News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
STRANGE THINGS WE SEE.
NOTABLE STORIES or STRANGE AND
STARTLING OCCURRENCES.
After the CrOws-A Roll of BiIIs-Disnp-
penTed from View-The Salvatioi Army
A Curious Law salt, Etc., Etc.

in which a Delaware county farmer go
rid of crows. He was greatly troubler
by the depredations of these birds, ant
all means to drive them away per
manently having failed, he tried al
original plan. Taking half peck o
more of corn, he soaked it thorough
in whisky and then scattered the cerea
along the fence of the field chiefly Wis
tied by the feathered thieves. He sool
had a number of crows eating the doc
tored corn, and as they didn't fly ava,
he went to observe the effect of tn
dose. He found every crow gloriousl,
drunk, some lying over on their sides
tempt to fly. He could have killed
every one of them, but the amusement
created by the unusual scene made him
resolve TO await the outcome of the
drunk. Gradually the birds recovered,
and one by one flew unsteadily away.
They seemed to realize that they were
victimized, and during the remainder OF
the season that farmer was not troubled
with any more depredations by crows.
WHY, they know of only one way to
fish up at Lake Villa, near the Wiscon-
sin line, says Chicago paper. I'll tell
you how its done. The natives up there
buy bottle of whisky and drink the
contents. Then they put the cork back
in the bottle. fasten about five feet OF
line around the neck, and bait the hook
with a minnow. When they reach deep
water they throw the bottle away from
the boat and wait for results. OF course
the bottle is as buoyant as a cork, and
the action of the waves has the effect
of keeping the bait in constant state
o. agitation. By and by Brer Pickerel
comes along and snaps at the oscillating
minHow. The hook catches him before
he knows it, and then the bottle begins
to scoot under water or scud along on
the surface. The natives in the boat
may be playing seven-up or whisky
poker. but the minute the bottle begins
TO skip they drop everything and begin
to pull out for the flask as though a sea
serpent was after them When the
bottle is captured and the big squirm-
ing pickereI removed from the line the
hook is rebaited and the tackle thrown
overheard again.
A VERY peculiar episode occurred in
Milwaukee. a street car was hailed by
an elderly lady. The car was stopped,
and the driver turned around to look
for his expected passenger. He was
astonished to find that she had COM
pletely disappeared. She had only
been few rods away, and could not
have gone out of the drivers sight IN
any ordinary manner within the time
that he had taken to stop the car and
turn around. Disappeared she had,
however, and as completely and mys-
teriously as if the earth had suddenly
swallowed her up. Such, indeed,
proved to be the case in measure. i he
lady in running to catch the car sud
denly felt the ground give way beneath
her, and sank two or three f ct below
the surface of the street. 1t seems that
she fell into an old public els ern,
relic of bygone days. The cistern had
been covered up with boards and int,
but the boards being rotten broke when
she stepped on the spot and she fell in.
She was not injured, but badly fright
ened.
"a STORY read the other day about
finding a roll of bills in an old lounge
reminds me of a find l once made in a
lot OF old rubbers that l bought said
a Junk dealer lately. 81 hey came
cheap, and was throwing them out of
the barrels into pile of such stuff in
the corner, when out of the leg of an
old rubber boot, as it struck the top of
the pile, rolled a ball of coarse shoe
thread. l hung the thread up near my
writing desk and used it for wrapping
thread and various other purposes, and
forget about the rubber boot out of
which it came. The ball of thread
came to an end one day, and then I was
for at the center of the ball
was wad of bills. here was a Con-
five, United States Treasury
one, Dominion of Canada one, q gold |
dollar, and an Cld-fashioned ha'penny. |
[ never traced it, but here is the Con- |
federate five and the hapenny. The |
others went the way of all things fnan
ciaIly convertible"
A RAT was put into box with a rat !
tlesnake in Sacramento the other day. |
the snake struck it, and in
moment the rat turned over and died.
1t was then swallowed by the RATHER. |
The next day another rat was put in the |
box. The snake made no movement |
toward 1t, but the rat at once attacked
the snake, which in defending itself
struck its enemy several times. The
bites had no apparent effect on the rat,
which after ii while was released, and
ran away seemingly none the worse for
is battle. This would seem TO indicate
hat for considerable time after ex-
pending its virus a rattles axe is harm
ess.
Tbs growth of that remarkable insti-
ution, the Salvation Army, is stated by |
Howard to have been a |
housand-fold in four years in the
olonies. Four years ago it had only
me hundred soldiers in all the colonies;
row, on a moderate calculation, it has /
N the roll u, 600 militant men and /
women -Four years ago, on Sunday !
lights about 1000 people used to as
emble in their meeting halls to take
part In services; now the number has /
welled to 1870, 900. During six months |
10 less than 1000 souls have been
brought to the penitent forms.
THE other day, on a railroad near San
Francisco, a train missed a switch,
where it should pass another train, and
he two rushed directly toward one an
ther on the same track. One of the
Engineers, quick as thought, discon-
ected his engine from the train, blew
or down breaks, and then shot the en-
ine ahead meet the other, receive
he force of the collision, and save his
assengers Fortunately the other train
ras able to reduce its speed, and the
hook, when it came, was comparatively
light, and the plucIy and level headed
ngineer was unhurt.
GEORGE SLossoN's father, now in
usiness in Dayton, Mimi, says that
-hen his son was eight years old they
wed in Ogdensburgh, n. Y. George
assoc billiard saloon when he went
D school, but it was not long before he
id not pass it, but went in and punched
ne balls. The proprietor encouraged
In by putting boxes around a table so
nat the boy could stand on them and
Zach the balls, and then the next thing
lat the elder Slosson heard was that
is eight-year-o!d boy could beat any
IAN in Ogdensburg playing billiards.
A LARGE factory of Breslau required
chimney fifty-four feet in height. In
cad of constructing the chimney with :
KICKS, as usual, large number of solid
ocks were placed carefully one on top :
the other and joined together with a
Iecial cement. The chimney is non :
is very elastic, and is by
10 nature of the material quite secure {
ON lightning, which SO often DIavs y
lch sad havoc with the more ordinary
rt of factory chimney. D
MARYLAND employs 60. 900 persons in :,
ltting up canned goods, an industry !.
which she now leads all the Stntcs In