News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-02
THE MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOT iBI.E EVENTS THAT ARE TAKING
PLACE ABOUT US DAILY.
The ices We're Very Busy Determined
C"ioneI-An Island on FiFc-Dancing in n
snowst0rm-A sad Life, Etc.

after the surrender of Paris and when
the German army was in the city, Gen.
Boulanger, then Colonel, was in COM
mand of the 18th of the line. The
regiment was en- echeJon in the Rue Saint
Honore guarding the limit beyond which
the Prusslans were not to pass. At the
intersection of the Rue Saint Honore
AMI another street, the name of which
the writer does not recall, but be re-
members that 1t was near the Rothschild
house, suddenly appeared the General
In command of the Prussian army, fol-
lowed by his brilliant staff They were
about to pass the line of demarcatlon,
VIXEN Col. Bouiangcr rode up in front of
them. General" said he, IN q loud
voice, ''you cannot pass" The latter
pretended not to understand, and APP
peared to be about to come on, when
Bou anger, purple with rage and hatred,
dashed forward, sabre in hand, and
shouted out in a savage voice: 'Gener-
al, you must not pass. If you advance
another step" Then, seeing that the
Brilliant troop had come to halt, he
added, with an imposing gesture, the
words, ''Respeet a Ia easSignei" at need
ell but little" says the writer, ''to put
the match to the powder at that mo-
ment. There and then Germany might
have lost some precious heads. IN
spired by the conduct of our brave Col
onel, we grasped our Chassepots. The
quality of the game was most tempting"
THE Canadian steamer Isaac May ar
rived at Chicago from Manitoulin ISL
and, on the Canadian side of Lake
Huron. 1t is the largest island in the
great lakes, d is covered with cedar
trees When the vessel arrived there
the inhabitants were badly frightened.
For weeks not a drop of rain had fallen.
Shortly after the steamer and her tow
began to take on their cargocs of posts
and ties the woods suddenly burst into a
great blaze, and no sooner had the fire
started than a severe wind storm swept
over the island, driving the flames in
every direction. The people fed in ter
ror to the beach and sought shelter on
hoard of the vessels, which pulled out
into the lake. Scores of bears, roaring
with pain, ran out of the woods with
the hair singed from their hides and
plunged into the lake. The flames
ragged for two days, burning over acres
of valuable timber and destroying a
vast amount of stock that had been piled
on the beach for shipment. Then a
drenching rain storm set in and contin-
ued until the fire was put out.
EVERYONE, says the Pail MI Gazette,
has heard of dancing on the ice, but
dancing in a ballroom under a snow
Storm is not so familiar. This. however,
was what party of friends found them
selves doing not long ago in Sweden
The circumstances are thus described in
a foreign paper: During an extremely
cold night, but with the sky clear and
the stars shining, large assembly was
gathered for ball in Sweden, and in
the course of the evening it became so
hot in the room that several ladies faint
ed An of, Ger tried to open a window,
but he saw that the pressure of the ice
was holding it fast shut. So he broke
a pane. and the rush of cold air coming
from without produced fall of snow in
the room The atmosphere had been
charged with watery vapor, and this be-
coming suddenly condensed and refrig-
Grated fell, under the form of snow, on
the heads of the astonished dancers.
The Christian Church at Harmony,
ILL.,, has been inhabited by bees for
number of years. The bees took up
their abode in the wall behind the pull
pit. The pastor of the church has been
annoyed by them, and they finally got
so bad that they drove the pastor, peo-
pie, and all out of the church and had !
undIsputed possession. A crowd col
lected and ripped the siding of from the i
foundation to the roof, where they
thought the bees were located. After
getting the siding off the men found that
the bees had deposited their honey in
the wall between the studding. which
were two inches wide and six inches
apart, that space being completely filled
with honey to | eight of sixteen feet.
The honey was carried away in wash
tubs and pals, and divided among the
ncighbors.
SOMETIME ago an American wag wrote
an account of gelatine shirt that Edison
had invented 1t was said to be made
of thin sheets of gelatine, ea:h sheet to
be taken off when soied; and there
were enough sheets to make the shirt
last year This yarn was printed in
various newspapers and at last in Bra
iii ''The gullibility of the South
American may be appreciated, - said Mr.
Edison in a recent interview, when it
is known that soon after the shirt story
met their eyes the Brazilians began to
sc d me drafts and checks for shirts
One idiotic diamond dealer sent me
draft for e10) on the bank of England
lie wrote that lie didn't know now much
the shirts were, but ne did not think
they ought to cost over a hundred
pounds apiece"
The Cologne Gazette sa vs. that at Lerl-
berg, Austrian Galicia, recently, two
young German girls whose rare beauty
and sweet voices had obtained for them
p ofitable employment and promising
future on the operate stage, were sold
to the agent of Bombay nabob who is
said 10 maintain harem as extensively
stocked as the famous collection of ORR
entail beauty presided over by Ismail
Pasha. The sale was negotiated by one
Aaron Puder and his wife, with whom
the girls were boarding, and the price
paid for them was forty roubles each.
The gir.s were induced by promises of
profe 'sional engagements at fabulous
salaries to accompany the agent to Bonn
bay, and the story of their sale did not
become known until they were beyond
recall.
WHILE attempting to rescue a child
from being run over four years ago Mrs.
Hattie Sutherland, of Beominster. Mass,
lost the power of speech through fright.
She was dumb from that eventful day
until Monday, when she was visiting in
Fitchburg at the house of friend, who
observed that in a short time her voice
would return, probably as suddenly and
mysteriously as it left her. TO the inf
mite surprise of both parties, when Mrs.
Sutherland next tried to speak, she did
so in an audible tone. The tone was
weak, but yet it was loud enough to be
distinctly heard. Since that sudden
re toration her voice has gradually
strengthened until it is about as healthy
and robust as it was prior to her fright
four years ago.
AN international conference has Just
taken place at Amsterdam which was
summoned to arrange for the suppress
sion of the floating drinking saloons
which have been creating such havoc
among the seamen of the fishing fleets in
the North Sea. These saloons were fit
ted up on vessels specially arranged for
the purpose and were provided with dis
tilleries on board so as to avoid paving
any duty. The delegates of the British,
German. French, Dutch and Belgian
governments have now decided that any
retailing of liquor to the fishing boat
fleets at sea shall be considered as a
felony and punishable as such /
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