The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-05-19
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth IL Stranger
Than Fiction.

Whtch snow thot ruth - stranger
Than Fiction.
Two subjects for Miss Mary Will
kins live at Peterboro, y. H., says
the Providence Journal, Elvira and
Elmira Fife, who probably are the
oldest twins living. Next August
they will be So. At the age Of ii
they entered the employ of local
manufacturing company, and for
sixty years they remained on its pay
roll, the maximum wages earned be-
ing 80 cents per day, and the mini
mum II cents for three days labor.
They have never ridden on railway
train, although the Boston and Maine
road ruins its ears within ten rods Of
their door. They have never been
separated more than seventy hours at
any one time in their lives, and cam
not endure the thought that death
will summon them singly. Although
living in the same house and eating
from the same table. they have al
ways lived separately: that is, each
has cooked her own meal. II one had
boiled dinner the other had boiled
dinner, and it was not cooked in the
same pot either. II one had a turkey
the other would have little larger
one, and so in everything they We'd
with each other to see who would live
the best
Mrs. CLANDIA HERRERA died in
San Francisco recently at the remark
able age Of l2O years. She was a
Mexican, and for some time had made
her home with her friend, Mrs. Petro
r. |. Richeri. Mrs. Herrera was
born in IVA at Rial de Jesus Maria,
Mexico. When Mrs. Herrera came to
San Francisco at the time of the gold
excitement she was even then wo-
man Of rs years old. She had no
means, and her husband being dead.
she had her own way to make in the
world. But with the spirit of young
girl she set about the task; she never
wavered, but all through the long
years that followed she earned her
living by doing days work about the
city, especially among the Spanish.
for she could speak English but poor
ly. She continued to work to within
twenty days Of her death-washing,
ironing and earring buckets of water
with ease. Mrs. Herrera talked very
little of her early life to her friends,
but she occasionally spoke Of Incl
dents that happened 100 years ago.
She knew Santa Ana when he was a
boy and afterwards when he was
President OF Mexico.
PHYsIoGNoMIsTs will do well to study
an article in Blackwood's Magazine.
The compressed lip so loved and so
often misinterpreted by novelists,
says the writer, is sign of weakness
rather than Of strength. 1t tells OF
perpetual conflicts in which the re-
serves are called into the fray. The
strong will is not agitated into siren
uous action by the small worries of
the hour and the great occasions
which call for it's whole forces are too
few to produce permanent impress
of this kind upon the features. The
commanding officer, assured Of his
mems $ obedience, does not habitually
keep his lip muscles in state Of ten
sion. Look at the sea captain, the
most absolute monarch on earth. He
carries authority and power in his
face, but it resides in his eye and the
confident assurance Of his easily set
mouth. Whoever saw q man COM
manding a man-of-war or driving a
locomotive with the contentious lip
of a school usher.
The absent-minded man is at it
again. He had been reading the egg
story and decided to try the trick.
The first thing to do was to boil the
egg. How many minutes? he asked
himself, and going to the stove with
an egg in one hand and his watch in
the other, he dropped the latter in
the hot water. Then placing the egg
on the table, he sat down to read till
the time was up. At the end Of five
or six minutes he was surprised to
find the egg lying there before him,
but supposing that he had himself
taken it from the kettle and cooled
it, he proceeded to crack and peel it.
The consequence may be imagined.
Finally he missed his watch. The
house was searched high and low, and
it was not till the following morning
that the cook found it in the ket-
tie, where it had been boiling for
hours.
II HAVE q horse at home" said a
North Dakota farmer, that has de-
veloped a great fondness for eggs,
and who loses no opportunity to
crafty his appetite in this direc-
tion. During the winter he has a
comfortable stall in the barn all to
himself, and, by his kind treatment
OF the hens, is often enabled to Sc
cure for himself q freshly laid egg.
To begin with he makes cosey-look-
ing place in the hay with his nose, and
when hen comes near he lifts his
head out of her way, stands very still
and by his quiet behavior invites her
to come into his manger and lay her
ayya To cba aacants his Invitation