News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-26
NOTES.

Six farmers at Mansfield, Mo-, had
a Fourth of July fight, and only one of
them is living.
A Florida alligator hunter killed %
in one week, netting about $3.50 each
for their teeth, hides, etc.
1t is said that seaside resorts are
picking up. An occasional sea-ser-
pent is found on the sands.
Orthodox "Sunday night teas" have
undergone a decided change for the
better the last few years.
In the matter of gastronomic
economy there are no families in the
world equal to the French.
Bostonians may dote on baked
beans, -but-most- of-them draw the
repugnance line at tripe.
Old lady (to grocer)-My daughter
is quite an invalid, sir, and wants
some nice fresh eggs. Groceries
mann; Ito boy) James show this
lady those invalid eggs.
go, my friend, there are some
5pectacles that a person never for
gets !" said lecturer, after a graphic
description of a terrible accident that
he had witnessed. I'D like to know
where they selPem," remarked an old
lady in the audience who is always
mislaying her glasses.
A horse at Fitchburg that had
worked for many years in coal team
was sold, and his new owner put him
with another horse to draw sand, but
be refused to work anywhere and had
to be returned to the former owner.
AS soon as he was put on coal team
all trouble ended.
At Davenport, Iowa, the other day,
dog which seized young sparrow
that had dropped to the sidewalk was
instantly set upon by half a dozen
grown birds with a ferocity that not
only made him drop his prey, but sent
him off bowling with pain from the
wounds their sharp bills had inflicted.
A negro boy at Duluth recently
found a gold coin in an old pile of
rubbish. He took it to a lawyer and
sold it for one dollar. The lawyer
disposed of it to coin collector, and
now it turns out that the coin was a
confederate gold dollar worth 5000.
There are only five more specimens in
existence.
There were 81 deaths in New
York city last week as against $50
the previous week. The increase is
directly due to the heat. Nine-tenths
of the increase was from the crowded
tenements. This is the hottest June
on record. The highest temperature
in June in seventeen years was "a
degrees on the 30th, in 1872, and the
lowest was 60 degrees on June 10
1878.
Berlin has supplanted Switzerland
in the carved wood industry. Six
hundred artists in wood carving, the
same number of turner's and seven
hundred carpenters are engaged in
manufacturing such articles as cigar
cases, newspaper and picture frames,
napkin rings. etc. This is exclusive
of the costly carved wood furniture,
the manufacture and export of which
are assuming large proportions.
The fast trains are said to have
played the mischief with engineers,
according to railroad man. Almost
daily one of these knights of the lever
suffers from a paralytic stroke. The
rapid time made puts every engineer
on such a strain that it is only
question of a few months until the
nervous system collapses. There is
said to be a train running from St.
Paul to Saltwater, on the Omaha, that
is called the hospital train, for every
man who runs with it has either had |
a stroke of paralysis or has been
injured in some way or another.
A returned Chicagoan tells some
amusing stories of railway service in
the Lone Star State. A road running
out of Houston possessed one loco
motive and single train of cars. The
train would go to Houston one day
and would go to the other end of the
line the next day. The train would
run off the track occasionally, and
then the passengers would have to
board with the nearest planter for a
few days while the cars were lifted
back on the rails. The conductor
it a matter ofonly ordinary
Doliteness to stop the train when a
ady desired to gather few wild
lowers along the way.