The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-25
SOMEWHAT STRANGE,
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrillin. Adven-
lures which Show That Truth is
Stranger Than Fiction.

DIR. PLAYFAIR. of London, recently
received fee of Sl2, 900 for attending a
royal patient. A Boston lady beat this.
She once paid an English physician Sa5,-
600 for his services.
A DANISH author told Dr. Felix
Osward of the case of relative, klep-
tomaniac, who would steal from himself.
He used TO tiptoe into his own pantry
and make Off with uncocked prunes, raw
onions. or anything Of the kind.
IL splitting open log at Middlesbor-
ough, KY, workmen discovered dark
brown spherical mass, which proved to
be toad. 1t was at first perfectly life.
less, but upon coming in contact with
the air showed signs of life and soon be-
gan to hop.
On a recent Sunday, for the first time
in many years, the water OF the Delaware
Bay was nearly as fresh as the water of a
mountain stream. This condition of
affairs was brought about by a strong
northeast wind that blew continuously
during the week.
A HINpoo baby is named when it is
twelve days old and usually by the
mother. Sometimes the father wishes
for another name than that selected by
the mother. In that case two lamps are
placed over the two names, and the
name over which the lamp burns the
brightest is the one given to the child
THIRrY-FIvE years ago a rich farmer
died at Ridgeway, Pa, first telling his
heirs that they'd find $50, 600 in the
attic. But they didn't, though they
doubtless looked. Recently the house
was sold to Andrew Benner, who found
$1,000 of the money and told about it.
The farmers daughter is still living, and
brought suit to recover.
IT ia a Parisienne who has taken the
cake at shopliftng. She was accom-
panied by a nurse carrying baby-a
very convenient baby that never cried,
not even when its hollow pasteboard
body was stuffed uncomfortably full of
laces and Jewels, acquired without
money and without price, until the day
of reckoning that somehow never fails
came at last.
THE town of Hart, Ca, boasts a not
able specimen of the aibno negro. The
man was once pure black, but for years
his skin has been changing until now he
iswhite all over with the exception of
few dark spots. Not only is he white
but much whittier than most white men,
his changed skin being clear, milky
whitcness The transformation has been
natural and unattended by any pain or
inconvenience.
AMONG the Welsh bidding we'd
dings" were formerly the custom, the
bride and groom sending out notices to
all their friends announcing the wedding
and soliciting presents. All married
persons to whom either made a present
on the wedding occasion are expected to
return an article of the same kind and
value, and the bidding paper promises
that new gifts shall be faithfully re-
corded and scrupulously returned when
the donors are themselves married.
THE latest instance of crime bringing
its own punishment comes, on the au-
thority of DR.. Leonard Guthrie, from
Italy. An Italian woman had hus-
band, and the husband had the dropsy.
But the dropsy did not work quickly
enough. The woman put a toad into her
husbands wine to poison him. But the
poison which the toad's skin secretes has
an active principle-phrynin- which
much resembles digitalis which is the
best possible remedy for dropsy pending
on heart disease. So, instead of killing
her husband, she restored him to health.
A CURIOUS example of how sharply
the edge of windstorm may be defined
is reported by the captain of the bark
Peter Tredell. which recently arrived at
San Diego from London. When off
Valparaiso, the captain says, a whirl-
wind came along and passed over the
stern of the vessel. A great sea accom-
panied the wind, and every sail and
movable thing on the after part of the
ship was carried away. The forward
part of the vessel was untouched by the
storm, which passed away in the dis
tance, leaving train of foam in its
wake.
AN interesting discussion has sprung
up among the palmists in regard TO the
line Of the hand known as the
marriage line. One recognized au-
thority says that when this line curves
upward the possessor is not likely to
marry at all. Other experts reply that
they know many married and happy peo-
Pile with such line. 1t is also alleged
that the traverse line on the chill of
Mercury" which one party says is the
marriage line. is not so considered by the
Chirological Society. "Our opinion" 4"
says. the editor Of the party organ, lis
that these lines are signs of attachment,
and there s scarcely a hand ever seen
without at least one in the hand of either
roarriod or unmarried neonlp -
Two shocking cases of miscarriage OF
justice are reported, one from France
and the other from Germany. In France
a woman has just been released after
sixteen years imprisonment on the dis
covery that she is entirely innocent OF the
death of her husband and of her brother.
in-law, with the responsibility for which
she had been charged; while in Germany
cashier of the ministry of finance, who
was in the penitentisry for having en-