Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-07-18


on April IL. Dragons like water, and
1t has rained since about the m ddle of
March straight on, ending on that day
In most tremendous hail-storm, which
smashed in the roofs of good many of
he country peoples huts about their
ears. Suddenly powerful fishy smell
became perceptible, and people coming
IN from the fields reported the presence
OF huge creature, extending about two
NOW about third of an acre., disport-
ing itself by wriggling and squirming in
pool Of water. The next day few
people ventured out to see it. 1t was
quite white, with scales two feet in size,
with horned head, claws and long tail,
just as represented in pictures. On the
18th of March fine weather returned and
the dragon was gone. Foreigners do
not talk about dragons, but we Chinese
do. Few, indeed, have seen them, but
this instance seems too well authenti-
Gated to allow MS to doubt of the power
of this supernatural being to make him
self occasionally visible to man."
AFTER lying more than month prac-
tically dead from his head downward,
James b. Hill, San Francisco con-
tractor, has finally passed away Hills
case has puzzled all the doctors, and
was the most remarkable on record. A
bale of hay fell on him and drove his
head down into his shoulders, crushing
the second and third vertebrse. Por-
tions of the latter were splintered, and
driven into the spinal cord. Two of the
fractured vertebrie were removed twenty
four hours after the accident, and, con-
trary to the predictions of physicians,
the man recovered consciousness, but
was paralyzed from just below the arm
pits. His mind was clear, and he man.
aged his business, giving his men in
structions every day before they went to
work. He breathed solely by the dia-
pllragm, as he couldn't move his chest.
He declared he felt as though he were
lying inside corpse. He lived just
thirty-four days with a broken neck.
Irwin MAcKEY, young farmer of
Wooster Township, Ohio, was out hunt
ing squirrels with youth named Lee
Turner. In passing through some tim
Der, Mackey noticed young Turner
standing ON a hill above him. He called
TO the boy, but received no answer. At
ter calling several times and seeing Tur-
ner standing motionless and gazing in
another direction, Mackey went to the
boy, thinking something was wrong.
When within about twenty feet of Tur-
ner, Mackey discovered monster black
snake coiled around a young oak tree in
front of Turner. Mackey emptied both
barrels of his gun into the snake, kill
ing il at the first discharge OF the gun.
The boy stated that rs soon as he saw
the snake looking at him, though he
heard Mackey calling him, he could not
move or answer the call The snake was
seven feet eight inches in length and
four inches in diameter
A WRITER in medical classics says: ''It
may be consoling to light-haired and
red headed people to read that out of l65
patients at the Kirkbridge Asylum only
one has red hair; and only four have
light hair and complexion. Weventure
the guess, however, that the red-headed
chap makes matters as lively as all the
other l64 put together. II used to be
supposed that a pale complexion specially
marked tendency TO mental excitement
and brain disorder. Tie statistics,
however, show this 10 be an error.
What is true Of men is also true of wo-
men; they are with one exception in iif-
ty, darl-haired and dark-hued. 1t is
sometimes the case that the hair turns
white with insanity. Probably the error
arose from this fact. The reason why
dark people are more inclined to men
tai disorder has not been explained.
A CURIOUS result Of the work of
species OF beetle was recently discovered |
in house in Portland, Me. Where
two matched boards came together IN
the sheathing of room, the rounded |
rib, about the size of n lead pencil, for 1
length OF two feet and a-haf, had |
been replaced with what looked like a
porous mass of fine sawdust, which was
by some means so held together as TO |
assume the exact shape of the original |
wood. Investigations with penknife, |
tunnel under the surface, filed with the |
same fine dust and about three inches
long, at the end of which was a small |
aud very active black beetle, busily en-
gagged in literally eating his way
through life, with an inexhaustible
supply of food in front. The ant is not
the only bug model OF industry.
A HARTFoRp lady tells a story of an
ancestor of hers, direct descendant of
John Elliott, the great missionary. This
ancestor was n woman, the head of a
family in New Haven, and about the
year i765 she ordered lot of nails from
Boston. The kegs came in due time,
and when they were orened one of them
was found TO be filed with Spanish dol
lars. She wrote to the Boston merchant,
telling him of the contents of one of the
kegs. He answered that he had bought
it for nails and had no further response
bility in the matter. The money was
kept among the family treasures un-
touched and unclaimed until the death
Of the head of the house, who in her will
ordered that the dollars be melted aud
east into a communion set for the New
Uaven church. This was DONE
A DRY goods drummer said, thst he
met Mt one Of the Western railroad sta