The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-05-19

cured with the greatest care by him
who takes IL. +"
SOME extraordinary but we'll au-
thenticated stories of the Bank of
France are related. One day sheep
ate up hundred-franc note belong
ing 70 butcher. The butcher ran
into the house of a friend, seized
gun and shot the sheep. He had no
sooner done so than the owner Of the
gun rushed up. That was an
expensive shot of yours for me, "
asked the butcher. Well" said
the other, 81 had seventy francs
in bills hidden in the barrel OF
that gunw The sleeps carcass
was pretty thoroughly searched, and
enough Of the pieces Of the notes re-
covered so that the bank redeemed
them all.
A PORTLAND (Me. woman boasts of
a cat with a propensity for playing in
the water, and tells how it bothers her
when she is washing dishes, by try
| ing to get into the pan. The other
day, after repeatedly driving the ami
NAL from the sink, it climbed up and
balanced itself on the two faucets,
| close together, and amused itself by
patting with it's paw the rapidly issu-
ing stream. 1t frequently drinks di-
rect from the faucet, plunging its
nose into the current regardless Of its
force, and has often plunged into the
bathtub when it was half full Of
water. So far from fearing the con-
! tact Of water, as cats usually do, this
unique Portland pussy fairly revels
in it.
LONDON Tid-Bits publishes a won-
derful story of the achievements of n
boy at the old German town of Ieltz.
This boy owns a dog which he taught
to pronounce thirty-one words twen-
ty-four German and seven French.
The words are spoken one at a time,
and only at the dictation OF the young
teacher. The talking dog of Zeltz'
is the wonder of Europe. and nothing
similar has ever been known, except
land in l7lS. This old-time canine
wonder could pronounce all the let
ters of the alphabet, except IL, IN"
and IN"
Miss SOPHIA BEHRENS, a young lady
we'll connected in Minneapolis, has
been adjudged insane and taken to
the asylum at independence. Her
mania was that she was engaged to
several young men Of the city, whom
she threatened with suits for breach
of promise unless they came to time.
Her letters became so frequent that
it was decided to bring her before the
Commissioners Of Insanity. 1t is a
peculiar case. She even went so
far as to have her wedding trousseau
made.
NEAR Yankton, N. d., is the most
remarkable family on this conti-
nent, perhaps in the world. 1t con-
sists Of father, mother and twenty
four children, and the mother Of the
brood is not yet 30 years old. She is
n Norwegian woman and her husband
is Hoosier. The children were born
triplets and the Oldest Of the lot is
under II years Of age. All Of them
are boys but three, one set Of triplets
being girls.
| PETER GRUBER, Of Oil City, who
calls himself the greatest snake
catcher in the State Of Pennsylvania,
had twelve live rattlers in paper
bag and was carrying them home,
when they burst from the bag. One of
them got around his neck, but in
trying to strike Mt the man bit its
own body and died Gruber saved
eleven Of the reptiles.
ONE Of the quaint remembrances Of
Robert Louis Stevenson's South Sea
life is that Of his Honolulu mouse.
A small shelf hung over the couch
whereon he used to lie when i'll and
trying to forget his pain in playing
on the fageolet. On this shelf the
little mouse would venture, and soon
became SO tame as to delight in the
novelist's caresses.
LONDON has feminine drum and
fife corps. 1t is made up Of charm
ing girls who meet at one another :
HOUSES anu pTdcJlce ullueT lit Rulu-
ance Of drum major from Guards
Regiment. What with these fair
drummers and Miss Ethel Stoke s
women volunteers, there seems to be
no lack of martial spirit in the Eng
lish woman.
A GRAND HAVEN mich. man says
that in 1875 he marked the backs o!
three turtles, cut off their heads and
set them free. He asserts that few
days ago he caught one OF the same
creatures which had fully developed
head and only showed the result Of
the decapitation in an abnormal ridge
around the throat.
WHILE Arnold Landgraf was shoot
ing at turtles in a pond near Rome,
Jefferson County, Wis, one OF his
bullets glanced from the back Of one
intended victim and put out the eye