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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
The Sponge.

The living sponge, when first taken
from the waters of the Bahamas. differs
almost as much from the commercial
article as a human body from its own
skeleton-for practically what reaches
the market is partly the skeleton, partly
the dwelling Of a bunch of sea organisms.
When FIRST pulled from tb- ~ooks whore
il grows the sponge looks like Il CORFU
gated mass OF putty. 1t is drab IN color,
exceedingly heavy, has a sickennG odor,
and is sutIused bya stripgy mUcus which
drops from it in long viscous lines. The
external pores are partly closed by a sort
of sea bug, which finds refuge in them,
and must be an annoying interloper to
the sponge-builder; while often a red sea
worm an inch or two in length is found
far within the spongy tibres, whittier he
has worked his way. What is the exact
function of the mucous fluid does not yet
appear to he clearly settled. But it is
certain that when taken from the sponge
and placed on still bottoms, new sponges
are propagated from it; and if two pieces
Of the same living sponge, or Of different
sponges of the same species, are laid
side by side on the sea bottom, they
soon grow together. The vitality of the
sponge. in fact, coupled with the de-
crease of the supply, suggests that ere
many years artificial propagation may
have to he used.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
4 Generous Man.

Ingham Townsend, Of Floyd, Oneida
County, y. Y, died on Tuesday. aged
ST wears. He had lived in Floyd all his
life. and was vel known as warm
hearted, upright, benevolent man. He
was elected to the State Legislature in
1857. At one time he was wealthy. He
assisted many young men with means to
start IL life. Among the number whom
he aided was the present Governor of
New York State. The following letter,
written to q. benefactor by Grover
Cleveland Will serve to illustrate one Of
the acts OF charity for which Mr.. Town
send was distinguished:
Il am now IN condition to pay my
note which YOU bold, given for some
money borrowed some years ago.
suppose I might have paid it long
before. but [ have never thought you
were in need of it, and I had other pur-
poses for my money. have forgotten
the date OF the note. If you viii send
me it, [ viii mail you the principal aud
interest. The loan you made me was
my start in life, and I shall always pre-
serve the note as an interesting reminder
OF your kindness. Let me hear from
you soon. With many kind wishes 10
Mrs. Townsend and vour family, I am
yours very respectfully"
Mr.. Townsend told Mr.. Cleveland
when he gave him the money that he
need never return it, but if he ever met
with a young man in a similar condition
to give it to him If he had it to spare.
Mr.. Cleveland insisted on returning it,
however.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
Two Funerals in Ireland.

The London Tclcgraloh says: An eX-
traordinary scene took place at High
mount, near Feenaugh. A farmer who
was formerly "boycotted" for taking
land from which another had been evict-
ed was to be buried, and while the
funeral was taking place some 500
young men assemble and began to play
football, kicking about the ball in close
proximity to the corpse. They con-
tinued this until dispersed by the police.
Several of the mouIners were hooted on
their return.
A few days ago an old woman upward
of ninety years of age died at a place
called Eglington, near Londonderry.
The usual arrangements for the funeral
were made, and the coffin was closed and
taken in a hearse to the place of inter-
ment. where the service was duly gone
through. the coffin lowered and the
grave filled in. On reaching home,
however. the relatives of the deceased
was amazed to find the corpse of the old
woman lying on the bed upon which she
had expired, it not having been placed
in the coffin. The body was subsequent
" taken in a cart to the grave, the cofln
raised md the corpse Wa, placed in i
and inferred.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

THE OLD CUSTOM OF WINDING THE
YARN.
A Few OF the Memories that Cling Around
il.

The stocking grandma knit; how
much love went into every stitch; how
many prayers were wrought into every
r0Jmu. Somewhere [ once read about a
nun, who bent over her needlc-work and
as oft as a tear fell from her ewes upon
the snowy fabric she wrought about it
and worked it with her deft needle. until
at last the strange design wrought out a
! touching story Of her loneliness and
sorrow And if we could read all the
dreams, and thoughts and prayers that
5asf.dua Wrought with THOSE patient
needles, we would wear the stockings
she knit on our hearts, rather than on
our feet.
For here is a dream of John, and there
is tear for Chris's Robbie, and here Is
a plan for VIII, and here comes creep
ing III a quivering strain from some old,
old hymn that is hallowed to us now be-
cause her lips blessed it so often; see
how a prayer quiyered all along this
round ; here the stocking was laid down
while the old hands turned over the
leaves Of the Bible that seemed never to
be out of her lap; here the old eyes
! looked out across the pasture and the
moving lot down to the wooded hills
where the birds are answering winds :;
here the old eyes slept for a few min
utes, and here is a knot.
All, yes, Philie and Annie are home
! this week, and the house is full of their
children. There will be many more
knots in the yarn before the stocking is
finished. Who is the boy whose fate it
is to hold on his extended hands the
skein of yarn while grandma winds it off
after the romping Youngsters who taunt
him with shrieks of laughter as they de-
sert him. But never mind, grandma
comforts him with splendid stories of
Uncle Docs pranks when he was a boy
andwent TO school at Carmichaelton, until
the boy wishes the skein was five miles
long. And then he is rewarded by
great big coolzy, sweeter than honey, be
cause he was such q good boy.
The only thing that took the edge of
this reward was that all the other chill
dren got Just as big cookies us lie did,
because some how grandma's rewards
for the good boy and girl managed to
include all the other boys and girls. To
grandma, all children were good some
children were better than others, but
there were no bad children. a thousand
blessings, a thousand times told, on the
dear old face and the silver hair that
crowned the placid brow; on the wrinllled
hands and the work they wrought or
the dear lips and blessed old hymns they
snug; on the dear OLD book fhoF lay in
her lap, and the life thu. ....w -u .nu,E
Of love and faith and help from it, pages.
In every household and every uoos ..
the land, in the city tenemeat and H tn.
roomy old farm house: III the man-.vm
on the avenue and III the cottage down
the lane, God bless grandma and the
beautiful memories her figure always
invokes. -BURDETTE.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
Slaughter of the ImOcenTs.
A STATE ALAGsHoUsE WHERE 400 INFANTS
DIE ANNUALLY.

/
Gov. Butler appeared before the Mas
sachusetts Legislative Committee OIL
Charitable Institutions on Thursday.
He stated that he came with neither .
whitewash nor . backing bru.A, hUt tc
present evidence. Opposed to him was
f. P. Brown, Esq, counsel for the trust
ees and managers of the institution. DR..
John Dixwell, the Governors first wit
ness, testified to his experience with
bodies of infants from the almshouse at
the Harvard Medical School during the
three years he was in the institution,
from 1873 to 1876 The school received
between 300 and 400 bodies per annm,
and the witness dissected two or three
per week often at his lodgings.
A majority Of those he dissected were
those of infants that would have lived
had they been properly cared for. Most
of them had partaken of no food for
fOrty-eight hours previous to death. 1t
was not the custom to give the remains
proper DilIl0l tlIleI NlSSGCllOu ttt IitNl-
ward, as required by law. The defend
ants argued that that was the fault of the
medical school, and not Of the aims
house. The Governor retorted that if
the almshouse management required a
bond for the proper burial Of bodies, it
was a part of the superintendent duty
to see that the conditions were complied
with. The students at Harvard paid the
ianitOr 50 to s. for infant cadavers, the
price varying according to the supply.
John H. Chase, former employee at
the almshouse, described the process of
picking corpses. He mentioned an in
teresting case Of deception, where the
body of a boy had been sent to the dis
section table The mother Of the lad
came for his remains, and in order not TO
disappoint her a coffin was filed with
wood, and services were held over it III
the chapel. She supposed she saw her
boy buried, and went away satisfied.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
SCIIlLER IN NY HEART

Above, the sky is pale and drear;
Below the ground is white with frost,
No merry voice of bird hear;
The babbling brook in ice is lost.
Nature is resting from her work.
And when she sleeps she little heeds
Whether the skies be bright or murk.
Or what her waking children needs.
It Is the time we winter call;
Of all the seasons most forIorn,
Beauty arrays her in pail,
Forgets the weeds that most adorn.
But when 1 fondly think Of you
The dreary curtain drops apart,
A charming landscape then I view,
For then It's summer in my heart.
MINNIE c. BALLARD
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

What in the world can they be do
ing to the cat to make it cry like that?'
The unfortunate customer, his eyes
filled with tears, replied with 4 deep
sigh:
"Perhaps it is a cat they are shaving
for the love Of God"
This pathetic response completely
softened the heart of the hairdresser,
and he took Il sharper razor to finish the
shaving. HENRY PoUJoL.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
The Army Of the Potomac.
PROGRAMME FOR THE ANNUAL REUNION
OF THE SOCIETY.

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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

The following remedy for cold feet is
recommended 10y the F2reman'8 Journal
for sedentary sufferers, as well as police,
men. car-d1ivers, and others who are eX-
posed to the cold: All that is necessary
is to stand erect and very gradually to
lift ones self up upon the tips of the
toes, so as to put all the tendons Of the
foot at full strain. This is not to hop or
Jump up and down, but simply to rise
the slower the better-upon tiptoe, and
to remain standing ON the point of the
toes as long as possible, then gradually
coming to the natural position. Repeat
this several times, and, by the amount OF
work the tips of the toes are made to do
in sustaining the body's weight, suf-
ficient and lively circulation is set up. A
heavy pair of WOODEN stockings drawn
over thin cotton ones is also a recon-
mendation for keeping the feet warm,
and at the same time preventing then
becoming tender and sore.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

A WAGON containing a calf in a cage
was on the market a fewdays ago with a
farmers wife in charge, and butcher
with an eye to veal stepped up and III
quired: Madam, is that calf for sale p
''Yes. sir" is he a Durham p He
may be. isn't an Ayrshire, is he 2
Like enough" " "Dont you know his
breed o. he asked i'll a surprised voice
s'No. I DON'T '"Then how do you ex-
poct to sell him p ''AIl I know about
that calf is that his father hooked a
Justice of the peace to death, and his
mother chased a female lecturer two
miles. and if that amt breed enough to
ask 81 on. YOU needn't take him. The
butcher said the breed was all right
Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
THE lLADENS LAMENT.
TAfter Schiller.

TAfter Schiller.l
The oak forest bends
To the tempest's roar,
As a maiden sits
On the lakes green shore;
The waves are breaking with stormy might,
And her sighs 90 forth in the darkening night
And her eyes are red with weeping.
." Oh the world is void,
And my heart is sore,
And nothing Is left me
To wish for more.
Oh mother of Christ why still must live?
When I've known all the joy this world can give
The rapture Of living and loving"
" Though many thy tears,
in vain dost thou weep;
Thy cries will not waken
The dead from their sleep;
But ten me the balm for a wounded heart
Where the death Of love has left It's smart
This solace I'll send thee from Heaven.
- Full well do 1 know
That in vain I weep,
That my cries cannot waken
NY dead from his sleep:
Yet the sweetest balm for a wounded heart
Where the death of love has left its smart,
Is loves sweet anguish and sorrow
Tile Acad7Hy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

HIS THANKS. -Fairsee's vote Of thanks:
Old Fairsee came down to the office the
morning after a committee Of his en-
pIoyees had made him asrprise visit and
presented him with an elegant and vaIu-
able clock. His face was sickIed o'e1
with pale cast Of thought, which was
noticed by the clerk. The latter asked
the old man what was the matter Its
just tlis,' answered the capitalist, after
a long pause. ''That clock couldn't have
cost less than 800. 1t was au exuvagant
piece Of business and must not be allowed
to occur again. You may give notice o
a ten per cent. reduction in wages, tC
commence with the first Of the month.
-LOlccW Cffizeu.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
4 Compliment.

One recent morning Kate Slocum, a
pretty Florida girl, stood at the door Of
her fathers house watching the rising
sun Just Peeping above the tree tops.
Paddy, the gardener, came whistling
along the road at that moment, and as
he was passing Kate a cloud for a mo-
ment obscwed the orb of day "Sure,
said Pat, with bow and a smile as he
lifted his hat, ''whin the sun beyant
caught sight Of your eyes he was Jealous
and ashamed and hid himself away.
Did any gallant ever say a prettiel
thing?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
A Dangerous Ride.

A very curious bet has just been made
by two officers belonging to the Versailles
garrison. Rising high above the Chev-
reuse road is an aqueduct, the top of
which 1.-TWO yards in brcadth) is devoid
of any kind of Parapet or balustrade
Some time III the last century one of the
Kings Musketecrs performed the rccI-
less feat of riding along this difficult
path Since that date no one has cared
to brave destiny in similar moncr. An
attempt, however, is to be made to re
peat this mad performance, though
whether it will be crowned with success
or not is quite another matter. The
slightest false move means instant de
truction to both rider and horse.
ACCORDING to the Cincinnati IN
quircr a tramp refused to saw wood tor
his dinner, giving MS reason that he
was bitterly opposed to the destruction
of our forests and would do nothing to
encourage that kind o. business. And
he walked of picking hrs teeth.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
wa. Western Eamur I'm.

me financial troubles Of the Paige
Brothers, the great lumber merchants
of Oshkosh, Wis, and Davenport, Iowa,
explain il degree the late suicide Of
Simon B.. one of the Paiges. Two years
AGO the first wife of Simon B. Paige, the
senior member Of the firm, was burned
to death in a fire at Oshkosh. While
the building was on fire, Mr.. Paige
offered reward Of $1,000 to any one
who would rescue the body Of his wife
from the flames. A fireman did this,
but failed to secure the reward offered.
A suit in the courts for the amount was
the result. Soon afterNard Mr.. Paige
married Mrs. McManus, a young widow
of Brooklyn. n. Y. A few weeks ago he
committed suicide by shooting, and for
time the cause was supposed to have
been domestic troubles. Then it was
whispered that Paige's seH-destruction
was due to financial difficulties, but the
report was promptly denied by those
who presumably spoke from authority.
The assets of the firm We're from So, 900,
600 to 81. 900. 600.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
WHAT WE FIND IN THEM TO LAUGH
OVER THIS WEEK.
That Bad Boy Aguin-Satisfied Curiosity
The Hotel Cierlk-TOmbstOnc Grammar,
etc. etc.
A DIFFICULT TASK.

DIFFICULT TASK.
Mrs. Josiah Fender is a very simple sort
Of a woman. An old gentleman named
Ryckman and his wife moved into the
vicinity of the Fender mansion, on Aus
tin Avenue Mrs. Fender, who is very
neighborly, baked nice cake and took it
over to the new arrivals.
'Ihave brought over some cake for Mr..
Ryclman's children, said Mrs. Fender.
''Butwe have never had any children,
a-i7 Nrrz F~c7anan.
"Well, then, give it to your grand
children" said Mrs. Fender. - Teras
SIth'ngS.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
A noted Chicago hotel clerk had call

A noted Chicago hotel clerk had call
to 90 out to Dakota and take charge of
the office Of a hotel there. In a few
months he was back again and all broken
up. Even his most intimate friends
hardly knew him.
''What is the meaning of this ?" asked
one of them. "Didn't Dakota agree
with you ?"
'Don't mention it, " said the returned
prodigal. "Jim, have had the worst
! time You ever saw. went out there
wear ago next month. Well, the hotel
was a small frame structure, with a
school section on the top floor, and we
have slept three hundred people in that
house plenty of nights. They came i'll
wagon loads. The landlord made money,
but he was never around and [ had to do
everything. The landlord was selling
town lots, and surveying, and run
lumber yard, and everything. The first
dav was there l had to leave the Office
and drive thirty teams around to the
barn and help unhitch the horses, and
the time [ was there I was half hostler,
half chambermaid, half cook, and half
everything there was. Why, jim,
hotel clerk is of no more account out
there than an alderman is here. 1t
would make you sick. | had to help
wait on table, help make beds, split
slabs for fuel, bail out the cellar, deal
| for a faro bank the landlord was inter-
ested in, act as superintendent OF the
Sundav-school, milk six cows and throw
down hay for the horses, go out and hold
chain for surveyors, wheel trunks from
the depot on a wheel barrow, scrub the
office floor with a stub broom, be floor
manager for dances in the school section,
die post holes for barbed wire fence,
peel potatoes, keep books, unload oats,
NOV away hay, lay out corPses, deal out
ouinine to the sick, and make myself
generally useful.
HEADED ANOTHER WAY.
A tender-hearted man who resides i'll
a town adjoining Hartford, was about to
give a trapped mouse to the cat when he
caught what he thought was a beseech-
inc expression in the little fellows eyes
and he relented. The mouse was so in
nocent and pretty and the cat so eager
to seize it that the man told his wife he
would not sacrifice it. He took it down
in the lot and set it at liberty. His wife
told him he had done very foolish
thing as the mouse would get into his
barn and then back into the house again.
Il guess not, said the man, 81 headed
him toward neighbor B. 5 barn.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

HOME AGAIN.-The eccentric New
York editor who had Marching Through
Georgia" and "Good-bye, Ny Lover
sung by request at his grave, was once
appointed CONSUL to the Philippine
Islands. He was informed, however,
that it was very hot there and there were
numerous and severe earthquakes to give
him the ''shakcs." He "wired' at once
to Washington: ~ like hot climate and
don't care a continental for earthquakes,
He had hardly set foot ON the islands
when there was an earthquake that near
ly threw him back into the hold of the
steamer. He didn't 60 ashore again, but
returned home on the same steamer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

BAD TREATMENT. There has been
another suicide in the German army on
account of brutal treatment at the hands
of one of the officers. Intense bitterness
has been engendered among the people
by occurrences Ike tins, of which there
have been many. Tg is no wonder that
the voungmen of Germany cmigrate IN
large plumbers to escape service in the
army.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

CoNGREssMAN FLowEL Of New York,
has returned to the Treasury &f5S.5O Of
hls salary to cover the time when he was
absent from duty. Would 1t be out Of
place to remark that the time the coun-
try can best afford to pay for is the time
when Congressman are abscnt?-Lot"cH
(YlyiCy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

THERE is no benefit so small that a good man
VII not magnify it.-SsneCss
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-10-03
A Lively COlOr-Bearer.

"Talk about my war record" said an
Arkansaw orator at political meeting.
"My war record is part of the states
history. Why, gentlemen, carried the
last confederate flag through this town."
EYES," replied bystander, "for l was
here at the time" "Thank you for your
fortunate recollection" gratefully ex-
claimed the orator. 1T is pleasant to
know that there still lives some men who
move aside envy and testify to the courage
of their fellow beings. AS say, gentle
men, my war record is part of the states
history, for the gentleman here will tell
you that | carried the last confederate
flag through this town." " That's fact"
said the man who had witnessed the per-
Torrance. He carried the last confed-
crate flag through this town, and he car
ried il so blamed fast you couldn't have
told whether it was a Union Jack or a
smallpox warning."-Arkansas Traveller.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-10-03
MERCIAL SCHOOL
Fall Term begins Sept. 4, 1888.
Put a Brand on Him.

Women are necessary evil" he said,
bringing down his fist hard on the counter to
emphasize the heartless remark. 1t was in the
village store at West Milton, Saratoga county,
and the speaker was the central figure of a
group of bucholic philosophers. He was home
ly, slovenly and sixty. There's where diff
Ter from you altogetner," said Mr.. George T.
Graham Of the same place. women are most
ly what men make EN-. When husbands are
brutes wives will fall into submission or make
home hot for the men; and they're unnatural
in either character. Love them and especially
be good to them when they're sick, and you Il
have no trouble There's my own wife, now.
She suffered a good deal with dyspepsia, ner-
vous prostration and other ailments that took
the bloom of her cheeks and the spring out of
her steps. Well, she saw an advertisement of
PARKER's TONIC, and thought it would DO Just
the thing for her case Gentlemen, | sent five
miles after bottle. She took it. sent again
after more. So several times. Trouble? Why,
II you could see how much good it has done her
you would say that women are the greatest OF
Gods blessings, and PARKER's TONIC is the
next"
This preparation, which has been known as
PARKER's GINGER TONIC, will hereafter be
called simply PARKERs TONIC. This change
has been rendered necessary by substitutes i'm
posed upon their customers by unprincipled
dealers under the name OF ginger; and az gin
ger IL really an unimportant fiavoring ingredi
emit, we drop the misleading word.
There is no change, however, in the prepare
ton itself, and all bottles remaining in the
hands OF dealers, wrapped under the name Of
| PARkERS GINGER Tonic, contain the genuine
medicine II the fac-simile signature Of HIsCoN
| " 20. Is at the bottom OF the outside wrapper