News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-05
THE MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
STRANGE. CURIOUS AND sTARTLiN"
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT U.s.
A sorrowing MOther-A strange
Why They Call Him B"ck-i'oh"oh hHs-
eed Schools-How Lightning " "rAs'hlc'

THE London hdSSou SCA0oA ~
doing a great work among the poor
children Of London. Last year g report
shows that in the 215 Sunday afternoon
and evening schools connected with the
Union there was an average attendance
If 40 3O4: in the 173 day and week
nioht schools an average of 6,O74; and
in the seventy six industrial schools an
AVERAGE of 1888. The report made
praiseworthy mention of the great army
of 3,507 voluntary teachers who have
labored Sin season and out OF season"
with self-denying perseverance through
another year. There is no work more
laborious or that calls for a greater ex-
ercise of this self-denying perseverance.
CAPT. JOHN HALEY, of the Fort Pop
ham Life Saving Station, was quietly
pulling home from Bath, Me-, the other
evening in the dark, when he was STRUCK
violently on the head and knocked TO
the bottom of the boat. The Captain,
who thought that he was alone on the
waters, was not only surprised, but, ne
confesses, terribly scared. He was
greatly relieved when he found that
fifteen-pound sturgeon in his evening
gamtolings had leapt from the water
and in his fight through the air
v hacked the Captain as aforesaid, and
lay gasping in the bottom of the boat.
Nor so many years ago a mother re-
siding in St. Paul discovered that her
youthful son was about to rob a bank.
She at once, though it was late at night,
sent a messenger to the bank cashiers
home to inform him of the fact. 1t was
raining hard and the night was dismal,
and the cashier, reused from warm
bed. declined to believe the statement
and turned in again. When he entered
the bank on Monday morning, he was
Sc, 900 short in cash and the bank had
been robbed.
AL. RITTER, of Wenas, w. T., was
showing his wife new breech- loading
rife when it was accidentally discharged.
Neither was hurt; but the fact, that
their two-year-old boy, who had been
sleeping on the bed, did not awake, led
them to hurry to the bedside. They
found the child dead. The ball had
entered the left groin, come out at the
chest, entered again at the chin, and
lodged in the top of the head.
LIGHTNING struck house in Volun-
town. Conn, the other night, and after
ripping up things generally, the current
divided into two. One went to house
near by, killing a goat on the way
struck a girl, burned her stocking and
shoe off, and blistered and partially par
alvzed her leg. The other current went
off at right angles from the first, dam
aged pig pen, and knocked down a
horse in an adjacent barn.
A YOUNG man of Elmsport, Pa, who
is very much in love with young wo-
man of that place, insisted upon ''seeing
her home from church" the other night.
She objected. He insisted. She slap
ped his face. He followed her and en-
tered the house. She got a whip and
drove him out. He fingered on the
piazza. She drove him off. He says
he will have that girl yet.
"BUCK" GRANT was interviewed by a
Denver reporter the other day and asked
how he came by the nickname. The
explanation was simple. When the
Grant family moved from Ohio to Mis-
souri, he was little boy, and some one
called him in joke, 1.-The Little Buck
eye." The name stuck, but in the pro-
gress Of time ''the little" and "eye'
were dropped, and the name as it now
stands remained.
IT may not be generally known that
no white man can tell with absolute
certainty just when a watermelon is ripe.
Not so with raccoon. The pestiferous
little varmint will go over patch night
Of
melon, but the moment he finds ripe
one he proceeded to plug and sample il
after the most approved manner.
WHILE digging a cistern on the site
of Fort Loundon, built by Washington
after the battle of Fort Necessity, in
Pennsylvania, in 1856, to protect Win.
chester against the French and Indians,
there were found portion of skeleton
with hair and teeth, buttons, iron can.
non wheels, balls, grape shot, and hand
grenade.
Mrs. ]. NJ. HALL, of Tolono, H., had
hen that laid two eggs a day. The
hen was killed this week, and out oil
CURIOSITY an anatomical examination was
made. which revealed the fact that the
hen had two egg sacks, each containing
fully matured egg which would have
been laid that day.
THE New Hampshire Department, G.
A R., wore a unique badge on theil
trip to San Francisco. 1t consists of q
silk badge appropriately lettered and
bearing the State seal, to the bar oil
which was attached polished block OF
granite about an inch square and half an
inch thick.
AN old man died recently at the age
of 80 in an Indiana county asylum
whose son held So, 900 insurance poll.
cy on his fathers life, and had instruct
ed the asylum people to telegraph him
whenever the old man died, that he
might at once get the necessary proofs
of his death.
DURING a thunder storm at New Rich
mond, Wis, two thunderbolts went
through the pillow of young woman,
one on each side of her head. Her hair
was singed, her head and shoulders
burned, and both eyeballs SO blistered
that she will be totally blind.
A YOUNG woman of Ashton, Oak, has
| a farm which she works all alone. She
has three horses, and last year she
raised l, 200 bushels of grain, and now
has seventy-fve acres of grain, and i:
breaking up more land. She averages
about one offer of marriage a month.
A CITIZEN of Douglasville, Ca. went
home after dark, and after he had slam
med the gate heard a curious Hopping
sound. He investigated, and discov.
cred that he had shut the gate on the
head of big snake, which was making
strenuous efforts to escape.
A LITTLE negro, called court" al
Marshall, Mo, whose father was sol
der and was killed in the war. recently
received 81, 500 pension money. His
first purchase was $50 finger ring, his
second $500 horse and buggy.
IT is said that woman paid full table
board for her pug dog at leading Gin
cinnati hotel rather than that it should
associate with other dogs and eat the
table leavings.
Editors ON Horseback.