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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
Rather a FerOciOus Rabbit.

Soon after dinner yesterday a boy
who was very much out of breath hailed
a man on Miami avenue, and informed
him that he had seen a rabbit run under
a barn in an alley near by. The infor-
nation wasn't so very startling, to be
sure, but it was enough to affect the
pedestrian. He was on his way down
town on an errand, but no sooner had he
heard the story than he followed the
boy at run. A boy who saw them
running followed after, and as they
turned into the alley two men suspected
that something was up and joined the
caravan. 1t wasn't ten minutes before
twelve men and score of boys had sur
rounded the barn, and then a serious
consultation was held. Men got down
on their knees and thrust head and
shoulders under the barn. Boys got
down and peered and poked. Two wo-
men came up and began to throw out
suggestions.
A crowd instinctively looks for a
leader. This crowd soon found one.
He was a man who said he had spent
the best portion of his life driving rab-
bits from under barns. He ordered
everybody to get down and cry "scat !"
but the rabbit ''caught on" Then
everybody got poles and clubs, and
everybody poked and pounded. The
rabbit was too ''fy."
For thirty minutes the crowd, grow
ing larger every minute, put in some
awful licks against the peace of mind of
that humble hare, and he had not been
budged foot when boy came along
with terrier dog. Boards were pulled
off and the dog ordered to go in and win
renown. He went in, but it wasn't over
a minute before he remembered that he
had forgotten something, and he came
back for it. A big cat followed close
after him, making the hair fly at every
Jump, and as she reached the alley she
took skip over the fence and was lost
to view.-Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
Compelled to Dance.

A story has just come to light in Cam
ton, Ga, which affords much amuse-
nlent to natives at the expense of three
Boston dudes, whose connection with
the opening of Georgia marble quarry
took them there. They have had much
amusement with mountain hoosiers and
delighted in showing off their superior
accomplishments. While on the way to
Tates Wednesday they Net two harm
less-looking country boys who, bare
footed and with but one suspender over
their shoulders, were trudging to town.
The Bostonians stepped in front of them
and ordered them to dance to Massa-
chusetts juba.
When the mountaineers became salts
fed that the Bostonians were in earnest
they pulled out two ugly-looking revoIv-
ers and changed the programme by
ordering the dudes to dance. Thinking
to humor the joke and thus escape easily
they danced awhile, but the boys would
not let them halt. For five hours under
cover of revolvers the Bostonians danced
such jig as has never before been seen.
When the time was up one of the noun
taineers exclaimed: "Now, dang it,
run r. The Bostonians were only too
glad to do SO and reached town footsore
and weary. They are now seeking legal
redress.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
Two Washington Women.

A Washington correspondent says
| noticed an instance of Washington
snobbishness the other night in one of
the leading groceries of the Capital
which we'll illustrates the character of
one class of our high-toned court soci-
ETY.. L was waiting to buy some little
things and very pretty and modest
lady was standing at the counter watch
ing the clerk do up some packages for
her. Another lady, the wife of an old
Washingtonian, was also waiting, as I
was, when Mrs. General -, a
leader of the Capital, and one of the
newest of the nOuUeau richie, came strut
ting in, dressed in velvet and sealskin.
She was a tall, angular woman, with
nose which seemed to turn up at every
body and everything. She had an eye
glass attached to long handle in her
right hand, and this she presented in
front of her right eye and began looking
superciliously around the store.
All the clerks were busy as they could
be. But with the most arrogant air she
turned to the one above spoken of, and
said:
"Do you not see, sir, that I am wait
ing ?"
The clerk dropped the bundles he had
and rushed over to her. She then pointed
with majestic air to lot of tomatoes
marked twelve cents can. She said:
81 will take one of those cans of toma-
toes you may carry it out to my car
riage," and with that she swept out of
tile store in the same regal way in which
she had entered. AS she did so no.
ticed smile of contempt on the counte-
nance of the old Washingtonian, who
had the blood of some of the most noted
families in the country in her veins.
She quietly waited until her turn came
to be served, and taking her purchases,
which amounted to many times that of
the snob who had pushed into her place,
in her arms, she said 81 thank you, but
can carry these out myself. She took
the bundles in her arms, and going to
the door, stepped into a finer carriage
than that of the female snob and was
driven quietly away. 1t is no wonder
that some of the old Washington ladies
object to the rude ways of those who in
part compose our great court circles.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
Francis Murphy In the SIums.

"God bless you, Bob, my dear old
boy. You must not stay here. Come
with me now. Just think how happy
your wife and children were only three
nights ago when you took the pledge.
Come with me now, dear old friend. j"
The speaker was Francis Murphy.
He stood in a liquor shop on Grand
street., where he followed tall, strongly
built old man, whose face still showed
marked traces of intellectually, although
sadly marred by dissipation. He was at
one time prominent professional man,
standing high in public and in his call
ing He is now total wreck and social
outcast. He has made frequent attempts
at reform only to fall sgain to the old
ways. He had evidently been drinking,
for his voice was thick and incoherent
as he said:
"I'sh no ush, Misther Murphy; i'sh no
ush."
"Oh, but there is use, my old friend.
Be man now and say no. Only yester-
day the old wife saff5rre-.s me, I'll be SO
happy, Mr.. Murphy, if he can only keep
the pledge. He's noble man when he's
not drinking You are bringing that
woman to her grave, Bob, with trouble,
and sorrow. Come with me out OF this
place, do"
Mr.. Murphy's hand was on the old
mans shoulder now, and tears came into
his eyes as he pleaded.
"1'sh no ush, Mr.. Murphy; Ish no
ush, " he reiterated irresolutely. II can
do nothin'; best let me go to the devil.
Behind the bar stood the owner OF the
saloon. A crowd of lookers-on in various
stages of seediness and degradation
watched the scene, and were affected IN
proportion to the manhood left in them.
Mr.. Murphy, however, took no notice OF
these, but still pleaded with the old man,
until finally he led him away, and the
last the reporter saw of them they were
going arm in arm toward the old man s
home. Pittsburg Dispatch.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
ADVICE FOR THE BOYS.
Burdette on the Hard Way of the Trans.
Rress0rs

|
Ny son, you say it is $50 hard to be
good" You say it is easier to break al
of the Ten Commandments than it Is
to keep one of them. Well, you mis-.
take. 1t isn't hard to be good. It's
hard to be bad. All, yes, my boy, it's
hard to be bad. Not right at the time
oh, no The wine is sparkling, the
songs are stirring, the stories are brim-
ming with humor and the air is full oi
laughter. You are Just as bad as you
know how to be, and it is lots of fun to
be bad, and you never want to be good
oh, yes, it seems to be very easy.
But the next morning, my boy? Where
is the difficulty then? Who feels seri.
GUS IN the morning? Whose head
can't be covered by a tnbp Who is
afraid and ashamed to go out on the
street and meet people? Who doesn't
want to see anybody Who wants to
hide? Who wonders where he was last
night, and whom he met, and who saw
him, and what he said, and where he
went, and how he didP Not the boy
who went to the sociabIe and ate cast
iron pound cake and washed it down
with faded lemonade. Not the young
man who passed the evening in the
company of the good, goody at the de-
batting society.
All, no. He didn't hear the rollicking
songs that you heard, my boy, and he
didn't hear the racy stories that "broke
you all up" But he is feeling much
better than you are this morning. He
finds it easy to be ''good;" very easy,
indeed. But to be bad, to have the
headache, to have a sour, rebellious
stomach, to have uncertain eyes, to have
a treacherous memory, to have sense of
shame, to have dread of sunshine and
a horror of daylight, to have a set of
quiyering nerves and faltering speech,
to have raging thir st that water cannot
appease and a gnawing hunger that
loathes food, to have dread of meeting
your mother, my boy, and fear of see-
ing your sister, and a shame of speaking
to your good old father-this is hard,
my son. This is being bad. And
look me in the eye, Telemachus, look
me in the eye-honestly now, honor
bright. do you think this easier than
being ''good?" My dear boy, you may
call your ''good" friend milksop and a
nanny boy if you will, and you may
in your better moments sometimes say
you would like to be "good," but it's so
hard; but just weigh the ''good" and
The ''bad," weigh them honestly, and
tell me, tell me honestly, which is the
harder, to be 'good' or to be "bad."
Alb, my boy, it is easier to be "good."
"The way of the transgressor is hard"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
THE MAN AND THE HORSE.
Tests of Speed Between the Two-The
Man Ahead.

As regards speed for mile or two, OF
even several miles, there can be no COM
parison between the pace OF horse
and that of man on bicycle. The
horse is far and away the speedier; but
after about twenty or twenty-five miles
the horse, it seems, begins to come back
to the man. The relative speed of horse
and man, quite unincumbered by weight,
has never been tried, as it is always
necessary either to ride or drive horse
when he is being tried. But in compar.
ing the best times on record of q trottine
horse driven in light gig, as is the
fashion in America, and man riding
and propelling twenty-seven-pound BIZ
cycle, the conditions, taking the relative
strength of the contestants into consid-
Grafton, may be thought tolerably equal.
Maud s., Mr.. Vanderbilt's celebrated
horse, trotted one mile in 200; the
champion time for a bicycle is 2:39.
Leaving out intermediate distances.
find that Lady Mack did five miles in
1900; Mr.. Hitler has ridden it on a bi.
cycle in 14:18. Controller did ten miles
in 27:234; Mr.. English accomplished
that distance in 29:19 3-5. Twenty
miles was done by the horse Captain
MCGOWAN in 1925; Mr.. English, who
holds the record for twenty miles, ac-
complished it 59:O6s3-5. Twenty miles
well within the hour must surely be
looked on as wonderful performance.
But after twenty miles the man rapidly
begins to go to the front. The best fifty
miles on record has been done by Ariel
in 3:55:403; but Ion Keith -Falconer
rode that distance on bicycle in 2:43:58
3-5. Conqueror travelled one hun
dred miles in 835:53; F. r. Fry, on a
bicy ycle, did one hundred miles in 5:5O:O5
2-5. The same distance, one hun
dred miles, was done on the high road
by George Smith in 7:11:1O. The other
times mentioned were performed on the
No trial has been recorded
for horse beyond one hundred miles.
But tricyclist has ridden 2223 miles in
twenty-four hours; and few weeks ago
a performer on newly invented little
two-wheeled machine OF strange appear
ance, called a kangaroo, travelled 266
miles within the same time. 1t is there
fore plain that in staying power a man
on bicycle, or even tricycle., which is
a much heavier machine, not primarily
adapted for racing, is infinitely superior
to horse. Probably up to twenty-f five
miles the best horse would beat the best
bicyclist; but after that distance the
horse would, in yacht-racing phrase,
never see the way his adversary went.-
discount Bury, in the Ni1aeteenth Cen
tury.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
COlOnna.Mackay.
THE WEDDING CELEBRATED WITH Pom
TIFICAL HIGH MASS.


Miss Eva Mackay was married ill
Paris to Don Ferdinand Julien Colonna,
Prince of Galatro. The ceremony was
private and was performed with pontif-
ical high mass by Mgr. de Reude, the
Papal Nuncio, in the Nuncio's Chapel in
Paris. The nuptial benediction was ad-
ministered by Mrg. de Reude, who also
delivered the marriage address. The
civil ceremony of marriage, which is re-
quired by the French law, was per-
formed the day before. The witnesses
to this were Prince Colonna Doria,
Prince Colonna, United States Minister
Morton and Duke Decazes.
After the celebration of the religious
rite Mrs. Mackay, the mother of the
bride, gave a grand bridal reception,
which in every respect must rank with
the most magnificent festival of French
history. The reception was especially
distinguished by the quality of the
,uests, among whom were included
about every person of distinction and
worth in French society. Conspicuous
among these were General the Comte
Meaabrea, Italian Ambassador to
France; Count Camondo and Nine.
| Wyse Bonaparte.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
Wished he had Been There.

Ex Mayor Robinson, of Hartford,
Conn, tells this of the famous preacher,
DR.. Joel Hawes: 'One day he came in
to my office and said Henry, a man
was in my study this morning, and,
right under my own roof, told me l
hadn't preached the Gospel for forty
years What would you have done, if
you had been in my place :? I said |
would have kicked him out of doors.
The good old Doctor-a man of peace
in all espects-looked at me with a
queer expression for moment, and
then remarked, thoughtfully: Il wish
you'd been there, Henry ="
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
The Following is a Partial List of my
OFFERINGS OF REAL ESTATE

dwelling barns Sheds etc. suitably di
apple ochard running
formerly
sawl within Oneth mile soil productive
garded worth s3 900 selling down.
year..
buildings good water good so price
down. balance so
village laborng man
vegetables; price s5OO15o down.
balance so year.
Dwelling village good buildings
size; price 100000 down, perIyear.
Hyde vage-a
good; by
Will part OIL
Hyde village. npsing
dollars
timber lumber shnge
and wherewh to build respectable houses and allow payment therefor
payments
land with by
Price of lots, s75, $780, $25 and $3.50 each
Hyde village store "Pages
Block 1t is rented for five years at two hundred dollars per year. but
probably
$2,Oo0-s5OO balance 800 year.
sixty Acres Timber Land Johnson
% to taxation subject sl2 Will sell equity
for 1926
sawmi1 bad hills between mill and
for desiring logging job Terms $50 down$25 and $25 in
two dollars NJ stumpage until paid
of ao lying
mill which Hakns mill Price $500
800 down. 25 dollars reserved till lot is
paid for
within both the vt and
Mass and the Fhbug Way Price $iOOOO down. balance 80
An examination the will believe that have placed va
alton much below what judges appse but determined to
close out and relieve myself the at the earliest moment practicable
desiring
their examination To such parcels of
estate above offered confidently the
descrbe
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
TERMS $3.50.
MR.. REEcHER ON COUGHING.

After the long prayer Sunday morn
ing, in Plymouth Church, Mr.. Beechel
took occasion to extend his sympathy to
all who were afflicted with colds; "but, "
said he, "whiIe those who have colds
must cough, I have noticed that the
time to cough can be controlled. For
instance, I noticed during the prayer
there we're very few outbreaks, while as
soon as it was over there was perfect
wave Of coughing which swept over the
whole church. Now, want to say that
coughing is injurious, and therefore l
hope you will try and control your
selves" No coughing was heard during
the sermon.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12

A BALTIMORE D1sH.-In preparing the
rich dish of terrapin Baltimoreans take
live terrapins and let them swim about in
cold water until they are perfectly clean.
The terrapins are then plunged into
boiling water and boiled until the shells
are looseued. They are taken out of the
water and removed from the shells,
when they are stewed with a mixture of
hard-boiled eggs, cream, butter, -four,
salt and other condiments.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12

HAYTI.-The greatest length of Hayti
is 400 miles, its greatest breadth 1876
miles, and it is calculated to be about
the size of Ireland. Hayti occupies
about one-third of the island-the west
ern portion-and, pushing two great
promontories into the sea, it has very
large extent of coast line.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
YER SYFTCA TON.
As bright as the golden June weather

AS bright as the golden June weather
Came Rose with her prayer-book and fan
Through the church door, and homeward to
gether
We walked, and my wooing began.
She chatted Of anthem and sermon
thought of her lips and blue eyes
OF her light dainty step in the German
Till vaguer became my replies.
As vainiy endeavored to fashion
Some phrase that should fitly express,
Or hint of, that burden Of passion
Which she, alas seemed not to guess.
But we paused on the bridge, whose gray
arches
Look down on the bridge in the brook,
And there in the shade of the larches
Her little gloved fingers took.
And said: ''Kose, you've been kissed in
sonnet
In which my emotions rehearse,"
When voice meath the pretty pink bonnet
Murmuredi Darling, am not a-yerse."
-LsJe.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12

MRS. BARNAoLE went to ride with
Mr.. B. when the mercury was at zero.
"Why, John, how cold it is We must
do something for the poor They will
freeze this weather." When she reached
home, and had sat for an hour over the
register in her sealsku sacque, she ex-
claimed Greatly, John, it's not as cold
as thought it was. We need not hurry
in that charity matter"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12

MY Calf Skin Business is absorbing my capital time and
attention. and having decided to close out all of my
branches OF business as we'll as my miscellaneous personal
property and real estate offer for sale all the land own
except that occupied in my business and my dwelling and will
dispose of same at very low figures and easj terms
payment
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12

SCHOOL CHILDREN. of the 10000, :
100 school children in this country 10,
100000 are enrolled in the public
,chools.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
cIRcUMsTANT1A1 EVIDENCE.

"Charley has an awful long arm, " said
Bertha, in a musing mood at the break
fast table. "How do you know p asked
her father, in man like simplicity.
"Why," replied Bertha, ''my waist belt
is a" And then she caught glimpse
of her mammals Mortified face glaring
over the coffee urn, and she thought she
would die, sure enough. But she didn't.
She only said Charley told her so.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12

A LIGHT fee-the retainer from gas
company.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
CARROLL S. PAGE.

Hyde Park, Vt, Feb. 2, 1885.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
IN HASTE.

"Does your mother ever speak of me,
darling?" "Oh, yes, every morning." !"
'I'm so glad" ''She says she hopes
we'll be married very soon." '"That's
pleasant. If she likes me so much, we'll
be very happy, won't we?" "Oh, ma
thinks we ought to get married at once"
"She is anxious to have me for son-in-
law. isn't she?" "No. it isn't that; but
she says your back hair has ruined every
tidy in the parlor. San Francisco
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
STRAY BITS OF HUMOR
FOUND IN THE HUMOROUS COLUMNS
OF OUR EXCHANGES.

FFesent for JlmmIe-A HIiscount-NeR-
.eGIed Work-It Was Time to Get Away
Handy Husband, ETC., Etc,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
Advertising Rates.

Eight months, s.rOths price of full wear.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-18

kind 10 made the snbJect OF penal statute
the contract il void The bill would be sin
ply for the protection OF scoundrels. Law
of this kind would cast suspicion upon all
commercial paper. The bill has no merit Of
any kind. Ee moved to lay the bill on the
table.
The motion was agreed to by yeas l3,
nays %.
Mr.. SMITH, OF Jay, voted AYE" for the
purpose OF moving a reconsideration OF the
objeC ton made against this DILL that it would
injufiously affect commercial paper. The
bill Is Just. No person should be protected
in cha rgiDg usurious interest. IL there is to
be no penalty for usurious interest, then do
not enact a law fixing any rate of interest.
The bill ought to pass, and should become q
law
The motion to reconsider was rejected by
yeas 10 nays q.
Then came recess for dinner.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-18
N.w Llght on Rhenmatl.n.

al had been completely dtabled irom
rheumatism. / used Parker Tonic for kid
ney diseale, when, 30 my astonishment, the
rheumatism completely disappeared So
writes Mrs. Henry Bogert, OF No. ibi Allan
tic avenue, Brooklyn, n. Y rheumatism
afiles from the failure OF the kidneys 10 tep.
arate the uric acid from the blood
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-18

two tablespoonfuls OF -four together, Line
your pie-pan with paste. spread the sugar
and Hour evenly over e. Put IN piece OF
butter about the size OF a walnut, cut up
in snail pieces Sprinkle little cinnamon
on top, then place II in the oven and pour
about n teacnp OF water In IL; then bake.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-18
HOT Sc OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
TUESDAY, March IL, 1885,
AnANnoNNENT or orrIoEs.

AhANhbHhtNA w NtiA'hos
The SPEAKER The unfinished bust
ness IL, Shall the motion that the
pill II. Il. 52sl relating 10 the
abandonment OF county offices be recon-
mended with instructions to amend so that
10 shall apply only 90 offices vacated after
the passage OF this bill lie on the table, The
roll will be called
The motion was rejeeled-yeas, IS nays,
90.
The motion 10 reoommit was agreed 30.
THE SUPREME COURT.
Mr.. KELllsoN offered the following Joint
resolution II. II. II;
Resolved, by The General Assembly Of the State
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-18
INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

lOrlissio1s and csgtailments Of this report
fo- 0ant of space IN these columns ViH appear in
m appendix 10 Volume XIII of the Brewer
Legislative reD0rts.1