St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 30

unban jgfoimng, St, grab lst-gispfcb gtambtr lbT, IBSB. i an I i ODDITIES AND FREAKS OF NATURE. STORIES OF ANIMAL AND HUNTING LIFE. ODD STORIES OF THE TOWN. WHY THEY WANTED HER.

AVENGES HIS BABY'S DEATH. A STRANGE SEA MONSTER. She Thought It Was for Her Looks, but Her Baby Undeceived Her. There is a young married lady who lives near Garrison avenue who is quite proud of CHOKED A LEOPARD J0 DEATH. A THRILLING INCIDENT OF PROF.

ELLIOT'S EXPEDITION TO AFRICA. WOMAN KILLS TWO POLAR BEARS. A BRIDAL TRIP IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE ON A STEAM WHALER. her looks. Her nHrte la not altogether un justifiable, though contrary to Biblical jot-mortexn operation upon the brain of Augustus Colcannon, at Sodom, Ind.

in September, ly2, became a raving maniac. The first intimation that the 'cause of the sudden insanity could not be a common one was ventured by a local physician named 1r. A. Hazlewood. Dr.

llazifwo'i'l insisted that there must be some foreign substance in the young man's brain, or in whatever was left of it. Aftf-r with authorities on mental diseases and visits to specialists in Chicago. Lr. Hazlewood proposed trephining as the only remedy left. This was done in the presence of his associates, who were efiSTpriv awaiting developments.

To the surprise of all a strange discovery was made. When a portion of the skull had been removed a plant waa found growing in the brain. The plant was nearly an Some months there are 15 or IS or 25. and always in tummer It's more. "There's biood on the d.xTTfrins, there's blood on the table, there's biood in the ink il the stands, and a fr-llow to pick up a pen isn't abie without getting gore on his hands.

Why yhou'd a man run for office like this?" asked as he pulled on the tickiers that hang from his chin. I suppose that it because seekers can't always be sticklers. "So I guess 1 will rtay here, in spite of the for the sake of the ones who elected me. If they hadn't said Wait, my name would be Mudd. Good heavens! What if they'd rejected me?" Then the Ooroner smiled In a knowing way, as he winked at Chief Deputy Iioyd.

and he lapsed into silence and r.othsnif would say. gazing vacantly out in a void. teaching, for she Is fair to look upon. She has a little 5-year-old daughter, who is a It Was Cast Ashore on the Florida Coast After a Fierce Tight. A strange a.

monster was cast ashore st St. Augustine, a few days which, the local scientists have been unable to classify. The body when first found was twenty-five feet lonir, and althoueh much shrunken, was four and a half feet thick by ten f.tft In breadth. Judging from th size of the body, the Ions' attached to it must have had in the water a radius of over thirty feet. Of course the impression naturally is Child Killed by a Bear, and Every Year the Father Shoots One.

Twenty years ago last Thanksgiving Day a bear killed Edward Baum's 3-year-oid baby, says a Ridgway, correspondent of the New York Times, Kvery Thanksgiving Day since that time Eaum has shouldered his gun. gone Into the woods, and he has never returned without brinsinj with him a de-ad bear. Over the grave of h's baby Bium Bwere that he would kill a bear each Thanksgiving Day. That was twenty years aijo, and he has never once broken his vow. Sometimes he has had to gc far into the mountains, and once he joumeyat fifty miles from his home, but he found the boar and killed It.

The day the baby was killed ho and bis son were in the woods chop rung trees. They had taken the child them and left her sitting on a fallen tree, 'while thev went further Into the woods. When they re- THE SMITER SMITTEN. Professor D. G.

Elliott has Just returned from Eastern Africa, where he went in search of specimens of certain animals for the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago. With his company was a Mr. Akeby. Mr. Akeby bad a narrow escape from being torn to pieces by a leopard, and being disarmed in the fight, he performed the almost unheard of feat of killing the infuriated beast Who ever heard of a bridal tour to the Arctic circle? A honeymoon in, the frozen seas? Sunshine and flower and bright skiea are associated in the mind with a bridal trip, but where love Is, extremal conditions make little difference, and so it comes that Mrs.

Joseph Whiteside has Just landed at San Francisco after Just such. a. bridal tour as the question suggests. ---ci r- i- 5 O'Fallon Street Society Leader's Experience With a Bicyclist. It happened on O'Fallon boulevard.

Everything "happens" on that fashionable thoroughfare. Nothing ever "occurs" or "trar.s-rires" up that way. it "jes" happens, see?" It was on a Sunday afternoon, cnld and raw. and the strwts were rough. On O'Fallon, however, there were two smooth bicycle tracks, and a lone bicyclist had taken advantage of theen to set up to Jel-ferson avenue.

His was a notable figure one that O'Fallon street usually gibes at and casta contumely upon. He waa slender of limb, wore black stockings, a delicate colored sweater, real bicycle shoes and cap and. worse than all. from an O'Fallon street standpoint, he had on expensive fur gloves. At Nineteenth street stood three of the leaders of the swell society of the boulevard.

They were standing before their club room, and each wore on the front of his head a flat Stetson hat that gave him that distinguished air for Which the scions of the high-born families of O'Fallon street are famous. Each had also In his mouth a cigarette, and behind it a large plug of tobacco. The sight of a dude bicyclist on O'Fallon MARVELOUS SEA MONSTER ASHORE AT ST. ATJQTJSTXNE. Inch, long-, of threadlike structure, and with long-, fibrous roots.

The presence of this wonderful plant was a puzzle over which the learned doctors debated long and ear- estly, but with unsatisfactory results. It was decided best to make no attempts at removing it, as immediately death would urely have followed. The patient soon re covered bodily, but his mental condition grew worse. At intervals only "would he ht the monster Is of the cuttle-fish order; but Dr. Grant of St.

Augustine, who has mad an anatomical examination of it, f-ays he found in it no bones to indicate that it was of that fpecles. Dr. Grant describes the oroaturo as follows: "The head is as large as an ordinary flour brvrol and has the shape of a soa lion head. The neck, if the creature may be said to "have a neck, is of the same diameter as the body. Thrt mouth is on the under side of the head, ajid is protected by two tentacle tubes about inohts in diameter and thirty f--t These tubes resemble an liph.int's trunk, and obviously were used to clutch i i a sucker-like fashion, any object reach.

"Another tune or tentacle of th same dimensions stands out on the top of the head. Two others, one on each protrude from behind tho monster's neck and extend fully have short spells of consciousness, when his would seem to clear and his speech become somewhat coherent. Before his death a few days ago he seem wise, old-fashioned little creature of an observant disposition. Her mother was busily employed in her household duties Thursday, when the little one Interrupted her with: "Say, mom, do vou know lots o' men ud tike to have you?" "Mom" was all attention at once. Womanlike, her vanity was touched.

To think that even her little daughter had recognized her numerous charms sufficiently to remark them was gratifying indeed. She stopped her work and took the little one in her arms caressingly. "Why, darling, what do you think they would want your mamma for? I'm not bo pretty as that, am 'Tain't that," said the kiddle. "They'd want you fer their servant girl, you're sich a good worker." SPRUNG A BIG WORD. ed to regain his self-pwssession.

and for two hours was able to give to the nurses and doctors his own story of what had happened to him. In 1S90 Colcannon. while orivmg a wagon, eame in collision witn an other waptrn and Tell violently to the ground and injured Iks head. It was au iifttwn fix-t the body and beyond the tumn, and the earth was yel.ow with with ered grass and seeds of various kinds. tan.

ine tan. wnich is serrated and Jaeeed "with cutting points for several feet, is flank The only way of accounting for the pres ed with two ni ore tentacles of the same di mensions as the others and thirty feet long. ence oi ine plant in nis Drain is on the assumption that a seed was driven through i lie eyes are under the back or the moutfl ins-read of over it. tne skuii at tne time or his fall. and.

find ing enough moisture, vegetated there and "This specimen po bndlv cut ud bv thrived in its strange bed of gray matter. rbarks and saw-fish that only "the stumps of this rare specimen was removed after the tentacles remain, but pieces of them were found strewn fiir some distance on the "oicann-3n death, and Is now in the hands or or. of Sodom, who believes I. each, snowing that the animal had a fierce battlo with its foes before it was disabled it to De unique in the annais or surgery. beached by the surf." Then the Sixth.

Street Bartender Smote Him With a Club. The wise-looking young man, with Intellectual knobs on his head, tiptoed softly through the side door of a dynamite dispensary on South Sixth street. He glanced apprehensively around as though in momentary fear of being held up, robbed and murdered. He had often heard of the dangers that beset the wayfarer in the Wicked Lands contiguous to Clark avenue, but he had CURIOUS PLANT GROWTHS. A ONE-EARED RABBIT.

Trees Which Yield Paper, Candle, Oil It A Younj Lady Caught It and Seemed Glad to Be Caught- and Other Useful Things. The value of the plant world, not only in Miss Bertrand, daughter of the hotel never been there before. It was all a mistake, that he was there that time, but even the wisest of men will rurnlshlng the pulpy material of which keeper at Tocloma, near San Francisco, make a miscalculation sometimes. paper is manufactured, but also In supplying the paper outright, may not be captured a most unusual quadruped a few (iajs It is a specimen of the ordinary He was mistaken, and he was also very d-y. Hence his venture inside, in spite of cotton tail rabbit, but differs from the res.t visions or blood and crime.

fully apreciated by those who have not Investigated the subject. It is well known that He glided softly up to the bar, removed his hat nervously and caressed the intellec of hia tribe by not having h's Just share of ears. In fact, he he has only one, and the Egyptian papyrus, in early days, was the main poured from which anything like our tual knobs on the portico or ins tnougnt rac-tory. Leaning over, he glanced feverishly at the inonern paper was derived. 1 his was a reed that errew bv the brooks bartender and asked in a purring voice: with a stem 6 to If) feet in height, and about ill you be kind enough to mix me up an altitudinous globule?" an incn in diameter, -j.

nese were peeled and the pith was cut into thin slices, which Iff SKMu were then laid side by side, with the edges A what?" demanded the bartender. "An altitudinous globule." "Wotdell is that?" thundered the mixer. "An altitudinous globule?" inquired the touenmg one another. Alter being sprinkled un viaier a neavy pressure was anDiied. and they were thus united into one niece.

street offended their sense of the eternal fitness of things, and they proceeded to Jet the dude know it. 1 "Say, blow my smoke ir dat am a may n-ot De so generally known that there now grows in Asia a tree the bark of which is made into sheets about a yard square, and these are used for all the ordinary purposes of paper, being very tough and durable. The soft and durable Chinese peach," said one; "jes watch me git I wone do a thing to dat." And arminr himself with a rock he started for the slender bicvclist with the Intention or paper is not the product of any part of L. nue piant, put is tne pitn or a tree creating some dlvertisement for hia friends and the neighborhood generally. wnicn, ny the aid -of a lathe and a sham in strument, is cut into very thin and delicate Just as he reached tne wneeiman no stretched out his hand to grab the hand! The lighting materials furnished bv trees THE LARGEST OF THE THREE BEARS FELL AT THE FIRST FIRE.

bars; the latter stepped lightly from nis wheel, and with the cool, calm air of a 1s something worth noting; among which man who has done the same thing before. iimy ue mentioned tne Japanese wax tree trip turned the baby was nowhere to be fourd. It was no little sawed off bridal gave the O'Fallon etreet gentleman an up svnicn Dears bunches of fruit, growing like grapes, and containing a species of wax with nature's weapons. He knocked the leopard down and just choked the beast to death. Wonderful as this feat was, it was per cut with his rignt, sans rur giove, tnai laid him flat on the frozen ground.

either. It began in the spring of last year and lasted a matter of eighteen months or usea in making candles. Another tree is And then he gave him a kick, men louna in tne Pacific Islands, known as the rendered more so bv the fact that the ex cruel kick, one of the kind that la known candle-nut, which yields a large quantity of so- The way such a bridal ttour was made that is "right in the middle of his fore on O'Fallon street as "a swift kick." and before anybody except the fallen man knew plorer was already badly wounded. The picture, "The Conqueror and Conquered," ia taken from a photograph brought back by Prof. Elliott, who in an interview with a nerneis oeing strung together on a stick and lighted as a candle possible waa that the bridegroom was the captain of a steam whaler, the Belvedere.

bead." 1 ney minted mat nijrni. an-; auout nuun the next day their dog caina upon the trail of a bear. They followed the tracks to a cave under the mountain, and there found a she bear and her cubs, playing the body of the baby. The old bear was killed with a riile ball and the cu'oa were clubbed to death. Baum declares that as lonsr as he lives he will never forget the vow he made at the grave of his child, and that each year on Thanksgiving ray a bear must be brought down by his rifle.

We may al.so mention the candle tree, the Possibly this rabbit realized that he was what was wrong, lie oaa remouniea ana was gone. And then the elite of the vicinity wept London Sketch representative said: When she was about ready to clear, the irun oi wmen is tnree or four feet in length. cimerent from his fellows, for he was firs m-eii only a few hundred yards from the bitter tears of disappointed pride over the gallant Captain concluded to wed "the New Bedford girl, who had been his lititle school iwo iiuui ti.ii men in diameter, ana, of a yellowish color, "hanging from the tree so as to present the annearance nf -m-a "This photo, which I 'have named "Conqueror and was taken after what was certainly a narrow shave for Mr. Akeby. He had wounded a leopard Jiitei.

When he was chased, instead fall of their favorite. Any oia Kina or a bicycle boy can go up that way now. petting away as fast as possible, he ran into mate long years before. He left his ves BAR I li -I i il 1 1 sel in the West, sped across the continent a r.ump or snruhtiery and stayed there un til lie was picked up. And the stranges that suddenly charged.

Having no cartridges left. Akeby struck the beast candles, and in such abundance as to give the idea of a chandler's shop. A siendcr. erect shrub grows in India to which the name of the telecr-a oi nbnt v.aa WANTS TO MEET HER. to the Atlantic seaboard, married the happy little woman, and of course, like thing Is that he never seemed frightened ANIMAL NOTES.

with his gun; but somehow it managed to catch him by the arm. Ouriousiy enough fit Htiy but. allowed himself to be handled jusi as if he was used to it all a Street The Girl Who Could "Hop' a itrue wire, she would not hear of him going away for an indefinOte period just as mv assistant was able to stand his ground. been given, because of a resemblance to railway telegraph signals in the motion of its tr-foliare loaves; the two side ones rising and falling alternately for a time and then Hi" 1:1 f. and not only succeeded in knocking his Miss Mamie Vinzant of Sherlock, Kan.

Car Wins Admiration. their lite a rea.ni had been consummated. The body of Bertrand's rabbit Is ex She was a stout-hearted little woman, a teacher, found some rattlesnakes in the act iv all other rabbits, and so is th Both of thorn were young and passlnf; fair. and she was not to be deterred bv the blji iiiio niiaiu into motion. assailant down, but actually knelt on its chest until the beast was soiffocated.

Suffering terrible agony from the lacerated esh, Mr. Akeby called on the natives who were around to assist him, but they merely coal bin of the schoolhouse, and, instead of alarming the pupils, set to work to dispatch the snakes, and succeeded in killing They rere also In a hurry. "l'9 oi ins neaii. jiis fur is the earn color, and there appears to bo no difl'erenc hardships of the frozen sens. "Where thou goesit I will go." she said with Ruth of old.

TWO-HEADED SNAKE. They emerged together from the Turner in size trom others of his species. Put eight of them. and so when the Belvedere sailed there was a woman on board, and she was the skip Building on Eighth street a few evenings ago, having ceased to box the typewriter per wiie. Each Head Wants Its Own Way and When they reached the frozen seas the for the nonce.

icoic at him is startling. And all on account of that strange, uncanny ear. It nicks up in the wildest manner, nd makes the little animal look about twice its real It gives him the ferocious p-pearance that Indians have when they put Fights the Other. bride did not weaken. She shared all the dangers and privations incident to such a cruise, and when larsre cajrw was Just as they did so an Onv Biree.

caoie i car passed, or was In the act of passing, going west. Both epled It at the same in it, '-''ft A two-beaded snake, hog-nosed Hetero- ighted. She took a hunH in the. stant. hunt, and such success that The one with the brown hair immediately she brought back with her the s.k!ns of two large polar bears as trophies of her nerve and skill with the rifle.

It was a delightful trin said Mrs. Ise-looklng young man. "Why, that's a Whiteside, on her return. "The vessel was comfortable and we had a splendid crew. The men forward and the officers aft wero kind and considerate for each other's happiness, and the ship was like a home of a big family.

Whaline- men are cenerallv spoken high Then the pariceeper reacneo caimiy troimd behind him and laid h's mit on the beer of as the riff-raff of the world. Perhaps they mallet, and tne young man a vision or Diooa mil crime came true. Gentle hands piloted him carefully home- are, but I found under their rough exteriors and boisterous manners that they were whole-souled. fellows. There mrd but tne loveiy contour or one or nis were nearly iiOO men at Herschel Island dur intellectual unous was lurevtr rumiu.

ing the past winter, making up tne crews of the fleet In the Ice there, and a more gentlemanly lot of fellows, as far as their conduct toward a woman was. concerned. CLEARING UP A MYSTERY. could not be found anywhere. The Coroner Answers a Question From There was plenty or excitement.

vp there were no moments or idleness. Personal History. The Coroner sat In his office chair, and husband and some of the orrieers or tne vessel had their rifles with them, and nothing would do but 1 must learn to shoot. hia visage wa wrapped in gwmi thought of the sinister happenings mere We had shootmg niatcne in winter quarters, and before the let. broke up I knew as much about a rifle as any of them and could shoor aitnnst as Inside of that dismal room.

He thought and he thought his Dram was wild, gazing vacantly out in a void, till vi. vision was caught by the modestly i tnf of hier ueirnty Laoya. fVironer roused from his dolo- 1 V4. "ll 4 ru trance, and nis vision arounu una if, till he happened to notice the feverish -1a. V- t- nU vAinf Coat Then he "lamps," full of trou- REPTILIAN FREAK THAT FIGHTS WITH ITSELF.

i- a tnrm. as ne iu ma he threw them around till they fell 'on the form of lr. John Reader, hia don Simus has come from Central America clerk. In into tne possession of E. C.

Fischer ed and all of his deputies paused to see th Coroner had to conflde, or what or New ork. It is 4 months old, of a brown "I have the tropnies a marksman and a hunter that Jdom fall to the lot of a woman. Thc are two large Twlar bearskins and my husband is now havine them prepared as rugs. We had only been out on the cruise after whales last summer a few days, and the vessel was slowlv steaming along a great ice floe, when the 'lookout sang out that there were three big bears on the ice. They had risen from behind a hummock only a few yards from the ship, and were looking in wonder at the vessel, when Mr.

Whiteside came running down in the cabin for me to get mv rifU'. as there was big game for me. "I followed him to the deck as quickly as I could, and, taking aim at the largest one of the three, sent a bullet that rolled him over dead. A second shot killed another of the three, and so elated was I over mv success ns a rifle shot that I could not hold the gun steady for the third shot and the last of the three bears was only wounded. He fell behind the lump of ice out of sight of the vessel and protected from any further bullets from my rifle wh-re I stool.

"I wanted to go on the lee after him, but my husband would not let me. saying that the bear would eat me up, and that he was the only bear who could claim that priv-iV-Bi' Tas went after that third bear and Anally brought it to th-5 ish green color, and not yet a foot long. bis sad musings ai turti. xtrue he declared, "ain't r.acn head has apparently a separate will. ine neaus light each other.

They must be fed with milk, raw meat and blood at one a feather on their head and twist it so into th ir hair so that it Bticka up as straight as a beanpole. While the rabbit captured at Tocaloma bat only one ear. It really seems to have two oriiWs. The openings are on the sides of the ear and not far from the usual places. From the upper portions of them the skin of the ear grows toward the center of the head, where it joins the one from the 'her side, and the two become one piece of flesh.

The upper portion of the ear Is not unusual, exoipt foe the fact that the Inside turned Inward the back Instead of toward the sides. The single cur Is determined to act at once, lnatead of wait, ing for the next car. marker to thU. a ne gazea in a cniinu w-av a the guns and revolvers whose ib-lllant hist mea-iit an lnqueat the following 'Oik. day it's a murder, the next there time, or there is war.

Often the two heads and Plav w'th each other. I he little monstrosity has much strenirth G-xkI bv. eil. ne anouiea. ani nan a bee tine" for the crolrg on the weal aide of the street, about sixty f-t away.

tor Its aae and size. Its owner keeps it In a are deaths without medical service, you a fllow can't draw two consecu The conductor na not wn ntr, iini tnw 11 ones tne warmtn or tne sun. uui iMuti tne ngnt in horror. car kept mm tive breaths till there's some one demanding a fee. aucker loada up on a barrel of like the cur or normal lrillanB eves, which seem Intelligent an.

i joyful when the master approaches them. redeeming traits of the horrible little reptile. ji.ny twice tne sire or one In condition. rs il there' pizen in all of hia veins. wakes up with a thirst on him.

mtnua hia shoes, and blows out his troublesome H-a In. Notwithstanding hH peculiarity, the one-eared rabt.it is as hai.py as can He bopa around bin pen in "the liveliest n. "THE CONQUEROR AND THE CONQUERED. A Queer Fish. hen he is pickrsl UI.

A fish Mtrartrdlniir annMnnm hlU woman la jealous because of the atnlle light of a woman her husband is sweet on an she hanga herself out in the wood- of being iff pieaned at th attention. killed oodles or the two I had two seemed to bring luck to the vl a drifted ashore at l.unna-sting. Shetland. I The head and neck had some resemblance to those of a horse, and along the back ex- ned at twilight, with a pine box to baJ- A PLANT IN HIS BRAIN. wriir with the brown hair.

Like a Ktreak of bbtiilr.g male a nil and a scixetl the brasa rwJU.ng an awung onto tVie r-ir platform and dexterously as the m-t B-boy in town. A fh" did a'1 turned around an-l waved "her hand at her late on the sidewalk, aa much a if to say; "How a tbAly vine man who had 'it out of the aw the p.rforwnc and waa lmtrM'! -y it ty he etclaimrd, "that rl la a crackerlacfc! l'i! gt acquainted ws'iti her if take ail rn k. afwvi bv the cortxtors ana a her ff on. after that w-e began to get sight of the teiioed a cartilaginous growth very like "A hobo who clings to the saying of old. Qod loveth a cheerful (tw out in the night when the water la cold jtorae mar.fl.

The body dwindled edVo the' and-ty thKe time th, xtreme tip Tas wa. JwWof eV I 1tk" as tr.ich.ness or one Inch at the ex Wild dogs, as dangerous as wolves, have lately been abundant: in those parts of Japan that were devastated by the tidal wave of June 15. Thev killed several country postmen, until these officials were Kuppied with trumpets, of which the animals are afraid. Two-headed snakes, like inventions, seem to originate simultaneously in different places. Jnxt as one is brfr.g exhibited alive as a curiosity in 'ew ork.

A. L. Nletx of the Tulaie University Medical School at New Orleans exhibiting one Preserved In alcohol. -srhch he got recently looked on and veiled. When Mr.

Akeby had knocked all the breath out of the beast's body he four.d that he had no less than fourteen holes in his arm and two In his left hand. Careful nursing, however, put him right in a week. The result of my j-curney were most satisfactory. I think I have secured the most complete collection ever taken from one count rv by one party. It Is contained in fifty-eight eases and barrel, and include not only a large number of mammals, but aiso over three hundred specimen of birds.

fUh. insect and or the tall. The length of the an rut nlunirea himself in the river. feet 3 Inches. It Is believed to be a fpecl in-HIl I lUll III? A.

aivrr rw-covers hia Nxly. and then. Th Extraordinary Find in the Brain of an Indiana Lunatic. A very extraordinary and tin-rJ'tUMid case of a plant growing In the hu-tuaa brain ws revealed the other day in a contrary to i-Ul of hi he brinir him ud dca1 to the surface again, and death of our first m-hi ''unng a battle with a cast a sadness over us all. we hundred of fiahea mi' of the Hippox Am pus.

pecinena of which two or three inches long are nfct unknown on the east coast of Scotland. So far as Is known there Is no record of one of this size having been found before. cheats half i.Ai?11? all the time we were in watehe th car unUl It h4 oi IX 'floatera a- uieloe many ano There ar little sorry lhat "if-Y? f.r n. ra pUaty, aiMl LaooUzs and, Knx4r saiora. auou la tJiU reptile a.t Bayou GaU over.

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