The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-12-02
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
lures which show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.

nan
A MASTER thief OF Teoumseh, Mich,
took his degree when he lugged off 8
beehive with its thousands of inhabit-
ants.
ANDREW CARrES, q Texan veteran,
after carrying a Mimic ball around in
his head 90 years, now carries it in his
pocket. IL seems to be a lasting attach
ment.
IT is only the poorest classes in China
who eat the flesh of old and tough dray
horses. The well-to-do feast on the meat
Of a special breed of horses-small, deli
cate, and specially fattened for the mar
ket.
J. Q. A. PATTERSON, of San Francisco,
builds houses in odd moments out of
business hours. He has built fourteen,
oil without any assistance whatever,
acting by turn as mason, carpenter and
painter.
A LLANELLy preacher recently injured
his nose and hastily stuck a piece of
paper on the wound before entering the
pulpit. When he came dowHto close
range after service it was found that the
paper was from the end of spool and
bore the legend 1900 yards long"
FILLIPPE MARoASIs, the most famous
brigand of modern Greece, who recently
surrendered TO the police, did so at the
request of his wife. The latter wrote
and told him that she was threatened
with Imprisonment, and to save her and
her children she begged that he abandon
his evil life and submit TO the authori-
uhA fhytft ~
tic and politician, will be treated very
leniently by the Greek authorities.
SOMEBODY curious in such little things
has discovered that the letter n has
place somewhere in the name of each of
the Presidents of the United States ex-
cept Zachary Taylor, Rutherford b.
Hayes, and James A. Garfield (omitting
Vice-Presidents who succeeded to the
Presidency. This industrious person
devolves no advantage therefrom, except
the possible slight encouragement af-
forded to the small American boy,
natural born citizen, who has an n in his
name.
LIEUT.. c. L. COLLINS, Inspector of
Small Arms Practice in the Department
of the Colorado, says in his annual re-
port that the competitions in target
shooting have shown that men with
light blue eyes rank highest, followed in
their order by dark blue, slate blue,
light brown, dark brown and black. In
the colored troops light blue eyes again
stand at the top. How large proper
ton of the colored troops have light blue
eyes is not stated in the published alb
stract of his report Tall men shoot
more accurately than short men.
A SETTLER named Lewis, living in a
cabin on tributary of the Mckenzie, near
Eugene, Ore. who had long been missing
from his home, turned up at n settlement
few miles from his cabin last week, al
most dead, and with his mind sadly i'm
paired from the terrible experience of be-
ing for two months lost in the forest
covered mountains of that region. He
had nothing with him but his rifle and a
box of matches. With the one he Sc
cured game for his subsistence-deer,
elk and bear-and with the other built
fires for warmth. Part of the time he
was in snow several feet deep, with no
shelter and but little clothing
The African Steamship Company's
steamer Winnebah, which has just ar
had a most unusual experience when
steaming between the ATTITUDES Of Cape
Verde and st. Louis, Senegal. For sixty
miles the vessel steamed through locusts,
which were so closely packed together
on the top Of the water that they COM
pletely covered the surface for miles
around; indeed, they appeared to be ly-
ing on the sea as far as the eye could
Il
blown from the Morocco coast into the
sea. They resembled gigantic grasshop-
pers, and one which was secured was five
inches in length. OF course, all the To-
Gusts had been drowned.
JANIToR EASTMAN, of the new school
house in Perryville, Me-, says that while
the pupils were at play in the yard the
other day he looked out of the window
aud saw number of them gathered
around little girl. Their actions indi-
Gated alarm and he went out 10 see what
the trouble was. He found the child to
be sound asleep, while yet standing upon
her feet. Janitor Eastman took the girl
In his arms and carried her into one of
the teachers private rooms and fixed up
bed and pillow for her out of shawls and
various kinds of wraps. Here she re-
mained for over an hour, sleeping as
soundly and as peacefully as though in
her more comfortable bed at home. After
her nap she appeared refreshed and Was
eager for play again.
PHoToGRAPHY played an important
part in suit at Cincinnati. The suit is
one Of local standing, involving the
title of 1900 acres OF valuable farm
lands. 1t is based on a deed made
nearly seventy-fve years ago by the
owners of the land, and turns on the
point whether the deed had five sigma
lures or only four. In order to test this
question it was decided to have the deed
photographed, and the clerk of the
court was ordered to give the matter his
personal supervision. For that purpose
it was taken to Washington aud sub