News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
THE MYSTERIES OF ADAY.
STRANGE, CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT US.
A Notable Rug Pieker-A Tramp With n
Hisfory-A Girl SheriG-At an English
Bail-A Farmers Dog, ETC., Etc.

AN old farmer from Oswego county,
N. Y, tells this story: 81 used to have
dog" said the farmer, (which was the
most knowing and intellectual dog you
ever saw. He could tell about what
time it was by the clock just as we'll as
/ could. He would run into the house
In the afternoon without saying word
to anybody and look up at the clock, and
if it wasn't 5:15 he'd go off about his
business. Then he'd come back again,
and the second it was 5:15 he'd bark
and start for the cows. One day my
woman Thought she'd see if the dog
could be fooled, and at one o'clock in
the afternoon she turned the clock to
five. The dog came in, looked indiff-
erently up at the clock, stopped, shook
his head, and then ran out to look at
the sun. He came back again, squatted
down, and eyed the clock as if he was
waiting for rat When the minute
hand got round to quarter past he start
ed off as usual, and before we could
stop him he had all them cows up in
the barnyard. drove them back, and
a more mortified person you never saw
than that dog. He ran into the house.
but the woman had turned the hands
back to the true time. The dog jumped
up at the clock, and acted as If he want
ed to tear it to pieces. He always
seemed to distrust the dumb thing after
that"
A VENERABLE tramp was picked up
in the streets of Joliet, H., by the po-
lice. He was sober, but destitute.
Papers on his person showed him to be
q Polish Count named Lanaski. He was
born in 1871, entered the French army
in 1905, took part in the battle of Aus
teriitz. He was in the memorable march
to Moscow, and witnessed the burning
of that city by the Russians. He WIS
one of the 40, 900 out of half million
men that returned to Poland and thence
through Germany to France with Napo-
leon. Lanaski left the army on the alb
dication of Napoleon, but when the lat
ter returned from Elba he joined the
army and fought at Waterloo. After
the overthrow of Napoleon Lanaski fed
to Germany, thence to Austria, where,
in 1881, he joined Louis Kossuth. He
was captured by the Russians, exiled to
Siberia, escaped, and came to the United
States at the beginning of the late re-
bellion. Though 20 years old, he en-
listed in 1861 in the Union army, and
fought under Sigel until the close of the
war, soon after which he obtained adj
mission to the Milwaukee Soldiers
Home. He got tired of the Home, and
wanted to go to the National Soldiers
Home in Washington. He was sent on
his way toward the capital.
A LITTLE old woman, dirty and in
rags, sat il chair in a Chicago court
room and looked vacantly into the faces
of six men who had boon called to ex-
anime into her mental condition. Her
name was Ida Sneider, and her age was
given as 81. For twenty years she has
been ragpicker in Chicago The jury
decided that she was insane, and she
was sent to the Batavia Asylum. Year
after year she has been turning over
ash heaps and refuse piles, and from
garbage barrels of the hotels and res
taurants she has procured food enough
to sustain life. Her sleeping place was
any hole into which she could creep,
and so winter and summer she has
made her rounds, spending absolutely
no money, until she has laid away near
ly $50, 900. Her daughter made mo-
ton in the Probate Court for the APP
pointment of a eonservator for her
mothers estate
You must know, says q foreign cor
respondent, that every year in the diff
ferent hunting counties hunt ball
Ae S5ASss> " SS.< rsAersatSers of tta at
the chief town m the neighoorhood of
the kennels. The ladies and gentlemen
of Importance and position round about
are invited to become Lady patroneses
and stewards. One of these balls was
given at Ailesbury the other night, and
none of the Rothschilds, who abound
in those parts, in the shape of half
dozen or so families of them, was asked
to take part. The consequence was
grand ''huff,' and plan of retaliation
adopted in return for the slight. A
great quantity of tickets was bought by
them for the ball-they couldn't be re
fused the right to come as guests-but,
instead of going themselves, they sent
all their servants.
THE gossip from the Pacific slope is
that Mrs. Fair, the divorced wife of
Senator Fair, who is handsome, we'll
preserved woman of As, is DESTROYS of
marrying well-known newspaper man
in San Francisco. The Pope refuses to
grant her dispensation, and, as she is
q strict Catholic, she will not marry
without it. Meanwhile Fair, who is
devotedly attached to his wife, is urg-
ing her to forget the past and live with
him again. But this lady refuses to do
so. She will marry the newspaper
rxyrI far- on Lfos-
some one else, Mrs. Fair could receive
the desired dispensation. but not I'M
less. Fair says he will not marry I'M
less he cen have his wife again. The
complication will probably end by each
of them remaining single during the re-
mainder of their lives.
HATTIE MCKAY, the seventeen-year-
old daughter of Sheriff Mckay. of Tus-
cola County, Mich, was at the Michi-
gan Central depot on her way to
jackson Prison, having in her custody
Samuel Woodman, who was sent from
Tuscola County for one year for assault
ing his wife with carving knife.
Hattie is a sprightly little maiden, and
whom asked If she was not afraid to
bring such a strong and desperate man
to prison, replied ''Oh, indeed no; l
don't handcutf him, but l have a revol-
yer in my pocket and I keep him in
sight all the time If he was to start to
get away from me / would call out for
assistance and some of the men on the
train would help me. Ny father is sick
or he would have brought the prisoner
in himself"
AT a meeting of the Washington
Monument Society, Col. Casey made
some very interesting statements to the
members, in regard to his observation
of the habits of the monument, for it
appears that the great obelisk is a NOV
ing, if not living thing, and that it
has regular swaying motion when the
gun is shining upon it. On every
bright day the apex of the monument
moves at least one inch westward in the
morning when the suns rays first fall
upon it, and eastward again in the after
noon, when the sun reaches the western
side. The heat of the suns rays have
an expansive effect upon the masonry
and the plummct that Is suspended in
the interior of the monument registers
this movement from day to day.
The compilations of the German race
has been studied of late by Prof. Vir-
chow, who reports that 90 per cent. of
the German youths are blondes that is,
have light hair, blue eyes, and fair skin;
IA per cent. are brunettes, while "a per
cent. show some mixture of these types.
The proportion of blondes is largest in
the north, especially in Oldenburg,
rarest in Bavaria and Alsace. OF Ger
man Jews only one in every ten is true
blonde.
A SANTA BARBARA. Cal, school