The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-12-30
use of shirt cuffs for jottiug down memo

one day, q young fellow drove up In a cab
ard rushed into the office in great excite.
ment. asking whether some shirts de
posted in the name OF l. had been
washed. W. found they had not. aud
rs the owner turned them over in fever
ish haste, he fairly yelled with JOY,
pointing 10 a little column of figures on
the left cuff of one, which he explained
were the numbers of eight ElO bank
notes. which had been lost or stolen, and
had the shirts been washed, all hopes of
ever getting them back must have been
abandoned; they were, however. success.
fully traced and recovered a few days
later. The cuffs of Stock Exchange
men are often covered with mysterious
characters presumably indications of
the stock market. and the tips found
on the wrist linen of racing men were
actually taken advantage of by the IRON
girls on one or two occasions with sue
cess. IL is is not vet recorded. however,
that the mannish young woman has
taken TO ''cuf jotting," as she has TO
cuff and shirt wearing.
In a Philadelphia shop window a
unique old rellc OF IA piano is displayed,
bearing the following inscription: John
Jacob Aston sold this piano TO one of the
first families Of New York more than
a century ago. Mr.. Aston is believed 10
have been the first piano dealer in the
United States Then follows a copy of
an advertisements in a New York paper,
dated January 10, 1899. Ii reads: y.
Jacob Astor. at No. 81 Queen street,
next door but one 10 the Friends
Meeting House, has for sale an assert
ment of pianofortes of the newest con
struction, made by the best makers Of
London, which he will sell on reasonable
terms. lie gives cash for all kinds Of
furs, and has for sale a quantity of
Canadian beaver and Canada coatings,
raccoon skins, muskrat skins, etc
PETER NEARY, of Newark, y. j., had
a billy goat and a ten-dollar greenback.
Billy and the bill had IA meeting, and,
following the fashion of the period,
effected a con solidation; that is to say,
the goat chewed and swallowed the bank
note. This arrangement was made with
out Mr.. Neary's consent, and he moved
instantly for a dissolution of partnership
by killing the goat and recovering the
fragments Of the bill. These were sent
to the Treasury. and it seems that there
was enough left TO identify the note, and
so a few days ago Mr.. Neary received a
brand new so note in return. and is only
out to the extent of a goat.
JAMES FARREN, an 81 year-old hunter
of Jackson County. Wash, came back
from a trip in the mountains a few days
ago bearing "A good-sized cougar skin.
He was hunting for bear, SO he says,
when the cougar, whose hide measures
just seven feet in length, appeared in his
path. He hadn't much ammunition, and
wanted it all for the bears. whose tracks
he was following, so he snatched up a
piece of rock and hurled it at the cougar.
1t struck the animal on the head, stun
ming it. and before il could recover
Farren jumped upon it and slit its throat
with his knife.
THE Sudese are an interesting body
of African women who arrive at Bombay
as sailors and stokcrs on steamships.
They perform the duties of these posi-
tons admirably enough, and they yield
implicit obedience to their queen, whose
name il Sophia. When there is a fight
she decides which side her subjects shall
take. In the recent riots she took the
part of a loyal subject of England, and
babe her underlings battle for the Gov
eminent. Lord Harris, in his report,
honors her especially.
EMPRESS ELIZABETH of Austria re-
Gently was out riding and noticed q pile
Of stones placed across the track over
which the Buda .Pesth express was TO
pass in a few minutes. Springing from
her horse, she ordered the groom attend
ing her to remove the obstruction, she
herself assisting him. The work was
hardly completed when the train, crowd
ed with passengers, passed over the spot.
A BIG deer happened casually upon the
town OF Nehalem, Ore, last week, trottcd
the length of the main business street,
~meandered into the back yard of a citi-
zen's house, ambled through the house
and out of the front door, and then trot-
ted out of the city limits. The incident
excited no particular interest.
A DENTS at Birmingham. Eng, has
Just been mulcted in $3.50 damages for
the extraction of the whole OF the teeth
of a married woman. She only asked
him to extract one tooth. Previous to
the operation she testified she could eat
a crust or pick a bone with anyone.
A LONDON merchant is utilizing the
phonograph in his business. While he
is driving to his place of business in his
carriage he talks his instructions into
one Of the machines, and when he ar
rives be gives it to his head clerk, who
makes il repeat them.
MUCH surprise was caused at Lincoln,
Neb., recently by the Rev. Simon Round
tree, a colored Baptist preacher, aged 80
years. getting marAl for the eighth
time. His latest wife is 30 years old.
Ii 1880 a lime tree in Berwickshire four
feet diameter, six feet from the ground,
was blown clean down and raised aud re.
nlaced AGAIN. II to-day shows no trace