News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-05

California farmers are losing faith
in wheat growing. For several years
no small farmers have made money in
grain, even with good crops, and now
they are turning their attention to
vineyards and orchards.
Newspapers are very numerous in
Portugal, and the press is so free that
they do not hesitate to abuse the royal
family with as much license as political
journals in this country exercise toward
PRESIDENTIAL candidates.
During a thunder storm at Pittsburg
on Monday Mrs. John Prill, became
frightened, and taking a bottle which
she supposed contained holy water,
bathed her face and head with it.
The liquid was sulphuric acid, and her
eye-sight was not only destroyed, but
her face and hands disfigured.
A modern novelist of the idealistic
type describes heroine as follows :
"Less human she was than a Titan,
less precise than a Raphael she was,
perhaps, like figure set by Phidias
in a dream of eternal youth, or the
nebulous birth of an angel, unfolding
its loneliness beneath the suscitating
smiles of god"
Upon unloading British steamer
which arrived at Philadelphia last
week it was found that about one-half
the cargo of 220O tons of sugar was
fluid mass of syrup instead of sugar,
in bags as it had been shipped from
India. The sugar had melted by heat
and the syrup was eight feet deep in
the hold of the vessel, which had come
through the Suez Canal.
Irwin Eastman, aged 20, only son
of Gideon B. Eastman, of East Leb-
anon, N. H., was drowned last Thurs
day while bathing in White River,
near Hartford, with Irving Hazen and
Jason E. Miller, the former class
mate of Eastman &tIimbaH Union
Academy. Eastman could not swim,
and while wading in the water waist
deep, slipped and fell. His compan-
ions attempted to rescue him but were
unable to do so.
The generally accepted derivation
of beef-eater, the we'll known title of
the officials of the tower of London,
has been questioned. Instead of being
taken from buffetier, the name of the
bird called the ''beef-eater" was taken.
The English yeomen carried a weapon
with hook resembling the beak or
bill of bird, and were often called
bill-men.
The number of those who pass the
entrance examinations of Yale College
and do not enter is increasing. The
reason given is that pupils present
themselves for examination without
intention of entering, simply for the
honor; but it is rather hard for the
patient professors, who this year ex-
amined 1900 papers, averaging five
sheets to each paper.
A strong reaction has set in against
Pasteur's method of treating hydro
phobia. 1t is asserted on high
medical authority that the method is
not only worthless as "cure" for
but actually injurious
to the patient, and liable to produce
the disease which it is intended to
counterfeit. DIR. Mott, of New York,
gets little or no sympathy in his at
tempts to introduce the system into
this country, and in Paris, meetings
are being held in opposition to NJ.
Pasteur. The virtue Of incubation
for hydrophobia is by no means es-
tablished.
Scientists in this country are be-
ginning to seek an explanation for the
alleged fact that lightning strikes
much more frequently and is so much
more destructive to life and property,
han it used to be between twenty-five
md thirty years ago. There have
been very few serious thunder storms
n this section of the country the
present season=-hnt reports from other
quarters of New England show that
he proportion of deaths and fires
rom lightning is larger than usual.
Here is a problem which the practical
cience of to-day is called upon to
olive.
1t now transpires that the letter
written by Rasures to Consul Lynn,
skiing intercession for him as an
American was not delivered until ten
ours after the former was shot. Con-
I'll Lynn has telegraphed the facts of
be case to Secretary Bayard, at the
anne time informing the State depart
lent that the reported outrages to
american citizens on the Rio Grande,
nd in Mexico were not exaggerated,
ut true, and suggesting vigorous ac-
on on the part of the general gov
rnment for their protection. The
at Galveston, Tex, over
lis terrible outrage is at dangerous
itch, and county officials who were
arty to it are roundly denounced, and
i'll be sqmmarily removed from office. '
Hiram Atkins, who appears to have !
tied as ringmaster, doorkeeper.
own and orchestra in last woak,o