News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-05
SO WAGS THE WORLD.
THINGS STRANGE. STARTLING OR
CURIOUS THAT WE FIND IN OUR
EXCHANGES.
A Soldiers Joke-A Young Circus Mantle
ContrnctiO of n BridRe-A Farmer
Buried Alive, ETC., Etc.

Contraction of n Bridge-A Farmer
Buried Alive, Etc., Etc.
G. G. MARTIN, Engineer of the Brook
lvn Bridge. says:-It is undoubtedly of
great publics,interest that everything in
connection with bridge management
should be closely watched. Many look
with extreme concern to one important
feature, namely, the contraction of the
structure in cold weather. This is a
| point, of course, on which the most
careful and patient calculations have
been made, and I needn't tell you that
there can be no possible chance of any
thing going wrong. There is an allow
| ance of two feet for contraction which
takes place in cold weather like this.
| The greatest shrinkage took place dur
ing last winter, measuring twelve and
three-quarter inches; up to the present
this year the contraction is shade
under eleven inches and half.
A MAN at Pataha City, W. T., has the
rare and remarkable name of Angevine
June Titus and Company Favor. All
that part of the above described name
living in front of the word "Favor" is his
Christian name. His parents lived in a
small town in Maine, and a circus came
there for the first time in the history of
the place. It was owned by Angevine,
June Titus & Co. Mr.. and Mrs. Favor
attended in the afternoon and were so
well pleased that they named their boy,
born on the following day, for the pro-
prietors of the enterprise. The son has
borne his infction without murmur,
and is fondly hoping for the time when
Pataha City shall have grown to be
large enough. to justify the visit of
circus.
A PRIVATE soldier on guard duty at
Woolwich Arsenal saw man advancing
toward his post and commanded him to
halt and give the cOuntersign. The
stranger neither halted nor replied, but
attempted to walk past the guard line.
The sentinel thereupon plunged his
bayonet into the mans body, killing
him almost instantly. An investigation
shows that the man who attempted to
run the guard was also soldier and
comrade of the sentinel, whom he had
tried to annoy by silly practical joke.
A DISPATCH from Henderson county,
n. c., gives details of a prominent farm
er being buried alive. John Jenkins,
the unfortunate IN question, fell i'll, and
after prolonged illness assumed the ap-
pearance of death and was buried. His
brother exhumed the remains and was
Mortified to discover that the body had
turned in the grave. Both hands were
full of hair, which the deceased had torn
from his head and beard in his frantic
efforts to escape from his awful doom.
SQUIRE CRIsTLER, of Banks county,
Ga, was called upon the other night to
join couple together in the holy bonds
of matrimony. Getting to the river he
found it impossible to cross. Deter
mined not to be disappointed, he sum-
moned the couple to the waters edge on
the other side of the stream, and the
license, tied to stone, having been
pitched over to him, distance of some
sixty yards, he proceeded to tie the knot
at the top of his voice.
The habit which frontier postmasters
have of carrying the mail around in the
pockets of their trousers yeXes the souls
of the cowboys. When one of the latter
species has ridden 200 miles after his
mail and is told by the postmaster's wife
that the post office has gone after bar
rel of water and won't be back for two
days, the "cow ppncher" feels like COM
planning to the government.
Mrs. WILSON, of Jefferson, n. Y,
placed about $500 in the oven of her
cook stove to hide it from burglars while
she went to q lecture in the school
house. The lecture gave her so much
to think about that when she went home
she built fire in the stove and had it
we'll under Roadway before her mind re-
10 no
badly scorched.
AN Indiana wife told her husband one
morning that she was going to elope
with the hired man. ''Let us pray over
it, replied the husband. They prayed
for half an hour, but when they got
thFGntgh the w9m an intsaton renamed
on with her wraps and tucked her in the
sleigh, wishing her God speed with tears
in her eyes.
SOME man with considerable leisure on
his hands estimates that during a life
time of fifty years man on the average
spends 5000 days in sleeping and the
same amount in working; 1000 days in
eating, 800 days in walking, is i'll 500
days, and the remainder of the half cen
fury, nearly nine years, is fritted away
In recreation and amusement.
A MINNESOTA man is lobbying in the
State Legislature to have a bill passed |
giving him first-class sleigh. He says
there is plenty of snow on the ground,
and plenty of money in the Treasury.
These two facts make it proper that he |
should have sleigh, and he would like |
to see the iron-handed despot who will |
dare refuse his request.
APRoPos of the present agitation anent |
the Sunday liquor laws of New York,
Parliamentary return has just been
issued in England showing that in the |
twelve months from October 1, 1888, to |
September 90, 1884, there were Is. 942 |
convictions of persons arrested for |
drunkenness on Sunday in England and
Wales.
A STATEMENT of exports of iron rails |
from Great Britain shows that, while in |
1888 there were shipped "a, 306 tons of |
iron rails only, in the past year that |
small tonnage further fell to IL, 5S1 tons.
and there are indications that it is fur |
Their falling, and that the iron rail man
ufacture is practically extinct.
A DOG in Wanaqua N. J., who for
some time has been noticed to take his |
breakfast in his mouth and run away |
with it uneaten, was followed, when it
was discovered that he took his meal to |
a decrepit and emaciated old dog in a
covert in the field, who eagerly devoured |
the food thus provided for him.
ST. PAUL and Minneapolis are so ieal- |
GUS of each other and are growing so |
rapidly that before long there will be |
hostile meeting of the cities. And then |
there will be only one city, but the ques- !