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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16
The Mania For Gambling.

els there any system that will beat
faro ?" asked a reporter of noted Bos-
ton gambler.
"The only way that faro could be
beaten sure would be to have unlimited
capital to play against it, aud there
would then have to be no limit to the
bets. For instance, if banks capital
was 81 900 on q single card, and should
lose, you would bet 50 600 in order to
stand show of winning your money
back and accomplish your object of
breaking the bauk. If you lose that you
have to bet 81 900, and keep on in that
manner until you did win a bet. But ii
might require half million of money OF
SO to win the original thousand that
constitutes the banks capital. All you
would have to do would be to win one
bet, but, of course, nobody deals faro in
that manner. There is always limit,
and it makes no difference where you
start and begin to double, you are gone
as soon as you bump against limit.
There is no use talking. Anybody that
plays faro or any other game on the
outside is sure to get broke at last if he
keeps at it. I don't care how much
money he has. He may win to-day,
but he will lose tomorrow, and when he
comes to figure up at given time he
will find out that he will lose twice
where he will win once"
sis it sure thing that it will pay on
the inside?"
"Not by any means. How many
rich, retired gamblers do you know, or
how many have died rich p
"Why do so many gamblers stick to
their. trade then?'
"In great part because professional
gamblers feel, and in fact know. that
they cannot trot in any other class, and
rather than be ostracised by people they
can't associate with, they remain in the
sphere in which they belong and can
find companionship. Probably raised
without being accustomed to manual
labor, many of them cannot screw their
courage to the idea of performing hard
work at so much day, although l tell
you it is no easy matter to deal steady
game of faro, by any means. Doubtless
some of them would make better wages
and have less to do if they would go at a
legitimate business"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16
TEXAS SIFTIN0S.

A LONDON tourist met young woman
going to the kirk, and, as was not unusual,
she was carrying her boots in her hand,
trudging along barefoot. My girl,
said he, sis it customary for all the
people in these parts to go barefoot"
"Partly they do" said the girl, "and
partly they mind their own business.
A ooLoRED lady came into the Office
of the Attorney General on Austin
avenue a few days ago, and asked
McLeary. the Attorney General, if he
had list of the convicts Gov. Roberts
had pardoned out of the penitentiary.
"What do you want to see the list for ?"
81 has jess married new husband, an
1 wants to find out all kin about him. {"
JUDGE, you are very smart man. L
would ike to ask you a question ?" re-
marked Gilhooly to Judge Blackstone,
one of the most prominent lawyers OF
Austin. ''What is it?" questioned the
Judge. "Two twin sisters living in tho
same house have babies of the same age,
that look precisely alike and are dressed
alike. These two children got mixed
up, and the question is, how will the
mothers go at it to find out which child
belongs to them ?" eff the children
were as much alike as yon say, perhaps
they were not mixed up at all" ''But
they changed" "Are you sure OF 1t p
Certainly" "Then change them back,
and each mother will have her own.
Give something harder"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16
A Natural Mistake.

"You have stepped on my foot u
The murmuring zephyrs of June
morning were kissing with dewy breath
the rose bushes that were soon to burst
forth In wealth of bud and blossom
the twitter of the meadow-lark rose
cheerlly upon the cool, fresh air that
came from beyond the hilltops in the
West, and athwart the eastern sky faint
bands of crimson light, rosy harbingers
of the golden flood that was to come,
made a vivid contrast to the vivid
blue of the zenith, while over all was
spread the solemn hush that comes be-
fore breakfast.
"You are mistaken, darling" said
Gwendolen Mahaffy, looking up tender
ly at Pericles Perkins, "It was the
horse"
"Perhaps you are right" the man
replied, stroking the neck of the horse
"a beautiful Norman that weighed
nearly ton" but it would have de-
ceived even a more trusting heart than
mine"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16
Worth 1t.

About three years ago the captain of
a canal boat, in company with woman,
called on a clergyman in West Troy to
be married. The captain said the wom-
an had been engaged at Oswego as cook,
and as she appeared to be intelligent
and understood her business he had
proposed and been accepted. The knot
was tied, and after ''going through
his pockets the captain mustered about
dollar, which was handed to the
clergyman, with a promise of more al
some future time. A short time since
the captain appeared to the clergyman,
and, after an explanation, finally
brought the above-named circumstance
to the mind of the latter and handed the
dominic So, remarking that the woman
had made him model wife-in fact, il
he had tried thousand times he could
not have done better.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16

AN EDrroR's APOLOGY. The editor of
newspaper i'll Japan known as the
NjcM Nich Shimbu'e, apparently does
not find it an easy matter to fill its
columns. A recent number appeared
with large space left entirely blank,
save for number of straight lines that
crossed it, and with an apology for this
extraordinary appearance that is
amusing enough. The editor says that,
at the last moment, he found that what
he had written for that space was en-
tirely wrong, and hence it had to be
taken ont. He had no time, he added,
to obtain matter enough to fill up the
vacant space, and 80 was obliged to
fill up the vacant space, and so war
obliged to leave it with nothing there.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16
Saving the Train.

The usual crowd of autumn liars were
gathered together in the store, occupy
ing all the grocery seats-the only gross
receipts that the proprietor took no
pride in-when a little, blear- eyed,
weazen-faced individual sneaked in by
the back door, and skunk into a dark
corner.
"Thats him." said the eungrammatical
hummer with green patch over his left
eye.
"Who is it ?" asked several at once.
"Why, the chap who saved train
from being wrecked" was the reply.
"Come, tell US about it." they de-
manded, as the small man crouched in
the darkness, as if unwilling that his
heroic deed should be brought out under
the glare of the blazing kerosene lamp.
After much persuasion, reinforced by
stiff horn of appleiack, he began:
SIT was just such night as this
bright and clear and was going home
down the track, when, right before me,
across the rails, lay great beam. There
it was. Pale and gbastly as a lifeless
body, and light as it appeared, I had
not the power to move it. A sudden
rumble and roar told me that the night
express was thund9ring down, and soon
would reach the fatal spot. Nearer and
nearer it approached till, just as the
cowcatcher was about lifting me, I
sprang aside, placed myself between the
obstruction and the track, and the train
flew OIL unharmed."
The silence was so dense for moment
that one might have heard dew drop.
Presently somebody said:
"What did you do with the beam ?"
81 didn't touch it," he replied "but
it touched me-"
"Well," persisted the questioner, ''if
you couldn't lift it, and didn't touch it,
how in thunder did the train get over it ?"
"Why, don't you see ?" said the sad
faced man, as he arose from his seat
and sidled toward the door. '"The OBJ
struction was a moon-beam, and
jumped so that the shadow of my body
took its place, and
Bang few ham against the door
and if it had struck the body of the re-
treating hero, there would have been
much bigger grease-spot frescoed on the
panel. l.-Drake's Travellers Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16
Suffering Oscar.

Oscar Wilde thus recoupts an incident
of his Saratoga experience: "While
talking with Judge Brady at Congress
Hall great crowd came around us,
mostly women, and finding it bore to
be thus stared at, I moved on into the
office. There they came fiocking in
after us. I went to the billiard room,
but found no refuge there. The women
rushed there-ladies i'll silks and Grapes
and laces, with diamonds in their ears,
bringing their daughters with them
To baIk their pursuit utterly, | fed to
the barroom. Will you believe me that
they came therein ten minutes fifty
to one hundred of them-tilling up the
place almost It seemed to me a most
painful and dreadful thing-the bold
faced staring and half audible comment. "
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16
Ting.

Believing that the COun-
ty OF LamOiIle could and
would support a good
Wagon business, we pur-
chased i'm 1881 the largest
and best stock ever brought
into this County.
Our expectations were
more than realized; ; our
trade was much larger than
we had any reason to ex-
pect. This encouragement
has been so fiattering that
we have again personally
visited the manufactures
OF some of the largest and
best makers, and selected
another complete stock,
consisting in part OF
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16
An Electric Launch.

Professor Sylvanus P. Thompson
communicates to the London Times an
account of his experiences on board
the vessel Electricity, twenty-six feet in
length, about five feet in the beam, and
drawing about two feet of water. On
board were slowed away under the floor
ing and seats, fore and aft, forty five
mysterious boxes, each cube of about
10 inches in dimensions. These boxes
were nothing else than electric ac
cumulators of the latest type, as devised
by Messrs. Sellon and Volckmar, being
modification of the well-known Plante
accumulation. Fully charged with
electricity by wires leading from the
dynamos or generators in the works,
they were calculated to supply power
for six hours at the rate of four horse
power. These storage cells were placed
in electrical connection with two
Siemens's dynamos of the size known
as D 3, furnished with proper reversing
gear and regulators, to serve as engines
to drive the screw propeller. Either
or both of these motors could be
"switched into circuit at will.
"IG is now forty-three years." says
Professor Thompson, 81 since the
Russian jacob first propelled boat
upon the waters of the Neva by aid of
large but primitive electro magnetic
engine, worked by gaivanic batteries OF
the old type, wherein zinc plates were
dissolved in acid. Two years ago little
model boat was shown in Paris by M.
Trouve, actuated by accumulators of the
Faure-Plante type. The present is,
however, not only the first electric boat
that has been constructed in this
country, but the very first in which the
electric propulsion of a boat has been
undertaken on a commercial scale.
Looking at this first practical success,
who shall say to what proportions this
latest application may not attain in the
next decade ?"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16
THE MODERN SCHOOL TEA CHER.

Twas Saturday night and teacher Sat
Alone her task pursuing;
She averaged this and she averaged that,
OF all that her class was doing.
She reckoned percentage so many boys,
| And so many girls all counted,
And marked the tardy and absentees
And to what all the absence amounted.
Names and residences wrote in full
Over many columns and pages;
Canadian, Teutonic, African, Celt,
And averaged all their ages.
The date of admission of every one
And cases of fiagellation
And prepared list of graduates
For the coming examination.
Her weary head sank low on her book,
And her weary heart still lower;
For some Of her pupils had little brains,
And she could not furnish more.
She slept, she dreamed it seemed she died
And her spirit went to Hades,
And they met her there with question fair:
"state what the per cent. of your grade is ?"
Ages he'd slowly rolled away,
Leaving but partial traces;
And the teachers spirit walked one day
In the old familiar places.
Amound of fossilized school reports
Attracted her observation,
As high as the City Hall dome and as wide
As Gotham since annexation.
She came to the spot where they buried her
bones,
And the ground was well built over;
But laborers digging threw up skull
Once planted beneath the clover.
disciple of Galen, wandering by,
Paused to look at the diggers,
And, plucking the skull up, looked through
the eye
And saw it was lined with figures
Just as thought" said the young VI. D.
How easy it is to kill EN-!
Statistics ossified every fold
Of cerebrum and cerebellum."
"lts great curiosity, sure" said Pat.
BY the bones you can tell the creature !"
"Oh, nothing strange" said the doctor ''that
Was aineteenth century teacher!"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16

A New DEvIoE.-A passenger in a
Boston street-car pulled the vest button
of the conductor and was surprised to
hear bell ring. A new device for
stealing fares was thus discovered. Bell
punches are used on that line, and the
old plan of carrying a small gong in the
palm of the hand to strike when pre-
tending to punch a slip has become
dangerous. So the plan of conoealing
the gong in the vest and connecting it
with button was invented.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16

"WHY do women so often wander
aimlessly in the murky solitudes of the
dead past, brooding over days forever
gone ?" asked young lady of a marry
ing widower. "They don't, L think,
he said. "Rather they wander, espe-
cially at this season, in the dry goods
stores of the present, often pricing ar
t:cles which they have not the remotest
intention of buying"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16

SecOnd---We warrant the
Stove against breaking by
fire, with fair usage. for
one full year from date of
purchase.
Third---We warrant ev-
cry pound of iron i'm the
Stove to be new and every
plate to be honestly and
thoroughly made.
FOurth---We warrant the
Stove to be an excellent
baker and heater, and that
the water will boil quick
ly i'm the Reservoir by turn
ing damper according to
directions.
Fifth---We warrant the
Stove to give perfect and
entire satisfaction i'm Price
Quality, Operation, and
Every Other Particular. or
at the end of 60 days we
Will take it back and re-
fund the purchase money.
Sixth and F'ina11v----
We guarantee that
there shall be no un.
pleaSantneSS or d1Ssat-
iSfaction, if after full
and thorough trial you
decide not to keep the
Stove; we shall not ex-
pect to please every
body, and if you con
c1ude YOU don t want to
buy, we shall keep en-
tirely good natured.
We only ask that you
give us a chance to try
to please you, if you
haven't already a stove
that does so. We think
we can do it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16
LUMBER WAGONS,
LOW.

We commenced business
with a thorough determina-
ton not knowingly to buy
or make any poor work.
That determination we
shall continue to adhere
TO, and whatever we sell
will be with the fullest
guarantee that it shall
prove good, both i'm work.
manship and material.
Any imperfectiOn report
ed within q reasonable
time will cheerfully be
made good.
Soliciting an inspection
OF our goods when i'm want
OF anything i'm the wagon
line, we are, -zx
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16
= 7 0 Y B 5
-AN-
OPEN OFFER!.

Until further notice, we
will give any honorable
and reliable citizen of La
mOille County, who hasn't
already a good Stove. the
use Free for 80 days of an
excellent Cooking Stove,
with Reservoir, to be re-
turned at the expiration of
that time unless the person
receiving it shall, after
trial, desire to purchase it,
i'm which case he can do so
upon liberal terms, subject
to the following warrant
and guarantee.
First----That the price
asked for it is as low a.
the same. or as good a
can be bought for i'm
Vermont, and the buyer
may have another 80 days
from date of purchase to
investigate this matter.
ana we agree that the
buyer shall be his own
Judge i'm deciding this
point
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-02-04
Who Males Morley in Wall Street.

But will this Wall street business
continue? Does it not seem as if specu-
lation in railway securities has culmin-
ated9 Transactions within ten years
have run up from $4,000 to nearly
100000 shares d day: The sales in
1880 amounted to nearly 100 600 OOO
shares, and in 1879 to about 5000, 900
shares, while during the past year the
shares sold reached the enormous total
of 1913, 1872 1866; in other words bust
ness representing Sl3,000,000, 1000. Not
only the whole country, but every capt.
tai in Europe has been Specializing
through our stock exchange But the
investigating public has found out that
there is no money for it in Wall street.
1t is the lead, rs In the street end the
inside operators who always profit at
the expense of the outside public. The
cards are stocked and the dice loaded
every time. Any square" gambling
game gives the man who gives his
money far better chance than when
he deals in the most conservative Sc
curities in the street. All kinds of
business in new untry like this
offer greater Inducements for the in
vestment of capital than does the put
ting up of margins on stock in Wall
street.-Ne,0 York Hour.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-02-04
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

estion and Treatment of MIX Fever'
Vsne of the best methods of prevent
8 mlik fever is to feed she COW several
weeks to several Aaosths before calving
-accordiag to III danger-if in winter,
On ordinary dry hay only, with quart
20 u wheat bran, night and morning,
g Keep she bowels open if in summer,
.es acr run on q poor pasture, and at all
es have large lump of Liverpool
,ock salt to lick At pleasure. If the COW
mas been dried OF couple of months
De1ote Due 10 calve, watch the approach
20 psitsrltlon, and if the bag shows ex-
era Tall, then begin to draw small
Shntity OF milk frent it two weeks or
sess before her time, and increase this,
according to the fullness of the bag, till
me cal! is dropped then milk her
0eae alter the calf has sucked, at three
eQeai intervals in every twenty-four
rrcurs. In the meanwhile do not in
crease her feed for month or more, TIL
All dancer of fever is passed. If the
COW mas continued 10 give milk up
70 within few days of the time
9or her to caive. as is sometimes
sne case, then perhaps it will not be
necessary to milk her till after calving.
Aeep her dry and sheltered from storms
aha from excessive cold or hest. See
mat the water she driaks is pnre, and
that she has all she wishes to take at
least three dnos per day. Never let
TINS water get icy cold, and after calv-
,aG give it slightly warm for few
Gays. As soon as affected, if not a.
reeey In q comfortable stable, but the
SOW INTO one, litter the door we'll, and
always keep this dry anu clean. One
OF the most simple and effectual pre-.
scrptions for this disease is half 8
pound OF EPSON salts dissolved in three
or fouF quarts of warm water mixed with
1--WE tablespoonful of sweet spirits al
nasre. Wet up a small feed OF whna}
nran with this. If the ccw viii no,
take 1t SO, then put the salts and nitre
raise up the head and pour it down the
throat. Repeat this every morning It'll
cured. This simple remedy rarely fails
even IN the worst cases, If all the above
uarectons are carefully followed. Rat
ene bag with lard, mixed with the lasl
strlppings, every time the cow Is
mixed. This renders the bag soft and
pliable and prevents the milk from
Gazing In it.-Natjesat Lipe Stock .7oa.r.
nal. ' '"'"
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-02-04
of breadcrambs. hslf.pin. 81 hour. tea

of breadcrambs, hssf-pin. 81 -four, tea
spoonful 0f baking powder sifted in
Hour, little salt, half a pound of
raisins, quarter of pound of currants,
quarter of pound of chopped suet,
coffeecupful of milk, one egg; tie tight.
~ in q bag and boil three hours; to
be eaten with hard sauce.
NsdBAL1s.-To make fishballs, cut
or pick Goldfish in small bits, take care
to remove every piece Of kons let it
in another @ater let it cook slowly for
twehty-ti, minutes season with milk,
butter and eggs ; mix with this about
double the quantity of boiled potatoes,
add milk or cream to give the desifed
amount Of moisture |. shape in round
cakes, roll Ia nonr, and fry until brown
in hot lard. If the lard is rot hot when
they are rut IN they will soak up the
fat and viii Ae dhpalatable.
iatsa STEw.-About two pounds Of
the neck of mutton, four onions, six
large potatoes. salt, pepper, three piats
OF water and two tablespoonfuls Of
-four. Cut the mutton In handsome
pieces. Put about half the Fat n The
stewpan with the onschs, and stir TO,
eight or zen minutes over a hot fire,
then put in the meat, which sprinkle
with the -four, salt and pepper. Stir
ten minutes, and add the water, boiling,
Set for one hour where it will simmer
then add the potatoes peeled a.nnd cut
in quarters. ..eimrcsf an hour lonee,
and seress You can cook dumplines
With this dish if you choose. They are
great addition to all kinds OF stews
and ragouts.
FLoATING-l ISLAND. Make q cake with
a cup OF sugar, cup sweet milk, a we'll
beaten egg, piece of butter size OF ar
egg, little salt, two teaspoohfu,s cream
tartar, and ono teaspoonful of sods
sifted In two cupfuls OF flour. Beat all
together several minutes, and pour the
batter, half an inch thick, into a com.
mon, long, square -cornered tin. The
remainder of the cake will make small
Washington pie. Bake quickly. Make
a soft boiled custsrd by heating foul
cupfuls Of milk in q pail set in kettle
of hot waterS when scalding hot, poul
e cHffal on to three eggs, beaten with 6
cnpful and half of sugar, and three
teaspoonfuls of corn starch; then poul
all together, and cook till it begins tc
thicken, and pour through tin strainel
and flavor with lemon. Lay your cake
cut in small squares, on = platter, sif
over powdered sugar, and put slice o.
jelly OF each piece. Serve by filling 6
saucer half full of custard and laying or
slice of the cake.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-02-04
A Nocturnal Ramble and what Came OF 1t,

Some genius-we suspect him to belong to
the jovial order of humanity-has said :
The day to drone and dream, the night to
learn and ramble." We do not propose to
dispute this worlhy's view of the matter, but
present herewith the experience of Phila.
delphia journalist, Mr. William H Gun.
nington, 17l2 North Twentieth street, one
OF whose nocturnal rambles he thus refers to,
beginning his narration rather peculiarly,
however: am not rheumatic, and have
been troubled very little with bodily pains.
Last Tuesday morning experienced very
annoying stiffness of the neck, which grew
worse as the day wore on. Toward evening
it became very severe, and could scarcely
turn my head in any direction. Arriving
home at tea time it was with difficulty that
could eat my meal. My wife wanted to
rub my neck with St. Jacobs Oil, but | re-
fused, saying | thought the affection would
soon pass away. Tea over, against the
circumstances of my family, lett home to
ramble toward the new Chestnut Street
Opera House, about two and half miles
from my residence. started in the midst
OF heavy snow storm, and remained at the
theater until the close of the performance,
although l could feel my neck getting worse
and becoming very painful. Leaving the
play the trouble came to reach home. The
storm continued; the car in which l was
became blocked in nearly every square, a
cold current Of air swept through the car,
and | did not reach my home until toward
A. M, by which time my neck had become
absolutely rigid Then | consented to the
use of ST. Jacobs Oil, which my wife ap
piled two or three times before arose.
continued its use that day and by evening
was free from pain, and the next morning
| amused myself by twisting my neck in any
direction that suited me, and not vestige
of stiffness rem aimed. boston Herald.