News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-13
NOTES.,

China has ordered immense quanti-
ties of arms and ammunition from
England and Germany.
A prominent New York railroad di-
rector gives a little information upon
how the wheels go round. 1.-The lar
ger the wheel the more smoothly the
cars will rum he says. "The rea-
son why the ordinary passenger car
has wheels less than Al inches in di-
ameter is that the cost of the large
wheels is too great"
The latest statistics in the compar-
alive longevity of the sexes show that
under fifteen years there are more boys
than girls, but over seventy years
there are more women than men, and
from the ages of ninety to one hum
dred the proportion is about three to
two in favor of the women.
Pennsylvania has at least one hun
ter who knows how to tell a good sto-
ry: "Dr. Parker went hunting some
time since, and seeing a squirrel polk
ing his head out of hole in tree,
he fired, but not seeing the squirrel
drop, he came to the conclusion that
he had missed it. Almost instantly
he saw what he supposed was the
head of the same animal, and again
fired. Still the squirrels head APP
peared at the same place. He fired
81 shots, and, as he did not see the
game drop, he came to the conclusion
that it was uselss to continue the
bombardment, and started to 60 fur
Their into the grove. Lo, and behold,
when he had passed the tree on which
he had seen the one squirrel he saw
30 lying in heap upon the ground.
The lost key bureau-a scheme that
reaches the very acme of Yankee in
genuity-is being established in Mil
waukee by an enterprising gentleman.
Membership in the bureau costs %
cents year, and each member is fur
nished with brass tag for his key
ring, which bears the following in
scription: "The finder will please re-
turn this bunch Of keys to the Cen
trail Police Station and receive 81 re-
ward" 1t is supposed that whenever
a bunch of keys is lost by member
of the bureau, the finder, following the
directions of the tag: will take them
to the police station, where, at a
glance, the name and address of the
owner can be ascertained by compar-
ing the tag number with the CORE
spending number on the book left in
the custody of the police. The scheme
has already been tried and works like
a charm. A bunch of keys left on
the sidewalk recently were returned to
the central station within an hour af-
forwards.
The wool buyers who go around
among the farmers in the west and
south and buy up the wool clip of the
country for the market, find there are
some ingenius frauds in the city as we'll
as in the country. One gentleman
who was prematurely allowed 10 60
into an outbuilding in which a farmer
had stored his wool, noticed a string
leading down through the floor from
each fleece. A further examination
showed that the ends of the strings
rested in pans of water under the
building, and thus the weight of the
wool was being uniformally increased |
by water which was drawn up into it |
through the force of capillary attrac-
ton. On another occasion q buyer
had united fleece of wool when
stone weighing about half pound
rolled out of it. On examining
batch of wool in Boston later on, AZ
stones Of the same kind were found. |
The party who had first taken up the
wool in the country was consulted,
and succeeded in remembering a per-
son from whom he had purchased lust |
As feeces, and as a result of some
further negotiation the sum Of SIS
was refunded for 48 stones which had
been purchased as wool. The mad
dest man, however, was the man who
opened batch of wool and found
that each separate fleece contained
about a pound of plaster OF Paris.
lie went to the seller of the wool and
said, "Mr. x, want you to return
to me $500 of the money paid YOU"
for?" was the confused inquiry.
Don't you know what for?" said his
interlocutor, looking him sternly in
the eye. "Well, all right" assented
the other. 'Here's your money"
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