The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-23
SOMEW HAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.

severe thunder storm. "A bolt struck a
small pond just outside the city and ii
was discovered that the electric shock
had killed all the fish in the pond, about
1000 in number.
PEOPLE fond of tracing condolences
may make note of the asserted fact that
Mrs. Elizabeth Payne. of Galloway
County. No., who recently celebrated
her eighty-third birthday. has numbered
among her descendants sixty grandchil.
dren, of whom thirteen are dead, and
sixty great-grandchildren, of whom thir-
teen are dead.
An execution in the Indian Territory
is unique proceeding. A few days ago
il became the duty of sheriff to legally
slay a Choctaw. Two men held the
criminals hands. The sheriff knclt five
PAGES in front, aimed at n bit Of white
paper pinned over the Indians heart and
shot him dead.
A TEXAS man was sitting in dark
room recently when he was attracted by
the buzzng of gold -colored bug.
Taking the appearance Of the bug as a
favorable omen, he followed it. 1t
stopped directly over an old well in
deserted field; then the man went to
digging and presently discovered u mum
Der of gold dollars and some few silver
coins.
IT is said that interesting experiments
as to the ability OF animals in counting
have been made by Russian physician,
who estimates that horse can count TO
25, dog to 10 and cat to 9. A single
illustration will show the physicians
method. The horse OF a certain peasant
had the habit of stopping to rest from
plowing when he reached the twentieth
furrow, and could not be induced to take
any rest until the full twenty furrows
had been finished. He never found II
horse that had capacity beyond twenty
five.
IT is stated by the London Lancet
that "The English professional classes,
who head the list as the tallest of adult
males, attain the average height of feet
st inches. Next on the list come the
American males, and minute fraction
behind come the English of all classes.
Most European nations average for the
adult male feet inches; but the Aus
trians, Spanard and Portuguese just fall
short of this standard"
THE Binghamton IN. " Leader tells
OF grocer in that city who, while
taking Sunday afternoon nap, fell into
a deep sleep, and while in that condition
went TO his place of business, opened his
store and was moving some OF his goods
out on the walk and making other prepa-
rations for the days trade, when he was
awakened by friend. lie had worked
so hard that he was dripping with per
spiration.
A CINCINNATI paper mentions IA sharp
trick played by a shoemaker to attract
custom. He had bold sign printed,
"Shoes mended for nothing next week, !"
and displayed il in front OF his shop.
Early Monday morning such a rush of
business set in that he was compelled to
call in another workman to assist him.
The next day some of his patrons began
to call for their shoes, and were greatly
surprised when he demanded pay. They
referred him to the sign in the window.
"You haven't read it very carefully" he
replied, "it says next week ~
THERE is n place in Dorset. England,
kEown as White Farm. All the farm
buildings, the house itself and even all
the animals on the place are white.
Rabbits, cats, guinea pigs, hens, horses,
cows, donkeys and all the creatures are
spotless. But this is not the most re-
markable feature. The free aud indie
pendent British men and maids who till
the soil and churn the butter are com
PEELED TO attire themselves in white
smocks and white frocks to bear out the
general impression of whiteness.
THE Duchess d'Uzcs, whose reputation
as a sportswoman is as familiar almost
to Americans as to the people of her ma.
tive France, has very remarkable pack
of hounds. 1t is composed of just 100
dogs, all exactly alike to the eye Of the
ordinary observer, for they are oil white
with brown spots. Their mistress, how
ever, can readily distinguish them, and
she looks after them as carefully as n
colonel after the soldiers in his command
Every morning when at her country es-
tate she visits the kennels, and the
hounds are made to line up before her
like miitiamcn on review.
The Japs for the most part are non
meat eating race; indeed, in central
Japan and in out-of- the way parts the
inhabitants have never tasted such food.
fact partly due, no doubt, to economic
reasons, meat diet being an expensive
luxury in the far east Statistics of
recent year 60 to prove that out of the
1,021, ,503 head of cattle existing in the
country only the comparatively small
number of SAIL were slaughtered for
purposes of food The tendencies Of
Japan being thus inclined toward vegc-
tarianism, n case of positively inhuman
exception to this state of things is all
the more astonishing. 1t appears that
quite recently in the prefecture of Meii a
native was discovered digging up the
body OF newly buried child, with the
intent to eat its flesh. Upon arrest the
man pleaded in self.defense that he had
been led to believe that human flesh
would cure him of disease from which
ne was suffering, cure which all unfore