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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07
The Best Door to Stop Fire.

| A number of experiments have been
made IN this country to test the value of
different materials for doors that may be
exposed to fires, from which it appears
that perhaps the best door yet devised is
one made with wood and covered with
tin. The door is formed with solid planks.
or boards matched and fastened together
| and crossing at a right angle, OF at forty
five degrees. There should not be less
than two thicBnesses in any door, and as
many more should be used as the size of
the opening to be closed demands. This
solid wooden dooris then to be completely
covered on every side with timed sheet
iron, all the joints being soldered as in
making tin roofs.
The timed door is supported by hang
ers moving on an inclined rail or track
over the doorway, so that when free to
move it will close by its own weight
At the door janb opposite the door,
when it is open, should be a wooden
casing covered on every side with tin,
and into which the door will fit tightly
when it closes, by moving on its track,
the inside of the casing being wedge
shaped. The casing on the opposite
side must fit the door closely so as to
leave no cracks at the sides of the door.
To keep the door open small bolt is
placed on the inside of the door -jamb,
the pressure Of the door keeping the
bolt in position
On the under side Of the arch or top
of the door is a wire having a joint or
link in the center, this link being sol
dered with fusible metal that will melt at
one hundred and sixty degrees Fahren-
heit. Just above the bolt that holds the
door open is a weight supported by a
wire connected with the wire holding the
frlsible link This weight moves in
guides and is wedge-shaped below. The
threshold of the door should be of brick
or stone to resist fire, and high enough
to keep out water in case the room is
flooded.
From the reports and experiments it
appears that such door is thoroughly
reliable, the soft metal link parting even
in the heat of q fire in building on the
opposite side of the street, and allowing
the weight to fall, pushing the bolt one
side and permitting the door to close.
Such wooden Uncovered doors and win
dow shutters are reported to stand I'M
harmed through severe trials when iron
doors have failed, melted or warped I'M
der less exposure to fire. The door and
the automatic device for closing it are
officially recommended by some of the
leading fire insurance companies of this
country.-FG FGTen1an'a Journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07
Fastest Two Miles Ever TrOtted.

The T}af, Field and Farm says ::
''Two years ago the brown mare Manet-
ia, hooked double to road wagon with
the running horse Longman, brother in
blood to the great Longfellow, trotted
two miles on Mr.. Bonner's three-quarter
track in 4:35-the first mile IN 2:20, and
the second in 2:15. On Saturday, Nov,
II, hooked to the same wagon, which
weighs 155 pounds and has q high dash
board to oppose the wind, she trotted,
with Longman as running mate and John
Murphy driving, two miles in the extra
ordinary time of 4:27l-the first mile in
2:143, and the second in 2:123. The
mare did not wear breeching, and there
fore, outside of his taking the major part
of the weight, she received no assistance
from Longman.
The track was a trife dull and slip
perry. As the two miles are the fastest
ever trotted we give the fractional time
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07
THE GIBRALTAR DIFFICULTY.
The Dispute Between England and Spain
and what Caused 1t.


The fuller details of the dispute be.
tween England and Spain, over the
Cuban refugees which have arrived,
make it plain that it has tolerably seri-
GUS side. The refugees are General
>NIaceo and two others, who figured
prominently in the Cuban insurrection,
and have since their surrender been con-
fined at Ceuta, q Spanish convict station
on the African coast. They recently
made their escape to Gibraltar by way Of
Tangiers, and as soon as they disap-
peared. the Spanish Minister gave notice
to the British authorities that ''three
conyicts" had escaped, and asked that if
they turned up at Gibraltar they should
be detained.
Orders to that effect were accordingly
given to the English police, without a
suspicion that the IuuawGys were really
political prisoners. When they landed
at Gibraltar they were arrested and car
ried before a police, magistrate, who, ap-
parently, had misunderstood his in
structions, for he forthwith, without any
inquiry, sent them across the lines and
delivered them to Spanish gendarmes.
Now, it appears that there is an ex-
tradition treaty between England and
Spain very recently concluded, but it of
course does not provide for the surrender
of political criminals, or for the surrender
of any criminals except after inquiry
before magistrate to establish the fugi-
tiyes. identity, and to show that the Of
fenses charged are within the purview of
the treaty. No such formality, OF in
deed any formality, was observed in the
present case.
The magistrate failed in his duty, and
the Spanish Government got the men,
if not under false pretences, by conceal
ing material fact. Under these circum-
stances the British Government have
naturally asked for their return, and the
Spanish Government, after full delibera-
ton, have refused it. In other words,
they have announced their intention to
take advantage Of the mistake.
The English papers produce a prece-
dent in the case which offers the Span
iards a convenient escape from false
position. The italian authorities, when
the late French Empire was in the height
of its splendor, took a number of
brigands out of a French vessel, which,
though not a war vessel, carried the I'M
perial flag when lying in the harbor of
Genoa.
The French captain gave them up be-
cause he thought he would not be legally
justified in keeping them, but his Gov
ernment insisted on their restoration to
French custody, and the Italians restored
them accordingly. An investigation
then took place; the men were found to
be, prima facie brigands, and duly sur
rendered under the Extradition Treaty.
The Spanish Government, if the Gu
bans were really covered by the treaty,
of course need have no hesitation in
sending them back TO Gibraltar. as they
would be sure to get them back again.
1t is because they know that they could
not obtain them under the treaty that
they now hold on to them, at the expense
of their reputation.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07

saw. We knew this thing wouldn't last
and so that night we told ma all about
the house of ''Jones & Co., +" and ma kissed
pa, and said he was a noble fellow, and
'just as good as gold," and that she
''never was so proud of him in all her
life, " and fell to kissing him and crying
and taking on. I never saw ma act so
foolish in all her Life, and pa said she was
'making love to him over again"
Well. now the story is about over.
Ma came down to the store to help. At
first she looked kinder sheepish, especi-
ally when some lady came in she had
known at the Lick House; but she soon
got over all that and began to make bon
nets, and we had a millinery store, and
separate house and we moved to larger
store next door, with nice rooms fixed to
live in and a nice show-window for bon
nets; and little Maudie is beginning to
be handy about, and all of us work, and
we are just as happy as the days are long
and have plenty of money.
I have never seen Mr.. Flood but once
since, when went down to the bank I'M
belnown to pa, and told Mr.. Flood and
Mr. McLane that any time they wanted
to borrow a thousand dollars, "Jones &
Co. :" would lend it to them; and they
laughed and said: Couldn't tell-stocks
might go down." And then Mr.. Flood
said eff all the people he had given
and loaned money to would pay it back
as [ had, he didn't think he would get
busted in long time"
And then [ saw the clerk that laughed
at me, and I smiled at him and bowed
and since then he has been buying all his
gloves at the store. I told him I thought
he used a great many pairs of gloves, and
he said they wore out very fast, counting
money. He is dreadful particular about
the gloves, and if there is nobody in the
store but me, he is sometimes half an
hour picking out just the kind he wants.
Pa has bought splendid gold watch
a real stem-winder and we-"Jones &
Co. have bought nice large lot out on
Governor Stanford's new cable railroad,
and paid for it and if the times are
good this summer, as pa thinks they
will be, we shall have a house of our
own again.-ISan francisco CaA.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07
Uneasy Soldiers.

The guardsmen returned from Egypt
who now walk the streets of London
have a wild look about the eyes and a
marked unquiet about the brow. The
trace of severe privation is left in their
dried and shrunken forms, but the trace
of mental anguish is visible enough in
the disturbed glances they cast around.
The same expression was noticeable in
the faces of the men returned from Zulu
land. and the officers of our army will tell
YOU that the men who have served in the
frontier war against the Indians never re-
covered the happy, careless look they
had worn at the commencement OF a
campaign. cone single echo of the war
whoop by night will rob man OF twenty
wears of his life, and he may bid farewell
to his youth forever after, - said Gen.
Custer Just before entering on his cam
paion on the Rosebud River.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07
LITTLE SIMPLICITY.

Golden her tresses, and blue were her eyes,
Beaming with innocence, loving and baby-hke,
Cheeks like a cherry's which never disguise
Modesty blushes-w whatevermay they be like
Peeping from nnder her bonnet of straw,
Trimmed in the fashion of simple rusticity,
These, when we met, were the features I saw,
Features belonging to Little Simplicity.
Dressed in faded and old-fashioned gown,
She, with her prattle so sweet, eaptivated me
Gladly forgetting the bellies of the town,
Love in a cottage fancied awaited me;
Signing no longer for fortune and fame,
Life seemed to dance with renewed elasticity
Out in the meadows whispered, ''Be mine !"
"What is your income? p asked Little Sim
plicity.
Oh disenchantment, to ask what earned,
l, who had been such a dutiful slave to her,
Vainly begged she would then see returned
All the odd presents Cunpaid for) I gave to her.
This small adventure was ten years ago,
Still am verging on genteel mendicity,
Five little pledges of love I can show
Wonder bow many has Little Simplicity
HORACE LENNARD.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07
How Mines Are Worked.

The Laramie boomerang says: 81
wish you would tell me about how men get
gold and silver out Of a mine, nay dear, -
said a lady in East Laramie the other
evening to her husband, as he peeled
off his coat and sat down in three chairs
for the evening.
FWell, what kind of a mine do you
wish to hear about-gold or silver, quartz
OF placer, deposit OF refined lead?"
"Well all of them briefly. I want to
know whether they scrape off the gold
from the under side Of the ground and
wash the dirt off in the creek, or how
is it?"
Well, they don't scrape off the under
side of the ground exactly. There you
are in error. In placer mining they
have to collect the dust and pan it out
with a gold-pan."
cob! they have to use a gold pan, do
they? That must be what makes mining
so expensive. Does the pan have to be
solid gold?"
"No, it isn't made of gold it is simply
to pan gold, hence the name. In quartz
mining the prospector finds first the float,
and, tracing it to the head, he begins to
dig for the purpose of ascertaining how
extensive it is, and what it will assay"
''Oh, that is it. I thought they first
bored into the ground with pay streak
until they found the shaft, and then they
drifted for the assessment, and when
they found that, they just put blast in
the indications and salted the dump
Now, it seems that you don't do that
way. You follow up the micacious salt
till you strike the bias fold. Then you
see if you can find color that matches
with the copper-stained tribolites that
you can prospect, and you"
''No, must stop you there; you are
getting a little off the vein. You proba-
bly, have the right idea, but you are
using terms that are not correct. After
they get the wall of the rock on the
dump and pitch out the night shift, they
salt and contract and blast the vertical
chilblain. Then they drift for the bios
som rock, baled hay and poverty till they
strike the va1icose vein. After that it is
a short Job to put on the bias folds and
sample the stockholders. Where the
bituminous duplex bisects the brocaded
porphyry and scallops the gauge with
cross-eyed shirrings and bi-carbonate of
bilious collie interlaced with moire
antique wads of gray copper and free
milling erysipelas.
"It is not always the case, however,
for indirectly or inversely, perhaps more,
or sometimes less, as the case may be,
and still we might or might not, and also
besides, if not always, as already des-
cribed, perhaps, yet L wouldn't be posi-
tive of anything that might be doubtful.
Then he laughed cold, hard laugh,
and went to bed. If husbands would
always explain these things to their
wives, how much pleasanter our homes
would be.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07
Wanted an Understanding.

An Illinois merchant who was taking
baking-powder in the bulk from a New
York manufacturer called at the head
quarters the other day to say there was
something the matter with the goods.
"I don't think so, " was the reply !;
sewe make the best article sold
II think we ought to have more per-
feet understanding, continued the dealer.
"Now, then, you adulterate before
YOU send to me; then [ adulterate before
I ship: then the retailer adulterates
before he sells, and the consumer can't
be blamed for growing. Iwant to see
if we can't agree upon some schedule to
be followed. .
"What do you mea1l r
"Why, suppose you put in ten per
cent. of chalk then put in twenty per
cent Of whiting; then the retailer puts in
thirty per cent of flour. That gives the
consumer about forty per cent. OF baking
powder, and unless he's born hog he'll
be perfectly satisfied. You see, If you
adulterate fifty per cent. on the start, and
| adulterate as much more, and the re-
taller adulterates as much more as
both together, it's mighty hard for the
consumer to tell whether he's investing
in baling-powder or putty. We must
give him something forhis money, II It's
only chalk"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07
Car COupIers.

According to the Official Gazette of
the United States Patent Office there
were issued in the six months ending
June 80, 1882, no less than 161 patents
for car couplers for railroad use, and in
the batch of patents announced as al
lowed on the 7th of November-the crop
of one week-there were twenty-five
more car couplers, and it wasn't par
ticularly good week for car couplers
either. To the observer of these Patent
Office reports the multifariousness of car
couplers becomes cause of hideous fas-
cination and ever-increasing wonder.
How so many ways of attaching two OBJ
iects together can be contrived will prob
ably never be known to anybody but the
Patent Commissioners. Perhaps, if the
truth were known, there are a thousand
OF more car coupler patents, all exactly
alike. and when the 1,001st comes in,
lust like all the others, the maddened
Commissioners shut their eyes and sigh,
allowed, on general principles.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07
A Beecher Fish Story.

Mr.. Beecher told a pretty hard ''ish
story" to his people at the Plymouth
PRAYER meeting Friday evening. He
said that whenever his father went down
to Guilford. Conn, to visit his wife's rela-
+ives he used to think of nothing but
finding a good place to catch trout. In
q certain pool there was particularly
large trout. and for several years the old
gentleman tried to hook him. Finally,
during one of his annual visits he saw the
old trout's fin sticking out Of the water
in shady spot under the bank. The
reverend angler bethought him that he
had heard or read that fish could be
tickled and captured with the hand. He
softly slipped a hand into the water under
the motionless fish and slightly tickled
its belly with his finger tips. 1t shot a
little distance off, but returned almost
Immediately, and Pere Beecher moved
his hand lightly along its scales until ap-
preaching the gills he slipped his fore
finger in and jerked the surprised trout
high and dry upon the bank. The fish
weighed three pounds.
MI. Beecher told his story with such
dramatic force and so cleverly initiated
the old gentleman peering into the poo
and reaching his arm down into the
water, that when he pulled it up rustic
of excitement was noticeable in the meet
ing. Mr.. Beecher's unconscious mimi
cry in another part of his discourse LED
him to make a pose and grimace which
would have delighted one of his carica
turists. He said his Friday night con
gregation was like brood of calloN
robins sitting in a nest with eyes shut
and mouths open waiting for him to droI
in q worm. Mr.. Beecher shut his owl
ewes. opened his mouth to the fullest ano
sat for moment with face upturned
looking as much like young robin al
was possible for gentleman of his ag'
and fI11l habit
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07

The first quarter of the second mile, it
will be observed, was trotted in 0:3444,
the second quarter in O:334, the third
quarter in O:32, and the fourth quarter
n 324. The last half-mile was done in
:O4f The pace increased as the dis
tance heightened.
Manetta is 10 years old, and by Wood
ford Mambrino, out of Malmaison, by
Alexander's Abdallah, sire of Goldsmith
Maid. She has trotted a mile to srllky
in 0.169
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07

THF FARMER AND THE FRIsKY FROGS.
"A Connecticut editor published the
statement that GA frog fell into pail o
milk in Connecticut town one night
recently, and in the morning was found
sitting upon roll of fresh butter which
he had ch6rned by kicking with his
legs" A farmer read the notice and put
in the half of a day catching dozen
frogs. He was going to save the work
of churning, and at night he put the
frogs in pals of milk and in the morning
had the pleasure of finding his milk
spoiled by the presence of a dead frog
nj each pail. The editor has lost q sub
scriber and considerable hide since then.
Boston Post.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07

A NOVELTY Baked ice is a Partisan
novelty, introduced first by the chef of
the Chinese embassy. He gives for it
the following recipe: Make your ice
very fine; roll out some light paste thin
and cut into small squares; place q spoon
full of ice in the centre of each piece of
paste and fold it up closely, so that no
air may get in, and bake in quick oven.
The paste will be cooked before the ice
can melt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07
The Wolf and the Goose.

A Goose who was prowling through the
forest one day in search of prey, observed
a Wolf sitting on the limb of tree and
called out:
Good morning, my dear. You are
looking unusually well this morning" "
"That's all taffy, replied the Wolf.
"'Pon honor, but I'd give a thousand
dollars to have your complexion. "
"Would you?"
ssIndeed I would And such eyes as
you have got Yum yum p
"Do you really think SOP grinned the
pleased Wolf.
"You bet Why, if [ had your form
I'd go on the stage and make my for
tune"
The Wolf put his finger in his mouth
and looked silly and felt hattered, and
the Goose licked her chops and con-
tinued:
"Please come down and let me take
the pattern of your coat-tails. Such a
graceful set [ never saw in my travels.
The Wolf came down with hs ears
working with delight, and had only
reached the earth when the Goose sprang
mon him and chewed him into dish
cloths.
MORAL:
Beware of the Goose.-DetrO3 Free
Press
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A Cheer for the Turkey.

90 Give us fowl y the housewives said,
The market-stals a-storming,
While the hungry looks of the crowd unfed
Showed similar wishes forming.
They talked Of birds, but not of beef,
Forgot was weather murky;
Each housewife had her own belief,
But all said ''Turkey! Turkey p
It may perchance be a stalwart rooster ;
not unlikely it is a well-conditioned
puIlet; possibly it is fatted duck !; but
in score of cases out of twenty it is a
proud, pugnacious gobbler or some of
his near relations who has
Gone to the oven, but we will not deplore him,
Though oysters and stuffing have cost us some
cash;
The cook with her big pan has gone in before
him
A guide to the stove and an earnest of hash.
The Thanksgiving turkey is one of those
institutions which are indissolubly linked
with the grandest traditions of this
young country. Whether there would be
any Thanksgiving Day if there were no
thanksgiving turkeys is problem which
the nearest debating society is respect
fully urged to undertake the solution of.
Tt is very fitting, however, that the tur-
keys and the day should come together.
Not only is it very fitting, but it is very
filing.
Speaking in a general way, the turkey
is a fowl which the people ought to fee
proud of. The average man, if he he'd
his choice between opulence and fame
would select roast turkey with cranberry
sauce accompaniment, played slowly
Toronto Mail
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07

In the high school at Dedham,
Mass the experiment is being made of
using daily newspapers instead of text
hooks in the reading class. This is right
Our children will now know what horse
has the fastest record. - Chicago Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07

A Law QUEsTIoN-A traveller on an
Indiana railroad stepped off a car
while it was on a drawbridge, and
was killed by falling through. His
widow sued an accidental insurance
company, from which he had procured
a policy. The Court holds that the
insurers are not liable, because the pol
icy stipulated that the insured should
not voluntarily expose himself to dangers,
and that he had no excuse for stepping
from the car at the time he did. The
policy is therefore yalueless.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-07

LIVES OF HORSES. If not worked
young and not abused, well-bred horses
will live long. A horse belonging to j.
L. Garrison, of Greene County, Penn
sylvania died last spring at 80, from an
accident, or it probably would have lived
some years longer.