News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-16

wooden church and the reindeer is secur-
ed, the father excavates a little bed In the
snow, and the mother wraps baby snug
ly 1 skins and deposits it therein. Then
the father piles the snow around it, and
the parents go decorously into church.
AT 1Ok o'clock on the evening of Dec.
81, the people of Middletown, Pa, who
had not retired at that hour were startled
by their natural gas lights and fires sud-
denly springing up a distance of a foot
or so. Then the lights leaped to the cell
ing and the stoves roared like furnaces.
The people rushed through the streets
warning their neighbors, aud but for the
prompt action taken the town would
have been sacrificed. The surplus gas
was caused by the ball or safety valve of
the gasometer being either taken off or
falling of, thereby throwing the entire
pressure of the well, ninety pounds, on
the service lines. The pressure was
thrown on every house, md almost every
one had left the gas burning. After the
excitement was over some people slept
Ill the cold in preference to lighting the
gas. If the accident had happened two
hours later the town probably could not
have been saved.
Phil ARMoUR's method of distribut-
ing Christmas gifts to the 1000 Sunday
school children of his 5000, 900 mission
was peculiar. After the usual Christ
mas service the lights were turned down
and then was seen on the platform,
brilliantly lighted, q miniature fac-simile
of the mission building. Every archi-
tectural popularity and characteristic
was produced. As the children marched
past the portico of the little building
men within handed out Christmas
presents, and when they were all gone
the building was taken to pieces and
was then found to be made of articles
suitable for gifts and which were dis
trlbuted. The millionaire pork packer
was present with his family, apparently
as happy as the happiest child there.
THE Adventists of Battle Greek,
Mich, are in a state of great religious
excitement. They believe that the final
consummation of all earthly matters is
at hand. They have discarded all their
jewelry. Recently at a meeting 50, 900
was turned into the church in cash and
$1,000 in iewelry- The latter will be
sold to the ungodly and the money Civ
en- to the establishing of missions in
Switzerland, Norway, England, South
Africa, and Australia. On several occa-
sions before these people have sold their
homes for trifing sums and given the
money to the church, with all other per-
sonal property. The craze bids fair to
go to as great an extent as have previ-
ous ones.
THEY are alittle particular about how
they sell liquor in Winsted, Conn, but
a hostler there made $40 very easily the
other day by betting that he could get a
pint of whiskey at the drug store inside
of ten minutes without a prescription.
The instant that the bet was taken he
grabbed a big sponge, and ran to the
store, and breathlessly told the proprie-
tor that he wanted q sponge full of liquor
for a sick horse. The druggist pointed
out the whiskey barrel, the hostler satu-
rated the sponge, and went back to the
stable, where he squeezed out more
than n pint of whikey and PocEefed HE
stakes.
Bishop Garrett has been telling the
Women's Episcopal Mission Society of
Washington that they should quit spend
ing so much money on South Sea ISL
anders and send a few missionaries to
the Lone Star State. "We want pion-
GERS" he says-'men who know how to
take care of themselves along the from
tiers. Brave, sturdy fellows not afraid
of the open mouth of a revolver nor of
the yell of the drunken cowboy. Men
with muscles of steel, who can, any of
them, throw a yearling steer over a wire
fence as easily as he can jerk a lawless
coyote out of q religious meeting if he
attempts to make a disturbance"
A CITIZEN of Piscataquis, Nc, had a
lot of Plymouth Rock fowls of which he
was very proud. They were allowed to
go under the barn in warm weather,
through a small hole in the wall. There
came a cold snap, and their owner
thought that they ought to stay in their
house, so he stopped up the hole. A
few days afterward his wife said: 81
wonder where all the chickens area
There isn't but one in the hen house. 3"
The citizen uttered a strong word and
ran to the barn. Under it lay the dead
and frozen bodies of his pets. He had
fastened them out of the hen house in
stead of in it.
A MAN named ZeIi Bahia, aged 102,
who was the last of the Janissaries, has
Just died at Sarajeve. When the Janis
saries were massacred in 1926 by order
of the Sultan, Mahmoud Ii, Zeli Bahia
escaped and took refuge in Russia. He
subsequently returned to Serajevo, and
was earning his living there as a school
master when the Austrians took posses
sion of the country. He was q man of
crest abilities, and published a book of
Persian poems, which are much read in
the East.
THE largest Chinese mining camp in
the Northwest is at Warren, Idaho.
Hundreds of Chinese have been at work
there for several years, and each year
from fifty to seventy-five go back to
China with from 81, 900 to S., 900, a for
tune for them. Most Chinese miners
work over old mines, and are very ex-
pert at cleaning up every particle of
gold; but at Warren they are on new
ground. and their careful system results
in large yields.
STORIES are being revived in Califor-
MIA of Casey Thompson, a Colorado
miner, who was well known throughout
the West in earlier days. He contracted
n winter to run a 3,000-foot tunnel at
so a foot for q rich company. He
timbered it nicely and got his pay, and
in the spring the company found that
they had nothing but a skeleton frame
work. Thompson had run the tunnel
along the gulch in the side of the snow.
PEOPLE who are going to build may
like to know, says an exchange, that 'a
three thousand-dollar house" is one that
the architectural paper says can be built
for 81, $50 81; costs 50, 100, according tc
the architects estimate; is worth SO, zoe
the carpenter says to build; increases in
expense to 81, 800 during the process Of
erection, and makes you draw youl
check for So, 953. % before you move in
and get your first bill for repairs.
Mrs. EUGENE FARRAR of North Brook
field, Mass, is in a terrible state of mind,
and no wonder. She took down a revol-
YER which, of course, was not loaded and
proceeded to show it to her two little
children. When it went off, which OF
course it did, the bullet entered the cen
ire Of the forehead of her 4-year-old
daughter, and ploughed its way under
the skin clear around to the back.
WHEN a Mr.. Blank of Buena Vista,
Ga, became engaged to his present wife
anumber of years ago he gave her
yearIing heifer in lieu of an engagement
ring. This living pledge of their troth
has given forth increase until the lady