The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1885-07-10
GOSSIP AND INFORMATION.

Miss Mary N Murffee, Of st Louis, better
known by her nom be plume, Charles Egbert
Craddock, is now the guest OF the Lothrops in
the Hawthorne. homestead at Concord, Mass.
Miss Endicott, the war secretary's daughter,
is said to be one of the most beautiful women
in Washington. Her complexion is pure and
white, her eyes large and brown, ana her nsure,
so says lady correspondent, "exquiSite IL
| rounded grace"
The phrase "prlnter's devil owes Its origin
to the TACT that the first errand boy employed
by William Caxton, the first printer, was the
son of gentleman of French descent named
DeVille, or DevilIe, and the name thus came 70
he applied to printers apprentices.
The war on Mother Hubbards, which was SO
vigorously waged last summer III various parts
of the country is being renewed III dawson,
Georgia. where an ordinance mas just Deeh
passed imposing fine OF hIe dolars Oh per
sons wearing the Objectionable garment on the
streets.
1t is not generally known thai nutmegs are
poisonous, but DR. Palmer writes to the Amerl-
can Journal of Pharmacy detailing the case OF
lady who nearly died from eating a nutmeg
and a half, and be points out tue TACT mat the
toxic effects of the drug are described IN Dotn
the National and United States aiSpensafles.
The original copy of the constitution for the
nrovisional government OF the Confederate
States of America Is now owned by Mrs w +
Fontain, of New York, Two years ago the
British proposed buying, the PTice 3eihg SiV,-
900, but the negotiation fell through. VI tne
forty signers over one. hall arc uoaa anu Ci Tue
living only one, Hon John II 'eN5"n' Vi ieA as
is in public life.
A Salt Lake jsweler has invented mover time
piece in the shape Of steel wire suetched across
| his show window, on which stuueu canary
hops from left to right indicating as II goes the
| hours OF the day by poiDting WIN i'S oeah az
| dial stretched beneath the wire ana having the
| figures from to "a. When II reacnes Tue Ia.
ter figure it glides across the winuow 10 again.
| There is no mechanism whatever mat can be
| seen, it all being inside the bird ne inventor
| says he was three years in studying II out. :,
Robert Yale of Norwich. n Y, has crazy"
| cane which is composed of 1000 different pieces
| Of wood, among them one each from the CHAR
ter oak, from John Hancock's house; the house
where witchcraft originated in Sasm the May
| flower; the well commemorateu Id tne va
| oaken bucket" Hawthorne's house In Salem /;
| and Roger Williams church. Inc mead OF the
| cane is from the tree at Crown POINT 10 which
| Gen Putnam was tied after beius uecreed 10
death by burning by the Indians, in one side
| are set likeaesses OF Presidents washington,
Lincoln, Garfield and Grant.
| Gen Lord Wolseey has but one eye, only
| part OF bis left shin bone, and mas LOST also a
considerable piece from his left thigh and his
left cheek. In the trenches, before !he hrst as
| sault on the Sedan during the Crhhean war,
| Wolseley was nearly shattered W pieces oy O
| she'll that killed the two sappers VINO were
! working by his side. The missile burst IN a
gabion that had been packed with gravel, and
| 1t is said that there was not q squaio Incn oil
| his face without its stone. This was me easu-
atty that cost him his eye and smashed the
| bones of his leg.