News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-05
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOTABLE EVENTS BELIEVED
TO BE WORTHY OF RECORD.
The German Emperor,-On the
Street.-In a Country Church.
How They Amuse Themselves
A Boston Problem, &c, &C.

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two oldish men who were discussing
: their plans for the summer "Where
do you go?" said one to the other, a tall,
thin, stopping person. oval, was the
reply, ''my wife and 1 always go up to
. Vermont in July and August, and stay
at Cap'en Hanscom's house." "Pretty
hot, isn't it2" "Wal, yes; but it's hot
everywhere" elbow do you pass the
time, was the next question. "Wal,"
said the other, "my wife is an easy
= going woman, and she likes to sit
' around; she gets tired of housekeeping,
and likes to watch Mrs. Hanscom do her
3 work" And how do you amuse your
/, self" "Wal, L go out and watch the
Cap'en work. He grubs around in the
3 fields pretty much all day, and I set
and watch him." This is surely the
quintessence of cynical enjoyment.
LADY BUoHAN, whose death is record
ed at the age of 81 years, was n of the
last of the surviving persons who had a
distinct recollection of Napoleon the
Great. Her father, Col. Wilks, was
Governor of st. Helena in 1915, at the
time of B~onaparte's Punishment, and on
the term of his G~overnorship expiring
Miss Wilks was DESTROYS of being intro
duced to the ex-Emperor. 81 have long
heard from various quarters of the
superior eloquence and beauty of Miss
WiIks, but now I Am convinced from
my own eyes that report has scarcely
done her sufficient Justice" said Ma
poleon to her. "You must be very glad
to leave the island" he said. "Oh, no,
Sire" was the answer, ST am very sorry
to go away" "Oh, Mademoiselle, I wish
1 could change places with you" Ma
-.o1oo- o,o.o,Nol how Nth q bro oa1at in
memory of this visit.
In the Franco-G German war it was the
custom of the French soldiers to go
about and pull off the boots of the dead
German soldiers. The feet of the
Frenchmen are small and the boots of
the Germans fitted them so poorly that
they experienced much dissatisfaction.
At the battlefield of Gravellote one
Frenchman is alleged to have stolen in
to the German camp. He saw, extend
ing out of one of the tents, as plendid pair
of boots which he supposed to belong
to q dead man. He tried to pull one OF
them off and was greatly surprised when
the imagined corpse gave q vigorous
kick. He fled in dismay and was for
tunate enough to reach his own lines.
The man whose boots he had tried to
purloin was the Crown Prince of Ger
many.
IsEE sometimes in the street, says q
city newspaper man, really pretty girl,
or one who would be, were not her face
spoiled and being spoiled more and
more by the peevish or discontinued
state of mind she is in-a girl who looks
as if she had just got eff some ''hard
words" with her mother or sister, or
somebody else, and is still going through
with it all and giving them all a piece
of her mind. But keeping this up does
her n great deal of harm. 1t is bring
ing on ugliness. 1t weakens the stom-
ach. 1t poisons the blood. 1t drives
the best people from her. 1t attracts
and brings the worst. 1t ruins the COM
p~lexion.
IT was one of our Boston schools, and
the question was arithmetical, some
thing like this: "If II men can do a
piece of work in one week, how many
men would it require to do it in three
weeks2" Up went a hand. "Well,"
said the teacher. Give men and a boy
IA years DID," How do you make that
QUIT" asked the teacher. e~ndeavoring to
suppress a smile. at would take one
third as many men. One third of II is
five and two-thirds." "But where does
the boy come in?" "a person is not q man
until he is 81. Two-thirds of 81 is IA.
1t would take, therefore, 5 men and a IA
year old boy"
On June IA, 1879, Unser Fritz, the
late German Emperor, had q narrow es-
cape from death. He was out riding
at Potsdam, when his driver stopped the
carriage as it stood across the tracks of
the Potsdam and Berlin railway. There
was a crush of carriages in front of the
Crown Princes vehicle. Suddenly the
guard saw an express train bound for
Berlin rushing toward the crossing. A
guard saw the train coming and threw
up the danger signal. The engine was
stopped within fifteen feet of the cross
ing and the Princes life was saved. He
made the guard a handsome present in
recognition of his services.
FRANCOIS, q dwarf at the Paris Winter
Circus, has fallen head over heels in
love with Virama, a pigmy Cingalese
who acts in the pantomime at the same
place. Unfortunately she is married to
Appoo, another dwarf nearly double her
age. Nevertheless she wears the ring of
Francois upon her big toe, the only ap-
pendage she has large enough to fill it,
and has put so much life into the love
passages between herself and Francois
in the pantomime that Appoo is dread
fully jealous, and the circus authorities
have to keep Francois constantly under
guard for fear of a duel.
Nor long ago the carp were taken
out of the famous basin at Fontaine-
bleau, in France, in order that the basin
might be cleaned. A great fete has
been arranged to celebrate the return of
the fish. Silver rings are to be put into
their noses and music INT other cere-
monies enough to brighten the poor fish
to death are to accompany the
putting of the fish back into the
basin. 1t is intimated that enterprising
men from Paris are already specializing
on the chances of fishing in the basin
for rings, however, and not for the carp.
Two dogs, Pataud, a Newfoundland
that saved its mistress from assassin.
alton by springing at the throat of a
burglar, and an ordinary country mon
grel that rescued q child from drowning,
have just been decorated publicly by the
French society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals. There was a large
crowd present and nearly a riot when
somebody shouted "Down with Pas
teur!" The police had to be called in to
preserve ORDER.
Forty years ago Joseph and Sussman
Rothschild came from Germany to-
gether. Joseph settled in New Haven,
and Sussman. twenty-three years ago,
went to San Franoisco. The brothers
did not meet again; but n few months
ago Sussman, who is a millionaire now,
wrote that he was coming East to see
his brother. He did come the other
day, reaching New Haven n few hours
after his brothers funeral, too late even
to look upon the dead DO ty.
Mas. PATTI SYLE COLLINS, the reader
of blind handwriting in the Dead Letter
Department at Washington, is an expert.
She reads all written languages, except
Russian and Chinese, and does not read
these because, as she says, very few
Russian letters come to this country,
and the Chinese are so careful in prepar-
ing the addresses, usually writing n
in English as we'll as Chinese, that she
has found no need.
THE Rev. Myron Reed of Colorado,
who ran as the Democratic Congress
ional candidate in that state two years
ago, was once interrupted in the midst
of a public prayer by a man who shout
ed "Louder!" Reel stopped short,