The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-27
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE. 9,
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven.
lures which Show that Truth il
Stranger Than Fiction.

ONA~ ~ . -
in company with two companions,
was walking along the beach from
Red creek 10 Port bay when a large
fish was observed floating On its back
twenty rods out in the lake. 1t was
thought 20 be dead, but its large size
led Mr.. Cole TO desire its possession.
So, stripping of his clothes. he
plunged into the water, thinking 10
tow the fish TO land. As he drew
near the fish he noticed about four
feet OF rope dangling from its gills.
He seized the rope and started to tow
the monster 10 shore, but the fish
was not nearly so dead as it had
seemed, and in an instant shot off in
a direct line for the Canadian shore,
dragging Mr.. Cole after il. Mr.. Cole,
being a plucky man and a fine SWIM
mer, made up his mind To hang to the
rope. 4 desperate struggle ensued.
first the fish had the advantage and
then the man. This was kept up for
a full hour. Then the fish succumbed
and was towed TO the beach more dead
than alive. Mr.. Cole was so ex-
hauSted that he was unable 10 speak.
The captive was found to be an on
tario sturgeon weighing over seventy
five pounds. 1t is supposed that it
had been caught and anchored by Il
rope through its gills somewhere up
the lake, but had escaped.
ANOTHER life, probably, has been
sacrificed in the pursuit Of the Peg
leg mine in the California desert.
The story of the Pegleg is the old n
of a wondrously rich gold mine, ac-
cidentally discovered, abandoned per-
force. and lost. OF the many eX-
petitions which have started out to
find il all have failed, while many
persons have persisted in this pursuit
on the arid desert sands. 5. y.
Pratt, a San Francisco man, made
four unsuccessful trips in search Of
the mine. with the result that he be-
came more sure than ever that the
mine existed and that he could yet
find it. He barely escaped with his
life from his last trip a year ago, but
last fall he started out again. He
could not get IA companion in his un-
dertaking. so started alone from
SaltOn with a horse and pack mule,
and he has not been heard of since
he plunged into the desert. A party
started out from Los Angeles Il week
ago in search Of Pratt. 1t will
follow his trail, or the one he most
likely took, and will remain in the
desert until they find something to
tell of his fate.
n,n~., a., .11,l.. "a C,,-,,
Wearn, of Beaver Falls. Penn, the
doctor in attendance insisted that the
patients heart was on the wrong
side. After his death an autopsy by
Drs. Kring, Sheets and McCarter re-
vealed the fact that the claim was
well grounded. On opening the dead
mans right breast the heart, Of nor
NAL appearance, weight and confor-
nation, was disclosed, but there was
practically, no lung on that side.
The left lung a properly placed, of
the usual size, and in apparently
healthy condition; and close to the
wall of the chest cavity, at the back,
was a miniature lung, or the frag-
ment of 1t had never performed
any service as IA lung, as its construc-
tion and character could not have
permitted the function Of breathing,
etc, for the revitalizing Of blood
passed over it by the misplaced heart
on the same side with it. Wearn had
breathed all his life with one lung,
and seemed to have had enough Of
the breath Of life under ordinary con-
ditions.
A CURIOUS affair is reported from
Belfast, Me. Mr.. Moody, a druggist
of that place. the other day turned
upside down a pasteboard box, which
had been sitting on his shelves for
months with medicines in it. to
shake the dirt out of it, when he
was astonished to discover that the
dust from the shelves had adhered to
the bottom OF the box i'm such a way
as to make a distinct portrait of "a
face. He looked at it closely, and
discovered that it was an exact like
ness of his father. The portrait is
that of an elderly man, with white
hair and beard. The eyes, nose and
mouth are regular, and the bust is
perfect. a great many people came
TO see it. and all agreed that it was a
portrait Of DR.. Moody, who founded
the drug store, and carried it on until
his death some time ago. The spirit
ualists Of the place are jubilant and
declare that the portrait is the work
of the spirit Of DR.. Moody himself.
THE other morning when the freight
train from the East arrived in Reno.
New, a man emerged from a car
loaded with long-horned steers. He
told a reporter that when endeavor-
ing to secure free passage on the cat
tie train leaving Winnemucca the
night before one Of the railroad boys
said that he would let him into a car
where he could ride as long as he
wanted TO keep company with the
steers. To the surprise Of the rail-
road man tho nffar Was appaptal anI