Chapter XXV: The Unexpected (2)

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Loses Leg After Fifty Years.

Fifty years after a Confederate shell had struck and injured his right leg, Ellet Ramsey, of Huntingdon, Pa., had the leg removed at the Blair Hospital. The amputation was made necessary by suffering from the old wound received half a century ago. He stood the operation well and will recover.

Angry Lamb Injures Woman.

Mrs. Garret Smith, of Liberty, Pa., is suffering from severe injuries received by being butted by an angry lamb. Dan Carroll, a neighbor of the Smith family, is the owner of the lamb, which escaped from its premises and went into the Smith yard. Before Mrs. Smith realized what had happened, she was knocked to the ground and seriously injured, one of her arms being broken.

Lost Boys Found in Abandoned Mine.

After searching a week for two small boys who were missing from their homes during that time, the searchers found the body of William Hale, five years old, and his companion, Albert Tomlinson, aged ten, still alive, in an abandoned mine near Banksville, Pa. The boys had been lost in the mine all that time. Young Tomlinson was almost exhausted from exposure and hunger.

The boys were in a small five-foot drop in a mine pit which had several inches of water in it. The body of the Hale boy was partly submerged in the water, but his head was resting in the lap of his companion, who could barely sit erect. The younger boy had starved to death.

After searching for several days for the missing lads, the party entered the mine pit. They had progressed only a short distance when they heard a faint voice crying: “Oh, Thomas; oh, Thomas!” It was young Tomlinson calling for his older brother.

When rescued, young Tomlinson said: “Thank God you found us.”

Tomlinson told an incoherent story. He said he had no idea of time, but as nearly as he could tell Hale had been dead about two days. He said they walked hand in hand many miles, endeavoring to find a way out. After his comrade died, Tomlinson said, he carried the body around with him. Overcome with exhaustion, he gave up all efforts and had not sufficient strength to get out of the pool of poisonous water in which he and Hale’s body was found.

It is not known how the Tomlinson boy survived the ordeal, but it is supposed that he subsisted on bark from old timber in the mine. He is in a hospital now.

Catches Baby Boy on Roof of Moving Train.

An escape from death without precedent occurred in Pittsburgh, recently, on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Walter Betle, four years old, was playing on the bridge at Thirty-third Street, near where the flooring was being repaired. He stumbled at a hole and started to fall to the tracks, twenty-five feet below.

A freight train was within a few feet of the bridge, running at high speed. On the roof of the first box car was Richard Roundtree, a brakeman, saw the boy stumble through the bridge. He braced himself and managed to catch him as he fell. Roundtree staggered dangerously near the edge of the roof, but managed to keep his footing until the train was stopped.

Has Wonderful “Peace” Egg.

Sam Marks’ Plymouth Rock hen, of Orville, Cal., which recently laid an egg bearing the Hebrew word for “peace” neatly inscribed thereon, is bringing her owner much fame and large daily mail. The president of the Panama-Pacific Exposition has written to Marks, inclosing a free pass to the exposition and asking Marks to bring the wonderful egg and “Martha,” the remarkable hen, with him.

Lands 975 War Horses Across Ocean Safely.

Doctor E. R. Forbes, of Fort Worth, Texas, who, early in January, resigned as State veterinarian to return to British service, recently took the record on animal transportation, having landed in Europe 975 head of animals without losing one.

Doctor Forbes was in good health when the letter containing the news of his safe arrival at his destination in England was written, and signified his intention of remaining in the animal-transport service of Great Britain as long as his services were required during the war.

Doctor Forbes was employed by the British government during the Boer War in the same position he now occupies. At that time he took two cargoes of horses from New Orleans to South Africa, and, after demonstrating how to care for the animals on shipboard during such a long voyage, returned to New Orleans, where he continued to pass upon the soundness and stamina of horses and mules for the British army while the Boer War lasted.

Taking 975 head of animals across the Atlantic in mid-winter was a feat in maritime equine transportation never before equaled, and especially when it is taken into consideration that not an animal was lost during the voyage.

This is quite in contradistinction to the fate of a shipload of horses consigned to the Italian government by the steamer _Evelyn_. When the steamer neared the Bermuda Islands, the condenser on the vessel broke, and, no water being available, the cargo, 366 head, was driven into the sea.

Another shipment to Italy arrived at its destination with only seventy-eight alive out of 345 when the vessel left an American port.

Michigan Has Climbing Cow.

Marshall Rust, a farmer, of Lapeer, Mich., possesses several cows that are as graceful examples of bovine femininity as ever chewed a cud, but, in addition, one of them has some athletic ability.

Mr. Rust recently turned his cows into a field in which was also a wagon partly loaded with bean pods. One night he went out to milk his cows just after darkness had set in and found one missing. He searched over the near-by fields for several hours, but to no avail.

When morning came, the lost cow was found sleeping peacefully on the load of bean pods. The cow had climbed on the wagon, six feet from the ground.

Timber Inspector Slays Three Bears.

Mat Jordan, expert timber inspector, living in Turner, Mich., is the hero of the hour just now in that town and vicinity. Old residents, especially those who came from the East many years ago, declare that if Mat had lived in the good old pioneer days of which J. Fenimore Cooper so charmingly wrote, Mat would have made as interesting a story hero as did Natty Bumpo, the famous deer slayer, only Mat’s long suit is bears, no matter how many.

Mat was strolling through the woods near here with a double-bladed ax on his shoulder. He was there to look over some timber land, with a prospective dicker looming up in his speculative mind. While pausing to inspect a likely looking log that lay half concealed with dead brush, he heard a noise. Stepping toward the sound to investigate, he beheld a large black bear emerging from its den.

“Great siege guns!” exclaimed Mat, “this looks like war.”

It was war, and it started right away, for Mat swung his double-edged ax and soon had the enemy at his feet, registering its final kicks and last gasps. While he was surveying his conquered foe with a gleam of triumph in his weather eye, he suddenly had occasion to exclaim:

“Well, for the love of Mike, look who’s here!”

Two more bears, but young, half-grown ones, which were quickly dispatched and laid alongside their mother. The large bear weighed 175 pounds.

Mat went after help, and the carcasses were brought to town, where they were viewed by hundreds of persons all of whom were of the opinion that Mat Jordan is the champion bear slayer of Michigan.

Strangest Fresh-water Fish.

George Welscher, who lives in Illinois, opposite Commerce, Mo., caught a strange-looking fish in the Mississippi River the other day. He had been told that if one would break the ice near the shore and drop a baited hook in the water, he could sure catch fish. He decided to try it, and had only been fishing a few minutes when he landed a queer specimen, to describe it mildly. It had a head like a dog’s, but the body was like a fish. Where the fins should be it had something like wings, which it could open and close. It had a tail similar to a cat’s, with fur on it like a cat’s, and on which the water seemed to have no effect.

Near the end of the tail there were three prongs, each having a different color of fur on them--one blue, one white, and the other a shade of yellow. It had a tusk about two inches long in its mouth. Its eyes were in the tip of its tail, and instead of having two eyes, it had three. Welscher said he had no trouble landing the fish, and as soon as landed it began to bark like a dog.

Saved Russian from Big Bear.

Andy Williams, an employee of the Gagen Lumber and Cedar Company, of Gagen, Wis., in one of their camps, two miles from this village, killed what is thought to be the largest bear ever seen in this vicinity, it weighing nearly 500 pounds.

A Russian who was swamping out logs suddenly aroused a monster bear, and, in his excitement, accidentally hit bruin on the head. The bear, furious at being struck, made for the Russian, who was now fleeing down the road at his utmost speed. The Russ no doubt imagined that his end was near and that there was at least one Russian who would never get back across the big pond to face a German gun. He probably never would have if Andy Williams hadn’t come to his rescue and dispatched the bear with an ax.

They went back and found three cubs in a hollow log, and they are now getting the best of care at the camp.

Tiny Locomotive is Wonder in Details.

A perfect model of an oil-burning railway locomotive, forty-two inches long, is to be put on exhibition at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Arthur H. Johnson, of Seattle, Wash., who built the model, has been requested by the San Francisco authorities to enter the locomotive as an exhibit, and he has consented.

Johnson, who is a young electrician, spent three years in making the model to try out an invention of his on the fire box. The engine is equipped with air brakes, an electric-light system, and everything else that a modern locomotive has. The boiler has been tested out at 150 pounds working pressure.

A Massachusetts man has built a miniature battleship, thirteen feet in length, which has all the features of a real dreadnaught, including guns that fire, range finders, wireless instruments, gunners, and even a band that plays martial music. The vessel is propelled by electricity, and can make ten miles an hour in smooth water....

Santa’s Aids Honored.

A large statue of Santa Claus, made of paper pulp molded from five thousand letters written by poor children of the city to Kris Kringle, was presented at the Hotel Astor, in New York City, to William C. and F. A. Muschenheim, two of Santa’s aids. It is the gift of the Santa Claus Association and the Waterman’s Ideal Ten-year Club.

John D. Gluck, founder of the Santa Claus Association, presented the figure to the Muschenheims. The statue is three-quarters life size and rests on a base of Italian marble. Kratina, the sculptor, spent two months in molding it.

The inscription says the gift is in recognition of “assistance rendered to the children of the poor, who wrote to Santa Claus. A fortune was sent to poor kiddies, for fuel, food, and toys, and five thousand of them no longer say there is no Santa Claus.”

Find Missing Man in Shark.

The mystery surrounding the disappearance three years ago at St. Augustine, Fla., of John B. Mooney, of Mooney Brothers’ Company, was cleared up when his son, Edgar J. Mooney, of Cleveland, Ohio, received word from Miami, Fla., that the upper portion of a human skeleton, which is thought to be that of J. B. Mooney, had been found in the stomach of a shark caught near there this week.

In 1912 the elder Mooney was in bathing at St. Augustine when he suddenly disappeared in the surf. It was thought that a strong undertow had carried him out to sea, but it is now believed a shark seized him.

Interesting New Inventions.

The “bicycle built for two” about which there used to be a song was followed by the motor cycle carrying two passengers. This has now been improved upon. The newest kind has two chair seats, one behind the other, instead of saddles.

To save neckties from the wear and tear of pinholes, a scarfpin has been patented that clips on the edge of a tie.

In the interest of cleanliness, an Iowa inventor has patented a wire frame to hold a milk pail up from the ground.

A Frenchman has invented a machine for dealing cards that is said to make misdeals impossible.

A microthermometer has been invented that is so delicate that it is capable of registering sea-water temperature changes to one-thousandth of a degree. The instrument is intended to enable ship’s officers to detect their approach to icebergs.

A novel wrench that will hold a nut of almost any size is made of a single piece of steel, the handle being split so that the jaws are sprung together as a strain is applied.

Snake Poison Fails to Cure.

Rattlesnake venom as a cure for epilepsy proved a failure in official tests conducted by the State of Kansas. A report filed in Chicago by Doctor M. L. Perry, superintendent of the State Hospital for Epileptics, at Parsons, notes the effect of the venom on six patients at the institution who received the treatment for two months.

“In two cases there were more attacks than before; another was unchanged, and one patient’s condition grew so alarming that the treatment was discontinued in two weeks,” the report says.

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