The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-05-05
NEARLY every month in the wear is

suggest those Of human beings are
J largely represented. There are many
Novembers, three or four Julys, al
April in English and one in French,
plenty OF Junes, and name that
would be the French for February
but for the substitution of b" fol
"v." September, October and De.
= cember are unrepresented.
y. F. HILL, Of Park City, KY, il
Dragging Of a novel feat in chicken
raising. He got some eggs Of blooded
fowls from Massachusetts, and one OF
them was broken. He pasted a bit
Of paper over the cracked shell and
put the egg under his setting hen.
A chicken came in due time. He
says he has saved the shell with the
paper patch intact to prove the state
ment. How he got the chicken out
is not explained.
EDDIE HARMER, aged six years, is
the infant prodigy Of the Pacific
slope. He lives in Oakland, Cal.
He can repeat the preamble and Con-
| stitution OF the United States to the
| fifth section, has read all of Shelley's
works and is now engaged in study
ing Ossian. The child has an abnor-
mally large head, but his body is well
nourished and his extraordinary pre-
cocity does not appear to have af-
fected his health.
A FRENCH engineer, named Lerozal,
has recently discovered in the district
Of Gurrero. State Of the same name,
an immense cave, which, with four
Indian companions, he explored for
n distance estimated at fifteen miles.
He claims to have found in one cham
ber the bodies Of over eight hundred
petrified Indians with many articles
OF pottery in n good state of preser-
vation, and number of images, sup
posed to be idols.
A BOY of fourteen committed sui
eide at Alfortyille, near Paris, under
extraordinary circumstances. A de-
cree Of divorce which had Just been
pronounced between his father and
mother gave the latter the custody
Of the boy, who had for some reason
conceived "a violent dislike to her.
On hearing Of the decree he first OF
all made himself intoxicated with
wine, and then blew out his brains
with revolver.
The Shah OF Persia is superstiti-
Gus. He always carries with him
when he travels circle of amber,
which is said to have fallen from
heaven in MOhammed 5 time, and
which renders the wearer invulner-
able; n casket Of gold, which makes
him invisible at will, and star
which is potent to make conspira-
tors instantly confess their crime.
WHAT is said to be the largest shad
ever caught in the Delaware was re-
Gently brought in at Salem, n. j.,
near the head Of the bay. 1t weighed
eleven pounds, was twenty-seven
inches long, eight inches wide and
eighteen inches in girth Another
shad weighing nine pounds two ounces
was brought in a few days before by
n fisherman from Salem.
THERE are many show" houses in
New York, being the homes Of the
rich, where casual strangers call to
see the furniture and decoration.
The servant that answers the bell ac-
cepts n tip, and for such considera-
tion shows the house to the caller.
The tips Of the curious are n source
of considerable revenue to the SER
wants of the rich,
A STRANGE and fatal disease has
for n year ragged in the vicinity OF
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pear elsewhere, and is known to the
doctors only as the black tongue"
The patient suffers terribly. The
body becomes spotted and the ton
que, becoming black, swells to an
enormous size, producing sufroca-
tion.
A PRISONER in the Manchester Jail
amused himself by writing verses in
microscopic characters on small
pieces of paper, which he pasted on
the backs of the reaches that infested
his cell. The poetry eventually
killed all the insects that carried it,
not because it was bad, but because
the paste fermented.
JOHN BIGLIN'S wife attempted to
keep him at home, near Indianapolis
by hiding his clothes and shoes. He
wrapped himself in red blanket,
put on rubbers and marched forth
only to be gored by vicious bull
Biglin has brought suit for damages.
The defense alleges contributory
a RECENT number Of La Illustra-
cion de Cuba states that on the 9th /
of February last Madam Buenviaje |
GARLIC, wife Of District Attorney Don
Luciano Jimenez, of Remedies, gave
birth to four robust children. All
doing well at last accounts; the little
ones soon to be baptized.
A CONDOR was killed in Sequel
Canon, Southern California, the other
day. The bird measured nine feet
four inches across the wings. and was
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