News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-14
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DldulOOUS are OIUeu SGOleu III Gue
African diamond mines by swallowing
the stones, hiding them about the
dress and throwing them away to be
picked up at night.
Recent statistics show that there
are in France and Greece 100 non
working days, including Sundays; in
England "a, in Russia &c, in Belgium
60, and in the United States 60.
An exchange says that Cleveland ,
o., has policeman who patrols his
beat fast asleep. Sometimes he gets
beyond his beat and occasionally he
comes in collision with an open gate.
He manages TO turn the corners all
right, and is the marvel and envy of
the force.
1t is said that at Adrian, Mich,
recently, lady on seeing an engine
house with a steeple, innocently asked
gentleman attendant: "What church
is that?" The gentleman, after read
ing the sign, ''Deluge No. g. replied,
''Deluge No. g." She replied: 81
guess it must be the Third Baptist.
The present outlook for the coming
hop crop is very unfavorable in New
York State. In the central southern
tier of counties the intense cold of the
past winter has damaged a greater
share of the yards to quite an extent.
In most old yards fully half have been
winter killed, and will be plowed up
after harvest.
A curious denizen of the deep was
lately caught in a shad net at Ocean
View, Cal. It was 80 inches long
p inches across the back, with teeth
similar to those of a sattlesnake, knit
ting needle smeIlers, two protectors
on each side in the shape of spears,
and rubber-like fins. 1t also had two
feet under its belly like those of a
frog. 1t weighed 40 pounds.
An English lockmaker has con-
structed a key which he claims is ca
pable of opening 22,600 patent lever
locks, all of which differ in their
wards of combinations. AS described
the key weighs three ounces, is nickel
plated, and is said to be the result of
three years Of labor on the part of
the inventor in making drawings Of
the different wards and combinations.
At Spaulding's mill in Rumney, N.
H., on the evening of the 9th, Can
adian employee named Thibauld Res
entey, while attempting to reach over
his saw for a lantern, was caught and
his body cut through the heart.
1t is believed that the Molly Ma
guires, who were driven from Penn
sylvania, are rendezvousing in the
Cumberland mountains in Virginia
and raiding the surrounding mining
districts. Mine bosses Martin and
Brown were murdered recently, after
receiving "coff1n notices" and a ne
gro miner recently found dead is sup
posed to have been murdered. The
most intense hatred is exhibited to the
negro miners by the white foreign la
borers, and it is believed that it is
only question of time when an or
ganized and frightful onslaught will
be made by the latter upon the for
mer.
''L. G. S." in the Country Gentle
man: thus discourses on the value of
salt as fertilizer, The straw stands
up straight and stiff, and does not
crinkle down, thereby enabling us to
cut the last 100 acres as clean as the
first. When sowed on wheat ground
it gives plump, heavy berry, and
yields from three to five bushels more
per acre than if sowed without salt,
and is uniformly of a better grade,
last year testing GO pounds per bush
ell. When l first began to SOW salt,
/ left strips ass-ass the field to. lest
The difference. These strips were
very noticeable all summer, as the
wheat did not grow nearly as tall and
thick as where the salt was sowed,
and even after the wheat was cut |
could see a difference in the stubble,
the strips being crinkled and of not
so bright color. These fields when
sowed to clover. yielded tremendous
crops, which show the benefit of salt
on grass lands. | have never tried it
on oats, but would not raise a crop of
wheat without salt. [ purchase my
salt in Milwaukee or Chicago. 1t is
shipped in bulk, and usually costs
from 81 to So per ton, delivered. The
mode Of sowing salt is very simple.
A box that will hold three bushels is
placed across the hind end of the
wagon. The person who sows it is
seated with his back to the driver,
and sows with both hands over the
back end of the wagon as it passes
over the field, covering a strip thirty
feet wide.