The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-08-18
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
INTERESTING NOTES AND MAT.
TIERS OF MOMENT.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth 10 Stranger
Than Fiction.

A SCHOOL district in Grant county,
Kansas, contains only one family.
The father, mother and eldest son
have elected themselves trustees and
appointed the eldest daughter, at
S35 month, to teach the younger
children.
KENTUCKY calf, one day Old per-
formed the wonderful feat of jump
ing from a cliff 10 the river below, u
| distance of 500 feet, without rump-
ling hair. The calf was taken down
the river aad hauled home in a wagon
safe and sound.
The Indians of Guiana have a
curious enumeration. They count by
the hand and its four fingers. Thus,
when they reach five, instead of say
ing so, they call it hand. Six is,
/ therefore, hand and first finger,
and so on to twenty, which is called
man"
A FoUR-LEGGED chicken came into
the family of Dave Myler, of Johnson
City, Mo. As two of the legs were for
forward locomotion and the other two
always insisted on walking backward,
that unfortunate chicken found it
difficult to advance in the world and
gave up the effort in despair.
A CROW with one foot four inches
longer than the other was captured
and tanned by Abe Cartwright, a
trapper in Sullivan County, Penn.
Cartwright made crutch stilt for
the bird, which was at first strapped
TO its foot. This became unnecessary
as soon as the crow learned what
an assistance the crutch was rs
q means of defense as well as loco
motion.
ONE of the residents Of Cherry
street, Geneva, n. Y, is the owner
of dog that initiates the sound of
the Cereal company's steam whistle.
The whistle gives the musical scale,
and when sounded in the morning
and at noon the dog catches the notes
and repeats them with wonderful ac-
curacy. He. has mastered the rising
: scale, but is now practicing on the
falling scale which his owner expects
him to acquire.
SURGERY's discovery OF way to
obliterate facial blemishes has given
the detective forces a great deal of
difficulty in locating well-known
criminals. BY these operations the
whole character Of the facial express
sion is changed by a few deft jabs OF
a lancet The wounds heal in a very
short time, and in most cases can
never be noticed. The criminal fra
| ternity are not slow to take hold of
this knowledge, and in consequence
the descriptions in the possession of
the detectives cannot always be de-
pended upon.
A VERY curious temperance society
exists in the Siberian village of Ash
lyka. Every year, in September, the
members meet in the church, and
make a solemn promise to abstain
from wine and spirits for whole
year. They also sign an agreement
that any person breaking the pledge
shall pay fine of twenty-five rubles
to the church, and submit TO be spat
upon by his more continent fellows.
The most peculiar feature of the whole
! business, however, is that the men,
bers on the day of the year when the
pledge expires allow themselves wine
and brandy during the few hours
which intervene before the pledge for
the ensuing year is made.
ONE Of Uncle Sans most faithful
servants, in Maine, but one that
draws no salary, lives at the Port
land Head Lighthouse. This is a
large, gray parrot, brought from Az
rica some time ago and presented to
the keeper of the light. The bird
soon noticed that when the fog began
to blow in from the ocean, somebody
would cry out, Fog coming in !;
blow the horn !" One day the fog
suddenly began to come in thick, and
no one noticed it, as they were all
busy. Poll noticed this and croaked
out, Fog coming in; blow the
horn ~ and now, whenever fog is per-
ceptible, Poll never fails to give
warning.
EDWARD BELL and John Merkert
went cunning for hornets nest To-
Gated in the swamp near Albeit ave-
nue., Morristown, n. J. Merkert was
the marksman, and, after partly de-
,troying the nest with load OF shot,
dropped into a clump of bushes to es-
cape the angry onslaught of the dis
turbed hornets. A nest Of bees was
concealed in the clump of bushes,
and, between the attack made upon
him by the combined forces Of hor-
nets and bees, Merkert found himself
in very warm quarters. Bell sue
ceeded in driving away the stinging
insects, but not before his compan-
ion had been stung so that his face
puFed up TO twice its normal size
and bo tn eyes were closed.
THE French papers have been no.
ting the curious way in which the
career Of President Carnot was con-
/ nected with the figure "7 - He was