The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-28
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven.
lures Which show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction

A SINGLE sponge has been found on
the coast Of Florida with a circumfer-
ence OF five feet six inches.
J. w. GARRISON, OF Flat Creek, y. c.,
boasts of pig which has two heads. two
sets Of teeth, three eyes, two tails and
six legs.
A WOMAN naned Marin Smeaton, re-
siding in the suburbs of Cincinnati, al
though past the age OF ninety-one, has
within the last year cut four new teeth.
a LITTLE dog at Woburn, Mass. whose
master had taken a passenger train, fol.
lowed IL on run 10 the next station,
which it reached only 200 yards behind
the iron horse.
AFTER a separation of sixty four years
william Shaw, an inmate of the Bing-
hamton, n. Y, county farm. has been
restored to his family Mr.. Shaw is re-
puted to be nearly l05 years old.
A LIVING curiosity is in the possession
Of Henry Gerbending, of Fort Wayne,
Ind. 1t is freak OF nature in the shape
of three kittens which are inseparably
joined at the hips. There are three
heads, six fore feet and only three be-
hind.
SAMUEL LETTERS, an aged resident of
Moraine, y. d., who has been q great
sufferer from rheumatism for over twenty
years, has been entirely, and, it is
thought, permanently cured by a slight
stroke OF lightning
A HORSE that fell down a we'll on the
Bailey farm, in Polk County, Oregon, re-
Gently was rescued in novel manner.
Straw was thrown down the well, and
the horse tramped it and rose until he
was able TO climb out.
An English sparrow met curious and
untimely death in London recently in
trying to take drink OF water from the
famous Temple fountain. y gold fish,
it is declared by witnesses, jumped up
and seized the bird by the leg. A sec
ond fish did likewise by the birds other
leg, and between them the sparrow found
watery grave.
TEREE years ago William Brown, OF
Lost Creek, Pa, walked down a noun
tain path to the Philadel Jhia and Read
ing Railroad tracks just in time TO have
his leg cut off by passing train. \ few
weeks ago he was on the same mountain,
walked down the same path, and at the
spot of his former misfortune, he tripped
and fell and had his remaining leg taken
off by the same train.
A NATURAL wonder of British Guiana
is Mount Roraima, peak famed for lis
inaccessibility and peculiar formation.
1t is only 5000 feet high, but the last
2,000 feet of the ascent batled TIE at
tempt at exploration until 1884. This
main peak is a solid wall of sandstone,
flat at the top, except for depressons
and cavities worn by the rainfall. From
the tabletop are supplied innumerabIc
streams, and equally numerous lakes in
the depressions make natural reservoirs
4 FLOWER lately discovered in the
Isthmus Of Tehuantepec is white in the
morning, red ut noon and blue at night,
and is called the chameleon flower in de-
fault Of any botanical name. 1t is prob
ably species of the hibiscus mutabilis.
The colors do not pass abruptly from one
shade to the other, but change gradually
from the white of the morning to the
pink and red and thence to the blue at
night. The Tehuantepec tree grows to
the size of a guava tree and gives out q
slight perfume when the flower is of q
red color.
A PROPOSED fox hunt at st. Joseph
Mo-, recently, was prevented by the per
sistency of the hounds. The tale read:
as follows: +" A fox was taken out OF
sight of the crowd and freed The dog,
were released, and before the fox had
got twenty feet away had killed it. Tn,
.nl i,.1E IL
As sort of consolation race the fox was
attached to a bicycle and the cyclel
started of before the people, and the
dogs caught the fox within dozen step,
and pulled il loose, and that ended the
sport"
The English papers tell the following
story OF badly malformed lamb: Mr..
w. Hewitt, of Harrington Mills, has q
eve which this spring yeaned a lamb
that is certainly curiousy and won
drously made. 1t has two eyes, both in
the centre of the forehead and in single
socket, both covered with one eyelid
One car is situated at the back of the
head and the other directly under the
lower jaw, near the hinge. 1t, has III
tail. but in the place Of that very neces
sdIy NpptbudSC "a MIN iVS a'ilOse 40 ipH-
as the other four, fully equipped with
hair, hoofs, etc. 1t was living at last
accounts, being almost three months old
THE oldest one of the white elephants
which was born in 1870, died in its TEN
pie at Bangkok in November last. Every
one knows that the white elephant, befor,
whom q whole people bow the knee, il
the emblem of the Kingdom of Siam. II
is honored with the most beautiful pres
ents, for the Indians, full of the idea OF
metamorphosis, still believe that so ma
iestic an animal could only be animated
by the spirit of heaven or of an emperor.
Each white elephant possesses its palace,
vessel of gold and harness respend
cnt with Jewels. Several maudarins are
attached TO its service and feed it with
cakes aud sugar cane. The King o
Siam is the only person before whom i
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