News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-28
STRANGE THINGS WE SEE,
PECULIAR INCIDENTS THAT TAKE
PLACE ABOUT Us DAILY.
Incendinry Fires-He Leads the Banda
Little Engine - Saved His NIaster-A
Mans Life-A steel. Sayv-GOiug to
Church, Etc, Etc.

Little Engine saved His HJaster
Mans Life-A steel. Sayv-Goiup to
Church, Etc, Etc.
A REMARKABLE series of incendiarv
fires is alarming the citizens of Har-
mony, Me. A meeting was called on
Saturday to devise means for seIf-pro
lection, but the alarm of fire sent the
people hurrying to burning barn, and
while they were working there two
other barns in other directions were
burned On Sunday another barn was
fired. These fires were all started in
broad daylight. The greatest excite
ment prevails. Potatoes have been left
undug and corn ungathered; stock has
b. en- left out in the rain and business of
all kinds has been suspended. Furni
ture and clothing has been packed up
and in some instances placed upon the
/ piazza, whence it can be removed at a
moments warning. On Monday the
alarm had become so general that the
| postmaster did not dare to have mails
| brought through from the railroad sta
ton in the night time, and it was held
! over and brought along the next dav.
| but this made the mails so late that an
| armed guard was detailed to escort the
| mail and it came at usual time.
SUPPosa a man begins life with eco
nomical habits, and by rigid self-denial
accumulates $4,000 by the time he is
%. This sum will have increased to a
competency when he desires to be free
from the cares of business, and he can
then, and indeed for years before have
the pleasure of LAYING out his money
| freely and without fear in gratifying his
! tastes or doing good. But if he is in
cllned to humOr his tastes when young
| IL buy we will say expensive furniture
or to mingle too freely in society, so that
he never saves at al until he is five and
| forty-what good will $40, 900 do HIM
then. 1t is, of course, good in itself,
| but as the foundation of a competency
such sum is wholly inadequate. 1t
would amount to only $40, 900 at IS, and
not to a competency TIL long after three
score and ten One dollar at 81 is worth
| 1920 at so, and 500 spent in foolery
and finery before five and twenty is
simply So, 600 thrown away from that
provision which should be made for the
time when work must be burden.
THEY call Conductor Patrick Sarsfeld
Gilmore "Colonel' in St. Louis, and he
was never more in his element than on
Wednesday night, when. at a grand
charity concert, he led band composed
of over sixty bands, gathered there to
make music for the Knights Templar.
When he waved his baton two thousand
men blew, thumped. ratified and banged
on two thousand instruments, and the
noise was tremendous. There would
have been more men and instruments
and noise had it not been for the action
of some of the bands whose members re-
fused to play because among that host
of musicians were some who were not
members of the Musical Union. Some
withdrew after they had taken seats on
the platform, and some bands went
about the grounds playing while the
concert was in progress.
A STRANGE story of animal infatuatlon
is told in Birmingham, Ala. Alexander
Mitchell, hackman, was shot and killed
by Wesley Evans. Mitchell had horse
to which he was mucL attached, and the
animal reciprocated the affection. After
the death of his master he refus ed to eat
and would act strangely. He would
the usual time he was fed he would 90
to the gate, look up and down the street,
and, not seeing his friend, appear to be
in deep distress For several DAYS it
refused to eat, and finally died, it is
supposed, from grief. 1t Is a rare oc-
currence, but the story was told by relia-
bic persons.
CHARLES GILMAN, a Chicago contrac-
tor, who built house for Andrew An
der on, in which the latter was married. |
took occasion Just as the wedding was
well under way to take possession and /
endeayor to nail up the doors and win
dows because he held a lien on the
building for an unsettled balance. All
hands turned on the intruder and put
him cut, and there was such a row that
the police wagon was called, and the
entire party arrested except the minister
who escaped. After explanations all
were released but Gilman, who was held |
and fined. The others went back, found |
the minister. and Anderson was mar
ried.
A BUFFALO newspaper tells of a young
man, the usual "well-known Young
society man" of course, who wrote to a
pretty girl in the east whom he had met |
and admired, asking her in the course
OF the letter good many questions. She
answered promptly, not the questions,
but the letter, and asked some questions |
on her own hook, such as these: "What |.
kind of tooth powder do you use2 Who |
gave you this name2 Do worms think? |
What do you think of the -Adamitist |
theory? Are the Jews going to return
to Russia? If you are discovered, are
you found?" The young man thinks
that she's making fun of him.
THE smallest oscillating engine in the .
void has been made by John r. Hare, |
of Baltimore. Its bore is one-sixteenth |
of an inch, and the stroke one eighth
The wheel shaft and crank weigh eight |
grains, the cylinder five, and the stand
and pillar twelve grains. making the
whole weigh one pennyw eight one grain
1t is about the size OF a half grown col
lar button, and is completely covered
by No. or child's thimble. 1t Will !
be run by compressed air. 1t makes
8. 600 revolutio S a minute. Mr. Hare
has also made comparative giant, which
is covered with an English walnut shell.
AN OLD citizen of Waterville, Me-, re-
HSLuDeTS lIldL III 1870, CH6 CnurCn0OcrS
of that town, both male and 1emae,
used to walk barefoot to church on Sun
day. carrying their shoes and stockings
in their hands, and to sit down in some
convenient spot and put them on Just be-
fore going into the meeting house. The
same custom was practiced in many
Maine towns in those old days. A stern
economy was observed by the men and /
women who laid the foundation of
Names prosperity. That IS why we
are not obliged to go barefoot now.
A CANDIDATE for Governor of Mime
sofa is physician. Three children OF a
laboring man had diphtheria, and the
doctor cured them. Their mother, worn
out with watching over them, was i'll for
a month, and the doctor cured her. Then
the father fell from scaffold and broke
leg, and the doctor fixed him up as
good as new After the man recovered
he borrowed Silt and went to the doc
tors office to make at least part pay
ment on his bill. "What do | owe YOU,
doctorl" said he. ooh, give me 81 and
call it square," said the doctor.
WHEN they hear the looms crying the
Passamaquoddy Indians think it is a
sure sign of hard wind. If the feathers
are thick on the partridges' legs or the
bears den early they believe a long cold
Winter is coming. If they see a beaver
carrying a stick storm is approaching.
1t is a sure sign of death to have par
tTidges lowering about the house If a
dog barks in the night stranger will