News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12
THE MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
STRANGE, CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT Us.
The Poor Seamstress-A Cow Boy In Dem
tristry-A Singular Case of Home sick
ness-Hvr Money Order, ETC., Etc.


man, sold lot of steers at Cheyenne
the other day at a good profit, and then
went to dentist to get an aching tooth
attended to. The dentist, seeing a
chance to make something, bored hole
In sound tooth of Clay's and attempt
ed to fill it, but, being bungler, broke
the tooth. Allison got mad and went
to another dentist, who told him he had
been the victim of quack. The cow
man went back to the first dentist,
picked up a pair of forceps, knocked
him down, yanked his mouth open,
jerked out sound double tooth, grab
bed for another, caught a front tooth
and piece of the upper lip, and was
Juggling away at these when shrieks of
the quack drew a crowd, who took the
enraged cattleman off, and ended the
performance.
A SINGULAR cure of nostalgia, or home
sickness, is reported from Spain. A
conscript, who was ordered to Cuba,
worked himself into nostalgia, which
ran into catalepsy; during eighteen
months he remained in hospital living
dead man, sustained by milk, mechan-
ically forced into his mouth. In the
end this bottle-feeding broke all his
teeth. The doctor allowed a soldier
from the same region of Spain-Gallicia
to play some of the national airs on the
native bag-pipes. The muscles of the
patients face commenced to move;
later the eyes expressed life, and in the
course of a week he was able to dance.
He was not sent to Cuba
A UTICA naturalist says that song
birds in that region are fast disappear
ng. The wren is almost unknown, the
bobolink, that formerly abounded on
the Mohawk meadows, is disappearing
rapidly, while blue BIRDS, yellow birds,
orioles, and even wOOdpeckers, high
hoes, and crows are becoming scarce.
As consequence, he says, fruit trees
and all sorts of vegetation are suffering
from the ravages of insects. Pot hun
tiers and bird nesting boys are said to
account for the disappearance of the
birds.
A LADY went short time ago to visit
one of the newly rich families in the
vicinity, and was shown through their
recently furnished house with a great
deal of pomp and parade. She was
somewhat wearied over their grandilo
ouent remarks, and when she returned
to her own modest home, one of its in
mates asked her how she liked the
grand mansion she had been viewing.
''Oh, it is all very fine," she replied,
''but they acted as if they were not used
to it."
THERE is, of course, no disputing the
truth OF thing that can be proved by
bar Honnpctrofiop For
stance, this proposition advanced by
professor of mathematics to his pupils:
1T is evident that if it takes one brick
layer twelve days to erect wall of given
dinentions, twelve bricklayers ought to
do the work in one day, two hundred
and eighty eight in an hour, seventeen
thousand two hundred and eighty in
minute. and one million thirty six
thousand eight hundred bricklayers in
single second"
IT is said that trained seamstress in
New York was found making boys
gingham waists, with trimming and but
ten holes, for 2. cents each. By work
ing 10 hours a day she earned 25 cents!
According to the records of the Protec-
tive Union in New York, the average
ployments are from So. 80 to 81. Out of
this ust come rent, fuel, lights, food,
clothing. There are no vacations, no
recreations.
A DETROIT tramp, who for ten days
had been driven from place to place by
the police, saw little boy fall into the
river, and at once plunged in and saved
him, although not until the boy in his
struggles had nearly drowned both.
The tramp was assured by policeman
that he wouldn't DE molested any more,
the bystanders praised him, and the boy
thanked him. He looked hungry as he
walked away to dry his rags.
BOB Rowan of Rockland County, Ca,
felt something bite his hand as he was
feeling in hollow log for rabbit. He
jerked his hand out in a hurry, and
with it came highland moccasin snake
whose fangs were embedded in his
hand. Before he killed the snake he
was bitten in the other hand. He drank
a gallon of whiskey, suffered terribly,
was just on the point of death, but Is
now recovering.
JOHNNIE JONES, sged six, of Boston,
accompanied his mother, brother. and
sister to Utica to make visit He soon
disappeared and could not be found.
Messengers were sent out, the City Hall
bell vas rung, and his mother was in
great anguish Two hours later the
boy from the Hub was found over in
Deerield. He said that he didn't like
Utica as well as Boston and had started
to walk home.
CENTENARIANs are becoming so com
mon that they cease to excite more than
a languid interest. Still it is worth re-
cording that Mr.. Margaret Arnold of
Perry, Ohio, was 100 years old on
Sunday last, and still walks, eats,
sleeps, sews, and reads; and that Mrs.
Mary Gould of Worcester, Mass, who
celebrated her 106th birthday on Satur-
day was in good health and spirits, and
received her friends all day.
A FUNNY story is told OF noted Eng
fish clergyman, now travelling in the
East. He is said to have rewarded his
dragoman SD literally that that worthy
was enabled, on the strength of it, to
purchase an additional wife. One may
more easily imagine than describe the
horror of the ecclesiastic when h DIS
covered that he had aided and abetted
his servant in poligamy.
Mrs MARGARET WEBER, of Cam
den, asked little Eddie Wood to drive
her chickens out of the yard. Boy like.
he threw q stone at them, and to his
surprise, hit one of the finest of the
flock and killed it. At this Mrs Web
Der became very angry, and with a
stick of wood beat the boy until he
fell at her feet. The boy died ten
days after. Mrs. Weber has been ar
rested.
A PRETTY young lady appeared at the
Troy Post Office on Tuesday with a
money order sent her by her husband.
Her signature and the name on the Office
der was cashed after she had explained
that she had been married but short
time, and that her husband wasn't accus-
toned to spelling her first name; he had
always called her "Dearie."
Mrs. MUTZLER of Perham. feeling i'll
the other morning, told her children to
make the kitchen fire. After little
time, not hearing them, she went to the
kitchen. The children were not there
and with an unreasoning fear that
something awful had happened to them
she ran out into the yard screaming and
fell dead. The children had gone to
milk the COW.
A TRAIN hand in the Salem Railroad
yard on recent hot night heard
chickens peep coming from freight
car. He went in, and among a lot of
eggs found one through which a chick