South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-14


day is three months.
IA sand hill crane. Ave feet high, 6
feet from the end of one wing TO that Of
the other, and with a bill inches long,
has been caught at East Haven, Conn.
DIR. ii. w. Cloud, distinguished
druggist and proprietor Of special com.
pounds, died Mt Evansville, Indiana, on
the 9Th inst. from the effects Of choral
taken to mitigate pain, He stood high
as chemist and citizen,
The city or Port-au-P Prince, Hayti.
was upset by a revolution on the 2d inst,
i'm which General Brice was dragged
from church and shot. and forty foreign
ers were killed. The city has heen pla,
ced In a state Of siege.
--Barnum says hs will put six bal.
looms in Donaitson's charge this year.
and try to cross the Atlantic. The lar.
gest balloon will hold 10000 cubic feet
of gas.
China has very singular plant call.
ed the camelon flower, q kind Of ereeper
of the convelvuli tribe, which, in the
morning. is deep blue, at noon pink.
while ut night it becomes quite white,
and soon afterwards fades away.
--:Mustard color underclothinp" is
all the rage now for mems wear owing
probably to an Impression that 1t makes
one smart,
Lands at Mellonville, Fla, which
were sold for fifty cents per acre, four
years ago, are now sailing for fifty and
seventy-five dollars per acre,
"A dairyman in Scotland has a COW
which dropped triplets in 1874 and twins
this year, making FIVE calves in twelve
months--all alive and thriving.
The citizens of Alta, Utah. no
longer trouble themselves about going
down stairs. 1t is only necessary for
them to throw open their second story
windows and tread majestically over ten
feet OF beautiful snow.
A curious affair happened Mt a grist
| mill in Westmoreland co., Pa, one day
last week. A woman who had occa.
sion to visit the miller on business. went
up stairs with that person to view the
wonders of the machinery, and while ex-
aiming the boiling machine very in
tently she approached that treacherous
invention too closely, the consequence
OF which was that her dress was caught
between two cog-wheels, the iron teeth
of which began to gather in her clothing
in slow but frightfully systematic and
| sure manner. The miller saw the dan
ger. and being a very strong and robust
individual, he Immediately clasped the
terrified woman in his brawny arms, and
hracing his feet against an upright post,
there ensued struggle between him and
the boiling machine as to which should
have the woman. 1t was decided i'm IA
vor of the miller, however, who by n her.
culean jerk got the woman clear. but
the machine got her clothes and az
ter the excitement was over and the wo-
man sat down, there was an awkard en-
barrassment, which the miller soon dis.
PEELED by darting out and sending his
wife up with n bundle of clothing
Somerset HeNdd,
The sensation of Paris is a Brazil.
liam lady who has yellow carriage with
wheel humbs of solid gold. The har-
ness is gold tipped, and the horses are
thoroughbreds. The four servants who
accompany the establishment wear solid
silver buttons on their overcoats.
--Roohester. Mass, has professor of
mesmerism, who, trying TO mesmerise n
bull, recently, by gazing intently at the
beast, was tossed some distance into
the air. and now has his doubts about
the power of the human eve over the
brute creation, though he explains that
this particular bull may DO near.sighted.
A curious mode Of fish Matching
rs said TO be followed in China. Having
collected the necessary spawn from the
waters edge, the fisherman places n GER
tain quantity in an empty hens egg,
which is sealed MP with wax and put un.
der the sitting hen, After some days
they break the egg, empty the fry into
water well warned by the sun. and there
nurse them until they are sufficiently
strong to be turned into lake or river,
AS if the judgment in favor of the
State against the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company for nearly four hun.
dred thousand dollars was not sufficient.
It is now stated that four hundred thou-
sand more is due and will be claimed in
the shape Of "back pay" due and &C.
crued since January I, 1870, making a
total indebtedness Of about $500 600
due from the Railroad 20 the State. IL
won't do TO encounter that kind OF
Judgment every day:-Cy1'J: Times.
a CHLD's FAITH-A correspondent
Of the New York EUaagelist relates the
following instance Of child faith Last
year, coming from Pittsburgh east in a
sleeping car, my apartment was next TO
that occupied by a gentleman, his wife.
and their little daughter, perhaps four
years old. The lady was excessively
timid-not to pnt too fine n point upon
It, terribly nervous, The Horseshoe
Curve seemed to be her especial terror
and my sleep, and / presume that ofo.
theirs, was disturbed by her talking TO
her husband OF the peril. The engineer
might be asleep, OF the switch-tender
might DO asleep, and then the train