News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-17
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS Or
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Newsy Stories, Novel Facts and Queer
Happenings Here and There.

Sewsy Stories Novel Facts and Queer
Happenings Here and There.
The papers of Philadelphia narrate
the remarkable experience of Mrs. Geo.
Snyder, of No. 2,012 Parrish street, wife
of Policeman Snyder, of the Ninth Dis
trict, who now preserves in alcohol n
reptile over two feet long and having q
head like O lizard, which she recently
vomited mp after years of acute suffer
ing which physicians failed to relieve.
During the summer of 1871 she came
home from q party one evening feeling
very thirsty. She went to q hydrant in
the yard and drew cupful of water and
began to drink, when suddenly she be-
came aware that something other than
water was passing down her throat
The incident was almost forgotten
until about january, 1878. One
night she awoke with her mouth
wide open and something creep
ing in her throat. She screamed out,
but before her husband, who had been
awakened by her struggles, could seize
the reptile, it had drawn itse back into
the throat and out of sight. Mrs. Sny-
der soon began to decline in health and
lost daily until her weight was reduced
to ninety pounds. She had an enormous
appetite and no amount of food, however
large, could satisfy her cravings. For
months she tasted nothing but meat and
milk. This state of affairs continued
for ten years. The reptile had grown to
considerable size and strength, and was
still growing, and her death was soon
expected. She had never tasted beer
until the early part of last month, when
an uncomfortable desire for that beyer-
age seized her. Officer Snyder was sur
prised when he came home at night and
his wife asked that beer be procured for
her. He granted the request and with
happy results. The sight of the liquor
made her sick, but, nevertheless, believ
ing that it should be taken, she drank
several glasses, and in few minutes
was seized with violent fits of vomiting
! and fainting. She had elected a curious
creature with the head of lizard and II
body not unlike that of a snake. She
rapidly recovered, and soon regained her
former weight and strength.
THE Persian Minister here, says the
Washington correspondent of the Bos-
ton TrGoeIer, has the longest name and
the most intense sorrow of any man in
public life here. will not attempt to
some of the names of elakes in Maine.
He is on innocent and passive individu-
al as he rides along the streets with his
black fez perched jauntily on one side of
his head, but underneath all this veneer
of complacency he is one of the unhap-
piest of mortaIs. The secret of his sor-
row is that he is unable to speak sim
gle word of English, much more to COM
prehend one. At receptions; dinners,
and all that goes to make Washington
SOCIETY interesting he appears regularly,
but aside from the conversation which
he carries on with q member of his suite
he is dumb rs an oyster. His inability
to converse in the English language is
given as a reason why nobody has Gale |
upon him. A gentleman in private life,
however, who has lived in Persia for
some years and is familiar with the Ian
guage, occasionally pays his respects.
He says that the minister is man of
distinction in his own country, and
that should there be any diplomatic
complications between the United States
AMI Persia, which is unlikely, the shah's
representative would be amply able to
cope with the situation, whatever it
might happen to be.
A RUMoR is current in Athens, Ga, to
the effect that there is q rock in Clarke
County, about six miles from town, upon
which no man dares to tread. The /
superstitious say that about twenty or
twenty-five years ago an old gentleman !
buried coffee pot full of gold at the I.
foot of this rock and has since died, and /
that when man passes that way his .
ghost appears and drives him off. |
Parties passing near the place have heon |
run more than mile 10y this invisible |
ghost. They say that when they come |
near the place, even though it be a per
fectly still day, n noise can be heard |
like terrible cyclone, and the tall pines |
which surround the rock begin to bow,
and many of them fall to the ground. |
One Sunday two gentlemen from
doubted them, visited the rock with the !
intention of proving the reports to be .
false. but they did not stop long. They |
climbed to the top of the rock, when
they became astounded by hearing
terrible crash. Hardly before they
know it large pine tumbled to the
ground right at their feet. While an
examination of the tree was being ma le,
which was twisted from the ground,
another, fully as large, came down
with q crash. The explorers then
skipped" out.
AMONG the laco makers i'll France,
where women weave the rarest and most
delicate frost-like laces on cushion
with pins and bobbins, there is q guild
of workers who wind their bobbins with
fine white hair, instead of thread, and
weave web like Brussels net of hair
instead of floss. A piece of this beauti-
f,11 ,,,ofario1 fOr,,oo l,o
dation of the wig, into which is tied the
hair, q single hair in o mesh of the lace
along the parting, and two OF three
hairs i'll place all over the rest of the
wig. 1t is woman's deft, skilful fin
gers that do this fine work, of course,
by means of tiny needle no larger
than the slimmest cambria needle for
sewing, with an infinitcsimal hook at
the tip, scarcely visible to the naked
eye. A wig maker has rs many wooden
block-he as n shoemaker has lasts,
and upon one of these the wig founda-
ton is carefully fitted and fastened
while the hair IS tied in, and over this
block woman bends two whole weeks
to make single wig, with tuft of hair
in her left hand, into which the needle
flies, catching invariably only the num-
Der of hairs required, about one hundred
times in an hour.
s. B. THOMPSON, we'll known in Lady
Lake, Fla, was for four years help
less cripple, and the doctors had told
him that the spinal disease that pros
trated him was incuraIe. On the Wed
nesday night before Thanksgiving he
dreamed that the Lord spoke to him,
telling him to go to church next day, to
go to the altar and pray, and get the
congregation TO pray for him and he !
would be cured. Without telling his
dream, he had himself carried to the
church, and at the close of the service |
was placed at the altar. Then the con- I
gregation, led by the pastor, prayed for ]
him, and he also prayed for himself in
n loud voice. He says that while the
prayers we're being offered he heard
voice within say. "Arise and walk"
feet, and, crying "It is done p tried to
walk down the aisle. Several men {
started to aid him, blt he waived them ,
off and walked steadily out of the church !
and to his own home, shouting and
praising God. Since then he seems
perfectly we'll. The Lecsburg LeeSburgcr
has investigated, and is satisfied that
these particulars are true. {
A STUDENT at the Institute of Techno- T
lOgy, Boston, was i'll in his room on Ire ,
mont street; OF least he thought he was I,
in his room, when suddenly awakened !
by a Low on the head; but looking f
about lie found that he was in the hall ,
way of n strange housA He heard voices 7