News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
TIE MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
STRANGE, CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT Us.

STRANGE, CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT Us.
Woman's Devotion The Income Tax
I y thing Aside WiIi-Lsst In n swamp
The Note was Good, Etc., Etc.
AT reception of the Rev. DR.. Sew
ard, in New Britain, Conn, recently
"reminiscences were in order. 1t was
said that DR.. Seward insisted, when ap
pointed pastor, in 1886, that he should
not be called upon for more than two
public services each Sunday; that one
member of the church shortly after
ward prayed that the pastor would re-
ceive grace to preach in the morning
and afternoon, and, ''if his strength
held out he might continue in the
evening" DR.. Seward told of receiving
bushel of turnips once for marrying d
a couple, and some years later the bride
groom appeared and passed out $40
bill, saving that "his wife had turned
out so well that he felt justified in the
expenditure. A man once came into
church late, and started, with squcaky
| boots, to walk the whole length of a
| side gallery, when an exchange pastor
stopped suddenly in his prayer, opened
his eyes, and pointing long finger at
the disturber, said, "You sit down right
where you are" He then resumed his
| prayer.
AN instructive instance of woman's
devotion to man in difficulties is fur
nished by the case of the Convict Ban
dit in Chicago, just convicted of embez-
element and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for three years. He was engaged
to be married to two young women, and
though he magnanimously consented to
release one of them, both insisted on
becoming his wife before his hair was
cropped. He married one, and the other
was Frustrated with grief at what was
really good deliverence. AS back
ground against which to place this pic
ture of female fidelity it may be men
toned that in Justices Duffy's Court in
New York there were warrants issued
for the arrest of twenty -four husbands
for abandoning their wives, which elici-
ted the remark from the worthy Justice
that ''half the women in the country
should not get married.
THE setting aside of the will of the
late A. d. Ditmars of Lancaster, who
left $50, 900 "to ascertain what children
were created to do" leaves it for some
one else to try to develop his curious
idea. One of the features of the instl-
tuition which he hoped to found was
room containing musical instruments,
tools used in the various trades, and
other appliances. When child was
brought to be entered into the institu-
ton it was to be taken into this room
and its actions observed. If the little
ones inclination led it to the musical
instruments, it was to be educated as
musician. If its desires tended toward |
the plane and saw, a carpenters trade |
would be taught it, and SO on through |
the list of occupations.
DIR. SMITH, pastor of the First Metho- |
dist Church IN st. Paul, found a gang |
OF men paving the street in front of his !
church last Sunday morning. He asked |
them to stop. They did not. Then he
said that they must stop, and right off, |
too. If they did not he would make a |
against each individual work |
man, and see that he was arrested and |
punished for breaking the Sabbath day. |
and quit work, and the energetic pastor
walked into the pulpit and preached |
with great fervor, saying, in the course
of the sermon, that he proposed to have
Sunday observed in front of his church
if not in any other part of ST. Paul.
A PET black squirrel owned in Sa-
vannah, Ca, was left at home while its
mistress went away for a visit. AS soon
as the little fellow missed her he hunted |
all over the house, and, not finding her,
showed unmistakable grief. He refused |
to eat day after day, until it was so evil
dent that he was starving himself TO ,
death that his mistress was sent for. |
When she came the squirrel was frantic |
with JOY, and then it tried to eat. but |
it had tasted too long; it could not |
swallow, and the next day died lying
on the knees of his mistress.
LAST Saturday noon a three year-old
child strayed into the woods at Motley,
Mimi, and was lost. 1t had not been
found by Monday morning, and then all
the saw mills shut down, and over two
hundred men began the search. They
found it that day stuck fast In a swamp
within q mile of its home. When 1t
was found the signal was given, and the
whole line took up the shout, which
reached the ears of the mother, who
tainted at once. The little one was in
the swamp two cold nights, but was not
injured by the exposure.
A FAC-SIMILE telegraph despatch was
recently sent out by Buffalo fish deal
er as an advertisement. One was re-
Of
whose husband was out OF town. She
at once concluded that he had met with
an awful accident, and SO went into ny
sterics. Servants were sent for her |
parents, who found her still too much |
unnerved to open the envelope and learn |
the terrible facts. She recovered with |
remarkable celebrity when the news |
that fish were cheap was gently broken
to her.
SOME of the sports of Nevada, Mo-, a |
year ago, just in fun, made Morris
Sherman think he had good colt, and |
DR.. G. A lockwood bought it for $3.50, |
about twice what it was worth, giving
his note, payable one day after death.
The boys thought it big joke on Nor
rls that he hadn't noticed the word
death" instead OF ''date" in the no;e,
and told him of 1t, expecting him to
beg for his horse, but instead he began
SUIT, and has got Judgment for 500
with interest.
IT has been tie custom of New Or
leans daily newspaper publishers to
take back from the retailers the unsCld
copies of their paper. This has been
stopped recently because the publishers
found that they were being robbed
several dealers had established routes
on which they rented the papers at re-
luced rates instead of selling them.
They delivered the papers in the morn
ng, gathered them up in the evening,
and returned them as unsold copies.
THERE is a cave about four miles from
Houston, Texas, about one hundred
feet '--e- ord SIXTY feet broad, and from
four 90 sixteen iect in height, where
mum rrrfg-s bats rOost by day. 1t - sand |
that there are so many that 1t takes |
them near an hour to get into the cave |
each morning, and in the rush hundreds |
are killed. 1t is proposed to form a |
company to collect and utilize bat |
skins.
PRESIDENT DEPEw of the New York |
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