The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-04-14
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth is Stranger
than Fiction.

SANlLlAN BEEBf, OF Sditil, tOuf.
made big haul with his eel spear .
few days ago. says the St. Loui,
Globe-Democrat. Last July aIhong
the people who sojourned at Essex
was IA wealthy Cincinnati family. \
young lady member Of this family
went out boat riding one evening and
during the trip she lost Il valuable
gold bracelet from her arm. The
bracelet was i'm the form OF golG
chain that fastened with hook. A
few days ago Beebe, who usually
makes about two ceiling trips to the
Connecticut River during the year
hitched up his horse and drove down.
He worked all day like beaver and
succeeded in getting but one very
small eel. He then ran his knife in
TO the eePs throat and showed il
toward its tail. When about half way
down the point OF the knife struck
something that refused to be cut.
He slashed into the eels middle. TO
his astonishment long metal chain,
as bright as if new, lay lengthwise Of
the stomach. lie showed the chain
TO his wife Mrs. Beebe took the
thing and examined it. On the heel
OF the clasp the name of the young
woman who lost the bracelet last
summer was engraved. The circum-
stances OF the lost bracelet were
known TO the people Of Salem, and
after breakfast Savilian hitched up
his horse and headed for Essex, where
he delivered the bracelet to the. peo-
pie with whom the Cincinnati family
boarded and received ths $50 reward.
JONI Carroll, JR., Of Cincinnati,
after four years Of hard work, has
completed an invention which ne
hopes will make him famous. Mr..
Carol conceived the idea that he could
make IA machine which could be pro-
PEELED in the air. He is mechanic
Of unusual ability. His model was
completed and tried few days ago
and it worked successfully. The ma
chine, which is neat piece OF me-
chanism, weighs about forty pounds
and is made OF sheet iron. 1t is
capable OF carrying about 800 pounds
weight. Mr.. Carol tried the machine
and worked it very easily, and rode
through the air at II height Of about
fifty feet for quite distance. lie
was bit bashful in attempting the
trial in daylight, so he did it after
nightfall. The inventor has an idea
that with some alteration he can con-
trive machine which will be capable
Of travelling at least eighty miles an
hour, and that he will also be able to
continue this rate of speed even
against strong wind. Some day,
shortly, he intends to give "a public
exhibition OF his new machine, and
Cincinnatians will then be afforded
the novel sight OF seeing man fly
through the air like IL bird. Mr.. Car
rol' $ machine is boX-like in form, and
is propelled by means of rotary shut
ties.
STRANGE freaks are played by wind
blown sands in the New Mexico
River valleys and mountain canons.
In the canons one may see cliffs and
natural stone pillars cut into fantas-
tic forms by the natural sand blasts
formed by the winds sucking up and
down these narrow passes. In broad
river valleys, the Rio Grande especi-
ally, great areas of sand hills are seen
tossed up like giant waves of sea.
These shift their positions slowly,
travelling in the direction Of the pre-
vailing winds, until they scatter on
the plain or encounter some obstruc-
ton, such as mountain side,
;nh ihA,v hnnn Not only
valuable lands but towns may be
buried in this invading element.
Thus along the Pecos River, at dis
tances from twenty to forty miles
below the town Of Eddy, in south
eastern New Mexico, there are five.
old deserted pueblos or villages built
by ancient agricultural Indians
which. it is estimated once contained
a popSation of from 10000 20 ID, 600
people. Now the villages are nearly
buried i'm sand blown from the hills
that bound the valley. Nestiges Of a
canal to these towns have been dis
covered leading from canon near by
which once furnished water but is now
filled with sand.
PRUSSIA is conspicuouS!y a music
loving and music-making country.
As the inhabitants OF its cities, how
ever, for the most part live in flats.
they are not allowed to play or sing
in their own apartments after 10
O'Clock p. m, unless with the express
consent of the persons residing inn
mediately above or below them, whose
innate right to enjoy unbroken rest
80 nights" they are bound to re-
spect. Nor may they keep on their
premises any furred or feathered ami
mails addicted to the nocturnal utter
ance OF sounds that murder sleep, >
and give rise to irritation Of temper.
The conscientious dog. prompted by
a sense OF duty to bark all night long ;
the sentimental hound that gives
vent to its tenderer feelings in pro-
tracted series OF melancholy howls-
these and other varieties Of the canine