The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-02-03

eacn teline STRIVING 10 QUITO tne
other i'm grimaces and noise, while
distorting their bodies and waving
their tails i'm animated defiance. At
a signal from their master they leave
their chairs and, standing on their
h.rd feet, engage in n pugilistic en-
counter, which generally ends in n
genuine cat fight unless prevented by
their trainer, who settles the conflict
by distributing little food to them as
the revenue for their tariff speeches.
THE genius OF advertisement, work
ing in the brain of n Brooklyn mer-
chant, has inspired a novel applica-
ton OF the ancient sandwich man
device. He has equipped a big New
foundland dog with sandwich boards
and turned il loose to wander at will
about the city streets. The dog is
unusually large and handsome. Fas-
tened on his back is n white oilskin
coat, fashioned like an ordinary dog
blanket, except that it is SO long as
to almost sweep the ground, and
painted thereon, i'm vivid colors, is an
advertisement Of the business Of the
dogs owner. The dog seems to know
his business, too, for he spends most
of his time trotting up and down the
shopping district OF Fulton street,
where the crowds are thickest. He
is good-natured and fraternizes with
the children who accompany the
shoppers, and in many ways makes
himself conspicuous and thus an efti-
cient advertisement.
A VERY singular case is that Of n
young man in Wisconsin named
Chandler. For years his mouth has
shown n tendency to grow up. Four
years ago ii became SO small IL was
feared he would starvc, and II fund
was raised by ncighbors and he was
sent to Chicago, where the mouth
was cut To the natural size and pieces
Of flesh grated into the corners, thus
hoping to prevent the closing. This
has been overcome, and his mouth Is
rapidly growing up again, the open
ing nj present not being larger than
nm ordinary goose quill, through which
he takes all his n~ourishmcnt. IL is
thought that he must eventually
starve to death, as there seems no
way Of preventing the complete clos
ing OF the mouth. otherwise the
young man seems healthy, and is cap
able OF doing considerable work.
A CITIZEN of South Bend, Wash,
has n humpback whale on his hands
which is proving II worse incumbrancc
than the traditional elephant, not
alone To himself, but to the whole
community. The whale became
stranded at the mouth Of the river
and the onterprising citizen bought
il from the fisherman who captured
il and made some money by placing
il on exhibition. Bat the whale died
and after n while il became very dead
and the owner can't dispose Of IL.
He tried, as IA last resort, to burn IL
and spent his profits on wood and
Kerosene, but the whale won't burn.
The town is peryaded by m extremely
ancient, fshlike smell, and the citi-
zens are urgent in their demands that
the owner OF the whale shall remove
his property i'm some expeditions way
FROM Manitoba ONE an account
OF what, no doubt, farmers I'm this
country will consider TO be not only
unusual, but perfectly unprecedented,
conduct on the part Of "A litter of
young pigs. Mr.. W. McRinnell, Me-
lita, South Manitoba, relates that his
nearest neighbor, n farmer, has n SOW,
with n litter Of eight young ones,
which he let's out i'm the bush every
day with his cattle. When the young
pigs were about six weeks old he mo-
ticed that his cows when he came TO
milk them were quite dry. He could
not make out the reason for some
time until he watched, and then he
found that when the COWS laid down
in the middle Of the day the young
pigs would go up and suck them dry,
and the COWS would not mind in the
least.
A DISPUTE over IA Belgian estate
among disgruntled beneficiaries has
resulted i'm curious disaster for the
disuptants. A year ago IA widow died,
leaving an estate worth over six and
n half million francs. The immedi-
ate relatives to whom il was left dis
puted over the spells, and suit was
instituted i'm the Brussels courts to
settle their various claims. The case
attracted wide attention, and at the
trial it was proved that than
300 persons were related TO the
testatrix, and relatives even twelve
degrees removed were adjudged en-
titled TO some Of the fortune.
TEE Army was drained Of many OF
it's good men last year under the pur-
chase-of-dischargc system. More
than 1000 soldiers took advantage OF
the right, and 10000 was paid for
discharges. In addition 10 purchase
discharges, the army lost about 800
men through discharges by sentence
OF court martial-a good radiance; 50
that all in all the army lost about
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