News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-06-06

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instant" to about twenty minutes, the
average beingabout seyenty-four sec
onds.
MEMBERSHIPS is mentioned by the
North China Herald as the distinguish
ing quality of the yellow race. A Chi
naman can go through the most tedious
and monotonous work from hour te
hour and from day to day, without any
appreciate sense of WEAKNESS or irrita.
ton; and school boy can do the same
with his lessons without even longing
to be mt play The Chinese can also
sleep under conditions which would
make a European very uncomfortable
and restless. This quality is one of the
things that make the Chinese such I'M
welcome competitors in the labor mar
kets.
WHILE Ira Spanglar, q young farmer,
Kan, vicious bull rushed upon him
from behind. and, knocking him down,
! crushed several ribs and inflicted other
in uries. Spangler's father, hearing
his sons cries, rushed to the rescue and
was knocked down and fatally injured
by the bulls horns and hoofs. Abel
Genet, the hired man, attempted to
save the Spanglers and was knocked
unconscious and seriously hurt. Old
Mrs. Spangler then seized u heavy
club, and, after hot fight, drove the
bull away. Both the Spanglers are IA
tally injured.
THE prize recently offered by Little
Rock, Ark, paper ''for the largest fam
lily" in the State has just been awarded
to W. D. Green and wife, of Murphrees-
borough, Pike county. They were mar
ried in 1885, and have had twenty-three
children, eighteen of whom are living.
More than so families applied for the
prize. Green. who is blacksmith, has
Hvedin the one town for forty years, and
his statement is attested under seal of
the County Clerk.
A FINE eve sheep belonging to Elbert
Swan, of Preston, Conn.,, was drowned
i'll brook that runs through the farm,
and the outlook was dark for her two
small lambs. But one of Mr.. Swans
COWS promptly adopted the waits, and
she suckles them daily in the distant
pasture where they are kept. The COW
takes the entire charge of the lambs, as
neither COW nor lambs are driven to the
homestead at night.
Four Mandara negroes are about to
appear at the German court as ambassa-
doris from their African Sultan, who are
said to be marvels of intelligence and
with q moral standard extraordinarily
high. Though they will dress in their
own costume, the etiquette of the Ger
man court cannot be foregone, and SO
the regular dress coat will be worn over
their African costume.
SAMUEL MOORE, of Gloucester, has
remarkable appetite, or rather disease,
that compels him to eat every hour of
the twenty -four. He has consulted
many physicians, but none has found
cure. If he does not eat often he suffers
great agony, but the vast quantities of
food that he consumes gives him but
momentary relief.
MOUNTAIN hunters of Pennsylvania
are said to use indigo instead of whiskey
10 cure rattlesnake bites. An incision
is made in tile wound and a piece of in
digo the size of a pea inserted. A gen.
erous dose of sweet oil is given as soon
after as possible. The result is said to
be entirely satisfactory.
JosEPHus McCAUL, of GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, died recently. In his last mo-
ments he explined the mysterious dis
appearance of his brother, Samuel, six
teen years ago. Josephus said he killed
his brother in quarrel and threw the
body into an old well.
In Roostoen, Holland, there is gia
rose tree belonging to Nine. Regnen
which few years ago held 5000 roses
at the same time.