OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2170, 20 August 1897, Page 3

OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

A Maine man, named Appleton Pursol, claims to have discovered a spring of water which, if it is not the fountain of youth for which Ponce de Lean searched in vain, at least produces much of the effects which that fabulous spring was said to cause. Pursol was told of the existence of the spring by an old woodsman, and set out to And it. When he returned to his home, his friends hardly recognised him. From an old-appearing man of years he looks now to be not more than 40. His grizzled and wrinkled skin has become brown and fresh looking, while his grey hair has turned black. He says that he found the spring, and camped near it for a week, drinking large quantities of the water during that time. He has been afflicted with rheumatism for a number of years, but it has left him now. In describing the water Pursol lays special stres on the curious tingling effect produced by it, and it is thought that this may I>e caused by the percolation of fhe water through magnetic ore, and its thus becoming strong--1 ly charged with electricity, which might account for its revivifying qualities. , Pursol's story ha.« aroused so much interest in the vicinity of his town that numerous expeditions are preparing to go 'to the spot where the miraculous spring is claimed to exist.

A St. Louis man, who an earnest church worker, and a no less enthusiastic wheelman, has conceived the idea of a church exclusively for cyclist?, and it will probably be established in accordance with his scheme. The originator says that in that city are thousands of cyclists whose only opportunity for enjoying their wheels is on Sunday, and who, rather than appeal* at church in wheel costume, stay away from church altogether in order to enjoy their pastime. His scheme is to have a church built in a park which is the Mecca of cyclists in the vicinity, and on Sunday to have hourly services. Cyclists could attend services While resting from their rides, and as only riders would attend, there would be no one to stare at them for appearing at divine service in wheeling costume. The suggestion is meeting with great favor from wheelmen, as well as from pastors, who recognise ft as the only way in which wheel enthusiasts can be brought to attend church ca pleasant Sundays.

It is not often that a big steamer Is held up on the high seas nowadays, but sudh a thing happened a few days ago to the Nacoohee, when off Cape Hatteras. While the steamer was going at full speed she was signalled by two men in an open boat, and thinking that they were shipwrecked sailors, the captain stopped the ship. When they came within hailing distance the men asked who won the prize fight at Carson, New The captain was so enraged that he had to talk in several languages to sufficiently condemn the fishermen for their inquisi'tiveness, which cost the steamship company S4O for coal and oil consumed in starting up the ship again.

A Missouri woman who is so very pious that she will do no work on the Sabbath day was very much annoyed by the fac't that her hens would not as conscientiously refrain from all labor on Sunday, but persisted in laying eggs in disregard of the biblical injunction to rest on the Sabbath day. She was undecided Whether she ought to dispose of such impious and heathenish fowls or not, when the brilliant idea struck her of giving all the eggs laid on Sunday to the church of which she was a member. She hs.s acted on this idea, and now a regular source of Income of the church is the proceeds of these eggs.

It was the boast of Levi Rogers, who died at Perry. Okla., the other day, that he had been married seven times, and that earti wife had been of a different nationality. Rogers was born in Georgia,and when a young man married an American girl, who died within six months. After that he married six times, his successive wives being Mexican. Bohemian, Indian, German, Creole, and finally a very black negress. The latter survives him, and Rogers always claimed that she was the best wife of the whole collection.