Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-07

had almost reached the child the ice
gave way under her, and she fell into
the water, which is about 10 feet deep
at that point. As she was sinking she
seized hold of the ice and managed to
struggle to her feet. Just as the child
was about to sink for the second time
she got the boy in her arms and ran a
short distance, when the ice gave way a
second time. Again she kept him out
of the water and succeeded in reach
ing the shore, where she fell uncon-
scious and was taken care of by neigh
bors.
ONE of the pluckiest fellows that ever
lived in Montana is John Myers. He is
20 years old, and has inst gone through
thrilling experience. He is cowboy,
and was hunting for horses with party
on the Still Water River. He was miss
ing when the others came in. 1t was
thought he had stopped at some "squaw
mans" houso, and no fear was felt for
his safety. Two days after the men in
the camp noticed a dark object slowly
siding down the side of an opposite
bluff. II was Myers. Both of his legs
were broken, and his head and face ter
ribly lacerated. He was weak from loss
of blood and the exposure he had under
gone dragging himself along for thirty
hours in the snow. His horse stumbled
and threw him on the rocks and ran
away. He crawled up the side of steep
bluffs where few men could walk.
A HORRIBLE accident has taken place
in Paris hospital. A nurse had taken
a child of five and half years into the
lavatory in order to wash it, and had
had left it there for few moments by
the side of bath filed with boiling
water During the nurses absencetwo
girls, aged respectively ten and nine
anda hall, entered the lavatory, and seeing
the younger child, they began to play
with it, finally plunging it into the bath.
The nurse hurried back instantly, hear
ing piercing shrieks, and then saw the
little one struggling in the water. All
efforts to save the child were Intellectual
and it died, after having fingered few
hours in great agony.
As John Viege was walking on the
outskirts of his farm on the shore of
Raritan Bay, in Union Township, n. j.,
a few days ago, he noticed n piece of
weather beaten canvas stricking above
the ground. With some trouble he open
ed the frozen earth and drew out of il
tarred canvas hammock strongly stitched
up. In the hammock was the skeleton
of man, still partly covered with rough
sailors clothes. The sea at one time
flowed over this part of the farm, and
the supposition is that many years ago
the man died at sea, and that his ship
mates shotted his hammock, enclosed
him in it and dropped him into the
shallow water.
JAMES DIoKEY owns farm in Fannin
County, Ga. For years the Dickey fam
lily has cultivated it, getting what could
be raised on its rocky soil. Mr.. Dickey
has worked it from his boyhood He /
won't work it any longer, for few
months since n Chicago firm that is
looking for marble in Georgia struck |
this farm, and after prodding into its !
,revices and gullies, told Mr.. Dickey |
they would like to lease it for 100 years
On a royalty for ev9ry square foot of /
marble quaTied, which they guarantee 1
shall reach 1000 month and not ex-
iced $1,000 month. Mr.. Dickey thinks
his good enough and has leased his
arm.
A BANKER in Lille, France, had the
misfortune to wet eighteen bills of the
Bank of France, and in order TO dry
hem he placed them ON a board at an
,pen window where the sun shone upon
hem. They dried more rapidly than
vas anticipated. A gust of wind car
led them into the street, where, unfor-
n goat picking up odds and
'nds at once captured the bank billsand
wallowed them. The goat was pur-
,hased, and the bills secured in very
condition, but the Bank of
France recognized its obligations and
edeemed them.
A STRANGE phenomenon is noticed in
with the natural gas supply
t Montpelier, Ind. Six hours out of
very twenty flour the gas runs down to
minimum, and six hours daily it
caches maximum. When at low ebb
he valves are open wide to get suffi-
iency and when mt the highest point
he smallest turn of the key will supply
he demand. The movement is constant
With the ocean tides, but whether or not
he same influences are the cause is
natter of conjecture.
WALKING up Broadway, the attention
{ Joe Howard, Of the New York Press
fas attracted to the driver of hearse,
4 which was neat little coffin, one of
hose white affairs in which parents
uTy their babies. There was jam on
he street and a cigar in the drivers
Mouth. Deserving an opening in the
rowd of vehicles, he whipped up his
orse, and, putting vigorously the while,
ped past butcher cart with smile of
NANCY and Sallie Severns, two maiden
listers, aged respectively 81 and 80
ears, who have lived from time immem-
rial in little frame house in Hume
lille, Penn, have just passed away
'ithin a few hours of each other.
Tur cosfliaet ctal,la IN fba Vvorld hoe .