The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-06-09
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
ovssr Fsets and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth 10 Stranger
Than Fiction.

Than Fiction.
A RATHER perplexing trick of pho
Biography recently worked out by +.
A. Gilmore, of Auburn, Z. l., is ex-
planned as follows: The trick is that
OF taking what appears to be the
head OF living person on platter
forming part Of the furnishing OF
dining-room table. Although the
way in which the work is done is very
simple. pictures made in this manner
have been extremely puzzling and are
OF especial interest to amateur photog-
raphers, as they suggest other meth
DDS Of producing novel effects. In
this case centre leaf was removed
from an ordinary extension table,
the lady to be photographed then
being seated so that her head ap-
peared just above the table top, on
which the cloth and other articles
were arranged as nearly as possible
in the usual way, as shown in one of
the views, the table being built up
in place of the removed leaf suffi-
ciently to support the cloth and other
articles. To make the illusion COM
plete, pan cut away so that it may
be conveniently placed around the
neck, has the appearance in the pho
tograph of being an ordinary platter
bearing the head Of a living person.
II NEVER took any stock in
dreams" said j. l.. Santer of Lex
ington, Mo-, but from recent ex-
periences l am inclined to believe
that there is something in the my
steries of sleep after all. About two
months ago my wife informed me
that she had dreamed of a marriage
and that it was sure sign of death.
Two days afterwards my grandfather
was killed by train at Omaha.
Following this up, my better half
warned me to look after my financial
interests, as she dreamed | was being
treated for Mysteries. To dream that
/ was being treated for anything she
informed me, was q never-failing
sign that | would suffer financial
loss. In less than a week came the
Sedalia Bank calamity, and | am out
$4,000. Just before / left home
accidentally broke a looking-glass.
Now / am told that | will have seven
years Of trouble. 1t has not materi-
allied, but | expect to receive tele-
gram before morning informing me
that my boy has been drowned in
the river, my house has been de-
stroyed by fire, or that something
else equally as horrible has oc-
Cured"
"THE hardest thing to train wild
beast to do is to perform with a weak,
defenceless animal remarked A. l..
Hutchins, an old circus and men
agerie hand, who has deserted the
arena and ring for mercantile pur-
suits. Il remember once several
years ago an effort being made to
persuade a very docile lion to lie
down with lamb. The idea was
certainly a good one, but it took
several lambs and also several weeks
before the lion, which was willing to
jump through burning hoop, sham
death on being shot, ETC., could be
persuaded so allow a lamb to enter
his den with impunity. Twice he
killed lamb in the presence of his
trainer, and the second time he near
ly killed the trainer, who rather reck-
lessly tried to get away the carcass.
Finally the lion would tolerate a
lamb in it's den just as long as the
keeper stood over it with an iron bar.
But the effort was so evidently forced,
and the performance was so utterly
lacking in smoothness and interest,
that it was abandoned after two or
three attempts"
In company with skinny" cele-
brated pickpocket and housebreaker,
Professor +. Starr, of the University
of Chicago, has left Chicago for
southern California and Old Mexico
Professor Starr is specialist in an
thropology and criminology. He be-
leves that the criminal is as much
different from the law-abiding citizen
as the savage is from the civilized
man. So he has chosen a crook for
companion, in order to have a good
opportunity of studying him and try
ing the effect of different environ
ment. In southern California the
professor will make study Of the
Penitent sect that practise cruelty on
one of their number every Good FRI
day. He will be joined there by Pro-
fessor Harley, and together with their
companion will explore the ruins of
Sonora, the ancient city of the old
Mexicans. There is considerable
speculation in Chicago as to the out
come of the professors experiment
with skinny" The police are al
most unanimous in the belief that the
professor will get the worst of the
bargain.
THE latest Methuseleh story comes
from England. This time it is not
from a man who has distinct recol-
lection of Napoleon's grandfather, or
an old, old lady who witnessed the
execution of Charles the First or
nursed the infant Cromwell nor yet
does this story tell of devoted coa-