News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-28
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE,
Funny Episodes and Thrilling Ad-
ventures Which Show That Truth
is Stranger Than Fiction.

Funny Episodes and Thrilling Adj
ventures Which Show That Truth
is Stranger Than Fiction.
The city of Norwich, Conn, has a
set of town records which are a wonder
for completeness. Three new volumes
have just been begun by Town Clerk
Freeman for the year 1899, 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 16 the reign of King George
III. terminated in Norwich. Up to
April 29, 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 II, 1777,. the above
words in quotation marks were erased,
and they continued to be erased as long
Us 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
-nickel-in-the slot 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
n 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 glidcs 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 a metallic button and two
stamps make their appearance at an ap-
erture in the lower part of the machine.
1t is proposed by the inventors to place
these machines in stores and prominent
places about city. If the department
approves the plan they will adapt the
machine so that two pennies or TN
cent piece can be used, with the result
that one two-cent stamp or five ztamps
can be obtained. In case spurious
coin is used a 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
q 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 10 I
ind that it was his brother, and George /
made arrangements for a meeting
fserga- now lives in Essex Center, a
mall village in Canada, a short distance
rom Detroit, and one day last week
train and inquired the way to George !
Copeland's house. They met there and
did not know each other until George
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
pastures are to herbivorous animals. 1t
is from these banks that the fish are OBJ
tanned. The only fishing banks yet
discovered 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 i'll
width, the average depth being about
fifty-eight ftthoms- The Yaquina Bay
Deep-sea Fishing Company has been
organized with capital of $3.50. 900,
with a special view to shipping, halibut
East over the Oregon Pacific Railroad.
A PARTY of boys were huntinga mt night
near Paxton, Ind, and their dogs freed
q coon. They built fire in order to
see to shoot the coon. Suddenly there
was a mysterious whirr me the air that
startled the youthful hunters. Almost
at the same time dark object struck
the fire they had built with such force
as to make the sparks fly in all ,direc-
tions. The young hunters for moment
could not realize what had happened,
but on examination they discovered that
discovered 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
cudgel in the hands of young Walters,
who proudly carried off the prize. The
goose incident removed the coon com
pletely from the minds of the young
Nimrods.
EVERYBODY at Beatrice, Neb., is talk
ing about the heroism of Mrs. G. w.
jackson, who saved her little boy from
drowning in the Blue River. The
child, who is years old, walked out ON
the soft ice, when it gave way and he
went under Mrs. Jackson saw the ac-
cident and rushed out, but when she
had almost reached the child the ice
gave way under her, and she fell into
the water, which is about 10 feet deep
at that point. As she was sinking she
seized hold of the ice and managed to
struggle to her feet. Just as the child
was about to sink for the second time
she got the boy in her arms and ran
short distance, when the ice gave way
second time. Again she kept him out
of the water and succeeded in reach
ing the shore, where she fell uncon-
scicus and was taken care of by neigh
bors.
ONE of the pluckiest fellows that ever
lived in Montana is John Myers. He is
20 years old, and has inst gone through
a thrilling experience. He is a cowboy,
and was hunting for horses with party
on the Still Water River He was miss
ing when the others came in. 1t was
thought he had stopped at some "squaw
mans" house, and no fear was felt for
his safety. Two days after the men in
the camp noticed a dark object slowly
siding down the side of an opposite
bluff. 1t was Myers. Both of his legs
were broken, and his head and face ter
ribly laeerated. He was weak from loss
of blood and the exposure he had under
gone dragging himself along for thirty
hours in the snow. His horse stumbled
and threw him ON the rocks and ran
away. He crawled up the side of steep
bluffs where few men could walk.
A HORRIBLE accident has taken place