There recently died in the Missouri penitentiary a man who was totally blind, yet a thief of considerable expertness.
The Indians will very soon be, on the average, the richest people in the country. Some tribes of them are now worth several thousands per head.
A man in Auburn, Me., just had to sneeze the other day when his mouth was full of carpet tacks. One went down his throat, but the doctor got it out.
There’s a good story afloat of a man who has a £5,000 Bank of England note and makes a good income renting it out for weddings, where it appears as the bride’s father’s gift.
Customs officers near Belgrade recently seized a lot of human bones consigned to a Vienna bone-boiling house. They had once belonged to Russian and Turkish soldiers who fell in the war of 1878.
Lewis Pierce of Batavia was wounded twice in the last war, and has been struck by lightning once, twice shipwrecked at sea, and smashed and crushed in several runaways. The other day a finger was crushed.
Blind thief… either a poker player, a short story, a character in Zelda or a Christian music publisher, but not, evidently, a Missouri miscreant.
Rich Indians… not. The information in the linked aricle is dated, but still probably not too far off.
£5,000… would be about £500 today (about 1/4 of the budget for a “victim” of What Not to Wear). Still, it’s a pretty interesting way of using money to make money.
Bone-boiling… the source of Jell-o. The Kraft/Jell-o site doesn’t show meat jell-o salads anymore. For that you have to go back about 70 years, when they called it aspic.
Don’t think I would have liked to travel with Mr Pierce.
This, folks, is what is known as filler. Page 10 was pretty far in the back of the paper.