The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-02-17
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
lures which Show that Truth 10
STRANGER Than Fiction.

Mont, has tive sapphlres taken from
the gizzard OF a Montana turkey. The
sapphires are all of good size and n
of them weighs about two karats.
GOVERNOR PETER TURNEY, OF Ten
nessee, though seventy years of age,
is still an enthusiastic deer and fox
hunter. Uncle" Tim Dyer, of Ninal
Haven, Me-, has just celebrated his
ninetieth birthday by taking alone
and unaided, fishing in an open dory,
a halibut weighing 332 pounds. j..
q. Rich, of Bethel, Me. who is now
seventy-three years of age, has a rec
ord Of having killed seventy-three
bears. 1t is evident that the Ameri-
can Nestor can do something besides
talk.
One Of the most striking phenome-
ma Of the Adirondack region is the
carrying power of the human voice in
still weather upon the lakes great and
small. Persons ashore easily hear
the ordinary conversation OF others
who are so far out upon the lake as to
be undistinguishable, and n a great
many Adirondack visitors habitually
violate the law touching the slaughter
Of deer, all such offenders are extreme
ly careful not wen to whisper n word
that might betray their guilt when
rowing upon the lakes.
A MOST remarkable case. and mi
raculous as well is reported by Mr..
A. j. ,ickery, who lives about three
miles from Hartwell, Ga. Mrs. Ant
witch, the wife Of a German laborer
living on Mr.. Nickery's place, was
stricken with a severe illness about
twelve years ago, which totally de-
prived her of the power of speech, in
which condition she remained until
the night of the cyclone last summer,
when the house in which they lived
was blown down, some OF the timber
falling on her. She was then heard
to utter some inaudible sound, and
about the LIST of December last she
suddenly and wholly regained her vo-
cal powers, and can now talk as well
as she aver did. Mrs. Antvitch is be-
tween fifty and sixty years OF age.
1IllS lll8lll Dt ull llltItNl lllH NlSt lot
the medical profession.
A STRANGE freak Of nature was dis.
covered here near Reading the other
afternoon. While Swoyer and DE
Long were saving Il white oak log
which they procured from the farm
Of George :. Sell, a farmer OF Maxa'
tawny township, near Bowers Station,
their circular saw, which is five feet
six inches in diameter, struck a piece
Of quart which tore every tooth out
Of the big saw. The stone was six
inches in diameter, and embedded in
the trunk thirty feet from the ground
and inside the solid wood. There il
considerable speculation as 10 how
the stone got into the trunk of the
tree. There is no quartz within Il
mile from the place where the tree
stood. 1t must have been there foI
over two hundred years, IA the tree,
it is believed, was several centuries
old. The tree was n Of the very
largest i'm that section.
A GERMAN resident Of New York
saved 1898 the other day by cremat.
ing his fathers body before shipping
it to Europe for interment at hi,
native place. The cost Of shipping q
corpse is $500, and the steamship
companies are anything but anxious
to take them at that. The agents OF
the companies take the horrors at the
| offer Of such freight. and some Of the
eamen are sure TO desert if they get
the slightest inkling Of the fact that
a dead nan is TO sail with them.
They have a superstition that disas-
ter is sure TO overtake "a vessel that
carries a corpse. When the shipper
told the agent that he wanted TO send
his fathers body TO Germany he felt
| very uncomfortable, but when he say
the small box, which contained the
remains, and learned that the body
had been reduced to ashes, he felt
better, and charged but ~, instead
Of $500.
THE big four-masted ship Lucipara,
which sails from Glasgow, recently
made a voyage from Sharpness 20
Sydney, New South Wales. While
sailing along between the Cape OF
Good Hope and Australia the ship
ran into a hurricane, or was over
taken by one, about midnight. Sud
denly the sea, which had been dam
%gerously high, became calm, and to
those on the ship it seemed AZ if the
surface OF the ocean had been sub
jected to an enormous pressure. by
which the ave were stilled. With
out warning. the men were almost
blinded by Il sheet Of flame which en-
yeloped the ship from stem TO stern
and reached half way up the masts.
This wave OF flame surged back and
forth, fore and aft. for "a few seconds.
and was then snufred out as suddenly
as it appeared, leaving captain and
crew cropping about in intense dark
ness. The binding glare was ex-
tremely painful 10 the eyes, but
causpd mo- amaze either IN the men