The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-21
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
sEASONAeLE HINTS AND MAT
TERS OF MOMENT.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth 10 Stranger
a Than Eiotio0


= Than Fiction.
A LAW passed in the time OF King
Edward III, and still upon the Eng
lish statute books prohibits the serv-
ing of a dinner of more than two
courses to any one, except on holi-
days.
AFTER a great deal of patient per-
severence, Ambrose Bumm, OF
Warrahoo, Wyoming, has tanned and
trained a dozen potato bugs. They
perform variety of simple tricks,
such as button, button, who's got
the button, ring around rosy, pris-
oner's base, bunkadee, and so forth.
LONDON, Canada, has n curious
human freak He Is Henry Bess-
ware, aged forty. BY some peculiar
muscular contraction he can cause
his left eye TO pop out in most un-
pleasant manner. The organ looks
as though it were about TO carrom on
the end OF his nose.
A BOY in an Illinois town stood be-
fore a rural Justice charged with
cruelty TO animals in tying u string
to the leg of turtle. His lawyer
contended that the turtle was not an
animal, "but reptile Of the snake
species" The Court agreed with the
lawyer, and the defendant was dis
charged.
THE latest development in the milk
business In London is to drive the
COWS around the route and have them
MIXED in the presence OF the Gus
toners. The customer is t.us able
to Judge for himself OF the healthy
appearance Of the animal, and is sure
Of the freshness OF the milk. The
practice is common and ancient
one in Egypt.
A SCOTTISH correspondent writes
"a housewife at Langholm has been
victimized by thief who had no fear
Of the law. She had washed some
childrens collars and hung them out
to bleach on hedge surrounding her
garden. The wash suddenly G.sap-
peared and could not be found. A
few days ago the collars were discov-
cred; they formed part Of the found
ations OF the nest OF u thrush situated
i'm the cleft Of an ash tree close TO the
garden.
THIS snake story comes from Floyd
Springs, Ga. A large chicken snake
captured small chicken there u
month ago, and had swallowed its
right foot and leg when discovered by
the chicken y owner. The snake was
killed, but not before il had bitten of
the chickens leg. The owner believ-
ing it to be an unusually fine chicken,
made small wooden leg and fasten-
ed it on with a strap. The chicken
walked off very proudly, and paved
up the earth recklessly with its
hickory limb. Now it is almost fry
ing size and is still in good shape,
and will be exhibited at the Atlanta
Cotton States and International Ex-
position next year.
JAMES HARE, aged II years, was
found dead the other night on the
public road two miles west of Nor
gantown Pa. The death Of young
Hare Is the elimination OF one Of the
performed in Pennsylvania, Seven
years ago, while hunting with rifle,
the gun dropped from his hands and
the hammer struck on rock, dis
charging it and sending the bullet
through his right eye and out of the
top of his head. For the past seven
years he has kept his head bandaged,
and although at the time of the acci-
dent he lost considerable Of his
brains, he has been intelligent and
one of the brightest students in the
unive rsity. An inquest was not
deemed .ecessary by the Coroner, rs
his death was evidently the natural
result of the wound.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Nossische
Xeitung writes from Tunis that the
last executions of criminals by hang
ing were so slowly and clumsily ac-
complished as to afford terrible spoc-
tacles, and the Government Of the
Bey applied to England for model
of the apparatus there used. A
Tunis joiner, European, was in
structed with the making and carry
ing out Of IA practical gallows. He
succeeded in the attempt, but new
difficulty presented itself for no
Arab would consent to use the Euro
pean machine, aud its maker was re-
quested to find European who would
hang criminals for GO francs head
A man was found, but public opinion
was absolutely contrary to his under
taking the job Since the Arabs de-
clined to be hanged by foreigners the
new-fangled gallows has never been
put to use.
NATURE quotes a curious observa-
tion of Professor Havelock Charles,
from the Journal Of Anatomy and
Physiology, dealing with certain
characteristic markings upon the leg
and feet bones of the Punjabis, which
are never found in Europeans. In
the Punjabi the markings are defined
frop chillhool and ora racio1ly