News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-14
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with him real curiosity in animal life
and something unheard of It was moth
i ing more nor less than double-headed,
or rather two-headed, snake. The rep
tile was n common black grass-snake
that Mr.. bennett had found ON the Pow.
| der Mill fiat, and was about foot long.
The heads We're distinctly separate, and
both were perfect. The heads were a
little over an inch In length. When
aroused the snake would throw forked
tongue out of each head simultaneously,
as if they were one.
As A grand Trunk freight train was
crossing the Canadian Pacific track at
Brampton, Ontario, freight train on
| the latter road dashed into it, cutting its
way through and never stopping. Not
wheel of the Canadian Pacific train
left the track. The engineer and fire
man jumped and escaped uninjured.
The brakeman ran forward, setting the
brakes, and, on reaching the engine,
brought the train to q stand. The train
had then run two antSs half miles ras.
/ the scenesof the accident. No one was
hurt, but considerable damage to prop
erty was done.
JOSEPH G. PARKINSON of Chicago is
said to be the only deaf and dumb law
yer in the country. He is associated
with his twin brother, who does not
share his disabilities. When Mr. Park.
inson was % years old he was chief ex-
aminer in the Patent Office at Washing
ton, place he he'd for six years. In
1879 he resigned and soon afterward was
admitted to practice before the United
States Supreme Court. He now ranks
as one of the most successful patent law.
yers In the country.
GEORGE SroRY of San Francisco is SO
years old, and attracts attent on on ac-
count of his remarkable growth of hair.
In 1849 he left Nantucket for Californ q,
expecting to return in year or so. BE
fore lea.ing he told his friends that he
would not cut his hair or shave until he
returned. He kept his word, and as he
has not been home since, his hair now
represents growth of forty years. Not
withstanding his great age, his hair and
beard are coal black.
HENRY BELsTERL1NG and John, his
son, have just been married at Duquesne
Heights, Penn, to Mrs. j. Loucks and
her daughter Harriet. The younger
Belsterling was engaged to marry Miss
LoUcks, and the father wishing to see
the choice of his son called on the
mother, and it was a case of love at first
sight with the widow and himself, who
short time after agreed to be made one
on the same day as their son and daugh-
ter.
THEY tell of d cat in Lee County, Ga.
which actually committed suicide. Her
kittens were drowned, and she wen.
about for hours i'll great grief; then,
climbing up on the corn crib, she stuck
her head through a crack, and moving
along until she came to q narrow place
in the crack, let go with her claws, and
hanging, slowly choked to death, with
out struggle or any effort to save her.
self.
WITHIN the Antarctic circle there has
never been found towering plant. In
the Arctic region there are 762 kinds of
flowers. Fifty of these are confined to
the Arctic regions They are really
flowers are not as bright and varied ~
our own, most of them being white anC
yellow, as if borrowing these hardy
hues from their snowy bergs and golden
stars.
THERE is only one prisoner in the jail
of Hughe County, Dakota, and he would
be promptly released if it were notneces-
sary to keep the insurance good by hav-
ing somebody in the Jail. He says it is
a shame that no one else will do some
thing to get arrested, as he wants to get
ready for his spring ploughing.