News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-01-21

with popcorn says they gave moro milk
than ever before. Others made ''mush'
of it, and found it more palatable and
nourishing than the ordinary article.
Then the chemists analysed it and de
clared it to contain more albuminoids
than most of the other cereals; so pop
corn bids fair to become recognized
diet.
A SINGULAR sort of manure for potato
fields has been introduced on Pomer-
anian model farm. Hitherto herrings
and potatoes have been known as pala-
table dish in family households. The
manager of the farm in question has
hit upon the idea of blending them
from the start, by planting his seed pc
tatoes with a herring placed in every
heap, and with so decided success as
to cause him to increase the area thus
planted from twenty acres last year to
sixty in the present one. The expense
| he calculates at about nine marks per
acre, which is cheaper than the cost of
any other kind of manure, and amply
repays the outlay. OF course 1t can
only be employed near the sea coast.
A PECULIAR instance of religious fer
vor has just occurred in Indianapolis.
Samuel Steinberg and his wife, Polish
Hebrews, each eighty years old, died
from the effects of suffocation by gas
which had escaped from stove, the
pipe of which had fallen early on Friday
morning. That day being a holy day,
and one religiously observed among the
sect to which the aged couple belonged,
all work of whatever kind being pro-
hibited, they would not raise hand to
adjust the pipe When found they
were so nearly dead that it was impos-
sible to resuscitate them. Tho old lady,
however, before dying impaired the
fore going explanation of their con-
dition.
A LEADING publishing house states
that when a manuscript is received it is
turned over to reader" who after
examining it carefully, returns it with
his opinion as to its merit or lack of
merit If a reader returns a manuscript
with strong endorsement, the merits
of the work are considered from com
mercial point of view-whetEer it is
likely to sell, how much it will cost for
production, &c. Frequently this manu-
script is turned over to a second reader.
sometimes to third If all say, ''This
is a strong work; think it will pay you
to publish it." or words to that effect,
of course their recommendation goes
long way in the question of publication.
THE bodies of Burke Hovey and ].
NJ. Scales, the miners who were Impris-
oned in the Prodigal Son Mine, in Colo
RADIO, by snowslide, were found at the
bottom of the shaft Both bodies were
packed in the snow as in mould. Ho-
vey was found standing upright on
piece of timber six feet from the bot
tom of the shaft, while Scales was found
at the bottom of the shaft.
The latter had candle in his left hand
and was shading his hand with his
right and looking up, as though to see
what it was coming down the mine. |
From appearances, their death must |
have been instantaneous.
WILLIAM 81. STEARNs, druggist, re-
Gently purchased a stock of New York |
cigars. His wife was standing at the |
front of the show case when he opened |
a box and lighted one of them. The |
next moment there was dull explosion |
and Stearns fell to the floor. His face
was badly cut up. Mrs. Stearns was
slightly burned and suffered a nervous
shock that has Frustrated her. The |
cigar is supposed to nave been charged |
with dynamite, but whether by some
dissatisfied artisan in New York or an
encny in Chicago is not known.