hand la if unfastening the tile chain from the cross while holding on with his right for during this time the unappreciative bird mchose reason not discern the ike sacrifice being made to savo save it II 11 from ft a lingering death peeked pecked at his bare arm which was na covered with blood and arid made raw with wounds be fore he could grasp th the frightened acrel ture and prevent further injury ciao 11 ind special A ledge edge of rock cropping out on oil a small water ater course on the farm ot hiram shaen nar was recently washed oft off by the rains and a curious thing haa has been exposed upon the rocks appear fifteen footprints exactly as it if made br a man walking barefooted in mud mad thre th re are most remarkable and convincing traces that man existed during the formation of at least some of the underlying strata the rock Is solid and the print prints just as solid and plain as though it was a cast of iron there are many interesting traces of aborigines aborigine i in the rocky water ater courses ot of souther t indiana over in frank lin county there Is 1 a str air a am in that wheal when running very low or ver atry y clear reveal reveals the footprints of 0 a man in the rocky bottom it was in southern indian that the prints of dogs and other animals were also found in the fit flint at strata these strata were of it period prior to the glacial epoch which cov coy crin crad hern them with alth alluvial deposits and in the northern section where there was wax no disturb disturbance ace completely priori cov coy j ere acrel I 1 all of 0 the traces of a race prior to those of history the rhe footprints which are found in the rock on the shaen firm indicate that the owner of the feet was a monster oneter ia lie would require a no 12 or 13 shoe to cover the understanding which left the imbres elon sion in the mud which afterward became rock borne some months ago while making a blast quarry quarrymen inen near this point opened a solid rock which con bained a pocket and in this rocket pocket wa was ft a live sight sightless lesil rog rug arile thirty leur old muncie Mi incle ind dispatch ur dr E ja J tt of or this tills city has an apple in hia his that he from a tree thirty veara cars ago before the doc ani tor went into the army he planted an apple tree on the grave grino of his mother in ili the cemetery at Teeters burg ri ripton pion I 1 county I 1 bour our years later when ho he re I 1 tumid from the war the tree waa was blaring fruit and he pulled off one of 0 the apples he ile pi pl iced it 11 in a it chemicals chemi chemical call solution and kept it av at ly ty from the air it la Is as rosy and solid to day aa as it was bitty veara cars ago and anti looks aa as it if lt it would miko mike capital eating he lie it very cry highly and exhibits it with ai great deal of pride A fanner farmer north ot op this city rather claims the lone distance disi i honora honors over ir dr tt seven years ago while biking some butter butted the discussion arose aa as to how long butter could be kept it was resolved resolve dl 1 to make a test A pound of good solid creamery butter waa was placed in a earthen bowl and this was scaled rask malti raski I ing it airtight A wire was as then pro I 1 cured and the hermetically sealed buh bull ter let down in a well it wa wah just above the water line almost 1001 1031 feet below the top op of the well and let leita one at the expiration of than that time it was lifted out and sampled ali waa was as fresh and sweet as the day 1 bad had been lowered A year later an 0 other ther test was made and annu annually all these tests have revealed the fact coati there Is no change the seventh teat test has just been made and find indications eri are tha that it will be fresh long after the th pr sent experimenters have paused passed a away ay tho the temperature at the point win re it bangs hangs year in and arid year out la Is the same sim considerable interest centers wound the experiment champion talking jacob a talking parrot owned 0 tied by mr grant ridley Ill dley of holloway olloway II road loia loi don angland Ln gland brings in to his hill master mute every year mr ludley ridley has bet beadal offered 91 1600 for him but he is worth more than that this wonderful bird has perfect om roand mand over 4 words and never put a ein at tence together incorrectly he cani also talk three languages and ten dialects whatever language or dialect vou ou address him in he will reply to fill the same tongue eighty dounda was pat pall I 1 by the archduchess stephanie widow of the austrian crown prince for a parrot which could reate rei alte ihei thel paternoster in six different languages when ahen the archduchess got the wun won t I darful bird nome it could not utter a word and the merchant who sold it was arrested for fraud it turned out that he was a ventriloquist and he had hatt taught the bird to open his bl mouth and appear to be talking while hie his ventriloquism lasted th sultan of ot turkey paid for 60 for a gray parrot that could speak words A moving mountain I 1 there Is a mountain of dark brown basalt on the columbia river neatly neaily two thousand feet in height and stretching along tile stream for fix six 0 eight blics when the white first came into the country the told them this mountain waa was tra traveling velini that some day it would move across thi columbia and form a lake which woula reach from the cascades an the dalle what the indians indiana said hae has been found true in me respects the mountain Is in kotwa its movement Is forward and downward the railroad builders who constructed their line along tho th base basc found the tile tracks continual continually li forced out of place in some places the movement movi ment has amounted to eight andt and ten feet in a few earn geologists it rt tribute the phenomenon to the fact that the mountain rests on oil a au batra turn tum of conglomerate or of soft etan tan istone la ster steadily trilly being washed away by the current of the big river new now york I 1 tribune A to I 1 iberal in front of a doan town store n more than a thou thousand and milea miles fro i bunker monument stood one day a pyramid of valises of the peculiar type commonly known an telescopes the one at the bottom of the pile wal very large and the one at the top rather small surmounting tho the structure was a cv ca bearing this inscription I 1 RON 22 UP this attracted the attention of ft a citizen who was pasing lie ile stepp d inside and said to one of the salesmen 1 0 I want that largest telescope 0 it there here a your t twenty enty tw two 0 cents 0 I 1 that large one A will ill cost you dollar dollars replied the salesman which one Is tent two cents the top one then why don t ou make your sigil algil read from pa 2 cents down don re ported the ther putting the monet back in hs bs pocket and walking mil ul with a iok lok of disgust on his face an appropriate present tor for a en on hearted lover over would be a in the slat chape pe of a wishbone |