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Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5017, 28 September 1887, Page 3

A strange story comes by mail from America. James H. Dabney, a colored undertaker at Philadelphia, was called to bury the infant child of Samuel and Harriet Fry. Dabney had a certificate of death signed in the regular way, and got the customary burial permit from the Health Office. With a coffin he went to the Fry house, and found the child to all appearance dead and wrapped in rags, lying peacefully in the bereau drawer. The undertaker placed the infant in the coffin and with it drove back.to his shop, with the intention o.f burying the remains later in the cemetery. He left the coffin in the buggy while he went into the shop. His assistant soon came in and said exciteJly, ''There's a racket in that coffin;" Dabney brought the coffin into the i store, heard the noise from within it, opened it, and found the infant alive and kicking. He took it back to its mother, but an hour or two later it died and was buried. The province of Manitoba has a. population of 100,000, is prosperous, and will export 6,000,000 bushels of wheat this year. The Western Slav states that while Mr S. Burges3 and Mrs Burgees, were driving from Invercargill to Riyerton the horse was struck by lightning.' Intuition is defined by a modern. poet to be " the art of knowing exactlywhen a kiss will please your best girl." If, however, you find yourself deficient in the said art, there is only one thing to do, and that is' to keep on trying until you strike the happy momenta This is the voice of experience". - ( We are told that all tbe fifty millions . of people of the United t tates .could be put into the State of Texas without' crowding. This is because they, have a habit in Texas'of suspending persons from trees and telegraph poles. This -•. makes more room below* ' " Experiments made at ' Ottawa, Canada, during § the winter, showed that Martini bullets fired into a bank of well-packed snow, were completely spent after traversing a distance of not: more than four feet. Snider biiUetij; in hard-packed snow, mixed with "ice,'". but hard enough to prevent" digging ■ it with a sheet-iron 'shovel, did not. penetrate more than 'four'" feet.^ Ijii perfectly dry snow, packed by natuiil^ ; drift, but capable of being easy crasliett* . in the hand a 'bullet penetrated about? four feet, and in loose-drifted dry snow V less than seven feet;:Uibjugli;fii^'d |^Wfts poihtVonly twenty"ofc thirty.yAwf! , distant. - ,: ■. =■ ;*6#^£: ..-'-*■ '. '" <'-* .-""" '' '-' "St