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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
A Drunken Husband.

The Supreme Court of Iowa refused
to grant divorce to woman with
drunken husband for the following
reasons: "She does not show that her
personal safety or even her well-belng
requires her to leave him. She doubt
less would have lived more comfortably
in the society of sober man, but she
ought to have considered, and doubtless
did consider, the discomforts OF drunken
husband when she married the defend
ant But, she urges, he promised ref
ormation before marriage. His failure
to keep his promise did not justify her
in deserting him. All the world knows
that such promises made by drunken
man are always broken. In few words,
as she knowingly married drunkard,
she must be content to be drunkard's
wife -
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
DICKENS DUTCHMAN" DEAD.
The Old Penitentiary Inmate Dies i'm His
Cell near Philadelphia.

Charles Langheimer, better known as
| Dickens Dutchman," died few days
ago in the Eastern Penitentiary, Phila-
deiphia, where he had spent the better
part of his life. He was eighty-two
years old and was buried in Potter's
Field. He was first sentenced to the
penitentiary in 1910 and was released
rom time to time only to be returned
for thefts.
Itwas not Langheimer's long residence
in the penitentiary which gave him so
much notoriety. It was the fact of
Charles Dickens having seen and spoken
to him and written about him in his
american Notes."
More thar thirty years ago, when the
eminent novelist visited this country, he
took occasion to go through the peniten-
tiary and there saw Langheimer, who
was serving term of five years. When
Dickens wrote his American Notes" he
described the system of solitary confne-
ment and referred to Langheimer in quite
pathetic tones. He said:
''In cell was German, sentenced to
five years imprisonment for larceny, two
of which had just expired. With colors
extracted from yarn he had painted
every inch of the walls and ceiling quite
beautifully. He had laid out few feet
of ground behind with exquisite neatness
and had made little bed in the center
that looked, by-the-bye, like a grave.
The taste and ingenuity he had displayed
in everything was most extraordinary,
and yet more detected, heart-broken
wretched creature it would be difficult to
imagine. l never saw such picture of
forlorn affiiction and distress of mind.
My heart bled for him, and, when the
tears ran down his cheeks and he took
one of the visitors aside to ask, with his
trembling hands neryously clutching at
his coat to detain him, whether there was
no hope of his dismal sentence being
the spectacle was too painful
tc, xvitncss- never heard of any
kind of misery that impressed me more
than the wretchedness of this man"
Langheimer successfully passed through
all the misery so pathetically pictured
by Dickens and lived to hear of the
novelist's death.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24

Mr.. B.-"Why what has become of
all those you had in your wedding trous-
seau?'
Mrs. B.-"They are all worn out"
Mr.. B.-"Well, dear, 1 don't know
what can be done unless we separate for
awhile"
Mrs. B.-"Separate ?"
MIR. B.-"Yes, you go home and stay a
few months, and then I will come court
ing and we will be married over again.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
How the Hungarians Live.
THE CAUSE OF THE oUTCRY AGAINST THE
PAUPERs WHO CROWD INTO THE MIN
ING REGIONS.

A letter from Mahanoy City, Penn,
says:-The outcries of the public against
the Hungarian paupers crowded into
this region by New York emigrant
agencies have been so loud that the
Town Council at a late meeting,
appointed committee to investigate the
subject, and twenty dens were visited.
If the Hungarians lived like other peo-
pie there would be no objection to them,
but they congregate together in such
numbers and filth as to breed disease.
The committee found 800 persons hud-
died together in the twenty places Wis
tied. Most of these places were stables
converted into human habitations by
these people themselves. Few of them
contained more than one room, and in
this, men, women, and children lived
eating, sleeping, cooking, and washing.
A few of the buildings were without
floors. In one room, the largest visited,
25 by 35 feet in Dimensions, were 13 men,
a woman, and child. The woman and
one of the men kept the others as board
ers. One stable was divided into four
rooms and contained IS persons. A very
small building divided into nine rooms,
the partitions being made of the lumber
from dry goods cases, contained 43 peo-
pie, 36 of whom were men, women,
and 3 children. In one room were s
men, and in another. Six rooms
visited had at least men each occupy
ing them.
The Council last year encountered
similar trouble with the Polanders, but
overcame it by reducing the number in
each house, and establishing and
enforcing health rules for those that re-
mained. There will be clearing out in
the Hungarian quarters during the next
few days. Not more than three or four
will be allowed to a house,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
HOW TO GROW THIN.
The Bunting System rs Applied to Fat
People.

1t may here be said by one who has
studied this subject thoroughly that
| Banting's book is of little value as a
guide to an individual who eats at an
American table. Many of the articles of
| food which bounteous nature provides so
lavishly in this country are unknown in
England, and consequently no reference
is made to them by Banting; for in
stance, corn, sweet potatoes, corn bread,
buckwheat cakes, pies, squash, and
other viands too numerous to mention.
Biscuits, milk toast, waffies, and flannel
cakes never appear upon an English
table. Furthermore, Banting is silent
about soup, which person desirous of
decreasing his weight should avoid if it
is thick.
The Banting plan should not be
entered into without medical advice, and
the change should be made gradually.
It is best to select some one article to
abstain from at the beginning say
butter, then bread, sugar, milk, and
potatoes. Pork and veal should not be
eaten, though little ham is occasion
ally allowable. Pastry and all farinaceous
articles are to be looked at, and not |
eaten. Ice cream must be passed by. |
A broad rule about vegetables is to con-
fine ones self to those that are green,
except peas, which are very fattening. |
Eggs and all sorts of fish except salmon
may be eaten. Coffee is said to be
especially when milk and |
sugar are added. Morning and night
the true disciple of Banting should
drink the juice of lemon. With the
loss of the first few pounds of flesh he
will be alarmed and surprised at finding
himself growing suddenly weak, almost
to the point of fainting. This feeling is
due to depriving the system of the food
to which it has been accustomed, and |
will wear off as the "obesity cure" is
in, as will also the haggard-
ness of the face; but this latter will not
occur until one has -dieted for two or
three years. There are few people who
itro CdpdDIo VI selI-ueIIldl lOr 50 1ouS
a period; the worst of the system is that
unless fasting is most stubbornly ad-
hered to, one feshes up Immediately.
If, for instance, after long abstinence,
the stomach becomes bowling wilder
ness; it, as in "Blade O. Grass's" case,
there seems to be tiger there ravenous
for food, and the patient Yields and par
takes of one, aye, but one, good square
meal, the lost pounds of flesh imme-
1iately gallop back upon the bones, as it
waited back by a single wave of
magician's wand. Eternal abstinence
IS the only price of leanness.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24

Sunday. There was plenty of -four and
some game on the place, but the logs of
the roof, which were crushed in, cut off
all communication from these, although
Maxwell and his son had vainly endeav-
sored to cut away through three-foot
log with jack-knife. The inmates of
the terrible prison were taken in sleighs
to Woodford's, where they were soon as
comfortable as warm fires, good provis-
ions, and kind attention could make
them. When Mr.. Engelbright left for
Woodford's on Monday afternoon they
were all doing well, and were the re-
cipients of all the attention that the lit
tie camp could bestow. Mr.. Merk, the
honest old German who keeps the toll
gate, and who first found the Maxwell
family, is now the biggest man in the
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
A Slap for a Slap.

The London Truth has this item -
Ladies' maids has their feelings like
other folk" A week or two ago one of
our best-known Peeresses gave her maid
a months notice, accompanying the
warming by a smack in the face. The
maid said nothing at the time, but
brooded over her wrongs. On the day
that her month was up, after she had
received her wages, and her boxes had
been placed upon cab, she went up
stairs, and began to ''do' her mistress's
hair. Having deftly fastened it to the
back of the chair, she calmly proceeded
to administer series of slaps 10 the
somewhat highly-colored cheeks which
were ready to her hands. Then, with a
low curtsey, she took herself off.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24

A DIsoovERY.-The news of re
markable natural phenomenon is re-
ported from Bona, in Algeria. An
isolated mountain, the Dshebel Naibo,
800 feet high, is sinking into the earth.
Round its foot there is a deep hollow,
and before long the mountain will dlsap-
pear. The district of Bona has once
before witnessed a similar event; the
Lake Fezzara, of more than l2,OOO
hectares, did not exist in the time OF the
Romans. st. Augustin, who lived at
Bona, described the whole district with
out once mentioning the lake, and re-
searches in 1870 have resulted In the
discovery of the ruins of a Roman town
at the bottom of the lake. AS in Arabian
writings there is nothing to be found
concerning the formation of the lake, 1t
is supposed that it has existed only Tor
about thousand years.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24

A GENTLEMAN bought q newspaper,
and rendered in payment piece of forty
sous. The newspaper woman: 81
haven't the change; you can pay me as
you pass along Tomorrow" The gentle
man: "But suppose 1 should be killed
to-day !" The newspaper woman: "Oh,
it wouldn't be very great loss p
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
A Game of Whist.

A most remarkable hand at whist is re-
ported as having been dealt recently in
a club composed of leading Cincinnati
votaries of the game. -Four were play
ing-Messrs. Kierstend and Culbertson
as partners on one side, and Messrs.
Webster and Starbuck on the other.
Two packs of cards were used; the
first hand dealt was an ordinary one; at
the second deal Mr.. Webster gave the
cards the usual thorough mixture, and,
being cut in the regular way, the pack
was dealt, with the following extraordi-
nary result: Culbertson received 13
spades, Starbuck received 13 hearts,
Kierstead received 13 diamonds, Web
ster received 13 clubs, which latter were
trumps. All the persons present have
made oath before Judge to the truth
of the above, in order that the incident
may be placed fairly on record. The
only suspicious circumstance connected
with the affair is that the man who dealt
got all the trumps. In more remote
Western communities, with money up,
such a coincidence would probably be
the last one the dealer would be per-
mitted to marvel at in this life.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24

A THIEF entered sleeping apartment
in Paris, and seeing some fine clothes,
he concluded to swap. just as he had
got his own off, a noise at the door
startled him and he jumped into bed in
time to escape being seen by the person
who entered. The intruder departed
after a little, however, but, to the dis
gust of the thief, the former had carried
off both suits of clothes. He was in the
same profession.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24

LooKING.-An English traveller soys
the New York people look one way
while they are walking another, and that
strangers have great trouble in dodging
around them.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24

ga YOUNG wife's greatest trial, is
probably to find out whether it would
be proper to starch her husbands SHIRT
all over, or only the bosom and cuffs,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
AN AMBITIOUS BOY.

AN AMBITIOUS BOY.
''No use talking" said young Tommy,
81 am bound to do something to get rich
when I grow up"
''I fear that you are learning to love
money too well" remarked his father,
sadly.
"No," said Tommy, 81 don't care for
money for its own sake, but for the
good 1t can DO"
"In that case," answered the father,
Frightening. ''your ambition is very
commendable.
"And will you promise to get me a
place where I can become rich, oh
awfully rich p
'I will, :" responded the father.
One week afterward the old man, true
to his promise, took the boy and got
him a situation in newspaper Office.
CHANGE WANTED.
Mr.. Blank-"I am fearfully tired of
the same routine day after day. 1 do
wish I could have change"
Mrs. Blank-"What kind of a
change"
Mr.. Blank-"Oh, anything at all,
just by way of variety, something novel,
you know, a strange experience of some
sort.
Mrs. Blank-"I think I can suggest
a novelty which will be change for
both of u.s.
Mr.. Blank "That's dear girl. What
is it ?"
Mrs. Blank coming home
sober.
SEX OF AUTHORSHIP.
Mr.. B.-'I notice that there is new
book just published, called what Shall
We Name 1t ??
Mrs. B.-''Do you know the name of
the man who wrote it,"
Mr.. B.-''Man Why are you so sure
that man wrote it? Perhaps the book
is by woman"
Mrs. B.-"No; it is by man."
Mr.. B.-"But why do you think SOP"
Mrs. B.-"No woman ever calls a
baby it. ="
HER IDENTITY ESTABLISHED.
Little Nell-"We've gotta new scholar
in our school. "
Papa.-s'What is her name?"
Little Nell-''Her names Minnie.
Papa-"But her other name?"
Little Nell-'I don't know. I forgot
to ask her,"
Papa-'Is she good scholar ?"
Little Nell-"No; she missed the first
question. The teacher asked her how
MANY pounds make ton, and she said
1000"
Papa-"Abl 1 see. She is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. Blank, the coal dealer"
HIS REVENGE.
''That man Jinks did me a
mean trick, but I have had my revenge.
Smith-''In what way?"
Jones-"By fixing things SO that he
will be driven crazy in three months.
DUl1bu-- IOm SaAN y va ~
it ?"
Jones-s'I got family with twin
babies to move into the house next
door,"
IN WANT OF MONEY.
"Can you give me little money on
that account of yours this morning ?"
"No, 1 don't believe can this morn
ing"
"Well, will you appoint a time when
YOU can? You have traded with me a
great deal and have never paid ME q
cent"
81 know it. I am free trader"
REpLENIsHING A WARDROBE.
Mrs. B.-"Do you know, dear, that
haven't a decent dress to my name ?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24

GEoRGE-"You ask if a young couple
can live on $50 week. Good gracious
what are you thinking of? Go into a
millinery store and price the bonnets.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24

Our in some of the Western States
they make brandy out of plums. Now
you know what plum full means,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
THE MAD MARKSMAN.

A THRILLING STORY OF THE STAGE; LOVE,
JEALOUSY AND INSANITY.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
QUAKER CITY HUMOR.
A FEW JOKES FROM THE s'EVENING
CALL.o
A Suspected NihiIisI-FlOrida CIimate-A
Great Compliment-LOOlxiD2f for n Friend
An Ambitious Boy, Etc., Etc.
A SUSPECTED NIHILIsT.

| A SUSPECTED NIHILIST.
The Czar of Russia not feeling very
well caused physician to be sum-
moned.
The medicine man looked at his
tongue and felt of his pulse and re-
marked:
"You don't get exercise enough; I
would recommend long walk every
morning before breakfast"
The next day that doctor was on his
way to Siberia.
FLORIDA CLIMATE.
Jones-"Been away, haven't you2"
Blank-"Yes, I spent the winter in
Florida"
Jones -"Rather expensive, wasn't
it ?"
Blank-"Well, yes; the cost of the
first trip was rather high, but it gave
me an idea, and next winter intend to
go down there with stock that will
sell at big profit"
Jones-"Why, what will you sell ?"
Blank -'Snow shovels."
A GREAT COMPLIMENT.
Little Jack-"You never was in the
country much, guess, Mr.. Popinjay %
Popinjay (delighted)-"Do you think
so, my little fellow? Well, have not
been in the country form any years. but
I used to live there when I was little
boy. You would not believe it, sup
pose
Little Jack-''Dunno about that, but
I guess sister would not. I know she
thinks you never was in the country at
ALL"
Popiniay (still more delighted)-"Ahl !
Indeed?"
Little Jack-"Yes, she said you did
not even know beans"
LOOKING FOR FRIEND.
"Do you know q Colonel Smith of
this city ?" asked stranger OF Louis
vile man.
"Oh, yes" was the reply, "there he
is now, standing on the opposite cor
ner."
''No, that is not the gentleman 1 re-
fer to- My friend is taller man"
"Well, there is Colonel Smith just
coming out of the post office, the gentle
man with the slouch hat"
"No, neither of them is the man that
I am in search of. The man I want is a
smooth-faced, thick-set man, and
achieved some distinction in the late
war;"
sThe late war" said the Louisville
citizen. 81 guess I am not acquainted
with him. There is no Colonel Smith in
this city that know of who over lad
a,,-+l,;nc, m do NTH ruor
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-06-26
Salmon and Sturgeon.

Mr.. L. A. Dow, late of Waterville but later
of Sears Island, brought to our Corner Market
a few days ago samples of what comes to his
hsh-Weirs-in this case salmon and sturgeon.
The latter is a slender fellow, say nearer three
feet III length than three pounds in weight
suggesting relationship to the lampreyeel. On
the Hudson river. where this fish used to be
taken, weighing a hundred pounds it was
ironically called "Albany beef' when beef
steak was worth six cents pound. Then it
was so plenty that it had way of endangerng
small boats by leapng into them. 1t has a
habit of eaping out of the water two or three
feet, apparently in sport. We know Il man,
pretty reliable even on fish stories, who used to
relate how il happened that he sadtlled, bridled,
and mounted n sturgeon in Lake Ontario. and
so made a hurried voyage--as far as the bot
tom. When taken in seine with other fish it
floats sluggishly along till it reaches the shore.
where it makes a sudden leap seaward. Our
fsh-story friend was 'hauling in" at point of
rock where an enormous sturgeon got its first
hint of capture; and as it made its first leap
seaward he pitched headforemost upon its
back, and throwing both hands forward for
safety he unconsciously drew a fold of the
seine over the fsh's nose and into its mouth :;
holding tightly with hand on each side. as
drowning men catch at straws,-and trusting
to the folds Of the seine to bind him safely in
the region of the saddle.
If you ever meet the hero Of this fish story,
ask him to tell you how it was that after his
first effort to tear himself from his captor. he
took courage from the thought that ''for the
sake of the fish Bill and Harry would hang to
the seine" They did so, and landed both to-
gether. TWaterville Mail.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-06-26

4 pasfurp ciosD tn tb. ls-m hnj15ir.,s
j. a great convenience .rrd Mi, .n[,.
much valuable tir,e dn,In., tLn hmcI
season The vorl, h.,rsos ptay Me- t.,rnnd
INTO such Iasfnr4 in The evening after
they have e3r,u 1htfr r.,t;nn nt inv and
Grain II is am casa. m4+t..r fo l,ri,,,e f,n
horses in aoain in fhn rnrnr,,., tnr rbair
feed bef,re II i -7oe I'm, r.0,l. IVA
COWS NAV 90 10 m. back f.ed;no 1ronnd
for the daT and r,to thc rant nasfnra tn
mass thn ni9hr Rn,.s 9.bn.,re Had t.o,,,
hard work thron.,h rb,. d.,- ,,nr.r;..ta
the convenience Of nasrnrr rInsa NV tLn
milking gropnd Thr cows are n,mro
contentcd ifkent near tIn harms nj rioh-
The gates and other entrances to This
night pasture shou)d he8r1anu4d H. s,,,.
ali possible steps. both from the horse
stable and the nlillinr ward some may
object to having horses and COWS in thr
same field, but the writer has concluded
after several wears eyperiencn. that there
is no danger with any ordinary 3nim,ls
Young stock of ali Kinds viii he satar if
kent from the Old in \ sen3rate nasfure
This convenient ni0hr h0stlre shnm]l
be permanent. and furnish GOOD ferdino
to the horses and COWS throuohon+ the
whole season. 1t therefore needs to he
kept in GOOD heart. If naturally rich
the droppinrs from the nnimaIs wil k4nn
up the fertility for several Years \ man
With manure alck ar mallet shonId ,, en
over the Dasture each snrinr AMI InosGn
and scatter the dronrings The malIet
consists of block 6f WOOD = fnot inno
or,,,ro a+ an. o,I ma ,.;,+! 80 81
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-06-26
Fashlon-Hlnts from Peterson's Magazine
for July.

Dresses made Of but one plain material
are less and less worn
Lace and embroidery each serve to
help make the variety in the trimmings
of dresses, when two kinds of stuff are
not used.
Imitation black Chantillv lace is freely
used on street dresses and wraps, and
evening dresses are lavishly trimmed
with lace
Whole dresses of black lace, worn over
black or colored silks, are very fashona-
bic and very becoming.
Yoked bodces, and the Norfolk bodice
which is plated lengthwise, are popular
for thin dresses.
Tournures are now indispensable
without the back breadths Of the dress
are very much putfed.
Wraps are all small, except the long
dust-cloak worn in travelling, which is
usually made of pongee. The old-fash-
ioned "lnen duster" is no longer seen.
Bonnets are usually small, and nearly
all the trimming, on both bonnets and
hats, is massed in front, or near it, on the
left side
Crocuses, and dandelions with their
fe thery seed tufts, are the latest flowers
used for trimming bonnets.
Buckles are good deal worn to contine
the draperies of skirts, Rhine pebbles set
in silver being used for evening dresses,
and jet and colOred mother of pearl tor
walking costumes.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-06-26

For FOOT ROT IN SHEEP. This rem
edy for foot rot in sheep is said to be un-
falling Take equal parts in weight of
red lead and pulverized blue vitrol add
enough nitric acid to make thick paste ;
after pairing the hoof until all diseased
parts will be well exposed, apply with
paddle. sheep should remain in house
with dry floor twenty-four hours after
being treated, unless the weather is quite
dry, when it is much better to turn on
dry, short sod but care should be taken
to prevent sheep from crossing streams
or mud. Three applications are usually
sufficient.