ODD ACCIDENTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 913, 4 February 1882, Page 3

ODD ACCIDENTS.

A man was made in an instant baldheaded for evefj in Mobile, by the explosion of a fire-cracker in his hat. It was the work of his playful son. At Dovercourt, England, a boy named Boast swallowed the sling of a wasp while eating some preserves, and died while running to the doctor. At Canton, 0., James Little drank some cold beer, which paralysed his stomach, and, forming carbonate acid gas, which penetrated his whole system, caused nearly instantaneous death. At Neodesho, Minn, Albert Grant was playing with a Newfoundland dog and dragging it by the fail when it jumped into the pond, pulling him in, and he was drowned. In the Adair County, Mo., two young men agreed to he photographed with pistols drawn on each other. The artist, while arranging their position discharged one of pistols, shooting the opposite sitter through the lungs.

It woi'M seem tint a man subject to fits ought lu bo tin last in me world to clUnb telegraph poles ; yet Austin McLiiive of Haven look the risk, tie was at length siri ken while at the top of a ole, and fell over baekward ; but the accident amounted to only a warning, for one foot caught in a hook, and he hung head downward until rescued. At West Point Lieutenant Archibald Gibson could not, while on parade, lift his hand to remove a spider from his ear for a whole hour. When parade was dismiss* i his ear was full of blood. The insect was only taken out days later, and Lieut. Gibson ultimately died of inflammation of the brain.

A little girl died at Barry town, Duchess county a few days age, from blood-poi-soning caused by wearing a pair of red stockings. The shoe on the right had rubbed off the skin, and through th e abrasion thus caused the poison from the stocking found its way into the system. After death discolorations were apparent on her lower limbs and on the lower part of the body.

While Mr Gault, agent for a dynamite company, and having a lot of dynamite with him, was breakfasting in an hotel in Australia, a terrible explosion occurred. On the smoke and dust clearing away and when the confusion had subsided it was found that almost the whole building had been demolished. The landlady and her family escaped unhurt, but were blackened from head to foot. A search was made for the unfortunate gentleman, when one leg with a portion of the body attached was found hanging to the rafters, the trunk and a portion of the head being discovered on the roof of the kitchen, th : vfcy yards away. Bulletin.”