The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-11


wears he had been considered dead, as no
tidings of him had ever reached home
Some weeks ago William was surprised
by getting letter from South Africa
from his brother Jonathan, saying that
he was about TO leave on a steamer 10
visit his old home in Waldo County. He
also stated that he was rancher and
editor of a paper. Before the family
had got through talking over this news
William, a fortnight later, received an
other letter, dated in Australia from his
other supposed dead brother Levi.
This also stated that Levi was about 10
start for his native cline.
Zone OF the most remarkable cases In
my experience" said well-known piano
man the other day to Minneapolis
Journal reporter, in speaking of wave
sympathy and its effect in sometimes
causing discords in the harmonious
sounds of a piano through wave vibra-
tion with articles of furniture, loose
doors, chandeliers and stoves in the room
with the piano, occurred short time
ago when | was called upon to tone the
piano of prominent lady and we'll
known musician of this clty. After run
ming the scale l found the discordant
key, and Immediately proceeded TO act
upon the wave theory in trying to find
the loose articles of furniture from which
the unsympathetic tone was produced.
| had the lady in the meantime sounding
this particular key, but after searching
and listening all around the room i was
unable to locate the cause of the dis
cordant note. Finally getting upon
chair, | sounded the ceiling. In one
place the sound appeared to be more dis
tiuct than in any other spot. On sound
ing the wall found that the paper had
been stretched over a stovepipe hole and
that there were some small pieces of loose
plaster lying on the paper. | removed
these pieces and Immediately the dis
cordant note became perfectly har'
monious.'
CAPT. HURLBURT of the British bark
Bowman b. Law considers himself fortu-
nate in coming out of terrible typhoon
in the China seas, not without scratch,
but without the loss of any of his crew,
or even of spar or sail. This is his ex-
perience as he related it: "We left
Sourabaya, Java, the Goth of July, bound
for the Columbia River. All went well
for the first week. The men put in their
time we'll about the ship, and one par
ticular Job that was attended to was
painting the mizzen -topmast. This was
wood, the other masts and topmasts
being iron. | noticed that the paint on
the spar blistered more or less under the
tropical sun. One fine afternoon, under
clear sky. the storm came on us. There
was hardly any warning. The typhoon
shot out of the Gulf of Siam as though it
came from a cannon. What in the dis
tance was ripple on the surface of The
sea, as it approached us became feath
cry foam dashed mass of waves, and the
next minute the hurricane struck MS. All
sail was slowed away, and we tore
ahead under bare poles at locomotive
speed. When the fury of the typhoon
abated. we found everything intact.
The mizzantopmast, however, was bare
of paint. The wind had blown the bis
tiers off and nothing remained but the un-
coveredwood. -. From the Oregonian.
A YOUNG business man of this place
bought furnace and had il set up Sat
urday, says a Moline (lll.) correspondent
of the st. Louis Globe Democrat Sunday
he worked ali day showing his wife how
to work it, so she would not burn the
house down, and that evening he took a
sleeper for st. Louis. Near Fulton he
had vivid dream. He thought his house
was afire and his family was locked up
inside With yells of desperation which
fairly froze the blood of the other pass
engers in the sleeper he kicked in the
door and found the floor burned away,
his wife and everything in the house
cremated, and he himself landed in the
cellar with heavy thud. The blow awoke
him. and picking himself up he found
! himself by the side OF the railroad track.
Glancing about him, expecting to see the
train q wreck and the other passengers
killed, he saw in the starlight his train
vanishing in the distance. He had actual
ly kicked out the double window of his
| berth with his bare feet and thrown him
self feet first through the window to the
ground while the train was running
twenty-five miles an hour, and was un-
! hurt save three cuts on his left leg,
caused by the broken glass. The passen
gers notified the conductor, and when
the train was backed they found the man
walking to meet it. He was clad only in
his night clothes. 1t was almost impos-
sible TO believe his story, but his condi-
zion and the deserted berth containing
his clothes and the broken window con.
! firmed it.
IT may not be generally known by
people in this vicinity, says the Lumpkin
| GA. Independent, that there is a rocky
region in Meriweather County, near the
pine and oak mountain ridges, that
seems to be favorite haunt of snakes in
that section, aud the following terrible
incident occurred in that locality: Ii
was about the middle of May, and Mrs.
Richard Smith, the wife of farmer,
had gone to the field with her husband,
who was replanting corn that had failed
to come up regularly. While they were
at work Mrs. Smith wandered of 10 one
side of the field where there were a
.hicket Of dewberry vines. While pick
ing the berries she stood upon a pile Of
,h.t baI ham ,,ick ad nm from tho