Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-09-02
NO. zoos
GENERAL NEWS.

~ piy siCidu III WOOuSUOck, N. D.,
took some virus from the arm of a
child whom he had vaccinated, and
the child's father sued him for the
value of the vaccine matter, and got q
verdict for $3.7O.
When d. B. Fay, who had married
daughter of Gray, the Boston defaul-
ter, heard of his suicide and it's cause,
he Immediately deposited $4,000 in
a bank to the account of Mrs. Gray,
his nother-in-law
One hundred years ago, the potato
was introduced into Montenegro, and
all good Montenegrins celebrate the
potato centennial by keeping holiday
and eating potatoes prepared in every
conceivable style.
A woman recently arrived in Port
land, Oregon, from Montana, whose
entire wealth consisted of ten children,
the Oldest 10 years old. There were
one set of triplets, two sets of twins,
and three singles"
Among the voters at the recent
Alabama election was Thomas Garrett
of Holman's Precinct, who cast his
first vote for John Adams in the Fall
of 1896. He was then 30 years old, and
on his next birthday he will be 119
years old.
A Dakota farmer while stacking
straw, placed his vest, in the pocket of
which were $40, under the edge of the
stack for safekeeping. He forgot the
vest, and the next day the stack was
struck by lightning and burned, and
the vest and money with it.
AT Conshohocken. Pa, the other
evening, while Miss Gertrude Grant
was singing with party of friends she
suddenly became dumb, not being
able to sing or speak a word. A ply
sician was called who said the attack
was hysterical, but soon after she was
partially paralyzed.
A shipbuilding firm in Bath, Me-, is
preparing to build a afive-masteds schoon-
er, which will be the largest fore and
aft-rigged vessel afioat. Some of the
shipbuilders are talking of the poss-
ibility of constructing a six masted
schooner that shall have carrying
capacity of 100, 900 cases of oil
A letter inclosing $5.10, which the
writer unanimously stated to have
been due for ten years, presumably
either for advertising or subscription
account, was received by an Indiana
editor week or SO ago, and some of
his esteemed contemporaries report
that he is still suffering from the shock
The authorities of Tacoma, W. T.,
were greatly excited the other day at
hearing that Chinaman was cooking
in hotel of the town. They sought
for him and found him, with hair
cropped short and dressed in citizens
garb, minding his own business thor
oughly. But he had to leave at sun
down.
The tobacco acreage in Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, is slightly larger
than in 1885 Havana seed will yield
from three to four hundred pounds
more to the acre than last year, and
the increase in seed-leaf will probably
reach two hundred pounds, y fair
estimate of the yield to the acre will
be: Havana, 1900 pounds, and seed
leaf, 1,500.
Here is a case where potatoes have
been baked by lightning. During
recent thunder shower, lightning
struck in field of potatoes at Platts-
kill, Ulster county, N. Y. Within a
circle fifteen feet in diameter the vines
were blackened as if burned by fire,
and in the centre of the circle the pota-
toes were uncovered and looked as if
they had been baked.
Miss Jeanette Larke, handsome
young lady at youngstown, swan the
Niagara river below the rapids, near
her home, one day last week. She was
accompanied by William Wilkinson,
half. Miss Larke reached the Canada
shore with very little exhaustion. and
seemed perfectly fresh, although her
companion was very tired. This is the
first time lady has accomplished the
feat of swimming the river at this
point.
The account of the photograph of
Miss Lillian Paul, taken by lightning
the other day at Plainfeld, leads j. w.
Brady, of Barlow, Fla, to tell of an
incident that occurred in Americus.
GA. A little child was playing under a.
cherry tree when a thunder storm
came up. At IA certain vivid flash of
lightning the child fell, and when
picked up it was found to have per-
feet and beautiful representation of a
limb of the tree photographed upon
its right hip. Every twig and leaf was
delicately, yet distinctly traced in light