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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29
Laborcrs, Wages ON the Isthmus.

1t has been stated by those favoring
the Nicaragua canal that white laborers
from the Northern States can be hired
to work on the canal for 81 per day.
The current rate of wages paid to ordi-
nary unskilled negroes on the Panama
Canal ranges from $3.50 to So per day,
and the Panama Canal Company pays
their passages from Jamaica or other
West India Islands, and a bounty OF $E
per head in addition. This being the
case the rate per day at Nicaragua could
scarcely be counted at 81 per day.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29
THE WAY TO MAKE WHISKY.
Differences Between the Real Stuff an,
the Mixture that Kills at Long Range.

the Mixture that Kills at Long Range.
A correspondent wishes to know the
process of making whisky. The grain,
corn. or rye, for instance, is ground be-
tween a pair of ordinary millstones.
The meal thus obtained is mixed in an
iron tub with barley malt in the proper
ton of bushels of meal to Q of malt,
and Is gallons of water at temperature
of $50 degrees Fahrenheit. After wash
ing, as it is called, for an hour and a
half 30 gallons more of water are added,
at temperature of 100 degrees. Two
hours later, the mixture having settled,
| two-thirds of the iquor, which is known
as beer, is drawn off into shallow vats
and 80 gallons of water are poured into
the tub at temperature of 100 degrees.
In an hour and half this is drawn off
and 80 gallons of boiling water are
poured in. In twenty minutes ali the
beer in the tub is drawn off, and as the
last lot is very weak it may either be
boiled down to the strength of the beer
obtained before, or it must be used with
a fresh lot of meal instead of water
The beer from the shallow vats is cooled
down to, a temperature of 70 degrees,
and then one gallon of yeast is added
for each 100 gallons of beer.
When the mixture has fermented it is
ready for distillation, which is done by
boiling it in boiler and condensing the
steam by running it into coolers, which
in former days were long coils of copper
pipe running through tanks of cold
water, from which arose the name of
the worm of the still. The condensed
steam is simply raw whisky. 1t pos
sesses the most disagreeable taste, and
will kill at forty rods range, but it is
nevertheless diluted and sold in the
cheap saloons.
The acrid taste of raw whisky is due
to the presence of certain greasy products
of distillation and light alcohols mixed,
which are known by the name of fusil
oil. These products boil at 173 degrees,
while the amylic alcohol, or the zeal
stuff. requires temperature of 270 de-
grees. BY redistillation the fusil oil is
separated. 1t may also be eliminated
by running the raw whisky through
granulated charcoal that has been pre-
viously heated. Whisky is therefore
simply alcohol of a peculiar flavor
due to the substances from which it was
derived, and diluted, when honestly
made, with about twenty-five per cent
of water and some of the products of
distillation other than the pure amylio
alcohol.-N. Y Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29
Two Sides of Congressman's Life.

1t is an error to suppose that the
lawmakers have nothing more to do
then to attend the ordinary sessions of
the Senate or House and draw their pay
Some of them are models of industry
going TO the Capitol early in the morn
ing, holding committee meetings for an
hour or two, darting off to an executive
department for information, taking
part in the debates OF the Respective
houses, writing letters to constituents,
and transacting infinite odds and ends
of business until dusk. And, when
they go home in the evening, they are
not always allowed to rest They are
bothered by dissatisfied constituents;
they are besieged by strangers and
friends, one wanting this done,
another that, a third something else,
until, wearied and exhausted, they sink
into a restless sleep, and dream
hideous visions of the coming day.
Yet there is another side to the
picture. They each receive five
thousand dollars year and perquisites,
to say nothing of the honor of writin g
IN. c." and "U. s. S." after their
names; they are distinguished guests"
wherever they go; they are invited to
ali levees and receptions, to all festivals
and amusements; they are banqIeted
by the President and entertained by
Cabinet Ministers, and they are
welcome to every species of domestic
and foreign hospitality, from charity
ball to german at the legation, where
they may move solemnly through the
figures of the stately minuet, or dance
to the iveiier music of cotiiiion and
Virginia reel. Altogether, their careers
are decidedly agreeable, and the average
Congressman would gladly serve his
country for life, and nominate his
bones to fill the vacancy occasIoned
by bis death. The bright little son of
a senator evidently thought the Senate
was an hereditary institution ; for,
when asked what he intended to be
on resAhing manhood. ha srnnuruf.Illy
answered. " Well. I'd Ike to be a
hack-dfiver, but I s'pose I'll have
10 be n senator !"-S. Nicholas for
January.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29
GIVEN AND TAKEN.
5T JOHN aREENLEAF wHITrrxR

u JOHN eREENLEAx wHIrrrxR
Smoothing soft the nesting head
OFFS maiden fancy-led,
Thus the graye-eyed woman said.
Richest gifts are those we make.
Dearer than the love we take
That we give for loves own sake
"Weu know the hearts unrest:
Mine has been the common Quest
10 be loved and therefore blest.
'Favors undeserved were mine;
At my feet as on shrine
Love has laid its gifts divine.
sweet the offerings seemed, and yet
with their sweetness came regret,
And sense of unpaid debt.
Heart OF mine unsatisfed,
Was it vanity or pride
That deeper joy denied?
"Hands that ope but to receive
Empty close; they only live
Richly who can richly give.
'Still, she sighed, with mois tening eyes,
Love is sweet in any guise;
But its best is sacrifice
HE who, giving, does not crave
Likest is to Him who gave
Life itself the loved to save.
'Iove that self-forgetful gives
Sows surprise of ripened sheaves.
Late or soon its own receives
Independent
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29

WOODEN SHoEs.--If the merits of
wooden shoes were better known, says a
Western paper, they would be much
more used, especially on the farm.
Leather soaks up water and makes the
feet wet and the boots are hard to get on
and off, while wooden shoes keep the
feet dry and warm even in the coolest
weather. Besides this, they are much
cheaper and last longer than leather
boots and shoes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29
NOT FAMILIAR.

The other day a middle-aged German
woman went into q bank, and in trans
acting the business of her visit it became
necessary for her to write her name. A
pen ready linked was handed her, and
she wrote her first or Christian name
readily enough and in good hand.
Then she hesltated, stopped, and turn
ing to the waiting cashier, apologetically
said: 81 don't pelieve can write dot
name. don't peen marriet to dis man
| long alretty."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29
HE THOUGHT SHE HAD.
REPARTEE.
They were lunching, one day,

They were lunching, one day,
In a handsome cafe,
And she happened to say,
As she noticed the way
That he and ice-cream were in unity.
"Can YOU eat ice-cream with impunity? 2"
And he made the reply,
With wink of the eye,
s'No, but can with a spoon"
But her triumph came soon;
As they left the saloon,
He gave her good opportunity;
"And now Bessie, dear,
As the weather is clear,
Can you take q walk with impunity?"
Her smile was as bright as the moon,
And deliciously shy
Came the mocking reply,
'No, but l can with spoon"
REy W0nD nAvTa
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29

WHAT IS WANTED. - The inducements
to discover and reveal corruption in gov
ernment, says the Boston Herald, are
many and varied. The papers want it
because it is news. The politicians
want 1t because IL will hurt the other
party.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29

He LEFT.-In a recent sermon at st,
Fauls, London, Canon Liddon told a
story Of the late Sir Robert Peel with
quiet dignity ordering his carriage when
al a dinner party Christianity was
denied, saying that he was sorry to re-
tire, but that he was still Christian.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29

In all things preserve integrity; and
the consciousness of thine own upright
ness will alleviate the toll of business,
soften the harness of ill-success and dis
appointments and give thee an humble
confidence before God, when the ingrat-
itudo of man, or the iniquity of the
times, may rob thee of other reward,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29
ONE WAY TO REMEDY IT.

"My friends" went on the temper
ance lecturer, edo you realize when
spending your money for whisky how
little original value you get for it Do
you know that you pay ten or fifteen
cents for what costs the producer less
than one-sixth of cent ?"
A look of horror swept over the faces
of the audience.
"Now," he went on excitedly, 81 ask
you as sensible and responsible beings,
as men upon whom the support OF
wives and little children depends, what
ought to be done?"
"The tax ought to be abolished, was
the indignant cry.
HE THOUGHT SHE HAD.
'Darter," said old Mr.. Jimplicute to
his eldest offspring, who had Just re-
turned from Vassar, "ain't them there
Hot Springs down in Arkansas ?"
"Oh, paw" replied Arahella Cordelia,
"you should not say Arkansas you
should say 'Arkansaw.
"Should, hey r. replied the old man;
"well, let that paw. s'pose you rarnt
that in yer claw at school. Mother, just
paw the apple-saw while Bellar goes out
and looks in the CLAW to see if she haln't
made a jack-aw of herself "-1eTat
0iffin0S
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29

500 YOU know anything about the so.
lar systemP' "WeIl, I should smile.
That's queer question to ask father
who has five daughters to shoe p
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29

The wood in the old war-ship Virginia
has been preserved so long, it is said,
because it is salted.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29

The Most Successful Held in Years, but ft
Ended Him md his Wife-SOme Very
CrriORs Presents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29
STRAY ODDS AND ENDS.
BATCH OF JOKES FROM THE HUI.
MOROUS COLUMNS OF THE PAPERS,
Big sheep-HOw IL wns PronOunced-Not
Familiar with the Name-Tho Editors
Ruse-The Wedding Gifts, Etc.
THE WEDDING GIFTS,

| IdE WEDDlNG GIFTS.
Fond Father-'See here, my daugh-
ter, this will never do. You must not
invite those young ladies to your we'd
ding"
Daughter-"And why not, pa? They
are particular friends of mine. There
can certainly be no objection to them
socially. Their father is, bank pres
| ident."
Exactly SO, my child, and that's just
why they must not come. His bank is
the only one I have an account with.
and they might tell their father about
that 100000 check which am to give
you to display among your wedding
presents"
"But suppose they do, PAP"
"Can't you seeP He knows I never
had $500 there at one time in my life."
Philadelphia Gail.
NOT TO BE MADE KNOWN.
Young Husband (complainingly) Il
wish we could find q cook who can
make pumpkin pie such as my mother
used to make.
Fashionable Young Wife with sur.
prise)-Did your mother go into the
kitchen and make pie?
Young Husband-Yes, and mighty
good pie it was, too.
Fashionable Young Wife-Well, 1
hope You won't saw ANYTHING about IL
in the presence OF the servants.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29

A DOOR is sometimes g jar and an
earthquake always Is.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29

HARE benevolence, is the minister 10
God,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29

ReBERr BoNER's wealth Is reekoned at
100000
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29
HE WAS A SHEEP.

An Austin Sunday-school teacher en-
deavored to make his pupils under
stand the parable about the good shep-
herd. He said:
"Now, little children, suppose you
were all little sheep, what would I
be"
He expected them to say that he
would be the good shepherd, but much
to his disgust one of them replied
eff we were little sheep you would be
big Sheep" whereupon the teacher
looked very sheepish, indeed. He did
not want to be looked upon as a big
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29


"Met with an accident" said sub
scriber who was two or three years in
arrears, as he entered the sanctum of a
rural editor. "I see your face is bruised
and you have got black eye." "Well, :"
said the editor, with sigh, as he arose
and began to roll up his sleeves, ode
linquent subscribers must be made to
pay up somehow, but I sometimes come
out second best, as you see." "Ha p
laughed the visitor as he took out his
wallet, "I just dropped in to pay
my bill" And the editor chuckled
softly to himself after the visitors de-
parture: "Life is full of compensations.
Falling over that wood-box was bless
ing to me. ."-BoSton Courier.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29
DIDN' t UNDERSTAND.

On an Arkansas railway train, pas
senger calls the conductor and says:
''Seems to take some time" eyes,
they are rather slow tonight" "Why
don't you burn coal so you wouldn't have
to stop and wood up?" "We do burn
COAL" "Then what are you stopping
here for p "Oh, 1 didn't understand
you when you said it took 'em some
time. We are waiting for the train rob-
bers to blow open the express safe.
Don't be in hurry, they'll be through
pretty soon. All, here they come now.
Better hold up your hands, 1 reckon.
ArkanSaW Traveller.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-03
Trunks With False Bottoms,

'You would be surprised at the num-
ber of orders we fill for trunks with
false bottoms" said trunk manufact-
urer.
''For thieves, eh?"
Sometimes, yes, but more frequent
ly for high-toned people. A man came
to me one day with an oil painting of
a beautiful woman, and asked to have
the painting built in the bottom of a
trunk. Naturally l was curious, and,
as he was talkative, l soon found out
that the painting was of his first wife,
and that his new wife was awfully
jealous. 4 don't like to burn up the
old picture, you see, he said, 'as she
is not dead, and it's sign of mighty
bad luck to burn up the picture of a
living person. l suspect if she was
dead my present wife wouldn't care
Well, l built the picture into the trunk,
sent it home, and l suppose everything
is lovely, and the new wife thinks the
picture has been destroyed. A woman
came once and wanted q trunk with q
false bottom arranged so that she could
get at it easily. We generally make
the openings to false bottoms from the
under side, but she wanted this through
the upper side of the bottom. l asked
her how deep she wanted the false bot
tom and she said, absently, oh, big
enough to hold a package of letters
and photograph Now, that was
definite order, wasn't it? Just as if
knew how thick a package of letters
was! She was the handsome young
wife of rich old husband. But, Of
course, the commonest order comes
from women who want some safe place
to hide their money in. A woman
thinks there is no place like trunk
for hiding money. San Francisco
Chronicle.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-03
A Fathers Hasty Promise,

A cent seems little value, but if it
is only doubled few times it grows to
a marvellous sum. A young lady in
Portland caught her father in a rash
promise by knowledge OF this fact on
her part. She modestly proposed that
if her father would only give her one
cent on one day and double the amount
on each successive day for just one
month, she would pledge herself never
to ask of him another cent of money as
long as she lived. Not stopping to run
over the figures in his head, and not
supposing it would amount to q large
sum, he was glad to accept the offer
at once, thinking it also favorable
opportunity to include possible mar
rlage dowry in the future. On the
twenty-tifth day he became greatly
alarmed lest if he complied with his
own acceptance he might be obliged to
be declared II bankrupt on his own
petition. But on the thirtieth dav
this young lady demanded only the
pretty little sum of S., 1858, 706.12. The
astonished merchant was only too hap
py to cancel the claim by advancing
handsome cash payment for his folly
in allowing himself to give bond-for
his word he considered as good as his
bond-wlthout noticing the considera-
ton therein expressed, and by promis-
ing to return to the old custom of ad-
vanclng smaller sums daily until other
wise ordered,
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-03
Half Snake and Half Dog.

The Tucker County (W. Va Pioneer
OF last week contained the following:
''R. w. Eastman arrived Sunday from
Davis, in the upper part of this county,
and reported the capture of a wonder
full animal near that place few days
ago. We are not giving this to the
public for the sake of a sensation. but
because we believe it to be fact. The
animal was caught in a steel trap, and
was dead when found. 1t had the head
OF bulldog and the body of snake,
except that it was very thick for it's
length, and the body was covered with
deep-red fur. Its entire length was
about five feet, and the circumference
of its body some twenty inches. Its
teeth were partly like a dogs, partly
like snakes. Mr.. Eastman had with
him the lower tusk. 1t was about two
and half inches long, protruding
from the animals mouth, and was
curled like sleeps horn. The tusks
of the upper jaw went backward like a
snakes teeth, and were about one inch
long. The animal had no legs. 1t
was supposed to be water animal like
an otter. There is nothing to indicate
that it ever had legs. Mr. Parsons,
Chief Civil Engineer of the West Vir-
ginia, Central and Pittsburg Railroad,
has gone to Paris to examine the dead
beast, and doubtless he will do some
thing toward unraveling the mystery
of what it is"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-03
Hints to q Young Editor.

There are an astonishing number of
people who imagine that the editor is
always suffering for something to fill
up with. One of thes, would-be pa
irons of the press wi stroll into a
sanctum, with something under his
arm, about the size and shape of a bot
tie wrapped up in an old newspaper,
and, with an air of a philanthropist be-
slowing aims on a mendicant, will
drawl out: 81 thought you needed
something to fill up on, so l have just
brought you something good to put on
your inside" If the editor is green
hand, and has just started in the bust
ness, he interprets the remark of the
would-be-patron to mean that the
package under the intruder's arm is
something good to eat or drink, and
is intended for the inside of the editor.
Under this pleasing delusion, the green
editors face lights up with a happy
smile, and he reaches out for the nour-
ishment, remarking: Il am very much
in need of something to fill up with,
and there is plenty of room on my in
side for anything good you have got"
The visitor not catching on, replies:
II am glad to hear you say So Please
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-03
A Dignified Explanation.

Two men emerged from Delmonico's
cafe about 9 o'clock last night and
stood gazing into each others eyes
with maudlin earnestness. One was
stout, robust, trife unsteady on his
held the other mans hand in both of
his and looked aloft at him with every
evidence of extreme regard.
"Well," he said, thickly, NOW,
sail right. You understan' and un-
derstan', and so it all goes"
The other man, whose extraordinary
form was very thin and presented
the general profile of a ladder with a
joint in its upper section, shook the
clasped hands of his friend fervently
and placed his other hand on his COM
panion's shoulder.
Billy" he said, slowly, 'if you are
the man l took you for, which l feel
free to remark that you are the man
that is, being the man for whom you
are took" a long pause, 'well, any
man who takes you for man is my
friend"
The rather complex and involved
nature of the remark engaged the small
mans attention Tor some time. Then
he said, returning to his first charge:
well, you understan', don't youP"
''Betcherlife, said the other senten-
tiously.
Then they stood there while the gas
lights tllckered above their heads, the
cars rumbled to and fro, and the cabs
raced up and down Broadway They
were jostled by pedestrians, guyed by
street gamins, and generally bufeted
by the throng, but they clung to one
another affectionately and rocked to
and fro in sympathy.
"Billy. said the tall man at last.
"What?"
"Stall ri?''
One more sincere and heartfelt clasp,
partial embrace, and they drifted un-
steadily apart.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-03
inexpensive Beauty.

Ihe new styles of architecture and
house decoration are friends of short
purse as well as long one. 1t has not
been many years since the house had
to be finished in Il certain kind of
grand style or it was mere nonentity.
A great change has come, and now q
house may be built with few thou
sand dollars, that will be as beautiful,
as good, as the reasonable heart can
wish. Beauty has at last escaped the
service of the rich. and has entered in
to kind of conspiracy for the purpose
OF making cottage surpass a palace.
While many are still suffering from the
absence OF employment, OF else from
poor pay for hard work, yet the planet
has become q little weary of turning
over into day and night and summer
and winter for the sake of the rich
alone, and it seems to say: "It is time
Tor the millions to have chance" A
new dwelling house comes with it's
cheap gables, with its shingled bands,
its little sprinkle of stained glass, its
red, yellow, and dark green colors,
with its pine finish, with its carpetless
floors, with its tinted walls, and behold
nothing in the world is more pleasing
OF better adapted to the wants of
father, mother, and child.
The color art has come in to tho aid
OF the common pocketbook. When
beauty lay in marble or stone or brick
or heavy columns OF imported woods
the ordinary money-purse gave up
hope, but trecently came the color art to
rival carver and sculptor and the gold
smith; and color being AN inexpensive
form of beauty, it has set up the COM
mon man above his old humble condi-
tion. No dealer in stucco or in costly
fresto can much surpass a wall finished
In terra-cotta paper relieved by broad
band in blue. The common calcimines
and wall papers have gotten the old
high style artists into corner and
seem to say to them: BEAT us if you
can" 1t was the age of kings and
aristocrats which set going the idea
that beauty is expensive. The age of
democracy is finding out many OF the
cheats of the past. Each child that
came in from the woods with arms full
OF flowers ought to have made us sus-
pect long ago that Gods beauty is to
be found without much money and
much price. We ought long ago to
have discontinued taking lessons of
kings and to have gone to that Nature
which can make a lily surpass a Solo
mon.-Ihe Current,