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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-08-17
i.Yakoot IN New YORK.

-s A reporter for the Sun YESTERDAY found
Q akoot. probably the first man of that
race ever in the United States. The
sYakoots are Siberian tribe Of Asiatic
origin; they live on the shores of the
Lena, where Captain De Long and his
party found snowy graves The name
OF this Yakoot is Mr.. Brakhim., He is.
OF middle stature, with hardly any
hair on his chin and lip, though he
is twenty-five years old. His pronlinent
cheek bones and the square contour Of
his face show his Asiatic origin, vet his
eyes are rather those of white man.
His legs are somewhat bowed, owing to
an apparatus which the Yakoots use IN
training their babies. Mr.. = Brakhim.
speaks his own. Yakoot language and
also Russian, though with peculiar
gaccent.s3 astl fa f~aesssw SIR s.s
What induced you, Mr.. Brakhim, to
leave Yakootsk and come to this cott1nE.
try asked thesreporter in Russian. l,,,r
+. In 1876 he replied, .'there was a
Congress Of Orientalists in ST. Peters
burg, and fthe Russian Government.
brought TO that Congress a number OF
4 aho0ts, Buriats, Ostiaks, Kirkhizes, and
memberso of other Siberian tribes as sam,
pies of Russianization. / was one of the
y akoot samples. Once in St. Petersbufs
I decided to- see more of the, civilized
world. l have been in France and in
England, and now want to see Amerfs
Ga. z 4 would ikesto studyrthis country
its people and its institutions
. Are the Yakoots numerous race egs'E
i" There are about '25O. 900 of. .tIen
They lead 8. semi -nomadic life along the
Lena and its tributaries. Twice a wear
they change their aabode. In summer;
they settle on, the numerous islands Of
Lena and on the shores of the other rive
efs, where theY;moW hay, and cultivate a
little barley and still less rye. In winter
they move I'd their winter Quarters,
where they stay for seven long, cold
months - ------------=s-<-.... '7's's'''
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-08-17

ten kfeyAnd SAYS mo more, ssr,,ssv -: ,.sY
But life is fun OF compensations. It is
left her to oeniey, toslabor. .sand toaaspire1
Perhapsyit is left;her to illustrate, as her
more fettered married sister can not, the
real capacitya the 5aaetuafi fpumerrof
achievement, of~ heE~-sex.-Harper's
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23
Tons OF Gold.

In the middle of the last century there
died in Amsterdam Jewish banker
named Pinedo. He had amassed enor.
nous wealth, of which he made the fol.
lowing disposition in his will:
81 bequeath to the city of Amsterdam
the sum of five tons of gold.
"I lend to the said city for 10 years,
and without interest the sum OF mil
lion and half forms.
ST give to every Christian church at
Amsterdam and at the Hague the sum
of 10, 900 forms each, and to the church
in the southern quarter of Amsterdam
10000 forms.
81 give TO each Christian orphanage
in the two towns the sum of 10000
crowns.
81 give to the poor of Amsterdam 40
shiploads of peat.
81 give to the orphan who shall first
quit the orphanage 1000 horins, and to
the one who shall succeed him 600
forins.
az give to the synagogue of Amster-
dam two and half tons of gold.
''I give to the Portuguese orphanage
80, 600 crowns.
II lend to the government, at three
per cent. interest, ten tons of gold, on
condition that the interest shall be paid
to the Jews domiciled at Jerusalem, the
capital to belong to the government in
perpetuity.
81 give the German synagogue 8, 900
forms.
81 give to my nephew, Owls, thirty
one tons Of gold, with all my houses
and appur5enances.
Il give my widow ten tons of gold.
81 give to my other relations, in
equal portions, 10 600 crowns.
~ give to each of my neighbors who
shall assist at my funeral 100 ducats.
81 give to every unmarried person of
either sex who shall be present at my
burial 100 forms, and to every Chris
tan priest in Amsterdam and at Hague
100 crowns, and to every sacristan fifty
crowns"
The reader must know, though, that
a ton of gold reads bigger than it is.
That lump sum was held in those days
to be worth 10O,OOO forms, or $50, 600,
SO that the fifty-eight and half tons
the generous banker disposed of figured
up to SO, 175, 600. Altogether, he dis
posed of fortune of about So, 900, 600.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23
The New Electoral College.

The House Apporiionment bill, says
an exchange. fixing the number Of Rep
resentatives at three hundred and TWEEN
tv-6ye will enlarge the Electoral Col
Ieee from three hundred and sixty-nine,
of which one hundred and elghty-hve
are majority, to four hundred an5 one,
OF which two hundred and one viii be
required to elect. The admission OF Da-
kota as a State would increase the total
electoral vote to four hundred and four,
and the majority to two hundred and
three. The most striking thing about
the Electoral College is the dispropor-
tionate power of the small States. In
the new College Rhode Island will have
a vote for every sixty. nine thousand and
Florida one for every sixty-seven thou
sand inhabitants, while it will take o
hundred and forty-one thousand in New
York and nearly a hundred and forty
three thousand III Pennsylvania to rep
resent an electoral vote. This makes
every ballot in Rhode Island and Florida
count as much as two in New York and
Pennsylvania. Taking Delaware and
Nevada the disparity between the large
and the small States becomes still
greater. With population of hun
dred and forty-six thousand Delaware
will have three electoral votes, or one
for every forty.eight thousand inhabi-
tants, and Nevada, with only sixty-two
thousand people, will cast three electoral
votes. or one for every twenty thousand
inhabitants. Hence in q Presidential
election it will take about three votes in
New York or Pennsylvania TO offset one
in Delaware, and about seven to count
as much as one in Nevada.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23
0utrages in Ireland.

Parliamentary statistics of outrages
in Ireland during the month of January
last give total of 81, of which 400, or
more than one-half, pertained to land.
This shows an increase over the same
month in 1880 of 365 agrarian outrages,
and of 81 over the number for January,
1881. Three of those for the present
year were homicide, were frings at
the person, so arson cases, manning
of cattle, q frings at horses, and 900
threatening letters and notices. Another
return gives the total of agrarian out
RACES for last year as 4, 439, which were
distributed as follows among the Prov
inces: Ulster, Ala; Leinster, 833; Con-
naught, 1885; Munster, l 957. Among
the 4 439 were u murders, 5 man
slaughters, &c firings at the person, $50
incendiary fires, 65 cases of taking and
holding forcible possession, 155 of kill
ing, cutting, or manning cattle, - of
levying contributions, 70 of demand or
robbery OF arms. 65 Of administering
unlawful oaths, 2, 191 of threatening let
tiers, rs of attacking houses, and 144 of
firing into dwellings,.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23
Life-Saving Service Statistics.

The following interesting statistics
are given of the operations of the
Life saving Service of the United
States since its establishment, Novem-
Der 1, 1871: Number of disasters report
ed, 1,347; value of vessels endangered
$16, 0S3, 800; value of cargoes, So, 429,
1877; value of property saved, $14, 958, S95;
value of property lost, SO, 1853, 592; num-
Der of lives imperilled, II, $50; number
of lives saved, 1864; number of per-
sons succored, 2,610; number of days
succor afforded, 1850.
Besides the IL, 1854 lives saved from
vessels in distress, the lives of sixteen
persons were saved who were not on
board vessels. Of 395 lives reported
lost, lS3 were on the Huron and the
Metropolis, the loss of the former YES
sci happening when the stations were
not open; while in the case of the latter
the service was impeded by distance
from the scene of the disaster. tits only
in the last five years that the operations
of the Life-saving Service have en-
braced the sea and gulf and part of the
lake coasts of the United States. In
1871-72 its operations were confined to
the coast Of Long Island and New Jer-
sey. Before the establishment of the
Life-saviDg Service the loss of life on
the coast of New Jersey alone amounted
to hundreds Annually.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23

The cunning veteran Gabriel has fol
a stable companion a shaggy goat, who
accompanies him on all his journeys
and is always ready to welcome the gray
when he comes in from race. The
Rat hates to be alone. When he gave
his field a twenty pound beating at
Sheepshead Bay in the first race he
won, he almost stopped when he had
passed them and had to be urged to
keep on his stride. When he had
passed the winning post, however, he
stopped and whinpied to the rest to
come up. Mr.. Eelmont's Bandit, who
died recently from lockjaw, abhorred
company as much as the Rat enjoyed
it. In private he could beat any horse
in Mr.. Belmont's string; in q race with
more than one horse against him he
fairly shrunk back. The touts and the
people whom they supplied with in
formation lost a great deal of money
through this popularity of the colt.-M.
Y. Hour,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23
A Chapter from Wall Street.

The brokers say that the number of
young men who are carrying their dol
lars to Wall street has decreased per-
ceptibly in the city the last year, but
that the out of town custom, especially
in the West, is increasing, for the devel-
opment of Gould's plans there under
the eyes of many spectators give them
confidence in his stocks, and there are
strong buyers. The tape-pullers, to the
casual observer, seem to be middle-aged
men, and singularly enough there Is a
large proportion of professional men
among them. The lawyers lead the
list, and haggard and nervous and quick
| tempered they stand about the ticker
watching the wheel of fortune go round
and round. In one Office there stands a
portly, well-fed man, with his hand
under the tail of cutaway coat, q silk
hat poised on the back of his head and a
cigar stuck between his teeth. He is
rocking to and fro upon his heels, and
he seems to believe that he is on the
high road TO fortune. "Who is hep" is
asked of shrinking, modest man of
middle age, who once moved with a
broadside in the street, and has since
taken his trip up in balloon so high
that he says he has not got done falling
yet. "He's a Methodist preacher, who
made hit in New York Elevated some
time ago at the first clip, and having
gained about $4,000, is now going
in heavy. He thinks that Gould will
be sending for him soon to learn how
to speculate. He has given up preaching
and has taken to smoking, buying
straddles and to lunching at Delmon-
ico's."
How long do you give him ?"
"He will tangle himself up before the
LIST of May, and he will then settle down
here for a year, with morning and
evening prayers, that he may get back
his money and go back to lead his little
flock in green pastures by the still
waters"
sis it true that young men in New
York are turning their backs on Wall
street ?"
Eyes, they prefer poker, for they have
chance to deal once in while. Here
the cards are stocked, and somebody
else is the dealer all the time. There
are about 10, 600 sign posts up around
here warning people to quicken their
steps and get out of the range OF the
miasma as soon as they approach Wall
street. It needs a clear vision to see
them, and they are blessing to man
with good eyesight. The young man
who comes here groweth up like the
grass and fourishes like green bay
tree for time. Then he is cut down
and walketh away on his uppers. When
Trinity chimes out three o'clock one
day fair-faced woman In rich attire
drives up in a coupe and he steps in
and they roll up Broadway, laughing at
the cold, cold world. Another day he
gets a note from his broker, and he
borrows quarter to get something to
steady his nerves. If he can scrape up
SIS he tries his luck at faro, and in a
short time he is looking over the list of
men wanted hanging in the Y. M. G.
A. hall. I saw among the soldiers in
the spectacle of Michael Strogoff'
few days ago n man who like our friend
the preacher, felt two years ago that
ne would soon give Jay Gould some
points,"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23
4 Canadian Will.

A Canadian farmer recently died Ieav.
ing behind him farm. and will with
the following strange provisions: A son
Is to work the farm until his step.
mother death, at which time he is to
begin paying to the rest of the family an
annual instalment of $50 upon lien OF
5000. When the entire obligation has
his property. The step-mother is in the
prime of life, and, barring accidents,
good for forty years more; it will take
sixty years to pay off the So, 900, and the
son Is now thirty years old. He may.
therefore, confidently expect to secure a
Clear title to the farm while he is still a
frisky young fellow OF one hundred and
thirty and lay up competency for his
declining years.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23

his former want of spirit he talked in
cessantly, and, indeed, aggressively, OF
his ''wife," looking as if he would pick
quarrel with any person who denied
Maude's right of that title. But all
this could not save the poor sufferers
life. She declined rapidly, and one
winter evening died leaving him with
the miserable reflection that she might
have lived long and happily with him,
had he protected her with more manl1-
ness, and cherished her as he had sworn
to do when she had bound herself to him
by a marriage as sacred as was ever
contracted.
Hugh's troubles were not ended when
Maude had been laid in her last bed be-
side her sister. The bishop of the do
cese, who claimed jurisdiction over
churchyards, and who, like Lord Jinks,
had strong views about marriage with a
deceased wife's sister, took it upon hlm-
self to object to Maude being described
as Mr.. Follet's wife on her tombstone.
''She is not your wife by law, wrote
the bishops chaplain to Hugh, "and his
lordship trusts that you will, however
painful to your feeling, see the proprie-
ty of avoiding anything that might pro-
mote scandal"
A man who cannot stand up for his
wife while she is alive is not likely to do
battle for her very chivalrously when
she is dead, so after weak interchange
of letters, Hugh gave in ''to avoid
worry" The words on the second Mrs.
Follet's tombstone, which was the
same as her sisters ran simply: "Also
of Maude, sister of the above, aged 81. "
But even this concession did not pacify
Lord and Lady Jinks, who declared it
Outrageous that two sisters should
sleep in the same grave.-LOndo''
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23

more than one half per cent. Of this
acid. Carbonate of lime is found in
some, but not in all of the green sand
marls. Samples have been analysed
which contained twenty per cent. of
this substance, while others were found
without any.
The experience of farmers who have
applied mari to their soils and the chem
ical tests which have been applied to
the marls that have proven most effec-
tive as fertilizers have led to the follow
ing conclusions: l. That marls contain
ing the most phosphoric acid are the
ones which are most highly esteemed by
farmers. 2. That marls containing car
Donate of lime in fine powder, besides
any shells that may be in them, are the
best and most lasting fertilizers, though
they must be used in large quantities.
3. That marls consisting of pure grains
of green sand, though containing their
full percentage of potash, are frequently
without any fertilizing action and their
effects are not very well marked in any
case.
Frequent inquiry has been made at
the station for the valuation and USE
fitness of muck. The answer to such
inquiries has been necessarily indefinite,
and for the following reasons: Muck or
peat may be produced by the partial
decay of leaves, twigs and wood OF de-
ciduous trees and shrubs, or it may be
the product OF the partial decay OF
coniferous vegetation, or it may be the
accumulation from marshes and ponds
where only grasses, sedges and MOSES
grow. The composition of these vary
both in the amount of nitrogen they
contain and in the mineral matters in
their ash. -Ln one respect, however,
they are alike; their decay has ceased,
and they are not undergoing any con-
siderable change in the wet places where
they are found. To make them pure
they must be exposed to atmospheric or
chemical changes until decay has again
set in. This may be accomplished by
exposing it in piles to the air and wealth
er, or by composing with quicklime or
by using it as an absorbent IN stables
where it can be mixed with the animal
manures. When it has reached this
condition it has developed in it all its
fert1lizing powers, and may be applied
to the soil. 1t certainly contains. says
the report quoted from, elements which
are fertilizing and very useful to I'M
prove the texture of the soil.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23

'4oUNG SUBSCRIBER" wants to know
''what is an organ p 1t is the opposi-
ton paper, my son; the vile and truckling
sheet through whose yenomous NAV,
fetid with vice and fostering with the
loathsome corruption i'll which it daily
wallows, the other party, blistered with
the plague spot of political leprosy, sew
ers the nolsome filth OF its pestiIential
ideas, Gur-r-r!! That's what an organ
is, my boy. Our own paper is Fearless
and Outspoken Champion for the truth.
You may have noticed that.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23

WHAT is love ?" asks an exchange.
Love, my friend, is thinking that You
and the giIl can be an eternal picnic to
each other,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23
Sleep for Children.

There Is no danger that children can
sleep too much. The old proverb,
"Who sleeps, eats" is illustrated in
those little ones who sleep most.
Wakeful children are always peevish,
irritable ard lean. If they can be in
dueed to sleep abundantly they are
quite likely to become good natured and
plump. Their sleep should be as much
during the hours of darkness as possible,
and therefore it Is better that they
should go to bed before sunset to have
their sleep out, than to sleep long after
sunrise i'll the morning. It is well to
let any healthful, growing child or young
person sleep until he wakes himself.
aud then give him such variety and
amount of out door exercise as snail
make him glad when bedtime returns
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23
The Chinese Students.

4 letter just received by gentleman
in Hartford from friend in China tells
what the students lately recalled from
this country are doing. Fifty-one have
been distributed as follows: Twenty to
the telegraph office, eight to the medi-
cal school, ten to the torpedo school,
seven to the mining school, four to the
Customs Department, and two to the
Government docks. The rest, about
forty in number, are at the naval school
in Tientsin. A letter from one of the
students indicates that the official wrath
has been somewhat appeased by the
discovery that the boys have not for
sworn their country and have attained
real proficiency in many important
branches. This young man writes
cheerfully about his surroundings and
prospects, but frankly admits that he
misses the girls more than anything
else. He adds: "When was in Slang-
hal 1 went to Sunday evening service
very pretty sweet sixteen, arm in arm,
and you ought to see the people stare
at us. They would stop in the middle
of the street and look at US, as if we
were SO manEliying curiosities. sup
llU@sFlas present.
What do you suppose it was? doubt
if you can guess it, so I'll tell you. 1t
was promotion, in the shape of a
crystal button, TO the fifth rank. How
is that for high? There are nine ranks
in all, SO you SEQ am halfway up the
ladder. Of course I don't care any
about it myself, but suppose the folks
at home will think everything of it, as
getting the crystal button at eighteen
is not an everyday affair. We are going
to celebrate Christmas night with big
supper, so that we are not going to let
it pass in this land without something
of a rec0oritioD
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23
Practical Kindness.

One of the most beautiful and prac-
teal instances CT real kindness 1 ever
saw came to me in this wise II had
gone into my butchers shop one Satur-
day night and was waiting for my steak.
While doing SO, man, black with the
toll and dust OF machinery, came in. He
was old and homely, and meanly
dressed, and should never have looked
upon him as divine agent of consola-
ton bad not little girl came in and re-
vealed him to me. elbows father tot
day, Polly?" he asked. "He's worse
to-day and mothers down too" and the
weary little thing began crying softly
to herself. Then he stopped aud said
something in low voice, to which she
only shook her head, and cried more
bitterly. So he took the basket from
her, saying Run away home, Polly,
or that baby, she'll be in mischief. I'll
bring the basket" She offered him
twenty-five cents, but he hurried her
away and would not touch it. Then he
chose some good beef, piece of bacon
and plenty of vegetables, and having
paid for them, walked off toward a large
tenement house in sight. l gave him
silent reverence as he passed me, for [
knew him then as one of Gods messen-
gers, unconscious, but on, how blessedly
taking share In the ministery of
angels Opportunities like these are
constantly thrown in our way by the
angel that watcheth over souls. But if
brother or sister be naked and desti-
tute of daily food, and one of you say
unto them :-"Depart in peace, be We
warmed and filed" Notwithstanding We
give them not those things which are
needful to the body, what doth it profit
WITCHCRAFT.-A Presby terrain mis-
sionary at Fort Wrangell, Alaska, writes
to the st. Louis Board of Missions that
persons accused of witchcraft near her
station are punished with death. An old
woman, whom the natives charged with
being an agent of the devil, was tied to
tree and left five days without food.
Her thirst was aggravated with salt wa
ter, and at last she was hacked to pieces
with knives.
TO BE understood is 10 be twice ones
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23

Pure CoD-LIvER On, made from selected
Iivers, on the sea-shore, by Caswell, Hazard d
Co., New York. It is absolutely pure and
sweet. Patients who have once taken 1t prefer
it to all others. Physicians have decided Ii
superior to any Of the other oils in market.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23

Our VERY worst passions viii often
produce sublimer effects than our
best.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23

A SAD ADvENTURE.-Her is a real
adventure in the far West for boys to
read Christian Alison, aged II, wan
dered into Utah. He was employed for
a while on q sheep ranch, but was too
small to do the work, and was DIS
charged. For twenty days the poor
fellow trudged aimlegsiy about, in bit
terly cold weather, scantily clothed and
fed. One day he was found inaensible
in snow drift, with a little flour in a
tin pail as his entire stock Of provisions,
and so badly frozen that on being sent
to Salt Lake for treatment, his feet were
amputated.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23

CREAMERY BUTTER.--At the present
time Creamery Butter stands very high
in the market, bringing several cents a
pound more than dairy. The creamery
people are doing the best they can to
change this state of affairs. II is now
known that many Of the creameries are
regular purchasers of oleomargariue
oil, which they mix with their product
Tho tallow and grease of the fac DRY are
made into the oil, which is mixed with
the cream at the oreameries, and made
into tle finest appearing creamery
butter. This oil is shipped in barrels
to distant parts of the country.