Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-05-30
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Funny Episodes and Thrilling Al
ventures Which Show That truth
is Stranger Than Fiction.
HIRTY-FIYE or forty


is Stranger Than Fiction.
, HIRTY-FIvE or forty
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1uV ofthe Hubs most fash
sos.es<s=H5a ionable young ladies
EGs3g>.S1A have adopted new
EszzSksZ fad. They propose to
ElEIzzSl5f establish an inshtu-
WlfTN ton in the Bowery, IN
! III SET n New York city, like
A ~ Toynebee Hall, in the
NJ heart of Lon Ion ,
which is to be the
model after which the Bowery lnstltu-
ton will be patterned. The poor women
in the neiQliborhood will be invited to
visit the institution, and there learn from
the fair tutors something about the ART
and science Of making home attractve'
even where there is little money 70 pegn.
| Certain well-accepted reforms IN cooking
will also be introduced, and there VIII
be kitchen supplied with all modern
appliances for making food eatable ana
/ digestible. The idea underlying this
/ project is that the refining influence OF
! a neat and attractive and cleanly kept
home for the workingman Will be the
1 best possible stimulent to his moral pro-
/ gress He will leave the dramshop
severely alone, spend his nights at home,
and always aim TO save his money. 1T
said that the London institution is high
" successful. OF course the girls, many
of whom belong to the oldest families,
will take turns making trips over to New
York for missionary work among the
deserving women in the lower wards,
and this will become very fashionable.
There is an attempt to keep the purposes
of the project as well as the identity OF
the young ladies o secret until the open
ing Of the institution.
The keepers OF lighthouses situated
upon rocks at some distance from the
mainland have not infrequently been
exposed to considerable privation, when
cut off by continuous bad weather from
all communication with the world; but
it may be doubted whether such tale
as that Of the keepers of the Bogskarew
lighthouse has ever before been told.
This lighthouse is situated in the Bal
tic, some forty miles from the nearest
land, and on the 14th Of February the
greater portion Of the building was car
ried away by a terrible gale, and from
that time for period Of more than nine
weeks, the two men have been under
going terrible suifeiings. II is said that
they have been the whole time without
water or fuel-meaning, of course, that
the stock of water stored mp for their
use was lost, and that they had to de- !
pend entirely upon such rain and snow
as might fall. Tho cold in the Baltic is /
very great; and an existence without /
fire in ruined lighthouse, exposed to /
the fury of the northern gales, must /
have been almost insupportable. Rain !
can have fallen but seldom, although 1
they may frequently have had snow, but /
this, as they had no means of melting /
it, can have been but of little use to /
them, for snow taken in the mouth ex- 4
cites rather than quenehes thirst. The I
detailed narrative Of nine weeks spent (
in the ruined lighthouse would rival the (
most exciting adventures Of fiction.
SHI1o GILL, one of Douglas County's 1
best and most prosperous farmers, lives 1
on the banks Of the Embal1ac, in Ilin- 1
dis Mr. Gill has dog, to which he is (
greatly attached, which exhibits almost /
as much intelligence as a human being, 1
and is Of great service on the farm. The I
other day Shilo was strolling along the /
banks of the stream with his fayorite T
dog Barney, when he came to rifle, in
which several large fish were floundering
in their efforts to pass up to reach deep
er water. The bodies of several of the
larger ones were partially above water.
Barney dashed in and in an instant had
dragged one TO lsnd, and his master
took possession of his catch. Again the
intelligent dog returned to the rifle and
another fish was landed, and this opera
ton was continued until Shilo found
that his string contained thirteen rs
fine fish rs one would ask for. Every
and evening the fish attempt
to pass the rifle, and at these times Gill
and old Barney are on hand to get n
supply of fish, and both enjoy the sport
hugely. The dog was struck by the fins
Of large catfish the other evening,
since which time he is little chary of
tackling that species.
OKLAHOMA settlers are complaining
that the new land office is quilting the
ground from under their feet" but the
literal meaning OF that phrase is al pres
ent illustrated ON the Island of Heligo-
land, where a stormy sea recently top I
pied over large cliff, together with its {
top stratum of pastures and cottages,
md at tire same time revealing the ex-
stencc Of . cleft undermining at least
onc-tnird of the remaining scant area, {
which has now been reduced TO a little !
less than one third Of an English square
nile Year after year the sea encroaches
apon the rocks Of the west shore, but ,
lie full extent of its depredations was
'nly lately revealed by the discovery of
in old map, showing not less than
eighteen different villages, with castles,
'orts and monasteries, where the water
now covers the submarine rocks to
lepth Of half n HUNDRED fathoms. Like
he Island Of st. Helena, the cliffs of |
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