The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-27
years her senior. her husband being

mer partner. For three days these
two desperate young criminals stood
t~earfully hand in hand in the dock
while their respective parents were
being charged with abetting the Of
fence. Ii is pleasant to be able TO
record that the jury at length re-
turned a verdict OF not guilty, and
the youngsters went cheerily home
again with the smallest possible con-
ception OF what all the bother was
about.
JACOB STULLENGER, who lives near
Piedmont. W. Va, lost a good many
chickens last November, owing 10 a
big owls fondness for poultry. He
set a steel fox trap in the top OF a
cherry tree, fastening il with wire, TO
catch the owl. One night the trap
disappeared, and after that the chick
ems were not molested. S%tullinger
supposed the owl would starve to
death with the trap on his legs, but
he vas mistaken, for on the 9th of
January the owl was caught again,
twenty miles from Piedmont, this
time by Ebenezer kitzmiller. Ebene-
ger had been annoyed by an owl since
Christmas, and set Il trap for the
bird near his chicken house. The
owl got caught and found two traps
too much baggage TO carry away. 1t
had II on each leg.
A QUEER story comes, with first
class recommendation, all the way
from England. Thirty-three years
ago, in 1860, a member OF the Chaplin
family died at Blankney, Lincoln
shire and was laid in the family
tomb. This particular Chaplin was
a naturalist, and, among his other
pets, had a large, gray bat. That bat
was permitted to enter the tomb and
was sealed up alive along with the
corpse of his dead master. In 1866
the vault was opened, and to the sur
prise of all, the bat was alive and fat.
On four different occasions since the
Chaplins have looked after the well
fare of their dead relatives pet, and
each time it has been reported that
the bat was still in the land of the
living, although occupying quarters
with the dead. He was last seen in
1892.
ELLSWORTH De FRANCE has been
sentenced for life TO the United States
Prison at Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
He robbed n wheelbarrow containing
United States mail at Gordon, Neb.,
in October and secured only one cent
for his trouble. There is no other
penalty under the law. In sentence
ing him to life Imprisonment at SiouN
Falls Judge Dundy expressed his sor-
row that such was the law, and he said
he thought the penalty was too severe.
The Judge said that he thought five
years would be sufficient, and added
self and promise to hereafter lead an
upright life, at the expiration Of n
certain period Of years he would
willingly be one to sign n petition for
his pardon.
THERE used TO be a SOW in England
which would point partridges,
black game, ~pheasants, rabbits and
snipe far better than the majority OF
trained dogs. For some occult rea-
son, however, she would never stand
II hare. She had been often known
to stand a partridge at forty yards.
She would back the dogs in the field.
though the latter, from jealousy, per-
haps, and n feeling that they were
suffering an indignity by being
worked in porcine company, would
never back her. Her last owner was
a Colonel Sykes, and after she became
and sluggish, though she would
point game as well as before, she was
weighing at her death 200
pounds.
A MAN who died recently i'm Berlin. !
Rensselaer, county, NY, at the age Of
70, left a record which he began when
ne was Is years old and continued for
ifty-two years. The book, filled with
nethodical entries, shows that in
.hese fifty-two years the man had
smoked CPS, rs cigars, Of which he
lad received 43, G29 as presents, while
or the remaining $50, 0S6 he paid
lbout $40, 433. In fifty-two years.
according to his bookkeeping, he had
Trunk %, 7S6 glasses Of beer and
6,OSl glasses Of spirits, for all OF
which he spent $3.50. The diary
loses with these words: Il have
ried all things; ] have seen
many; | have accomplished no.
WIG making. says the New York
is "a trade that occupies many
in the downtown Hebrew
.uarter, because thousands Of central
european Hebrews i'm that region re-
.uire their women upon marrying to
Iide their natural hair behind wigs.
'hese wigs are usually dark reddish
,rown in color, and they form a most
.nattractive style OF head-dress. The
My wig-makers i'm town whose
andiwork is always beautiful are
hose that make dolls wigs. These
re almost invariably flowing blond
urls bpcausp the taste for brunette .