News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06

A MAN living in the shade of the Cats
kill Mountains has entered upon new
branch of business. He heard that well
water could be purified with lime, and
so be emptied q bushel and half into
his well and felt blissful and happy. 1t
turned OUT that, because of the dryness
of the season there was only three feet
of water in the we'll, and ever since his
experiment he has been selling good
article of whitewash to his neighbors at
buckets for a cent, and walking a mile
and half to the creek for drinking wa
ter for his family.
THERE is in Paris, current story has
it, all educated beggar in the person of
a young man formerly pupil of the
Ecole Normale, whose modus Operandl
is as follows: He comes up to the ter
race of cafe, and addressing himself to
the most intelligent man present, invites
| him to ask any historical question he
can think of, any date of French history
from the earliest to the present time,
! saving, 81 will answer at once" He
! generally fultills his promise with re-
markable alacrity, and with equal alac-
! rity passes around the hat.
A FRENCHwoMAN who was at Asbury
Park a few weeks ago wore striking
and certainly very proper bathing dress.
1t was made of white Turkish towelling,
and waist and drawers were of one
piece, reaching from chin to heels like
childs night dress. Over this was worn
long skirt. The wearer, who was
nearly six feet high, looked like her fa.
theirs ghost when she took bath.
An ENGLISH farmer who has been in
vestigating the caterpillar pest, which
is proving so destructive to tie fruit and
nut crops in Kent, has concluded that
the spawn which produced the caterpil-
lars was deposited by the swarms of
butterflies which swept the coasts last
autumn, and which were supposed to
have been driven over from the con-
tinent by the storms.
OLE OLEsTADr and wife and baby lived
near Hunter, Dakota. He thought his
father and mother would like America
better than Norway, and he sent them
money to come over with. The other
night lightning struck his house, and
killed Ole and his wife as they lay sleep
ing. The baby was not hurt at ALL
The old folks arrived the day of the
funeral.
ROBERT HARDING, a young English
Socialist, when he wants to make a
speech on the streets or public squares
padlocks himself with q chain to an iron
fence or some similar fixture. Then
when the police come to take him in they
have to spend long time getting him
and he can make a pretty
long speech before he is carried off.
A CORRESPONDENT of an English ma
gazine alleges that a perfect cure for |
is to think of some dream |
one has had, the more recently the bet |
ter, and to begin to go over again In the |
mind as nearly as possible the details
Of the dream. Sleep comes. he asserts,
almost invariably and often as quickly
rs the fall of a curtain.
CARL HERTZ, the conjurer, has new
rick. He proposes to do the 'lfe-giv-
ng flame" act out of "She" on the
stage, with the beautiful young woman
apparently being consumed to ashes in
he full view of the audience, Then she
will reappear rom the wings. 1t is
of the vanishing lady trick.
IT cost n woman of Auburn, Me-, $500
o learn that furniture attached to the
galls of a house is part of it. She sold
Ter house, aud there were $500 worth of
mirrors screwed to the walls. When
he attempted to take them down she
vas prevented by the buyer, and the
aw made his claim good.
AN Italian physician claims to have
iscove1ed that the blood of an eel con-
aims poison of a similar character to
he poison of vipers. He says an eel of
wo kilogrammes has in his blood
nough poison to kill six men.
A CITIZEN of Winneconne, Wis, has
ucceeded in tempering brass, and has
brass knives and axes that
will cut seasoned hemlock knots without
urning the edge.