The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-12-23
other q monstrosity whose parents for
merly lived at Goshen. Inf. L. :. A..
aud which was born in JsI u ~. 1889.

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aux-Cailles, Paris. would have had her
taking her habitual Sunday promenade
had il not been for a faithful parrot
which she regards now with particular
affection as being a gift from her de-
parted husband. About $50 In the
afternoon the concierge of the house was
reused from his siesta by a fearful
screech from the parrot. Rushing up
stairs he met a man coming down he
steps four at a time. He was a house
breaker, aud upon meeting the concierge
the latter just escaped a blow aimed at
his head with q monkey wrench. Pass
ersby succeeded in stopping the thief
and dragged him before the Police Com
missary of the district. He said he was
disturbed in his work of ~ransscking the
place by the parrot talking in the next
room. The bird asked repeatedly:
"Who is there? Are you there, Etienret"
and, upon seeing the intruder, reused
the whole house:
IL Florida Life, a new monthly maya
zine published in Jacksonville, is an ar
ticle from the pen of b. w. Partridge, Of
Monticello. In it he describes the effect of
the drought of 1891 on Lake Miccosukie,
one of the largest lakes in middle Florida.
when about 5000 acres of water became
dry land for a spell. The rainy season
of 1892 filled it with water again. Mr..
Partridge conceived the idea that the
lake could be drained by boring holes in
its bottom, and organized a company TO
try it. Experts were engaged TO examine
and report on the plan, and the result
was that the company has bored = mum
Der of holes in the bottom of Lake Mic
cosukie, and the water is rushing down
through them via "A subterranean pas
sage to the gulf. In a few months they
expect to permanently drain the lake
and thus recover 10, 900 acres of valuable
land.
A CORRESPONDENT of the North China
Herald gives an account of a curious
industry carried on in Chica. 1t is the
manufacture Of Cheat money" to be
buried with corpses. From time imme-
mortal it has been the pious custom of
the Chinese 10 bury with their departed
friends a considerable sum of money,
that they might not find themselves
paupers in the other world. This Gus
tom they have found rather costly, and
having no very high opinion OF the
shrewdncss of spiritual shopkeepers they
have taken to manufacturing u very
cheap counterfeit of the Mexican dollar
TO pass off in the other world. Ii is
simply a bit of pasteboard with tin foil
surfaces stamped with a die. a hundred
of these dollars in a box retails for 81
cash.
SrEvENsoN's Mr.. Hyde has been bet
tered in real life in Texas. In the case
of the famous character in fiction there
were some who criticised the creation on
the ground that such a debased glory in
brutality was impossible, even under the
imaginary conditions of a double exist
ence in which the man of the world was
combined with the human brute. In the
trial of Dick Edwards, at DeniSon, for
the murder OF Mrs. Hattie G.. Haynes.
one witness told how, when she charged
tho prisoner with the crime, he answered,
Yes; | don't care any more about kill
ing a woman than u dog" What in the
case of the hero of the novelist's story
was the superinduced condition of Hyde
was the normal condition Of the West
ern burglar.
A TOUGH old soldier was run over by a
cab in the streets OF Paris the other day.
Jean Louis Leclerc is his name. He
was born in April, 1898, and served with
Napoleon at Waterloo. When taken to
the hospital he seemed TO be very weak
and to be suffering terribly. In view of
his great age, the doctors thought he
must succumb, but the old fellow soon
rallied, and on the day after the acct
dent was able to 60 back to his home in
the Rue du Rhin. So lightly did he
treat the affair that he willingly &C
cepted an offer from the driver, who was
to blame, Of one dollar, by way Of sofa
tium. "You see," he said, II hate
going to law at my age, although | do
not despair of living to be 100"
A GANG of rutiians, which has just
fallen into the hands of the Paris police,
rejoice in the title Of "Les Msngeurs
des Nez," u name that fifty describes
their outrages. Not content with gar
roting and robbing all the unfortunate
people wnom tney cOulu Waylay aL nIRhl
in deserted streets and dark corners OF
the great French metropolis, they also
bit off the noses of their victims, which
they carried OIL and attached TO their
caps in imitation of the red Indian
sca'pers. Several persons waylaid in
the early hours Of the morning in the
lonely suburbs are now in the hospitals
IL the courtyard of the palace of Yer
sailles Is a clock with one hand called
''L'Horloge de la Mort du Roi." 1t
contains no works, but consists merely
of a face in the form of a sun surrounded
by rays. On the death Of a king the
hand is set TO the moment of his demise
and remains unaltered till his successor
has Joined him in the grave. This Gus
tom originated under Louis XIII. and
continued till the revolution. 1t was re-
vived on the death OF Louis XVIII. and
the hand still continues fixed on the pre-
else moment Of that monarch's death.
ONy of the strangest superstitlons Of
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