News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-22
THE MYSTERIES OLA DAY.
STRANGE, CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT Us.
He Quar- He'd with Himself-The saco
Man Settled the Dispute-Her Mother
was Ill-The ourney Through Life-A
Matter of Taste, ETC., Etc.

| HAvE heard in the old army an anec.
dote very characteristic of Gen. Bragg.
says an army officer. On one occasion
when stationed at a post of several COM
panies commanded by a field officer, he
was himself commanding one of the
companies, and at the same time acting
as Post Quartermaster and Commissary.
He was First Lieutenant at the time,
but his Captain was detached on other
duty. AS commander of the company
he made a requisition upon the Quar-
termaster (himselD for something he
wanted. AS Quartermaster he declined
to fill the requisition and endorsed on
the back of it his reasons for so doing.
AS company commander he responded
to this, urging that his requisition
called for nothing but what he was en-
titled to and that it was the duty of the
Quartermaster to fill it. AS Quarter
master he still persisted that he was
right. In this condition of affairs
Bragg referred the whole matter to the
commanding officer of the post. The
latter, when he saw the nature of the
matter referred, exclaimed: "Gracious,
Mr.. Bragg, you have quarrelled with
every officer in the army, and now you
are quarrelling with yourself"
A SACo, Me-, man who was addicted
to strong drink had worn his wife's pa
tience entirely out, and the much abused
woman finally decided to apply for a
divorce. Her husband, who could but
acquiesce in the justice of the decision,
and perhaps wishing to begin his career
as a single man with a reputation for
amiability, hired a team to carry her to
Alfred and hunted up a friend to give
the needed testimony to his bad char
acter as a husband. The divorce was
decreed and with the bill in her pocket
the lady came down the stairs to meet
her ex-husband, who had waited on the
doorstep so as to improve the first OPP
portunity to again pop the question.
So much devotion won the lady's heart,
and she at once agreed to the proposal
to try 1t again. All this happened half
a dozen years ago, and the pair are vet
enjoying the felicity of their second
honeymoon.
HENRY RALPH and his wife, of Ber-
vile, Mich, quarrelled and separated,
the mother taking a three-year old child
with her. She tired of the boy, and a
few days ago, in company with an ad-
mirer, started in a buggy to take the
child to its father. She met him on a
wagon load of gravel and offered the
child to him. He wouldn't take it.
The mother tossed the boy up on the
load of gravel. The father threw him
back into the buggy. The mother
grabbed the whip and began beating
the husband, and In the confusion the
little boy fell out of the buggy between
| the wheels of the loaded wagon. The
horses started, and the wheel went over
the little head, and the question in dis
pute was settled forever. The woman
has been arrested.
The Cincinnati Graphic N6ws follows
up its instantaneous photographs of the
Cincinnati races with the presentation
of scenes from a ball match obtained
by the same process. The photograph
of the striker, at the moment he hits
the ball, shows a strangely awkward
posture, but it is a picture that will be
recognized as truthful. The infelders,
after a grounder, is also a natural por-
trayal, and the alertness of the second
baseman, as he is about catching a ball
from the field and half turning to in
terrupt the base runner, is truer to life
than any drawing could represent it.
But if the Graphic Ne,OS desires to OBJ
tain some really artistic awkwardness
it must wait to portray a six day walk
ing match, at the end of the fifth day.
MARIE HEBRON, IA years old, and
black, was committed to the Industrial
School in BALTIMORE by her mother. who
said she conldnt do anything with
Marie. She had a Don on the fifth
floor. One dark night she got out on
the roof, hung from the caves by her
hands, and dropped to a building be-
meath, thence jumped to the roof of a
house az adjoining, got on the veranda,
slid down a post to the ground, scaled
the fence, and went home. Her mother
at once notified the police, and one of
the force went to rearrest Marie. He
couldn't find her until he happened to
stick his hand up a chimney. He felt
something, and grasped and pulled,
ever.
A STATISTICAL expert calculates That
if one million babies started together
in the race of life one hundred and fifty
thousand would drop out in the first
year, fi~fty-three thousand in the second,
and twenty two thousand in the third
year. At the end of forty-fve years
about half of them would be still in
the race. Sixty years would see three
hundred and seventy thousand gray
heads still at it. At the end of eighty
years there would be ninety-seven thou
sand remaining on the track; fifteen
vnarc 1atar tho nnrnhor -ra,Jl
duced to two hundred and twenty-three,
and the winner would quit the track
forever at the age of one hundred and
eight.
As A matter of good taste the pub
fishing of a long list of wedding pres
ents is questionable, but the list recent
ly published in a country paper is, in
one sense, interesting, including as it
did: ''From father and mother of the
bride, n Jersey calf; from bride to
groom, hair wreath made from hair of
her entire family, and also six fine
shirts; from brother Elias, n book of
poems, one Dream Book, one Polite
Letter Writer, and a dog; from Aunt
Harriet, SIX hens and q rooster, also one
jar tomato catsup; from Cousin Sarah.
n poem made up by herself on bride
and groom, fifteen verses in all"
DANIEL R. ARNOLD is the station
agent at Pawtucket. Recently the
clerks and freight hands went to his
office in a body, and the spokesman
began a speech about the strikes out
West and the relations of EMPLOYERS
and employed, and was going on when
Mr.. Arnold, very sternly and impatient
ly, said; Estate your grievance" The
next moment he felt the cheapest of any
man in New England, for the spokes-
man said the boys had come to make
hin a present on his 57th birthday. It
was q nice present, but Mr.. Arnold
could hardly say ''thank you," he was
so surprised.
DOES any one suppose that the girl of
fifty years ago would have been satisfied
with a hon espun dress if all sorts of
pretty materials had been as plenty and
as cheap as they are to-day? Fifty wears
from now the boys and girls of today
will be far enough advanced to take n
retrospective view, and then thew will
be seen with spectacles on their nosas
lamenting the ~degeneracy of the times
and telling of the wonderful feats ac-
by Susie or Nellie in the
days when they were young.
GEORGE RnL Y, of Scnectady, who has
just had his hand crushed in n drill
press, is not a fortunate youth. When
very small he fell off a fence and broke
nose. Later, he was nearly drowned
then his toes were crushed by the cars.
he broke his nose again; then his
head was crushed between the bumpers