The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-04
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Advcn
lures Which Show That Truth 4.
stranger Than Fiction.

Philadelphia, died of black diphtheris
few days ago. and that the danger of con-
tagion might be avoided, his body, in its
coffin, was placed in the show window of
ais store during the funeral services,
that his friends might pass by on the out
side. All the neighbors flocked to see
the somewhat uncanny spectacle.
Ir may not be generally known that
Paris is the greatest postage stamp mar
ket in tho world. There is regular
bourse held every Thursday and Sunday
in a corner of the Champs Elysees, where
hundreds of men, women end boys con-
gregate with their postage stamp albums
and packages OF stamps for sale and eX-
change. 1t is said that thousands of
francs change hands there every market
day.
THE town of Hart. Ca, boasts
notable specimen cf the albino negro.
The man was once pure black, but for
years his skin has been changing until
now he is white all over with for the eX-
ception of few dark spots. Not only
10 he white, but much whittier than most
white men, his changed skin being of a
clear, milky whiteness. The transforma-
ton has been natural and unattended by
any pain or inconvenience.
Posr OFFICE officials in Portland, Me-.
we're surprised to have among the mail
deposited there a day or two ago
registered letter that would have gone
for the usual ten cent fee and postage
but bore stamp of the four dollar de-
nomination. The stamp-collecting fad
was suggested as an explanation, the
that ho1 haa, ,,caI hainc, ri aA
by its enthusiasts as more valuable than
IN uncanceled one.
FARMER CUsHMAN, Of Chenango
County, N. T., thinks We are going to
have very severe winter, for the fol
lowing reasons: Corn husks are very
thick; hogs melt runs jagged; the
breastbone of May goose shows spots
resembling the canals of Mars; the ducks
are flying in u shaped instead of V
shaped flocks, and green frogs are chang
ing their skins and seeking springs for
winter quarters.
A FAMILY residing in Washington, Ca,
was considerably shocked during an cleo
trical storm a short time ago by the
lightning striking the telegraph and cleo
trio light wires which pass the house.
After the storm had subsidized it was as
oertsined that large fig bush in the
garden had been struck, and hen and
three chickens, which had sought shelter
under the broad leaves, killed. The
chickens were found under the hen, which
was sitting in a natura! position, with not
feather ruffled.
How French" was probably the cx-
clamation Of most people when they read
Il IN dramatic c,;cida Of tho
woman at Clichy, France, the other day.
While the train conveying the Russian
visitors to Versailles was crossing the
Seine she stood on a PARALLEL bridge
waving French and Russian flags, and,
shouting, 81 see and die. Long live
Russial' she jumped into the river and
was drowned. When her body was re-
covered it was found that she was clothed
aud Russian flags.
BALTIMORE has blind boatman. His
boat was stolen by some worthless fell
lows the other day, and subsequently
abandoned and picked up. He claimed
it, and when told that he must identify
it did So not by telling its color and
model, as a man with good eyes might
DO. but by giving the positions of all the
nails and the chInks in the boat, where
splinters had been knocked off, and so
on. Then, being admitted, he went all
over it with his careful touch, finally
said: eyes, It is mine,n and rowed
away, successfully avoiding the dozens
of other boats, tugs, etc, that were NOV
ing around.
A TERRIBLE balooning accident is re-
ported from Piedmont. An aeronaut
named Charbonnet, who was married on
Wednes lay, subsequently ascended in
a balloon with his bride, with the inten-
sion of making wedding trip in this
manner across the Alps. The pair were
accompanied by another aeronaut TO
assist in the navigation Of the balloon,
and the start was made under favorable
circumstances, but in the evening, when
in the vicinity of Ceres. north of Turin,
something went wrong with the balloon.
1t descended with great velocity, and
finally struck the ground with terrible
force Chsrbonnet was killed, and his
wife and the assistant were both serious
ly injured.
Up till five or six years. ago it was an
unusual thing to find woman who
smoked cigarette of an evening. Now
it is so common, so the English papers
assure us, that nearly all women count
among their acquaintances one or two
women who smoke either internationally
or regularly. Advanced clubs find it
necessary to set apart ladies smoking
room. The report that one Of the rail
way companies has found IL expedient
TO reserve a smoking carriage for the
benefit Of lady smokers is premature but
it is believed that before many years it
will be no more extraordinary to sec
woman smoke than to see a woman play
golf or tennis.
A MYSTERIOUS affair is reported from
Chillicothe, Mo. Judge johnson died
at tha, place the other day. at the age Of
IS years. He was one of the pioneer
o;.;,apc and n rnan of vrpat innuence in