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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
Wanted a Will.

A colored man about go years of age,
blind in one eye and walking with a
cane, bobbled up stairs into the Office of
Griswold street lawyer the other day
and announced that he desired to make
his will.
SCOT much property to leave?" asked
the lawyer.
"Well, sab, Ize persessed of a dog, a
cook-stove, wheelbarrow, an two fiat
irons dat my fust wife left me"
"And who are you going to leave them
toP"
"My darter, Nancy. ober on Indiana
street. Ize married agin, you know, an
wants to put dat property whar' my
present wife can't git it. She doan't git
muffin belongin' to me if I can help it. 3"
'It will cost you SIS to have a will
drawn"
"Shool Can't cost dat p
eyes. it will"
"Den I'll run de dog off, lend de
wheelbarrow, pocket de fatirons an
stan by to rush de cook-stove outer de
house de fust time de ole woman goes to
de grocery. Kin git warrant heah ?"
"What for ?''
''Fur assault an battery. When de
ole woman finds what Ize done she'll
walk all ober me, an I might as well
save time by gittin' out de warrant now. ="
He was directed to the proper place,
and he went away saying that it would
perhaps be still better to have her ar
rested and sent up for ninety days in ad-
vance.-Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
Hints for the Household.

Either pickles or catsup should be
eaten with cold meat.
Celery is good for headache, and is an
excellent brain food.
An extra mai, an old one, should be
placed in the hallway on rainy day.
To take out ink stains soak in milk
for several hours, then apply little
lemon juice.
Silver, either plated or solid, should
be washed in hot suds and dried quickly
with soft CLOTH
Rice boiled very slowly in milk and
sweetoned is very palatable and healthy
dish for children.
The most bealthful nightcaps for
keeping the hair smooth are made out
of soft cotton and are crocheted.
A bunch of peacock feathers tied with
a ribbon makes pretty ornament to
hide a bad spot on the parlor wall.
A patch should always be put in
square or oblong, and the seams care
fully dampened and pressed afterward
on the wrong side.
To prevent children losing their nit
tens or gloves, sew on each one long
ribbon and fasten the ribbon to the i'll
side of the coat sleeve.
Door panels can be prettiiy orna-
mented with pictures and decalcomanies
and then vanished. The pictures
should be fastened with -four paste.
Dishes to shine brightly should be
washed first in suds aud then dipped in
clear hot water and let drain. They re-
quire little or no drying.
Cau!ihowers taste well with sauce
made with lump of melted butter, a
little cold water and teaspoonful of
flour mixed smoothly and cooked.
Feathers slightly uncurled by the
damp air may be restored by holding
over hot stove, then shaking and re-
peating until curled Care should be
taken not to burn the feather.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03

edged bride. Now she goes out tc
dress. and doesn't come in again until
all the dresses are tried on. Then they
put two chairs for the bride and bride
groom to sit down in. They sit down
and talk together if they are not too
bashful. But they do not sit loug, for
| it is getting late. The bridegroom
arises and takes his wife by the hand
and leads her to the door of their
chamber. Their mother puts piece of
dough over the door. They thrust their
hands into the dough in token that they
are one. Then they go into we'll
lighted room, and the bridegroom's
mother shuts the door. The next day
the people call ON the bride and carry
her presents of money and sit with
her. She treats her gansts with coffee,
the nargileh water pipel and cigar
cites. The ceremony Is ended"
Mrs. Alley then cane down to current
news: ''The pcopEe-%7s''ilss2aiiss lfs'sd are in
dolent and slow to work; slow IN every
thing but stabbing. Give them chance
to steal and they viii not stop to eat or
sleep, but will work fast then. While
my neighbors here don't steal from me,
the Arab, as a rule, is thief. Mr.
Floyd and wife, Mr.. Ward, and two or
three more are all there are left now of
the Maine Jaffa colony. I goout among
my Arab neighbors. When they are
sick they send for me and I go. 1 said
to myself before God that if these Arabs
are converted to Christianity it must be
by being good to them. I am not per-
feet, by any means. One thing I've got |
that s very wrong-Ive got too much
temper. I was thinking the other day
that I should like to see somebody from
my old home. Isn't it queer you should
come ?"
Willie gives us the full census of the
survivors of the Maine Jaffa colony as
follows: Herbert Clark and family
Frank, Mary j., and sister, and the
mother, ElIen); Arthur Leighton and
daughter and son, and Melville Ward
tour families
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
THE F1EEr1Na SHOW.

How doth the busy little grocer? Oh,
he doth very, very well, thank you.
When he soaketh the dried peas, they
resemble very closely the green fresh
pea of the garden, rather than tie buck
shot of the boarding house. Moreover,
he boilcth the orange, and straightway
its shriyelliness and wrinkledness de-
parteth from it; so does its juices, but it
looks round and plump and large. And
your butcher, how does it happen that
he always gives you overweight? Is he
not good and generous? Indeed he is,
because he has learned that by tossing
three-pound roast mp to the ceiling OF
his shop and so letting it drop upon the
scales, or by holding it as high as his
head and hurting it with great force
upon the scales, he can bounce the indi-
Gator around to the efive-and-a-half-pound
notch, and then say, carelessly, "Oh
well, call it five pounds" and switch it
away before the scales can spring back
to their normal condition. Oh, keep
your eye on all the boys. They are
good citizens, but this world is such
feeting show we are all OF us liable toget
drawn into the hippodrome business
once in while BURDETrE.
GEORGE WASHINGTON SMITH.
A well-known citizen of Detroit was
walking up Woodward avenue one day
last week when he saw an old colored
man in advance of him who frequently
did chores in his family. Wishing his
services the gentleman called to him in
a voice that demanded attention
"Georgep'
There was no answer, not the slightest
Indication that the old darkey heard
aim so the gentleman called again
George Washington p
Not a glimmer of recognition the
Gentleman knew he was right in the
Individual and was quite sure of the
omenclature, but he thought he would
lake another attempt
George Washington Smith -
The old man turned quickly, grinning
18th recognition.
eyes, sab, that's me, sah."
"Why didn't you answer me before ?"
sked the citizen, Indignantly.
How'd I know, sab, dat rs the
antleman yoh wanted L never answer
} no front name, sab dere mont be
lother Gawge Washington, bnt when
ou put de Smith to it, dat settles de
int. Use all detention now, sah," and
le old fellow beamed with pleasure at
aving settled an important point of
iquette to his satisfaction Detroit
rec Press,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
"Shoo Can't cost dat p
eyes. it will" "
A Wife's Admiration.

Sir Arthur Wellesley, before he be-
came the Duke of Wellington, married a
charming Irish Lady, Catherine Paken.
ham. They had been long attached to
each other, and the marriage took place
just after he had returned from his bril-
liant career in India. During his ab-
sence of eleven years she never wrote to
him, yet her affection was constant.
When Lady Wellesley was presented
to Queen Charlotte, her Majesty said,
"I am happy to see at my court so
bright an example of constancy. But
did you really never write one letter to
Sir Arthur during his long absence ?"
"No, never, your Majesty"
"And did you never think of him ?"
eyes, your Majesty, very often"
She was proud of her husbands repu-
tation, but prouder of the fact that he
merited it. just before her death, she
was visited by friends who found her
lying on a sofa in a room filled with the
magnificent presents of cities, kingdoms
and sovereigns. When the visitors
gazed upon them with admiration, the
Dutchess exclaimed, with a weak
voice:
Gall tributes to merit There's the
value all pure. no curruption suspected
even That could not be said of the
Duke of Marlborough Youths Com
paniOn.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
THE ILL-FATED MANISTEE.
Thrilling Stories of Sufferings on the Lake
by Survivor.

Mr.. CarIston, of Duluth, Mimi, received
letter from friend who was passenger
on the ill-fated Manistee, of which the
following is q synopsis:
"When the boat went out" the letter
goes on to state, "they encountered a
very heavy gale from the southwest, and
when about twenty miles out the boat
was put about, but could not make it,
and broke in two. Lifeboats were taken
out. but before they were launched all
but one were swept away in the storm,
and only nine persons who were on
board were allowed to get in that one.
They had terrible time, for after the
steamer went down there was nothing
but wide expanse of water before
them.
They rolled around on the turbulent
waters-cold, wet and hungry for three
days, and one by one dropped off, death
having come to their relief. Some of
them were frozen to death; some died
from sheer exhaustion and exposure to
the wind. They say that Captain Mckay
never left the steamer, but wrapped him
self up in his heavy overcoat and re-
marked:
81 will never leave the boat until the
last soul is of. ! am captain of this
boat, and if she is to be coffin for any
body she will be my coffin.
After the men left the boat they say
the Manistee made one plunge under
the waves and that was the last of her.
They also report that when they left her
the crew and ten passengers were on
board. Out of those who started in the
boat only three were saved and reached
Houghton.
They say the wreck occurred off Eagle
Harbor, and that there was no possible
chance of saving her under any circum-
stances. They add that at the last,
when everybody knew there was no
hope of saving her, Captain Mckay
gave his orders just as coolly and col
lectedly as if he was on land.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
THE HASIKIEUI FIRE.
Via French Atlantic Cable TO the Evening
Telegram.

Telegram.
have just returned from witnessing
terrible calamity, writes Pera. Brus-
sells correspondent. Three-fourths of
Hasikieui, the large Jewish suburb on
the Pera side of the Golden Horn, has
been destroyed by fire. The confagra-
ton commenced at nine o'clock Thurs
day morning and continued for eight
hours.
Owing to high gale from the South,
and the houses being chiefly of wood,
little could be done to stop the progress
of the flames, although the greatest
exertions possible were made to limit
the area of destruction, the fremen
being assisted by a large body of
seamen sent by special orders of the
Sultan.
The fire cleared whole hillside and
valley, and only stopped ON reaching the
bare ground beyond. Several hundred
houses were burned: but this, however
gives no idea of the great distress
created. The Jews gather together,
several families occupying the same
house; one burned lately gave shelter
to fifteen families.
Ten thousand persons at least must
have been rendered homeless, and the
hills outside Hasikieui for a couple of
miles are covered with poor wretches,
men, women and children, sitting by the
few household goods saved. The sight
is most distressing. A great deal of
property rescued was subsequently
burned by flying embers.
The fire commenced in the quarter in
habited by the very poorest class of
Jews, and the majority of those burned
out are totally without means. Several
Mohammedan and Armenian houses were
destroyed, also the Scottish Mission
School, fine stone building. As / left
the scene of cofagration carts were ar
irving with bread sent for distribution
by the Sultan
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
A Few Calls.

A MAN OF BUSINESS. ss.-Dumley an
young Brown were on their way to SUP
per and the former seemed unusual.
quiet.
"What's the matter with you?" aske'
Brown. ''You look rather down in tn
mouth"
ooh, it's nothing of any consequence,
replied Dumley. 81 asked Smith thi
morning to lend me ten dollars for i;
day or two and he wouldn't accommo
date me. He said he hadn't got it.
"That's strange; he generally hai
money, hasn't hep"
fAlways, replied Dumley, "I saw him
put roll of bills in his pocket only a
moment before"
Every funny" said young Brown.
''You and he are old friends, amt you? ?''
eyes; he has known me all my life. .
"And he wouldn't lend you ter. doI-
lars? Some men are mean. [ never
liked Smith any way. He always struck
me as being too much of man of bUlsi-
ness, too-too fond of looking out for
number one. I believe that if Smith
were TO lose a ten-dollar bill it would
break him all up. like to see man
take a chance once in while. What's
ten dollars to man like Smith? He's
rich and could afford to lose ten times
that am"
But here the clearinghouse was
gained and Dumleys sudden vault up
the steps ended the conversation.
WHO He WAs.-"You know, ma, that
in Philadelphia, people always ask who
ones grandfather was, and as 1 am going
there you must tell me- Was my grand
father a judge, or a governor, or presi-
dent, or anything?'
"Well, no, my dear. He became very
rich, though, and you may say he had
something to do with banks"
"But what was his profession OF
trade ?"
"Oh, never mind about that"
"But these Philadelphia people will
ask me, you know"
"Well, the only trade he ever learned
was shoemaking.
"Shoemaking Oh, well, he got rich,
so that is all right"
eyes; he made shoes a great many
years. He learned the trade and worked
at it in a penitentiary, but you need not
mention that"
No CHANCE FOR ARGUMENT. House
do not want any more of
your milk"
Milkman-"Going to move ?"
Housekeeper-''No; am not going |
to move"
Milkman-"Got too poor to take milk,
eh ?''
Housekeeper-"No, I am going to
get my milk of another man."
Milkman-"You can't say have not
served you well. I have always seen
that you were well supplied"
Housekeeper-''Tha is just the
trouble. I have been well supplied,
and don't intend to take any more of
you until that well of yours dries up"
VERY SEo2-sIeHTED. D.-Pennsylvanian !
-''I see that a Buffalo man has spent |
50, GOO boring for water and has not got
L drop yet"
Kentuckian-"Boring for water"
Pennsylvanian-"For water"
Kentuckian-"Great Uranus ! $3, 900
'pent in boring for water! Why he
could have started distillery on half
hat. "-PhiladeLphio Evening Call.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
CHRLSIKAS EVE.

God bless the little stockings
All over the land to night.
Hung in the choicest corners,
In a glow of crimson light.
The tiny scarlet stocking,
With hole in the heel and toe,
Worn by wonderful journeys
The darlings have had to so.
And heaven pity the children,
Wherever their home may be,
Who wake at the first gray dawning,
An empty stocking to see
Left in the faith of childhood
Hanging against the wall,
Just where the dazzling glory
OF Santa's light will fall
Alas, fer the lonely mother
Whose home is empty and still,
Who has no scarlet stockings
With childish toys to fill!
Who sis in the swarthy twilight,
With her face against the pane,
And grieves for the little baby
Whose grave is out in the rain!
Oh, the empty shoes and stockings,
Forever laid aside,
Oh, the tangled. broken shoe-string
That viii nevermore be tied!
Oh, the little graves at the mercy
OF the cold December rainl
Oh. the feet in their snow-white sandal
That can never trip again
But happier they who slumber,
With marble at foot and head,
Than the child who has no shelter,
No raiment, nor food, norSc,~ed.
Yes +! heaven help the living!
Children Of want and pain,
knowing no fold nor pasture
Out tonight in the rainl
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
A Capture.

A Chicago constable went into the
suburbs to serve a judgment for $50 on a
poor widow. The woman had not the
means to satisfy the judgment, and the
constable looked around to see if there
wasn't something he could levy upon.
But the widow had nothing in the house
save a rickety bedstead, three or four
common chairs. pine table and a few
other things of no value. The consta-
BILE was about to return disguised, when
he noticed a flock of geese i'll a pool of
water near the house. "Are these beau
tifuI geese yours?" asked the constable
of the old lady. "Yis, sill" was the in
nocent reply, "them is mine, an they
are all the comfort [ have" "Well, "
said the constable, "I guess I'll take
sem," and stripping off his coat, he pro-
ceeded to capture and tie the geese, a
performance which took him several
hours. He then made proud entry
into the city.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03

HIS HoNoR.-One of the latest in
cidents of the Paris duel is thus men
toned: For trifing matter g. found
himself drawn into duel, and he chose
for q witness one of those ferocious
creatures who make reputation at the
expense of the skin of friend. During
the negotiations G. waited at rendez-
vous the decision of the witnesses. At
last his friend arrived, radiant with JOY.
He looked as if he had captured a town,
"Good news. Your affair is arranged.
You will fight in one hour-with the
pistol-at three PAGES. 1 had good
deal of trouble to get consent to the
three PAGES. They would not believe
that you are noar-sighted." Fortunately,
however, the quarrel was amicably set
tied
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03

A FRAGMENT of conversation between
young girls: "DO you know what a
preface is?' "No, do you?" ..'Not ex-
actly; only know that it is at the be-
ginning of books" "Oh, well; then it
must be the same as when we are courted
before entering on marriage"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03

AN exchange believes that experience
shows that book agent, if he under
stands his business, can make more than
ordinary wages. He can. He can
make man hate him worse than he
hates the man who tramps on his pet
corn. The book agent can make lots
besides ordinary wages,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03

THE Hon. Frederick Billings has
added $25, 900 to his gift of $75, 900 for
a library building for the University of
Vermont at Burlington,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03

'THE President of the United States
was once boy like you, my son." ex-
planned O fond father to his heir "be a
good boy and some day you may become
President. "TheD if I'm bad boy"
responded young America, "I may be-
come Vice-President, hey, dad ?" The
question was referred for future con-
sideration, -BO8tOn Courier.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03

THERE is no dispute managed without
passion, and yet there is scarce dispute
worth passion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-03
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
WHAT WE FIND IN THEM TO LAUGH
OVER.
A Bribe-The Lime-kiIn CIub-That Mouse
-Bereaved-0n Pnss-A " ar Reminis-
cence, ETC., Etc.
THE SILENT MAJORITY.

Jones, who was a peaceable man, mar
ried very strong minded womnn. and
sometime after friend who had been
abroad was asking Brown about him.
''Alas, poor Jones, said Brown, she
has joined the silent majority"
''Good heavens, he amt dead, is he !?
When did it happen? never heard of
it before"
"Oh, no, he is not dead"
"Well, if he amt dead, how could he
have joined the silent majority?''
''Poor man, he's married. "-Afercha'at
Traveller.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-31
Sorrows OF a Mormon Orphan.

"Why are you crying, my little boyP"
asked the man.
"Cause dads dead" answered the
boy.
'"That's too bad When did he dieP"
1.-TWO months ago"
1.-TWO months ago? Why that is a
very long time; You ought not to be cry
ing now. You must have been very
fond of your father"
''Well, no, cant say that | was; but
you see he was the only one ever
had"
That's so; but you have a mother,
have you notp"
mo; they're dead, too"
"They!'
"Yes. You see," said the boy be-
tween his sobs, 1--WE were all Mormons
living down in Southern Utah, where
dad was Bishop, and, of course, had
five wives. Well, each one of them hao
boy baby about the same age, aud
they were all named Brigham -"
Isn't it strange to name them al
alikeP"
They always name the first one
Brigham, if it is q boy, and" said he,
"when we were about four years old
dad used to drive the little flock Of
Brighams to the farm and make us
weed carrots. The farm was two miles
from town, and one day when we were
alone band of Indians kidnapped the
whole of US and took us away down into
Arizona. The ether boys got sick and
all died, but they kept me five years
with them before | could escape, which
l finally did, and got back home. Well,
when / got back l didn't know my
mother or even her number, and she
didn't know me- and they all claimed
me as their little lost Brigham. So they
| had to draw cuts to see which one
would have me; and l was hers til
she died; then the next, and so on. My
first mother died year after goI
home; then | became the son of mother
number two. She apostatized, ran away
and married Gentle, and got killed il
q railroad collision. L lived with this
mother year and half. The thirc
mother got hooked by a COW six months
after she had me. The fourth one died
after | was thirteen, and my last moth
er died six months ago. | tell you
what's the matter, mister, they don
know what real sorrow is till they've
been an orphan like me, six times
| Ercbu20e
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-31
An American Pilgrim at the Shrine Of
the Greeks.

We have just returned to Patvas from
pilgrimage to Delphi and Parnassus.
We went by steamer to Scaha SalonU
and thence guided by Greek named
Epaminondas, we rode on ponies to
Delphi. On the way we crossed the
Crissian plain--the arena of the Pythian
games and Chryso, old Homer's "di-
vine, conspicuous, vine-bearing Crissa,"
now gone, save in fragments of marble,
from the face of the earth. At sunset
we arrived at Delphi, Homer's rocky
Pytho. The modern village OF Castri
is on a steep, sloping ground, at the
foot of q towering wall of rock. Many
of the Cyclopean foundations of the old
city nay still be seen, raised one above
another, and Delphi in the days of its
power must have appeared from the
vale below. rising in marble grandeur,
terrace above terrace, adorned with
temples and graced with thousands of
statues.
The physical conformation of the hills
and rocks about Delphi is most remark
able. The perpendicular wall behind
the village presents an almost semi-cir-
cular concavity, like the cavea of thea
ter, and appears, from certain points of
view, separated only by narrow in
terval from the rocky front of Mount
Kirphis, on the other side of the deep
valley of the Pleistus; this extraordinary
conformation, especially as we saw it
from the tops of the Phaedriades, gives
the circuit of rocks the appearance of
n vast craggy amphitheatre narrowing
do vn, deep down, till it seems almost
bottomless, Delphi itself seeming
| perched high up on the slope imme-
dia.ely below us where we stood. |
think it must have been these peculiar
physical features that gave to Delphi
the name of 1.-THE navel of the earth"
though some, know, apply the epithet
merely to the circular or elliptical stone
in the shrine of Apollo. 1t was Pindar,
in his Pythian Odes-odes probably
chanted on the sacred spot itself-whC
first gave it this title, and he, with tn,
truthful insight of a poet, named itwell
Returning from our ascent of Parnas
sus the next day what view we hat
from one of the twin peaks of the stu
pendous amphitheatre of rocks narrow
ing down and down till it seemed lik
the opening of o gigantic shaft, reacE
ing to the very centre of the earth, wit
the village OF Delphi Immediately be-
meath us in the vorteX.-P dtOaS Co.
Brooklyn Eagle.