News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-07

! Inefe are also two cables across the
Ganges of 1000 and $3.50 feet respect
| lively.
AN uncommon incident occurred a
one of the churches in Louisville. A re
vlval was in progress, and among those
who went up to confess his sins was
| Henry o. Osterly, young man whose life
had not been noted for Ch1istian-like
deeds. He had been connected with
the Fire Department, and was mOst
| energetic worker at fires. Several mem
bers of the church were around the
young sinner, giving him words of com
fort and encouraging him in the step he
was about to take. At that moment
fire alarm struck. The young man
sprang suddenly from his kneeling pos
ture, rushed from the house at the top
of his speed, and hurried to the scene OF
the fire. He has not been to church
since.
I'IIa oi5l-t families, ooctrt5.y yin5 - roul
story tenement house in East Seventy
fifth street, New York, were saved from
being asphyxiated by s&5acious old
black cat, which is the joint property OF
a family named May, living on the
SoAOAAAlNt lOOi. 1IlC OtnU NlCICCICOl Iilete lilt
gas was escaping from a leak in the
pipe, and crawled into the bed of Mary
May, q seventeen-year-old member of
the May family, waking her by pulling
at the bed-clothes. Mary realized the
danger at once, and called her mother,
who aroused the rest of the hoJSe with
difficulty. Two members of the Nav
family were nearly suffocated before be-
ing rescued, and had to be taken to the
hospital.
4 DISPATCH from Freehold, n. j.,
says that Mr.. Carson j. Emmons, a res
ident of that place, was the owner of a
peculiarly intelligent pig, which he has
Just now sacrificed for the scientific pur-
pose of discovering how much larger the
brain of the animal was than that of the
pant Of his pen. When the pigs head
was examined it was found that there
were hardly any brains in it at all, or
rather that the brain-pan was entirely
empty. The Freehold doctors are said
to have been thunderstruck upon the
discovery OF this fact, as, indeed, they
may well have been.
EVERY city Of Spanish America has
bull-,ing of its own, where Sunday after
noon sports are enacted under the su-
pervision of Il licensed contractor. The
contractor of Morelia, in the Mexican
State of MichOacan, was recently fined
for repeatedly disappointing his au-
dience by the use of aged and underfed
animals, thus making the exhibition too
tame to furnish Il fair equivalent for the
high rates of the gate-money." The
sentence adds that the manager of the
Sunday festivities will forfeit his license
by any further neglect in the selection
OF full-sized and vigorous bulls.
The Oldest railroad employee in
the country has just been rnn over
gusta, Ga. Mr.. Andrew w. Lewis,
who has been check clerk of the South
Carolina Railroad, in Augusta, for Just
fifty years, while crossing the track cor
ner of Reynolds and Washington streets,
was run over by a shifting engine of the
E2ichmend ard Dss=rillc Railroad. lis
legs and body were badly mangled and
his head crushed. He was seventy-two
years old. His son was the first one to
reach him and remove him from under
the wheels.
The Prussian War Minister has Just
in two volumes, history of
the colors of the Prussian army from
1907. 1t appears that in the campaigns
of 1864 and 1866 ninety-nine standards
were pierced by balls. In the campaign
of 1907 the number of regimental colors
pierced was Isl. The flag of the Seventh
Regiment of Infantry was hit by twenty
three balls in the single battle of Mars
la-Tour. In the entire Franco-Prussian
war thirty-eight PTussian standard
bearers We're killed while holding their
colOrs.
The health giving influence of noun
tain air has long been recognized, but
the most emphatic Endorsement of the
Highland Cure Plan" is now furnished
by the report of Prof. G. NJ. Woodford,
who passed several months among the
cannibals of the Solomon Islands. The
main island of the group, he informs us,
is inhabited by cOnnOisseurs in man
meat, who select their victims from the
hill tribes of the neighboring isles, hav-
ing found their flavor as superior to that
of the cOast-dwellers as venison is to
veal.
A LARGE deer with great branching
horns entered the barnyard Of G. VIII
son, near Burgettstown, Penn, and at
tackled a little girl, knocking her down
and breaking one of her arms. The
coming to her child assistance,
was also attacked by the animal and
badly hurt, but a stranger riding byand
seeing the trouble rushed to the relief of
the woman and child, and by q lucky
shot from his revolver killed the animal.
1t was probably driven to desperatian by
hunger.
TINE works queer changes. Eighteen
years ago Miss Tennie G. Clafin was in
Ludlow-street Jail. She was incarcera-
ted there on a charge of obscenity. Now
she is Lady by act of Parliament, Or,
in other words, the wife of knight.
She married wealthy money broker
and dealer in India goods in London,
and he was knighted. Tennie G. Olaf
lin, fortune-teIler and heroine of New
York Police Courts, has, therefore, be-
come Lady Cook.