Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-08-21

\ The tench is an European iish, and the
limited States Fish Commission are en-
deayoring to introduce it to American
waters.
WILL hair from horses name or tail
deyelop into snake if left in the waterg
Scientific men say not, but J. II. Pierce
of Mount Pleasant, Conn.,, says that sclen-
tiic men don't know every thing. MIR.
Pierce claims that under certain condi-
tions. he can and has produced from
horse hairs perfectly formed snakes the
head being fully developed with eyes aud
mouth. the reptile having life, molten
and growing in length and thickness.
He has at present three In process OF evo-
luton. with which he expects to silence
all doubt as to the truth of his statements.
A few days ago Mr.. Pierce obtained two
hair snakes as he called them, and ex-
hibited them to several persons here,
whose opinions appear TO be evenly diyid-
ed as to whether they are species OF
water snake or really produced by horse
hair. 1t requires about three months TO
develop the snakes, Mr. Pierce says.
CHARLES E. HERRISGToN went fishing
in Barnegat Bay. He was using an
eight-ounce split bamboo rod and a line
rugged with two hooks He had landed
number of fish, ranging from one 10
one and half pounds in weight, and in
at least one instance two at the same
time. Suddenly his line went through
the water with a startling swish, and IN
trice the slender bamboo was buckled
into loop. After a good bit of master
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side and lifted into the boat. Then, TO
the establishment of everybody, 1t was
discovered that the catch was not one
fish but three-three fish on two hooks.
One of the hooks had passed through the
gill of one fish and been seized by sec
ond fish. Thus two were captured by
one hook. All three were weakhsh, and
big fellows at that
A REMARKABLE specimen, writes the
London correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian, has recently been added TO the
museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Ii is tina. of portion of a mans skull
from the internal surface of which is pro-
jecting an inch of the blade of pocket
knife There is some history of an injury
having been received year before the
mans death, but nothing more than this
is known to account for the presence of
the piece Of metal No symptoms were
manifested during life pointing to the
remarkable condition of things which
was casually discovered after death, and
for upward Of twelve months the man
was living with an inch of steel in his
skull and in close contact with the brain.
The knife blade had presumably been
forcibly thrust through the bone and had
broken of short. The man died of
phthisis quite independently Of the in
jury he had received.
THE schooner Mary Z. Anderson has
sailed from San Francisco for Crescent
City on a treasure-hunting expedition to
secure 50. 600. 900 that lies at tie bottom
of the Pacific in the wreck of the Inflated
Brother Jonathan, which was lost many
years ago on the coast, somewhere in the
vicinity of Crescent City. The expedi-
tion has been got up by Peter Gee, we'll
known capitalist of San Francisco. Two
divers and complete diving apparatus
were engaged. The Brother Jonathan
piled between San Francisco and the
North until she was lost, about fourteen
years ago. She was bound for Victoria,
and her commander and large number
Of passengers persisted with her. 1t was
known that she had considerable treasure
on board, and several expeditions similar
to that Of the Mary Z. Anderson have
been made, but the position Of the wreck
was never located.
A DISPATCH to the Chicago Inter Oceau
from Melbourne, Fla. says: ''Turtle
hunting is now in order. The immense
sea turtles come out during moonlight
nights to deposit their eggs in the sand.
While engaged in that duty they do not
allow themselves to be at all disconnected
by spectators. They may make as many
remarks as they choose, complimentary
or otherwise, one may climb onto her
broad back, but the turtle keeps right at
work until she has deposited from 100 TO
$50 round, soft-shell eggs, then she COW
ers them up in the warm sand, and
slowly and laboriously waddles back to
the water. Two ladies climbed onto the
back Of one the other night, and rode
down to the waters edge, when they
very unceremoniously climbed off and
left the turtle to pursue her way alone
into the depths Of the ocean.
THERE exist in the Canton province
of China different kinds of sisterhoods,
such as 'sAll Pure sisterhoods, ''Never-
to-be-marriedn sisterhoods, etc. Each
sisterhood consists of about ten young
maidens, who swear VOWS to heaven never
to get married, as they regard marriages
as something horrid, believing that their
married lives would be miserable and
unholy. A sad case lately happened. A
band of young maidens ended their ex-
istence in this world by drowning in the
Dragon River because one of them was
TO be forced by her parents to be mar
ried. She was engaged in her childhood |
before she joined this sisterhood. When |
the preparations for the marriage were
completed she reported the matter to the
sisterhood, and they all agreed to drown
themselves, which they did.
GEORGE BURDIcK, Of Charlestown
Beach, is famous along the Rhode Island |
shore as a rough-and-ready marksman.