News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-09-12

action OF deeaying vegetation. Large
quantities OF leaves and othea vegetable
matter are found in the holes, and it is
probable that the soft calcareous rock
has been dissolved by the fermentation
products, and washed away.
ST. PAUL is one broad grin over the
discovery by an evening paper that the
Minneapolis Directory is padded with
the names of dogs. A reporter found
the following ON page 225 of the Mime
apolis Directory Just issued: "Carl
Baxter, colored Waterman, Crescent
Club. Carl turns out to be a mongrel
dog. The ST. Paul people declare it
would have been bad enough had the
Minneapolis people introduced the
names of the thoroughbred dogs into
their Directory, but mongrel--!
SINGING bird tournaments seem to be
an English institution Judging by this
regulation style of report which we take
/ from London journal: ga linnet
handle up took place at the Cooper S
Arms, Hyde Road, HoXton. Result:
Albert's bird beat Walters, K. Wal
lace's bird beat Ted Schofeld's, Dick S
bird beat Hauy's. Albert's and Wal
lace's birds then sang off, both scoring
4 score IL. In the final Wallace's bird
won with 3 score chalks, against 2
score IA.
A YOUNG man asked lawyer of Mon
treal to find out what was the fortune of
a young woman of that city. The law
yer went to work, and i'll time reported
that the lady was worth at least 500,
600. lie client seemed satisfied, prom
ised to pay literally, soon married the
young woman, and sent the lawyer n
check for rather small amount. The
lawyer sent III bill, and the young
man wouldn't pay. Then followed q
lawsuit and publicity.
RECENT experiments to ascertain with
IN what limits the ear can distinguish
the d ference in the pitch of two sounds
show that the smallest difference per-
ceptible by unframed or only slightly
trained ears. appears to be from one
sixth to one f0rtieth OF semi-tone. 1t
is said that a popularity that seems to
apply alike to trained and unframed
ears is that they detect upward diiler-
ences more easily than downward.
SEvENTY-THREE years ago Mrs. Sally
B. Weeks Bucknam, then a blushing
bride, went to housekeeping in a snug
farm house on the west slope of Mount
Prospect, N. II. The other day i'll this
same house, where she has lived ever
since, she celebrated her one hundredth
birthday, and was strong enough to
receive not only her children, grand
children and great grandchildren, but
also large number OF her friends and
acquaintance.
E. S. STAMPER, near Elmer, Ore, cut
down fir tree on his farm. He got 81
for the bark. From the lumber he
built house 14x20, eight feet high, a
shed-kit.hen s feet wide and 20 feet
long, a wood-shed 14x20, and had 500
boards inches wide and two feet long.
He also cut 1874 railroad ties and 10
cords of wood-all this from one tree.
AT a funeral at Lucy station Tenn,
after the coffin had been lowered into
the grave. F. A. House, wealthy far
mer of Lucy, was heard to exclaim,
"Oh, Lordy and Immediately after
ward fell forward on his face Several
bystanders rushed to his assistance and
raised him up, when it was found that
he was dead.
FRANK GALART was fishing for sea
bass in Vineyard Sound, off East Chop,
Mass, when his boat capsized, instantly
filled, and sank. For two hours and q
half he kept himself afioat without any
thing to assist him, and then was res
cued by passing boat, mile from the
spot where his boat went down.
JAMES G. HoLwAY of Skowhegan.
Me-, is patiently working on a clock
which will be something of a marvel
when completed. 1t will be six feet
high in five sections, and modelled
after st. Peters at Rome. Among it's
ornaments and mechanism will be forty
movable images.
BouLANGER is so superstitious that he
will not get ont of bed at the left side.
If black cat or rcd haired woman
eros es his path in the morning, he