The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-16
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.
I SOME weeks ago a son of j. Francis.
of Moro. Me-, saw what he supposed was
big rabbit with heifer in the field. The
cattle were pastured in q back lot near
the woods. The boy as he approached
saw that it was not rabbit. He easily
caught the animal, which proved to be
young caribou, and carried it home in
his arms. 1t was apparently day old,
and was weak and staggering. A nurs-
ing bottle was secured, and the little
caribou was fed on milk. Very soon il
followed the boy about the room. 1t was
allowed to nurse from cow for some
weeks, till it grew so boisterous, butting
and striking its foster mother with its
feet, that the farmer feared the COW
might injure it, and now he feeds il with
milk by hand three times day. All
this time ii has evinced fondness for
its first foster mother, the heifer. The
little fellow is flourishing, to all appear
ances. 1t is very tame, and delights to
be led into the woods, where it will run
and play. But at the slightest unusual
noise, it will Immediately scamper home.
1t is buck, and its horns are just com
ing through.
UNITED States Pension Examiner II. J.
Austin has returned to Kansas City from
q thorough investigation of one of the
most remarkable cases the Pension De-
partment has had to do with. William
X. Wilson, who lived at Horton, Kas.,
applied about year ago for a pension
for wound in the left knee, received at
Thompson's Station, while he was a
member of an Illinois regiment. The de-
partment found, on investigation, that
another William X. Wilson was drawing
pension for a similar injury, and for
services in the same company and regi-
ment. Mr.. Austin followed Wilson TO
Rulo, Neb., where he is now living, and
found that his description was exactly
similar to that of the Illinois pensioner.
Without making known his business, he
questioned Wilson, who proved beyond
doubt that he had a cousin in the same
company, bearing the same name, of the
same age nd description, and wounded
in the same part of the body.
Nor long ago the strange discovery
was made in Pristina, Turkey, that a
young woman named Hanko had been
serving for more than three years in the
Fifteenth Regiment in the place of her
brother, Aali Redscheb, with especially
meritorious conduct. 1t had never oc-
CURED in the Turkish Army before that
woman unveiled had lived among men
for such long time, and the case was re-
ported to the Sultan. When the latter
learned that the young girl had under
taken the daring step to keep from mi j.
tary service her brother, who was the
only support of her aged mother,
the Emperor gave her the Sehefakat,
order of the third class, and pension for
life of five Turkish pounds per month.
The brave girl was sent home Immediate
ly, and her brother was allowed to con.
tinue there with his mother.
SILAs Bauer, farmer of Huntingdon
County, Penn, had singular and
painful experience. Distrustful of banks,
he drew out several hundred dollars he
possessed from two banks, and then hid
his treausure in the lining of his coat
Then he went out to work in a field aud
hung his coat upon gate post. There
the coat was espied by multitude of
hungry grasshoppers and badly eaten by
them. The grasshoppers bored holes
through the greenbacks, and the farmer
has been compelled to send the frag-
ments of his money to Washington TO
secure new bills. The money was mutt.
lated almost beyond redemption. Mr.
Bauer says when he RECEIVERS his money
he will put it back in the bank.
A YOUNG Baltimore lady who visited
miliner's shop two months ago was
appalled, on reaching home after her
shopping tour to find that she had lost
one of her thousand dollar diamond
earrings. There was much weeping and
many advertisements. The other day
lady residing in Alabama wrote TO the
millinery firm that the bonnet which she
had purchased of them had arrived safe
iy, and that she was particularly we'll
pleased to find a diamond entapgled in
the lace trimmings. She concluded her
letter by saying she was anxious TO re-
turn the diamond to its owner.
WAsPs have become so much Of pes
in England as to be a national nuisance
They swarm in houses and in bed
chambers they rob orchards more effec
lively than q whole school of boys, and
they destroy the finest peaches on the
wall and tho juiciest plums in the gar
den. "If you pick up'a ripe pear under
your favorite tree" says q London jour
nal, "the chances are that half dozen
of these hot-tempered thieves will sally
out of it, and you may hold yourself
lucky if you do not get we'll stung"
BRAIN surgeons of to-day are beginning
to understand such occurrences AS that
which turned Barnett Grimsley, farm
er's boy, into the ablest Baptist preacher
in Virginia. Young Grimsley, when
sixteen, was cutting wood with a com
panion, when the other fellows axe
flew of the handle, struck him on the
head, and cracked his skull The acci-
dent, instead of hurting him in any re-
spect, seemed 20 give his brain more
room to grow, and he became known in
later years as Grimsley the eloquent.
A CURIOUS phenomenon has just oc-
Cured at the village Gamlingay, in Cam.
bridgeshire, England. A dense cloud