The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-03-17
served thanks. The angry Baron,

present time.
A VERY singular case is that Of
young man in Minneapolis named
Chandler. For years his mouth has
shown tendency TO grow up. Four
years ago il became 80 small il was
feared he would starve and fund
was raised by neighbors and he was
sent 10 Chicago, where the mouth
was cut To the natural size and
pieces of flesh grated into the cor
ners, thus hoping to prevent the
closing. This has been overcome
and his mouth is rapidly growing up
again, the opening nj present not
being larger than an ordinary goose
quill, through which he takes all his
nourishment. 1t is thought that he
must eventually starve 10 death, as
there seems no way of preventing the
complete closing of the mouth. Other
wise the young man seems healthy,
and is capable of doing considerable
work.
A SHAVE in Brooklyn caused n
great deal of trouble recently. Isaac
kobolouski had u splendid red beard,
of which he was very proud. He got
drunk and took n nap in the barber
chair of his friend Cohn, and when he
awoke his beard was gone. Cohn had
thought that il would be n good Joke
to shave ii off. kobolouski was very
mad. and he was still madder when
he went to see the maiden whom he
was to marry the next day, and she
declined to recognize him or keep her
engagement. He swore TO be avenged
on thee 4oking barber, and persuad ed
all his friends to boycott the shop.
This so seriously affected Cohn :
business that il almost broke him up,
and he took to drink to drown his
sorrows. Drink soon took him to
Jail, and there he is now, Il striking
warning to practical jokers.
SOME of Chicago's old detectives
have regulations as successful crimi-
nal chasers, but they do not seem to
be well up in physiognomy. A joker
pasted portraits OF w. ID. Howells, the
American novelist, and Archibald
Forbes, the English war correspond
ent, in a notebook, and went to the
Chicago police authorities to have
them identified. The almost unani-
nous opinion Of detectives, inspec-
tors and police magistrates was that,
although the faces were not shown in
the rogue gallery, they looked sus-
picious and were undoubtedly the
counterfeit presentments of profess
sional crooks. Lieutenant Collins,
for instance, sized up" Howells as
u burglar and Forbes as a confidence
man, and Justice Brodwell declared
that Mr.. Forbes had been before him
in court several times.
THE employees Of the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway at
Fort Wayne felt very comfortable on
Il recent Saturday when they were
paid off in nice, crisp, new bills is
sued by the Youngstown (Ohio) Ma
tional Bank. They felt differently,
however, Monday when they under
took to spend some of their nice, new
money. People to whom it was Of
fered, finding that the signature of
the cashier of the bank was missing
from the bills, refused to take them.
1t occasioned great deal OF trouble,
but it was remedied. 1t was just IA
careless mistake OF the bank cashier,
and as soon rs il was called to his at
tention he hastened to make arrange
ments to redeem the defective
money.
POULTRY has found new use in
Boston. In the police court the
principal evidence against a chicken
thief was furnished by hen. She
was tied so that she could not move,
placed in a darkened room, and COW
cred with blueing, while the suspec-
ted thief, with others, was directed
to go into the room and lay his hand
on the hen. 1t was expected by the
proposer Of this plan that the hen
would cackle when the thief touched
her. So, too, the thief evidently
believed, for after the ordeal all hands
were covered with blueing but his.
He was very much embarrassed at
his exposure, but soon confessed that
he had been the guilty party.
MRS. HARRIET CoNDIT, a colored
woman of State street. Hartford,
bought some herrings the other day,
and upon cleaning one Of them she
found imbedded parallel with the
backbone gold bar evidently belong
ing to lady's pin. 1t is set with
moonstone about one half-inch long
in the centre, and at each end large
pearl about the size around Of a lead
pencil. 1t was valued by "a local
jeweler at about $40.
THE wedding Of Colin =. Hardy
and Miss Eva Maud Byers at Canarsi,
y. Y, the other day was the result
of peculiar romance. Hardy had
twice saved the life Of Miss Byers
within the past year, and her hand in
marriage was his reward.
FRANK +. BREEN, who was to have
been arraigned in a New York court
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