News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-17
THE MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
STRANGE, CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT Us.
Cnicago Noveity-As Large as the Moon
"A Lady's lcnS Trip at sen-A Band of
kosbers-A Werkfngman,s Dinner, Etc,

Cnicago Novelty-As Largo as the Moon
Lady's l.onS Trip at sea-A Band of
hosbers-A Workingman's Dinner, Etc.
a FRENCH vessel arrived at St. Johns
n. r., from Saint Malo for the purpose
81 landing Miss Louise Journeaux. who
vas picked up from an open boat at sea.
t0out 20 miles off the Island of Jersey
The lady, with a gentleman named
Farne, went boating on Sunday even
ing, April Is, after leaving church.
While rowing, her companion let one
oar slip, and in attempting to recover it
lost the other. Being a good swimmer
ne instantly jumped overheard to recov-
Or the oar. The wind meantime was
treshening. and there was strong cur
rent setting from the land. The boat
last drlfted beyt nd his reach, and he
was compelled either to swim for the
land or sink. Miss Journeaux, alone in
the boat, drifted to sea. The boat al
most filed with water, and for 40 hours
she lived IN agony. At length she was
rescued by the French vessel, on board
OF which she was kindly cared for by
the Captain and officers. The violent
otf-shore wind prevented the French
man from reaching Jersey, and the lady
was carried across the Atlantic to New
toundland. Farne reached St. Hilaires
Harbor safely, but his story was disbe-
heved. People from the shore affirmed
that they hear cries of murder from
sea. Farne was arrested and indicted
for homocide. His liberation is of course
certain, Miss Journeaux having cabled
her miraculous escape.
The latest novelty in Chicago is the
rainbow party" The young ladies
wear little aprons with the bottom left
unhemmed. Every young lady has
number, and these numbers are placed
In box. The gentlemen buy tickets
and draw from the box. After all the
young men have found the aprons, or
rather their young ladies wearing the
proper aprons, the master of ceremonies
announces the conditions. The young
men are to hem the aprons, and the one
doing the neatest, quickest and most
careful piece OF work is to receive
prize. The young ladies supply their
escorts with needle and thread, and at
the call Of time the fun begins with the
efforts of the contestants to, thread their
needles. The prizes are sometimes
quite valuable. The aprons are rallied
oil after the prizes are awarded, and
sometimes fetch big prices.
THE farms of America equal the entire
territory of the United Kingdom, France,
Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary,
and Portugal. The corn fields equal the |
extent of England, Scotland, and Bel /,
GUM: while the grain fields generally |
would overlap Spain. The cotton fields |
cover an area larger than Holland and .
twice as large as Belgium. The rice 1
fields, sugar and tobacco plantations !
would also form kingdoms of no insig- |
nihcant 81 e, and such is the state of adj |
vancement reached by American agri- |
culturists that it is estimated that one
farmer like Dalrymple, with field of :
wheat covering a hundred square miles, /
can raise as much grain with 400 farm
servants as 5000 peasant proprietors in
France.
AT half-past seven o'clock on the /
evening of May 10th, the sky in and |
about Havana, Cuba, was Illuminated |
by an aerolite of extraordinary magni-
tude. 1t first appeared as luminous
point about fifty degrees above the hori-
zon, its course being north by west to
south by east. When crossing the
zenith its sizo appeared equal to that of
the moon. 1t left behind it track of
white and blue light, while the nucleus
was of fiery red color At about 80
degrees above the horizon the meteor
burst into small fragments, which took
different directions, disappearing into
space within two minutes after. A heavy
thunder storm then set in, which was of
considerable duration.
A BAND of robbers, dressed as Ital-
tans, came into the little town OF Peto,
near Merida, in Yucatan. A travelling
company were playing in the theatre,
the best people of the town forming the
audience. The robbers surrounded the
theatre, sufficient number of them
going in and plundering every one of
all the money and valuables on their
persons, sometimes with violence. A
party went on the stage, ransacked the
wardrobe, and finally carried of the
handsomest prima donna, Nine. Ruiz,
and two good-looking chorus girls.
During the tumult son of Nine Ruiz
was killed, defending his mother, and
$4,000 ransom for the ladies had to be
paid.
A BORDEAUX journal describes the
dinner usually provided for workmen in
that city. A large plate of vegetable
soup. costs 2 cents; a large piece of
bread, cents; large plate of red
haricot beans, cost cents: half plate
of roast veal the quantity being ample
for an ordinary man, cost cents;
plate of rice, one cent, and half bottle
of vim ordinaire, cost A cents; so it will
be seen fair dinner was provided, with
half bot Ia g III !
cents. What can be made a successful
business in France, where almost every
article of diet is taxed, can surely be
made to pay here, where food and meat
are cheaper.
A NEWSPAPER in Maine quotes some
reports of "deestrick school" commit
teemen, which read like those of half
century ago One such is: f'Miss
Abrams did not allow the children to
make any noise, and made but little
herself, moving her pupils around as old
Dea Drinkwater did his oxen-by the
snap of her finger" Another school
''made fair progress. some scholars get
ting ahead of their own accord and
Others being dragged along. Strap oil,
properly applied, might have helped
the matter" ''Birch oil is the lubri-
cant which ''made things run smooth"
at another school.
THIRTY-FIvE years ago three sisters
worked In q cotton factory in Lam
cashire, England. They all married ,
machinists, and one went to Australia, !
one to New Zealand, and one to Ameri- :
ca. The later was Mrs. William Shear Z
er, whose husband settled in Atlanta.
She never heard a word from her New I
Zealand sister until recently. when ,
letter informed her that her SISTERS hus- ,
band had made half million dollars
and had died childless, and that last ,
December the sister had died, leaving
$3.50, 600 each to her sisters in Australia
and America.
WHEN Mr.. Lincoln, then President
elect, passed through Rochester in
February, 1861, en- route to Washing
ton, his face was smooth. shaven. 1t is
said that on his way from Illinois to
Washington a little girl remarked to
him, "Mr. Lincoln, your face would not
seem so long and you would look better
Il you wore whiskers" The President
laughed, thanked the young miss, and
went his way. Thereafter he let his
beard grow.
THE law recently enacted in Iowa not
only requires that every package of but
terine or caseine shall bear, in letters an
inch and half long, an emphatic state
ment that it is an imitation article, but