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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
1t Was a Woman.

In San Francisco City there reside
two fair disciples of good old LEAK
Walton. Despite their sex they are
good anglers-an anomaly, because there
are three things the sex is reputed not
to do well, viz, climb a fence, build a
ire and fish. These two Piscatrixes,
then, go forth full often to the adjacent
trout streams, accompanied by husband
and brother. They enter streams fully
equipped with the anglers outfit-spIit
bamboo rod, creel, the venerble hat dear
to every fisherman, and decorate with
favorite flies around the brim. Last.
but not least, they wear rubber boots
and-inexpressibles.
Recently they were fishing in a stream
In Martin County. Piscatrix, Jr.. was
IN advance. She was standing in the
middle of a stream, deftly casting into a
splendid pool below. Suddenly down
stream came two Piscators. They did
not know the charms hidden below the
fsherman's garb were those of the gent
Ter sex, and one them hailed her with
the freedom of fishermen on a stream:
Hello, old fellow /" he bayled.
"What luck ?"
Piscatrix turned. She has remarkably
tine eyes, and her voice-as was Corde-
has-is mellow, womanly one. She
turned and spoke:
"Oh, pretty fair, considering every
thing"
Plscator recoiled in amazement.
stumbled over stone, and suddenly sat
down in the stream.
"Great Scott, Bobp he cried as soon
as he had recovered from the shock and
his amazement, ''why, it's a woman p
And so it was. But although wom-
an, Miss Piscatrix can fsh.-iSa7s Fran
cisco ArnOnn1n
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
humping a Civilian.

The politeness of the cadets at West
Point, says a local letter, to the ladies
at their hops and germans is a proverb.
but they evidently consider the appear
ance of civilian, especially when he
dances well, as an arrant attempt to
Jump claim, in the language of Bret
Harte, which doesn't belong to him.
They have therefore organized a system
OF butting a civilian off the floor when
he presumes to dance, which is highly
scientific. This is directed solely at the
civilian and chivalrously spares his
partner; likewise the butting cadets
take care not to let their own partners
suffer during the bombardment. 1t is
a duel solely between the civil and the
military. The civilian is warmly greeted
when he appears in the ball room and
urged to dance. AS soon as he takes
two or three turns in the waltz q cadet
dancing at the same time comes lunoing
down the room, and cleverly whisking
his partner out of the way, lowers his
head and plants scientific butt directly
amldshlps of the civilian, which knocks
the wind out of him and doubles him
up like q jack-knife. Before he has
tlme 10 Strhghten up, another cadet
whirls around and butts him right in the
middle of the back. In half a minute a
batterlng ram In white trousers and a
gray coat has lit into him on one side
with a 'whack that would knock him
down if he wasn't held up by the blow
OF catapult on his left This is kent
up during the evening. Meanwhile half
the cadets are profuse in their apologies.
while the other half savagely demand of
the unfortunate victim what in the dick
ems he means by butting into them like
that. Between apologizing and receiv-
ing apologies, the trespasser is pretty
nearly exhausted, and has so MANY
hurts and bruises that he is a perfect
Lazarus by the time the mop is over,
He is always politely invited to return.
but one hop generally puts him
through.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
Keeping a Sound Bank.

An Eastern man VINO was in Wiscon-
sin few days ago stepped into bank
in small town to get a $50 bill
changed The cashier counted out $50
and then spoke to the bookkeeper. The
latter spoke to the janitor, and this in
dividual put on his hat and crossed the
street and returned in company with a
man who turned ont to be the president
and chief stakeholder. This person
stepped around to the safe, and by the
aid of the bookkeeper opened it and
handed the cashier $75, and charged it
to him on q day-hook. Later in the
day, as he met the Eastern man on the
street, he explained:
"Perhaps that transaction looked
queer to you, but five years ago I made
up my mind that if my cashier took
notion to skip he'd have to pawn his
boots to get beyond Chicago. The
bookkeeper watches the cashier, the
ianitor watches the bookkeeper, and |
keep such watch on all three that de-
pastors are paid five per cent. interest,
and not a game of poker or faro has
ever been played in this town."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
How COachmen Learn to Love.

''Will you tell me what relations ex-
ist between q coachman and his mis-
tress ?" l ventured to ask of a Long
Branch hotel keeper.
He looked thoughtfully for while,
and then said: every naturally slight
intimacy, if 1 can so express it, must ex-
list between them. For instance, she
will say to him, James, saddle my bay
mare at nine in the morning, and
come along yourself on Kate, as 1
wish to go for gallop into the country
Promptly at nine James is at his mis-
tress' cottage with his orders obeted to
to the letter. Very frequently James
is obliged to help my lady to the sad
die. He catches her tenderly about the
waist, and is obliged to place her dainty
foot in the stirrup, she in the meantime
smiling, not, perhaps, because James
touched her tiny foot, but because her
young heart is leaping with Joy at the
prospect of a dash over the adjoining
fields. While riding, if she sees any
thing to admire she will ask James his
opinion of it. James is bound TO agree
with her, and, of course, she is pleased.
And so it goes on until James has been
in her service for year or two, by
which time the Intimacy between them
is much greater in many respects than
existing between my lady and some of
her beaus."
''And it is in this way that love be-
tween coachmen and heiresses, which
afterward resulted in Opponents, be-
gan p asked.
Precisely" he replied; and then, by
the way of explanation, said: "Do Won
think it anything so remarkable? Are
we not of the same blood and nature as
our mistresses ?"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
Lucky BaldWin's Wife.

A Saratoga letter to the Washington
STIR says:-Mrs Lucky" Baldwin is
the latest sensation at the hotel where
she stays. She is only feet 6 inches in
height, but well formed and rather
pretty. She is nineteen years old, but
looks like girl of twelve, and dresses
like one. Her skirts are short and her
brown hair hangs down in two braids
tied at the ends with ribbon. Lucky,
her husband, is sixty-one years old and
a grandfather. The romantic story is
told that the present Mrs. Baldwin
studied architecture in San Francisco
with her father, whose profession it is.
He was summoned to appear before a
building board in San Francisco to give
his views on ventilation, but being too
i'll to do so, his bright young daughter
prepared the report and read it before
the board, of which Mr.. Baldwin was
member. So successfully did she pre-
sent her plans that the wealthy widower
fell in love with the young architect,
courted her, and In due course of time
she accepted the heart and hand of one of
California's most successful spectators.
They were married about two months
ago. Mrs. Baldwin appeared at the
hotel hop Saturday night in a pretty
white muslin, trimmed with embroidery
and lace The baby waist was confined
by sash of pink ottoman ribbon, and
her long braids of hair tied up with
pink ribbons. Bows of pink ribbon
were on each shoulder. Around her
head was q wreath of maiden-hair fern
studded with tuberoses and pink buds.
She looked the embodiment of the ideal
'.childish simplicity" so seldom seen
nowadays. She wears scarcely any
iewelry, and what she wears is of the
least snowy kind. There are children
here of ten and twelve years old who
look more matronly and dress more
like mature women than does this little
bride She does not seem to have had
her head turned in the least by her
thus far successful matrimonial venture,
nor by the attention she attracts during
this her first trip to the East.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

In the middle of the afternoon bake
them perfectly smooth, before they cool;
add to the mashed potato two table
spoonfuls of white sugar and a cupful
each of flour and lukewarm water, and
beat the mixture for five minutes, or I'M
til it foams; meantime dissolve half a
small cake of compressed yeast III gill
of lukewarm water, and add it to the
sponge when it foams, or use instead a
gill of homemade yeast; cover the bowl
containing the sponge with a thick
towel, folded several times, and set it
where no draught of air can strike it.
Just before bedtime put the sponge
into bread mixing bowl with four
quarts of sifted -four, a. level table
spoonful of salt, small cupful of sugar,
and four tablespoonfuls of lard or but
ter, chopped or rubbed into the flour;
add enough lukewarm water to make a
dough stiff enough to knead, and knead
it for an half hour, using flour enough
to prevent the dough sticking to the
hands or the board. When the dough
is smooth and shining put it into but
tered bowl or pan large enough for it to
double its volume in rising; butter the
top of the dough, cover the bowl with a
folded towel, and set it in place free
from draughts in summer, and in cold
weather near enough to the fire to pre-
vent any chilling of the dough. Two
hours before breakfast the next morn
ing knead the dough again for five
minutes; form some of it in little rolls
and the rest in loaves; put them III but
tered baking pans, brush the surfaces
with milk or little butter, cover them
with folded towel, put the pans where
they will be shielded from draughts,
and where the temperature will be
about 9S deg. Fair. let them rise until
they are double their size, and then
bake them; the rolls will be all the
better if there is time for them to rise
to mort than twice the original size be-
fore theT are put in the oven, because
the heat penetrates them so quickly
that there is very little chance for the
expansion to continue; the longer
volume OF loaves OF dough excludes the
heat longer, and they rise after they are
put into the oven; the rolls should be
put into a hot oven, and baked for
about fifteen or twerty minutes; less
heat is required for baking bread, and
before the loaf is taken from the oven a
sharp, small knife or a bright steel
needle should be run into the middle of |
the loaf. to make sure that 1t IS
cooked; if there is the |
slightest particle of moisture ON the
steel when it is Withdrawn from the |
bread, the baking should be continued.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
A Tramp Story.

A reporter early one morning re-
Gently met a queer customer, who,
Judging from his appearance and con-
versation, has been tramp and vagrant
for the last ten years. He was clad in
ragged garments and wore a SLOUGH hat,
shoes much too large for him and run
down at the heel, his entire outfit sug-
costing nomadic life He was sitting
on bench in the Smithsonian grounds,
and opened acquaintance by asking for
chew of tobacco, stating that he had
just come to town from North Carolina,
and was on his way to New York, his
original home. He was very talkative,
and said he had not been able to do
any hard work since the war, and had
to get along the best way he could.
s'Were you soldier 2" asked the re-
porter.
Yes; L served IN North Carolina
regiment, was taken prisoner, sent to
New York and lay there in hospital for
about two years sick with the rheu-
matism; was discharged without dol
lar, and have been doing the best I
could ever since"
''How are you employed now?"
Doing nothing but living on what
people choose to give me-"
"Why do you come to Washington? ?"
Because it is the easiest place for
men like me to live."
GLOW SOP asked the reporter.
give been all over the country and
find Washington has the best accom-
modations for such as l am"
Cant you work for your living ?"
asked the reporter.
"When l get in the workhouse, down
in the east part of the city, find can
do more work than in any other place.
They have way there of getting work
out of man, whether he will or not,
but he has enough to eat and comfortable
quarters in which to sleep. like it,
and will get back there again soon for
all the winter. I've no money to get
clothes with, and they furnish suit,
striped but warm. No one knows me
here, and | can go on the street and
work with the rest until am tired, then
get sick awhile till rested again.
"And you like this kind of life ?"
"Well, you see, I've got used to it,
and L never did care to work steady, and
I'm obliged to sleep good deal. 1t
agrees with me better than anything,
and [ don't get sick when L have plenty
OF sleep and enough to eat The fact
is, I'm but little cost to myself or any
body else, pick up what can, and never
owe anybody anything"
"Where do you go now?"
81 shall tramp to New York, and
come back to spend the winter in Wash
ington if can get in over yonder, and
take my chances further on"
This was one of the class of men that
makes up the chain gangs, and the
Commissioners make them earn their
living by cleaning the cutters, the alleys
and all the foul places Washington
Star.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
AN OMISSION.
A Little Item Which was Not Taken Into
Account,

A few days ago two men, who were
afterward found to be Detroiters, arrived
in town about fifty miles to the west of
this, leading a pig, says the Detroit Free
Press. 1t was perhaps big enough and
heavy enough to be called a hog, but
they termed it pig, and as they turned
it over to the care of the landlord at
whose inn they proposed to rest for the
night one of the men explained
''Be awful careful with that pig. He's
a daisy-a new breed just from Scotland.
We've sold him to farmer out here for
$50 and we don't want anything to hap
pen to him."
The landlord locked the pig up, and
then began to think and cogitate and
suspect. When the strangers bad gone
TO bed he called in some of the boys and
said:
1--WE twigged the racket; them two
fellows are sharpers, and that's a guess
ing pig. Tomorrow they will give you
a chance to guess at its weight at ten
cents q guess, and you'll be cleaned out
only you won't! AS the fellows sleep
we will weigh their pig and beat their
game"
Nobody slept until the pig was taken
over to the scales and weighed. He
pulled down 40 pounds to a hair, and
the villagers went home and hunted up
their nickels and dreamed of pigs and
scales and sharpers through the remain
der of the night.
Next morning the pig was led around
in front, and before starting off on his
journey one of the owners remarked to
the assembled crowd:
Gentlemen, Tn going to weigh this
pig directly. Maybe some of you would
like to guess on his weight? I'll take
all guesses, at ten cents each, and who
ever hits it gets fifty cents"
This provoked a large and selected
stock of winks and smiles, but no one
walked up until the man said that any
person could guess as many times as he
cared to-, provided a dime accompanied
each guess. Then rush set in. Three
or four merchants put up fifty guesses
each. a Justice of the peece took thirty.
A lawyer sail about twenty would do
for him. Before there was any let-up
in the guessing about six hundred had
been registered and paid for. Every
soul CT 'em guessed at ITO pounds. 1t
was curious what unanimity there was
in the guessing, but the pig men didn't
seem to notice it. When all had been
given a chance the pig was led to the
scales, and 10 his weight was exactly
ia pounds !
you see, gentlemen" explained the
spokesman, "while this animal only
weighs 40 pounds along about eleven
o'clock at night, we feed him about five
pounds of oatmeal in the morning be-
fore weighing. You forgot to take this
matter into consideration p
Then somebody kicked the landlord,
and he kicked the justice and the justice
kicked a merchant, and when the pig
men looked back from distant hill the
whole town was ont kicking itself and
throwing empty wallets into the river.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
ODDS AND ENDS.

PARIS has named a street after OAR
win.
THERE are $50 baskets of peaches in
car load.
STEEL nails are taking the place OF
iron ones.
GREENLAND whales heart is yard
In diameter.
The French press is full these days OF
assaults upon England.
ABUNDANT harvests are reported from
Minnesota and Dakota.
A GOOD medical authority says beer is
conducive to heart disease.
THERE are only three species of poison
Gus serpents in this country.
KENTUCKY has beat her best wheat
record this year by 5000, 900 bushels.
a ST.. LOUIS man wants divorce be-
cause his wife makes him say ''please."
Troy, n. Y, manufactures Sc, 900. 600
linen collars every year, besides $780,
600 shirts.
THE principal owners of the Central
Iowa Railway are at legal war among
themselves.
THERE is no public gambling in Lon
don. The "club-room" system is extern
sive however.
THERE are more than two or three
women whose wealth is greater than
Queen Victoria's.
The cost of the British expedition up
the Nile is estimated at about forty
millions of dollars.
TWELVE petrifed CLAIMS were found
at a depth of $50 feet last week while
boring oil at Purissima, Cal.
A WOMAN in Canada has been fined
for persistently wheeling baby carriage
In front of neighbours door.
MIR. CHARLES MANBY, builder of the
Aaron Manly, the first iron steamer
which ever went to sea, died lately.
FROM one-eighth of an acre this sea-
son DIR. G. 81. Symmes, of Peru, Fla,
gathered ?, 500 pounds of crow-foot hay.
NOTWITHSTANDING the cholera scare
the Seine is described as being in many
places near Paris as filthy as a reeking
sewer.
IT has been determined that the site
of the Washington Monument belongs
TO a private society and not to the Uuited
States.
SIX hundred Canadian voyagers have
been called for to 60 up the Nile with
the expedition for the relief of General
Gordon.
WOMEN and girls are nearly one-half
of the depositors in the savings banks of
Massachusetts, having to their credit
S117, 932. 399.
THE Occur d'Alene mines are playing
out, and a long procession of broken
miners is walking back to civilization
over the mountains.
THERE is one town In the country in
which the inhabitants are sure to sleep
o nights. Leadville, Col. has not sim
gle cat within its limits
HANDMADE envelopes cost originally
five cents each. The envelope-making
machine now turns them out so that a
thousand are sold for thirty cents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
A KINGLY JOKER.
An Eccentric MOnarch's FOndness for Pruc-
IicRI jokes on His Retinue.

Multifarious are the anecdotes
some of them, L really believe told of
the King. He is a misogynist, hater
of court ceremOnials, yet withal a man
who stands upon his dignity; pas
sionate lover of music and mountain
scenery, and a great stickler for the
autonomy of Bavaria. He will not have
1t Prussianized at any price. His fav-
orite seat Is hunting lodge up In the
mountains. 1t is said that he sleeps in
large lofty room, with the ceiling
painted to represent the armament, and
a practicable moon shedding mellow
light from one quarter of the artificial
heavens. The perspective is managed
so as to give the illusion of spaciousness,
and through the distant trees cut out in
the canvas, as he reclines, may be heard
the splash of waters. Their lullaby
bushes him to Sleep M9cenas had a
fondpess for the same soporlhc- Some
times His Majesty rises in the might,
has black steed saddled, end dashes
of at a whirlwind speed up and down
the hill roads-which are well kept up
for that reasonable a phantom horse
man pursued by some relentless decree
of the supernatural powers. The finest
stud In Bavaria is to be found in his
stables, but the cattle are cast soon and
often; they are thoroughly worn out and
broken down after a few years in the
royal service. He plays practical jokes
ON his retinue sometimes. 1t is related
OF him that a Minister arrived in hot
haste once to crave an audience on i'm
portant business of state. The King
was out hunting the chamois, but by
some chance the Minister succeeded in
catching up to the party. Ludwig pre-
coded him to a game-keeper's hut, where
he sometimes used to, lunch, and went
In telling him to attend him. The Min
lister waiting one hour, two hours, and
at last, losing patience, and fearing that
his royal master had been attacked by
some sudden illness, forced in the door.
No king was there. He made his exit
by window at the back, and was away
on the high hills in pursuit of the game.
In the capital His Majesty often com.
mands an opera-generally one by Wag-
ner, for whom he has as strange a pre-
objection as a predecessor on the throne
had for Lola MonteZ-and this opera is
produced in the middle of the day. The
theatre is darkened, and nobody is adj
mitted to the auditorium but himself.
If he is pleased he sends prima donna,
not bracelet nor a ring. but bouquet
of flowers plucked by his own hands.
He once had "Lohengrin" enacted on
the Starnberger See, the borders of the
lake having been illuminated q qjO7no
at his expense.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
HOW JAKEY DIED.
a touching Little Story of Real Life In
Chicago Newspaper.

A poor newsboy can be eloquent when
his heart is in the story he Is telling
and however his words may have been
"worked up" by reporter, they often
hold the ring of real life IN them after
thew oct into print. In the following
touching passage from the Chicago
Herald we recognize all the homely
vigor of sincerity, and trace the general
impulse that could miss 1.-THE show for
the sake of suffering mate, and the line
sympathy that sometimes CLOVIS under
ragged Jackets as well as under velvet.
Eight or ten newsboys and bootblacks
stood on a downtown corner, listening
with open mouth and bullying eyes to
henarrative of ''Limpy" Ferguson. He
said:
It was between Saturday night and
Sunday mornin'. L wud ov told yer
afore, but what wild de shine and de
papers I amt had no time. Well, you
knows. in course, that Jakey was weakly
like, and he dida't have no more wind
to call a paper or shine than sparrer.
No omnibus nor fre-engine going by
could stop your pipe, Smokey, nor
yours, Cheyenne, nor yours, Biler, nor
nine, but a trottin' sulky drivin' over
the pavement wud av drowned him out.
Well, he stood on his corner a-shiv-
erin and a-shakin', when 1 comes along
goin' to de show, and he sez, -"Limpy,
I'm awful tired, and don't know how
to walk any more.
I walks up to him, takes told av him,
and jumped back like when 1 put my
clamps on his arm.
1t wuz Just like taking hold of gas
fixture done up in rag-no meat on him
at all; and he looked at me savage-llke,
as if his eyes kim up from his boots.
Well, I stud him off to one side and then
seq to myself, s'Dis ere kid has got ter
go home. and I must do it fur him. u
So l shoulders him and started off
lively, thinking 1 wud take him home
and then take de cable-cars back down
town and go to de show yet.
I walks up Clark street, all the cops
a-looking at me, and wan or two av them
askin' what was up, and after long and
hard pull [ got him home. 1t pretty
nigh broke nv back, but I kept sing
in out to him, -
"Brace up, Jakey" and "We'l soon
be dere, JaBey."
Well, when I got him to his house, his
ole mother kim out and say, ''What !
Jakey got run'd over ?" And I SEE, SEE
I, ''No'm. Jakey's just tired and sick
like, and L carried him home, cause he
wuz shiverin' and cryin' down town."
Well, laid him down on the floor,
and den I stud him up, and he dropped
again, and den de ole woman she stud
him up, but 'twant no good. He had
cracked somewhere on de way up, and
'tant no use tryin' to work him any
more.
Den I took de papers outen his hand,
he gripped 'em tight all de way up
and we laid him out ON de bed and de
ole woman folded his hands.
That's the way we buried him Sunday,
and de preacher-none of yer big uns,
but student feller-he said Jakey was
asleep. ga little sleep, little slumber.
a little folding of the hands to sleep"
seq he, wen 1 knew all the time he wuz
deader'n a PAWN stun. He wuz, boys,
and I knows if