News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01

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by doing so they would bring wind. A
Cincinnati man had better success than
the sailors. He picked up his wife's
favorite cat and threw it out of doors,
and raised quite a breeze-so great IN
need that the result was a separation,
and a divorce suit is on the carpet.
NEVADA horse-raisers and ranchmen
on the Phoebe and White Pine ranges
are complaining of the wild horses of
that region. In the Shellback Noun
tains are bands of from $50 to 200 of
these horses, each under the leadership
of powerful stations, and they make
regular raids ON the ranches and run of
the horses of the ranchmen. A horse
once gone is gone forever, the Nevada
men say, for the wild horses are very
cunning and wary, and will not let a
get within rifle shot of them. The
nuisance became SO great that last
spring fifteen experienced horsemen and
hunters started out with the object of
killing off as many of the ''boss stall
lions" as possible. In a ten days hunt
they managed to kill Just one horse.
The wild horses of Nevada average
about 800 pounds weight, and when
caught are about the most ugly beast
alive. But if they can be thoroughly
subdued and broken they make the
most seryiceable and hardy horses i'm
aginable.
Docs broke into the inclosure of H.
B. Keely, a residence of Sugarcreek
fnunShin Do onl IIl1Ol CIV zIaon o,I
wounded four others. Mr.. Keely
thought he knew whose dogs did the
killing and wounding. Amongst the
number thus set apart for vengeance by
Mr.. Keely, was a valuable dog belong
ing to Israel Phillips, a neighbor of
Keely's. Keely went and told him that
his Phillips) dog was one of the guilty
animals, and demanded that he should
be killed. Phillips told Keely to kill
the dog if he was among the number
that had killed the sheep. Keely took
the risk and killed the dog. Immedi-
ately after the dog was dead Phillips
proceeded to hold a p~ost-mortem eXami-
nation, which revealed the facts of the
dogs innocence, as nothing was found
in his teeth, stomach or intestines to in
dictate his guilt. Phillips brought suit
against Kelly to recover the value of his
dog, which he laid at $50, and received j
a verdict for the full amount, with &
costs. f
In 1877 Herman Harnes, who lives |
near Winona, Mimi, became very {
sleepy, went to bed, and did not leave it I
until 1882, sleeping soundly most of the
time. Then he awoke and worked on ,
his farm for four or five months. One !
day he fell asleep and dropped to the '
floor. He was laid in bed and has not S
been off of it since. He sleeps soundly
all day, and about half-past nine in the u
evening sits up, takes a little nourish- I
ment, and again goes to sleep. When I
he awakes he pays no attention to any =
one and gives no sign of intelligence. ;
When he first began to sleep he weighed :.
$50 pounds; he now does not weigh i
half that. His head is very warm, his Il
pulse full, his flesh cold and fabby. His e
sleep is quiet, and apparently he suffers Q
no pain. d
A DISTRICT magistrate of Shanghai had t
brought before him a man charged with n
stealing a table. The man denied the a
charge, alleging that he was so feeble i
from ill health that 1t was physically i'm \
possible for him to commit such a
crime. The magistrate listened gravely {
to the tale, and protested his sympathy i
and sorrow for the poor man. $50
home, he said, land get cured, and, as
you are very poor, take that bag, which
contains 10, cash, as a present from
me-" The prisoner made obeisance,
threw the heavy bag over his shoulder,
and departed. He had not gone far be-
fore he was arrested, brought back and n
found guilty, the magistrate remarking Il
that a man who could carry off a heavy n
sack could have had no difficulty in h
stealing a table. e
PHYSICIANS agree that the poison con- b
veyed by human teeth is one of the II
most annoying that they have to deal II
with. One of them writes: 81 have I'M II
my attention severe and complicat- a
ed cases of blood poisoning, in which u
the patient had but slightly abraded al
the hand in the course of a fight by u
the knuckles against the teeth X
of his opponent. 1 have known hands u
thus poisoned only saved from amputa- q q
ton by the application of all resources -!
Of science. Tobacco or whiskey, or de- II
rangement of the stomach from many az
other causes, may be responsible for =
this poisonous condition of the teeth, C:
and L am not prepared to say that a al
man with good health and a clean, al
sweet mouth would convey the poison" u
A STORY illustrating the staying pow fir
ers of some ball players is told on a in
member of the Browns. He was pi
last season and finished in one al
Of the minor leagues. He is a player W
with a good record, but was not reserved n,
1t the end of the season. He received OF
good offers, with liberal advance money hi
rom several clubs, but refused them. d,
Recently his financial embarrassments as
reached such a condition that he could I'll
1ot pay his rent or support his family. re
lust at this climax another offer, with b,
advance money, was rendered to RI
llm. 1t was $500 under his estimate of 81
MS worth and he again refused, and no m
bread in the house. b.
A Quaker City boy dropped N
MS sled rope through the slot of the q,
Seventh street cable road, sat down on n,
he sled, and waited developments. m
Pretty soon the cable caught the rope, IL
and the small boy went whizzing along al
the street. 1t was great fun, until he n
a curve, and then the rope
broke, and the sled and the boy brought
up against a lamppost, and the boy suf-
fered most. At the hospital the young
patched up his nose, and re-
duced his dislocated wrist. 81 had a Y
dandy ride" he said, ''but I never =
of de curve. Where's me sled2' .
THE experiment, begun some time ago I
in the German infantry, of doing away 0
with socks and keeping the foot sol e
feet well CREASED, has proved :
thoroughly successful. To say nothing L
of the economy of the plan, the men c
march easier, and, generally speaking, !,
show no blisters. So, too, lifting the Il
foot high, the regulation step now, is a
said to make the most awkward Pom g
or Hanoverian peasant fairly I
sure footed, while before its adoption 25 J.
per cent. of such men would stumble in y
a charge over rough ground, and about !
per cent. fall. "
The result of the attachment for debt n
Of the property of a Webster county, t,
Ark, man brought out an odd incident S
court. Among the property attached a
a small head of cattle, and to them S,
he debtors wife made claim. She swore q
hat when she and her husband were L
engaged to be married he was not able
10 give her an engagement ring, and in d
tead gave her a likely yearling heifer. W
calf Orau and prOSOera1 and multI- II