VVEDNESDAY.

Strange But True

I I: I. 8. MacArthur

What ll described as a acid at auxgery" was recently per-

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im-mod by Dr. William Frackel- ton of Marguettg University lll Milwaukee. when he replaced the- l0 fingers of Marion Cody, 42 which were amputated 3 Wars ago when Cody lost them while snow-bound on a hunting trip in Alaska.

The artificial fingers rrnatari h'-' modem aurgeixx enab.-as Cody to write. use a carpmitaiw set. oi tools, dress and feed hiiiiwll, and live a normal life.

The how or this am'i7.lm: OPP?" atlon waa the ripening of clefts In inch and a half (ivnp iiitn the palmh of the iicl:vii's haiiris, than freezing the bones to iiizikn them the begtnninga nf longvr lingers mg thumbs. some tnndnmi had to be transplanted from one part of the hand to anolhor to szlw

addod power to the new dlzlll. each now Si”. lll('l"iPS lfill: 0 a 0

Another man WllillUllT. a F-'til.l'lf'.1'v' in Mike O'Brien. a weatheriieaten aeafarer who keeps ridiiii: a ferry- hoat between Hour Kong and Pnirtimal because he ha-z no pass- port for any oniinliv

The Capt of the inrr" him! says O'Brien FRIVL Tide his ship for-

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ever, though ha haa no Ioluuon to the problem. The man with- out a country boarded the ferry Sept. la. 1952 and hasn't act foot on land since.

Needleaa to any O'Brien haa a foggy future and a mysterious past. While he oonaider: himself an American, he can't name his birthplace. never knew hla father and knows nothing about the mother who bore him.

The 57-year-old mystery man claims to have served with the U. 8. Navy when only 13, and made his first trip to the orient in 1931.

The U. S. state Department says he'ir a Huncarlan with nary a claim to American citizenship,

An international Red Croaa cer- tificate iaaued him in June of 1952 dtscrlbes hlni as it stateless Irish- man

stranger than fiction is the story of this 57-year-old man who rides the ferry boat from Macati to Hong Kong becauae he has no passport and no country.

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Baby nyatera are produced when the sperm from the male fert- liizea em.-i discharged into the wati-r at the ram of 50,000,000 a year by the female. one pint bot- tie could hold all the eggs neodt-d to produce the annual crop.

The young of all animals can he handled without danger of bit-

ing. Even the king of the jungles cubs are friendly litle fellowa for

the first few months of their lives. There's an old saying that a

girl can reach into a man'ii heart

through his stomach. 13-year-old Mary Darsey haa even done. better. She. has baked her way to fame. Her special dishes have become so well known that she was asked to

be a atudent teacher at the atate of

4-H club on the Maryland Campus.

Mary Darsey is in a family of 4 boys and 3 girl: and has been cooking toothsom-. dishes since she was 7-year: old.

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Too many parents tie up their

dogs and let their teen-aged child- ren nin loose. . o u

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15 times la light. bone endure: down through the centuriea after the flqh haa gone back to dust and ashea. provide aclentific men with a major aource of information about primitive men and animals.

You might not think IO. but all bones are slightly flexiblg and and in addition have elastic car- tilage: between them that serve an ahock absorbers.

Birda, whose lives depend large- ly upon flight, have hollow air- filled bones to make them lighter and thus more adapted to flying.

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When we see dead people in our dreams they do not appear as lower forms of life. They come to us just its though they were living beings and we find it (ill- ficull to believe. even after awak-

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There will be an interruption of electric power . on our Borden line West of Charlottetown on Wednes- day aftomoon, October 21st, between the hours of ' 1:00 and 5:00 P-mu Wfnther permitting, for the purpose of moving theillne as required by the construction of ; the Trans-Canada Highway.

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cnlna. that no and no wu actually dead.

The Iroquois often speak of the dead wandering about at night. Whm they Ire supposed to leave the death cell in search of food. But highly civilized. races believe in ghoats-at least many of them do-and this belief aurvivea in its original crude (corn in the vam- pire sturiea current in many places. including the Garden of the Gulf.

The Nicaraguaxia tie road to the body before-cremation takes place an that the dead may be fed in the next world. l'4ually absurd la the custom,oI' the Ahta. who burn blankets with their dead. to keep them warm in the world be- low.

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Men of varlout tribea visit their dead from time to time to carry vituala and drink. Others sprinkle food upon the grave and adjacent ground believing that the aplrita will come to plat-,e..1 where food

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dlclato on I laurel leaf with a stylus.

The thlghbono of a human in as tough as iron and Just about

and drink are left for than.

In Africa In Wuihutu often build amail ponthouaaa ova: the grave: of their dead. whorl they carry food and water an offerings.

Thou are but a few of the fan-

-tastic rollqloua ideu current a-

man; the various people; of earth. The belief that ghoata often iro- turn to their old haunt: leada the peasant: of remote auctions of P0- land to give milk and eggs to A species of black serpents which crowd: around their homes. We rind the lame bellefa among the Apadliea who make as the form ta be assumed by the wicked after death, and therefnrg must not be harmed un- der any circuwmtancea.

HISTORIC ETATI

The name "Vermont" comes from the French "ward" and "mom," or stun mountain.

onalder the rattla-'

. . OCTOBER 21, 1953

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