Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-05-30

of and precipitation of frogs was seen
/ There were several hundreds of them
and they could be seen hopping up il
the street block away. A number o.
dogs were promptly on hand and made
| it lively for the hoppers. 1t is claimed
i that funnel-shaped cloud, indicating 9
cyclone, was seen in the west shortly
before, and the theory of some is that
the frogs were caught up and carried in
the air until it spent itself, which hap
pened to be over the centre Of the prin-
cipal business streets.
AN Austrian physician reports the
curious fact that in the highlands of
Syria the arsenic habit is gradually
superseding box beer and wine. A pen
ny's worth of arsenious acid Common
white arsenic) is enough to keepeyen a ha-
bitue in stimulants for week, and where
arsenic can be had at wholesale prices,
a dollars worth would about suffice for
life-time-not a very short period,
either, since old mountainous are known
to have followed the practice for half
q century. Arsenic-eaters soon lose
their appetite for alcohol and loathe tea
and coffee, but somehow their vice seems
compatible with the tobacco habit,
which appears to mitigate the after eff
fects of the baneful drug.
Mr.. SMITH, while fishing in Lake
Catherine, Fla, lately, caught strange
looking fish about two feet long, body
like an eel, but thicker and larger, no
scales, head short and hattened. But
the great difference between it and other
fish was its having two anterior limbs,
each about one and half inches in
length, which are used in swimming,
and it can use them in travelling on the
ground, for it can move pretty well out
of its own element 1t is not a true
fish, but a reptile, and is described in
natural history as n siren. They can
live q long time out of water. They
caught by Mr.. Smith within month.
ONE of a recent party of convicts
bound for Siberia was baroness and
her husband, formerly her footman, SEN
fenced each to twenty years seryitude.
The baroness was married when young
TO an old man, and she fell in love with
his footman. She poisoned her husband
and was arrested, but the footman es-
capped. She subsequently escaped from
the hospital where she was confined,
sought out her footman lover, and mar
ried him. They settled in Kovno, and
were only recently discovered there, liy-
ing in abject poverty.
For many years an old COW of light
brown sandy color has been getting her
heritage off the old hills beyond the de-
pot at Vienna, Ga, which has grown
scantier year by year, and in the winter
10 almost actual starvation. 1t
was noticeable fact through the bleak
est part Of last winter that this COW tried
on several occasions to commit suicide
by jumping upon the track in front of
the engine. Since the grass has come
out you never see this COW about the
railroad at all.
THERE is young married lady in Ell
Derton, Ca, who is a snake charmer.
She is fearless Of these reptiles, and will
,apture with her hands any snake she
inds in the woods, and has tanned sew
eral of them for pets. Once she captured
/ large snake that seized her hand. This
ady did not experience any trouble from
is fangs, and continued her sport of
them. She seems to have a
strange power over reptiles, and it is
seldom they offer any resistance.
A PECULIAR attempt to eyade both the I
customs and quarantine regulations is
reported from Windsor, Canada, to the (
Customs Department. A railway car.
containing q horse, several sheep, and /
several bales of hay, was duly reported at /
One Of the officials found
thoroughbred bull wedged in between
he hay and the rear of the car.
TIE stormiest of all inhabited spots
IN earth seems TO be Jason Island, in
he Falkland Archipelago, some three
hundred miles northeast Of Cape Horn.
hurricanes are little
ess frequent than in the Indian Ocean,
,ut gales which even an old sailor would
lislike to encounter occur every few
lays, and from May to New Year there
5 not calm week in the year.
J. ID. STAFFORD, of Granville, Ga,
turned off, his fish pond, and large
'ourd was found in the bottom of the
'OlU. 1lllS RoulQ lltiNl All aperture dDOllb
he size of n silver quarter in it, and in
ide the gourd were two mud-catfish
ihich would weigh pound each. The
sh went in while small, and remained
here until too large to make their exit.
OLIVER SHEPHERD, lad Of sixteen,
wing near Champion, Ind, had an ex-
iting experience with black snake the
ther day He was passing along the
BAD near his home when the reptile APP
cared from some bushes and attacked
i'm. The boy started to run, and was
losely pursued for nearly mile by the
make.
Az APALAcHIcoLA Fla.) firm have a
1t that is sixteen years old and has pre-
.nted the firm with an average of twelve
ittens per year for fifteen years, making
total of $50 kittens.
Imagination in Disease.