News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-07-11

by some means so held together as to
assume the exact shape of the original
wood. Investigations with a penknife,
at one end of this, revealed q small
tunnel under the surface, filed with the
same fine dust and about three inches
long, at the end of which was a small
aud very active black beetle, busily en-
gagged in literally eating his way
through life, with an inexhaustible
supply of food in front. The ant is not
the only bug-model of industry.
A Hartford lady tells story of an
ancestor of hers, direct descendant of
John Elliott, the great missionary. This
ancestor was woman, the head of
family in New Haven, and about the
year 1765 she ordered lot of nails from
Boston. The kegs came in due time,
and when they were opened one of them
was found to be filled with Spanish dol
lars. She wrote to the Boston merchant,
telling him of the contents of one of the
kegs. He answered that he had bought
it for nails and had no further response
bility In the matter. The money was
kept among the family treasures I'M
touched and unclaimed until the death
of the head of the house, who in her will
ordered that the dollars be melted and
cast into a communion set for the New
Haven church. This was done.
A DRY goods drummer said, thst he
met at one of the Western railroad sta
lions the man who made the trunks for
his house. "There, said the drummer,
pointing to porter, sis a man whom I
am obliged to give Hail Columbia to on
every trip; he does more damage to my
baggage than all the others combined"
sis that sol" replied the trunk man, and
without more talk he walked over and
handed the astonished porter SIS.
''What's that for?" he asked. "That's
for smashing trunks, and the next time
/ come here, # you do as well as you
have in the past will do the same"
THE singular spectacle of a woman,
with two-months- old baby, being COM
mitted to the Ohio penitentiary for horse
stealing was witnessed in Columbus.
The prisoner is Miss Retta MCGEE, aged
twenty, and she was sentenced for one
year. Since her fifteenth year she has
been engaged in running off valuable
animals, and dozens of farmers in
Southern Ohio have suffered from her
depredations She has been arrested
several times, but escaped punishment
through sympathy or upon TECHNICAL
ties. The Court permitted her to take
her babe to prison with her.
DIR. SHARP has made a communication
to the Smithsonian Institute on the fish
eating bats of Trinidad. On examine
ton, he found the remains of fish in
their stomachs. 1t was said, they catch
their food by means of the membrane
which extends between the lower limbs.
Referring to the report that certain bats
of the region suck the blood of animals,
he stated that they certainly bite the
toes or the face of human beings, as he
had seen evidence of such attacks.
WHEN there is no criminal case for
trial at Limerick Quarter Sessions, the
High Sheriff presents a pair of white
gloves to the Judge. Such presenta-
ton was made to Judge Purcell on June
49, His lordship said that the present
state of Limerick contrasted most salts
factorily with that of some years ago.
He had now so many pairs of white
gloves that he didn't know what to do
with them.
AT a recent examination of volunteers
for one-year service in the army of Mu-
enster, twenty-five monks of the Fran
ciscan Order presented themselves.
They all passed the examination re-
quired.
THE bell of the United States cruiser
Charleston, contains silver to the amount
of $3.50, contributed by hundred work
men,