News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-30
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOTABLE EVENTS THOUGHT
WORTHY OF RECORD.
A Bachelors Dinner-Blowing a
Horn-Card Playing Soldiers-A
Peers Coat Caught a Pike, &c,
&c.
PARIS correspondent

| Peer S Goat Taught Ilke, &C
&c.
PARIS correspondent
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~ al says: A Frenchman
17M II who was close neigh
1A Dor of mine at dinner
e ~ the other evening
| Y y was full of the marvel
| WV ~ lous Eiffel tower,
hu which already domi-
-5y<(1--r mates Paris. He had,
| ~ N~S--A[ in his capacity as a
Il W = journalist, been allow
| IN: x ed to ascend as high
| - ~ +. as the r sent state of
the structure permits, and was most elo-
quent rs to the spectacular results of the
gigantic undertaking. The view from
the top of the completed tower will be
one such as nobody but successful
aeronaut will have ever beheld, while
the oscillating sensation which will be
experienced will be positively unique;
for, difficult as it is to realize the fact, it
is a mathematical certainty that the top
of the Eiffel tower will oscillate in a
high wind to the extent of a yard or two.
| Fancy, then, what the experience of en-
terprising climbers will be when they
find themselves sensibly swaying about
in the upper air.
A WEALTHY English bachelor invited
| few friends to an evening party just be-
| fore his departure abroad. As the guests
entered the reception room each received
handsome engraved card with the word
"Causerie' at the top and the quotation
from Paradise Lost: "With thee con-
conversing, forget all time" 1t was
explained that ten subjects had been Sc
lected for discussion and ten couples
chosen to do the work. Instead of
spending the evening in dancing each
| gentleman was expected to fill out his
cards with the names of the young ladies
| to whom he desired to talk. Five min
utes were to be devoted to each topic,
and at signal from the host there was
to be general swapping of partners,
and COMPLETE change in the subject.
The name of Elizabethtown, KY,
could be very properly changed from
Elizabethtown to Widowville, as we
doubt if there is town in the State of
its size that contains so many widows.
A careful count has been made, and
they number just sixtyone. What is
rather singular is that the widowers can
be counted on your fingers. There are
more than six widows to one wldower.
It is enough to alarm all the married
men. as it conclusively shows that, in
Elizabethtown at least, the women out
live the men. What is also very alarm
ing to the widows is the fact that in
thirty-fye years only three of them
have been able to get second husband
R. F. MYERS plays a tenor horn in
the Union Band of Carlisle, Pa. The !
other day this musical organization
gave a concert at Mount Alto, bcauti- |
f11l picnic resort in Franklin County. |
Myers, while playing in one of the
pieces, took the horn away from his
month, as horn blowers generally do. |
When lie began playing again he felt a
singing sensation in his throat. The |
pain caused him to stop blowing and, as
he took the horn away from his mouth,
large, yellow jacket dropped to the
floor. The insect had flown into the
horn, and when the man began to blow
it flew into his throat and stung him.
A PEER who had always ordered his
coats through his valet stepped into his
tailor's on Piccadilly to order one him
self. When he gave the address, the
tailor, supposing him to be a new valet,
slipped q little packet into his hand,
with "Heres your commission, and it's
your own fault if you don't earn more.
Just you take this brush, and give the
old mans clothes a good wipe down
with it every morning. He doesn't
wear half as many coats as he should"
1t was q steel-wire brush. The peer
took the money and his custom with
him.
The Wolverhampton England, cor
states that during a heavy
thunder storm a collier named Bates,
who had losth sight through an acct
dent, was being led home, when flash
of lightning reflected on the spectacles I
he was wearing to conceal his disfigure-
ment. After the peal of thunder which
followed he complained of pain in his
head. The next moment, to his sur
prise, he found that he had regaincd
posses sion of his eyesight. The occur
renee has caused considerable excite
ment in the locality.
JACOB MILLER, who lives in Cobb
County, Mo-, had not walked in seven
years on account of the contraction of
the muscles of his leg. During recent
storm, while sitting under a tree, a
stroke of lightning shattered the top of
the trunk of the tree, knocking it into
spllnters. Miller says he felt the cur
rent of electricity pass through his
body, and thought death was upon him.
In attempting to get his crutch he
found that his lame leg was almost
and he has walked without as.
sistance ever since.
MIR. JAMES YOUNG, of Bath, Canada
while engaged raising timber from the
bottom of the bay, found securely pin
ned to one of the logs pike weighing
49, pounds. The fish had run with
such force against large pointed silver
that it had penetrated his body and held
him prisoner. The strangest part of the
whole affair was revealed on opening
the pike, when there tumblcd out fonr2
ounce coin silver watch, three trolling
spoons, pair of silver spectacles, and n
white porcelain door knob.
"THERE are but few soldiers in the
war. says veteran, "who were NOT
card players, and they nearly all liked
to own q deck, but they had dread of
being killed with deck ON their person
Whenever we heard the cannons begin
to boom and the guns of the picketmen
begin to chatter, we knew that the battle
was coming, and you would see men bv
the hundreds drawing their cards from
their pockets and throwing them along
the road.
A BAKER in Bloomsbury, England,
sued man for $3.50 for bread fur
nished. The man entered counter
claim for $45 for the value of dog.
The evidence was that the bakers boy
leaving bread left the gate of the Gus
toner open, and the dog ran out and
was lost. The Court held that if the
man could not take care of the dog him
self he ought not to expect the bakers
boy to do it, and Judgment was for the
baker.
IT is said that charming French
duchess, recently, going to some festivi-
ty, was late, and put on her gloves
while driving. She did not notice until
she stood in the drawing room that to
black and white silk costume she had
added one black glove and one white
one. She kept them on, and at the
next fashionable assembly in the place
all the ladies wore gloves of different
colors. ,
ONE of the curiosities found in Maine
is pine tree near HallOwell that smokes. (
A column of vapOr as large around as
mans arm rises from the very top of the I
tree and extends for several feet into the
air. The phenomenon is of periodical I
and no one is able to ex-
olai n it.
ONE of the obscure rich men of St. {
LOuis is Oliver A. Hart, who, although /