The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-03-03
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth is Stranger
than Fiction.

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THE following wonderful discovery
and thrilling adventure is told by the
Maysville (Ky.) Public Ledger, and
as Joe Mulhatton is not known TO be
in that section it is copied for what
il j. worth: "A medium-siZed but
extraordinary cave was discovered
near S~herburne, in Fleming County,
by two boys in a very peculiar man.
ner, and with an experience that the
boys do not soon want to pass
through again. They were u hunt
ing, and chasing a rabbit into a small
hole in the ground they proceeded 10
dig il out. After laboring in vain for
a long time they gave it up and start
ed away. They had not gone far
when the earth began to sink behind
them, and, with a roar, a large por-
ton went down as though the bottom
had fallen out, leaving an aperture
in the surface about the size of a
hogshead. The boys made known
what they had seen, and a party was
gotten together and an exploration
made. Joe Black, one of the party,
was let down on a rope, and after de-
scending sixty-fve feet, stood on the
bottom. Four spacious rooms were
discovered, the largest forty by twen-
ty-eight feet, and many formations
and small apertures. In one corner
OF the largest room was an opening
into a lower apartment, into which a
line was dropped thirty feet, but
which was not explored. 1t is sup
posed that this apartment is much
larger than the first, and preparation
is being made to make a full and
complete search Of the cave. One OF
the ~strangest peculiarities is the
deafening noise from rushing water
in the bowels of the earth.
A LINE or two from Mrs. Archibald
Dunn's new book gives a striking
picture of the horrors OF life in Can
ton: The circumference Of the city
walls measures from six to seven
miles, and within their enclosure
there exist 800, coo Chinese people.
| had been in many Oriental cities
and had smelt many Oriental smells,
but those OF Canton says Mrs.
Dunn. were giants to them all. The
pasSage-like streets are open sewers,
every description OF refuse being cast
into them and forming continuous
heaps on either side of the way. The
water supply is raised from wells in
the streets, the mouths of which are
on a level with the ground and a
shower of rain, or drippings from the
buckets i'm which they lift it, must
carry back the surrounding filth in a
way horrible to think of. Through
miles and miles of these high, narrow
alleys did we travel, { rough the
most fetid, airless atmosphere that
human lungs could cope with,
through the most evil and noisome
odors that could assail human nos
trils, past the most loathsome sights
in the shape Of abnormal butcher
meat-such as dogs and cats, skinned
and dressed ready for cooking; rats,
both dried and hanging alive by the
tails; frogs and unnatural-looking
fish in tubs of water, alive, and await
ing death and consumption"
AMONG her other celebrities Toccoa,
Ga, can boast of a young man who
is q sleeper from the word "go," says
the News OF that town. Evidently
he is a descendant Of one or more Of
the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. He
sleeps in u store, and one morning
two or three weeks ago, when his
eyelids became unglued, he was sur
prised to find n plank that had been
standing in front Of the fireplace
lying splintered on the floor, while a
brickbat was close beside his bed.
He supposed that the wind blew of
the chimney a brick which tumbled
down while he slept. The other day
he assembled to the roof of the store,
and discovered that the top of the
chimney was badly damaged. 1t had
been struck by lightning, evidently,
the night on which the brick had
fallen into his room. During the
tremendous thunder clap that must
have accompanied the lightning, and
the subsequent noise made by the
brick when it split the plank in his
room and rolled near his bed, this
young man s%lumbered sweetly. If
the state OF any ones conscience has
anything to do with ones sleep, as is
commonly believed, what a wonder
fully clear conscience this clerk must
have,
A MISER Of AuXerre, named Fleu-
telot, has just died, a Paris CORE
spondent says, leaving behind him a
fortune computed in ready money
and debentures at ZAP 600, besides his
house and an estate Of 200 hectares,
with farmhouses and a chateau. No
body in the town where he had lived
for nearly sixty years knew Of his
real estates. one Of which and a
chateau have lain idle all that time.
The woods look like a primeval forest.
This miser passed for being poor. He
used TO 90 about picking up cigar
ends. and chips and sticks to burn,
and died this winter Of cold and hun
ger at the age OF So. Fleutelot was