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

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Moravia, but Farmer Dumore has
never been in either n OF them.
He has a brother and a sister who
have lived eight miles from his farm
for over sixty years, and he has not
seen either of them for forty-five
years. A neighbor of Dumore's, Ma
than Tuthill, seventy-four years old,
has lived in Moravia fifty years, and
he was never inside the village tavern
or postofice. He has lived half a
century in one house, and never slept
or ate a meal in any other house.
He never tasted liquor, beer or to-
bacco, and never wrote a letter or
signed a note or other obligation.
Another neighbor of Dumore is Seth
r. Webb, aged eighty-three years,
who has been town clerk for fifty
four consecutive years.
TWELVE years ago, according to an
English paper, a ~six-year-old boy
disappeared from his home in New
castle-on-Tyne. Diligent search for
him was made by his parents and
their friends, but nothing was heard
of him, and it was concluded that he
had fallen into the river and was
drowned. A few days ago a tall young
man in a military uniform entered
the dwelling where the mother. now
a widow, resides and asked her If her
name was Swailes. She said ii was
and he claimed her as his mother,
and soon succeeded in convincing
her by various marks on his body
that he was her long-lost SON. He
said that he had wandered away
from home across the river, and had
been picked up by the police. Unable
to find his parents, they had put him
in the workhouse. whence, as he
grew older, he had been hired TO a
farmer, and afterward had run away
and gone TO sea. A short time ago he
had enlisted, and through n OF his
comrades had heard Of the where
abouts of his mother.
J. H.. WINTERS, of Albany, told a
reporter Of the st. Louis Globe
Democrat an amusing story the other
night. II was up in the northern
part of New York State last summer
on a hunting trip" he said, land
II day a. ] was tramping along in
quest of game, ! saw on the shore of
the lake, not over one hundred feet
from where j was, a snipe, struggling
as though It's feet were in "A trap.
Soon the bird rose and few a short
distance in my direction. when it fell
and futtered a. though calling on
me as an old friend for help. When
| reached the spot | saw that II OF
the birds feet was clasped by a large
fresh water clam. but before ! could
render aid the bird again with a great
effort arose into the air and made a
few wild circles, unfortunately over
the lake, but the clam held on, and
in a minute more both were IN the
water. After a brief fiuttering re-
sistance the poor snipe succumbed to
the weight of the clinging clam and
disappeared beneath the surface.
CHEROKEE county, Alabama, has a
muscular prodigy. His name is Joe
CLANCY, and he weighs only 100
pounds. He was arrested recently
and incarcerated in the jail at Centre,
charged with entering a store at Lees
burg, Ala. As soon as they put him
in Jail he broke the door open and
came out. They then chained him,
supposedly, fast to the floor and a
powerful chain was locked close
about his neck and fastened to the
floor, but before the jailer could arise
to survey the Job the prisoner had
burst the chains asunder and stood
erect also. Some Of his feats OF
skill and strength are bursting dun
geon locks, pulling chains apart,
drawing iron spikes from the wall
and breaking bars. 1t is said he can
break the bars Of the dungeon win
dows a. easily as If they were tooth
picks and can pull a heavy chain in
twain with the ease that an ordinary
man can a silk cord.
LITTLE Addie Cunningham, Of Fall
River, Kan. has passed through "A
remarkable experience. On the 10th
Of last September she was eating
Watermelon when a seed lodged in
her windpipe. She was seized with "a
terrible fit of coughing and for weeks
her life was despaired Of. Physicians
could do nothing for her and she was
given up to die. She continued to
live. but wasted away 10 a skeleton.
The other dav she was seized with a
terrible fit of coughing and the melon
seed was thrown out. 1t was three
times the regular size OF the ordinary
seed and contained a long sprout,
which was evidently growing in her
windpipe. She was Immediately re-
lieved and can now breathe easily.
Physicians say her recovery is n
miracle.
ONR OF the most remarkable crimi-
nal cases on record on the Pacific
coast has come 10 the surface in the
quiet little town Of Pacific Grove,
near Monterey. Cal. Amos Virgin.
who had always been respected a. an
honest man. turns ont TO be a law