The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-09

SET Tree the tuftlc SET OH In pee-uut
direction toward the pond. The boy
tried 10 confuse the turtle in every way
he could devise, but the turtle was toe
smart for him and always started off In
the right direction as If he knew where
he was going and was bound To get there
in the quickest time possible. And
now the boy has puzzled the whole town
ship 10y demanding 10 know how that
turtle knew in what direction mis- ances
tral pond lay.
THK abyss Jean Nouveau is one of the
most interesting in the world. Ii oc
ours in the calcareous plateau OF Ven
toux, and the mouth is about four and a
half miles south southwest of Sault.
France. Ii is simply vertical pipe, {
| feet To IL inches in diameter, running
down into the earth for about 500 feet,
where il ends in kind of chamber
from which another abyss. constructed
by debris, descends for an unknown dis
tance into the bowels of the earth. II
is supposed to be the vent of an ancient
geyser.
A LIE MARS Qowa) genius has in.
vented and recently obtained letters
patent on a very useful device. 1t is q
dog muzzle so constructed that he can
not bite and an attachment goes with il
which prevents him from bowling. a
small rubber tube runs from the side oi
his mouth 10 the center of his ears, and
whenever he barks or howls the sound is
increased by mechanical arrangement
similar 10 a phonograph. This multi
pied sound strikes on the drum of the
dogs ear and frightens him so he ceases
his bowling.
THE Caliph of Khartoum is in bad
way. He owns 200 watches, and not one
of them goes. In 1885. when the Nah.
dists invaded the town, all the European
watchmakers left the place, and none of
the natives understand matchmaking.
To have 700 tickers and not know the
timc-awkward. very. The Caliph has
sent a special messenger to Suakin TO
engage a matchmaker, but he has been
received very coolly. The ruler of
Khartoum is said 10 be rather quick.
tempered, and capable of cutting of
your head If all his watches don't keep
time TO the second.
IL private boarding house in Cincin-
natl live two small families of three peo-
pie each, two grown persons and one
child in each family, yet these two fami-
lies are so connected that there is among
them one father, three mothers (two are
widows), one mother-in-law, one grand
mother, two aunts, one uncle, one
nephew, one niece, two cousins, two
sisters, one sister-in-law, one brother-in-
law. one husband and one wife.
On John Kreutzer's forty acre farm
in Portsmouth, Ohio, there was re-
Gently terrible fight between bull and
n stallion. The latter tore great, quiv-
ering chunks Of flesh out of the bull
with his teeth and pounded him with his
forefeet, and the bull gored the horse to
death Then the bull was shot. Cause of
the ruction A blacksnake wound around
the bulls hind leg.
A SPANIEL belonging to milkman
from West Keene, n. H., caught a wood.
chuck few days ago which was more
than a match for him in rough-a and.
tumble fight. SO the dog dragged his
enemy TO ditch few feet away and
held his head under the water until he
was nearly drowned and became so weak
that he could be easily handled; then the
dog made away with him.
IT Is positively asserted that mosqui
toes were unknown in Atlanta, Ga, be-
fore the railroad companies began run
ming sleeping cars from Savannah TO that
city. They avail themselves of the
opportunity afforded by them, and are
most apt to eongregatc there in Septcm-
Der or October, when they come by the
thousand
A FARMER near Niles. Mich, had
seventy-fve trout in his fish pond.
Wishing to otransfcr them TO another pond
lie drew off a portion Of the water, SO as
to have free uccess to the fish. He left
for short time, and upon his return
found that flock Of cranes had visited
the pond and killed and eaten every one
of the trout.
A DEATH from q remarkable cause oc-
CURED in Walker county, Georgia, re-
Gently. A lady who was riding TO church
reached out her hand to pluck a sprig
from the roadside and was bitten on the
finger by katydid Her hand and arm
soon began to swell, and in a few hours
she died in great agony.
TIE Rocking Stone,' in Sullivan
County, New York, weighs forty tons,
and is so evenly balanced on a table OF
rock that it can be easily sot in motion
by the pressure Of finger, yet so solidly
laid the combined strength Of 100 men
without artificial appliances could not
disphce it.
JoHN BoNSER, a Georgia farmer, who
died the other day at the age Of ~ years,
was the father OF twenty three children,
all by one mother, and as they grew up
and married all fettled on farms adjoin-
ing his own.