News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOTABLE EVENTS RECORDED
IN THE PAPERS.
A Rear Brook Farmer-KiIled a
Snake "A Russian Exile - Bril-
liancy Rewarded, Etc, Etc,

suit made entirely of reindeer hair,
covering the entire body except the face
in which q man hoated on the water
without having to make the slightesr
movement. 1t was also found wholly
impossible to dive in the dress. A do
mat made of this hair was found to sup
port o man easily, although he was
dressed in full outdoor clothing. On
comparing life belts made of reindeer
hair with similar ones made of cork, it
was found that the former are much
lighter than the latter-a very import.
ant advantage to an exhausted drowning
person when it has to be put on in the
water.
A FEW weeks ago there appeared at an
nm in the east of France a traveller who
said that he was Russian nobleman
driven into exile by the Gar, and
anxious to convert the vast estate he had
left behind into ready money. He in
gratiated himself into the friendship of
the innkeeper, and finally offered him
the job of going to Russia and selling
the estate for him. The innkeeper
jumped at the chance and set off quick
ly. When he got to Russia he found
that the alleged nobleman was a fraud
and the estate a myth. He had just
money enough to pay postage on letter
home telling the facts, but the swindler
got wind of the letter, and with his wife
and family left the place and an unpaid
bill of $3.50 for board, incidentally taking
along all of the innkeeper's clothes
which he could lay his hands on, and
even his revolver.
A BEAR BROOK farmer is the owner of
a herd of pedigree cattle, and year ago
a calf was born of particularly choice
stock. For some reason the calf refused
to take milk, and could not be taught to
drink. An ingenious Danbury man q
day or two afterwsrd, learning of the
fact, bought the calf for seventy-five
cents. He took it home and placed in
the calf's mouth an egg, and then with
his hands on its jaws forcibly shut them.
This broke tie egg and the animal swal-
lowed the contents, excepting the shell,
which the owner carefully removed.
This course of treatment was kept up
for several days and the calf thrived,
and after a time learned to drink milk
and eat meal mash. From that time the
animal grew, and now, at q little over q
year old, is valued at $50, and even that
sum cannot buy it.
SUNDAY evening Miss Isabelle NJ.
Kelley, while returning from visit to
of hogs belonging to her father, and evil
IDENTIFY intent on having a mess of pork.
She tried to set her dog on him, bat the
dog wouldn't chase coyotes on Sunday
and refused to work. Miss Kelley was
not afraid if the dog was, and jumping
from her pony she picked up rock, and
following the coyote struck him on the
head and killed him. Science has UNDER
taken to show us that woman's clavicle !
prevents her being a good marksman |
with dornick, but Miss Kelley's ex-
plot, driving centre the first shot, ex-
plodes this theory, as it did the coyotes
brain receptacle. She should now take
a throw at the dog.
A MILWAUKEE clergyman who has
for brilliancy, generosity, and
getting into debt, and who was lately (
about as being in financial
straits, was waited upon few days ago /
by a wealthy parishioner, who asked !
him to figure out the amount of money
it would take to make him free from
debt. The clergyman replied that it |
would take nearly $4,000, whereupon
the gentleman responded: ''Well, your
sermons have been worth that much to
me above my pew rent and church con-
-ributions. Please accept this" And
he handed the clergyman check for the
sum named.
An agitation is going on in India
against the slaughter of COWS for food
|, IL e hot
t takes over 125, 900 COWS every year to
themselves very rarely touch meat, liv-
ng upon rice, vegetables, and milk.
Once even the poorest could have all the
milk he wanted for his babies and him.
elf, but now it is impossible for the vii
ayers to get milk even for infants whose
Mothers breasts have failed, and the
allure of the breasts is DIE chiefly, also,
% the lack of cows L. IL. Thousands
If children die ON this account yearly.
A WORTHY pork butcher, sitting quiet
y IN his shop at the foot OF q small hill
It Evreux, France, a few days ago, was
to see a dragon in full uni
orm come sailing in the window and
and on the counter at his side. A mill
airy wagon loaded with stores had been
coming down the hill when the horses
lad run away, and, being brought up
With round turn at the foot of the hill,
lad projected the soldier, who was part
# the freight, bodily through the butch
RS window. This soldier and another
me received serious injuries, and the
butcher is suffering from shock.
Mrs. HARPER, who lived in Sand Hol-
4I,, | !
hing coming and urged her husband to
I'm into the cellar. He was resting on
lounge and said: "Let her come; we
vas here first" Just then the house /
tarted over the next hill, in company
With wagon, gang pillow and a shower |
f calves and boards from the next ranch
IN the west. Luckily Mr.. Harper was
lot hurt and he will do like Adam next ,
ime-take his wife's advice, regardless ,
f consequences. i
4 PARIS tradesman one night recently
sked the old woman who came around : :
very morning to clean up his store if !
be liked to see people hanging, and
hen she said no, told her she had =
etter not come around the next morn
lg, then. She supposed it was joke 4
ntil the next morning, when she pushed = =
pen the door and found the dead body
the man hanging in the passage. He
ad put upon the shutters the notice:
Closed on account of death in the fam
y"
THERE is in Southern insane asylum 7
u eight-year-o boy who has never {
cen awake since the hour of his birth. I
lie was the child of parslytic mother,
nd has delicate features and q high,
rhite forehead, with long, black curls.
Lis arm is not larger than an ordinary
lan's thumb. He lies on his bed year
fter year, taking no note of anything 8
nat passes. Twice day he is aroused !
nough to take little nourishment, and !.
zen relapses into sleep. =
Mrs. SUSAN ToPE wife of farmer of 9
'evonshire, England, while driving h
ut with her husband, was struck ac-
dentally just below the left eye with b
le lash of the whip and a slight il
ound was inflicted. Little notice was
ken of it, but q few days afterward [
[rs. TOPICS face began to swell, and E
small knot of cord was If
,moved from the wound. Lockiaw h
It in, and she died in short time. K
ONE of the curiosities of Georgia, is
he so-called ''sinking mountain" on the s.
hattooga River. 1t is said that it is Ii
mixing, though almost imperceptibly. :,
j the time, but whenever an earth !,
make occurs, even in the remote parts u
the earth, it instantly sinks from one y,
six feet. If all this is true, why haven't Il
e heard more about it.