News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-27
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Newsy Stories, Novel Facts and Queer
Happenings Here and There.

Newsy Stories, Novel Facts and Queer
Happenings Here and There.
PEoF. Henry Beals, a Fellow of the
Royal Society of London, is about COM
plotting the work allotted to him two
years ago, that OF making a study of the
erratic boulders which are so common
in New England and on the north side
of Long Island. He has been making
a special search for rocking stones
His iourneyings, which are now nearly
ended, have been very successful. His
search fer rocking stones has been
made in conjunction with biologists on
the Continent, who are seeking to es-
tablish beyond controversy the theory
that these great rocks and curiously bal
anced stones, which in many instances
are as large as a small house, were car
ried on floating icebergs during that
mysterious era known rs the glacial per-
iod. OF the rocking stones lie has dis
covered but one new example in addition
to that already known. This is at Noank,
on the farm OF Caleb Haley, New York
fish dealer This stone is estimated to
weigh twenty-five tons. 1t has rock
ing scope of six inches and can he read
lily moved by the band. Only one other
stone is known of in New England, that
at Danesborough, Mass. A photograph
has been taken OF Mohegan Rock, also
known as Shehegan, in the town of
Montville. This rock was used as for
tress and watch-tower by the Mohegan
Indians. 1t is now known to be the
largest specimen of cratic boulder in
this country thus far discovered. 1t is
IS feet high and 20 feet long, and is cal
culated by scientists to weigh 10, 900
tons, an enormous load for foe of ice
to carry. tits evidenced by the large
flakes of the stone which the insinuating
frosts and storms of centuries have
Clipped from it. One of these frag-
ments is sixty feet long and twelve feet
thick, and its estimated weight is ! 200
tons.
FRANKLIN G.. FISK, head of the New
York engraving firm of Fisk & Co., was
killed recently by barrel filed with
ashes which fell on his head through
the hatchway inside the main entrance
of his place of business. He had Just
entered the building and was reading q
letter by the side of his letter box when
causing compound fracture of the
skull aud breaking one arm. He was
dead before the Chambers Street Hos
pital ambulance arrived. He lived at
Montclair, New Jersey, and was &C years
of age. He was producer Of maps by
the new relief process, and furnished
the battle-maps for the Century maya
zine war articles and maps of the States
nf
JanitOr, John Boyle, who was lowering
the ashes, was arrested and then released
on his own recognizance. He was low
ering two barrels in a sling from the third
to the groun1 floor when the rope
slipped and one fell.
For four years Mrs. Benjamin Meyer,
of SoudertOn, Pa, was totally blind.
Not long ago she WAS taken i'll, so that
she had to stay in bed for several days.
On the fourth day she awoke in the
morning and exclaimed: my God in
heaven, l see." Her husband rushed
to the bedside and was recognized.
Then the other members of the house
hold came in and were recognized. She
pointed out different articles of furniture
in the room, told different persons what
they were wearing, and in many ways
proved that she saw. She asked that
H nTs, G I'M az and grandchildren, twenty
did. She told them that she had earn
estly prayed that she might see them all
before she died, and this was the answer
to her prayer. Then she said: "This is
the last day that l shall ever have the
use OF my eyesight." She awoke the next
morning as blind as ever.
THE winter has no terror for the
regular army even in the far Northwest.
nothing to his soldiers as with with
stoves. They are always to be
had for the asking, and some
times without. Some years ago, when
the Fifteenth Infantry WAS oredred to
take possession of deserted fort in New
Mexico in the heat OF the summer, not
a key OF nails could he procured from
department headquarters to help re-
pair the barracks, but 100 stoves, at all
times useless in that climate, came
promptly to hand. The one difficulty
the government is meeting in providing
winter supplies for its troops in Dakota
and Montana is to find some substitute
for the buffalo robe, which has now dis
appeared from the market. Tests are
now being made of various furs in COM
bluatlon with stout canvas with q view
of replacing it.
For several months the Dominion
police at Ottawa, Ont, have been en-
deavorlng to ascertain where the I'M
usually large number of bodies which
have been rCsuTected all over the coun-
try were being disposed of, and at last
their efforts have been crowned with
success. 1t appears to me that they
have discovered that ut Ogdenshurg, n,
Y, there is an agent who has been Of
fering high prices for all the bodies he
can obtain, for shipment to New York
and Philadelphia. The authorities got
into the idea that they were being sent
out of the country from the fact that
within few weeks more subjects have
been stolen than would supply all the
Canadian medical universities for two
years to come. They therefore turned
their attention to towns along the from
tier, with the result above mentioned.
A YOUNG man, OF VinaI Haven, Me-,
who attended fireman's ball, when he
prepared to go home put ON the Sheriff.
oyercOat by mistake. He didn't dis
cover it until he was walking home with
his girl, and then it was by finding q
49, VI -1eA44etSAALo III OIC VI llC DOChGIS.
The young woman wanted to see how it
seemed to have such bracelets on, and
she found out, for the handouts locked
with a spring, and after she had put
them on she couldn't get them off. She
struggled, and tried to squeeze her
hands through the loops, but being
built on the generous Maine plan she
failed IN this after straining her wrists
and taking the skin off in spots. There
was nothing for her but to wait until
the young man hunted mp the Sheriff,
who came with key and unlocked the
handouts.
A MEXICAN paper says that in the vii
lage of Tlacayapan of Morales, District
of 1autepec, grows q shrub known by
the name of Margarita, the mastication |
OF the leaves of which has been discov-
cred to be a radical and instantaneous
cure for the hydrophobia. A woman
named Margarita was attacked by rabies, |
made use by chance and for the first |
time of said leaves. and TO her we owe |
this discovery. Afterward there was
cured IN the same manner her sister, |
native of the town; daughter of the |
chief of the hacienda Tenextepanzo; an /