News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-26


etc, rs if they were mere sticks, and
dumped ON top of huge pile along
side of the track And to do all this
requires only one man to manipulate the
levers on the steam engine, and one
way off where the logs lie to put the
chain around them. 1t makes no diff
ference if the logs to be drawn are be-
meath pile of other logs or fallen
trees. The moment the chain is put
around them off they go, the forward
end somewhat elevated and the rear
end dragging over any obstruction in
the way. Sometimes the whole log
makes a leap of several rods without
touching the ground.
HERE is the test to which the famous
swords manufactured for the English
army are subjected at Solingen: The
blade first of all mas to support weight
of sixteen Kilograms placed upon its
point without showing the least de1ec-
ton. The pressure Is then increased to
such an extent as to cause the bending
blade to shorten by sixteen centimeters,
and on its removal to snap back per-
fectly straight. A hard blow is then
given, first with the edge and next
with the back of the blade, on an iron
block, the prescribed curvature being
carefully measured. Then comes the
bending test, in which the blade is sub
lected 10 a bend of ninety degrees,
from which it has to spring back into
the straight line. Finally it is weighed,
and not until the centre of gravity is
carefully adjusted does the receiving
officer put his stamp on the blade
IT has been noted that the body of
Lockwood was found just over the line
IN The town of Litchfeld, Conn Not
half mile further north The line runs
through the house of William Titus,
and not only that, but through the mid
die of his bed room and the middle of
his bed, so that he sleeps with his head
in Litchdeld and his feet in Morris.
Some years since there was an inves j.
CATION, and, after much dispute, Titus,
1t was adjudged, must vo in Itch
field, on the ground that his head slept
in that town. A further inquiry de-
veloped the fact that although he slept
in two towns he ale his meals in Morris,
had family prayers in Litchfeld, at
tended church in Morris, and that he
drank his cider down cellar in Itch
field and ups air in Morris.
FRENCH statistics just published con-
tain alarming information concerning
the increase of crime among children of
both sexes. The Generalization of the
young idea has evidently reached a
point in France which demands the
serious attention of all interested in the
future welfare of the country. The
number of offenders under 16 years of
age has augmented from 1926 to 5,579
for boys, and from 418 to 90S for girls
From rs to Fl years of age the number
of criminals has increased from ), 936 to
20, 4S9 for boys, and from 1,046 to O.
139 for girls. The ratio of crime among
offenders under age has therefore con
siderably more than doubled during the
past five years. The statistics register
for the first time numerous cases of sui
eide committed by children.
DONALDSON, the swimmer, recently
swan the Mohawk at Schenectady tied
hand and foot. A young athlete thought
that he could do the same, and after a
friend had well tied him ne started to
cross the river. Half way across he |
gave out and went down. His fright |
ened friend tried to get him into a boat,
but couldn't Neither could he unite |
the rope. Meanwhile the swimmer was |
taken with severe cramps. Finally tho |
man in the boat tied a rope around the !
swimmers neck, and thus towed the
half drowned athlete to shore, where it
took considerable rubbing and stimu-
liant to reduce the cramps and get the
youth in good condition again.
THERE is nothing in the world that
sho s the Unborn tendency of mankind
10 run in a rut than the architecture of
the modern shirt" So said a young
man of ic7noclas.ic tendencies. For
years mems vests have been buttoned
almost up to the chin, and the little
piece of shirt front that would be left
exposed has been covered by a necktie.
And yet men go on wearing shirts with
fronts down to the waist starched and |
ir0ned till they're as stiff as a boiler
plate, and they pay every week for get
ting two or three of these things care |
fully polished. A man might as we'll |
have the back of vest laundried every
week.
A MAN who got mad at Kansas, and
longed TO sell his farm, received an
offer from a Missouri man and accepted
it. The Missouri man offere him II
mules for his farm agreeing to ship the
mules as soon as the deed to the farm
was deposited with the mule mans
banker. Accordingly the deed was for
warded, and the purchaser looked anx-
iously for the mules, He did not think
of the animals coming by express,
until he received notice to call at the
Office. Upon calling, he found II
china mules-the price of his farm. He
lost no time in going to see his man,
but the latter had sold out and skipped
PETER ROUx, of Mono Lake, took
his family to Bodie, Cal, to celebrate
the Fourth. His six-year- daughter
wanted to go home and started on loot.
She ought 10 have gone south, but went
north among the mountains and can
yOns. When the moon went down she
cTept under sage bush and slept, but
awoke at daylight and went on. In the
meantime Bodie had offered 800 for
her rescue, and searching party with
Indians started out. They found her
next day trudging along, hungry, but
undismayed. She had walked twenty
six miles. She said she wasn't afraid
Professor BEL Is confident that
TELEPHONE communication may be es
tablished between passing vessels at
sea. He believes a wire a mile in
length, trailed behind ship, will so
charge the water with electricity that a
vessel coming within half mile of an
other thus equipped may communicate
with it. 1.-The principle" he says, sis
not new; it is old, with O new use,
whiting for commerce to utilize it. |
have experimental in the Potomac, and
marvelled at the simplicity of the APP
paratus and the stupendous importance
of the results
A Sun CoRREsPoNDEvT asks the mean
ing and origin of the saying, Every
thing is lovely and the goose hangs
high" 1t originated at the South, and
is a corruption of ''the goose hOnks
high" When the weather Is fair and
serene, the wild goose, migrating north
ward or southwark, flies high above the
earth, making his peculiar call or
''honk," which can then be heard at
great distance, and calls attention to
the state of the atmosphere.
A GEORGIAN explains how enc John
Knigl came to reside in that State
HIS father lived il the backwoods of
North Carolina. and the first time he
ever saw a two horse wag n ne rau
af er it. He Lecame so absorbed in the
question of how long it would run be-
fore the big vince overlook the little
ones that he followed it cleaI to Angus
Ia, &c rgia, bef, re he gave out and had
to stop. He didn't know the way back