News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-06
THE MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
sTP sNGE, CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ALL ABOUT Us.
A Circus zounve Company-The six lizards
- JinfAy and Rarus-A Storm Clouds
WorI<-A Fresh Washington Clerk-A De-
terlnincd Bride and Gr69rs, Sc; &c.

A MOST determined bride and groom
were John Mann and Emma Bowen, of
Baltimore. John was honest and indus
trious, and no one appeared to object to
his engagement TO Emma, but as the
wedding day approached, Emmas parents
locked the girl up, and declared the we'd
| ding should not take place. Then it
was that the lovers planned an elopement.
| Miss Bowen, who is q frail-lGoking girl
of seventeen, joined her lover, and
they started 70 walk to a house half
mile distant, where carriage was
waiting to take them to Baltimore. Just
as they began their journey, they were
spied By The BRIDES brother, who gave
chasess Hand in hand the lovers started
to run, but the girl soon became ex-
! hausted: Mann then swung her on to
| his shoulder, and continued his fight
over a green meadow, with yelling
crowd at his heels. BY great exeftions
he managed to reach the friends house,
and place his sweetheart in the carriage
before the pursuers arrived Then he
galloped the horse along the pike to Bal
timore, where the Rev. DR.. Daughtery,
of the Hanover Street M. E. Church,
married them.
THE pipes by which petroleum is
transported from the oil regions to the
seaboard are cleaned by means of stem
two and one-half feet long, having at its
front end diaphragm made of wings
which can fold on each other, and thus
enable it to pass an obstruction it cannot
remove. This machine carries set of
steel serapers somewhat like those used
! in cleaning boilers, 1t is put into the
pipes and propelled by the pressure
transmitted from the pumps from one
station to another. Relays of men fol-
| low the scraper by the noise it makes in
its progress; one party taking up the
pursuit as the other is exhausted. They
must not let it get out of their hearing,
for if it stops unnoticed its location can
only be established by cutting the pipe.
THE little dog Jimmy and the horse
Rarus are inseparable companions. Mr.
Bonner has tried to part them, but as
neither would eat when the other was
absent he had to bring them together
again. Every time the horse is led out
Jimmy rides on his back, and when in
the stall the dog cannot be persuaded
to leave the ex-king of the turf 1t is
one of the strongest cases of affection
ever seen. The bulldog, which has the
run of the stable, is jealous of Jimmy,
and as he is fighter the poodle has to
keep out of his way. The little fellow
takes his revenge by barking at the bull
dog when the boz door separates him
from his snarling rival. Rarus gets very
uneasy when he hears row going on,
because he fears that Jimmy will get the
worst of the racket,
A SINGULAR result of land slide is
reported on Cherry Mountain, N. I'll. A
boulder weighing about 150 tons, was
started by a cloud-burst and swept every
thing before it for over two and one-half
miles; cutting channel from twenty-five
to thirty rods wide and one hundred feet
deep. Large trees, some three feet in
diarneter, and rocks of from fifty to one
! huEGred and lftg tons III weight were
carried away and cattle, horses and sheep
| were killed. Two miles from where 1t
started the huge boulder struck a farm
house and barn sweeping it away and
covering it up, with six cows and
horse. A man who was in the stable
milking was buried up to his head, but
when dur ont it was found that only one
leg was broken.
THEY ARE telling a story of d fegle
in South Carolina that discounts the tale
of the &C three black crows" A vener-
able negro; while chopping wood, was
taken violently i'll. A doctor found him
in convulsions. Soon after taking an
emetic the old man began vomiting, and
within ten minutes had elected from his
| stomach six full-grown lizards. Then
he began to improve, and in couple OF
hours was able to get out of bed. Invest
igation proves that four years ago, while
drinking from spring, the negro swsl-
lowed what at that time he said was
lizard, but as it gave him no trouble he
soon forgot about it. The one he swal-
lowed was doubtless female, and the
others were born in his stomach.
A WASHINGTON correspondent tells us
of fresh document clerk, who called with
party of clerks upon the President
Freshly, wished to make a spread that
would distinguish himself from clerks
in general, and so he had a quotation
studied up to fire at the President as he
took his hand. He got it off somewhat
muddled and In this shape: "Now, my
dear sir, is the winter of our discomfort,
made glorious summer by this son OF
| New York" The President smiled, so
did all the others who heard it, and the
document room employee went off happy
with the idea that he had done some
thing immense. He will not hear the
last of his exploit for some time to
| come.
THE BUSCH ZoUAvEs of st. Louis,
which company was at the Philadelphia
encampment, know almost enough to
travel with circus. They have drilled
SO long together that their proficiency
in evolution and agility in fancy"
movements are extraordinary. 1t has
four files which drill to music-to
march, waits, polka or a schotische.
They can hop, skip and jump and turn
somersaults forward and backward with
out losing a single motion, and with ex-
treme rapidity, and at the same time
handle their muskets in correct time.
No other company can equal them in the
execution of these fancy movements.
THE age at which running can be
practiced, an eminent physician says, by
a healthy man in training, is from 20 to
80. Boys and girls also of 10 or IL can
run with no apparent fatigue. In boys
races, for those under IA years of age,
no previous training should be inflicted;
No one should train for running until he
is eighteen, but twenty would be safer.
Between 30 and 81 is the best age for at
tanning speed in running. Between 80
and 40 wise man will think twice be-
fore undergoing training for race run
ming. Older men should run on no pre-
tence whatever.
In a recent address to young men, DR..
Pratt, of London, said that married life
was by far the most healthy. In l, 900
married men of 25 to 80 years of age
there are deaths; 1000 bachelors fur
nish 10 deaths, and 1000 widowers %
deaths In young men married before
90 years the figures are unfavorable, be-
ing so per 1000. In unmarried men
under 90 the rate is but per 1000. If
girls marry before 90, like mortality
befalls them. Married people from 1S
to 90 die as fast as people from 60 to TO-
After 81 marriage should be contracted
as soon as practicable.
A REMARKABLE case of pluck and
presence of mind is reported from San
Antonio. Texas. ga Mexican, in at
tempting to board moving train at
Sabinal slipped and rolled under the
Pullman car, the wheels passing over
his foot. The porter of the train had
Jumped off to assist him, but before he
reached him the accident had happened.
The porter got under the car, and