News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-27
NOTES.

| A delegate meeting, representing
5000 railroad miners in western Penn
sylvania met at Pittsburg, one night
recently and decided to join the ma
tional progressive union of miners
and mine laborers. Resolutions were
unanimously adopted recommending
that the enforcement of scale rates
be left to the officers of the national
progressive union, and that the dele
gates use their best efforts to make
the new organization unanimous
through western Pennsylvania.
The United States appraiser at San
Francisco has reported that the 8 800
tons of Java sugar which was seized
with the steamer Westmeath recently,
has been artifcially colored, and in
stead of being below Dutch standard
No. ID, as represented, should be
classed between grades No. Is and
16 Dutch standard, which pays duty
of ga cents a pound. In accord
ance with this finding the American
refinery company has paid So, 401
additional duty, and as it cannot be
shown that the refinery company is at
fault, the cargo will be released.
The Siamese ape is stated to be in
great request among Siamese mer-
fants Vase s9H aHanttes s" of 6ase coin
obtain circulation in Siam, and the
faculty of discriminating between good
money and bad would appear to be
possessed by these gifted monkeys in
such an extraordinary degree of de-
velopment that no human being,
however carefully trained, can com
pete with them. The cashier ape
meditatively puts into his mouth each
coin presented to him in business paw
ments, and tests it with grave deliber-
alton. His method of testing is re-
garded in commercial circles as infalli-
BILE, and, as matter of fact, his de-
cision is uniformly accepted by all
parties interested in the transaction.
The Pittsburg Dispatch says that
steamers hunt whales in that latitude. |
The harpoon is made with four UNI
brella like ribs, which is fired from a
cannon on the ship into the whales |
body. Pressure makes it open up and
take wider and firmer hold, and the
whale pulling sets off some nitroglyc-
crime confined in the cone or front
part of the harpoon. With all this
the whale sometimes runs for many
miles, drawing after it the ship, often
at the rate of sixteen knots an hour,
and marking its course with blood.
Two thousand feet of heavy rope are
fastened to the harpoon, but this, as
Indicated, does not allow sufficient
play for the great monster, which is
often 70 to 81 feet long, and weighs
100000 pounds. Af,erward, when
the whale is dead, or nearly so, an
iron chain is put around its body and
Lowed into the harbor of the fishing
company.
Four children of one Brunt, a gro
GER at Coteau Rouge, Canada, have
lied in four days of diphtheria. The
nan could get no physician and the
1eighbors would not go near him. He
ook the bodies to the cemetery and
aid them on the ground one of them
lncoffined. One for which he had
occurred coffin was found with the
eet banging over the end, the coffin
icing too short. The sexton refused
o sell Brunei larger one because he
lad not money to pay for it. Yhe
exton of the cemetery refused to
Jury the children unless he was paid,
nd left the bodies where they were
laced until Wednesday, when DR..
loquin of Longueuil, had the bodies
isinfected and induced the sexton to
lace them in a vault. Diphtheria has ,
roken out in different places in Long
eail and Coteau Rouge, and the only
hysician who will 60 into the houses
DR.. Moquin, who attends the pa
ents gratuitously. Other physicians .-
are not visit the patients because :.
icy would not be allowed inside 9TH
houses by the French Canadians. ]