The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-20

was placed in a wagon, and as
was entirely too large 70 get through
the door of any passenger car she
was taken through the sliding doors
of the baggage ear and rode there
i'm her own armchair. She was "A kind,
amiable and good woman The coffin
in which she was buried could not be
got into the body of a big two-horse
farm wagon.
A. T. 5. JENKINS, of Alabama, told
Il st. Louis reporter the other day
that in his State, at Stevenson, there
is a colored man who makes a living
by catching snakes, Said the relator
He is frequently seen at the depot
with a snake wrapped around his neck
and a number OF others sticking their
heads from his pockets. There are no
very large snakes in that section, hence
his pay is small but he obtains enough
TO live on by supplying small shows or
curiosity-seekers by selling the rep
tiles either alive or stuffed. He spends
his entire time in the woods and along
the streams, except when he comes to
town to try to sell his product. The
reptiles are not afraid OF him, and he
seems to know intuitively where they
have their holes. II makes no differ
ence as TO what species they belong,
this colored mar has control over
them, and can pull them out of their
holes and handle them at will. 1t il
estimated that he has caught POO rat
tlesnakes alone, and has never yet
been bitten,
near Little %Equinunk, Pa, he dis
covered something lying alongside Of
an old log on the dry leaves which he
took To be IA wildcat. Only its hind
parts were visible, and cautiously APP
preaching he poured one barrel of his
gun into what protruded. The OBJ
iect aimed at proved TO be an inn
mense catamount, and thus rudely
awakened it fairly tore around with
rage. Mr.. Quick's hound ran up and
tackled the wounded monster, but
with one sweep of its powerful fore
arm and sharp claws il laid the dog
prone on the ground badly wounded.
By this time Amos had gotten within
good range, and the contents of the
other barrel finished the old fellow.
He proved to be the finest specimen
of the catamount family seer i'm this
section i'm years, and was Il most for
misunderstanding animal, being about
double the size Of the ordinary Wild
cat.
FREDERICK SToYA, an engineer in
Burlington, y. j., who claims TO have
served rs "A surgeon in the Franco
Prussian war, has succeeded in grow
ing chicken nails on the stumps Of
two of his fingers. Last November
Stoya mashed two fingers Of his right
hand, necessitating amputation at
the first Joint. About two weeks
later, after the fingers had began TO
heal nicely. Stoya conceived the
idea of grating nails on the stumps
and he Sc lected and killed a healthy
young chicken. While the body was
yet palpitating he removed two of
the chickens nails. Then, carefully
lifting the skin of the wounded fingers,
he inserted the chicken nails and
awaited developments. The nails
have now become thoroughly set and
serve to protect the ends of the
wounded fingers.
SALVADOR PECAN. under sentence
Of death at Tacoma, Wash, for whose
hanging n scaffold had twice been
erected, was pardoned by the Supreme
Court. Twice convicted Of the muir
der of his uncle, he averred that the
deed was committed by the Malta,
and declared that he would rather be
hanged than released because Of the
murderous brotherhood. At one time,
when the prisoners hanging was inn
minent, the Sheriff issued IA number
of elaborate invitations to his execu-
ton, on black cards with gilt script
lettering. and a picture Of Pecani in
the upper left-hand corner. Pccani
was glad to get out OF peril of hang
ing, despite his fears Of the Malta.
A lost singular occurrence hap
pened in a recent fox hunt in Grafton
County, \. II. A fox was started,
and after a lively chase reynard being
closely pressed, ran into a cleft in
some rocks. 4 foXhound was imme-
diately after the fox and entered the
fissure at his heels with such velocity
that he stuck fast in "A narrow space.
Seeing the dog could not release him
self the fox turned and went out where
he came in. squeezing over pr under
the dog i'm some way. The dog was
wedged so tightly in the narrow
space that the hunters were unable
to release him for "A day or two.
4 MoTHERLY old hen c~lucking and
fussing about a warehouse and wagon
corral.in Lordsburg. Y. W., defended
her chickens against "A big. hungry
rat so successfully that. after a battle
royal, she left him disabled on the
field at the end Of the second round.
So vindictively had she punished her
enemy that "A spectator killed him a.