The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-21

cases in which perfect memory has
been regalned after being impaired
almost to the verge OF extinction by
paralytic shocks are rare. This. how
ever, has happened to William Nc
ENtee, an old man Of eighty-four,
residing on North Twenty-eighth
street, Philadelphia. During the re-
cent storm he insisted upon taking
his daily walk. and In consequence
was laid up with severe cold. While
sitting in his armchair after his re-
covery, day or two since, he found
himself humming an air which he
had not heard since he was a boy in
the Emerald Isle. Then he began to
tell story which the old song re-
called and, to the amazement Of his
family, he went on to recite incidents
and events not only OF long ago, but
OF more recent dates, OF which be-
fore his brief illness he had no recol-
lection.
ACCORDING to an official report at
the last term Of the Wake county On.
c. Superior Court at Raleigh, n case
was heard i'm which it was shown
that little half-grown bull was on
railway track. He answered the
warning whistle Of an approaching
train with below OF defiance
and toss Of gravel over his shoulder.
A tramp who happened to be close
behind him stepped of the track and
waited to see the fun. The engine
struck the little bull fairly, doubled
him up like ball and sent him twenty
five feet through the air IN il shot
from IA catapult. The bull made a
line shot and knocked the tramp into
little pond near the road. When
the engineer backed thetrain to tax @
stock OF the damage done, the tramp
was crawling out Of his involuntary
bath on hands and knees. Under
advice Of counsel learned in the law,
an action was brought against the
railway corporation for the personal
injuries and indignity inflicted. On
the trial to the surprise and disgust
OF the plaintiff the verdict went
against him. To sympathizing by
stander he remarked that he had
been "bowled over into Il goose pond
by little doity piney woods bull,
and that u dozen jackasses had
kicked him out Of the court house"
DURING the panic OF last summer
almost no money was sent into the
Treasury for redemption. People were
hiding away and saving whatever
they had OF late good deal OF the
old fractional currency has been re-
ceived. Only the other day n lot Of
it arrived which has been found by
workmen i'm tearing down Il dwelling
ut Beaver Falls, Penn. Though
partly rotted, enough Of the pieces
were put together to credit the re-
mitter with SJ2. A good deal Of
money is lost in that way. Persons
secrete big wads in the walls Of houses
and then die.
FARMER JAMES NJ. CoNNERs, who
has all his life voted and paid taxes in
Delaware, now finds himself accord
ing to the new boundary survey, n
resident Of Pennsylvania, says the
Law Journal. His property was as
sessed last autumn by the Delaware
authorities and the taxes are now
due, but Of course Conners will not
pay taxes in Delaware on property
situated in Pennsylvania. lie will
not pay in Pennsylvania because he
has not been assessed by the author
tiles Of that State. He will be dis
franchised for three years by the
change Of boundary. He cannot vote
in Delaware because he does not live
there, and he will not be able to vote
in Pennsylvania on local issues, be-
cause to do SO he must have paid
State and county taxes for two years
before he can thus vote. The change
Of boundary has wrought havoc with
Conner's insurance in mutual in
surance company, to which he has
long contributed for by its charter it
cannot take risks outside the bound
aries Of Delaware.
A NEW YORK special to the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger says: In the
interests OF medical science an un-
usual use of the unclaimed bodies in
the city morgue has been made by a
member Of the anatomical committee
of Bellevue Hospital. The expert
ments have not been concluded. For
the purpose Of determining, in the
interests of medical science, the
effect Of wounds in the brain when
produced by firearms of different
calber as we'll as to demonstrate
the result Of shots fired into the
brain at the different distances, to-
gether with the outward appearance
of wounds produced under such cir
cumstances, DIR. Charles Phelps has
been making these experiments. DIR.
Phelps is an authority on gunshot
wounds, and also one of the city's
police surgeons. He became partic-
ularly desirous OF ascertaining the
appearance Of such wounds after the
mysterious shooting Of Miss Fuller, a
typewriter in lawyers office in
Nassau street, on the evening Of
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