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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28

ANNoYED.-A widow living in Brook
lyn, N. Y, has been much annoyed re-
Gently by delivery at the house of a
number of articles which she had not
ordered, and she is unable to determine
the source of annoyance. In one day
twenty -four ice cream wagon drivers
called to leave cream as her house, two
insurance agents called, keg of beer
was sent, an expressma1 halted at the
door, driver of a beer wagon called
with bottled beer, carpet cleaner came
for carpets, and several tons of coal
made their appearance. A man called
with forged order for clothing from
the Society for Improving the C)nd-
tion OF the Poor, and other PERSONS
called.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28
What She Would Do.
They were sitting on log near Rock

They were sitting on log near Rock
spring.
"And you love me p he said.
"Can you ask it ?" she answered.
"I like to hear you say the sweet
words over and over again, he gurgIed.
"Then I do love you and love you, "
she twittered.
"Don't say it, dear heart, don't say it. "
"And what will my darling do when
am far away? What will she do IN
these lonely evening hours without me? p
"Ahem p said an old bachelor, get
ting up from the dark end of the log,
and starting off to the hotel. ON tell
you what she'll do in those lonely hours
without you; she'll be sitting right out
here on this same log with another fell
low, making as big fool of him as you
are" Then he went out into the dark
ness.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28
Insane Drunkards.

At the meeting of the Social Science
Convention in Saratoga, Professor Way
land said that the subject of chronic in
ebriates and insane drunkards was one
of the most important ever brought b-e
fore the association. He said that if
the statistics of the number of drunk
ards between the ages of fifteen and
eighteen could be secured the result
would be alarming. A police justice of
New Haven had told him he had an
average of one such drunkard before
him weekly. he thought confirmed
drunkard forfeits his right to go at
large. Places should be provided where
they can be kept confined until they
are cured, even if they are kept there
for life. If q drunkard is beyond the
period of special treatment he forfeits
his rights to be at large.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28
Prussia.

The Prussian Gov ernment, alarmed
at the continued tide of emigration, has
been seriously contemplating what
means to adopt for checking the steady
dram upon the population and resources
of the country; and it is now proposed
to take the ground that parsons who
intend to emigrate must first prove
that, in doing so. they will not violate
any contract obligation, public or pri-
vate, express or implied, like those that
may be construed to exist toward muni-
cipal and village communities, families
and employers. Wherever il, is possible
TO infer the existence of such obligs-
tions, the official authorities will doubt
less be ingenious in spelling them out,
and measures will be taken to prevent
emigration in such cases.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28
+" FOoling Gineral Sherman.n

About six miles out of Savannah, I
came across farmer who accepted a
plug of tobacco and was ready to sit
down on log and answer all questions.
When asked him about Sherman's ap-
proach, he burst into loud laugh and
slapped bis leg, aud was so tickled that
he did not calm down for two minutes.
EXCUSE me, stranger" he finally said,
"but whenever L think of how fooled
Glner&l Sherman it tickles me all over"
Did you fool him?"
"Wall, rather reckon"
"How?"
Wall, you see, that's my place up
thar on the rise. When the war broke
out was the most cantankerous rebel
you ever saw. I swore I'd fight and
fout and fit till we licked the Yanks, if it
took hundred years. I reckon G1neral
Sherman heard OF it."
Probably he did,"
"And after he took Atlanta he made
up his mind to gobble me. He knew I'd
swore to die before I'd surrender, and
he come along down from Atlanta with
over 10000 men to surround me.
Mighty cute old man, that Gineral Sher.
man T.
eyes"
"Wall, they got here one night about
10 o'clock. I reckon that nigh on to
10000 of them surrounded my house up
thar and called fur me to come out and
surrender and end the war;"
"And of course you did ?''
"And of course L didn't That's
whar' the fun comes in. WASN'T home
at all, but was down in Virginy with
Lee. They entered the house and
sarched and sarched, and went to the
barn and called and called, and when
the old woman finally told 'em I wasn't
home they was the maddest crowd you
ever sot eyes on. They had hoofed it
all the way from Atlanta to get their
paws on me, and had had their long
march for nothing! I expect Sherman
was ready to bust with madness, ard 1
reckon he won't never quite forgive me.
1t tlckles the old woman wuss than it
tickles me, and you'd better come up to
the house and hear her tell what them
O,0OO Yankees said when they got here
and found me gone. IN. QUAD.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28

AFTER MANY YEARs.-When John
Saunders went from Kentucky to the
West some forty years ago, he swore
that his betrothed, whom he left be-
hind, should not see him until he be-
came millionaire. A few days since
he balanced up his affairs in Montana,
and finding himself possessed of the
desired million, returned to Kentucky,
locked up his old sweetheart, and the
twain were made one. He is 6S, she
10 "a
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28
GREETING.

Believing that the COun-
ty Of LamOille 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 flattering that
we have again personally
visited the manufactures
of some of the largest and
best makers, and selected
another complete stock,
consisting i'm part of
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28

SHE said she wanted ticket to
Wyandotte and return, and the pale,
gentlemanly agent, with the dark
mustache, asked as he took up the
pasteboards Single ?" " 1t amt
any of your business, as I know" she
responded tartly. 'I might have been
married dozen times If I'd felt like
providin' for some poor, shiftless wreck
of e man - He doesn't ask ladies if
they want "single" tickets any more.
He's afraid to Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28

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
u
and guarantee.
First----That the price
asked for it is as low a.
the same, or as good a
Stove, can be bought for i'm
Vermont, and the buyer
may have another 30 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.
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
Other Particular. or
at the end of 60 days we
will take it back and re-
fund the purchase money.
Sixth and Finally
We guarantee that |
there shall be no un:
p1easantnesS or d1ssat-
isfaction, if after full |
and thorough trial you
not to keep the
Stove; we shall not ex-
pect to please every
body, and if you con-
clude YOU dom want to
buy, we shall keep en-
tirely good natured.
We only ask that you
give us a chance to trv
to please you, if you
already a stove
that does 80. We think
we can do it.
Ceo.P. Hardy & Co.,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28

DIFFERENCE is the most complicated,
the most indirect and the most elegant
of all compliments. .-Shenstone.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28

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 imperfectfOn report
ed within a 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, ~
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.-George
Sand.
, 1882-09-27

place, though we have not even yet
heard of its arrival. Why then did
not Sir Garnet WoIseley wait quiet
ly at Alexandria till his piers and his
packages, and his mules from Anne
RIGA, Spain, India, and the Cape of
Good Hope, were all assembled in
the nelghbourhood of that port?
Again because the march of events
was too quick for the preparations.
M. de Lesseps proved an excellent
friend to us by soothing Arab as
long as he did, but there were obvi-
Gus signs that unless the seizure of
IsmaiIia was effected at once the
Canal might be blocked and the
descent of our forces, when they
were ready, become extremely diff
cult. Since then every man of the
expedition has been oYerworked, and
the enemy has been embroidered TO
take the offensive simply because we
had to occupy 1smailia before we
we were ready to push forward
against the Egyptian army. Com
pare the difficulties of Sir Garnet
and his troops and the necessary de-
lay which has taken place with the
action of Continental armies for their
wars and under their own clrcumstan-
ces. In q fortnight after the declara-
ton Of war by France, Germany
was entering that country with her
whole army. In a month after the
declaration of war with Turkey,
Russia had marched 25O, 900 men
through ROumania and crossed the
Danube, and in another fortnight
was over the Balkans. In less than
two months Prussia completely
crushed Austria in 1866. While,
therefore, we recognize with full sa-
tisfaction thatthe present G Government
have done more than any of their
predecessors towards preparing the
English army for the kind of cam
paign IN which it is likely to be in
volved, it would be vain and foolish
to hide from ourselves the weakness
and delays which have become APP
parent, and are due to the system, or
want of system, in the peace pre-
parations in this country.
, 1882-09-27

lOfu y f0uCS. udt VIII 10 DIS IL may
be. But we cannot quite understand
why Mr.. Parnell is SO very anxious
to show that land in Ireland ought to
be worth little or nothing to any n
who does not farm it himself, A
man who buys a bad Investment by
mistake for a good one, must bear
the consequences and this, no doubt
is the case with many owners of land
in Ireland. But why there should
be any special iniquity attached to
owning land which you do not cult
vate and do get a rent for, any more
than to owning Consols with the
investment of which as capital you
have had nothing to do, and yet Of
which you draw the interest without
any scruple, we cannot, for the life of
us, understand. We suppose it is
only policy which makes Mr.. Parnell
speak of landlords as persons who
ought to have their income taken
from them, so long as there is anybody
else connected with the land who
wants it. BUTT is not a mode of talk
ing that can approve itself to him rs a
man of business and intelligence. If
[ spend $1,000 judiciousIy in Irish
land, l have just as much right to ex-
pect a reasonable interest for it, as l
have if | spend the same sum in Bank
of-Ireland shares. But no one who
hears Mr., ParneIl speak of the Irish
landlords would ever guess as much.
The welcome news has come this
week that Mr.. Benjamin Leigh Smith,
of tie Ezra exploring expedition,
with his crew, numbering twenty-five
in all, were landed safely at Peter
head last Saturday, by the steam
whaIe-ship Hope sent out to look
for him by the Ezra Relief Commit
tee, under the command of Sir Allen
Young, C.B. They were picked up
at Matotchkin Straits, Nova Zembla,
on August 3rd. 1t appears that the
Ezra got as far as Franz Josef
Land, where she was nipped by the
ice a mile east Of Cape Flora, on
August 21st in last year. The men
had to build a hut on Cape Flora,
and there wintered, amidst great
hardships, having saved very little
food, and hardly any wood. How
ever, they lived in great measure on
bear meat and walrus, and they were
never attacked by scurvy. On juno
21st Of this year they set out in their
boats, which had been saved, for Nova
Zembla, sailing eighty miles in clear
water, after which they had six weeks
of incredibly hard work in the ice,
and then reached open water again,
whence they made a straight course
for Nova Zembla, where they encoun-
tered the Hope almost Immediately.
Mr.. Benjamin Leigh Smith has been
both brave and lucky, and we trust
he may be satisfied, and won't do it
again. The scientific results of the
expedition, partly owing to the loss
of the Ezra, are nil.
DR.. Siemens delivered the inaugu-
raj address to the British Association
on Wednesday, of Southonnton Ho
, 1882-09-27

Delng WORM LII OIoLn0n .
showed that the "waste products :"
are worth as much as is given in til o
following table =
Colouring Matter for Dyes 49,. 1880 900
Manure Isulphate of ammonial 1,947 900
Pitch 1926, 900 tons ..-- 49, 365 900
Creosote (25,OOO,OOO g%allons) 208,OO0
g%alions) ~. -. 100000
Gas Coke, at 12s. a ton a, 900, 900
tons, after allowing 100000
tons for working the r~etorts) 2,4OO,O 900
E. $4,000
So that the waste products are more
valuable than the coal itself by near
ly 93, 900, 900, 1t is obvious that
when a little chemical discovery
makes the art of discovery SO valua-
BILE as this table Shows, chemistry
will be spurred on to rapid strides.
DR.. Siemens showed that there are
many "waste products" which, in
stead of being turned to profit, are
turned to very positive loss. Thus
he estimated the weight of the SCOT
in the pail hanging over London on
a winters day-might he not have
said on many a summers day, too
at fifty tons, and the poisonous car-
bonic oxide III the air at five times
that amount. Here are waste pro-
ducts which we use to waste art with
for nothing destroys our public
monuments more effectualIy = to
waste life with, to waste sight with,
to waste cheerfulness with, almost all
of which, by a little care and address
might be turned to useful purposes.
DR.. Siemens believed that by using
gas as the heating power, iostead of
coal,-and he believed that gas Civ
inc out much more heat than that
used for lighting purposes might be
provided, with nothing but good effect
on the gas used for light,-a great
deal Of this deadly waste might be
avoided, and a great economy effect
ed as we'll. He believed the time to
be near when raw coal would be seen
only at the gas works.
DR.. Siemens had also an interesting
word to say on the construction of
vessels. lie believed that by the
use of "miId STEEL" a material much
liohter than IRON, and, therefore, al
lowing Of a much larger freight, the
dangers Of collision would be greatly
reduced. Vessels of this material
often weld or bulge for several feet
without any leakage or rupture, so
that the worst danger of collision
would be to a great extent avoided.
The analogies in nature to the ele-
ments of human character are often
very curious. You might say, for
instance, that while Bismarck is q
mar of iron, Mr.. Gladstone's politi-
cal temper is made Of "mild STEEL"
1t will yield or bulge without fracture.
In a paper by Professor Schwedof, on
uThe Origin of Hail." read before the
British Association on Monday, evidence
was produced-we are not told exactly
what-of a Maidstone Fas large as an
elephant.n which took three days to melt.
Oddly enough, the Professor advocated
the theory that hailStOnes are not formed
in the atmosphere, but are of ex-terrestrial
origin. are. indeed, meteors Of cosmic
, 1882-09-27
IA / sCeIlameOUs
From the Spectator 0f26 AWguSt)

The spirit of discomfort among the Irish
COnstabulary, which has been manifesting
itself in little OutburSts of various kinds
for some weeks past, cam to q head last
week, on the order for the removal of six
limerick c~Onstables to the NOrth,-this
order being assumed by the force general
Iy to be the reprisal Of the authorities for
the part taken by these six men in agitat-
ing for better pay. Colonel Bruce was,
however, permitted by the Lord Lieute.
nant to explain to the COnstabulary that
the six men ordered to the North were
removed, not for the part they had taken
in the agitation, but for refusing to occupy
the same quarters with some soldiers with
whom they were billeted and on this ex.
PLANTATION, q good deal of the irritation
seems to have subsidized, five out of the six
insubordinate Limerick officers having
been dismissed, n the sixth returned to
his duty. The discomfort, though par.
TALLY allayed, has, however, by no means
subsidized, and there is too much reason to
fear that the reasonable address to the
Constabulary circulated in Ireland in the
middle of the week, which eXhorts them
to be ready for q revolution, has not been
issued without knowing that by some of
the force at all events, an appeal of this
kind would be listened to in no mood of
displeasure. The police force in Ireland
has long been badly managed, and, as we
explain in another column sadly needs q
t~horough.going reorganization.
MI. Parnell has established a La
bour League, the object of which is to
be to. win for the Trishlabourers advan-
tages proportionate to those gained for
the Irish farmers. The iabourer is to
have bis plot of ground and his decent
cottage, And all this, if we under
stand Mr.. Parnelps programme right
, 1882-09-27

Dr. Siemens delivered the inaugu-
raj address to the British Association
on Wednesday at Southampton. He
took for his main subject the effect
of the search for practical applica-
tons of science in widening the sphere
of knowledge itself, showing, for in
stance, that the search for new dyes
had immensely advanced the chemis-
try OF the subject, by rendering it
necessary to study scientifically such
waste products as coal-tar. DR.. Sic
lei showed that, previous to 1856,
the value of coal-tar in London was
hardly a halfpenny a gallon, while
in country places gas-makers were
glad to give it away. Taking the
coal used in the manufacture of gas
, 1882-09-27

at 5000, 900 tons at Us. a ton, or as
being worth 95,40O, 600, DR.. Siemen $
showed that the "waste products :"
are worth as much as is given in tn Q
following table =
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-04-29
How Great NIcn are Made.

genealOgist has hunted up the family
record of LOngfellow, and found that his
Yorkshire English and New England an
cestOrs were what Mr.. Lincoln called
plain people," His Yorkshire prOgeni-
tors were labOrers and uneducated. No
ray of genius illumined their lives. But
they were strong, hardy and healthy, and
of powerful reproductive qualities. At
length LOngfellOw came into the world
the product of moral men and women
both in England and New England,
and enherited the sterling
manhood, prObity and brightest mental
ity of all combined. This hereditary
transmission eliminated in one man
after centuries. ami makes the family
name immortal. Thus it requires many
generations to produce a single great
man, and hence there have been, and are,
and must necessarily be few in the world
at any one period in his history.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-04-29
Tourist who Infest Egypt.

The Builder, quoting correspondent
OF the Debats, censures the conduct of
certain tourists who infest Egypt. They
increase in numbers every year; reports
of revolution, characterization in the
army, and cholera are pOwerless to him
der them; and those easy means of COM
municatiOn, the steamers that now run
frequently up and down the Nile, bring
In larger numbers than ever the strang-
ers to see the ruins. Their presence,
however. is, we are sorry to hear, deeply
regretted by the genuine Archaeological.
In 30 years that Egypt has been thus
visited, more harm has been done to its
old buildings than in the centuries of so
much abused neglect which have passed
over the country. The destruction
caused by the tourists Is really serious;
piece by peice the inscriptions and the
wall paintings have been been Clipped
away to supply mementOs.' M. Charmes
describes how, on visiting few days
previously the Valley of the Kings, he
found most barbarOusly mutilated the
famous tomb of Seti l., which was dis
covered by Belzoni; the alabaster sar-
cOphagus is, it will be remembered, at
present in sir John SOane's museum.
When BelOnzi and ChampOlliOn entered
the tomb it was intact; not word of the
inscribed text was wanting; the wall
paintings were as fresh in color as if
painted the day before; now the tomb is
nearly ruin, and in few years the de-
structiOn will be complete"
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-04-29
A Platform That May Confidently BE
Expected one OfThcse Days.

From the New York Tribune.
1t is understood that at special meet
ing of the Democratic national commit
tee shortly to be held in the sand lots at
San Francisco the following resolutions
will be unanimously adopted mid raptur-
Gus applause: a rs
Resolved, That if the Democratic par
ty is to stay the Chinaman must 90.
Resolved, That when we have asserted
iu our platforms, as we have so frequent
ly, that we welcomed all men of all
cIimes to Americas great opportunities
we did not mean all. We always made
distinct mental reservation i'm favor of
any foreigners whose exclusion from
our shores might furnish us with more
or less party capital.
Resolved, That believing we can make
votes by setting our faces like flint
against the Chinese, we accordingly set
our faces like flint against them.
Resolved, That in taking this position
we are not treating the Chinese any
worse than we treated the black men OF
our beloved country before 1860.
Resolved, That If we could by so doing
be sure Of electing our ticket in 1884, we
would advocate the erection of picket
fence 40 feet high around Ireland, with
a sentinel perched on every picket to
shoot down any and all natives who at
tempted to break through and emigrate.
Resolved. That that is the sort Of party
that we are-Our abstract beliefs do not
at all affect our actiOns; our convictions
are one thing, and We have pleanty of
them, but we never allow our cOnvic.
tions to interfere with practical pipe
laying.
Resolved, That in Denis Kearney we
recognize statesman Of the antique
mould, and that we will lead where he
will follow or follow where he will lead
In a campaign against the Chinaman.
Resolved, that a copy of these resolu-
tiOns be circulated on the Pacific coast,
coupled with an earnest request that
those who read them will vote early and
often for the Democratic ticket ing 1884.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-04-29

ONE part of Hindoo oath is taken
while the deponent holds the tail of a
cow. The attempt to substitute the
mule failed. as the depOnent, on grasp
ing the tale of the offended animal, rare
ly lived to complete the oath.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-04-29

VANDERBILT, wanting as good place
to live in when he Is dead as when he is
alive, will build a 100000 mausOlum on
Staten Island, near the Moravian church,
the structure to be 60 feet high, and to
cover IL acres of ground.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-04-29

The nobility of st. Petersburg and
Moscow have offered to see the Gar safe
ly through his coronation, and he has
accepted their good Offices.