The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-07
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.
A sUsFLowER plant twelve feet high,
the stalk measuring twelve inches in cir
circumference, bearing thirty-nine
branches and supporting 154 flowers,
was exhibited at Lathrop, Mo. Two Of
the branches were over nine feet long.
IT is the custom in Prussia to call on
the Emperor to be godfather to the sew
enth living son. This has happened
three or four times during the present
Williams reign. and, just now, Laborer
imperial godfathership on such an occa-
sion, and the Emperor has accepted.
William himself has six sons.
A KITTEN in Pittsburg has one head,
two bodies, two tails and six legs. IL
had one spine running half way down
the body, where il divided and formed
tha two lower bodies. This curious kit
ten was healthy aud strong aud lived
three days, until its mother noticed what
sort of looking creature it was and
killed it 10y biting il back of the neck.
AN ALLIGATOR eight feet two inches in
length and weighing geo pounds, was
caught in the Mississippi of the levee at
ST. Louis few days ago. Alligators
are quite plentiful in southwestern
rivers, but they rarely attain IA length Of
more than four feet. So far as known
this one is by far the largest ever taken
from the Mississippi. Some of its teeth
were over two inches long and very like
the teeth of a shark.
AN average waltz takes a dancer over
about three.quarters of mile; a square
dance makes him cover half mile. A
girl with a wellfilled programme travels
thus in one evening: Twelve waltzes,
nine miles; four other dances at half a
mile apiece, which is hardly fairly big
estimate, two miles more; the interms-
sion stroll and the trips to the dressing
room 10 renovate her gown and conl
plexion, half mile more; grand total,
eleven and one half miles.
The figure six played prominent part
in the life of n young woman who recently
died at Amercus, Ga. She was born on
November l6, 1876 moved TO Americus in
1856, joined the church III 1864, was
married August %, 1866; was the
mother OF six children, and was buried
January 16, 1898, at the are of forty six,
after having been married twenty-siX
years. There are eleven skies in these
facts, and eleven times six makes the
year of the century in which she was
married, 1866.
A. p. HINTON, of Oklahoma, is q
'boomer." So is S. S. Slowson, like
wise of Oklahoma. They were bosom
friends, and one day Hinton traded Slow
son revolver fora watch. When the
Cherokee Strip excitement began they
doomed along amicably for awhile, but
finally quarrelled over jumped claim or
something. Then Slowson pulled out
the revolver and blazed away at Hinton.
The bullet struck the watch and Hinton's
life was saved. The incident affected
Slowson to tears, and he apologized.
They took drink and then doomed
along together again.
THE only instrument used purely for
punishment in English jails nowadays is
crank handle weighted heavily with
lead and working heavily inside n box,
an indicator at slit recording the num-
Der of revolutions nade-S, 000 or IL, 600
constituting days work. Among the
purely mechanical labor is included the
working at the crank handles of the
huge water pump, and by cranks, too,
all the meal used in prison is ground, but
in the case of corn grinding the prisoner
may rest as often as he likes, provided
he gets through his allotted task.
WHEN 600 miles off the coast of France
the crew of the British steamship Wild.
flower, which has just arrived in Phila-
delphia, from Rouen, France, saw with
astonishment big owl alight in the rig-
ging of the steamship. The bird was
soon caught and killed, and an examina-
tion of its stomach showed that it had
not eaten anything for days, having been
driven seaward by the storm. But for
the glare of the sunshine after the storm
had subsidized, it would undoubtedly have
had the power to make its way back to
the coast of France, despite the great
distance, for owls, it is said, have en-
durance and powers of flight equal to
the homing pigeon.
THE Vienna (Ga) Progress tells this
remarkable story: Messrs. j. X. Duncan
and Joe II. Collier were speaking of
war "reminiscences a few DAYS ago, when
one of them told remarkable circum-
stance. A company of one hundred men,
of whom the above named gentlemen
were, which was formed at Perry. The
night before they left for the scene of
war they met at tbs church, and good
old minister by the name of Talley was
called upon to pray. He prayed very
earnestly, and among other things prayed
that not a single yankee bullet might
strike one of these men. This company
of one hundred men went through the
war, being in many fierce battles, and
not one was killed or wounded, and
about sixty of the one hundred are now
living
o L. WnHoTT, of Warrenton, Ca,
comes TO the front with very intelligent
set of young pigs. For some time he
has noticed that his milk cows would
give but little, in fact almost no milk,
every morning and he was unable TO nc.