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Smyrna times., 1885-10-21
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.-C THIS IDEA OF GOING WEST
70 colorado or New Mexico for pure air TO relieve
man would use DR.. BOsanko's Cough ana Tnny
syrup for Consumption in all its first stages Il
never taiis TO- give relief in all cases of Coughs
Soiqs BronehltS, Pains in the Chest and ali af
iectlonS primary TO CONSUMPTION Price "a cants
ana 81. Sold by James 7. Hoffecker
There can be no better Shirt than
the Que" sold by J. B. Cooper only.
Smyrna times., 1885-10-21

Clayton, DEL, oct. 20. 1885. ''
Smyrna times., 1885-10-21
AN exchange saws

III heulJH very rapidly OF late and eX-
poets to be able to resume his work bv
November. During his illness his pui-
pits have been acceptably filled bv
Revs. Herman Roe, J. V. Smith, James
Stubbs and VIM. FAIRIES, of Smyrna.
and Rev. f. Welch, of Townsend.
A RIDE on the Delaware Railroad
presents to the traveller on the
route the brightest Autumnal tints
that our branches and woods have
ever presented. The exceeding bright
ness of the tints this Fall are attribnta
Bile to the fact that there has been a
gradual succession of cold nights with
out killing frOsts, giving nature time to
mix and place her brightest colors.
SCOTT WAY, formerly editor of the
MiddletOwn Transcript, now has en-
gagements to contribute regularly to
FUck, the Philadelphia WeekLU Press
and New York newspaper syndicate
which furnishes original matter 10 a
number Of papers. He is also an occa-
slOnal contributor to the Detroit Free
5Tess, IS doing some special correspOn-
eenee Tor one or two dailies and has
hhlshed the opening chapters of a
mover thnt IS to appear next year. Wo
reprint from the Weekly Press of last
week, on our first page one of his ex.
cellent articles.
JAMES McCARTER has nearly finished
new house on the farm he purchased
IaSt spring, near Vandyke's Station.
~ mas a front Of34 feet, "A"f finish. and a
10 feet back building. The house will
nav nave a seven feet hall in the middle
ana porches on the front and South
slues' s II contains ten rooms and n
tatgS taJ Wy cellar l2 and when entirely compile
bas. ~ Nj. IT,; ;n1icCarter will have one of the
Dav;j NV IIs'uSlees II fI OF his neighborhood.
l'..,,l Davld n Heverin is also putting IN n
snug house on the ADJOINING nronar,'' p
Inat ne bought Of James MeCartep .Il,sy la:t
IN the vicinity. ''Ofeiieh1
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
A BrOken-Hearted Bird.

A correspondent thus writes: "Nearly
twenty years ago / owned a pair of
beautiful canaries-the male being a
very fine fellow, with a rich musical
note. Having furnished them with the
outside rough form of a nest in straw,
leaving them to complete its comforts
with bits of soft wool, down, and small
feathers, they were shortly in the happy
possession of four eggs. In due course
four young ones presented themselves,
to the evident delight Of the parents,
who fed them from daylight to dark,
their favorite food being the yeIk of
hard-boiled eggs. Time brought round
the period when, instead of raw, naked
helpless creatures "always asking for
more" four full-fedged young birds
frisked about the cage like SO many
pretty yellow balls of fine soft wool.
They grew to be very fine birds; and
first one friend and then another coveted
them, until all had gone but one little
youngling, which remained as the only
solace of the parents. This last of the
family was the delight of their hearts:
they fondled it and played with it as we
have seen an affectionate mother do with
her child, and seemed to exert them
selves to amuse it in every way their
fancy prompted.
Probably happier little family never
existed. But, alas the spoiler came.
Another friend coveted the last of the
little flock, and it was taken away. And
from that moment the joyous song of
the male bird gave place to a painfully
feeble little chirp. He sat on the perch
with dropping, heart broken, spiritless
aspect; his wings hung down as if all
power and vitality had left him: and
within twenty-four hours from the time
of his bereavement he fell dead from the
perch. The affectionate creature had
evidently died of grief for the loss of his
zone eve lamb" The cage was given
away with the remaining bird; and no
inducement could tempt me again to
run the risk of perhaps unconsciously
being the cause of SO much unhappiness
and misery.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
At the Soldiers Reunion.

Bows. trees of goodly growth are
standing on our battle fields to-day
where none existed at the time OF car
mage, said the veteran. Boys, we are
still marching along-surely and stead
iIy aIong-fghting every day in the
battle of life; but somewhere ahead of
ms stands an enemy to whom we will all
have to surrender, sooner or later. Time
is after us with his scythe, and will BON
begin to NOW us down in rapid success
sion. He can whiten our heads with IL Q
dust of decay and stiffen our joints with
the winter of age. He can dull our
senses and dim our eyesight. but, thank
heaven, he can not rob us of the precious
memories of the past. These we will
preserve and cherish until we strike our
colors on the bank of the dark river.
Our numbers will grow smaller and
smaller, and after awhile only few old
men with bowed heads will stand with
stats in their hands where once stood
hundreds of boys with cleaning steel at
their shoulders But so long as we are
spared we will come together every year,
grow young in e0ch others presence for
a day, talk over the past, and preserve
the memory of our fallen comrades and
their deeds.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
HOODWINKING A CONGRESSMAN.
A Little Episode of Washington Every Day
I,ObbyinQ,

I was talking the other day with an
old member about women lobbyists In
Washington and their influence upon
legislation, writes Washington CORE
spondent. "I'll tell you," he said,
'iabout the experience of Congress
sional friend of mine. He was very
much opposed to a certain measure in
which the lobby was interested. There
was not money enough In the country to
have purchased his support of the bill.
The lobby went at him in rather
ingenious way. They caused him to be
introduced to very handsome and in
teresting married lady, the wife of re-
tired army officer who happened to be
interested in the bill This lady began
a mild Irritation with my Congressional
friend, and soon had him completely
captlvated. Whenever she was in the
gallery of the House he would fly up as
fast as he could to visit her. There was
nothing in all this but the most innocent
of firtations. 1 will not swear that my
friends intentions were OF the most
honorable character. At any rate he
stepped himself for several days in the
warmth of the luxurious idea that this
lady was slowly but surely succumbing
to fatal passion for him. One morn.
ing, the very day the bill my friend was
opposed to was to come up, he received
note from the lady asking him to call
at her house at o'clock that afternoon.
This was the same hour set for the con-
sideration of the bill. The member,
however, did not remember this. He
was so delighted with the note that he
forgot all about the bill. He fastened
to this lady's house, which was in the
extreme northwestern part of the city.
When he arrived there full of hope and
expectation, he found this lady with one
or two interesting young nieces with
her, whom she presented. She said
she had taken the liberty of sending for
him without explanation because she de-
sired him to take lunch with her nieces.
They were to be in Washington only a
day, and were very anxious to see SO
prominent a man. The Congressman
was then led out to handsome lunch
table and kept occupied for an hour or
SO more in the politest fashion. When
he returned to the House he found that
the bill to which he was so savagely op-
posed had already passed. Then he un-
derstood the matter. He never called
upon this lady again. But she always
bows to him very good-naturedly when
ever she passes him by" The member
added: ''That is the only way that I
know of that women affect legislation.
They have perfect genius for conspira-
cies of that sort-to draw away mem
bers from their posts at time when
their presence in the House might be
fatal to a measure"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
Stronger Than He Expected.

Tempted by the glowing accounts Of
his brother Patrick's prosperity, Michae
packed up his property and sailed fol
New York. He was met at the Barge
Office by his brother, prosperous dram
seller, who took him TO restaurant fol
lunch. When they were comfortably
seated and had given their orders,
Patrick took up the jar of horseradish,
and, as he removed the cover, said
mike, here's something we don't
have in the Ould counthry."
can shure, what is it, PatP"
cts horseradish an it's foine relish
wild the mate"
When the steaks were before them,
''Pat" took up the jar and put on his
plate little of the condiment. "Mike''
watched him out of the corner of his
eye, and when the jar was replaced upon
the table removed the cover and taking
the small spoon in his hand looked it
over carefully. Then he laid it down,
and Selling a teaspoon plunged it into
the pulpy mass and carried it heaping
full to his mouth. The effect was start
ling. Mike gave a gasp, Strengthened
up, and fell over backward. As he
arose sputtering and sneezing, he STAN
mered can phat- (tchm is it we were
(atch- atch-atchu calling the stuff,
Pat 2"
Pat who at first was frightened, then
became confused, finally broke forth
into laughter and answered
"Horseradish =
''Horseredish, is it? Are ye shure
there wasn't mule i'll it ?"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
The Pine Wood.

At some of the watering places of
Germany the very simple prescription
of the physician is that the patient
should spend several hours day walk
ing or riding through the pine wood.
This simple treatment is said to be
sometimes supplemented by the taking
OF pine baths, and in the case of kidney
diseases, and for delicate children this is
claimed to be highly beneficial. The
bath is prepared by pouring into the
water about half tumblerful of an ex-
tract made from the fresh needles of the
pine; this extract is dark in color and
closely resembles treacle in consistency.
and when poured into the bath gives
the water muddy appearance, with
slight foam on the surface. As an ad.
junct to the daily bath this infusion
of pine extract is said to induce most
agreeable sensation; it gives the skin
deliciously soft and silky feeling, and
the effect on the nerves is quieting.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
THOSE OLD BONES.
The Uses to which the Skin. Thigh, and leg
Bones of Dead Animals are Put.

"Them there is kittle stewed and these
here is tank Billed" said the foreman of
a -boilin@ establishment on Long
bones ,whias.{ sea. --..sassed through the
rendering prdcess. "Them slick bones
over there is shins and them yonder is
bones out OF the forelegs O. cattle.
Here's a lot O. shinbone knuckles, all
ready for brlrnin'. They'll be chucked
in with that pile O ribs, skulls, and mis-
and all made into bone black. The
burners would like to have the best
quality of bones for their use, because
they get more charcoal out O. them than
they kin out O. the common bones. The
bone black they make they sell to sugar
reiners, and this big heap O. old ribs
and skulls and odds and ends O. cattle
and sheep skeletons here will list as like
as not be fiIterin' sugar in few DAYS,
and some O. you fellers may be putin
some O. the same sugar in yer coffee
fore weeks over.
'But the best quality of bones is shins
and thighs ard fore legs, and we don't
waste no shins, nor no thighs, nor no
front legs on the bone burners nor the
fertilizer grinders. They can't pay more
than $25 ton for the best there is, and
we kin sell all the shins We kin git for
$40 ton. Thighs is worth $50 a ton
to us, and every ton O. front legs we
can bile fetches us $50,
The manufacturers of knife handles.
sleeve buttons, collar buttons, bone
jewelrY, parasol and umbrella handles.
combs, tooth brushes, and all sorts of
things that bone kin be used in buy all
these parts O. skeletons that the country
kin produce. The thigh bones is used
for tooth brush handles more than any
other, and all in this country. The
bones for buttons and knife handles
mostly goes to Europe. Fancy parasol
handles is turned out O. sleeps legs, and
some O. the incest ivory fans We ever see
used 10 be trottin' some old ram or eve
around the pasture lot. Sheep leg bones
polishes up slicker than any other bones.
and hain't so brittle as the shin bone of
a COW or thigh bone of steer.
"We collect bones all over the country.
A ton O pig iron amt worth more than
u quarter as much as ton of the com. .
monest kind CT bones. The West almost
fills the bone market now, there's so
much slaughterin' done out there. The
bone b'iler gits hair oil, neatsfoot oil
and sizin' glue out of his stock as he gifts
it ready for the market Bones that we
sell to fertilizer grinders we bile the
meat off in open kittles, cause it takes
out the nitrogen slick and clean and
leaves the carbon, and that's what makes
the boneblaGK.
1--WE git pint of good neatsfoot oil
out of every full set O shins and hoofs
Of COW or steer. The liquid that's left
after b'ilin' the thighs and shins makes
rs good sizin' glue as paper manufac-
burer kin git nowadays. We kin git
enough marrow to stock any BARRIERS
shop with bears grease for month.
The best bears grease is made out O the
marrow of old bones.
"Bone b'ilin' don't smell very good,
hats so. At least that's what every
body thinks 'cept the ones that's maxim
he Doodle out of it. )"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
The United States Congress.

The Forty-eighth Congress has total
of 325 members, of whom 1913 are Dem.
ocrats, 100 Republicans, 6 Mahoneites,
8 Independents, and 2 Greenbackers.
The Democratic majority over the Re-
publican is now 70, and over all 81. In
the next Congress the Democrats will
have majority over the Republicans OF
81, and over all AZ. There will be
Mahoneites in the next Congress. Out
of the 325 members of the Forty eighth
Congress only 182 were elected to the
Forty-ninth. One hundred and eleven
of these were Democrats, and SO Repub-
licans. The Democrats in the Forty
eighth Congress have a majority of the
delegations in twenty-five States. In
the Forty-ninth they have majority in
nineteen.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
A Russian City.

At the accession of the present Car
of Russia the population of st. Peters
burg was 1000, showing an increase
OF % per cent. in fifteen years. OF the
total number of inhabitants, only 253,-
900 are natives of the city, aud the pro-
portion of males to females is 122 to
100. Forty per cent. of the people are
between the ages of sixteen and thirty,
and that there are comparatively so few
children is accounted for by the fact that
in some years the mortality in infants
under two years is as much as Is per
cent There are only IL, ZOO heads of
families with independent means, and
there are IA, 900 beggars, of whom H.
900 are women and girls.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
An American Princess Dresses.

Lucy Hooper, writing from Paris,
says: Miss Mackay's trousseau is very
extensive and superb, but her dresses
are more remarkable for elegance of
material and for grace and originality of
design than for showiness or gorgeous
ness. The wedding dress is a heavy
ivory-white satin, the train bordered
with band of embroidery in white silk
worked on the material itself, and repre-
senting orange blossoms with their buds
and foliage. The front of the skirt is
bordered with fringe of orange buds
and is caught up at one side with a
spray of orange blossoms. The corsage
is high to the throat and is embroidered
down the front with a band of orange
blossoms. A small cluster of the same
bridal flowers closes the corsage instead
of a brooch. The tulle veil will be con-
fined with a small diadem wreath of
orange blossoms. The simplicity of the
toilet will be unbroken by jewel of any
kind. For the civil marriage, which
took place at the Mayors Office, dress
had been prepared of deep blue-gray
faille, with vest and skirt front of passe-
menterie to match, in silk and beads.
The dress for the presentation at the
Court of Italy is in point aiguille lace of
exquisite ineness and artistic design.
The underskirt is covered with draperies
of this superb lace and hounces of it are
set upon the long court-train. The cor
sage has plated vest of point lace and
ruffles of lace form the sleeves. Another
court dress is in white faille, the skirt
front embroidered with masses OF daisies
in white silk, with centers of looking
glass beads. The long train of the
same material is bordered with band of
embroidery to correspond. A third
court dress is in pale blue faille, with the
skirt front embroidered with daisies in
pale blue chenille, with slight admix-
ture of wood color in the stems and foil
age. The corsage is bordered with
daisies, and corsage of daisies is ar
ranged to encircle the young wearer's
throat. The daisy being the name
flower of Queen Marguerite, Of Italy, it
is the favorite blossom for adjoining the
court dresses of the ladies who are pres
ent at her balls and receptions.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
SINKING. unusual occurrence is

SINKING. An unusual occurrence is
reported by jackson Miller, who lives
near Burlington, VT A portion of his
farm, to the extent of an acre, has sunk
over thirty feet. The surface is de-
pressed, but retains nearly its normal
appearance. The earth upon all sides
of the depression is almost perpendicu-
lar, and the tops of trees that went
down can be reached by persons stand
ing upon the brink. The theory is chat
springs undermined the ground, and the
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
How Thieves PrOsper.

Burglars" Mr.. Davitt tells us in his
Prison Diary" says an English paper,
seldom receive more than twenty per
cent. OF the value of their booty from
the buyers to whom they dispose of it.
II 1t happens to be in any other form
than coin. A ten-pound Bank of Eng
land note will bring but two pounds
from buyer, while one hundred pounds
worth OF plate would be worth only fif-
teen or twenty pounds to the thief who
would risk years of liberty in obtaining
1t, and so on of all other valuables. II
the stories told by these criminals can
be credited, many men of apparently
stainless character in the commercial
world owe most of their wealth to direct
dealing with professional thieves"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
Pulling One Way.

can hardly venture to give advice to
the young wife, but was at wedding
where the bridegroom's father advised
the newly married pair to pull together
and told the story of the man that
brought his new wife to a log hut all
ready TO live in, and how he took rope
which was to be used to pull backlogs
INTO the house with horse, and threw it
over the house and asked his wife TO
take one end while he took the other.
and then told her to pull it over the
hoase she pulled he said pull harder:
now, says he, come and take hold with
me. Now, he says, you see how easv
when we both pull one way.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12

man along. Now Ieave-and take your
half-a-man with you"-tossing his gun
up across his left arm and cooking it,
when he says this.
The crowd washed back sudden. and
then broke all apart and went tearing
off every which way, and Buck Hank
ness he heeled it after them, looking
tolerable cheap. I could a stayed, if
I'd wanted to, but didn't want to.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12

Lieut.. Charles W. McKim, Portland,
KY, states: "For twenty years suffered
with rheumatism. During the bad
weather my suffering was terrible. ]
was about to give up. Some one sug-
gested the application of st. Jacobs Oil.
1 tried it and its relief was rapid. In
half an hour 1 could stand up. 1 no
longer suffer with the pains"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12

In THE ARMY.-In the year 1868 the
number of Irish soldiers in the British
army was 55 583, or 308 per 1000 By
steady gradations that number fell in
fen years to 80, 121, or 219 per 1000;
and last year it had fallen to 81, 694 or
1856 per 1000. These figures appear in
the Government official reports.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
Salt Rheum

Those who suffer from this disagresabls disease
should read the following honest statement and then
give Hoods Sarsaparla fair trial. 1t will surely do
you good;
81 take pleasure in recommending to the public
Hoods Sarsaparilla for it has done wonders for
had salt rhsum very severely, affecting nearly
my entire body. Only those who have suffered from
this disease in its form imagine the extent of
my affection. 1t is impossible to describe my suffer
ipgs, 1 took many medicines but failed to receive
benefit until 1 took Hoods Sarsapars. Then the
disease began to subside, the watery pimpes, with
their agonzing itch and pain disappeared. and now
am entirely free from the disease. My blood seems to
be thoroughly purified and my general health is great
ly benefited. My wife, seeing the benefit received.
and being troubled with restlessness at night also took
Hoods Sarsaparilla 1t helped her very much, and
she sleeps perfectly well. LYMAN ALLEN, Sex
ton N E. Church, North Chicago. Ill.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12

In PROPOSING BY letter to young
lady an Indianapolis lawyer borrowed a
formula from book on etiquette. The
young lady learned the source of the in
SEPARATION of his pen, and by way of re-
ply used the formula prescribed in the
same book for declination.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
1t AstCnislICd the Public

to hear of the resignation of Dr. Pierce as
Congressman to devote himself solely to his
labors as a physician. 1t was because his
true constituents were the sick and afflicted
everywhere They will find DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery" a beneficent use
of his scientific knowledge in their behalf
Consumption, bronchitis, cough, beart dis
ease, fever and ague, intermittent fever,
dropsy, neuralgia, goitre or thick neck, and
all diseases of the blood, are cured by this
world-renowned medicine Its properties are
wonderful, its action magical. By druggists
THE beauty of morocco leather may be quite
restored by vanishing with the white of an
egg,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12

SAW THE Bella couple of Phil
adelphia visitors to the New Orleans
Exposition were seen examining and adj
hiring the Liberty Bell the other day.
They had never seen the old relic be-
fore, and they said they were glad they
had visited the show.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12

LYDIA E. P1NKHAM's Vegetable Conpouna
"a a most valuable medicine for ladies OF al
ages who may be afflicted with any form o. OF
d5fsease peculiar to their sex. Her remedies
ore nit in not only in liquid forms but also
in Pills and Lozenges, in which form they are
secureIy sent through the mails.