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Il hand or new Engines, Boilers, Saw-mills. Head
ing and Stave Machinery. HADLEY. WRIGHT 81
CO. 113 and 125 s. Tennessee street, Indianapolis.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
Hammers of the Prehistoric Races.

At a meeting of the Academy of Nat
ural Sciences Mr.. III. L. Cresson made
a few remarks upon hammer of native
copper found in the Bohemian Mine,
Michigan, by S. F. Peck. 1t exhibited
a distinct laminar surface and structure
caused by hammering pieces of native
copper together while in a cold state, in
which our aborigines living in districts
north of Mexico seem to have acquired
great proficiency. This is shown by the
numerous wedges, chisels, hammers
and other implements found in the an
cient mining pits of Keewenaw Poiut,
Lake Superior and at Isle Royal, to-
gether with axes, spears and arrow
points, ornaments, etc, In Ohio and
throughout those sections of country
which were at one time inhabited by the
mound builders, a race of people whose
remains indicate a state of advancement
in the arts and manufactures superior
to the savage nations which succeeded
them. The speaker likewise called at
tention to the haft hole in this hammer,
as peculiar to the hammers pertaining
to the Neolithic and later periods Of
the Eastern continent. 1t is q very in
refreshing IdCI budI ISCeDb ulSCONGElSS
have shown upon various forms of cop
per implements, deposited in their bu-
rial places by the mound-bulders,
markings similar to those left by molds
in the process of casting; it may there
fore be supposed that these people
were acquainted with the art of.
smelling copper beside that of
it. Prof. Foster, in
his Prehistoric Races of the United
States" mentions the fact that In col
lie ton made by Mr.. Perkins he saw
copper implements of mound origin
that bear well-defined traces of the
mold. 1T is impossible" he adds, "to
infer, after careful examination of the
specimens, that the ridges have been
left in the process of hammering or oxi
dation. The more I examine their arts
and manufactures the stronger becomes
my conviction that they were something
more than q barbaric people" Col.
in Smithsonian Contribu-
tions to knowledge for 1888" mentions
that In all the pits examined by him
traces of fires were to be seen on the
sides thereof, and fragments of char
coal and wood in the debris, indicating
the use of fire in assisting the action of
the wedges and in extracting the masses
of copper. The melting point of cop
per is about 1898 degrees centigrade,
which no doubt fused the small points
of copper attached to the larger masses,
which the quick perception of these
aboriginal people noticed, and led them
to utilize in casting The artistic forms
of copper implements, whether cast or
hammered, cannot fail to impress the
observer that a race of men existed in
early times whose origin is enveloped
in mystery and whose skill rivals man
of historic times, assisted by all the in
ventions of this mighty age of iron.
Prof. Lewis remarked that much the
greater number of prehistoric copper
hammers were evidently produced by
hammering He believed that arehoeol-
ogists had generally adopted the opin-
ion that the mound-builders were not
an extinct people, but were the ances-
tors of existing tribes.-PhilddelpAia
Le10el.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
A Happy Moment.

Gone of the memorial moments of my
life, says Mrs. Alcott, sis that in which,
as [ trudged to school on wintry day,
my eyes fell upon large yellow poster
with these delicious words:
"'Bertha,' new tale by the author
of The Rival Prima Donnas, will APP
pear on Saturday.
81 was late it was bitter cold; people
iostled me; L was MORALLY afraid I
should be recognized but there 1 stood,
feasting my eyes on the fascinating
poster, and saying proudly to myself, in
the words of the great Vincent
Crummles, This, this, is fame ! That
day my pupils had au indulgent teacher;
for, while they were struggling with
their pot-hooks, was writing immortal
works, and when they droned out their
multiplication table, [ was counting out
the noble fortune my pen was to earn
for me in the dim, delightful future.
That afternoon my sisters made pill
grimage to behold the famous placard.
and finding it torn by the wind, boldly
stole it, and came home to wave it like
triumphal banner in the bosom of the
excited family. The tattered paper still
exists, folded away with other relics of
those early days, so hard and yet so
sweet, when the first small victories
were won, and the enthusiasm of youth
lent romance to LIES drudgery.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
Peter C0Oper's FayOrite Poems.

Writing of Peter Cooper, in the De-
oember Century, Mrs. Susan n. Carter
says: ellis opinions were positive, and
he stated them definitely; and his illus
trations were often simple and even
homely. 1t would be difficult to tell the
occasions, so numerous were they,
which drew from him the poems and
little rhymes which were his solace and
delight. He told them to strangers in
their visits to the school, or often he re-
peated to the pupils verses of which he
was specially fond. Among those he
particularly liked were lines from
'Pope's Essay on Man., which appealed
strongly to him by its common sense
and the knowledge it showed of human
nature. l believe he knew the whole of
the poem, but the parts he oftenest
quoted were those that are nearly as
familiar as proverbs.
"Iook round our world; behold the chain of
love.
Combining all below and all above
And there is hardly any one familiar
with Mr.. Cooper who has not heard
more times than once:
'Oh, happiness our beings end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy
That something still which prompts tn eternal
sigh,
For which we bear to live or dare to die
Remember man, ''the universal cause
Acts not by partial but by general laws, y
And makes what happiness we justly call
Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
/" Health consists with temperance alone,
And peace, o virtue, peace is all thine own.
"'Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part there all the honor lies.
" Know then this truth enough for man to
know,
Virtue alone is happiness below
8 'Our own bright prospect to be blest.
Our strongest motive TO assist the rest
OF all other parts of this poem the last
was the one, perhaps, about which he
cared most, and which most closely har-
monized with his own theory of life:
" God loves from whole to parts; but human
soul
Must rise from individual to the whole,
Sef-iove but serves the virtuous mind to wake
AS the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake;
The centre mov'd, circle straight succeeds,
Another still, and still another Spreads
Friend, parent, neighber, first it will embrace:
His country next, and next all human race;
Wide and more wide, tn BORROWINGS of the
mind
Take every creature in of every kind;
Earth smiles around, with boundless beauty
blest,
And heaven beholds its image in his breast
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
The YYaY Sfates Grnn.

Talking one evening with Abraham
Lincoln, while he was President, said
an old friend to the Emancipationist,
we were estimating the relative in
fuence of men from different sections
In the councils of the nation.
Kelley, l think the Western man
viii constantly exercise a greater in
fluenee in the houses of Congress-"
"Why so?" said L.
well" said he, "do you know the
history of our beautiful corn, with ears
fourteen inches long and grain of a size
that our grandfathers had never seen ?"
mo, don't, " said /.
well, it came here in little nubbins
about as long as your finger and with
tiny seeds, and they were planted and
grew, and the farmer, during the win
ter, picked out the best ears, and he
and his good wife picked off again the
finer grains, and these were planted,
and thus from year to year the plant
grew; but it needed transplanting, and.
as settlement went West, the best ears
and the best grains were carried West.
and the tide of immigration moved
through Pennsylvania and New York
into Ohio, and thence still further
West; still the best ears were taken
and the best grains were picked for
seed, and thus by the time it got as far
West as what we call the Western
States, the ears had come to be foot
long and the grains nearly as long as
your thumb"
This, L know, was somewhat exag-
gerated.
Now" said he, @that is a good Illus
tration of the way States grow"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
The Washington Monument.

The monument has now reached q
height Of 40 feet. With oil of its enor-
nous weight it is but the one-sixty-
fourth of an inch-the thickness of q
sheet of stout writing paper-out of
plumb. Our party went up in eight
minutes from the base to the top IN an
Otis elevator, taking up two of Hugh
Slsson's marble blocks for the last course
of stone laid this season. 1t was tremu-
lous ascent up the dark marble alley
with those heavy stones, the elevator
quivering as it went along, and as it
reached sunlight at the top, audible
breathing indicated that relief from the
suspense was a boon to most of the
party. The ascent could have been
made by stairs which are constructed
along the inner walls to the top.
Around the monument at the present
height are swung excellently contrived
hempen hammocks from all -four sides,
so in case of fall no danger would ensue
to the workmeD. These tumbles are not
dreaded, and are said to be frequent. A
week since Baltimore beauty so dazed
a workmen that in lifting his cap and
stepping back to let her pass he fell
over, and in the hammock. 400 feet
above the terra firma, continued his ad-
miring gaze with his cap still in hand
The superintendent says that in five
years the most serious accident has not
been more than a mashed finger among
his masons and laborers. The height
now to go is 145 feet. The base of the
upper platform will commence when 500
feet Is reached = This will be as high as
the visitor can go. The interior of the
monument is twenty-five feet square,
which continues to height Of $50 feet.
Its dimensions are then increased to 81
5-12 feet by the width of the walls being
reduced; from thats..aaiss+-tc-the top the
inner walls are Perpendicular. The outer
face of the walls has batter or slope of
one-fourth inch to the foot until they
will reach 500 feet.
As before said, the ascent is made by
an elevator, one of the Otis patent. 1t
has carrying strength of seventy-fve
tons, and the wire cables would break
only at test OF $50 tons. Even with a
break the safeguards are such as would
prevent fall of over ten inches. Yet
the superintendent says he has frequent
ly had to stop, return and put menaoff,
whose fears were such as to compel re-
lief. He added he never knew a lady to
be unnerved in that direction.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
John Randolph in Congress.

The despot of the debates for many
years was the eccentric John Randolph,
who would ride on horseback from his
lodgings in Georgetown to the Capitol
and enter the House, wearing fur cap
with a large visor, heavy great-coat
over a suit of Virginia homespun, and
white-topped boots with jingling silver
spurs. Striding down the main aisle,
followed by his brace of pointer-dogs,
he would stop before his desk, upon
which he would deliberately place his
cap, his gloves and his riding-whip,
listening meanwhile to the debate. If
he took any interest in it, he would
begin to speak at the first opportunity,
without any regard to what had pre-
viously been said. After he had uttered
few sentences land had drunk glass
of porter, which an assistant door
keeper had orders to bring whenever he
rose to speak,, his tall, meager form
would writhe with passion; his long,
bony index-fDger would be pointed at
those ON whom he poured his wrath;
and the expression of his beardless,
high-cheeked and sallow countenance
would give additional force to the brill
liant and beautiful sentences which he
would rapidly utter, full of singing
witticisms and angry sarcasms. So dis
tinct was his enunciation, that his shrill
voice could he heard in every part of
the hall; his words were select and
strictly grammatical, and the arrange
ment of his remarks was always har-
monious and effective.
Randolph, having had a dinner
table difficulty with Willis Aston, of
North Carolina, never let pass an OPP
portunity for abiding to him in the
most bitter and contemptuous manner.
Aston, enraged one day by some Ian
guage used by Randolph in debate, said,
as the Representatives were leaving the
hall, and Randolph was passing him:
"The puppy has still some respect
shown him." Whether the allusion re-
ferred to Randolph or to one of his
pointer dogs, which was following him,
VS. afteFward a question, but Randolph
Immediately began beating Aston over
the heal with the handle of his heavy
riding-whip, inficting several wounds.
The next day the Grand Jury, which
was in session. indicted Randolph for
breach of the peace, but the court al
lowed him to offer the remark about the
puppy as evidence in extenuation, and
inflicted a fine of $20.-Be1l: Perley
POOTP i'm the GP1lf1L1'1I
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
"Peesness Yhas Shaky.''

A few days ago clothing dealer il
one of the cities up the lake shore opened
the door for a customer who laid a
bundle on the counter and began
"Two months ago bought this ERE
suit of clothes from you"
"Oxactly, my frendt, und it doan' fit. y
81 bought it to bury my brother in.
Perhaps you remember the circum-
stance %
"OxactIy-mit der greatest pleasure.
Well, did you dig him oop und take
off der clothes?"
''No sirl My brother lay in trance
for four days and then came to life and
Is now perfectly veil. -
"Vhat shame to act like doti Und
so lie doan' vhant der clothes?"
"No; they are too small for him.
Being as he never wore them we thought
you might take the suit back and return
the money"
dot vhas impossible, my frendt."
"Why?"
"Vhell, dot vhas not only against all
der rules of commerce, but such q
practice would bust a peesness all oop."
II paid you SO; can't you give me
twelve?"
"Ompossible.
''Say ten"
'My frendt, you doan' know how dis
clothing peesDess vhas. You bought
dot suit eight weeks ago."
81 did,"
''Vhell, right away after dot dere vhas
an awful decline in wool. Next comes
some big failures in Rochester und New
York. On top of dot sell oudt to my
brudder. Den my brudder assigns to
my wife. Den cotton goes down und
my wife assigns to me. Shust now der
clothing market WAS shaky, und only
an hour ago l gift my.brudder shattel
mortgage to secure q loan OF $780,"
''Say So for the suit.
ST couldn't do it. If you like to leaf
it und take 81 ofercoat shut my eyes
so dot doan' see You take it away und
half to tell my brudder dot we doan'
make enough profit to pay our gas-bills. "
eth never do that-neverl"
"Vell, dot vhas for you to say. If
your brudder vhas man he dies when
his time comes und not make all dis con-
fusion. | doan' keep sthore for men to
go into frances und come to life. Good
byel like to oblige, but peesness vhas
too shaky. "-DetrO1 Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
Good Manners.

Good manners imply more than Nero
ceremony, mere att, ntion t., established
forms. The habitual observance of GER
tain conventional rules and usages does
not make a lady or gentleman. Some
degree of formally is necessary in con-
Quoting our relations and intercourse
one with another, but there must be
with it some heart, some genuine love
for our kind; otherwise we can neither
be the instruments or recipients of en-
joyments in the midst of the social cir
Gle. To impart or receive pleasure in
society there must be at least "the flow
of SOUL" if not the feast of reason. 1"
We may admire this or that person for
special accomplishments of manner,
style,and conversation; but if these are
seen and felt to be merely artificial, not
at all involving the affections, we can
never love the same. No gifts of mind,
nor elegance of person, nor propriety
of personal bearing can compensate for
the want of heart in company. 1t is
only the heart that can touch and I'M
press the heart. A warm confding soul
is the element of all enjoyment and
pleasure in the social world; and where
this is there can be no stiffness. no
studied Journalism of manner or Ian
gua0e.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
The Editor and the Burglar.
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY THAT WAS M
PROVED BY BOTH OF THEM.

Once upon time an editor awoke in
the night to find burglar hunting
through all the pockets of his clothes.
'What means this unsecmly intru-
SION" asked the editor, rising upon his
elbow.
81 am In search of money" replied
the burglar, as he turned the last pocket
inside out, ''but, alas fear / have got
into the wrong house. / have found
nothing but bit of lead pencil and a
ticket to a magical gift show. With
your permission, will retire as [ came. -
zone moment" said the editor. 81
do not think you are a subscriber to my
paper. Allow me TO call your attention
to its superior features. All the local
news-a carefully-selected miscellany
impartial editorial discussions of the
leading questions household depart
ment that will. delight your wife-a relig-
ions department that wall direct the
wayward steps of the wicked to the
straight and narrow path-no objection
able advertisements inserted, and only
81 a year, strictly in advance. l shall
be glad TO enter your Eame on my list.
You doubtless know that every man
should support his local press"
81 am glad you have called my atten-
ton to this matter" said the burglar,
'tand L will subscribe. Here are 50 and
my address ON the bureau. You are a
man of business"
EYES," replied the editor, 81 never
miss an opportunity TO push trada."
"Nor either" il the burglar, "and
therefore 1 will steal the 81 / have just
nail r--,. f,N,. - -
And pocketing the bill, the burglar
out Of the window and slid down
the lightning rod.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
A Patent Car-COupIer.

There will never come a time when
the headquarter Office of railroad line
will not receive at least one visit per
week from the man with patent car
coupler. During the last fifteen years
he has called about four times a week,
and that average is being maintained in
a way to wear out hall carpets as fast as
manufacturers can desire. The car
couplers are not all alike, but the inven-
tors are. The programme is as regular
as if it had been adopted by a large
majority. The inventor asks for the
President of the road and is shown to
the office:
"Good morning. Is the President imp
"No, sir; he won't be in until after
dinner. Anything special ?"
"Well, rather special. L have in
vented-'
"Ah ! A patent car coupler You
must go to the General Superintendent. "
cts the biggest thing of the kind
ever heard of. "
eyes, I know, but you'll find him
four doors down the hall"
The inventor opens the fourth door
and clerk inquiries
"What is your business ?"
s'Well, had lame foot last summer
and couldn't do much of any work, and
so [ set about it and"
Invented car coupler, of course
The General Superintendent is not in.
The third door to the left for the
Assistant"
The third door opens to reveal an
attendant, ready to inquire what is
wanted
"WelI, being I had got to come to
town to buy myself some hickory shirt
ing, l thought l might as well bring
along"
''Your patent car. coupler. We were
expecting you. Go down to the yard
master.
Everybody in our town says this is
the biggest thing ever invented, and I
reckon
Fright this way to go down to the
yardmaster's office.p
The yardhs--s4er~ isn't Tie train
dispatcher won't listen. The gate
keeper has no time. The depot police
man may look at the invention some
other day. When he entered the depot
with that patent coupler under his arm
his mind was made up to let the
Michigan Central or Lake Shore put it
on their cars for $50, 900 cash down.
Two hours have done the business for
him, and as he starts up town the
coupler Is thrown recklessly under a
seat in the waiting room and the in
ventor hopes from the tops of his boots
that somebody will steal it before he
gets back.-Detr0it Free Press.