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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
SALARIES OF PUBLIC MEN,
Uncle Sam and His Army of Assistants
What They Have TO Live On.

The Admiral of the United States
Navy has a salary of $4,000 a year,
whether at sea or on shore. Other off.
GERS have less when on shore. Vice.
admirals at sea get SO, 900 year, real
admirals Sc, 900, commodores $1,000
commanders So, 500, heutenants, senior
grade 81, 400, ensigns 81, 200 to 81, 400,
and cadets $3.50.
The pay of officers in the army in.
creases in proportion to the time they
have been ill the service. General Sheri-
dan for the first five years of service will
get $13,500 year; acknowledgement
gets 81 600 a year, a major-general
$500, a brigadier- general So, 900, a
colonel So, 500, a major $1,000, q
mounted captain $4,000, and a second
lieutenant 81, 800.
Senators and Representatives get So a
dav. and the Speaker of the House and
President pro tenn. of the Senate SIG pei
day. In the first Congress the pay was
Sc day for members of both Houses,
and in two years of John Adams term
as President Senators received 81 and
Representatives Sc per diem. In 1915 it
was changed to 81, 500 per annum for
members of both Houses, and in 1917 to
So per day.
The Clerk of the House and the Sec
rotary of the Senate each get SIS, 900 a
year, as do the stenOgraphers in Con-
gress, the two Comptrollers of the
Treasury, a number of Surveyors of
Customs and the Commanders of the navy.
Pension agents get $1,000 year, the
Civil Service Commissioners So, 500, the
two Assistant Attorney Generals S.. 900,
eight Justices Of the Supreme Court
so, 600, nine Judges of Circuit Courts
Sc 900 and fifty-three Judges of United
States District Courts from So, 500 to
81, 500.
Besides the mission to st. Petersburg
the only other American Ministers who
get ST., 800 year are those at Paris,
London and Berlin. Our ambassadors
to Spain, Austria, Mexico, Italy, Brazil
and Japan get so, 900 year. Those to
Chill, Peru. Uruguay, Guatemala, Costa
RIGA, Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador
get $4,000, and those to Portugal,
Belgium, Sweden and Norway, Den
mark, Turkey, Hayti, Greece and sew
eral South American countries get
81, 500. The Consuls General to Lon
don, Paris, Havana and Rio Janeiro get
Sc, 900 year, and there are IT'S Consuls
who receive from $1,000 to $1,000 a
vaar
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
Wives for COnVicts.

A party of fifty women left Bordeaux
for New Caledonia short time ago I'M
der peculiar circumstances. They were
women sentenced to long terms of i'm
prisonment for grave offences, who have
elected to go to the French penal colony,
where they will find husbands III the
convcts of the first class-that is, those
convicts who have by their good be-
havior entitled themselves to Govern
ment grant of land and obtained permits
sion to marry. The women were selected
from various prisons, aud are described
as young and good looking. On arrival
out they will be housed in religious es-
tablishment managed by a community
of Sisters, where bachelor convicts of
the privileged class will be permitted to
visit them, and, as often as marriage is
arranged, the Colonial Government will
provide the bride with a trousseau and
set the couple up in housekeeping in a
small way. This system of convict mar
riages was devised by Prince Napoleon,
and is said to have produced excellent
results
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
Ugly Visitor in a Bedroom.

Levi Labar, of Purdytown, Pa, had
a terrible fight with wildcat in his bed
room, a few nights ago. The animal en-
tered through a large window pane
which had been broken and was covered
with piece of cloth nailed to the sash.
About midnight, after Labar had gone
to bed, he heard strange noise III the
room, and on jumping up to make an IN
vestigation, terrific yell was given by
the wildcat. Lab, r seized piece of
wood, and, without stopping to make a
light, attacked the animal, which at once
sprang upon his shoulders. Labar
shook it off and gave it stunning blow
with his club. For fifteen minutes the
conflict ragged fiercely, the brute leaping
from wall to wall, clinging to the paper
with its sharp claws, and then bounding
upon its opponent, scraeching with fury,
and with eyes shining like Goals of fire.
At last Lahar dealt the cat death-blow
Just as it was about to leap on his head
from the top OF an open door. The AMI
NAL was one of the largest ever seen IN
that section of the country. Labar was
severely lacerated about the face and
arms
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
An Arkansas Jail.

The county Jail of Hot Springs, Arkan-
sas, is miserable two-stroy log hut,
about fourteen feet square. The upper
story is occupied by the jailer, who will,
for consideration, yield it to a prisoner
of means, A small, rickety balcony,
with sofa on it, and creaking flight
of wooden steps give access to the room.
The pen below, or Jail proper, is regu-
lar "black hole;" the floor is covered
with filth, straw and vermin; light filters
through two glass cubby holes few
inches square and admittance is only
gained by means of an iron grating in
the floor above, through which the I'M
happy captives are lowered down the
ladder. AS many as dozen, of all ages,
sexes aud colors, are sometimes confined
here at once. The sickening stencil rises
TO the room above and is strong enough
to breed fever. In case of fire there
would be no possibility of escape.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
STORIES OF THE ELEPHANT
They Exhibit strong Fondu.. sor
Drunken Men.

Jack Eaves was the keeper for a while
of the elephant Tippoo Saib. one of the
largest and fercest elephants ever
known in this country. Tippoo Saib
had the longest tusks of any elepbant
They were over ten feet long, and he
would manage 'em in way that was
terrible to other people, though very
convenient to himself. openin' 'em vefT
wide or bringin' 'em both together to a
point, just as he chose. 4
They finally had to saw these tusks
of, and Jack caves put the shortened
tusks to use which don't think could
ever possibly enter anybody's head, ex-
cept his own. He put his money in
em-made savin's bank of one of the
cavities in the hollow of the tusk.
He had previously kept his loose
money around his clothes or hidden in
the circus tent, but he had been robbed.
and he made up his min to find q safe
place, and in Tippoo Saib's trunk his
money was safe.
Elephants, as is we'll know, are verv
fond of whisky, and female elephant,
known as little Betsy, used to go on
a drunk regularly every Sunday along
with a chap called "Long John" her
keeper. Whenever "Long John" would
want whisky he would ask for it in the
name of 'Little Betsy" He had great
solicitude about Betsy's ears, that were
very sensitive to cold, and one time,
when they were shown ont West quite
late in the autumn. he said to the man.
ager of the show:
''You'd better get some whisky for
Rafc oh hn,. I,
ginnin' 10 freeze already"
"How much shall 1 get? ?" asked the
manager.
"Oh," said Long John, ''a couple OF
buckets.
The manager opened his eyes at this
wholesale order.
The two buckets were got, and over
bucket and half was given to Little
Betsy, and Long John partook very
literally of the balance. In an hour or
two Little Betsy and Long John were
drunk together The elephant would
roll over, and kick up her huge heels,
and then gettin' up again would seize
Long John playfully in her trunk, and
toss him over her back, and pick him
up again, and the two would have a
regular drunken spree.
And every now and then Little Betsy
would give a sort of gruut, noise that
sounded just like laughin', and that
Long John swore was intended for
laugh.
1t is one of the most curious things in
the world, that elephants are so very
forbearing to and considerate of drunken
men. This "Long John" when he was
drunk used to go round the two elephants
of the show, whom nobody else dared to
bother, and of whom he himself was
afraid when sobGr-Canada and Sultan
and would fool with 'em, and swing
on their tusks, and toss their trunks
about, and then would fall at their feet
asleep.
And they wouldn't hurt him 'emselves
would be as careful of him as if he was
a baby elephant-an wouldn't even
allow any of the boys to play any tricks
upon him.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
TREATMENT OF TYPHOID FEVER.
A Divergen ce in the County Medical Asso-
citation as to Alcohol.

The New York County Medical Asso-
citation listened to a paper upon "The
Treatment of Typhoid Fever" by DR..
George L. Peabody, pathologist of the
New York Hospital. The paper advo-
Gated the anti-pyretic treatment, giving
preference to the full cold water bath
over the sponging and packing treat
ment. It also approves of the solid food
diet at the beginning of convalescence,
and discouraged the use of alcohol. Sta
tistics were presented, contrasting the old
style of treatment with the new, showing
that the percentage of deaths was less in
the use of the latter.
Dr. Austin Flint, Jr., in discussing
the paper said: "No physician of the day
believes that the production of heat in
fevers comes from the oxidation of the
blood in its passage through the lungs.
It is considered as one of the results of
a class of phenomena which occur in the
tissues themselves. Physiology has adj
vanced in the direction of positivism and
is rapidly being reduced to mathematical
exactness. Experiments have been
made to determine the heat value of GER
tain elements of food. / found by obser-
walton of a man who walked 3173 miles
in five days, and also by experiments
upon myself, that more heat units were
produced than were supplied by the
food. / have also come to the conclu-
sion that water is formed in the body by
the union of oxygen and hydrogen. The
production of something requires mate
rial: heat cannot be produced without
the consumption of something. In
typhoid fever, in the absence of nourish-
ha faa1 on ho
The question is, what will supply this
material? It has occurred to me that
fatty, farinaceous and saccharine food.
glucose and alcohol will save the tissues.
In the experience of physicians, alcohol
reduces heat in fevers. Theoretically,
one ounce of French brandy Is equal to
1913 heat units; thirty-four ounces would
supply all the heat produced in his body
in twenty-four hours, by man weigh
ing 40 pounds. It seems to me that if
the time it runs-and it must run-you
will have the patient in a better condi-
ton as to tissue"
Prof. Austin Flint spoke in compli-
mentary terms of the paper, which he
approved in the main. He said: 81
differ only as to the value of sponging,
as a means of reducing temperature.
Where it is properly performed it is eff
Gent. I also use and recommend the
method of enveloping the body in wet
sheet, which should be sprinkled from
time to time until the temperature is re-
duced I concur with Dr. Peabody as
to the absence of danger in giving solid
foods when the patient desires it. There
is no specific at the present time for
typhoid fever. [ also accord with his
views as to the use of alcohol in the treat
ment of fevers. In my early practice no
alcohol was given and the patient was
placed ON a starvation diet. Then came
a time when alcohol was used freely;
this was followed by a more moderate
use of it,"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
Ducking a Bloodhound.

As the boat was loading cotton-meal
at Natchez we saw big bloodhound
come down the street, walk aboard the
wharf boat and stretch out in the sun
for nap The talk at once turned
upon dogs, and then upon this one in
particular.
"Fhat dog" said one of the passen-
gers "would no doubt kill any man
whom he attacked"
This was followed by various yarns in
regard to the strength and ferocity of
bloodhounds, and then another passen-
ger put in:
"Ill give any man dozen good cigars
who will go out there and wake that
dog up and pat him on the head
"a dozen cigars" echoed another,
"why, man, wouldn't go out there and
rouse him up for SO BILL"
"Humph p sneered a man who sat
with his feet on the rail a little ways off,
and who had come aboard as we landed.
"Maybe you want to wake up that
dog !" holly remarked the SO man.
ST think I could"
"You do, ell ?"
-s.iiH bet you 500 I dare fling him
into the river -
"Done Done quicker than creased
lightning l' shouted the other as he
felt for his cash, and in a minute or two
the money was up.
'Now, then, you are to walk down
there, seize him by the collar and fling
him into the river %"
Exactly"
And he walked. Without betraying
the least hesitation he went down the
plank, marched up to the dog, and
taking him by the collar, drew him to
the edge aud dumped him off. The
dog made no resistance, and speedily
swan around to the bank and trotted off
up the street.
We all felt completely fattened out,
and after the stakes were given up and
the winner had disappeared, 1 went
over to the pilot, whose face wore a
broad grin, and asked:
Did you see it?"
eyes"
''Didnt the dog have any grit ?"
''Heaps of it; but if you had owned
him for five years, and had played this
same game fifty times on greonhorns,
he wouldn't bite you, either!'-M. QUAD.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
Women Sea Captains.

Mrs. Mary A. Miller is not the first
woman who has served successfully as
mistress of a ship. Mrs. Capt. Patten,
of Bath, Me-, who while her husband
was lying i'll in his berth navigated his
ship around Cape Horn and up to San
Francisco, although his timid first officer
wanted to stop at Valparaiso for assist
ance; of Mrs. Capt. Abbie Clifford, of
the brig Abbie Clifford, who after her
husband had been washed overheard
brought the vessel safe into New York
Harbor from below the equator; of Mrs.
Capt. Reed, of the Oakland, of Bruins
wick, Me-, who was practical naviga-
tor of celebrity, and of Miss Jenet
Thoms, who often used to navigate her
fathers ship, who is now teaching a
school of navigation in New York city
and who was in part the author of
''Thoms's Navigator" a book of author.
ity among mariners. These cases are
all of recent date. To them the Leaven-
worth (Kan.) Times adds the case of
Mrs. Capt. John Oliver Norton, of Ed
gartown, Mass. Her husband COM
manded whaling vessel, and she fire.
quently went with him into the Arctic
waters. On one of these expeditions all
the boats were out, leaving on board the
captain and just enough of the crew to
manage the vessel. A whale was noticed
of to the starboard, and the captain
and men were puzzled how to
get it. 1t was the woman who solved
the problem and settled the fate of his
whaleship. Going to the wheel she pre-
vailed upon her husband to leave the
| ship In her charge, with two disabled
men, while he and his men went after
the whale. He did so. The woman
managed the ship AL day until nightfall,
when the boats returned, that in COM
mand of her husband having captured
the biggest whale ever seen in those
waters. When the ship put in home the
New Bedford owners made the 'woman
commander" handsome present.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
What Hot Baked Beans Did.

Probably as laughable thing as has
been seen IN long time took place at
GAINESVILLE, Wis, at the Grand Army re-
union a few weeks ago There was to
be baked bean banquet for the visiting
veterans, and half the families in town
furnished a pan of baked beans for the
occasion, sending them to the armory
late in the afternoon piping hot A
couple of boys, sons of a soldier, were
intrusted with a large pan of red-hot
baked beans to take down town, and
they put the pan on a hand-sled and
started. Arriving at the top of the big
hill, where the road runs straight down
into the business street, the temptation
to ride down was too great, and the boys
got on the sled with pan of beans in
front of them, steaming hot. They
started. Every crossing they struck a
COB of beans would fly out. and before
they were half down the hill the boys
were covered with beans from head to
foot. They shut their eyes and let the
sled event"
Agirl stood by the crossing as they
passed, and as the sled struck a hum
mock handful of beans hit the girl in
the hair, and as the hot mass began to
neat up she 1elt that the hairs of her
head were numbered, and put her hand
to her head, and when the beans burned
her hand she yelled fire and went away
on gallop. A dog ran along beside the
sled and barked at the boys; but
quart of beans struck the dog and the
weather was too warm for him, and ne
ran away with hot box. The sled
finally turned over, and boys, beans and
sled rolled and slid for half a block, and
the street was paved with good inten-
tons and baked beans. The boys got
up, scraped the beans off their clothes.
Thought the matter over a minute, when
each took hold of the empty pan, and
they carried it down to the armory and
reported TO the committee on beans.
The circumstance was related to the
soldiers, and the empty pan, the hand
sled and the boys decorated with beans
created as much amusement for the vet
Grams as any one thing.-Peck'S Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
He Was Left.

A Paris thief was trapped in a queer
manner the other day. He got into a
suite of rooms during the absence of the
occupants aud mad gathered everything
valuable, ready to carry off. He then
bethought himself that new suit of
clothes was very desirable, so he dotted
his garments with a view of replacing
them by others. Scarcely had he re-
duced himself to the garb of primitive
man when he heard a step outside and
promptly hid himself under the bed.
Some one in the same line of business as
himself entered the room, and gathering
up all he could find, including the first
intruder's suit of clothes, departed.
The first thief, therefore, in subsequent.
ly emerging from his hiding place,
found himself berelt of his wardrobe.
He was therefore compelled TO await the
return of the owner of the property,
who at once handed him over to the
police.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
A Letter From Lincoln.

The Boston Herald prints the letter
in which President Lincoln appointed
General Hooker at the head of the Army
of the Potomac. In it he says:
''I believe You to be brave and skill
full soldier, which, of course, l like. |
also believe you do not mix politics with
your profession, in which you are right.
You have confidence in yourself, which
is valuable, if not an indispensable
quality. You are ambitious, which,
within reasonable bounds does good
rather than harm. But [ think that
during General Burnside's command of
the army you have taken counsel of your
ambition and thwarted him as much as
you could, in which you do great
wrong, both to the country and a most
meritorious and honorable brother Off
Ger. l have heard, such way as to be-
lieve it, of your recently saying that
both the army and the Government
needed dictator. OF course, it was not
for this, but in spite of it, that have
given you a command. Only those gen
erals who gain success can set up as
dictators. What | ask of you is military
success, and L will risk the dictatorship
The Government will support you to the
utmost of its ability, which is neither
more nor less than it has done and will
do for all commanders. / much fear the
the spirit you have aided to infuse into
the army of criticising their commander
and Withholding confidence from him
will turn upon you. l shall assist you as
far as [ can to put it down. Neither you
nor Napoleon, if he were alive again,
could get any good out of an army while
such a spirit prevails in it, aud now, be-
ware of rashness Beware OF rashness
But with energy and sleepless vigilance,
go forward and give us victories.
ga. LINCOLN"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
EGGS FROM THE OLD WORLD.
They Come to us From all Parts OF Europe,
Even Turkey-How they are Kept.
This importing of eggs from abroad,

This importing of eggs from abroad,
says a New York city importer, began
about four years ago, in small lots, and
has been growing ever since. The eggs
are shipped chiefly from Copenhagen
and Hamburg, which are great egg GEN.
tres. That is to say, eggs collected
from nearly all parts of Europe are sent
there, and thence are distributed to the
London and other markets. The eggs
are produced largely in Italy, Austria,
Denmark, and Turkey. They are
packed in straw, in cases containing SO,
60, or 100 dozen. Some of them have
been cured for winter keeping, like our
domestic eggs, by being kept in lime
water, which fills up the pores of the
shell and renders it possible to keep the
eggs in good condition for months after
their removal from the water. Most of
the imported eggs are fresh-laid, how
ever, and, after voyage of two or three
weeks, will keep for month or six
weeks longer. Some of the lots are
graded according to size. as is the GUS
tom in certain parts of Europe--the i'm
ported eggs, on the average, being a
little smaller than the domestic. They
are sold here at from one cent to three
cents per dozen less than the market
price of domestic eggs, according to size
and quality. 1t is necessary to examine
them here, of course, but the work of
inspection is much less than might be
supposed. As rule it is not necessary
to hold an egg opposite the flame of
candle in order to see the condition of
its contents, which an expert can detect
by ordinary handling and inspection as
quickly as a money changer can Judge
by the weight and feeling of coin
whether it is true or false. OF the for
eign eggs received in this market, a
great number are consumed in n. Y. city
and neighborhoOd. while others are sent
to points in New England.
"In the last year, say from March l,
1888, to March l, 1884, I have handled
about 5000 cases of imported eggs, on
an average of fifty or sixty dozen TO the
case. | suppose that in all some 10000
or II, 900 cases were received here dur
ing that period The late shipments have
been especially heavy. because the win
ter has been mild in England, and Lon
don has consequently been a poor mar
ket for imported eggs. Many which
would otherwise have gone to London
have therefore naturally been sent to
New York, where the price of fresh-laid
domestic eggs reached nearly fifty cents
per dozen during January. The price
would have gone higher but for these
which have had the effect
Of making eggs cheaper throughout the
country. What affects the egg market
n New York affects it in all parts of the
United States. Ordinary freight rates
or eggs from most of the Western
States to New York are higher than the
reights from Europe"