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Dead Walk Into Funeral
By: Bertha Lawrence
St. Petersburg--Three well-known boys attended their own funeral, Sunday afternoon at the church in town. Thomas Sawyer, Joseph Harper, and Huckleberry Finn went missing last Monday. The boys had last been spotted near the river. They were believed to have floated to the next town on a raft. Afraid when the boys didn’t show up, a search of the river was conducted. The bodies weren’t found, and by Saturday the families had given up hope. “We were so heart broken when the boys still hadn’t shown up. We tried to be optimistic, but all we could think was the worst.” said Mrs. Harper. Sunday after the regular services were finished, the funeral services were to take place. “I have never seen so many people in the church. It was filled to the top, there were people standing on top of one another.” a funeral attendee commented. The service for the boys was extremely touching; there wasn’t a single dry eye. The minister was saying his closing words, when the door opened. One head turned, then another, and another, until everyone in the room was staring in shock at three boys. Thomas Sawyer, Joseph Harper, and Huckleberry Finn. The families smothered the boys with love, overjoyed they were still alive. The congregation broke out into song, singing like never before. Polly Sawyer remarked, “I have never in my life been so delighted! I know it must be a miracle straight from God Himself!” When asked where they had been the trio said they were “off being pirates.” They apologized for scaring everyone, “we was just havin’ some fun” said Thomas. It was a happy ending to a tragic tale.
Children Barely Escape Death
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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South Suffolk Agricultural Society Dinner -- The dinner of the South Suffolk Agricultural Society took place in a large pavilion erected in the timber yard of Mr Warwick's, gas was laid on from the nearby street. The viands and wines etc were served by Mr Baker of the Rose and Crown. One of the prizes presented was to G.Joslin 82 years who served 60 years on the same farm, he was reaping wheat in 1836. To John Nice of Great Cornard aged 14 for rearing 38 lambs from 27 ewes, not losing a ewe, he had reared the lambs the company were feasting on today, the President who was also chairman for the evening Mr Hart Logan, in presenting the prize to the boy said I have seen the little book the boy keeps his records and the names of every sheep and lambs under his care, the writing was most beautiful. He can distinqish every lamb by name and have no doubt they knew who the boy was, I remember there was a" punch-ladle" and a " greyfoot", turning to the boy he said was it " greyfoot" or" punch-ladle" we had today, the boy with simplicity and tears in his eyes said " it was punch-ladle" sir. Prizes for stock-Thomas Green of Semer, an entire colt,£ 2.- John Stearne of Thorpe for 2year old filly £ 2-Lazell Tiffin junior of Cornard £ 2 for a cow-Thomas Fornard 2nd prize cow £ 1 10s-Thomas Pratt of Belchamp Otten £ 4 for a stallion-Hugh Green of Newton £ 2 for a bull-Richard Aldham of Foxearth £ 1 for a sow-Fisher Hobbs of Marks hall £ 1 for a neapolitan boar-Ploughing George Chenery of Foxearth 2nd prize he works for Mr John Orbell of Brook Hall Foxearth.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
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UFOMr. James Lumley, an old Rocky Mountain trapper, who has been stopping at the
Everett House for several days, makes a most remarkable statement to us, and one, which if authenticated, will produce the greatest excitement in the scientific world. Mr. Lumley states that about the middle of last September, he was engaged in trapping in the mountains, about seventy-five or one hundred miles above the great falls of the Upper Missouri, and in the neighborhood of what is known as Cadotte Pass. Just after sunset one evening he beheld a bright, luminous body in the heavens, which was moving with a great rapidity in an easterly direction. It was plainly visible for at least five seconds, when it suddenly separated into particles, resembling, as Mr. Lumley described it, the bursting of a skyrocket in the air. A few minutes later he heard a heavy explosion, which jarred the earth very preceptibly, and this was shortly after followed by a rumbling sound, like a tornado sweeping through the forest. A strong wind sprang up about the same time, but as suddenly subsided. The air was also filled with a peculiar odor of a sulphurous character. These incidents would have made but slight impression on the mind of Mr. Lumley, but for the fact that on the ensuing day he discovered, at a distance of about two miles from his camping place, that, as far as he could see in either direction, a path had been cut through the forest, several rods wide - giant trees uprooted or broken off near the ground - the tops of hills shaved off, and the earth plowed up in many places. Great and wide-spread havoc was every-where visible. Following up this track of desolation, he soon ascertained the cause of it in the shape of an immense stone that had been driven into the side of a mountain. But now comes the most remarkable part of the story. An examination of this stone, or so much of it as was visible, showed that it had been divided into compartments, and that, in various places, it was carved with curious hieroglyphics. More than this, Mr. Lumley also discovered fragments of a substance resembling glass, and here and there dark stains, as though caused by a liquid. He is confident that the hieroglyphics were the work of human hands, and that the stone itself, although but a fragment of an immense body, must have been used for some purpose by animated beings. Strange as this story appears, Mr. Lumley relates it with so much sincerity that we are forced to accept it as true. It was evident that the stone which he discovered was a fragment of the meteor which was visible in this section in September last. It will be remembered that it was seen in Leavenworth, in Galena, and in this city by Colonel Bonneville. At Leavenworth, it was seen to separate in particles or explode. " http://www.miqel.com/reading_library/archived_stories/1800s-unknown-crash.html |