News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04

Hoe cholera was carefully studied
last summer by several pork raisers in
Kansas, where the disease ragged part of
the time. One of them resorted to
'hOne treatment, as he called it, and
he says it succeeded in bringing every
member of his injected herd around all
right. The mede or treatment he thus
describes& VAS soon as the animals
were taken sick turned them out OF
| the pens and began to drive them to
warm up their blood. The first day
drove them three miles and the second
day two miles. They would vomit
freely while being driven. After the
second day they showed signs of i'm
provement, which continued, and final
ly all the hogs recovered" An Abby
Vile county Is, c. farmer, whose hogs
have never been attacked by the dis
ease, attributes their immunity to a
quart of turpentine Stops which he gave
them weekly.
SOME interesting facts concerning the
relative vitality 81 males and females
are shown in the forty-sixth annual fe-
port of the English Registrar General.
In each 1000 living persons there are
4S7 males and 513 females; but for
| 100 females 1913. > males were born. AT
every age of life the death rate was
| lower in the females, and the difference
is greater in early yeats. In both sexes
| diminished death rate is taking place.
| This IS more marked in females than in
males, at all ages. The improvement is
especially notable in women up to AS,
and in men to 30. The mean expecta-
ton of life of male at birth Is II. So,
and Of a female 44.eS years. The an
nual expectation of illness is, counted
by days, nearly the same in both sexes.
AND now comes a story about Mr..
Buck, the Kentucky man who was sent
to Peru as American Minister. one of
the naval officers on the west coast
writes home that he has been guilty of
appearing at an official dinner in bust
ness suit. The dinner was given in his
honor, and he was the only one of the
guests who did not appear in evening
dress. 1t was afterwards disclosed that
Mr.. Buck did not have such thing in
/ his wardrobe as a dress suit, and the
| officer writes that he and others of the
Minister'S friends have since succeeded
in finding one for him, so that further
criticism will be avoided.
SIXTEEN penetentiary convicts en-
ployed in the mines at Cole Hill, in Ar
kansas, affected their escape. They
tunnellcd for distance of thirty-five
feet. The work was commenced at the
time of the strike, which occurred three
weeks ago, and continued until the tun-
mel was completed without the officials
discovering it. A search was made
through the mines for the purpose of
finding the passage, but it proved I'M
successful, the convicts having so effec-
tualle closed it behind them that not
trace of it is left. Two of the men
have been recaptured. Bloodhounds
and posse are in pursuit of the Others.
ANNIE WATSON, once a noted charac-
ter among the dissolute women of Phila-
delphia, was buried in Wilmington,
for the past ten years. When she left
Philadelphia she was said to have been
possessed of over $50, 900, but her estate
now is worth not more than $40, 900.
Both in Philadelphia and in Whining
ton she became noted for her acts of
charity, dispensing her money with
liberal hand among the deserving poor.
The woman had no relatives and was
followed to her grave by single car
riage.
Two BOYS, named Wise and Coon, cap
tuTed the son of one of the directors of
Miss Repp;ng's school, west of Fond du
Lac, Wis, and, dragging him into the
entry, fastened a strong rope around his
neck, threw the rope over an iron peg,
and pulled him up. The timely appear
ance of the schoolma'am saved the boy
from serious injury, although his neck
plainly showed where the rope had
Choked him.