The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-02-24
10000 cattle were run out Of the
country. Smith left from IS. 900

his heirs have never attempted to
settle the accounts of the deceased
cattleman.
A SPECIMEN OF huge vegetable growth
resembling a mammoth r~utabaga was
ON exhibition in Tacoma. Wash. The
curiosity is Of undoubtedly vegetable
nature and il shaped like Il turnip.
roots and all. lt,was found on the
beach near the water on McNeils Is
land by Robert Longmire, one Of the
penitentiary guards. An express wagon
had TO be secured TO bring il 10 town
from the wharf. The curious find is
two feet ten inches long from the top
to the end OF the roots, which appear
TO be broken of close to the body Of
the object. The circumference
around the turing" is four feet
three inches, while the major circum-
ference is six feet six inches. The
diameter is eighteen inches and the
weight is fully 100 pounds, The flesh
of the "turnip' cuts easily with a
knife and resembles exactly II ruta-
baga. The taste is slightly bitter,
probly caused by salt water.
WYNN MoLEsFoRrH has invented
and constructed Il very Ingenious
celestial clock which was exhibit
ed ut the first Winter meeting OF the
Royal Astronomical Society, says
London Truth. The entire face of
the clock rotates under a wire bar
representing the equatorial horizon
and is regulated TO perform one revo-
luton in 23 hours IS minutes 4 sec
onds, this being the time in which
the earth turns once upon its axis.
The apparent annual motion OF sun,
moon and planets in the opposite di-
rection is effected by movable pins,
while the north and south polar stars,
that do not rise or set for us, revolve
simultaneously with the rest by n
separate movement. Thus may be
seen the entire heavens, with sun,
moon, planets and consultations In
their actual places, ever rising and
setting as they rise and set in the
heavens.
WILLIAM A. ASHLEY, Of Long Plain,
near New Bedford, Mass, had IA thrill
ing experience with an eagle re-
Gently. He had just returned from
meeting when he started out to
look at some Of his trees. He had
scarcely gone twenty yards when
his dog, which was with him, started
i'm pursuit Of something on the other
side OF a wire fence inclosing a pear
orchard. Mr.. Ashley jumped over
the fence and to his surprise saw n
large eagle. The dog barked i%iercely
and as Mr.. Ashley approached the
eagle spread its wings and attempted
TO fly. But Mr.. Ashley was too quick
for the bird and caught il by the neck
and~wings. He used no weapon, for
he had none, and received no injury
save Il slight scratch. The eagle is
II large one, the wings measuring eight
feet seven and Il half inches from tip
to tip.
THE London Telegraph tells a mar
velous story from Vienna about n
lady forty-two years old and suffering
from IA peculiar form of asthma,
which ten months treatment has
been powerless to cure. Her story
is that she constantly hears music
from her heart, and is so maddencd
by the ceaseless tones that she has
TO keep her ears filled with wadding,
like Ulysses during the sirens song.
The medical experts who have had
the case under consideration confirm
the statement Of the lady-a contin-
uous noise composed OF musical tones
in a high pitch was TO be heard dur
ing the medical diagnosis, which
runs: Diastolic musical heart"
The lady has az strong a dislike to in
ternal music as TO asthma, and unless
speedily cured, she AYERS, it will drive
her mad.
SABLE ISLAND, whence u carrier
pigeon recently brought news Of the
wreck Of the schooner Robert j. Ed
ward, is famous throughout the Can
adam maritime provinces for its race
Of wild ponies. The little creatures
were originally placed upon the island
in order that they might furnish food
for shipwrecked mariners frequently
cast away there. The coarse salt grass
OF the island is cured and stacked in,
summer time, and upon this the
ponies feed all winter. 1t is said that
they eat their way deep into the
stacks and thus find their only
shelter from storms. There is a ira
dition current that they eve eat fish
cast upon the shore. Considerable
droves Of the ponies are taken to the
mainland in early autumn, and they
are sold in the Halifax market.
THiRTY-sEvEN years ago Clarence
Morton sold out his farm in Berlin,
VT. and went 20 California TO dig for
gold. Failing there he went TO Ari-
IONA, and for thirty years nothing
was heard from him by his wife, who
had remained behind i'm the Vermont
town until he should save enough 10
send for her. Twelve years ago, be
.lieving him dead, she remarked. A
month ago her second husband died.