News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-07-16

| ONE of the most singular, most ANUS
ing, and at the same time, for the vic
Tins, most annoying robberies, occurred
in South Bend, Indiana. Two elderly
ladies on Michigan street were looking
at the circus procession pass by. So In
tent were they in gazing upon the daz-
zling pageant that not only their eyes
but their mouths were wide open, and
while in this awe-struck condition they
were each startled by the slap of rough
hand over their mouths. Of course they
were mad, and look around with great
indignation to see who could be guilty
of such rude act, and it was not until
they attempted to speak, in order to
properly express their wrath, that they
discovered their false teeth were gone.
| The thieves had looked into their wide
open mouths, and saw that the plates
containing the teeth were of gold, and
they wanted them.
| WHILE Clarence Williams, of Wells
| vile, Ohio, an aeronaut connected with
circus, was seated in his balloon pre-
pared to begin an ascension, at Charles
town, W. Va, the men who were hold
ing the ropes allowed the balloon to
make lurch, when it came in contact
with the fire of furnace beneath it,
used for generating the gas. The balloon
became at once ignited, and in their
| fright the men holding the ropes let
them go, and the balloon Immediately
shot up in the air. When a short dis
lance up the crowd yelled, "Jump," but
Williams did not heed the advice, and
after going several hundred feet up the
balloon collapsed, and he fell to the
ground a lifeless mass of humanity.
Williams was twenty-five years old, and
leaves wife and family. 1t was his
consumed by fire.
Iowa ranks the highest of all the
States in the number of cattle to the
square mile. She has 2, Ola, 4S4 head, or
$50 head per square mile. Illinois has
1,471, 191 head, or 90 head per square
mile Ohio has 1,O17, $50 head, or 24.9
head per square mile. Pennsylvania has
S75, 1914 head, or 1913 head per square
mile. New York has ST., 1S1 head, or
10 head per square mile. Texas has the
number of 1884, 923 head, or
1873 head per square mile. This is the
lowest ratio per square mile, although
the largest number of cattle of any State
in the Union-about as many as all
France possesses. For all the States and
Territories the cattle population is A.,
SAT, 307 head, or s head per square mile.
IT is interesting, says an exchange, to
watch the various kinds of fish at the
foot of dam in their efforts to get up
a river. Schools of alewives fit about
the pool lodging restlesslp here and
there. Huge salmon calmly inspect the
in the shape of solid stone
wall that bars their progress, while the
epulsive-looking eel carefully inspects
Zach crack and crevice. This latter fish |
has peculiar way of retaining de-
sired position in swift running water.
he settles on some sharp rock, faces up
stream, and making hook of the head |
md forward part of the body, drops it |
'ver the upper side of the rock and takes
his ease.
No MAN has right to read on a NOV
ng vehicle if his injured eyesight may
De transmitted to his posterity. The |
harm done to some peoples eyes by the
common practice of reading in the street
,ars is almost beyond belief. The rapid
Increase in the number of children wear
ng spectacles in the public schools is
natter for immediate scientific inquiry.
The usefulness of citizen depends
argely on accuracy of vision, and the
Citations between the eyes and the brain
re the most mysterious phenomena of
luman life. A man should see all there
S to see, but he does not often do so.
A socIALIsTIC society called the Har-
nonists, at Economy, Pa, near Pitts
'urg, which once numbered /, 800 men,
,ers, has dwindled to thirty. The sur
-ivors are all aged, and none of them
will probably be alive ten years hence.
The property of the society is estimated
It fully 81, 200, 900 for each member, and
What will be the final disposition of it is
Known only to small circle. 1t is said
hat many of the members have never
handled a penny in their lives, and
would not know piece of money if they
saw it.