The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-06-30
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth 10 Stranger
Than Fiction.

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81 FoRMAN, the Florida rattle
snake charmer, collected crowd
in the streets of Jacksonville the
other day with diamond-back rat
tier, which he had caught near
Springfield. 1t was five feet eight
inches long. He extracted its fangs
| without assistance in the presence
of the crowd.
A STORY comes from Harrisburg,
Neb., Of u cyclone that picked up
log ii feet long and ID inches
thick and carried it sixty rods. After
this warming-up heat the wind gath
cred up Rufus Woody and his horse,
and carried them through the open
roof of shed and landed them POO
feet away. Neither man nor horse
was much hurt, although Woody's
clothes were blown Off.
IT has been discovered, through
agricultural meetings in New Eng
land, that certain farmers have been
feeding sawdust To their horses. At
first blush this sounds absurd; but
every one knows how fond horses and
cattle are OF small shrubs, and may
not sawdust be regarded AS prepared
grown up shrub? 1t is claimed by
those who have tried it, that saw
dust heeps the horses in good condi-
ton. One farmer fed his horses with
a mixture Of equal proportions of
crushed oats, fine cut straw, IA little
hay and fresh elm sawdust.
The Henderson (Ky.) Courier says
OF IA remarkable woman in Webster
county: The oldest grandmother in
Kentucky; the oldest great-grand-
mother in the history OF the State OF
Kentucky; the oldest great-great-
grandmother in the history OF the
United States is Betsy shelton, who is
the mother OF fourteen children. the
grandmother OF III children, and the
great-graEdmother OF 2S2 children,
and the Observation-Disclosures Of
nineteen children. She was born in
North Carolina in 1898. She moved
to Kentucky in 1867. She is still
living and in moderate health"
Two extraordinary cases of bullet
wounds becoming active after lapse
| Of twenty-four years are reported by
a German medical paper. One is that
! Of matchmaker named kleeman,
living at Dusseldorf, who was wound
ed in the Franco-German war. Three
years ago he had bullet success
fully extracted from his right shoul-
der, and week ago, after IA month $
| illness, second bullet was extracted
from his left side. The second case
is that of u, station master who few
days ago was operated upon at Bonn
and had French bullet, which
pierced his right shoulder in the war,
cut from his right side.
In the town OF Ratibor, province OF
| Silesia, Prussia, on the left bank OF
| the Oder River, stands n maple tree
which is wonderful combination Of
nature and mans patience and inge-
, century old, and has been turned into
kind of temple OF two stories, each
, Of it's compartments being lighted by
eight windows, and capable OF con-
tanning twenty people with ease. The
floors are constructed OF boughs skill
fully woven together, OF which the
leaves make sort OF natural carpet
! The walls are formed Of thick LEAKAGE
in which innumerable birds build
| their nests.
PROBABLY the oldest man in Madi-
son County, Ky, lives in the Big
Hill neighborhood. He does not
know his exact age, but from the rec
objections OF old residents in that
neighborhood he is not far from 12O
years old He is IA white man,
with one-quarter Cherokee Indian,
and Of the Indian blood he is as proud
as IL he were the owner Of broad blue
grass acres. His name is Jehu
Vaughn. father of William Vaughn,
! the Madison County skeleton, who
was with Barnum for years. Mr..
Vaughn hasn't tooth in his head,
but never suffered one pang OF tooth
ache. He saved all his teeth, and
guards them with as jealous care "a
| does the miser his gold, and wants
them buried with him.
IL treatise on the subject Of al
cohol, Mr.. Lawson TAFT exonerates
the human race from the imputa-
tion OF being the only creatures that
naturally take TO drink. Wasps, he
] says, haye the same proclivity. Mr..
| TAFT has watched the wasps eagerly
attacking over-ripe fruits, when the
sugar had had in some degree been
! coverted into alcohol. Around such
fruits, especially rotten plums and
grapes, the wasps may be seen fight
ing and struggling for precedence;
and afterwards, when they are abso-
lutely drunk with the spirit, they
crawl away IN torpid condition and
hide themselves in the grass till they
have slept of the orgie. The wasp is
even more quarrelsome than usual in
his cups, and will sting most venom
ously on the slightest provocstion.
"DID you ever hear OF dog having
a wooden legg" inquired 5. +. ord