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The Greatest Barbecue On Record.

Three Thousand Broiled Hogs. From the Cincinnati Enquirer, May 12. The fire that broke out yesterday morning in the hog-pens attached to the distillery of J. W. Gaff & Co. proves to be quite as serious as announced in the brief account in yesterday morning’s Enquirer. The pens in question were situated on the western […]

Rats.

The Mount Vernon Free Press “Is informed that a few nights since, in Horse Prairie, a child but a few weeks old was terribly bitten and mutilated by rats while in bed with its parents. One of its fingers was eaten off, and the flesh torn from its forehead and one cheek. It is also […]

Race-Horse.

     A Race-Horse ran against a post at the Upper Sandusky [O.] track the other day, tearing a hole in his side from which his entrails protruded. He ran fifty rods in this condition, and was finally overtaken and shot.

Dogs.

     Near the village of Dubno, province of Vladimir, Russia, a number of dogs attacked a woman and tore her to pieces. A peasant happened to see the woman struggling with the infuriated dogs, and who tried to save her, was nearly killed himself. He was rescued by the combined efforts of seven peasants. These […]

In An Eagle’s Talons.

A Little Babe Carried Off Before Its Mother’s Eyes.      Montreal, Can., Oct. 16.-Thursday morning as the wife of Jean Baptiste Romilly, a farmer in St. Vincent de Paul, a village about ten miles from Montreal, was feeding her fowls, while her child, about 2 years, was playing around, suddenly a large baldheaded eagle swooped […]

Has Big Snake In Stomach.

Wooster, Ohio, Woman Learns Cause of Six Years Suffering.      Mrs. Mary Swain of Wooster, Ohio, has been complaining of pains in her stomach for the past six years. A few weeks ago she commenced treatment with a county physician, who gave her medicine for stomach worms. The remedy brought to light the startling discovery […]

Turtles.

     A curious and cruel way of cooking turtles appears in a Chinese cooking book. The turtle is placed in a vessel of water on the fire, with a lid over it, having an aperture of such size and so arranged that the turtle can just get his head out, and in reach of highly […]

Sheep.

     The Tuesday afternoon train of the N. Y. and Erie R. R., when crossing Well Creek, ran into a drove of sheep, killing 300. The engine was thrown off the track into the creek. The engineer had an arm broken. No passengers on the train. Loss in sheep, $5,000.

Two Children Devoured by Wolves.

     A Montreal special says that two children were eaten by wolves in the woods, in St. Malachi, on Thursday. The mother had a narrow escape.

Pigs.

     A lively young boar was recently sent my rail from Custrin to Frankfort-on-the-Oder, being shut up in a wooden cage. On the journey he managed to get out of the cage, and forthwith devoured twenty-five pounds of German yeast which happened to be in the car. The yeast began to rise in the interier […]