News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-27
THE MYSTERIES OF ADAY,
STRANGE. CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT Us.
oh Desert 1sland-Aa EventfuI Lffe-He
AwOke-She Won at Last-Trees in the
United States, Etc, Etc.


1T is generally believed that Danit
De Foe took the adventures of AlexaI
der Selkirk for the canvas of his Robin
son CruSOe. The island on which Sc
kirk lived for five years belonged t
Chill, and has remained uninhabite
until 1872 when a Swiss named Roo
rented it from the Chillian Government
and established on it an agricultural Co
ony, which is now in a tiourishing cor
dltlon. III. Rodt, who is about fort
years old, entered the Austrian army i
1864, fought against Prussia in 1866
was at Paris during the siege of 1870
and fought as one of the Amis de Ii
France at Champigny. At present he il
the quasi Sovereign of RObinsOn's IslanC
(Jaun Fernandez under the suzerainty
of Chill, which, however, has not yet
been invoked. He exercises all the
government, judicial and administrative
functions, and things are said to thrive
under this one man regime better than
in any country in the world.
Two drummers driving from Grayson
to Pawnee, Kan, lost their way, and
finally came to a shanty. In it were
two beds; on one lay a woman who
looked like a living skeleton; on the
other the dead bodies of a man and five
children. The woman could talk and
told this story. my husband, Howard
Ballinger, had been sick a long time.
Five weeks ago we were very nearly
out of provisions, and sent my son, %
years of age, to Grayson to get some
provisions. We waited and waited for
his return, but he did not come. After
awhile the children got sick, and one
by one the little ones died My husband
was the last one to go, he dying last
night" The drummers had lunch
with them, and, giving u to the woman
went out to find help. Several people
from Grayson said that they saw young
Ballinger in town. and he said he was
going to San Francisco.
DENNIS O'HERRoN of Louisville has
had rather an eventful life. In early
DAYS he was prosperous in Buffalo. He
became a drunkard and then tramp.
He reformed, and went to work in Louis |
vile. Last October, while handling |
ties, big spread head viper darted from
a pile and hurled its fangs in his breast.
His companions pulled the snake off, |
and filled Dennis with whiskey. They |
kept him drunk for a week, and he
never felt any i'll effects from the bite
A few months later a mule kicked him
twice in two seconds, breaking some
ribs and his collar bone. Shortly after
he hal recovered from tEese injuries,
and while asleep in the shade Of tree,
man drove a buggy over his neck. He
apparently wasn't hurt, but week ago
his neck began to pain him, and now he
is in a hospital suffering from general
break up of his badly used system.
GEORGE MOORE, a clerk in an Au
gusta Me-, hotel, has been in the habit of
writing every night an order to the por-
ter to call Andrew Jack, a railway pos
tai clerk, who goes out on an early
train, at 80 in the morning. The 9th
er night Moore dreamed that he had not
put down the order He thought he
saw Jack stagger up to the depot with
the train was drawing out, and the sight
Of the mail clerks efforts to catch the
train so impressed him that he awoke
He hurried down stairs to make sure
that the order had been written. 1t had
not been. He looked at the clock. Is
was Just 4:60. Then he went and called
Jack himself, to be sure that the dream
shouldn't come true.
w. W. WILSON and William Lam {
bert of Cedar Creek, S. c., agreed to !
meet at certain place and go turkey
hunting the next morning. About day
light Lambert set out for the place, and
as he neared it he heard a turkey COB
bling, and crept up to shoot it. Soon
he thought he saw it, and fred. After
he had shot, his friend Wilson rose from
the ground and staggered toward him,
saying: "You have killed mel Take
care of my wife and children" and then
he fell and died He had heard the
turkey, and, like Lambert, was creeping
to get shot at it when he himself was
shot in the neck
SOME months ago John Quick of Rupert.
Pa, took Kowzeh, a fifteen-yea1 old In (
1ian boy, from the school at Carlisle
Under indentures. The lad didn't take '
Kindly to farm work and civilization. {
md was so homesick, and pinned so for
Western life that Mr.. Quick decided to f
axe him back to Carlisle. Kowzeh c
iidnt want to 90 back to the school, C
)ut the farmer insisted, and the two b
vent to the depot. When the train s
oiled in the boy plunged from the plat n
orm to the rails, and was crushed to I
Ieath by the locomotive t
Miss PUssIE ROCKS has been postmis- 9
ress at Monroe, Ca, for twenty-one
ears. In that time she has never been
.bsent from her Office a single day. A >
to this effect met the eve of
Professor George NJ Shaetfer, president
If the North Carolina College, at Mt !
Pleasant, N. c., and he determined to :
we'd the lady. He packed his satchel, !.
arrived in town on Sunday, introduced
himself to Miss Pussie, and on Wednes- |
lay they were married. The ceremony ! !
irew one of the largest crowds ever as
Sembled in Monroe
OF the more than four hundred spe :
lies of trees found in the United States.
here are said to be sixteen species |
whose perfectly dry wood will sink in r
water. he heaviest of those is the I
1la k ironwood of southern Florida n
Viii Is more than thirty per cent heav- c
er than water. OF the others, the best f
-nown are the lignumvite and man a
rove; another is a small oak, found in C
he mountains of western Texas, south y
IN New Mexico, and Arizona, and west O
Yard to the Colorado desert, at an ele- O
alton of 5, 900 to 10, 900 feet. h
A FIsH-FIGURING philosopher has estf- k
mated that 100, 900 vessels are engaged V
n the fishing business of the world. s.
hat their annual catch amounts to L. V
90, 600 tons, that a ton of fish is equal b
D the mutton supply of twenty-eight a
leep, and that, consequently, a years h
atch is equal to A., 900, 900 sheep. 1t +
a pity he did not continue his figures J
ntll he found that fish must have wool, I
T at least until he proved that an an t
Ter can go half crazy from the bite of !
heepshead. i
A CINCINNATI pickpocket, seeing a =
Dung man with a young woman on :
lch arm, deity relieved him of his !,
-atch. The young man saw the deed :
nd tried to grab the thief, but the girls !,
Jung to his arms and cried, Don't go; I
ell kill you" and more to that effect, .
ntil the thief got well away They :
ere not confederates Of the pickpocket !
ther, but nice average Ohio girls, who -
ere bound the young man shouldn't =
ct hurt. !
Mrs. ANN JANE MERCER, who recent
! died in Philadelphia, has bequeathed
er fine estate, called THE Mount, in
county, Pa, and nearly