The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-06-23

the false appendage came of in the
officers hand and the crook" ran
ahead and escaped.
JAMES III. STURGEON captured n
wild goose at his place, near Homer,
Oregon, one day recently. and he
thinks that he has n grand prize. At
tached to the birds leg is n very thin
piece OF brass, an inch long and half
AS wide. On this is punched with n
pointed instrument, Fremont Party,
September, 1916, b. b. j." 1t is
presumed that the initials are those
of Colonel Ii. h. Jackson, who was a
member OF Fremont's exploring expe-
dition when il passed through this
region nearly fifty years ago. The
venerable Colonel is on deck some
where in Sonoma county, California,
and has been written TO. II he re-
members having turned tagged
goose loose in 1913 the bird will be
presented to the California Pioneer
Society.
ANDREW PUKsAKoSKN, OF Nanto.
coke, Penn, was only seven years
old, but he showed that there was
more manhood in him than many n
full-grown man possesses. He was
walking with his five-year old sister
along the banks Of creek, which
the heavy rains had turned into II
raging torrent, when the bank caved
under her, and in moment she was
swept away, struggling in the roar
| ing waters. Andrew could not swim,
and the water was swift and deep
but he ran rapidly down the stream,
screaming for help, until he was
ahead of the floating girl, when he
plunged in and caught her. Ii was
some minutes before people, attracted
by the boys cries, could reach them,
and finally, when they were drawn
out OF the water, the girl was dead
and her heroic little brother uncon-
scious. Every effort was made to re-
suscitate him, but in vain.
- ONCE had to run into Chatham
Island in the South Pacific Ocean"
said an old sea captain, "and was
amused TO see the way in which the
people accepted their fate in regard
TO the jumping of time. This little
island is just on the line of dem II rca-
tion between times and dates. In
order to keep right with the remain
der of the world il is necessary to
skip from noon on Sunday TO noon
on Monday every week in the year,
and hence the joke that il is possible
to spend Il whole day at dinner with
out eating an average meal. The
island is SO near the antarctic region
that days and nights are altogether
mixed up from the idea OF an ordin-
AIRY individual, but this plan Of Jump
ing the afternoon Of one day and the
morning Of the next so as TO keep in
line with the almanac is something
so ridiculous that none but a seafar-
ing man can appreciate it, or under
stand the necessity"
+ WILLIAM DUNCANsoN, OF Stockton,
Mimi, is the father OF Orrin Dun
canson. He is also the owner OF
what is known as the Mosquito mill
at Stockton. One day recently Mr..
Duncanson and one OF his mill hands
went up to the quarry near the mill
to secure some rock. In their oper-
ations they uncovered large natural
cavity from which passage entend-
ed some distance. Following the lat
ter, they found it led into another
and larger cavity, perhaps twenty
feet square. In this they found over
four bushels Of rattlesnako skeletons.
At the mouth OF the passage leading
into the larger cavity was good
sized stone and in the centre was
worn regular trough fully six inches
deep. The large cavity was evident
ly the place Of Information Of rattle
snakes, which abound in the vicinity
in great numbers, and it must have
been occupied century or perhaps
longer for the snakes to have worn
the gutter in the solid rock, which at
that place was as smooth as glass
! The skeletons found were evidently
those OF old and enfeebled reptiles
and those which had died from other
causes.
To look at railway locomotive
one would scarcely think that by any
possibility IL could be put together in
less than one day" remarked Thos.
G.. Bick, of Montreal, yet that aston
ishing feat was accomplished not long
ago in England, the work occupying
less than ten hours from the driving
OF the first rivet TO the application Of
the final coat Of varnish. The start
was made at o clock in the morn
ing, and eleven minutes afterward
the first rivet was put into the
frames. The cylinders were set and
fixed in one hour and seventeen min
utes. Four hours and seventeen
minutes from the start, the boiler
was in place, and an hour and
twenty minutes later the engine was
wheeled. The wheels were supplied
as they left the shops and the eccen-
trio sheaves had TO be fixed, and the
axle boxes, connecting rod and coup
ling rod brasses fitted by the erect
tors. Sight hours and twenty-five