The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-13
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
lures which Show that Truth 10
Stranger Than Fiction.

lures which Show that Truth 10
Stranger Than Fiction.
A WRITER in a Vienna daily paper
gives a realistic picture OF the man
ner in which many persons living
along the banks of the Danube make
a living. He says that every year
hundreds Of corpses floating down
the river are pulled ashore and robbed,
after which they are thrown back in
TO the water. Year after year,
says the writer, hundreds Of l~ifeless
bodies-the mortal remains of sui
cides, victims of crime and victims
of accidents-rise to the surface Of
the Danube, are swept along with the
current and washed up on the land
on one bank or the other. Here they
are discovered by the 'hyenas' who
rifle the corpses, and then, as a rule,
kick them back on the waves, after
which no human being worries about
them more. Thousands of people
vanish from the scene in this man
ner, no one ever learning what fate
befel them. Blood-curdling crimes
remain undiscovered, and the uncer-
tainty whether a man is dead or will
return again to his family and friends
is often fraught with heavy losses to
the latter. No mound marks the
spot where these unfortunate people
rest they are struck out of the roll
call Of humanity; no trace reveals
the ourse Of their last long journey;
they have simply vanished from the
world like the lost wanderer in the
desert who is buried beneath enor-
nous sand waves, or like the fam
ished traveller in the wilderness whose
body becomes the food Of birds of
prey. And yet we are living in Eu-
rope"
THOMAS JENNINGS, of Pittsburg,
possesses a COW that discounts all the
billygoats in the city for a taste for
old rubbish, but she hasn't good
digestive organs. She is Il blooded
cow and has not been used to a diet
of umbrellas and old cans. But dur
ing a late storm, while hay was
scarce, she ate an umbrella. One
day she was taken i'll. 1t is supposed
that the umbrella opened after the
COW had swallowed it. At all events,
one side of the bovine became much
enlarged and the owner called in DIR.
Coleman, a veterinary surgeon, to
diagnose the case. This morning he
paid his patient a visit and found an
abscess in the right side of the ami
NAL, near the shoulder. He was con-
WINGED that something had entered
the abscess, and by the use Of his
pincers he succeeded in catching
hold Of and pulling out n Of the ribs
of the umbrella. 1t was t~wenty-four
inches in length, and attached to il
was the brace, eighteen inches in
length. Another examination fol-
lowed and another rib was taken out.
Again inserting his probe, the doctor
came upon a soft substance which he
felt certain was the lining of the lung
of the COW. He gave a pull, and was
rewarded in bringing out the cover of
an umbrella, % by "a inches. An
other rib was also secured. The ami
NAL is still living and will doubtless
recover, although the doctor is of the
opinion that there are still other ribs
under the skin.
THE strangest test of will power
and endurance ever made" said +.
ID. Gonsauls, Of the City of Mexico,
was in Mexico, the characters par
ticipating being a Mexican girl and
an American man. They were lovers,
and the girls parents refused their
consent to any union, insisting that
she should marry a wealthy Mexican
sutton. At the suggestion of the
girl they agreed to die together, and
to test the strength aud endurance of
each others love they chose a means
of suicide unlike any ever dreamed of
before. Food and fruit were
placed on a table in the centre Of a
room occupied by both, the girl hav-
ing escaped from herhome, but being
unwilling to elope with her lover. 1t
was agreed that they should starve to
death with plenty before them, and
should either succumb to nature and
partake of the food then both were
released from the bond of death, and
there should be an everlasting sepa-
ration. For twelve days they endured
the pangs of hunger without a
uuuIlluI VI a bhOuShb VI WafpiAhS
from their purpose to die together.
The twelfth day the father of the girl
discovered her whereabouts, and,
breaking the door, they were carried
out, too faint TO stand alone. 1t
took them several days to recover
their strength, and when they did
they were married. This is a true
statement. and the American is living
with his Mexican wife to-day"
A MOST remarkable case of theft
was in Whitfield County, Georgia.
A family living in the country left
their home for a few months visit.
When the family returned there was
no house, no barn, no stables and no
fences, while a large hole had been
dug where the house had formerly
stood. Suspicion pointed to a man