News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-04-18

we had him safely across. We then
took Bismarck and led him across in
the same manner. We were about
twenty two minutes in taking the two
horses over the bridge, which is three
OF four hundred feet long, and from
seventy-five to one hundred feet high. .
A SCHLEY COUNTY (Ga) farmer has a
cat that has developed the same interest
IN clothespins that an ordinary cat
takes IN mouse-catching, and she parades
with her captures with Just as much
pride. She has ever devoted herself to
collecting lost clothespins, and not a few
pms that were not lost. Strange to say
she never touched the pins belonging to
her owner, but is death on clothesplns
which belong to the neighbors. In the
past three months she has brought
home over twenty-four dozen clothes
pins, and inquiry shows that the cat
keeps her eye on the place where the
pins are kept. One neighbor kept a
basketful OF pins ON tin roof, and the
cat had to pass over two or three roofs
to get them, but she succeeded i'll tax
ing three dozen from the basket before
she was discovered.
JOSEPH H. ROTTERDAM. a carpenter
OF Connellsville, Pa, has on the back OF
his neck birth mark, crescent in shape
and blush in color. When the moon is
turning its first quarter the mark be-
/ comes reddish and begins to swell. AS
| nj mo III hapn11pS
! redder, and the flesh swells correspond
1ngly. When the moon is full the cres-
! cent on Rotherman's neck is bright red,
and the flesh assumes horn-like roll
over two inches in thickness at the
largest part, gradually tapering to q
point on the shoulder. As the moon
wanes the mark decreases in size and
color until it again becomes q blush
crescent shaped mark.
JAMES CLARK, q negro boy of AL
bany, Ga, is one of the wonders of the
! place, because, tlGessk never having
been taught, he is well educated, a good
mathematician, and writes a "pretty
hand" He buys m3ny books, and says
that wi pen he studies text book and
tries to master lesson, he can't under
stand anything about it; but at night in
his dreams the entire lesson is impressed
upon his mind, and he never forgets it.
He is described as being exceedingly
absent-minded and Tightly in his man
her, and his far-away look gives him the
! appearance of one who has visions"
On the northern face of Castle Peak,
Nevada, is f1lrrow cut this winter by
snOwslide. The slide started from a
point on Mount Scowden high enough
to overlook the intervening ridge. As
1t went down the mountain it increased
Ill volume until it reached the timber
line, and there it cut frurow 100 feet
wide and many feet deep, not leaving a
tree standing for Ealf mile along the
base of the peak. Where it finally
stopped a small mountain of huge boul-
ders, earth, and shattered trunks of
trees, many of them three and four feet
in diameter, blocks deep ravine.
Roy ODENwELnER, a n-year-old boy
of Brown County, ILL.,, has a genius for
days and dates. When any date in any
month of last year, this year OF next
year is given to him, he ut once names
the day of the week on which it falls OF
has fallen. But beyond three years his
y
will lose all power over 1888, and will
then show the same knowledge i'll regard
to 1891, of which he now knows nothing.
The lad is utterly unable to explain his
strange power, and cannot tell how he
arrives at the true answers.
A NOVEL proceeding in law was begun
ut Herman, Mum. Fl. H. Schram,
wealthy farmer, leased his homestead to
Alex. Weir, it being stipulated in the
lease that all the increase by live stock
ON the farm should be equally divided
between the lessor and lessee Before
Schram could remove from the place his
wife gave birth to son. Weir now claims
that by virtue of his lease he is entitled
to one-half of the baby, and has insti-
tuted proceedings-t to prevent its remov-
al.
DANIEL BAUGH, of Scottsburg, Ind,
is n hundred years old and a very re
markable man. This last winter he
chopped all the firewood for his son,
who is feeble with old age His eye
sight ~ as ssosssa .t.s>---eee+,-and he fire.
quently shoulders a gun aud goes hunt
ing. On his hundredth birthday last
week he danced Jig.
In Ware, N. H., a big six-pound cat
saw an owl in tree and decided to eat
il. So it scrambled up the tree, and
after a short, sharp fight, fell to the
ground dead. The owls big claws had
been too much for it. The bird was
captured, and was found to measure six
feet from tip to tip of its extended
wings.
A YOUNG daughter of Milton Blake, of
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mysteriously i'll. Finally it was sug-
gested that the illness might be due to
the new green flannel dress she had
been wearing. A piece of the goods
was analysed by chemist and found to
be heavily loaded with arsenic. The
girl had been poisoned.
THE demand for lizard skins for pur-
ses and similar objects is said to have
exhausted the supply in Java. The
government has interfered to protect
The lizards, who are wanted as scaven-
gers, and lizard skins have to be OBJ
tanned now from South America.
A WOMAN "a years old died few days
ago in Paris, and her seventy-year-ol
husband asked to be allowed to remain
alone by the coffin for while before it
was taken away. When friends re-
entered he was found lying across it
dead, with half-elnpty yiol of poison
in his hand.
CEYLoN people are interested in
rivalry as to who shall find the highest
palm tree An English railroad builder
named Cantrell made the first record at
ITO feet, but Mr.. Paton-Cray has just
shown palm III feet high, and takes