News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-06
THE MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
STRANGE, CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT US.

STR aNGE, CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT Us.
The Sen-A Western Duck Hunting Boat
Oregon and her SaImOn-The Boy and
Marbles, etc., etc.
On the Russian frontier it once hap
pened that an officer was playing at
cards with a friend, when a Jew was
irving to smuggle himself into the Rus
sian empire without proper wise of his
passport. The sentinel on guard ares
ted him and reported to the officer.
"All right" said he. Hours after
ward the sentinel again asked what he
was to do with the Jew. The Captain
furious at being interrupted, shouted,
''Why, confouud the Jew Hang him p
The Captain kept playing until morn
ing, when, suddenly remembering the
prisoner, he called the soldier and said,
''Bring in the Jewl'' "The Jew9" said
the amazed soldier; "but l hanged him
as you ordered" "What2' said the
Captain, ''you have committed muir
derr' He arrested him, and the judg-
nt-death-went up to the Emperor.
Inquiring, before signing so serious a
document, and learning how matters
stood, the Emperor decided that the
soldier who, without reasoning, had
implicitly obeyed so extraordinary an
order of his superior, was to be made
corporal; that the officer who, while on
duty, for the sake of gambling had
given the murderous order, was to be
sent to Siberia, and that his pay was
to go to the family of the poor Jew who
had SO iniquitously been murdered.
ALFRED KRUPP owns probably the
largest business in the world dependent
on one individual. The works within
the town of Essen occupy more than five
hundred acres, half of which are under
cover According to a census taken in
September, 1881, the number of hands
employed by Mr.. Krupp was nineteen
thousand six hundred and five, the num-
! Der of their families are forty-ive
| thousand seven hundred and seventy
six, making sixty-five thousand three
hundred and eighty-one persons sup
ported by his works. Mr.. Krupp owns
five hundred and forty-seven iron mines
in Germany. He owns four sea steam
Essen works forty-two miles of railway,
employing twenty eight locomotives and
eight hundred and eighty three cars,
sixty nine horses and one hundred and
ninety-one wagons, and forty miles of
telegraph wires, with thnty-tive sta
lions and fifty five Morse apparatuses
The establishment possesses a grand
chemical laboratory: Photographic and
photographic atelier, a printing Office
with three steam and six hand presses,
and bookbinding room. The estab-
lishment even runs hotel In Essen.
LEW CASSIDY of South Bend, Ind,
has invented an invisible boat which
is said to be success. He took an or
binary flat-bottom boat, cut the sides,
from the bow one-third of the length,
down to the water line, covered this |
part over and made it air tight, and |
then placed at the rear end of this COM
partment mirror twenty-eight inches
high, and as wide as the boat. Behind |
this mirror he had the two-t thirds of the |
boat in which to paddle and shoot. He
proved by a trial that he could paddle |
his boat straight up to flock of ducks,
watching them through a peep hole in
the mirror. When they looked toward
the boat all they saw was their own re-
Elections in the glass. When within
easy shot the hunter dropped the mirror
by loosening catch and got two shots,
one at the ducks on the water and one
as they rose.
A SMALL boy having highly respecta-
BILE parents brought home a bag of mar
bfes, and on being asked how he came
by them replied that he had played ''for
keeps" He was lectured on the sin of
gambling and forced to return his ill
gotten gains. A night or two later
progressive euchre party was in order, |
and the prizes bought for the occasion |
stirred the family pride to questionable |
them, and went to bed previous to the
guests arrival. In the mcIning the
prizes were nowhere to be seen, and on
inquiring as to their disposition he was
told that the people who won them had
carried them away. Then he naturally
asked, "Isn't that playing for keeps ~
THE sea occupies three-fifths of the
surface of the earth. At the depth of
about three thousand five hundred feet |
waves are not felt The temperature is |
the same, varying only tri1e from the |
ice of the pole to the burning sun of the
equator. A mile down the water has a |
pressure of over a ton to the square |
inch. If box six feet deep were filed |
with sea water and allowed to evaporate |
under the sun, there would be two |
inches of salt on the bottom. Taking
the average depth of the ocean to be
three miles, there would be layer of |
pure salt two hundred and thirty feet |
thick on the bed of the Atlantic. The |
water is colder at the bottom than at
the surface.
EMMALINE Prescott of Hallowell Is
one of the characters of Maine. She is
over fifty years old, and for more than
twenty five years has peddled pins and
needles and such small wares from house
to house through the country. She
wears the bloomer costume, a full skirt
reaching to the knees, with close-itting
trousers. Her hair is cut short and
parted on the side, and in winter fur
cap and an overcoat complete her man
nish dress. But there is nothing man
nish about Emmaline. She is modest,
gentle, and the soul of benevolence.
She says that if women knew what
comfort the bloomer dress was they'd all
wear it.
LEONARD II, in whose dominions such
serious labor riots have taken place, re-
Gently, celebrated his fiftieth birthday.
He was married to grand Duchess Marie
of Austria in 1853. Of the children,
his only son died IN 1869 at the age of
ten; his oldest daughter is married to
Prince PHILIPPE of SAKE Coburg Gatha,
the second to the Crown Prince of Aus
tria, and the third is said to be destined
to marry the oldest son of the Prince of
Wales. The King passes all his time at
his magnificent country scat of Castle
Lecken.
NILE. DUDLAY of the Coincide Fran
caise is a woman of great pluck and
acting in Paris the critics complained |
Of a certain sibillation of the voice,
which was due to a peculiar formation
of her lower jaw. A dentist said it
could be remedied by forcing back her
lower teeth. So for six months, day
and night, she wore an instrument of
India rubber, never removing it, and al
ways suffering severely from it. She
obtained perfect enunciation.
AN idea of the extensiveness of Ora
CONS salmon fisheries can be had from
the statistics, which the Salem, orr
A SfCYjJn OutS forth. Ovpr eiytv thnuc-