News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
THE MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
STRANGE, CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT Us.

STRANGE. CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT Us.
Mean Fellow A Huge RRft-A Violin
story, &C., &c.
FoR stuffing purposes pine shavings
are now largely used, there being at
Pesth, in Hungary, an extensive factory
devoted exclusively to the production of
such shavings, and there, by the aid of
machinery, are reduced to such a degree
of fneness that the product closely re-
sembles tow. Shavings Of this kind are
superior, it is asserted, to every other
substitute for horse hair in connection
with upholstcring purposes, alike as re-
CARDS elasticity, softnesS, and durability:
for bedding they are recommended on
account of the resin contained In the
wood being an effectual preventive of
vermin, the utility of the material in
this line, especially for hospital and bar
rack purposes, having been satisfactorily
tested by the German Government. After
having been used as stuffing for some
five or six years, the shavings can be rem
ovated by being exposed to the heat of
the sun or a heightened temperature.
THAT must have been pleasant pas
sage of the steamer British Crown,
which arrived in Halifax harbor the
other day and Immediately hoisted the
danger signal. To a reporter who
boarded her the captain said, "You are
sitting Immediately over eight hundred
Kegs containing eighty tons of the most
destructive kind of powder. Yes, have
been little nervous during the voyage,
because in addition to the dangers from
fog and ice had the largest cargo of
powder ever brought across the Atlantic
in single steamer, one keg of which
would blow the steamer to millions of
atoms. The Imperial Inspectors insist
ell on placing the magazine directly I'M
der my cabin. Besides the powder, I
have a large quantity of shells and other
ammunition for the Imperial garrison
and dockyard here" The captain says
he steamed through 500 miles of fog
which never once lifted.
SOME one asked Paganini, when
playing at Lord Hollands one evening,
10 improvise on The violin the story of
son who kills his father, runs away,
becomes a highwayman, falls in love
with girl who will not listen to him,
SO he leads her to a wild country site,
suddenly jumping with her from rock
into an abyss, where they disappear for
ever. He listened quietly, and, when !
the story was at an end, he asked that |
all the light should be extinguished He |
then began playing, and so terrible was
the musical Interpretation of the idea
which had been given to him that sew
eral of the ladies tainted, and the saloon
when lighted ooked like battle
field.
Col. CONWAY VIII has been for twelve
years in Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming,
md New Mexico, says that all the noted
desperadoes that he saw were blends.
He says: "Masterson, the famous Sher-
iii of Dodge, who had killed twenty
seven men when he was twenty-seven
years old, has light hair and blue eyes.
So has Doe Halliday, exiled from Arizo-
ra for trying to kill off all of Tombstone
in one day. The Erp Brothers could
join Lydia Thompson troupe if yellow
curls went for anything. Luke Short,
notorious throughout the entire West, is
little fellow of blond cast, and that
is the complexion of Mark Duggan and
jim Kennsy, two very bad men of great
renown in Colorado"
A PRIVATE letter published IN the
Eansas City Times tells of party of
hunters and biologists who were camped
nsOuth western Kansas one night when
meteor fell near them. In the morn
ing they found huge mass burned to
the ground, and still quite warm. They
managed to break off chunk of about
a pound and half weight, carried it to
Denver, and had it assayed 1t panned
out about twenty per cent of gold six
tyfOur per cent of iron, and eleven per
cent nickel, with copper and other met
as. The party are going back with
dynamite and tools to get the rest of the
meteor, which they calculate weighs
I've tons. If the essay holds out they
will get ton of gold.
A BANK President of Colum bus, Ohio
hired pIasterer to do job, STIMULATING
that the man should forfeit SIS for each
day which should elapse over the time
i'll which the job was to be done. The
work lacked half day of being done
when the plasterer, who was in National
Guardsman, was ordered to accompany
his regiment to Cincinnati to aid in sup
pressing the threatened riots. He went
like a soldier, and as soon as he got
home finished the job, but the banker
held him to the bargain and deducted
$40 on account of the time lost in de-
fence of law and order. The fact that
the plastercr was a poor man, and had
be n out of work all winter, had no eff
feet upon the bank president.
BALL players in Pittsburgh are talking
about the smart young catcher of an
Il. l., ~
catching many batsmen out on foul |
tips, even when the bat didn't seem to |
strike within three or four inches of the |
ball. An investigation revealed that |
the catcher had gum band attached to |
his glove, and when he desired to foul |
out a man he would raise the band with |
one finger and when the ball passed I'M
der the bat release it. The band would |
snap against the glove and all within |
hearing would hear supposed foul
tip.
Mr.. S. p. CAUsEY set some hooks in |
EchecOnnee Creek. A large fish was |
hung on one of them last Monday, and |
while swimming around endeavoring to |
escape was pounced upon by hawk. |
The hawk in some way got the hook fas- |
tened in its mouth. Then a struggle en-
sued, the fish trying to dive down with !
the hawk and the hawk trying to fly up
ward with the fish. They kept up the
conflict until wei nigh exhausted, when
they were seen by some hands in field, |
who dispatched the hawk Macon
(Ga.) Telegraph.
TEXAS has new industry. The Clear
Creek Crab Canning Company has been
organized in Galveston county. and is |
doing a big business in catching and |
canning crabs The shells are removed |
entire except the claws, ground in a
mill, and shipped to France, where |
they are manufactured into dentifrice. |
The oil that arises on the watts where the |
crabs arc boiled ls used in making soap,