News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-18
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flower in the ball room after all the
girls had gone, and sang pathetically
lis the lost rose of some her."
Secretary Teller was foolish enough
to take $4,000 worth of diamonds
on the Willard trip for his daughter
When they were stolen, he knew how
the Sioux felt when Teller's brother
came so near getting their lands tOI
a few COWS.
The Brussels police have discoy-
cred that several of the cheap restaur-
ants have been supplying their Gus
toners with dogs flesh instead OF
mutton, obtained from a butcher who
has carried on the business for years,
Women are working their way into
all branches of industry in Russia.
They are now seen in clOckmakers
and jewelers. shops, but especially in
the work rooms of China painters.
This last development is attributed to
the influence of the drawing school OF
the Society for the Encouragement OF
Artists.
A Brooklyn Young lady who prose
cuted a faithless lover for breach Ot
promise, testified that they had, ''by
actual count" exchanged 80, 900 kiss
es by mail.
Brides, as a rule, tinl it new and
rather unpleasant sensation to accept
money from their husbands immedi-
ately after marriage. But an all wise
Providence provides for such matters,
and in the course of time this feeling
gradually wears away.
1t is reported as an ordinary mat
ter of news that the St. Louis police
commissioners have removed Camp
bell, chief of the force, because the
gamblers didn't like him, and appoint
ed Bernard p. Taafe, whom they do
like to the place, and that general
re-opening of gambling hells is eX-
pected in consequence. The western
city is peculiar.
The New York State bar associa-
ton is in a fine "puppy-scramble" over
the banquet to Lord Coleridge. The
members OF the association who had
accepted invitations to the banquet
have since been hOnOred with a re-
quest to subscribe 500 apiece to the
expense. There seems to be an i'm
preston that rather small men con-
trolled the lord chief justice early in
the proceedings, and that nobody else
has been able to get peep at him.
A man believed to be G. f. Dewey,
who is charged with swindling Boston,
Montreal and indianapolis banks, has
been arrested and bailed in $4,000
at San Antonio and another man has
been arrested as Dewey,at San Fran
CISCO.
Twelve long term convicts escaped
from the county prison at Lancaster,
Pa, on Wednesday evening of last
week, in singularIy bold way. There
were two guards on duty, and by a
trick two of the convicts got them in
10 cells and locked them there, then
they unlocked 10 other cells and the
y went to the place where prison
arms were kept and took guns, pis-
tolls and knives, marched out of the
front door, cut the telephone wires
and fled.
The President has approved of the
findings of Gen. Swain, Judge Advo-
cate General, in the Simpson case.
This was the case in which young
Lieutenant at Prescott, Arizona, mar
ried a woman whom he ought to have
married long before. The garrison
people, who did not complain to the
war department when the Lieutenant
was living in Illicit relations with the
woman, claimed tina to marry her
was conduct unbecoming an officer
and gentleman, and recommended
that he be dismissed the service. Gen.
Swain could find no crime in this and
the President has agreed with him.
Mr.. Richard Proctor makes a
strange suggestion in late number
Of his paper, to the effect that the
spreading of so large quantity of
iron upon the surface of the earth as
modern science is doing, is likely in
the future TO exercise q very decided
influence of its own upon electric cur
rents and magnetic storms, and in
this way to exercise a very material
influence. The net
work of railways and the substitution
of iron for wood all over the country
is going on steadily and in rapidly
ratio. Even the western
rrairies are being Melted in all direc-
tiOns by wire fences, and in calling at
tention to this fact Mr.. Proctor thinks
that here is a problem that science
will be shortly called upon to solve.
A petition has been sent to the
Boston school committee asking that
provision be made in the evening
school for the study of the Irish Ian
guage. This will be necessary, per-
haps to enable the citizens to under
stand the language in which the fu-
ture Mayors message may be couched.
Lieutenant Ray has returned from
the Point Barrow station, which was
established two years ago at the ex-
IRENE north Of Alaska. The meteor
illogical results of the work at Point
Barrow will be published in due time,
and will have scientific rather than
popular interest. But the fact is now
well established that Point Barrow Is
neither uninhabitable nor beyond the
reach Of ordinary intercourse. In
deed, it almost seems proper to make
Point Barrow a life saving station for
whalers. Alaska is not simply fro
zen desert, and the entire territory
has some value which makes Alaska
worth having and worth knowing
about.
Recent statistics singuIarly show
that Paris, the greatest city in Europe,
is also, for its Size, the most industri-
Gus. The proportion Of working
classes greatly exceeds those who
live on their incomes. Commerce,
trade and banking operations occupy
half mill'O on of Parisians, the trades
more than million and a quarter,
but the liberal professions only about
100000. The public service employs
more than medicine, law and divinity
Art comes after the pub
lie service in giving employment to
Parisians. Perhaps these statistics
show that the reputation of Paris as
the center Of expenditure and eXtrav-
nUancn Is obtained mo q from the hah-