News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-04

udd thirty dppleS tdCIl, anu the lulTC
had 20 apples, or exactly as many as the
other two put together. The first boy
sold his apples at two for one cent, an(
therefore took in 10 cents. The secont
sold his apples at three for one cent
ane therefore took in ten cents. The
two together took in 20 cents. But the
third boy sold his 60 apples at five fol
two cents, and therefore only tack in
"a cents. To sell five apples fol
two cents ought to bring in as much as
to sell two of them for one cent, and the
other three for another cent; but it
seems that it does not if different peo-
pie own the two apples and the three. "
This has the air of interesting extern
pOraneity that Chicago assault on the
the exact science ought to have. Sell
ing 2 apples for cent Is times and 3
apples for a cent 10 times doesn't make
apples for cent - times, according to
precise Eastern ideas.
A SPANISH shepherd killed by light
ming recently was made the subject of a
scientific post mortem to discover how
the electric bolt had done its fatal work.
His eyebrows and eYelashes were burned
off, his eyeballs were dried up, all his
left side was scorched and burned in
spots down to the ankle, while the
night side of the body and right leg
were uniniured. Serious as these IN
| juries were, none of them appeared
/ sufficient to have caused his instant
| death. But as soon as the breast was
| opened the cause of death was apparent
The lungs were trightfully congested
and the heart was enormously dilated
and filled with cOagulated blood With
all this damage to the man his clothing
was very little injured, the only traces
| of the lightning upon it being a small
| hole bored through the rim OF the hat
and slight singeing of the shirt collar.
GEN. BOOTH, of the Salvation Army,
gave Toronto reporter this account of
the naming of the Army: lone of my
secretaries was writing a little tract,
describing the movement, and he wrote
on the title page, The Christian mis-
sion is volunteer army leaned over
his shoulder, took his pen out of his
hand, crossed out the word volunteer
and wrote Salvation We liked the
sound of it, seeing that it really de-
scribed what the organization was-a
body formed and united after the fash
ion of an army, with the purpose of
| delivering men from sin and the devil
So we adopted the name Salvation Army
nine or ten years ago. The terms
/ General, Captains, Lleutenants, &C.,
soon followed. The drums flags, banf
/ ners, and the like were adopted gradu-
ally in carrying on the purpose of at
tracing the people
A YOUNG lawyer of Ellaville, Ga
bantered a young woman at social
gathering to marry him. TO his evi
dent surprise she told him to get the
license. He wouldn't be bluffed, and
got the license at once, while others of
the party sent for a clergyman He
knew nothing of the joke, and when
the pair entered the parlor arm in arm
he thought it strange that the specta-
tors laughed. But he began solemnly,
while the party wondered which of the
two would weaken first, and the con
! tracing parties each wished that the
other would ask the minister to stop
| When the first question was asked the
young man concluded that the affair
had gone far enough, and he broke
ranks and fed, much to the young wo-
mans relief.
IT isn't the man who makes the most
money who saves the most, as was shown
in the case of the Boston salesman who
| once received a salary of $4,000 per
year and was recently sent to the poor
house. Two brothers worked in the
same store. One was the head porter,
with yearly salary of $1,000, and the
other was q salesman who received
1000 per annum. The last mentioned
had only himself and wife to support,
yet he was always poor, owing to ex
pensive habits, while the first, with
family of eight or nine children, grew
gradually rich, and lent his extravaganza
brother 81, 600 which he found hard to
get back. This is a practical illustra
tration of the old fable of the hare and
the tortoise.
THE Waterville Sent mel tells the fol
lowing story: "Three men were camp
ing out in the woods about 100 miles
north of Moosehead Lake. Two of the
campers were away from camp for a
week and came back to find the dead
body of their companion. They went
for help, and reinforced by a dozen
others, searched the woods for the TN
known murderer. 1t proved to be
terrible wild man, 10 feet in height,
with arms feet in length. covered
with long, brown hair. The party fred
several shots into him, and finally sue
ceeded in reaching a vital spot laying
the monster low"
THIS incident may not be known gen
orally to our readers, and we venture 20
reprint it. When the unabridged edi-
ton of Webster's Dictionary first ap
peared without definition of the word
unabridged that great scholar, Caleb
Cushing, wrote a criticism on the stu
pendous work. saying that, for its size,
1t had as few errors as could be ex-
pected. This puzzled the editors, who
asked an explanation of Mr.. Cushing's
information on the subject of those err
rors. In reply Mr.. Cushing marked
D, 900 mistakes in the volume which hid
been presented to him and sent it back.
A STRANGER in Wheeling went into a
saloon and found lot Of young fellows
playing at a new game. A bit of paper
was fastened to the wall, each PLAYER
in turn was blindfolded and turned
about three times, and then tried to
walk up and touch the paper. The man
who touched furthest from the paper
wa, to pay for the drinks The stranger
joined the game and, when he had
iabbed at the paper and pulled off the
bandrge, found that the other players
had fed. He couldn't see the joke un-
til later. when he discovered that his
pocket had been picked.
CRAIG ALEXANDER was formerly
wealthy commission merchant in ST.
Louis. He failed in business some time
ago and became insane Yesterday his
vile went to the asylu . to visit her
husband, but his condition would not
permit of her seeing him. In hopeless
dependency the woman went home
aud, after night of unrest, assembled TO
The roof of her house and Jumped OIL.
The fall killed her instantly.
THREE vessels that sailed from
BueOnos Ayres for Savannah on the
same day saw nothing of each other
during the entire voyage until they en-
tered the mouth of the Savannah River
within few hours of each other.