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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11

Police Inspector Byrnes, of New York,
the american Vidocq," has been gossip
ing to a World reporter:
1'Once in a while New York is unusu-
ally crowded, like on the day of General
Grants funeral. We worked little plan
on that occasion that succeeded beauti-
fully My men went all along the line of
the New York Central and Hudson river
railroad and picked up all the big and
little pickpockets who had posted them
selves at different stations to reap har-
vest of watches and pocketbooks from
the crowds who gathered to see the fun
eral train and follow it to New York. In
this city, too, we arrested all the pick
pockets, and the police justices kindly
committed them as vagrants. The result
was that although there were 1000, 900
strangers here during the funeral week in
addition to New York's population Of
1 500, 000 there was but one theft re-
ported, and that was the stealing Of a
silver watch from drunken man on the
Bowerv When such emergencies arise
it is well to meet them half way
II thought recognized one of your
men at ball the other evening" re-
marked the visitor.
Every likely" said the inspector.
"They attend all the big entertainments.
Thereswere eight of them in evening
dress at the Dixey ball, with their eyes
wide open for the first crook who showed
his nose there At both of the big fancy
dress balls that the VanderbiIts gave a
few seasons ago four of my men were
present in costume. 1t would have
looked funny, wouldn't it, to see a
hooded monk Juggling off light fingered
Louis XVI. to the county jail for trying
to run away with some ladys diamonds!
| expect before this season is over to see
Nanki-Pooh prefcrring charge of at
tempted larceny against some Pooh Bah
whom he has caught in the act of pick
ing pockets Keep your eyes open the
next time you attend fancy dress ball
and see if you can find some of my boys" "
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11
RESOLVE,

As the dead year is clasped by a dead Decem-
Der,
So let your dead sins with your dead days
lie
Z new life is yours, and new hope! Remem-
We build our own ladders to climb to the
sky.
ting
Whatever your past held of sorrow or
wrong;
We waste half cur strength in useless re-
gretting;
We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
Have you missed in your aims well, the mark
is still shining;
Did you faint in the race! well, take breath
for the next.
Did the clouds drive you back? but sec yon-
der their lining.
Were you tempted and fell? let it serve for
text.
As each year hurries by let it join that process
sion
OF skeleton shapes that march down to the
past,
While you take your place in the line of pro-
gression,
With your eyes on the heavens, your face
to the blast.
tell you the future can hold no terrors
For any sad soul while the stars revolve.
If he will but stand firm ON the grave of his
errors,
And instead of regretting, resolve, resolve!
1t is never too late to begin rebuilding.
Though all into ruins your life seems hurled
For look! how the light of the new year is
gliding
The worn wan face of the bruised old
world!
-Eilo Wheeler Wjlcor, in Ne,v York Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11
An Adding Machine.

C. G. Spalding, who keeps books for
Day g. johnson, says the Springfield
Mass Republican, has perfected ma
chine that is designed to aid brother
bookkeepers and accountants in running
ND LONG lines of figures He has been at
work on the invention since 1878, and
had the thing patented something like
wear 400. The machine is clCascd in q
wooden box about eight inches square
and three inches deep, and, lifting the
cover. the interior is seen to hold an en-
ameled white surface, on which are two
dials. and which shows the brass key
board in the lower left hand corner. Tho
laroer dial of the two il on the left Of
the machine. and is divided into 100 Sec
tions. The rim of the smaller dial il
likewise cut into twenty sections. Tho
first dial is called the unit pointer. That
which moves about the pointer. a little
finger play on the brass keyboard makes
the object of the dials and the reason Of
the pointers names quickly understood.
The nine keys on the board are num-
bered from one to nine and are placed in
regular order but also in two rows, two,
four. six and eight being above and the
odd numbers below The key brass
upright. and as the FINGER draws on it a
spring allows it to slip back toward the
lower end of the box. The pulling Of
each KEY on the board sends the unit
pointing along on its journey around the
dial as many points as there are units in
the number OF the key. Pull the nine
KEY and the dial set at naught goesto nine.
Pull the same key again and the unit
pointer moves to eighteen. Pull the one,
two and three keys now and the pointer
goes consecutively with a hop, skip and
lump to nty-four When the unit
pointer, keeping upits agile athletics, has
reached its starting pointagGln, there IS"
quick little motion on the right hand dial.
The pointer then has ''aOttcd and gone
one" The machines Internal clocSwork
| is more accurate than human head can
hope to be. 1t isn't troubled with mala-
ria. nor is it ever larger in the morning
| than it was the night before. Al the
! accountant has to do is to run his
! eve up and down the columns, pulling each
! respective KEY as he reaches the CORE
| spondino figure. A day is sufficient in
which to learn the keyboard and the
motion of the hand quickly becomes al
| most involuntary. The expert can ruh
the figures in the head and on the key
| board simultaneously, thus proving
his work by one trip mp or down the col
umn. Carrying is performed by setting
the pointer at the number to be carried.
To set the unit pointer all that is neces-
sary is to hold down key 1 and turn ths
pointer forward to number one less than
the one carried. On releasing key the
pointer is on the desired number The
hundred pointer can be moved in either
direction. The hand easily operates tho
nine keys thus: Nos 1, 2 aud W
the first linger,4 and 8 with the second,
and vita the third, and with the
fourth. The inventor claims for the m
chine une1ing accuracy and surprising
rap;dity. He says an expert can add 2lO
! tioures a minute with it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11
TiEping the Waiter.

Speaking of tips, the other evening I
supped at the st. James with an old
friend from California, a prodigal and a
bon vivant. The change brought by the
obese and well creased waiter consisted
OF five-dollar bill and two dimes. NV
host lifted the BILL and the waiter, with
an insolence as magnificent as it was
original, took the dimes from the salver,
laid them on the cloth and departed with
an undisguiscd shrug. A twenty-cent
tip for ten-dollar check was not enough
for him My Eldoradan friend smiled
and glinted at me in his palm a silver
dollar which he had drawn from his
pocket. We went out, he rattling the
dimes and the dollar as he went At
the door miserable urchin was vending
the stray remnants of his stock of even
lug papers. My friend took them
in bulk, dropped the three silver pieces
into his filthy paw, and as we walked
down Broadway tore up the papers and
scattered the fragments into the street.
When the last strips had futtered off, he
said solennjy.
I'm blessed if ever give a waiter a
tip again! Have you any fire2"
But is it, after all, the fault of the
waiter whom our prodigals spoil that he
refuses to devour husks? One even
ing was talking to Siro Delmonico when
l noticed a yeungster at the next table,
who had had half dollars worth of
brandy, leave the change of a two-dollar
note for the waiter.
''Ie did not have to earn that money"
said Delmonico, grimly.
Delmonico himself never tipped a waiter
Neither, by the way did A. T. Stewart.
.Nelg York To- Dag
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11

both his hands tightly in hers. and fas.
tened her great magnetic eyes upon his
own bewildered ones.
''Jake! Jaker" she sad. II say faint
too late! Wen have home together
yit-you'n mel Do yon hear?"
Yes: at last he und9tstood. His face
flushed, frightened. Sith mighty eff
fort he threw up. both MS arms as if to
clasp her and fell fair ting on her breast.
Jimmy uttered a stifea cry. and at that
moment l saw a streanof flood tricllling
from his side, staining the garments of
both as they lay clasped in each others
arms. The exertion had opened his
wound afresh, and l feared for him ex-
ceedingly.
But to my surprise, Hound on examina-
ton, that the woundwas not mortal
not even severe one and his weakness
and prostration Were Fobably the results
of excitement and lossof blood
Thanks to my h. ,ital experience I
and had The s9tiatI-sa. of assuring his
old mother and Jff1y that -VeSth good
nursing he would son recover.
When he returnsl to consciousness
jimmy was bending over him.
He spoke her name, but she, smiling,
laid her finger on hb lips and shook her
head:
You want ter get well, don't yer?"
she said softly. Il come here tonight
ter die with yer, but Ireckon it's better
for us both ter live '-Boston TfaooZer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11
HUM0R or THE DAY.

A big spread-The sky.
4 high old time-The town clock.
Likely to be mistaken-An engaged
Miss. -Ttf,.
A one-leggeG man win never be
troubled with wet feet.
Man wants the earth, and woman
wants--the man.-BH Nye.
Because the baby is little yeIler it's
40 sign he is Chinaman.-Pay1er
Journal.
There were only seven wonders of the
world in ancient days. That was before
the dude was invented. d.-S0as5rcjHe Jour
nal.
A St. Louis girl thinks she's an angel.
She caught sight of her ears in the mir
ror, and mistook them for wings.-Ca.t-
fo,71ia Ndcerick
Glow shall a cabbage worm be
treated}n asks an exchange. That IS
difficult to answer. We should like to
know what the worm would like before
we answer Graphic.
A late dispatch from Portland says
that Oregon has a wild man. Dakota
will have quite a number of them should
the present Congress fail to admit her as
a State.-Hercbuat- Tracoier.
II consider him bold, arrogant
man." eyes, l know ne is now, but he
won't be very long" ''And why not, L
should like to know!' 'Iae is to be
married next week - Chic1g1 LeiJer.
The name Of the new Swedish minis-
ter to the United States is kjolt. He
N.arN -
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11

An advancing lava flow makes a con
siderable ado as it goes on-espccially if
its line of advance is through a jungle
or forest. The noise accompanying its
movement, under ttR sc circumstances, re-
sembles the roar of the battlefield. The
ears of the person who visits the scene are
greeted by the cracking of burning
foliages, the kissing of hot air and steam,
the falling of trees, and the bursting of
bombs, all commingIed in one tumult.
Traversing a lava stream while it is yet
running may be compared to trayersing a
river in winter by walking on the ice. A
pair of thick shoes and stockings are
needed to protect the feet from the heat,
as on the ice to protectthem from the cold.
Vent holes, too, will be ever and and anon
encountered in the solid crust covering
the liquid stream, down which the spec
tator can look and behold the fiery river
below and fire falls, which are usually
without any covering of solid lava over
them, just as water falls in winter, be the
weather never so cold, are without any
covering Of ice. Overland M0Rthly.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11
The 0leomargarine Question.

The attitude of the various States and
Territories on the oleomargarine question
at the present time is accurately SHOWN
in the following:
Manufacture prohibited Maine, Mich
igan, Minnesota, Missouri and Pennsyl-
vania.
Manufacturc-s-,s.sss,,. s..--l4=f must stamp,
brand or placard-C California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida. Indiana,
Iowa, Maryland, New Hampshire (col-
ored pink, New Jersey, New York, Ohio
(sold as beef sueD, Oregon, Rhode Island,
Tennessee, Arizona and Dakota.
Fine and imprisonment California,
$500 to 81 900; Colorado $500; Connoc-
ticut, 81; Delaware, $50; Florida, 500
to 81 900; Indiana, $40 to $50; Iowa. $25
to $50; Maine, 500 to 5000; Maryland.
$25 to 500; Michigan, 5000 to $500;
Minnesota, 800 to $500; Missouri, 81, 900
Silent Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ne
braska, Nevada, North Carolina, South
Carolina and TeXas.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11
Mammoth Calm Piles.

At the present time fifteen per cent of
the product of Pennsylvania mines goes
to the culm pile. For the first forty
years of the anthracite business the per-
centage Of waste averaged more than
double that, for Grade and imperfect
methods in and appliances in mining,
breaking and screening were unable to
save from the waste heaps coal that is
now the most profitable of all the dilfe"-
cnt kinds on the market 1t is only about
fifteen years ago that chestnut coal be-
gan to be saved from the culm, and it
was estimated that not less than 7,000,-
600 tons of that size coal, worth about
$25, 900, 600, were buried in the accumu-
lations of mine debris Several years
ago improved screening produced size
of coal which was given the name of pea
coal. 1t readily became a successful
rival of chestnut coal for stoves and
CRATES. Then the mine engineers calcu-
lated that the culm piles had swallowed
5000, 900 or 100000 tons of pea coal,
worth $40, 900, 900 or $12, 900, 00O.-Ncto
To-I JEolyyLJ
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11
THE AFrERCLOw.

The tired eyelids of the Day
Droop heavily; the faint light flashes
In golden CLEANS beneath her lashes.
To charm the dark, advancing night,
She throws a backward smile of light;
But still she fingers lovely Day.
And while she waits, the shadows steal
Across the meadow, DER the bay,
While in the distance far away
The hills float in a purple haze,
And to my eager, lingering gaze,
The white sails dip and reel
Upon the rocky cliff wait.
The flmy, feecy clouds that fly
In scurTying crowds across the sky
Have caught the radiance and the light
That wrap the earth in garments bright
But still watch and wait.
With music sweet the waters aow,
And softly kiss the waiting sand.
Lo! over hilltop, wave and land,
Touching the woods with mellow light,
Lingering in colors warm and bright,
Soft CLEANS the aftsrglow.
The dying smile Of day grows dim,
And night with son5er mieu appears
Ny heart is sad, and through my tears
[ watch the waters silvery sheen,
The golden ring of light that's seen
Around the horizons rim
The gorgeous coloring Of the West
Grows faint and fainter, and the Light
Of stars CLEANS softly to my sight.
Oh, Light divine oh, holy Love,
Shine brightly thro' the gates above,
And to my heart bring rest.
--JeanieIa Verne Blosceys, an Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11
How a Famous Hymn was Written,

This is how the now famous hymn,
'Sweet By and By came to be written:
DR.. Fillmore Bennett, the author, lives at
Richmond, Illinois, and is poor. The
hymn was written by DR., Bennett at Elk
horn, Wisconsin, 1853. The writing of
the words was based upon a remark
made by j. p Webster, who composed
the music Mr.. Webster was of an ex-
cecdinely nervous and sensitive nature
and subject to periods of terrible depres-
sion. In one Of his melancholy moods
he Glanced to drop in at the house of DR..
Bennett when the latter asked "What
is the matter now2' "Oh, It is nc mat
ter, " replied the dcspondent man; 1T
will be all right by and by" The
last three words Immediately con-
vcyed u suggestion to DIR. Bennett, and,
he says: THE idea Of the HYMN came
to me like a flash of sunlight " Turning
to his desk he penned the words which
have since been so famous. He saws it
did not take him more than twenty min
utcs to write the hymn.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11
Prize Winter Poem.

The mill wheels frozen in the pond;
The plumber skips along the way;
The pipe has burst its leaden bond;
Tie red-hot stove is cold and gray
Oh. winter in our hours of ease,
why don't you keep the plumbers doWnF
Is life one long, continuous freeze!
Oh, let me bore the ice and drown!
Louisville CourieT-JourndL
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11

My Calf Skin Business absorbing my capital time and
attention. and having decided to close out all of my other
branches of business well 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 very low figures and easj terms
payment
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11

LOOK OUT.-Country Postmasters may
learn q valuable lesson from the eXper-
ience of the Postmaster at Conuersyille,
Ind, who entertained a robber who pre-
sented himself in the guise OF a fos'
Office Inspector learned the comDine-
ton of the safe, and stole $500 rom II
on the following night. Since 1t worked
so we'll In Connersville other Postmasters
may expect similar visitors. and should
ne prepared not only to prevent the ROB-
pery but to cause the arrest OF the ropDe''
-CAicogo Neics
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11
The Following is Partial List OF my
OFFERINGS OF REAL ESTATE f;

with dwelling barns Sheds etc. suitably d.
vided tage pasture wood timber apple oha running
the farm
productive be re-
gared selling down. bal
800
Farm buildings good water good SOIL price
down, year.
5-Ao Farm Hyde village borng man
wishes vegetables; price s5oO-15o down
per year.
Dwelling Hyde village good buildings new
good size; 81, 10000 down. per year
Just Hyde vlagea choice desirable
meadow onea good poa $50 per acre by
Will sell part or all
Building Hyde village enterpsing
Industrious young men who can raise 200 dollars put into land and labor
timber nails sash, shingIe
payment
Land parcels and three
VIII be sold those who want land with
Price of lots $75 800. s125 and $3.50 each.
Store Hyde village Store"
Block" hundred dollars but
rangmens probably
s2,OOo-s5OO down. balance 500
Sixty Acres Timber Land Johnson
iec taxation subject sell equity
within miles
sawmi bad hills between mill and lot and represented
for desiring logging Terms $50 downs25 in and s25
dollars NJ stumpage reserved until am paid
lying the banks OF the
mill in Park Pnoe $500
NJ stumpage reserved till lot
paid
within few rods of both the Vt and
Fhburg Price sioo1Oo down. balance 80
property will believe that have placed Vu
it, but
close of earliest moment practicable
Parties desiring find this property well worth
their examination either o the parcels %
estate above offered Iconfdy recommend AS CHEAP any ono Oh the ABOVE
described
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11

POISONED. A family in Cambridge,
Mass. have had their house overhauled
several times to discover cause for the
nausea and sleeplessness with which
they had been atTec ed. Arsenic dust
from the friezos with which the rooms
were decorated haa been discovered by
chemist to have been the cause.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11

In Algeria 202 lions have been killed
during the last twelve years; also /, pa
panthers, 1882 hyenas, 27, 1856 jackals.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11

William X. Vanderbilt aspires to pos
sess the largest steam yacht in the world,
and contcmplates having one bulIt
shortly. Mr. Vanderbilt contemplates a
trip to the Mediterranean in steam
Yacht. taking his family with him.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11

A pound Of bananas, it is said, con-
tains more nutriment than three pounds
of meat or as many pounds of potatoes,
while as food it is in every sense of the
word far superior to the best wheaton
bread. Although it grows spontaneously
throughout the tropics, when cultivated
its yield is prodigious, for an acre of
ground planted with bananas will return,
according to Humboldt, as much food
material as thirty three acres Of wheat, or
over 100 acres of potatoes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11

In England and Wales, as one may
learn from the Financial Reform Al
manac" (British) for 1886, no persons
own one-fourth OF the entire country; in
Scotland, twelve persons own onc-fourth,
and in Ireland IA persons own one-haf.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11
CARROLL S. PAGE.

hyde Park. VT, Feb 2, 1856.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11

A big spread-The sky.
4 high old time-The town clock.
Likely to be mistaken-An engaged
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-03-17
lally gress md @akptaian
WEDNESDAY, MARCH II, 1856.
RAILROAD TTnE TABLE.

CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE u ST. PAUL RAILROAD,
The east bound passenger train leaves at $40
q. 20. each day. except Sunday.
Inc passenger train from tho east arrives at
7:45 each day, except Sunday.
The west bound train linked leaves at go
each day, except Sunday.
The train from the west lmixedl arrives at
3 p m. each day, except Sunday.
The accommodation train leaves for the east
at - q. N. and arrives from the. cast at rs D.
m. each day, except Sunday.
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD,
The east bound passenger train leaves at q.
N. each day, except sunday.
Ihe passenger train from the east arriyes Mt
lo:l0 p, H. each day, except Sunday.
Accommodation trains leave for the east
each day. except sunday. at $3.50 a. m and 40
2. m: and arrive from the east each day, except
Sunday, at U:S0p m. and 8:45 p. m.
Yaneton Postofioe Hours and Regulations
Thu postefice is opened each day Sundays
excepteg at 100 q. m.
The delivery windows close at 300 p. M.
Inc money order, postal note snd registry de-
m.
On Sundays tho delivery windows are kept
open from 9:45 to lO:45 a. m. The lobby of the
ONCE - open all day Sundays for the accom-
mediator OF persons renting lock boxes.
close at 7:ea q. m., Sundays excepted.
Malls going west and north via the Chicago,
Milwaukee, d st. Paul railroad close at 500 D.
n, Sundays excepted.
Stage mails close at TOO p. M, except the
at ! p. m.
The eastern mail, via the G.. NJ. & St. p. f. R.,
arrives at S:05 p. m.
d. L.. D. PALMER, P. M.