News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-01-12
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOTABLE EVENTS THOUGHT
WORTH RECORDING.
For the EsquimauX-The Size of YES
sels-An Alpine TunneI-The Buff.
faiO Milkman-A Fortune Teller,
&c. sc.

seIs-An Alpine TunneI-The Buff.
faiO Milkman-A Fortune Teller,
&c, &C.
The construction of another Alpine
tunnel through the Simplon, as rival
of the successful st. Gothard, has for
some time been talked about in Paris
1t IS estimated that the Simplon tunnel
would shorten the time between Paris
and central and southern Italy by three
hours, as compared with the st. Gothard
hne, and the gain over the Mont Gents
route would be still greater. Accord
ing to the representations, the length of
the contemplated tunnel would be about
twelve miles, and the whole work could
be accomplished in from four to six
years; it would be the longest tunnel in
the world, and require extraordinary
provisions for its suitable ventilation,
though this object could be obtained, it
is believed, by means of a horizontal
air shaft above the crown of the tunnel
and running its entire length, connected
by a series of vertical shafts with the
atmosphere above the mountain. Pump
ing engines would not only keep the air
constantly renewed, but would draw off
the water which otherwise would steadily
accumulate in the tunnel. The cost of
this work is estimated about SIC 10000
A BILL with bit of adventure and ro-
nance attached is one DR.. Davis of the
Cape Cod district in Massachusetts, has
proposed. 1t provides for the distribu-
ton of 81 600 among the Esquimaux
along the Asiatic coast of the Arctic
Ocean for their efforts to help the sail
ors of the Napoleon. The vessel was
wrecked in the Northern seas, and the
EsquimauX showed the most attentive
care to all who got ashore alive. Only
one man survived the injuries and eX-
exposure. He lived with the Esqui-
mauX two years, during which he was
well supplied with food and clothing,
though his benefactors themselves were
in the midst of famine. FINALLY, one
of them went 700 miles to Port Clar-
ence, to carry statement of the mans
whereabouts. The officers of the Bear
got the intelligence, and the surviving
sailor, Vincent, got safe home to Vine
yard Haven, Mass, this summer.
The crewOf the Bear, who took Vincent
aboard, did all they could for the Es-
quimaux, but the Cade Cod folks think
they deserve more.
AFTER many years of experimenting,
with the object of increasing the speed
of vessels and lessening their draft by
change IN the formation Of the hull,
Pennsylvania inventor has succeeded in
constructing a boat which he claims full
ils the desiderata so long sought, aud is
in entire accordance with true scientific
theory. The boat, which is some thir-
ty-six feet long, is of the shape known
as the cOncave bottom, the hull being
built in a right and left hand spiral form /.
from the bow to the middle section. The /
conformation of the hull in this case is I
such as to displace water in a manner /
closely approximating to the wave-line /
theory, beginning at the cut-water, the /
displacement being accomplished grad |
uaIly until the centre of the boat is |
reached, when the reverse action of dis |
placement begins; the cOncaye begins /
where the convex ends. The greater .
the speed the greater the lifting power,
the boat rising on the water, and conse-
quently moving with greater speed with
out any increase of power.
A BUFFALO milkman wears q nickel .
fve-cent piece as a watch-charm, and |
gives this reason: "Over a year ago l
took this nickel. which was then beauti-
fully gold-plated, as a SCHOLAR gold .
piece in payment of a bill. AS soon
as 1 detected the fraud [ took it
back to the woman who passed it on /
me, but she refused to make it good .
So [ fastened it on my watch chain and /
continued supplying her with milk.
But now every day l make her quart !
one-fourth water, and once week l !
credit her with one-fourth the amount /
of her milk bill. When the sum total 1
standing to her credit is 81 95 she shall 1
have pure milk once more, and not I'M /
I'll then She knows the milk is water-sl
ed, but Whenever she shows IuCIina
tion to complain I handle the nickel and
say that my milk is as pure as gold.
That settles it.
- GEORGIA has one fortune teller who
can be depended on. She is a young
girl, and was recently thought to be
gypsy by a widower who is looking for
a young wife, and was therefore anxious
to know the future. The girl said she'd
tell the past and the future, and, having
first received good fee, she told the
man to take off his hat. He did. Then
she said: ''You took off your hat; you
will put it back on again. God loves
you, and if you do not look sharp the
devil will get you" The fortune teller
then walked away and lett him standing,
looking like the boy the calf ran over.
BIG LAKE, near OsceoIa, Ark, is usu-
ally large body of water, forty miles
long and eleven wide, but the long-con-
tinued dry weather of the past summer
the limits of the lake to less
than two miles, and the water became
so shallow that a man might wade from
shore to shore This water was fairly
alive with fish, which were taken in
quantities by men who, armed with
clubs, beat them to death. A party from
Nashville recently returned from the
lake with IT'S trout and 30 drumfsh,
which weighed 375 pounds.
OF THE Davy family of Rochester, the
eldest girl IS in the workhouse as incor- ,
riglble, the father is jailed us a drunk
ard, and EsaU, the eldest son, aged 9, !
being left at home in charge of his three !
sisters, aged 8, 7, and s, took them to
church where the whole party loaded up ,
with Bibles, hymn books, and fans, and
got well away before they were over
hauled by policeman and taken to the
station. There three silver watches were
found in Esau's pockets. He and his
sisters were sent to Il charitable institu-
lion.
A BENEVOLENT PhiladeiDhian con
ceived the idea of selling chickens by
the quarter, in order that poor persons
who We're directed by physicians to use
chicken broth in case Of illness might be
able to buy chickens. A certain dealer
sells them that way, charging fifteen
cents for fore quarter and ten for 4
hind quarter. 1t is not profitable
business, and the loss on sales for
year has been $500, but the benevolent !
gentleman makes up the loss to the
lealer.
S. B. DAWSON, of Percy, Iowa, claims '
% have discovered the petTified remains |
If huge monster on the bank of the I
Oes Moines River there. The body |
without the head IS forty feet long, and {
line feet from the tail it is four feet five s
inches wide. The head is broken off, 9
md was found lying separate from the ]
body. The general appearance of the ,
deposit is that Of darkish blue stone Z
urning grayish on the outside, but !
here is a quartz formal on where the =,
blood vessels and intestinal canal would I
AVE been.
a WASHINGTON correspondent says
cat the best real estate speculation in
hat city during the past summer was
hat of Gardiner Hubbard, the father {
n-law OF Bell of telephone notoriety. t
lie paid $50, 900 for tract of hill and I
-ollow on the line Of the Massachusetts, L
venue extension, put 800 men at work e
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