Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-04-18

SAYS the contractor of the Missouri
Penitentiary: ''There is one man, Henry
Wilson, now in my shop, who is serving
his fifth term, but who has never taken
the trouble to learn to read. BY the
contract with the State any contractor is
entitled to the services of return
ed convict. This man is n band-sawver.
and has always been with me. He comes
up usually on two years sentence, and
walks as naturally to his machine, and
goes to work as if he had only been
out to lunch. asked him the other day
why he did not keep ont of prison. Il
guess, Mr.. Sullivan said he, its just
because | am naturally born crooked.
There is no use of me going away in
some other State, because there are
crooks everywhere, and maybe Iwouldn' I
do any better if L changed penitentia
ries.
WHEN the old drifts of the Ophir
mine at Virginia city were opened the
other day it was found that a tremen-
dous growth of fungi had III some places
nearly closed the passages. 1t grew
from top and bottom, and the sides We're
dotted with it; but the fungi growing
from the bottom was different from the
other The foot-wall fungi had in sew
eral instances raised stones weighing
from so to $50 pounds, and some We're
held in the air at a height of over three
feet. Some of the fungi resembled
human hair, they We're so fine; some
were five or six feet long and as large as
a broom handle; another kind terminal
ed in sort of dubious blossom; others
hung from the roof and looked like SER
penis. The heaviest growth was in the
darkest parts.
GENERAL BUcKLAND's old soldier
horse, Barney, has just died at his quar-
tiers in Fremont, o., at the age of thirty
seven years. Barney has good soldier
record, and in consideration of this has
received every care possible since the
war. He was presented to General
auckland by citizens when he went out
III command of the Seventy second Ohio.
At the battle of Shiloh, Sunday, April
6, Barney was shot through the neck.
He was also in the siege of Corinth and
at Memphis. He was sent home, and
has been Kept ever since. Twoyears ago,
when General Sherman visited at FIRE.
mont, he said Barney was the only liv-
ing war horse he knew of. He was buried
with the honors of war, the Sons of
Veterans firing salute over his grave.
Many old soldiers were present.
Dir. Tn. THoRoDDsES reports that in
in the interior of Iceland
last summer he visited some remarkable
valleys in the mountain range called
Kjerlingarfzoll. He discovered grand |
sulphur springs in great numbers, as
we'll rs innumerable large boiling mud /
pools-blue, red, yellow and green in +
color. Steam penetrated everywhere /
through assures in the earth, one jet, six /
10 nine feet in height, keeping up such /
a continual roar that it was impossible /
to hear the loudest shouts in its vicinity. F
The greatest care had to be observed in (
walking on the thin crust Of heated clay
covering the boiling mud below.
A CURIOUS cause of death has recently
been recorded in India. A native who
VAS fishing ina stream caught fiat, eel
ike fish, about fifteen to sixteen inches
n length. Being DESTROYS of killing ii,
lie put it into his mouth in order TO bite
,f its head. The fish slipped through
he mans fingers into his mouth, and
conveyed itself partly down his gullet.
The situation now was bad for the fish,
1ut still worse for the man, for owing TO
he sharp fms on the back of the fish it
Fas not possible to withdraw it. The
nan died in great agony within an
,our.
STEPHEN HOPKINS agreed two years
igo to marry Emma Church, but he
hdn't. Emma's mother went to Whea-
on, Mimi, few days ago. where the
-oung man was employed in bank.
Is she entered the depot the tickle lover
ode out of town ON what he supposed (
o be the tieetest horse around. Emma's
mother mounted flyer, and with the /
heriff pursued Stephen. She caught ;
Jim just two miles from the land of
reedom, Dakota, hauled him back to
own, and remained with him until he
'ecame Emma husband. il
THE Texas women are the largest in
iVidual sheep and stock owners in the
forld. One of these, the Widow Gala
AN, owns 80, 900 sheep, and when long
rain of wagons starts out each spring
nd fall for market, loaded down with
he wool of her sheep, it is sight worth
eeing. The other is Mrs. Rogers, the
reat herd owner of Southwestern Texas,
tho is worth about 1000, 900. Mrs. ,
sogers owns no carriage, preferring to .
ide on horseback in the ee-and-easy
lyle of the cowboy.
FBIEsE GREENE, British photog-
lpher, has actually produced picture
18th only the light issuing from his j
We. Having stared for fifteen seconds 1
3, 000-candle electric arc but three {
set away, he closed his eye and quickly I
rought it over sensitive plate Mt a 8
of one inch. The result was a 8
cry faint but distinct image of the arc
nd the carbons, due probably to mo-
lentary phosphorescence of the retina.
second attempt failed, and gas-lights
royed too weak to produce effect.
THE Scribner family of Marlborough,
Ie., is remarkable in that its four gen