News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-04-25
SOMEWHAT STRANGE
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.

Et En- I LA LIZ Il.
Funny Episodes and Thrilling Adj
ventures Which Show That Truth
is Stranger Than Fiction.
IT is well-known fact that the dying
are often able to see the principal facts
of their lives, which otherwise have
been forgotten for many years, clearly
and accurately before them. The reason
for this clairvoyance French doctor
ascribes to a sudden modification of the
cerebral circulation, which can also be
brought about by artificial means. Thus
he tells of a case of patient who was
dying of consumption. He had already
lost consciousness, when, having been
revived by two successive injections of
one gramme of ether, the dying man
slowly raised his head and rapidly pro
nounced string of words, which no one
near him was able to understand, as they
we're Flemish. After some movements
indicating Impotence, he made sign
that he wished to write A pencil and
paper were then handed to him, and he
wrote rapidly three or four lines, also In
Flemish This man, who was a native
of Antwerp, had lived in Paris for many
years and never wrote OF spoke anything
but French; but when dying, he seemed
to be unable to recollect that language.
Afterwards it was found that his pencil
note was about debt of SO. 80, which
he had borrowed from somebody at
! Brussels in 1868 and which had never
been paid. In another case the patient
was dying of lung disease. He had
tainted several times and no longer re-
| piled to any questions put to him; his
| pulse was all but gone, but after an in
| lection of ether he turned his head
towards his wife, saying rapidly: '1ou
will not find that pin, for all the floor
has been remade," which was an allu
sion to an incident of eighteen years
ago. After uttering these words the
breathing ceased.
WHEN there was coasting on Swan
street, between Madison avenue and
Hamilton street in Albany, n. Y, last
Winter, no one enjoyed the sport more,
or INDUCED in it to Il greater extent
| Moses Stark. This dog is six years old.
weighs ffty-seven and one-half pounds
and is of light brindle color. He is
!
! Stark, in childish sport, put Jumbo on
q hand sled one day and sent him down
| the hill This was sufficient, and there
after it was next to impossible to keep
! him off sled when it was empty. He
would lie on all fours on the sled with
| his fore paws over the front of the bot
! tomboard, OF sit on his hind legs with
/ the string in his mouth, and ride down
the hill alone He liked best to lie on
all fours with his sled attached to others
i'll front containing children. At the
bottom of the hill he would seize the
| string between his teeth and drag the
children up the hill, when a reasonable
/ number were OH the sled.
The Wilmington DELI Republican
says: GA lady who buried her four
months-old child yesterday, from her
residence in Rodney street, tells the two
following dreams: A short time before
the birth of the child she and some
| friends were out lookingat the sky, when
sic saw a white thing in the air fly
around like charmed bird that could
not get away from its charmer. 1t grad
ually came downward until she made it
out in the shape of Il white dove. 1t
came on down gradually, making its
graceful rounds shorter and shorter UNI
til it huttered to her face and lit upon
her shoulder. She then awoke and found
It was but dream, but in a few days
her child was born. About week ago
she had another dream, but this time
the snowy white dove took its departure
from her shoulder, and, fiuttering around
and around, it assembled higher and
higher into the azure blue until it was
lost to sight. On Friday morning last
her child died.
IT has remained for q Virginia family
| to outdo all previous condolences of Il
! singular nature. The father and mother
were married on the 14th day of October;
they have had nine children, all of whom
were born on the 14th of October; five
of the children are dead, and all five of
them ceased to breathe on the 14th of
October. The name Of the head of this
family is Joshua Franklin, and their
residence Glade Mountain, West Viz
ginia. Mr.. Franklin says that he was
Confederate soldier, that he was cap
tured twice by the United States troops,
and that he lost two brothers in the war:
and that all four of these misfortuncs
occurred ON the memorable Nth of Oc-
tober. In the neighborhood the family
is regarded with superstition, and not a
human being can be prevailed upon to
stay in the house OF on the premises on
either day or night of the fatal dat.
A PECULIAR phenomenon occurred at
Aitken, MINI. AT fifteen minutes of
five o'clock it became so dark that lights
were necessary i'll business houses, and
the air was filled with snow that was as
black and dirty as though it had been
trampled into the earth. Six ounces of
snow and one-forth ounce of dirt and
sand were found i'll the bottom of dish.
The dirt is very fine, something like
emery, and contains particles that have
metallic luster. This dirty snow fell
to the depth of half an inch Tic at
mosphere at the time presented pccu-
liar greenish tinge. There was u little
wind blowing at the time from the
northwest, though there seemed to be
considerable wind higher in the air.
Solid chunks of ice and sand are report
ed to have been picked up in various
places.
The corpse of q white man was found
| beside the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
near Brandywine Bridge, MARYLAND.
The face was mutilatcd but the body
was not. 1t was first thought that the
body was that of William J. Patton.
The father recognized the body as that
of his son, and had it removed to his
home, where the corpse was washed to
prepare for burial. The family was
loudly mourning its loss, when Mr..
Patrons daughter gave the body il more
scruhnizing look, and at once declared
that it was not her brother. The re-
mainder of the family came TO the same
conclusion, although tinge OF doubt
still remained. The body was then
removed to the mOrgue. Patton lad
been missing, and a search instituted for
him.
EXCUSES must be rare i'll China. At
Ia Fcng Flu private soldier was ON
guard over thirty boxes # bullets, which
it was the duty OF petty officer to in
spect twice II day. The soldier sltillfully
abstracted the bullets from the boxes,
and was finally found out. Then the
punishment began. Tho soldier was
condemned to penal scIvituic for life
and fogging of q hundred blows The
petty officer, who had failed to inspect
tho boxes satisfactorily, was dismissed
the service and received eighty blows
His Lieutenant has been cashiered in
order to be tried for connivance III the
theft, and he has disappeared. And the
military authorities i'll Picking are CON
sidering what punishment to infiict on
the General i'll command.
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