News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOTABLE EVENTS THAT HAVE TAKEN
PLACE IN THE COUNTRY.
Left by Mistnke-A Flying Paper-A Mad
StOne-Brick Pavements-The Curious
TulIip. &C., &c.

! NCss &C
W. r. SoNNER, of Fort Worth, Tex.
has mad stone that has been used owe
one hundred times and with success. |
has history. In 1948, Capt. Wilson, o
Alabama, killed a white deer, and
knowing the Indian theory, looked il
| its stomach, and there found stone al
large as goose egg that resembled ;
petrifed sponge. This was the mao
stone. The Indian theory is that the
white deer is more susceptible to vege
table poisons taken into the stomach
when eaten with grass than other ami
mails. To preserve the life of the ami
NAL, nature has placed in the stomach
this porous stone, which absorbs the
poison, neutralizes it, and saves the
deer's life. The stone, applied to 6
bite into which poison has been elected,
at once draws it out, and when its pores
are filled drops of. Being soaked in
milk, the stone is made pure again, and
ready for another application.
SOME time ago an English gentleman
found large turHip in his field of the
shape of mans head, and with the re-
semblance of the features of man
Struck with curiosity, he had a cast
made of it, and sent the cast to phren-
ologist, saying that it was taken from
the head of a celebrated professor, and
requested an opinion thereon. After
sitting in judgment, it was reported
that it denoted man of acute mind
and deep research, that he had the
organ of quick perception, and also of
perseverance, with another that indi.
Gated creduiity. The opinion was
transmitted to the owner of the cast,
with a letter, requesting as particular
favor, that he would send him the head.
To this he replied that he would will
lingly do so, but he was prevented, as
he and his family had eaten it the day
before with their mutton stew.
A BOSTON philanthropist and a stu
dent of human nature bought a dozen
cheap umbrellas, had nickel plate in
serted in each handle on which was his
address, and the request that the am
brella be retu ned, and on the first
rainy day went out on the street and
handed one to each umbrellaless woman
that he met. All were returned within
week, but one, and in place of that
came a note saying that it had been
stolen and that the writer would pay
for it. The next day he handed the
umbrellas to twelve unprotected men.
He never saw but one of them again,
and that was brought in by friend
who said he had stolen it at a church
festival.
BLOOMINGTON, Illinois, is the first
town in the United States to try the val
ue of brick paving, for streets, upon an
extensive scale. Brick pavements exist
in abundance in the towns of Holland,
but are rarely met with in this country.
Bloomington is clayey district and
bricks are cheap. There have been
seven miles of street laid with them for
the last ten years and they have proved
durable and economic if care is taken to
choose tough bricks in the beginning.
The bricks are laid in two courses and
are very closely fitted. Sand is brushed
over them to fill the interstices. The re-
suit is smooth pavement, a safe one for
horses, and, on account of the porosity
of brick, a much drier pavement in wet
weather.
A CLERK in lawyers Office on the
sixth floor of a Chicago building laid an
important paper on the window sill and
the wind took it out of the open win
dow. He watched it to see where it
would fall. 1t did not fall 1t futtered
along the front of the building, turned
sharply to the right, sailed up in the
air, turned again, repeated this, and
then came directly back to the building
it had left, poised far above the clerks
head then fluttered downward and
stopped long enough in front of the
window for him to seize it. At no time
during its marvellous flight was the pa
pend / than seventy-hve feet above the
81 E.
Two men strangers to each other, sat
side by side in a west-bound Wabash
train. One of them slept, and when he
awoke found that his seat mate had gone
taking his bag but leaving one in its
place. The conductor was consulted,
and it was decided to open the remain
ing valise to identify its owner. 1t was
opened and disclosed. as its only con-
tents, an axe with piece of broken
handle in it and a package containing
81, 200 in money. No name or address
could be found to lead to the ownership,
and the finder is holding it until it can
be claimed and he gets his own valise
in exchange.
A New YORK correspondent writes
that it was Henry J. Raymond who be-
gan the practice of paying his men full
salaries when disabled. While report
ing on the Tribune he contracted a
cavara cold in +bo linz of 5,,tv II 1ro,
a month before he left his bed. On his
return to the Office he found that Mr..
McElrath had stopped his pay from the
that he was unable to work.
This touched him to the soul, for he
sadly needed the money. He made up
his mind that he void adopt a differ
ent rule if he ever had charge of a
newspaper.
THE following letter is said to be the
genuine production of a nine-year- old
colored citizen of South Carolina: 'Dear
Atfectionately Teacher: Use sorry
couldn't come to school on Friday but
way it go in dis world. If Ge Lord
shut de door no man can open de door
If de Lord say open de door no man
can shut de door If de Lord say lit
rain no man can stop it rain But de
Lord, he do all things we'll. And you
oughtn't to growl about it. Your atfec-
scholar
THADDEUs FOWLER of Seymour,
Conn.,, who died recently, was Yankee
of the Yankees for invention. He in
vented machines for sticking pins in pa
per, for manufacturing iron pins, for
making pins, head and all, at single
stroke, for making needles, for pointing
wire. for making horseshoe nails, for
sharpening horse clipping machines, and
for stamping metal. He also invented a
reaping and binding machine. and the
sewing bird" used on ladies' work
tables. He died poor.
IT is stated on good authority that
but one dwelling was ever burned in
the town of Wales, Me. This was
log house. 1t happened about seventy
five years ago. The man and his wife
went to neighbours in the evening,
leaving three children in the house
When they returned they saw their
house in flames. The children and
house were b armed together.
A DEADwooD Justice of the Peace
was calledup n to marry ayoung couple
and did so. Hardly an hour had elapsed
before a female friend of the new made
bride came and explained that the latter
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