News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-25
THE MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
CURIOUS THINGS THAT ARE woR.
THY OF MENTION IN THE PAPERS.
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THE late development of 80 many
cases of hydrophobia in various parts Of
the country has made almost invaluable
the madstones which have proved eff
cacious in almost every instance where
applied to wounds of persons bitten By
mad dogs. A great number of years
ago there was found IN the woods OF
Hsllfax county, W. Va, bag of these
stones, some of which are now IN the
possession of Mr.. H. A. Lockett, a we'll
known resident of Prince George
county, who lives q short distance from
Petersburg. These stones were found
by man who subsequently became in
debted to Mr.. Lockett to the amount of
about 81, 200, and, having nothing else
with which to hquidate the debt, he
gave the stones to Mr.. Lockett in pay
ment of the same. A small piece of one
of these stones brought the fabulous
price of 5000. They are known to be
genuine, and, with the exception of one
or two others, are the only ones in the
State. Mr.. Lockett, on being asked at
how high figure he valued the stones,
replied, "They are worth more than the
whole of Petersburg
| 81 HAVE been a lawyer great many
years" said one of them the other day,
land one of the queerest cases that
ever came to my notice was about eight
or ten years ago. There were two young
fellows charged with having committed
q burglary in store. They refused to
employ lawyer, and fixed up scheme
between them. Knowing that they
were guilty, they concluded that the
chances were against their getting
away, although, so far as they knew,
there was no direct proof of their guilt.
While in Jail together they played a
game of seven-up to see which should
plead guilty on trial and swear that the
other one was not with him and had no
part in the crime In this way, they
argued, one of us will surely escape,
which will be a good deal better than
both of us going over the road. They
played their series of games of seven-up
and, true to his bargain, the loser went
into court and pleaded guilty, and took
his oath that he alone planned and exc
cuted the crime"
SCIENTIFIC men have been perplexed
for many years over the phenomenon of
q certain well at Yakutsk, Siberia. A
Russian merchant in 1923 began to dig
the well, but he gave up the task three
years later, and was still in solidly
frozen soil. Then the Russian Acad-
envy of Sciences dug away at the well
for months, but stopped when it had
reached depth of 3S2 feet, when the
ground was still frozen as hard as
rock. In 1914 the academy had the
temperature of the excavation carefully
taken at various depths, and from these
data it was estimated that the ground
was frozen to depth of 612 feet AL
though the pole of the greatest cold is
in this province of Yakutsk, not even
the terrible severity of the Siberian
winters could freeze the ground to the
depth of 600 feet. Biologists have de-
Cided that the frozen valley of the
lower Lena is formation of the glacial
period They believe, in short, that it
froze solidly then, and has never since
had chance to thaw out.
/ SEE by the papers, says newspaper
correspondent, that James Keene, the
author of more corners in grain than
there are angles in geometry, has gone
broke at last. Keeae rode the high
horse for a good many years, lavished
his substance like a lord and never looked
beyond the tip of his nose. For long
time he maintained out of his private
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tertainment of his friends. The stew
ard of it once told me that in all his
club experience he never saw things fly
as they did in that house. The guests
were admitted by card given by Kccne.
Nobody was allowed to spend a cent
once he crossed the threshold. The
cigars were of the finest brand, the
wines of the choicest vintage and the
liquors of the oldest label. Keene was
there a good part of the time to dis
pense the inequalities of his house.
Late hours and deep pOtations were the
rule while the freak lasted. Now the
reckless spendthrift has hard time of
scraping together enough TO buy ca
war sandwich and carafe of brandy.
INVESTIGATIONS show that the limit
depends upon the length of their expo
sure, the amount of exertion they put
forth, their condition, and the nature of
the atmosphere particularly as to its de-
gree of moisture. 1t is stated that men
have beenlemployed ON railways at 104
degrees, in mines-under very favorable
conditions-at 125 degrees, and are said
to work occasionally in the stoke-holes
of tropical steamers at 156 degrees.
Prof. Dubois is reported to have esti-
mated that a temperature of 122 de-
grees can be endured when the air is as
dry as possible, but that even 104 de
grees is likely to be fatal in tempera-
ture saturated with moisture. 1t is also
considered certain that men cannot be-
come accustomed to stand for any con-
siderable time a higher temperature
than from AS degrees to 165 degrees,
even when they keep perfectly still and
are in quite pure air.
JACOB CHRISTIAN, a young German,
met with a horrible death near Wabash,
Ind. He and his brother Henry were
hauling logs from the woods on bob
sleds: When the sleds were partly
loaded and while skidding a log, it
slipped and rolled back, caught Jacob
and bore him to the ground, wedging
his legs beneath the sleds. The log
rested upon his hips, and he appealed
piteously to Henry for assistance. After
vainly endeavoring to move the log over
the legs of the PROSTATE man, Henry
rolled it across his abdomen, breast,
and head, crushing his countenance be-
yond recognition, smashing the frontal
bones, and inficting injuries which
resulted fatally. In explanation, he
stated that he was afraid to leave Jacob
with the log upon him, and knew OF no
other course to pursue.
PETROLEUM and the residuum of its
distillation have been extensively used
for the steam marine on the Caspian
and on the railways in southeastern
Russia, but the price charged here for
petroleum has been too high TO permit
of its economic use in competition with
coal, although there have been numer-
Gus devices for its combustion under
boilers which have been successful in
the mechanical details. A locomotive
has been made to burn naphtha, which
is vaporized by steam jets, but for nu-
merous reasons it has never been adopt
ed by the railways, although the alb
sence of cinders and smoke and the
ease with which the generation of
steam can be controlled render this
class of fuel particularly adapted to To-
cOmotives.
In the little village of Mount Pleas
ant, in the potteIics IN Staffordshire,
ENGLAND. is 10 be found child whose