Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-02-13
MISCELLANEOUS.


husband ssTelephone" when ne geus
mad and won't answer her.
Water differs from good many
things in that it is highest when there
is most of Binghamton Repubilcan
advertisement in Richmond paper
sWanted-A washlady moving in the
very best colored society desires po
sition in fashionable family, with fuii
nossession of the back building and
privilege of daughter taking music ana
French. Address Mrs. L. G., 7. o., city.
in Wheeling store where looking
glasses were formerly scattered AROUND
rather generously they have all been
taken down. '.The reason" said
floor walker, sis that the women would
always be jammed up in crowds where
ever there was looking glass, and we
took them down"
An instrument called the tele-
graphone has been patented, which
enables the sender to record his message
on a cylinder attached to the receiving
instrument. in the absence of any one
to hear it, and even to repeat the mes
sage back to himself for correction.
Come in and see the Swimming
Match Admission, Ten Cents" This
advertisement, cleyerly displayed to
catch the public eye, was posted on
board outside a large fair in Brooklyn.
When the visitors paid their admission
fee, and rushed in, they saw match
floating in a tumbler of water.
The choir has become the training
school for the comic opera stage, says
the Springfield Republican. The good
deacons may not believe it possible, but
a glance at the history of the most popu-
lar soubrettes and prima donnas show
that they began by making the minister
miserable.
To show the capacity of his stomach
visitor at the Neyersink Fire House at
Reading, a few days ago, ate mixture
composed OF a pound of figs, fifty raw
oysters, and pound Of sugar, and topped
off the mess with a pound Of lard. He
said on wager he would eat box of
wagon grease, but the spectators would
let him go no further.
Frogs are improving with the rest
OF the world, and are evidently develop
ing capacity for turning the tables on
their prosecutors. One of the frogs put
into the snake cage at the Worcester
(Mass.) Natural History Museum to be
swallowed, turned swallower and ''ab-
sorbed" so much black snake that the
latter died after being pulled from the
fighting frog.
"A Biddeford dentist tells OF man
who came into his Office the other day
and insisted on having a sound tooth
out-not because he had neuralgia in
his face, but because faith healer had
told him that it wouls improve his gem
eral health to have a tooth pulled. A
faith that will send a man to a dentists
when there is no need of such a visit
must be strong Lewiston Journal.
"A hawk pursued a pigeon into
house at Brunswick. Ga. the other day.
The pigeon took refuge under table in
the kitchen. The hawk in entering the
door saw window beyond, and suppos-
ing his prey had gone that way darted
for the aperture, but, to his horror,
found an invisible pane of glass, through
which his momentum carried him to the
ground beyond, where he lay for some
time. "Who trow dat brick?" sang out
the cook. The master OF the house ar
rived on the scene just in time to dis
cover dat brick was hawk, and to
see him disappear after recovering from
his encounter with the window pane.
"A newspaper man went to interview
the superintendent Of one of the eleva-
ted roads of New York a few days ago
with lot of letters complaining that
the cars on the road we're too cold.
you'll save me lot of trouble if you'll
let me have these letters said the SUI
reaching into his desk and
taking out a package of documents.
"How is that?" "Why, here is a bundle |
of COMPLAINTS we have received about
the cars being kept too warm. If you'll |
let me have yours can send the cold let |
tiers to the hot writers and the hot let |
ters to the cold writers, and so make all |
the GROWERS answer each other. Iowa |
State Register.
The modern game OF base ball is an |
American institution and not, as some |
might believe, an exotic of foreign |
growth which has come to us from the /
older civilizations of Europe and the |
East. The game from which our pres
emit sport is derived had its origin and |
development among the aborigines of |
the American continent, who played /
with bat and ball for ages, for aught |
we know. before the dream of q new !
world filed the Imagination of the |
italian adventurer. 1t is thus Ameri-
ian to the core. OF course the game has
undergone great notifications, but re-
cent archaeological investigations prove
.he truth of the above statement