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

with its master, is constantly by his side
and weeps like child when left alone
The animal has assumed many of the
ways of educated people; drinks tea and
coffee, ale, brandy, ETC., and uses O
glass for the purpose, being careful moi
to break it.
THE city of Norwich, Conn, has a
set of town records which are q wonder
for completeness. Three new volumes
have Just been begun by Town Clerk
Freeman for the year 1889, which make
100 volumes covering the real estate
transactions of the historic old town
since its existence. The first volume
was begun in 1868 with the conveyance
of lands by Uncas and Oneco of the
Mohegan Indians This book was suf-
ficient for the transactions of A years.
In volume 10 the reign of King George
III. terminated in Norwich. Up to
April 30, 1776, every deed was closed
with: 'In the year of our sovereign
lord, George the III. of Great Britain,
&C., King" Then there is "A break Of
over one year before another record
is made. On May u, 1777, the above
words in quotation marks were erased,
and they continued to be erased as long
as n blank remained with the words
upon it. The erasure is done with a
black bar of ink, which seemed to por-
tray the determination of the time to
blot out all allegiance to royalty forever.
The records have been well preserved.
An ingenious machine was recently
exhibited to the United States Postmas-
ter-General. 1t is an adaptation of the
ut-a-nickel-in-the-sl machine to the
sale of postage stamps. A sheet OF
stamps is cut into slips the Width of two
stamps, and these slips are wound around
a cylinder inside of the machine. A
nickel is placed in the slot, which drops
down, starts an electric current, which
causes the stamp cylinder to revolve,
the slip of stamps glides along and passes
under row of needles, which drops
down and cuts off two stamps. The
owner of the nickel waits few seconds
after his money disappears and then
shoves down metallic button and two
stamps make their appearance at an APP
-arture in the lower part of the machine.
1t is proposed by the inventors to place
these machines in stores and prominent
places about a city. II the department
approves the plan they will adapt the
machine so that two pennies or ten
cent piece can be used, with the result
that one two-cent stamp or five stamps
can be obtained. In case n spurious
coin is used magnet in the interior de
tects the fraud and throws it to one
side.
A STRANGE romance of the war has
Just come to light. In 1861 George
Copeland and his three brothers-Rob-
ert, John and William-enlisted in the
Union army. They were separated
during the war, and when the fighting
was over each went his way, supposing
the others death. Recently John saw
a reference to George Copeland in a
Canadian paper, and, thinking it might
be his brother, wrote to him. William |
and Robert also saw the paper, and
wrote to George. Each was surprised to
find that it was his brother, and George |
made arrangements for a meeting. |
George now lives in Essex Center, a
small village in Canada, short distance /
from Detroit, and one day last week |
three men disembarked from railroad /
train and inquired the way to George |
Copeland's house. They met there and |
did not know each other until George /
introduced them. Two of the brothers /
were wounded and had been in the hos
pital, and the other was made a prison
er, so that when the remaining brother
went home he found no trace of them
and supposed they were dead.
THE Pacific Ocean abounds in nearly
all of the favorites of deep-sea food fish,
which await mans enterprise to be
made profitable. Deep-sea fish resort
TO what is technically known as banks
for their food, which are to them what
are to herbivorous animals. 1t
Is from these banks that the fish are OBJ
tanned. The only fishing banks yet
south of Puget Sound are
located about forty-five miles southwest
of Yaquina Bay. The official report of
1888, as made by the officers of the Uni
ted States Fish Commission steamer
Albatross, shows these banks to be sixty
miles long by about thirty miles in
width, the average depth being about
ffty-eight fathoms- The Yaquina Bay
Deep-sea Fishing Company has been
with a capital of $3.50. 900,
with a special view to shipping halibut
East over the Oregon Pacific Railroad.
A PARTY of boys were hunting at night
near Paxton, Ind, and their dogs freed
a coon. They built fire in order to
see to shoot the coon. Suddenly there
was mysterious whi1r in the air that
startled the youthful hunters. Almost
OF the same time dark object struck
the fire they had built with such force
as to make the sparks fly in all direc-
lions. The young hunters for a moment
could not realize what had happened,
but on examination they discovered that
that large wild goose had
sailed straight into the fire. The goose
turned several somersaults, and bal
alanced itself after its revolutions on its
feet in time to receive blow from
sudgel in the hands of young Walters,
who proudly carried off the prize. The
goose incident removed the coon com
pleteiy from the minds of the young