The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-08-11
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
INTERESTING NOTES AND MAT
TERS OF MOMENT.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth is Stranger
Than Fiction.

lTAtN Win ldlE suCCtsS bN poNnunN-
ing fisherman in the Potomac River
near Washington,
THE children'born in Gibraltar rest
under the belief (until they reach
n reasoning age that the sun sets
every night with bang. This is be-
cause they have become accustomed
10 hearing the sunset gun.
IL Paris the bones OF the dead
have been removed year after year
from the cemeteries to the cata-
combs, until the number OF skele-
tons assembled, more or less COM
plete, amounts 10 5000, 600.
THERE are numerous cases on rec
ord OF spontaneous combustion Of
the human body. In all such cases
the victims have been such slaves 10
the liquor habit that their systems
have become permeat"d with alcohol.
A CURIOUS feature OF the various
cholera epidemics which swept over
Europe is the fact that in every one
the mortality at Rome and Madrid
was greatest on Sundays, at London
and Berlin on Wednesdays, and at
Paris on SATURDAYS.
THOMAS FLANAGAN, OF Elwood,
Ind, has in his possession n full
grown rooster that is freak OF ma
ture. 1t has two sets OF legs and
feet fully developed, and while two
only are used in walking, the others
go through all the movements incl
dent thereto. They are situated be-
hind the others and at the knee
joints bend in the opposite direction.
THE man who first remarked that
"love will find way" must have
had prophetic knowledge Of the
case Of Private George Walker and
Miss Julia Coleman. lie was put on
guard duty on the Panhandle tracks
when the hour set for his marriage
approached, and, as he could not
procure n furlough, he sent for Miss
Coleman and minister, and the
wedding took place on the railroad
where he was doing duty.
THE oldest OF all bird $ nests is
the one built by the tontobane, II
South African songster. 1t is built
Of cotton, and always upon the tree
producing the material. In con-
structing the domicile the female
works inside and the male outside,
where he builds sentinel box for his
own special use. He sits in the box
and keeps watch or sings nearly all
the time, and when danger comes in
the form OF n hawk or snake he
warns the family, but never enters
the main nest.
Az electrical storm in st. Louis
recently deprived many aquariums,
both in residences and show windows,
OF their silver and gold fish. Thun-
der and lightning is judged by old
fishermen and proprietors OF animal
stores to be the cause OF the death Of
the fish, which are found floating on
their backs for several mornings
after an electric storm. A st. Louis
electrician gives it as his opinion
that the conclusion Of the thunder
breaks the air chambers which by
compression cause the fish to sink
and by expansion to rise TO the sur
face.
SOME remarkable instances Of alb
sence Of mind in great men are to be
found in collections Of ana. A
Dutchman seems to have surpassed
anything Of the kind yet perpetrated.
He is a widower, and he presented
himself day or two ago at the Reg
ister's in little village near Amster-
dam TO give notice OF hIs intended
marriage. On being asked the name
OF the bride, however, he declared
that he could not remember il, and
he had to be sent away in order that
he might get the desired informa-
tion.
THAT Of the sea otter is Of all furs
the most valuable, as high as 81, 100
having been paid for u single skin.
At the latest London fur sale ~ go
was paid, the lower price being due
to poorer quality, a. tho average
advance in price this year has been
about 10 per cent. This seems an
eAITeHlely ldTbe sum 10 phy IOT IL
skin not more than two yards long
by three-quarters Of a yard wide.
Russians, however, consider that
$3.50 Is not an extraordinary prize TO
pay for piece sufficiently large 10
make a coat collar for which the
skin Of the sea otter is used, "a IL is
supposed TO have the property OF pre-
venting the breath from freezing.
Two living German princes have
distinguished themselves by becom
ing practicing physicians--Duke Karl
Theodor, Of the royal house Of Ba-
varia, having completed course Of
study, has made a specially Of eye
diseases as they occur among the
poor, and in April, 1893, successfully
performed his two thousandth opera
tion for cataract. Prince Louis Ferdi-
nand, his cousin besides being en-
gagged in practice, works in the labor
atory, and has recently made the
etiology and pathology Of pleurisy OBJ
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