The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18
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.
EVERETT CHAUScEY BUMrUs, OF the
freshman class at Harvard, has beer
totally blind since he was six years OF
age. He 10 a son of Judge K. G. Bum
pus of Quincy, and is twenty years OF
age. He has been student at the Per
kins Institute for the Blind in Boston,
and at the Thayer Academy in Brain.
tree, Mass, and took high rank in his
class at the latter, where he prepared for
college.
AN English pickle dealer, described
as hearty, strong man, recently became
the victim Of comic tale. He was at a
tavern one evening, and laughed up
roariously over story told by one Of
the company. The laughter brought on
a fit of convulsive coughing, in the course
of which he fell to the floor, striking a
gainst wooden bench. 1t was found
that all his ribs on the right side were
broken, and that one lung had been in
jured. He died, and the jury returned
verdict of death from suhocation.'
A LARGE and curious white owl held
captive on board the Red Star line steam
ship Pennsylvania, which recently arrived
from Antwerp, creates a great deal of in
terest among all having any business
on board the ship, and has become quite
pet among the sailors. The strange
visitor came on board the Pennsylvania
when about | 400 miles off from the
English coast IL flew into the rigging
of the Pennsylvania early in the morning
in an exhausted state, and had no doubt,
been carried of from the coast in gale
of wind.
The Bank of France ia not entirely
free from apprehension regarding the
ability of tAe burglar and guards itself
in u very careful manner. Every day,
when the money is put into the vaults
in the cellar, masons are waiting, and at
once wall up the doors with hydraulic
mortar. Water is then turned on and
kept running until the cellar is flooded.
A burglar would thus have to work in
diving suit and break down cement
wall before he could even start to loot
the vaults. When the officers arrive
next morning the water is drawn off. the
masonry is torn down and the vaults
opened.
The people of Manitou, Col. were en-
tertained by the spectacle of a man car
rying stone around triangular track,
letting it drop, and shouldering it again
at every turn. The performer was man
who has reputation for disnclination
TO labor, and the incident was the out
come of wal he was king about the
hard times and his inability to get work.
A lylI hn
no got chance, and offered him ifty
cents an hour as long as he would carry
the stone. To the surprise of all he ac-
cepted the offer, and held out for five
hours. A large crowd gathered to watch
the performance.
Mrs. MARY GILMAN, wife of well to-
DO farmer, residing near Bird Mountain,
IN Ira, VT, has had fierce encounter
with an eagle. She saw the bird about to
swoop down upon her fowls and endeav.
ored to frighten it away. The eagle at
tackled her. and it was only after vigor-
Gus fight that she succeeded in killing il
with hatchet She had some fearful
marks of the struggle, and went to Rut-
land to have physician dress her bruises,
taking her trophy of vicsory with her
The eagle measured five and one half
feet, and is one of the largest and hand
soonest ever seen in the vicinity. -Bos-
ton Herald.
EDWARD LANE, a painter employed in
painting the smokestack of Touring
mill IN San Diego, Cal, recently passed
through thrilling experience lie had
painted half of the stack, 800 feet high,
and had just been drawn to the top
when the hook holding his platform gave
way. He fell twelve feet, striking
guy rope with his legs, which he wound
around the rope in twinkling, but
without effect He fell again, dropping
forty feet further, where he struck !
another guy rope, luckily catching it
with both hands and feet He held on
pluckily. although considerably bruised
on the breast and shoulder, until help
reached him, and he was lowered to the |
ground. IL was a narrow escape, but he !
did not appear to be specially disturbed |
over his accident, and was at work next
day as usual.
THE dress of the Northern Eskimos is
made of the skins of reindeer and seals.
and in the kyak. The women wear
mittens Of hare or fox skin, but the
skins OF these timid creatures are reser.
we'd for the females alone. No man
would disgrace himself 10y appearing clad
with particle of the fur of the hare or
the white fox. Either sex may wear the
skins of all other mammals, except at
certain times, under restrictions imposed
10y superstition. An important duty of
the women is taking care of the family
boots. AT intervals they must be turned
inside out and dried, then chewed and
scraped by some old hag, who is only
too glad to have the work to do for the
few scraps of food she may receive as
pay.
AMONG the many quaint customs
which are gradually disappearing in Eng
land is the so-called Lion Sermon"
which. after hav ing been annually
preached in the Church of st. Catharine.