Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-04-25


with memorial bear, and with snort OF
| fear he tucked his tail between his legs
and ambled off, dragging the little man
after him.
AT the village of Reinberg in Austria
recently very religious family became
possessed with the idea that they had
been bewitched by an old crone in the
village, and the man, with his three
daughters and son, and a young girl
who was in their house at the time,
locked themselves in, and began to pray
and sing. They remained without food
or drink for several days, and fired at
neighbors who attempted to come near
the house. They threatened to kill the
girl when she wanted to go away. Their
cattle were left to starye in the barn. At
last the neighbors secured warrants
against them as insane, and a force OF
asylum officers, assisted by the peasants,
stormed the place, captured it, and took
the family prisoners after a hard fight.
One doctors neck was grazed by bull
let, but there were no other casualties.
The girl was released, and the others in
earcerated in an asylum.
DURING revival at Methodist
Church in Orlando, Florida, the other
night quite solemnly comic incident
occurred. There is a certain dog in
town who has been taught by his owner
to kneel in the attitude of prayer when
commanded by snap of the owners
fingers. The dog followed lady and
gentleman into the church. and insisted
upon making himself at home around
the altar, to the annoyance Of those con
Quoting the meeting. One of the CON
gregation, noticing the unwelcome pre-
sence of the canine, rose from his seat
and proceeded to conduct his dogship
to the street.. He was making slow pro
gress in his efforts, and when about mid
way down the center aisle, chirped and
snapped his fingers at the animal, who
deliberately turned round, placed his
paws upon the end of pew, and bowed
his head as if in earnest prayer.
A TRAVELLER who recently returned
from Pekin asserts that there is plenty
to smell in that city, but very little to
see. Most of the show places, such as
the Temple of Heaven and the Marble
Bridge have one by one been closed to
outside Barbarians, who cannot even
bride their way. The houses are all
very low and mean, the streets are wholly
and are always very muddy
and very dusty, and as there are no
sewers or cesspools, the filthiness of the
town is indescribable. He adds that the
public buildings are small, and in de-
cayed and tumble-down condition, and
the nearest one can get to the Emperor's
palace is to climb to the top of some |
building outside the sacred enclosure I
and surreptitiously peep over the wall /
through an opera glass. Even then he /
does not see much.
HOWARD and Frank Marshall lately /
had fearful horseback journey through /
the Black Canon OF the Gunnison coun- |
try. The roads We're ice and snow
bound, and they were compelled to
cross high trestle railway bridge with
their horses, where misstep was certain I
death. One of the brothers says: eve I
secured three planks about six and one /
half feet long and ten inches wide, and /
laid them down between the rails, and /
Frank first led Fred on TO them, and /
as he stood ON two of the planks moved 4
the third one ahead and repeated until !
We had him safely across. We then
took Bismarck and led him across in
the same manner. We were about
twenty two minutes in taking the two
horses over the bridge, which is three
)r four hundred feet long, and from
twenty-five to one hundred feet high.
A ScHIEY COUNTY 6Ga.) farmer has
,at that has developed the same interest
n clothespins that an ordinary eat
axes in mouse catching, and she parades
With her captures with just as much
bride. She has ever devoted herself to
lost clothespins, and nota few
lins that were not lost. Strange to say
he never touched the pins belonging to
Ter owner, but is death ON clothespins
which belong TO the neighbors. In the
Dast three months she has brought
lome over twenty four dozen clothes
'ins, and inquiry shows that the cat
Seeps her eye on the place where the
,ins are kept One neighbor kept
OF pins on n tin roof, and the
at had to pass over two or three roofs
o get them, but she succeeded in tax
ng three dozen from the basket before
he was discovered.
JOSEPH II. ROTTERDAM. a carpenter
f Connellsville, Pa, has on the back of
us neck birth mark, crescent i'll shape !
nd blush in color. When the moon is
urning its first quarter the mark be-
ONES reddish and begins to swell. As
he moon grows older the mark becomes
edder, and the flesh swels correspond
ngly. When the moon is full the cres-
emit on Rotherman's neck is bright red,
nd the flesh assumes a horn-like roll
yer two inches in thickness at the
argest part, gradually tapering to
oint on the shoulder. As the moon
'anes the mark decreases in size and I
olor until it again becomes a BLUSH 1
shaped mark.
JAMES CLARK, a negro boy Of AL
any, Ga, is one of the wonders Of the
lace, because, though never having ,
cen taught, he is well educated, good
and writes a pretty I,
and. He buys many books, and says
hat when he studies a text book and
ries to master a lesson. he can't under d,