Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-06-27

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vidualities and notable life b stories.
One of the most striking figures here is
that Of tall, graceful girl, known as
Winchester Nellie, from the remark
able ability with which she handles a
Winchester rifle, being by all odds the
best shot with that weapon in camp.
There is a mystery about Nell that no
body has yet been able to fathom. She
is, apparently, about twenty three years
OF age, and she gives her name as Nelly
Smith, but when questioned as to her
former home, her antecedents and the
whereabouts of her parents she resolute-
! ly declines to answer She has staked
OFF claim, and is working it with excel
4 lent results. She has the respect of
/ every man in camp, andis made friend
and companion by all the best women.
/ There is not miner who would dare to
offer the slightest familiarity to Nell,
/ for there is an indescribable something
IN her manner which tells one instinc-
! lively that it would be dangerous to
presume upon its frank cordiality.
HERE are two startling snake stories
/ from Maine. The first comes from
Wateryille, where the post-mortem ex-
animation of horse that died from UNI
known causes revealed in its stomach a
''snake four and one half feet long, with
head and eyes perfect, SIX inches In cir
cumference, and the color of blood with
the exception of white stripe on the
ba k" Another snake came from the
stomach of Mrs. Frank Kenny, of Ports
mouth, N. IT,, who was in Biddeford
11n1ar lfaal t.,
1866, Mt n camp meeting in Alton Bay,
she drank water from q brook, and Of
terward became ILL., She was treated
for cancer of the stomach, but stoutly
insisted that something moved within
her. The other dav, by means of a
powerful drug, ga light-colored snake
twelve and three-eighths inches long
was disgorged from her stomach, and
she has gone home happy"
A QUEER little insect, the Texas flee,
having killed out the quail in the vicini-
ty OF Albany, Ga, has turned its atten-
ton to the poultry. They are particu-
larly fatal to ducks, fastening them
selves only upon their heads and eating
their way into their brain. They at
tack no other part of their body, and
are very difficult to get off as they bur-
row oft once beneath the skin. They
are similar in appearance to the com
mon fieas, but are only about half the
size and do not hop. 1t is supposed
the destructive little pest was brought
upon the burros and bronchos brought
in such numbers from the Lone Star
State. They are proof against insect
powders and insect drops, carbolic oint-
ment being the only thing that will de-
stroy them. From being one of the best
poultry markets in the State, Albany is
becoming one of the poorest.
GENERAL A. G.. p. DODGE and wife,
the latter niece of Senator Voorhees,
of Indiana, entertained the elite of Dan
vile, ILL.,, at their $50 900 mansion ON
recent evening, Miss Cannon and Miss
Mabel Cannon, daughters of Congress-
man j. q. Cannon, being among the
guests. During the dancing, after the
refreshments Ind been served, the house
was discovered to be ON fire. The
flames had made considerable progress
unobseryed by any one, and the first in
timation the dancers had that the house
was on fire came in the shape of stream
Of molten lead that burst through the
ceiling of the large hall. Many Of the
dancers were despatched by the liquid
metal, receiving severe burns. Ladies
screamed and for a while pandemonium
reigned. At last those who had been in
the ballroom succeeded in getting out,
-leaying their wraps and hats behind.
BETTING on the rainfall is carried on
with so much energy III Bombay that
the local Government have tried to set
down the practice us unlawful gambling
A shed erect d near a certain tank is
fitted up with two large rain gauges,
called "Calcutta" and 'Lukda" and
with numerous stalls, whose keepers
register the bets on the rainfall to be
determined by the gauges. Sometimes
], 800 persons crowd round the shed for !
the "bursat- ka sutta, or rain betting, I
and all pay the stall-keepers a small
commission. The authorities sought to /
declare the shed common gaming
house, and accordingly coming under
the provisions of the Prevention of |
Gambling Act; but the Bombay High /
Court decides that rain betting does not
constitute a game, as there is no instru- /
ment of gaming used.
NJ. ToPINARD has been making sta
tistical inquiry into the colors of the
ewes and hair in France. And from his
$50. 900 observations he deduces many
interesting results, one of the most Curl |
GUS being that where the race is formed |
from a mixture OF blondes and brunettes |
the hereditary blond coloring comes out
in the ewes and the brunette element re- |
aDpears in the hair. To this tendency. |
is to be attributed the rarity of
a combination of light hair and dark |
eyes. Several observers have asserted |
that the American people, who are per
mixed race, are becoming a
dark haired and blue-eyed nation, and, if
this be true, such development must be
owing to the working of the law formu
lated by NJ. Topinard.
A CONTEST in the jackson County
MOI courts over will and valuable
property reveals a somewhat complicated |
romance. Hezekiah G. Harrison in 1850 |
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