The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-08-18
other day while General Count Mus

sin-Puschkin, Commander-in-Chi Of
the Southern Province of Russia, was
reviewing the troops at Nicelaief.
There was park of forty guns on
the field. and their simultaneous dis
charge startled the Generals charger,
which bolted at terrific speed to-
ward the railway just as train was
approaching. An aide-de-camp vainly
endeavored 10 overtake the animal.
when Lieutenant Daniloff, mounted
military officer placed himself di-
rectly across the Path of the runa-
way. The impact was terrific. Both
men and horses were bowled over in
a scrambling heap, and for a minute
or two were hidden in cloud OF
dust. Fortunately, both the Com
mander-in-Chief and the lieutenant
escaped with some severe contusions,
the former having one OF his ankles
sprained.
THE Savannah (Ga. News tells this
remarkable story: Near Idlewild
Park, Thursday, while John j. Bur-
rus, farmer, was engaged in pre-
pairing ground for sweet potatoes, he
discovered chicken snake about five
feet long, which he killed. Noticing
that il was of unusual size in proper
tion TO its length, he cut il in two TO
make n post-mortem examination,
and found that the stomach con-
tanned two large-sized opal glass
eggs. Mr.. Burrus says that when a
boy he was visiting n cooper who
lived near Tallahassee by the name OF
Wells Hamlin. and while there,
setting hen had been driven from
her nest by large chicken snake.
The snake was soon after killed,
opened in his presence, and eighteen
eggs taken from its body. He fur
thermore said that the eggs were put
back under the faithful old hen, and
that every egg Matched out a lively
young chicken.
IT is dangerous to crafty curiosity
or violate precedent at the Chinese
Imperial Court. The Empress Dow
ager is great stickler for etiquette.
Recently she required the services of
DIR. Ii Te-chang, Nice-President OF
the Imperial Academy OF Physicians
at Peking, for one of the members OF
her suite at Eho Park Palace. The
learned doctor had never been inside
these famous palace grounds, and his
curiosity was fred to see the many
curious objects of which he had heard
wonderful tales. So he bribed a eu-
much to show him around the grounds.
While the two were leisurely walking
| oil nd hnt SalN M
Empress spied them. She at once
despatched servants to punish their
effrontery. The eunuch was seized,
thrown on his face, and accommo-
dated with fifty blows Of the bamboo
on the calves Of his fat legs. The doc
tor was docked three months pay
and received a severe reprimand,
while his assistant was ordered never
to venture again into the Empress $
presence. The affair created sensa-
ton, because of the high position Of
the physician and of the humiliating
punishment dealt out to him.
THE most striking cases Of lapsed
memory are to be found in persons
who have had n severe illness, or are
temporarily diseased mentally. The
more common form Of the malady,
too, is the forgetting of every Incl
dent Of the past save one, on which
the morbid mind never ceases to
harp. A very pathetic case OF the
kind is recorded in Beck's Medical
Jurisprudence" 1t is that OF n
young clergyman who was acciden-
tally shot in the forehead just two
days before his marriage was to have
taken place. For long time his life
was despaired Of. He recovered, but
his mental faculties had become inn
paired. He remembered nothing but
the idea OF the approaching marriage.
Everything was absorbed in that one
recollection; his whole conversation
related to the preparation for the
event. He would never speak on any
other subject; il was always within
two days OF his wedding. Years
went on, youth passed away, and
still in a couple OF days more his
marriage would take place. In this
condition the unfortunate man reach
ed his eightieth year, and no doubt
sank into the grave with the one life
long idea as the last thought OF his
mind.
A REAL infant phenomenon keeps
all the medical men and pedagogues
Of the good old town Of Brunswick,
Germany, in state Of wonder and
delight. The little son OF local
butcher a baby Just two years old,
can read with perfect ease anything
written or printed in German or Lat
in characters. A few weeks ago three
Brunswick doctors had the baby in
troduced to them at the house Of one
Of the learned gentlemen. The first
thing the little one did when
brought into the consulting
room was TO stand on his toes at
the table, reading out from the books
that were lying about. All that could
be ascertained as to the why and
wherefore OF this uncanny accom-