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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-03-23

BY doing nothing we learn to do i'll.
A good example Is The best sermon.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
About Checkers.

S. William Okochee, Presid ent of the
CELIA Checker Club" of Ella, W. ",
forwarded a communication asking if
the Lime Kiln Club would affiliate, and
inquiring of BROTHER Gardner if he
thought checker playing led to evil.
"Dis club will be glad to 'fliate, I"
responded the President, "but as to
checkers, I am not prepared to say. 1
know of case whar' man played
checkers all de afternoon an den killed
tin peddler in de ebenin'. i know Of
anoder case whar' man who had
played TO games of checkers went home
an cut his wife's froat. / can recall
Wit anoder case whar' checker play er
riz up from de game an weLt out an
pizened well. On de oder han, some
of our greatest an bes' men devote
hours to de game widout maxim threats
or draai in a weepun. Checkers doan'
furnish the excitement dat boss race
does, au' you can't lose money as fast
as you kin on poker, but / kin say of it
dat whar' one player sots on a soap box
an de oder on a bag o con, an de
grocer isn't rushed wild trade, an it am
rainy day, an boat players belong to
de same church, it am good way to
kill time. "-Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
The Curse of Choral.

Under the head of 'The Curse of
Chloral," The Lancet observes: ''A sad
glimpse into the life of the late Dante
Rossetti, over whose newly closed grave
the lovers of two arts are mourning, is
afforded by the brief memoirs of Theo-
dore Watts. The curse of choral upon
any life is disastrous enough, but its
features are brought into terrible salt
ance when it falls upon the gifts
genius. No man ever lived who was so
generous as he is sympathizing with
other mems work, save only when the
cruel fumes of choral turned him
against everything. The dependence
on its influence which chloral, habitually
taken, inevitably causes; the nervous
prostration which it gradually induces
the irritability which follows chIoral
sleep, and follows equally the sleepless
nights of abstinence; the slow sapping
of the nervous energy-all these are too
familiar, and over and over again during
the past ten years we have pointed olt
their moral"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
The Hog Family Abroad.

Howard in his New York letter says:
Another member of the hog family is
the constant smoker. 1t matters moth
ing to him if sick men, delicate women
or little children sfe upset by his smoke.
''Shall l be ineonvenienced by you ?"
He thinks it hardship if he can't
smoke on car platforms and ridiculous
| If he isn't allowed to smoke all over q
boat. I made trip from New York to
Boston last week. In the forward end
of the parlor car, IN which, for the sake
of comfort, [ paid an extra dollar, was
little apartment filled with men. My
seat was near the door. The men, the
| conductor, the car conductor, the news
boys, the peanut candy and book-ven-
ders and the passengers in general
opened that door not less than It's
times in eight hours. 1 counted so
times and didn't begin to count for a
long time, and stopped hours before we
reached Beantown. Each time the door
opened Whit Of smoke blew in my
iNSN, ""O ioASO Vi an llfdlAu &HI III TIE
next chair, in thefaee of dear old lady,
who was made very i'll by it, AMI in the
faces of the twenty-six passengers, each
of whom had paid an extra dollar for
comfort. ;" [ came by the Fall River
line. My seat in the parlor car was
No. Is, and ] had sick headache. At
least ten men smoked from Boston to
Fall River, and to cap the climax the
parlor car conductor did the same thing.
Mr.. Vanderbilt owns the Fourth
avenue horse-car line, and charges six
cents for the shortest ride, the sIowest
horses and the most crowded care in the
city. Conspicuously posted is a regular
caution against smoking. Every day in
the year l ride four times on those cars.
and l don't remember trip when Mr..
Hog was not smoking either bloated
cigar or sinking cigarette. l have
seen women turn pale with deathly sick
ness because some squirt on the front
platform continued to smoke after he
had been requested not to. If man
takes the matter in his own hands, nine
tenths of the passengers look on him as
a loafer. If he asks the conductor to
speak to the offender, an offensive con-
spicuosity is given him which is far from
pleasant.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
An Oscar Wilde.

"While the dinner was at its height, "
writes a visitor at the Carlisle Indian
School, ga tall, finely formed man
stalked into the room with great dig
nifty aud reserve. He wore light gray
trousers, black coat and vest, white
shirt and collar, black nesktie, and
boots that would have done credit to a
irst-class shoemaker. His raven hair
was parted carefully in the centre and
hung down the sides of his face-an al
most exact counterpart of the style af-
fected by Oscar Wilde, except in that
where it touched his shoulders it was
tied on each side with pieces of red tape,
and the remaining part, about foot in
length, braided and tied in little knot
at the end. The face was strong, al
most noble in it's reserve, and the eyes
half-hidden by wrir kled lids, were brill
iantly black and showed more than
usual intelligence" 1t was Standing
Bear, the famous Sioux chief, who had
come from Dakota to ascertain what
educational progress his son was MAX
ing in the school.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
Understanding Mems Natures.

About mid afternoon yesterday citi-
en- who pulls down the scales at 1876
pounds descended the first flight of
tairs beyond the Post Office in just the
same manner that bag of oats would
have chosen, and when he brought up
at the foot he was in no frame of mind
to chip in anything for the heather in
Africa. The first citizen who arrived
on the spot knew what his duty required
of him on such all occasion, and he
smilingly remarked
81 don't believe you can improve on
the old way r'
The second citizen passing was in q
hurry, but he knew that he must halt
and inquire
"Like that any better than coming
down the way the rest of us do -
The third citizen had business at the
Post Office, but he turned aside, cleared
his throat, and remarked:
Evidently fell down stairs Curious
how it sets the blood to circulating
JULIO VI YOU ldAl DtbICG sec II MS nose
is broken-goOd-byeH
There was fourth spectator, and he
slowly entered the doorway, bent over
the victim, and remarked
"Id have given 3 dollar to see him
come down! He's one of the sort who
bump every stair %
The fifth man was about to add his
mite when the victim rose up. His
elbows were skinned, his nose barked,
his coat torn, and his back sand -papered
the whole length, but he was man who
had travelled. He knew that everybody
in the crowd was hoping to see him
jump up and down and shake his fists.
and paw the air, and to hear him de
clare that he would lick all the men who
could be packed in ten acre lot, and
therefore he brought sweet smile to
his face, lifted his hat like perfect gen.
tleman, and limped up stains with the
bland remark:
"Stubbed my toe as 1 came in the
door, you know, and came near falling
in heap" -DetrOit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
The Highest Types.

"You say you demand the noblest
type of womanhood in your wife. If
that is the sort of woman you want,
marry Nora Mulligan, your laundress'
daughter. She wears cowhide shoes,
is guiItless of corsets, never had sick
day in her life, takes in washing, goes
out housekeeping, and cooks for a
family of seven children, her mother
and three section men, who board with
her. I don't think she would marry
you, because Con. Regain, the track
walker, is her style of man. Let us
just examine into your qualifications as
a model husband after your own matri-
monial ideas, my boy. Can you Shout
der barrel of -four and carry it down
to the cellar ? Can you saw and split
ten cords of hickory wood in the fall SO
as to have ready fuel all winter? Can
you spade up half an acre of ground for
a kitchen garden? Do you know what
will take the limey taste out of the new
cistern, and can you patch the little
1Ohh III tL1O hlOOhCh 1OOl Odu you
bring home a pane of glass and wad
of putty to repair the damages in the
sitting-room window? Can you hang
some cheap paper on the kitchen? Can
you fix the front gate SO that it will not
sag? Can you do anything about the
house that Con. Regain can? My dear
boy you see why Nora Mulligan will
have none of you; she wants higher
| type of true manhood. You expect to
hire men to do all mans work about the
house, but you want your wife to do
everything that any woman can do.
Believe me, my dear son, nine .tenths OF
the girls who play the piano and sing
so cbarmingly, whom you in your linn
tied knowledge set down as mere but
terfiies of fashion, are better fitted fol
wives than you are for husband. /
you want to marry a frst-class cook ant
experienced housekeeper, do you
counting in the intelligence Office. Blu
if you want wife, marry the girl yol
love, with dimpled hands and a face lik
the sunlight, and her love will teach he
all these things, my boy, long befor
you have learned one half of your owl
lesson"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
BOARDING rouse Rooms:

How often, for ins lance, does any one
looking for board chance to find room
that has home look about it? Do not
the apartments generally shown look as
if some one had just died there, and
everything had been dismantled in con-
sequence Not bit of drapery to bed
or windows, not bracket or table
cover, not cushion or footstool. The
four walls are there-Often with an ugly
paper on them-with the orthodox bed
stead and bureau and chairs, possibly q
hard lounge, but probably none at all.
What possibilities OF cheerfulness are
there in such o room, if the occupants
have no furniture of their own with
which to brighten 1t
"But we can't afford ornamental
rooms" say the struggling landladies
cit wouldn't pay. We can scarcely make
both ends meet as it Is.
This is lust where they make mis-
take because it would pay 1t would
paw to drape the windows with cheap
hnt tasteful curtains--thOse of white
muslin, Canton flannel, or low priced
vorsted stuffs being particularly ser
viceable for winter-to drape the
maptel with the same, and to
have a table cover that matches or
barmonizes. A lounge improvised
from a packing box. with springs and a
small hu.k mattress over them, could
be covered to suit the draperies. A few
touches of this kind would completely
transform bare, ugly room into some
thing bomelike, and the small outlay
acouired would certainly be returned
tenfold. -HarpeT's.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
Cauoht by q Fish.

As long "a men ''do business in the
great waters" there will be tales to tell
of that Brisreus of the ocean, the crea-
ture with nine hundred and sixty fangs
The Portland Transcript prints an old
fish-dealer's story OF one of these
..tbousand-ingeredd dragons, the spread
Of whose arms were about twenty-five
feet The narrator was with party of
divers who were searching for wreck
near Vancouver Island.
We discovered the old hulk in about
fonr fathoms. In the crew were two
half breeds from Mexico, who could
stav under water, it seemed to me,
about ten minutes, They were pearl
divers from the Panama coast, and
when they went down they carried
heavy stone to sink them, and a rope to
make fast to any thing they could find.
When the Oldest diver shipped over
We could follow him on the bottom
by the air bubbles. His mate held a.
small lifeline that he signalled by.
Tn about four minutes the signal
came. and we hauled away. He came
aboard with Jump, and said that he
had hooked on to 8. cask or box, and
that as soon as he moved it big cloud
of mud or sand arose, as if some big
fish had moved, and, thinking of sharks,
he had come up for his knife.
He seemed somewhat exhausted, and
the other man said he would go down.
Taking sharp knife in his mouth, he
was lowered and was soon out of sight.
After he had been down about five
minutes there came pull on the life
line that near'yf-Syed the skipper over
board. We pulled and pulled, until it
was evident something was wrong, and
we gave way hard bnd by the way it
came, we thought the whole wreck was
afoul.
In half minute we had Pedro's head
out of water. bus the sight of it almost
made us drop hin back into the water.
The poor fellow was almost covered
with what seemed to be mass OF snakes
that were twisted all over him.
The arms and legs of the animal
wr1thed about, some around his neck,
others around his arms and body, while
fastened to his breast was big, bag
like body with pair of eyes like cats
with the same green light you see in
them in the dark.
The skipper and the other diver knew
| that it was devil-fish and sung out for
knives. We couldn't get it on deck, be-
cause three or four of its arms were
slung around the bow cable.
The diver lowered himself, and put
ting his knife in under the animal, he
slit it in two. The skipper in the mean
time was at work in the fore chains,
and he cut off the arms. Then with a
] Jerk we had the man on deck.
| He was half dead, and we had to cut
the octopus from him piece by piece,
and even after il was cut up the two
jaws chung to his chest and had to be
| cut out. 1t tool half an hour to clear
him, as each sacker-apd there were
undreds-brought blood when it was
! torn off.
We filled two barrels with the pieces
that we took from him, and the whole
animal must have weighed two hundred
and fifty pounds and probably more
We put it together afterward on the
deck, and measured from the tip of one
arm to the tip of the opposite one,
| TWENTY-FIVE feet
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
A WOman's Ingenuity.

A Dublin chambermaid is said to have
got twelve commercial travellers into
eleven bedrooms, and yet to have given
each a separate bedroom. Here we
have eleven separate bedrooms:
l123 4I5I6I78I9I 10 II
"Now," says she, ''if two of you will
go into No. bedroom and wait few
minutes, [ IL find spare room for you
as soon as l have shown the others to
their rooms" Well, now, having thus
bestowed two gentlemen in No. l, she
put the third in No. 2, the fourth in
No. 3, the fifth in No. 4, the sixth i'll
No. 5, the seventh in No. 6, the eighth
in No. 7, the ninth in No. s, the tenth
in No. 8, the eleventh in No. 10. She
then came back to No. /, where you
will remember she left the twelfth gen
tleman alone with the first, and said
''I have accommodated all the rest, and
still have room to spare, so if one of
you will please step into No. II you will
find it empty" Thus, the twelfth man
got his bedroom. OF course, there is a
hole in the saucepan somewhere, but
we leave the reader to determine exactly
where the fallacy is, with just warn
ing to think twice, before declaring as
to which, if any, of the travellers was
the "odd man out"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
Still Here.

First boy-"Are you going off to be
pirate this summer"
Second boy-'I dunno"
81 knew you wouldn't. You hain't got
any grit"
81 hain't, Ell? I've got just as much
as you have, but when feller's mother
is willing to buy him goat and pair
of roller-skates and a fish-line, what's
the need of his turning pirate ? You
said you was going to fight Injups, but
you hain't gone"
81 know haint. You don't expect
me to go till l get big enough to sleep
alone, do you?"
"Pooh p
"Pooh p
And they rub along the fence in OPP
posite directions.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
BLIND.

Open my eyes, o Lord of light,
Like him of old who cried to Thee;
"Lord, that may receive my sight !"
From darker depths of agony
1 ask myself to see.
Show me the sin that makes me blind,
The clouds of wrong that hide my sun
The pride that wells me from my kind,
The sloth that leaves Thy work undone,
The race I,have not run.
Wrapped in the mists of self and sin,
Cropping along a devious way,
Am too late Thy wage to win?
To leave the dark and find the day?
Oh, drive my night away
Yet we're such wastes before me spread,
How could my new born vision bear
The blasting sight of woe and dread,
The deserts awful gloom and glare;
Nor curse my granted prayer?
Lord that may receive my sight,
Not all my grievous sin to see,
To pierce the terror of the night,
And into outer darkness flee,
But to look up to Thee
Unveil Thy cross, Thy tender face,
The lips whose anguish cried Forgive
The glory of redeeming grace,
The love that life and light can give.
Lord bid me look and live.
Rose TERRY COOKE.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
MARKET NOTES.

NEW YORK MARKET.
The Wholesale New York market quotations
show:
BEANS Prime So 50COS3 IS; fair TO good
SO. 25d4S3. 40 per bushel.
BUrTER New York sold at 2St027c. for
choice in pals, and 22@24c. common to good.
Western sold at 24@26c.. and the common
western at |, ,c@l9c.
= ohEEsE aceory lancy' lo94c'@Il12c; oe'
lair TO good, oo9c'
EGGs-Quotatlons ranged from 2l75c for OF
binary: TO 25c. Tor New YORK, New Jerses
ana pennsylvania.
FLOUR -Superhne, ID. S50S4 80 western.
II I5G$5;7O extra New York, S475CGS5 %.
HAY shipping, bU(065c.; clover, 4uGd60c.:
salt, 65c.; straw, 35@40c.
HOPS New York, 3l@32c.; Eastern, 200
Pcs; yeariiugs, l4G24c. ODDS, 70l4".
PETROLEUM Refined, 7ltc.; crude, 6A@
&c. in bulk; in barrels, 713c.; naphtha, G, &c
in shipping order, and IL 20 294c. in cases.
Pork New mess. S2L.O0Q 84t.l2]3 dressed
h )Ss, l02sc. @lONc.
WHEAT Spring No. ), Sl.2O@l 43 Mil
waukec, No. ,. @l.36 amber, 5l.32@$l.4 40 !;
white, 81. 32tGSl 81.
RYE State 67fa 5Sc.
WooL-Ohio, PENNSYLVANIA and Virginia.
XAX, 459f C.; NX, 42@45t.; X, 42@ BE; No.
|: 45@7c No. 2, 5og4Jc.; common, 33@35c;
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29

THE MAGYAR.-The Magyar popula-
ton of Hungary, according to the latest
census, is 6, 165, 088. This gives an in
crease in ten years of only 1857. 1t
includes, moreover, over half the $780,
900 Jewish population of the country,
which is we'll known to increase pumer-
ically with rapiditv. Nor has the loss
of emigration been as large proportion
ately as in Germany, which nevertheless
shows large increase in population. 1t
is evident that the Magyar race is losing
ground.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29

A BA1KY HoRsE.-A clergyman once
cured balky horse. He took book
and lunch basket with him, and when
the horse, as usual, made dead stop,
he began reading. When tho animal,
tired of standing, started on the owner
compelled him to wait his pleasure for
a good share of the day. This cured
the baking.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29

HOMEOPATHIC Medicines, as q rule
are not amenable to the chemical tests
and analyses used in testing drugs gen
orally Their reliability therefore de-
ponds solely on the character and repu-
tation as to probity of those preparing
and putting them up. 1t is therefore OF
paramount importance that the public
satisfy themselves that the hom@o-
pathic medicines they buy are obtained
from Il house of recognized standing
and reliability. Boericke & Tafels
Homeopathic Pharmacy is established
since 1885. Send for their descriptive
price current of family and of veteri-
nary medicine cases and books to 14t
Grand Street. New York.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29

Ten HOURS -A ten-hour law has of
late been enforced in the mills of Mas
sachusetts by State inspectors. One of
the ways in which an evasion of the
statute has usually been attempted was
by starting before the regular hours,
and alleging il was necessary, in order
to get the machinery in running order
at the time when work was supposed to
begin. Thus as much as two or three
hours was sometimes added per week
in the legal sixty. The inspectors have
now decided to allow only five minutes
for starting up. and to prosecute those
mill owners who are longer about it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
What a Three-Cent Stamp viii Do.

It will do more than any other piece Of paper
of its size and value in the world. 1t accom-
plishes what would, few years ago, have been
the corner of an envelope or package commands
the use of capaciOus and beautiful buildings
wherein to receive your letters, orders trains OF
cars to carry them, and starts an army of men TO
deliver them. 1t brings information from every
section of the country and tidings of pleasure as
well. But the crowning consideration is the fact
that n three-cent stamp sent to A. NOGELER eco,
Baltimore, Nd, with the applicants name and
address, will procure a copy ST. JACOBS Calen-
better than all, containing specific instructions
for the treatment and cure of rheumatism, neu-
ralgia and all painful diseases by the use of ST.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29

take this opportunity 70 bear testimony to
the ficacy of your Hop Btlers.' Expecting
to fiud them nauseous and bitter aud composed
of bad whisky, we were agreeably surprised at
CressweH and Il Mr.. CUnnOr friends, have
likewise trlld, and pronounce them the best
med cine they have ever taken for building up
strength and toning up the system. was
trouble with costivel ess, headache and want
Of appetite. My ailments are now all gone.
have yearly contract with a doctor to look
after the health Of myself and family. but
need him not now. S. GILLILAND,
July %. 1878. Peoples AdUocdte, Pittsb'g, Pa.
FoRTITUDE is the guard and support of the
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
$4,000 REWARD!

Will be paid for the detection and con-
viction of any person selling or dealing
in any bogus, counterfeit or imitation
HoP BIrrERs, especially Bitters, or
preparations with the word HOP or
HOPS in their name, or connected there
with, that is intended to mislead and
cheat the public, or for any preparation
put in any form pretending to be the
same as HOP BITTERs. The genuine
have cluster of GREEN HOPS (notice
this) printed on the white label, and are
the purest and best medicine on earth,
especially for Kidney, Liver and Ner-
vous Diseases. Beware of all others,
and of all pretended formulas or recipes
of HoP BlTrEes published in papers, or
foe sale, as they are frauds and swim
dies. Whoever deals in any but the
genuine will be prosecuted.
HoP BITTERs MIRO. Co.,
Rochester, N. \.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
A Virginia Boy On the Country.

The following IS Vouched for by the
Richmond CVa. State as genuine COM
position by an eight-year-o boy of that
State:
GOING TO THE COUNTRY,
am going to the country. I like the
country. There is no school there. !
like any place where there is no school.
But there is grass in the country. Grass
is more pleasant than bricks and not
near so hot. Bricks are red and grass
is green. I would rather lay on the
grass under the trees than on hard
bench and say spelling. There are more
boys in town than in the country !
wish all the boys were in the country.
l would rather play with boys than with
ducks and geese, and cows and dogs.
Boys can talk which dogs can't. would
rather play with things that can talk.
There are grapes in the country. 1 like
grapes, better than Arithmetic even. II
| had Mrs. G. to give me- grapes in
stead of sums [ think [ would like her
better. So goodbye.
e. L. P. g years old.)
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29

A COOP Work. The New Haven
Orphan Asylum has aided 165 chiIdre n
in the past year and now has 125 under
it's care. The expenses were $13, 629 !:
receipts. $14,149. The funds amount
to S42. OH
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29

A PRESENT. Indianapolis preach
er has been presented with O pair of
sleeve buttons by a well-known gambler,
because he said in sermon that COM
mon gamblers we're no worse than spec
ulators in stocks.