Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-18
Odd Happenings.

The suns rays, localized through the
glass OF a round water bottle at Alyth,
Scotland, set fire to house.
Lynn, Mass, has pear tree that is
covered on one side with ripeniug fruit,
while the opposite side is covered with
blossoms.
full of eggs in the forks of tree. II feet
from the ground. where she Matched the
eggs out.
A Reading, Penn, man only 65 years
old, has been married three times, and is
the father of IL pairs of twins. He has
Al children in all.
Berry Bradford of Clinch county, Ca,
was found dead at his plow handles re-
Gently. He is the third brother that died
suddenly at the plow.
John Thomas, a native of Albemarle,
Va. is the father of 32 children. He has
been married twice and 81 daughters
were born to him before a son.
A snake was killed on the farm of W.
II. Williams, Gwinnett county, Ga,
which had two feet with five toes, the feet
being shaped like those of lizard.
A beautiful woman aged %, very intell-
igent, with pleasing manners is an inmate
of the Virginia. penitentiary serving a
long term for horse stealing.
After recent shower at Kokomo, Ind,
the ground was found to be covered with
fish, all of which were alive and Topping
about. They we're the size of minnows.
The St. Paul and Pacific elevator at
Minneapolis has been seriously damaged
by peculiar worm that perforates the
boards and lets the wheat down as if run
ming through sieve.
Ephraim Allen was shot dead by a
British ranger when on his way to Sack
etts Harbor to join in the army in 1873
In exhuming the body recently the bullet
that killed him was found.
A Kentucky chicken that lived five days
and was hatched on the farm of Col. j..
W. Reynolds had four legs. In walking
the legs were all kept in motion. and it
was rs lively a chick as ever scratched
dirt.
George II. Guldin. in Amity township,
Penn, carries his leg in splinters from
trying to catch n frog. While pursuing
the frog revolver in his breeches pocket
was accidently discharged, the ball enter
ing the leg.
A sea captain residing in Portland, Me-,
now over so years of age, has never as
yet had an opportunity to vote for presi-
dent, as he has always been to sea or in
some foreign country at the time of elect
ion.
When John Keeton, a Cumberland coun-
ty, KY, man saw a swarm of bees in the
woods with nothing to catch them in he
was sorrowful. He adopted the first
mode inwardly suggested to him, slip
ped off his pants, soon had the bees hived
in the legs, and so carried them home.
A little four-years old of Des Moines,
Iowa, finding revolver in one of the
bed rooms, took it up and killed his baby
sister two years of age. The same day
a Cincinnati boy, aged II, also found a
pistol in drawer, and playfully pointed
it at his cousin, a girl of nine, and killed
her.
A Maryland farmer is making money
Oh an enormous crop of potatoe bugs.
Being opposed to paris green. he rugged
up an old washboiler in his field, and. hir-
ing six men collected the bugs and soused
them in boiling water. About two gal
Ions were collected, and by accident q
piece of sheep-skin leather, used fol
lining shoes, went into the mess. After
the cooking had been going on for hal
an hour he was astonished to find that the
leather had changed its color to the rich
oct dark crimson This arousing his curl
ositv he inserted other materials, and dis
covered another peculiarly of the liquid
The material placed in it changed first to
a dark brown, then a greenish hue, ther
pure yellow, then light blue, then red
terminating in brilliant scarlet, which
was the permanent color. Consequence
formation of stock company to make dye
ing mixture from potato bugs.