News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-06-18
THE MYSTERIES OF A DAY,
STRANGE AND CURIOUS NOTES OF
THINGS TAKING PLACE ABOUT Us.

STRANGE AND CURIOUS NOTES OF
| THINGS TAKING PLACE ABOUT Us.
Corks Gut by Hand-A Breed of Hens
Working for NothinR-In a snow Storm
"A Mexican Debtor, ETC., Etc.
| WE had a good breed of hens, and
were right proud of them, says farmer
telling the story. Two were splendid
hatchers, Giddy and Golly. You may
laugh at the names, but they were given
by a pet sister. They were handsome
creatures, and never Matched less than
fifteen out of sixteen eggs. One day
my brother gravely informed me that he
had seen big snake in a corner of the
barn, and we set out to hunt for it. AS
we neared the place there seemed to be
an unusual commotion among the hens,
and Giddy and Golly were vociferating
on the edge of their respective nests
Then we were sure that the snake had
been brewing trouble, and forthwith
searched the barn until we found it.
| Pinning it by the head in it's corner, 1
cut it open, and there were thirteen of
Golly's big white eggs, still warm and
comfortable. These were at once trans
ferred to the nest, making Golly happy
over her recovered treasures. Well,
the thirteen eggs that had been in the
snakes NAV were every one Matched.
DURING snow storm last February,
London firm put up for posting,
firm, containing a check for a sum
little short of $1,000. The check not
reaching its destination, in due course
payment was stopped at the bank, and,
Notwithstanding that every inquiry was
made, nothing was heard of the letter
at the time. Eventually, however, the
check was brought to the firm who had
drawn it, together with the letter, by a
Police Inspector, who had found the let
ter adhering to block of ice floating in
the Thames off Deptford. The suppo-
sition is that the letter fell in the street,
was carried off in the snow to the
Thames, and then, after a weeks i'm
mersion in the river, got affixed to
block OF ice.
HAND-CUT corks come chiefly from
Germany. They are not so good as the
machine-cut corks of our own country,
as they vary in size and are but approx
imately round. A machine-cut cork
will always ft the bottle it is made for
Yet some of our old German brewers,
bottlers and druggists are 80 prejudiced
in favor of the products of fatherland
that they will buy hand-cut corks every
time. OF course, price may have some
thing to do with it, for it is a peculiar
fact, and one showing how cheap labor
can get, that those corks, cut one by
one by hand in Germany, are brought
over here % per cent. tariff paid at the
Custom House, and then sold little
cheaper than our machine-cut corks.
THE workmen of Cook & Co., in Shelf
field, England, town in which human
life is worked out at greater speed among
the manufacturing laborers, as shown
by statistics, than anywhere else in the
employers, who were laboring under diff
quence of the stagnation in the iron
trade, and as their wages could not be
reduced, owing to their being governed
by the South Staffordshire Board of
Cancellation, they had decided at
meeting that it was their duty to help
their employers to tide over the period
agreed to work week for nothing
HulCu tucy CucoI1uIiy ulus
THE Yuma Indians of Arizona, who at
the time of the American occupation of
California were to be found scattered
over all the desert bottoms of the Col
orado River, and its tributaries, and who
were then supposed to number six
thousand souls, now number only about
fifteen hundred. The men are above
the average of any white race in stature;
in fact, short man is not to be found.
Broad chested and strong limbed, with a
springy gait and swinging stride, Yuma
is no ordinary man and capable of
wonderful endurance. Contact with
civilization has been the bane of the
tribe.
UNDER the Mexican law a creditor
can have a debtor arrested on the day
when the debt falls due. The prisoner
is chained to a post five days, guarded
by an officer. At the end of the time, if
the money is not forthcoming, the mans
labor is sold to the Government for 40
cents day for as many days as will be
necessary to discharge the obligation.
The miserable debtor is sent to the silver
mines, where he is chained to gang of
felons and compelled to work under
ground. He sleeps underground, and
never sees daylight again until he is re-
stored to freedom.
SEVERAL days ago lady by the name
of Simpson was fishing upon Pumpkin |
Vine Creek, in Paulding county, Mis- |
souri,. She got bite, and attempted to |
pull out the fish; but the order was re- |
versed, and the fish pulled her into the |
water, and, not knowing how to swim. |
she was drowned. Her body was found |
about sixty feet from where she Was
fishing. The fish was found by the
pole, which was floating, the hook being
still fast in its mouth. 1t was a catfish,
and weighed twenty-five pounds.
WHILE Amos Cartright was fishing in
the Big Bushkill Creek, Sullivan county,
he hooked large trout, and while play
ing it in the pool q large fishhawk
bounced upon the trout and rose with it
from the water. Cartright was so ex-
cited he did not stop his reel, and the
hook holding fast in the fish's jaw the
line parted at the tip of the rod. The
hawk disappeared from view with not
only the trout, but the fly, leader, and
so feet of the fsherman's line. -OsWego
Times.
In Boston court Judge Allen admin
stored severe rebuke to clergymen who
marry minors without the consent of
heir parents, the case in hand being a
wife deserted by her husband, and she
was but Is when the clergyman married
hem. He said that the laws of mar
.iage should be stringent and well en-
orced if we would check the fearful
,ide of divorces.
THE idea that malaria is confined to
ow-lying districts is erroneous. In Italy
t rises to the height of 400 to 500 feet,
n California l, 900 feet, along the Appa-
achian chain 5000 feet, in the West
indies ! 400 to 1900 feet, and in India
!, O00 On the Andes it is sometimes
found at an altitude of 1000 feet.
GLUCOSE is used principally for the
of table syrup, as a sub
titute for barley malt in the brewing of
,eer and ale, as substitute for cane
ugar in confectionery and in canning
ruit, to adulterate cane sugar, to manu-
acture artificial honey and in making
yinegar.
The Worm Will Turn.