The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-14
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.


Stranger Than Fiction.
DURING the last Paraguayan War i
was noticed that the men who had beer
without salt for three months. and who
had been wounded, however slight. died
of their wounds because they would no
heal.
THE Maharajah OF Mysore has decided,
if possible, to put an end TO marriages
between children, or rather infants OF his
kingdom. lie issued an edict recently
forbidding girls under eight years and
boys under fourteen to marry. In the
future no man aged fifty or more dare
wed girl under fourteen. The edict has
aroused much opposition in Mysorc, but
the ruler is said TO be an energetic man
aud capable Of executing regulations
which he is pleased to promulgate.
Az extraordinary occurrence is report
ed from near Galashiels, Scotland. A
boy named Brooke, the son of shep-
herd at Buckholm. was out with the
sheep, when he was bitten on the finger
by an adder He became alarmed lest
the bite should prove fatal, and resolved
to cut the finger off close to the palm.
This he attempted TO do with his pocket
knife, but as 1t would not cut through
the bone he cut it away at the first joint.
He then went to the nearest farmhouse,
whence he was driven to Galashicls.
Here doctor amputated the remainder
Of the finger.
GEORGE ANDER.oN and William Hunt,
farmers, who lived near Corning, Mo-,
were engaged in boring well when
their drill struck "A rock and broke short
off 1t was necessary for someone TO go
down into the we'll to dislodge the drill,
aud Anderson went. After he had
reached the bottom, 100 feet deep. Hunt
looked over the edge TO see what he was
doing, and by some misfortune missed
his footing and tumbled headlong into
the shaft. His head collided with that
OF Anderson and the skulls Of both were
crushed, killing them instantly.
The Supreme Judicial Court Of Massa-
chusetts is to decide whether n creditor
who invades debtors bedroom and
wakes him up early in the morning in
order 10 present his bill is guilty of an
assault. The aggravating party in the
dispute is n milkman and the aggrieved
person Is his customer who says that he
forbade the milkman to invade his pri-
vacy, and was awakened by being shaken
by the shoulder when suffering from n
severe headache The lower court en-.
tered Judgment for the milkman, and the
plaintiff appealed to the full bench of
the Supreme Court.
SEVERAL wild turkeys that had a love
for swallowing shining PARTICLES that had
been shot 10y hunter on one OF the
branches near San Diego, Tex, netted
him quite IA sum in gold, which he found
in their craws, which they had picked up.
In South Africa ostriches have been sue
cessfully employed in finding gold do.
posts. A drove of the birds are turned
loose to feed in the territory where the
precious metal is supposed to exist
They are then given an cmetic and the
ciecta Carefully examined for nuggets,
aud if any are found the trail of the bird
is followed until the diggings are dis
covered.
THE full-rigged ship, the Harry Will
liams, met with peculiar accident while
passing under the Brooklyn bridge re-
Gently. A sailor was at work near the
top of the mainmast rs the ship mp.
preached the structure. The mainmast
was unusually high, and rs the ship
swept down the river carpenter at work
on the bridge yelled to the sailor, who
slid down Just in time to save himself.
The foremast passed under safely, but
the top of the mainmast struck the
bridge and about six feet of the stick
was snapped Off. 1t was said at the
bridge entrance that this was the first
accident of the kind recorded since the
bridge was erected.
LAWYER BUNKER, of Ellsworth, Me-,
recently had an unpremeditated contest
with an angry bull on the Hancock coun-
ty fair grounds ut that place. He seized
the angry beast by the horns, and, after
an exciting tussle, actually succeeded in
downing the bull Since then the young
farmers of the county have been practis-
ing at this hazardous wrestling, and most
any average. sized man will now boast of
his ability TO upset any bull in the coun-
ty. Competitive challenges have been
the natural outcome, aud Bucksport has
just issued defiance to Ellsworth to
match its star against any 'rarsler"
twrestler) In the latter place, "horns
holt, best two out OF thee bulls"
PROBABLY few men have had more
thrilling fifteen seconds or so than had
the driver of a heavy load of giant pow
der in Oregon a few days ago lie was
plotting four horse team drawing n
wagon containing 5000 pounds of giant
powder over rough road into Tilla-
nook. A rickety bridge spanning -
narrow ravine gave way under the load
and the whole outfit was dumped doNu
into the dry bed of the creek There
was no explosion, and the driver, horses,
wagon and powder were hauled out all
right The driver has not recorded his
sensations as he felt the bridge giving
way and during the few seconds between
then aud the time the load landed safely
again.
"Ir was decidedly grim ornament, F"
said society young man in the New