News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Newsy Stories Novel Facts and Queer
Happenings Here and There.

THERE was great excitement in the
Omaha depot the other day. A noise
like the crying of child WAS traced to
closed trunk, and when the bystanders
PVT their ears closer they We're sure that
something was wrong. "My God!" ex-
claimed one; ''give me handspike or
something. There is a child inside and
it will smother" No handspike was
at hand, and people began to pull keys
out of their pockets, and at last the lock
clicked. The cover was raised and in
side were discovered an cid maltese cat
and five newborn kittens.
ALTHOUGH the year 1900 will be divisi
BILE by four without remainder, it will
elapse before the interesting event takes
place, but is was just the same in 1900
and 100, but not in 1000, for that was
leap-year, and the year 1000 will be
leap-year also. Why this should be is
problem. To explain in detail would
be tiresome task, but it rests on the
principle that a difference of eleven
minutes per day exists letween actual
time and calendar time. Thus year is
computed at $685. days, three years be-
ing 365 days long and the fourth 366
days. in fact, the year is 365 days
five hours and iorty-fve minutes
long, or eleven minutes short of 1861
days.
TIE shocking death of female tanner
of wild beasts is reported from Hohen-.
muth, in Bohemia She was girl 26
years old, named Bertha Baumgartner
During public performance i'll a stroll
ing menagerie she entered an empty
cage and the door of an adjoining cage
was then opened to let q lion and o Ben
gal tiger enter The lion walked in
quietly, but the tiger, n ferOcious beast,
which had three times wounded It's
| keepers, crouched in the doorway and
showed temper. The girl lost nerve,
cried for help, and slipped. AS she did
SO the tiger made a spring, bit her on
the shoulder, then i'll the throat, literally
rent her to pieces, and tossed her body
about. Half the audience ran to the
doors in horror, while the attendants
tried to beat off the tiger by poking hot
irons into the cage. But the girl was
dead long before the animal was driven
away. The lion seemed to have been as
much frightened as the human specta-
tors, for he took no part in the carnage.
The proprietor of the show has since adj
mitted that this same tiger had already
killed two people.
JOHN Tyler, son and private secretary
of President Tyler, still lives at Wash
ington. He holds the place of ''repre-
sentative of the public" on the board
which superintends the destruction of
mutilated currency, to which lie was
appointe by President Arthur and Sec
rotary Folger. Mr.. Tyler served his
father without Gny salary from the gov
eminent, the bitter political antagonism
! of { ION ,ornynn tInCp NJ
| for that purpose. He fought on the Con
federate side during the rebellion, but
! this did not prevent General Chant from
making him Revenue Collector for Flor
! ida, Postmaster at Jacksonville, and Dis
/ trct Attorney. Mr.. Tyler, although over
sixty years old, is active and erect, and
! full of "reminiscences of Washing ton
city.
LITTLE Jerry Davis, Georgia boy,
had lots Of fun with n buzzard q while
ago. He found number of the birds
feeding on dead sheep, and thereupOn
making trap and batting it with the
sheep soon captured one. He took off
his shirt and put it on the buzzard, cut
ting off the sleeves and sticking the birds
wings through the arm holes. Then he
sewed the shirt firmly around the buz-
Yards body, leaving the tail of the gar
ment unconfined. This done he liberia
ted the bird, who tapped its wings and
flew away, the shirt Tapping in the
breeze. A flock of crows saw the strange
object in the air and attacked it fiercely.
Two or three days p?,; adterward little Jerry
died against a tree and dead
ALEXANDER JAMES and Edith Smyth,
of Alpharetta, Ga, went to Squire Lud-
ridges Office to get married. While
they waited for the Squire to hunt up
the book containing tie formula, Alex
ander asked to be excused a moment,
and, hurrying out, mounted horse and
rode furiously away. As he was leaving
the room he whispered to the grooms-
man that he vas ashamed to get married
before SO many persons. The grooms-
man told the bride, who promptly said:
"1ou helped to bring me here, and now
you must take his place." The young
man said he was willing, and the cere-
mony was performed. At its conclusion
the bride said: ''When l make up my
mind to do anything I never let any
thing stand in the way"
A MIDDLE-AGED woman went to a
prominent physician of San Diego not
long ago, and asked him to amputate
her two great toes. He examined them,
assured her that there was nothing wrong
with them, and said that he wouldn't
cut them off. She begged him to, saying
that if they were off she could wear No.
/ shoes instead of As, as then. Her toes
were her own, she said, to do what she
! pleased with, and she would give $500
to have them off. The doctor refused,
/ and the woman went in quest of some
one with less conscience. A San Diego
newspaper says that she found some one
to do the job successfully, for two weeks
| later she went to San Francisco wearing
the best pair of No. IS that could be
bought in San Diego.
HAvERHnL's most noted citizen is
Capt. Costelloe, who is 106 wears old,
and probably the oldest person in the
| United States. Recently he signed
two weeks engagement with dime
museum in Boston, and then day or
two afterward disappeared. His where /.
abouts were unknown for twenty-four
hours, when it was learned that some of
the venerable Captains friends had ar
ranged to give him reception, and, !
fearing that he would go to Boston before |
they could complete their arrangements,
had persuaded him to hide. When the !
museum ag mt heard of this he promised /
to ALLOW the reception to take place be |
fore the oentenarian s departure, and so
the Old man appeared again.
EIGHT sisters, who live with their .
widowed father near Belfast, Me-, carry
on the farm work, including the care of
several COWS, n horse, four oxen that are
never yOked, from three hundred to five !
hundred hens, hogs, a brood of ducks
and thirteen cats. They get up their
own wood in winter, at which season |
only two of them are at home, the others
being employed in Boston, where two of |
them are teachers in the public schools. |
All spend the summers at home, and en-.
Joy themselves rs we'll rs carry on a
good farming business. The reason given
for the keeping of the oxen for which
there is no work is that the sisters raised
the calls and hate to part with them for
beef.
IT is not often that fire is put out
with wine. This was done at Kreuz-
mach on tho occasion of fire which
broke out at night in the house of
large wine merchant, soon cnveloping
the whole building. Some 60 hogsheads
of wine in the store could not only not
be save1, but burs', and their contents
ran into ditch in the garden behind
the house. Here the firemen placed
their engines, with which they poure
streams of wine upon the burning build
ing, and succeeded in getting the fire