News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-26
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOTABLE EVENTS THOUGHT
WORTHY OF RECORD.
The Bridge Builder-What Animals
Cost-Over a TrestIe-A Tender
foot POstmaster-How They Live
in China, Etc, Etc.

A STORY is told of Postmaster whose
lack OF knowledge of working his own
"nest" lost him an increase of 800 on
his salary next year. When he sent
his returns in he lacked 81 cents of the
amount called for by the law to permit
an ad Justment of his salary. His re-
port showed the yearly receipts of his
office to be $2,099.20. AS the depart
ment allows a fraction over half dol
lar to be counted as dollar, the Post
master would have been 500 more in
pocket If he had had shrewdness enough
to buy 81 cents worth of stamps out of
his own pocket. Since he sent his re-
port he has learned his mistake, and
anybody IN the county now can kick
him. His was the only case of the kind
IN the $500. It caused much merri-
ment among the clerks at the Post Office
Department.
A TEN-YEAR-oLD son of J. H. Wood,
OF Montpelier, Ind, caught four pound
black bass IN a novel manner. He saw
the bass IN pool in the rapids of the
Salamonle, and conceived the idea that
II he went into the water and knelt
down the bass would come up to him to
get into the shade thus made in the
water. He went in, kept quite, and the
big fish after darling in and out few
tunes came up close to the boy and nestl-
ed there. Quietly the boys hand slip
ped to the gills of tho fish, one quick
grab and. boy and bass were in a tussel,
but the boy held on and carried his fish
in triumph to his mother. Considering
the age of the boy, the plan adopted
and the size of the bass it is one of the
unique fish incidents of the season.
How EASILY bitterness may be produc
ed by too much sweetness was illustrat-
ed the other day by car incident. One
little girl about five years old leaned
over the back of the seat in front, and
whispered in the ear of small boy. CT
love you" Having no reply, she again
SAID, - love you. " Yes, said the
boy, ''but don't say that again. 81
will" was the determined answer of
the girl. "You won't" replied the boy |
with equal determination, and there I
upon began q fast and furious quarrel
which lasted until the girl was borne
away by her nurse, her voice sounding
shrllly down the car aisle, 81 love you,
I love you, love you," over and over
again.
AT Ellton, Ohio, the Pittsburgh, Mar
ion and Chicago Railroad crosses the
Big Beaver River on trestle 105 feet
high. Over this trestle John Hawkins
was walking with his little four-year old
daughter WHEN the child complained he
was holding her too tightly, and he re-
axed his hold and turned for q moment.
when in some manner the little one
slipped between the ties and landed
over hundred feet below, partly in
he water and partly on the ground.
The father reached his child expecting
% find her dead, but, strange to relate,
while the little one was unconscious not
! bone was broken. She soon revived,
md unless internally injured, will re-
;Oyer.
The foreman of hook and ladder
company in Cologne, Germany, had his
ttention attracted by the futtering of
wallow high up in church steeple.
rhe bird had become fastened by
bread in the nest and could not free
tself. fastening to the headquarters
f his company the foreman telegraphed {
D the central station, asking if it would '
e permissible to turn out the company {
} save the swallow. The Fire Marshal ,
9garded a turnout allowable if viewed I
lerely as necessary exercise. An alarm I
as rung in, the department responded, |
nd, amid the shouts of hundreds of on '
'okers, the swallow was rescued from '
is almost fatal nest. 7
The price paid for animals varies very l
luch. A good male lion is worth 81 {
DO, and tiger $1,000; Ieapords cost z
$50; for monkeys we pay from $12 up q
ard, according to the species. Ordi- I
airy East India or African monkeys I
rare species cost-tshigh as $50, $40 and c
80 each. The best speaking parrots
e either the African or the Mexican
ouble yellow head. For young birds
this species the dealers pay $40 apiece S
hen buying a number at time, retail
e them at $15 and 500 each. The old II
liking birds of this variety are worth
ON $50 to 800 apiece, the price depend !,
g on the number of words that the u
arrOt can talk. u
AT CANTON, China, some $50, 900 peo- q
q live continuously on boats and many
ever step foot on shore from one years
I'd to another. The young children
I'VE q habit of continually falling over~
-
ouble in effecting a rescue, while in 81
any instances this is impossible and m
lid is drowned China is an over-pop~ n
ated country, and the Chinese have l
Gifted by this drowning proclivity in fe
ducing the surplus population. They el
tach floats to the male children so that V,
ey can be tished out when they tumble o.
to the river. The females are without q,
oh protection and are usually left to
own. q
IT has long been thought an excellent -
ing to mix silver with the other metal 7
len bell was to be cast, and many Z
Gus persons have rejoiced at the W
ought that the silvery chime of their ca
urch bell was i'll part due to their ri
its. Now comes writer in an Eng tie
h scientific paper with this paragraph: tn
once asked foreman in welIknown DC
II foundry whether putting silver in
Melting pot was of advantage. He re- al
ed of great advantage-tot the founder; III
2 silver sinks to the bottom, the found e7
Pours off the copper and tin, and when ye
, Gil ooo1oI L. /. 81