FROM THE UNITES STATES.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2169, 13 August 1897, Page 4

FROM THE UNITES STATES.

Chicago children are certainly a precocious lot, and the numerous robberies and other lawless deeds committe<i ia their city seem to p>Jr some of them, at least, to imitate the methods of their elders. The other day while the clerks of a clothing house of that city were looking out of the window!? they saw a buggy containing a boy and a girl, the latter dressed in bloomers, and neither of the two over 15 years old. stop ia front. The boy alighted, grabbed a dummy on which a suit of clothes wr.s displayed, threw it into The buggy and whipped up the horse. The act was observed by a policeman, who started in pursuit, firing his revolver at them. A) man on a wheel some distance iu frort heard the shots, and to get out of tie way left his wheel by a fence and tools refuge in a doorway. The buggy collided with a lamp-post and both occupants were thrown out. The pursuing officer thought he hnd them, but they fooled: him. The girl jumped on the wheel the man had abandoned, the boy mounted the step on the rear wheel, and in this way they made their escape from the policeman.

Th queer instate of some of the annoyances with which people living near the Mississippi have to put up during tbese times of high water as at present is shown by the following advertisement in a paper published in a Tennessee town on the banks of the river:—

"Oh Tuesday, 16tb March, my' dwelling house, thirteen miles above Caruthevsville, was washed from its foundations and floated down the Mississippi River. It is a new two-storey frame, painted white, and built in T shape,with a hall in the centre and a two-storey, front porch all the way across the building. It contained all my household iwdt kitchen furniture, including an organ with J.C. engraved on the plate. The cook stove is an old-fashioned No. 3 range. A Marlin rifle, sixteen shot, 38 calibre, was also in the house. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of thte house will be rewarded by informing me at this place.—J. I. Hopkins."

Oliver Levey, a 10-year-old boy of Anderson, Ind., is quite a curiosity to medical men, as well as to others. He is living with a bullet embedded in his brain without experiencing any inconvenience therefrom, and with no impairment of his mental faculties. About a year ago he was playing with a revolver he had found, when the weapon was discharged and the ball entered his head. He became unconscious, and brain matter oozed from the bullet h- *e with the blood. A doctor who was called saiii the child could not live more than tea minutes, but he was mistaken. T?:e wound healed, and after lying in an unconscious condition for two months Oliver recovered his reason, and is now as bright as the average child of his age* notwithstanding the fact that he "1 carrying around a bullet in his brain.

A lot of young fellows who were indulging in that relic of barbarism, a charivari, at Springfield Center, 0., received a lesson which will be heeded by at least one of them—if he recovers. The alleged jokers took with them to the residence of the newly married couple an anvil and Claude Smith carried a keg containing fifteen pounds of powder. After the anvil had been fired' a couple of times someone fired a gun over Smith's head, aud a spark fell into the keg of powder he was holding. He was blown clear across the street by the explosion that followed and almost kDled, and nearly all of the other members of the party were more or less injured.

For two joints of her middle finger Miss Grace Dinsmore. of Binghamton, N.Y., will receive the sum of SIOOO. This novel transaction is the result of an advertisement inserted in a New York paper by Mrs C. V. Barton, a wealthy woman of Houston, Tex., offering to pay| liberally any lady who would consent to have her middle finger cut off. at the middle joint, the removed portion to be grafted on Mrs Barton's finger, which was shy two joints. Miss Dinsmore will use the money earned ia this novel manner to pay the expenses of a musical education for herself.

His belief in spiritualism has proven a bad thing for Amos Keenan, an Ohio farmer. He has for a year past frequently visited an Indian medium acd! hypnotist, and allowed the latter to place him under his influence in order, that he might be better able to study the secrets of the art. In these seaneea Keenan was made to believe himself an Indian, and while impressed with this hallucination a few days ago, bis mind gave way, and he became a raving maniac. He now believes constantly; that he is an Indian, and physicians sajj his case is hopeless.

An oak tree was cut down at Barabeo, Wis., recently, the trunk of which ai nearly 400 rings, which, according to the generally accepted rule that a new ring is formed each year, would indicate that the tree started on its earthly, career after Columbus first sighted th& new world. The tree was six feet ia diameter at the base. ,