News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11

| IN | l.! 4 to find one of the
TAlZ| low, bla *, rak-
ish vessels of which he had read. He
didn t find it, and he didn't find any
thing that his fancy had pictured, and
that night, rs he wandered along the
wharves, night Waterman collared him
and took him to the lookup, and TIN re
Sherman saw four drunken sailors, and
they didn't fit the picture that his mini
/ had drawn, and Sherman wept bitterly,
and begged for chance to walk back to
North Chesterville, and when it was
granted to him he started briskly home
ward.
LONDON street rowdies put up small
| boys to throw themselves i'll the way of
bicycles, AMI on being struck by the
machines to set up n howl and pretend
to have been badly hurt. Then the
rowdies crowd around in the role of in
dignant and sympathizing citizens, and
the bicyclist is glad to pay the gamin
roundIy AMI get off with whole skin.
Afterward the rowdics and the gamin
divide the proceeds.
WARREN SCuELL, of SomcrvilIe, Ga,
saw bear signs in q meadow quarter OF
a mile from his house, and that after
noon cautiously visited the place armed
with n Winchest rifle. He WAS re-
warded by seeing two old bears feeding
and two Cubs playing about them. When
he drew near the old he bear turned tail
and ran, the cubs got on Il rail fence,
and the mother charged the hunter furi- |
ously. He put one bullet into her
breast, but it did not stop her; the Sec
! ond caused her to turn, and a third |
! killed her. A bullet apiece killed the !
| cubs, one of which showed fight.
JEANNE ToRRIoU, French woman,
aged So, who had amassed quite sum
of money by life OF hard work as a
| cook, went to live with Widow Grumet, /
aged Is. The two got on together poor
| ", and the ex-cook had packed up her !
things to go to a home for aged persons, |
when the Widow Grumet knocked her .
down with heavy pestie and battered |
her brains out with shovel. The neigh !
bors heard cries and became suspicious. !
While the widow was gone to draw her |
victims money from the savings bank !
they entered the house and found the |
body, and also that the widow had taken !
everything of value that belonged to the
ex-c0ok She was overtaken, arrested, |
and confessed.
SOUTH LONDON is to have new under
ground railroad It is being built sixty
feet underground. Passengers are to /
reach it by hydraulic elevators to carry
fifty persons at once. The tunnel is be- |
ing driven by the use of n steel shield /.
slightly larger than the iron rings of
which the tunnel is to b. constructed. I,
The steel shield has a knife edge, and is /
driven forward at the rate Of fifteen feet
a day by hydraulic rams worked by
hand. A fOur-track road even deeper
underground has been proposed for New
York city.
INDIANS in the United States last year
cultivated 227, 265 acres of land and |
raise1 724, 95S bushels of wheat, 934, 972 |
bushels of corn, 512, 1877 bushels of oats
and barley, 524,01O bushels of yege-
tables, and 1Ol, 1913 tons of hay. They
also owned B -, 3D. horses and mules,
III, 4O7 head of cattle, 40, AL swine, and
Liz, 273 sheep.
A LITTLE girl named Sallie McAlams
. has been astonishing the people of
/ CraN ford, Neb., by the plucky manner
in which she tames vicious horses. No
matter how wild the horse may be, she
sticks to him until he is conquered, and
the most expert cowboys i'll the region
acknowledge that they cannot beat her.
A SAFETY envelope has been invented
which is tinted in such manner as to
turn black, blue and red if an attempt
is made to open it by wetting or expos
ing to steam, while it is not affected by
moist, air or fog. There will be much
use for them. The sacrednesS of seal
ed envelope is not too sacredIy observed
by many people.
THERE is n prevalent superstition that
| the possession of peacock's feathers
brings ill-luck to the house. There is a
Mohammedan superstition that a snake |
and peacock were placed at the gate of
Paradise to give warning of danger. !
They listened to the voice of Satan, and /
We're doomed to share his punishment. /
Another explanation is that pcacock's /
feathers were used by the ancients as
funeral emblems, and hence are unlucky. !
The cry of a peacock under q window |
bodies death to some member of the |
household. The belief in this omen is |
strong with the lower English classes.
IT seems that in 1910 Henry Mogul, !
father of the present treasurer of High
land County, O., caught turtle on his |
form III Center Township, that county. |
and cut into its back the initials, I'll. |
NJ, 1910" He let the turtle go, but
related the circumstances to his son. /
Recently the county treasurer was out
walking over the old farm when he nc i |
dentaly came across the identical fold |
turtle upon which his father had curved .
his initials DoN e lty-Cight years before. /
The turtle was alive and as active as
ever, the inscription on his back being
almost distinct as when first made.
For the first time in tie history of
South Carolina, woman will be u can
dldate for office at the approaching cleo |
ton. Miss Eliza Garner, plump and |
pleasing person" about IS years old and
native of Union county, is out an /
nouncing herself candidate for school /
commissioner of that county. Miss Gar !
ner was candidate at the Democratic !
primary elections for the nomination,
but she received only forty votes. She |
has decided to bolt the Democratic tick
ct and will run as I'm independent. The |
Republicans will have no county ticket !
in the field and may rally 10 her support. !
She is connected with one of the oldest |
and wealthiest families in the county |
and announces if elected she will devote |
the sal ry and emoluments of the office |
to the purchase of text books for poor
children.
A Boston newspaper explains that |
Mr.. Thurman is 1.-The Old Roman by
inheritance, taking the title from his
uncle, Gov. William Allen of Ohio, who
first won the title by his fondness for
Roman history, and the frequency with
which he quoted from it in his political
speeche Mr.. Thurman has not inner
tied certain other less dignified titles of
Gov. Alien, who was sometimes called
"Petticoat Allen, Earthquake Allen"
Fog horn Al en-" and toward the last
of his life, after he had been defeated by
Mr.. Hayes, "OId Bill Allen"
WILLIAM SAMUELs, saloon keeper
and champion boxer of Wales, recently
entered alone den of lions in a menag-
erie at Swansea. He wore prize-fght-
ers costume and blue rosette on his
breast, and carried a heavy cudgel. The
lions seemed inclined to resent his en-
trance, but he walked boldly to the end
of the cage where they were grouped,
and held his cud el under the nose of
the biggest one. They growled, and he
walked i'll among them, driving them to
the right and left as he passed them.
Men with red-hOt irons stood outside to
help III case he was attacked, but there
was no occasion for their services, and
after Samucls had walked about among
them for a while and fired q loaded pis-
AL in +hair fo .au 10 ,,,o,,+ hall