The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-04-21
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth 10 Stranger
Than Fiction.

WHILE in Louisville n few days ago,
said Gerald Hastings, traveller for
Cincinnati jewelry house, to st.
Louis Globe-Democrat reporter, |
found one OF my customers in great
stew over the loss Of couple of valu-
able diamonds. which, however, he
recovered the next day under peculiar
circumstances. The stones had been
laid on his desk in an envelope with
the end torn off. A commercial ira
weller had come in and laid his sam
Piles out on the desk. When he was
gone and the porter had cleaned up
the office the diamonds were missed.
They must have been knocked on to
the floor. The travelling man was
above suspicion. The porter was
called. He had swept the office and
emptied the contents into the dirt
Bin. A rush was made for the bin.
The street cleaning wagon had taken
away the dirt. Then there was rush
to the dump. Ii was growing dark.
The spot about where the last eight
or ten loads were dumped was mark
ed and watchman put TO guard the
place. Next day twenty loads of this
dirt was carted back TO the alley in
the rear OF the merchants home and
ten men with sleeves put to work to
search the refuse. The merchant
stood anxiously by. Load after load
was examined without result, and
there was actually but one sieve full
left to search when in it the envelope,
dirty and bedraggled, was found, and
in it the precious sparklers. The
men were literally rewarded.
AT the Bicetre Hospital, in Paris,
says the London Daily News, the
well-known surgeon, NJ. Landry, has
performed IA curious operation on n
workman of Belgian nationality. The
Belgian, it appears, got drunk II
short time ago, and was taken to the
police station at Gentilly when In n
state Of utter helplessness. While he
was in the cells another drunkard, a
mechanical engineer named Machant,
was brought in i'm state bordering
on delirium tremens. Machant was
i'm IA terribly excited state, and he at
tackled his fellow-prsoner with ex-
traordinary ferocity, striking him
and, horrible to relate, biting of both
his ears. When he came to himself
Machant became very penitent, and
asked to be taken to the bedside of
his victim, who was now I'm the Bice-
ire Hospital, in order to ask his for
giveness. DR.. Landry, who was
there, said: should you like to
give him back his ears?" Certain
ly," said the man. Then" said the
doctor, "let me cut couple OF small
slips of flesh from your arm, and it
can be done" The man consented
and the doctor did M he had suggest
ed. The pieces OF flesh he shaped as
well as he could to the likeness Of n
pair OF ears, and joined them to the
wounded places. According to the
latest accounts the operation has
been complete success.
JOIN d. FOWLER is credited with
being one Of the most truthful men
in Sullivan County, New York, de-
spite the fact that he is chronic
fisherman. He caught turtle one
day that weighed 200 pounds and he
carried it to his woodshed, where he
tied it for the night. The creature
was strong enough TO break away and
in the morning was nowhere TO be
found A few days later while fish
ing John caught this big turtle again
This time John got his catch well in
hand, and, profiting by his former
I lesson, decided not TO trust him TO the
woodshed. 1t was taken to the barn
and there John secured it TO post Of
the structure with an OK chain.
"There, you old critter," said he,
"Ive got you for keeps this time. II
you get away you'll have to take the
barn with you" And John went to
bed and dreamed OF the neat little
sum that would come to him through
the sale OF the snapper. He was up
early the next morning and went at
once to the barn. He did't have TO
open the door in entering. He just
walked in through the gap left by the
displacement OF the whole side OF the
structure. The snapper had pulled
down the east end Of the barn and
made off with the heavy iron chain.
OSE OF the most wonderful produc-
tions OF the vegetable kingdom is the
snake nut" OF British Guiana. 1t
is found growing in great profusion
in that countryand specimens Of il can
occasionally be purchased through the
regular curiosity dealers Of our large
cities. Up TO within the past dozen
years this vegetable oddity was
scarcely known TO the botanists OF
this country and Europe, the first
specimens Of il seen in America be-
ing some sent 10 Professor Ward
about twenty years ago, but they
were not generally found in the cab
inets Of curiosity hunters until some
years later. These wonderful nuts
vary in size, some being as large "a "A
big apple; others about the size of an
average walnut. The shape Of the
shell or outside portion OF the nut
gives no hint Of what the kernel IL