The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06

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same manner large mouths are trans
formed into dainty shapes by removing
the surplus at the corners and sewing
them up. The surgeon who is the
authority for these statements says that
the time will come when skin-grafting
will be so easily managed that another
countenance may be ordered, like anew
bonnet.
POLICEMAN GiLMARTIN received the
sobriquet of dancing master" in Jetfer-
son Market Court, New York. after ex-
planning to Justice Hogan how he caught
William johnson. a colored burglar.
Early in the morning he had seen John
son gliding down Sixth avenue, between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. He
had a bundle under his arm and kept in
the shadow, aud Gilmartin stopped him.
The bundle contained a fine brand of
cigars, and johnson explained he had
got them as q prize for dancing. Gil
martin used TO be a drum major, 80 he
pulled out his night stick and began
rapping out a jig on the pavement.
dance TO that music, then" he said.
The colored man did not move, even
though jig, clog, patter and sane dances
we're pounded out. Gilmartin concluded
the cigars were not won for dancing, and
took Johnson along. At the station
house a Jimmy was found in his boot
leg. He said he couldn't dance because
he had an iron foundry in bis shoe. The
cigars had been stolen from a saloon.
A CURIOUS old custom, dating from
ancient Saxon times, is the payment of
what is known as the ''wroth silver"
or ''wroth penny on the last Saturday
of November of each year at Knightlow
Cross in Warwiokshire, England. The
money is paid to the Duke OF Buccleugh,
as lord of the manor oi the Hundred of
Knightlow. 1t is practically a curious
method of collecting tithes due To him
by immemorial custom. The amounts
due vary from "A penny to two shillings,
and are dropped into Il hole in the stone
of the cross. A non payment of the
fec may subject the delinquent to a fine
OF twenty shillings for every penny not
forthcoming, or else the forfeiture OF a
white bull with a red nose aud red ears.
This penalty VA enforced not many
years ago. After the ceremony the Duke
provides substantial breakfast TO his
tenants.
T.. T%ILTENsoR, a veteran moldmaker
in one of the Trenton IN. j. potte,fes, is
the possessor of a new nose. made TO or
der and made out OF flesh. For the past
twenty-five years he has been carrying
a large and ugly nose that was the source
of much annoyance. There were a num-
Der of unhealthy formations on IL that
made it uusightly. He applied to a
physician at the head OF one of the city
bopitals, and on his advice he had all
the flesh cut OIL aud the bone cleaned.
A new nose was then built of flesh taken
from his forehead and his neck. IGs;
patient suffered little from the operation,
although he is over sixty years of age.
The new nose is not quite as well
rounded as was his original nose in his
early days, but II is a marked improve
ment on what IL was recently.
PABLO ORTEGA, Thomas LewGliing
and Tecdulo MARTINEZ were out hunting
quail, near Los Angeles, California,
and had with them a small dog.
The canine was in the lead some distance
up a canyon. They heard him barking
and fighting, and thinking he had en-
countered "A coyote or a wildcat, they
fastened on to assist him, and when they
arrived at the scene of battle they found
Keno, the "purp," in a sanguinary strug-
gle with a monster gray eagle. One OF
the young men shot and killed the bird,
and ended the fight and doubtless saved
the dogs life. She eagle measured
eight feet from tip to tip.
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. man OF Ban
gor, Maine, learned for the first time, a
few days ago, that he has n twin sister,
alive and well, in Providence, X. l.,
where she Il married and has a family.
Their mother died when the twins were
five months old. Two Bangor families
adopted them, and the one taking the
girl moved out OF the State shortly there
after. The boys father and five brothers
and sisters kept track Of the boy, but
never told him OF his twin sister, and IL
was only by accident he learned Of her
existence.
CAPTAIN GERRY BAssETT, Of Hyannis,
Mass, can remember an exciting Incl
dent of the War OF 1912, when an Eng
lish 'privateer chased a cotton loaded
schooner into Hysnnis harbor, where
the captain ran his vessel ashore. Some
Of the to~wDs-people secured n cannon,
and fired several shots from the shore,
which frightened the invaders away with.
out the coveted prize. Captain Bassett Is
eighty -four years old and the son of a
Revolutionary pensioner.
A QUAINT old watch with an even
more quaint fob chain lies in the dis.
play window Of James I. Edwards
diamond room, Chicago. The watch Is
Of gold, very thin, open faced, aud Of
French make. with engraved silver
dial aud gold hands. II strikes the
hours and quarters on single and double
gcngs. A double strand fob chain has
antique sides and seals deeply engraved.
A cAsE OF petechial hemorrhage, or
the emulation Of blood through :he pores
Of the skin, came before the Chambers
Street Hospital New York surgeons re.
Gently. The case is one 81 the raresi 10 the
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