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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-02
Easy Mathematics.

A farmer spends $13 per year for to
bacco, and his wife spends So year for
shoes. How much more does her shoes
cost than his tobacco
1t is twenty eight feet from certain
kitchen door to a wood-pile, and 1853
from the same door to corner grocery.
How much longer will 1t take man to
walk to the wood-pile than to the gro
Gerry, estimating that he walks three
feet per second
If it takes boy twenty-five minutes
to cut three sticks of wood to get supper
by, how long will it take him next morn
ing to walk three miles in the country
to meet circus coming to town
A cook hires out at SO per week, and
when Saturday comes she has broken
81 so worth of dishes. How much is
due her, and how on earth did the mis-
tress find out that she had broken any,
thing
A young lady who is out with her
beau drinks four glasses of soda water
at five cents each two glasses of gin
ger ale at five cents each eats three
dishes of icecream at ten cents each ;
four pieces of cake valued at thirty
cents, and throws out hint for box
of candy worth fifty cents. What does
she cost him in all
A tramp tackles a farm house, and a
dog tackles the tramp. The tramp
passes over thirty-two rods of ground
pei minute, while the dog passes over
forty-eight rods. How long will it take
the dog to overhaul him
Four boys who are on visit to their
aunt discover cake of maple sugar
weighing five pounds and eleven
ounces. What will each boys share be
if equitably divided
If a saddle horse has caused the death
of four different ladies who were ad-
vised by their doctors to try the saddle
for exercise, how many ladies could
have been deccntly killed in half the
time by riding over rail-fences in buck
boards
John has an orange, and six boys Ii k
their chops and want him to divide.
He eats it by himself-seeds, rind and
all. How many pieces would he have
had to divide the orange into, in case
he had been fiat, to give each boy
piece ?-DetrOit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-02
Bismarck as q Hero.

While he was serving in the Uhlan
cavalry, in 1912, his groom, who was
the son of forester on his estate, rode
into the lake to give the horse bath.
Missing his footing, the rider was
thrown and disappeared in the water.
Bismarck was standing with a group of
officers on the bridge and saw his sink
ing groom. In an instant his sword
and uniform were on the ground and he
leaped into the lake. He found the
struggling man and seized him. But
in the blind agony of a drowning man
he chung so tight to his master that Bis
marck, helpless, was obliged to dive
with his burden to loosen the hold. 1t
seemed as if both were lost, but soon
bubbles rose to the surface, followed by
Bismarck, who in the depths had de-
tached the grip of the man and now ap-
peared, dragging his groom with him,
and swan to the shore. The inanimate
form was restored to life, and the fol-
lowing day to duty. For this act he
afterward received the Prussian medal
for ''rescue and peril" which was his
first decoration; and he proudly wore it
when he had no other. Nor has he
since abandoned it, for it finds It's place
still amidst the highest orders which
European monarchs have since showered
upon his breast. His friends are fond
of telling his answer to much decor
ated diplomatist who, seeing this lonely
medal on his young colleagues coat,
inquired what decoration it was. Herr
Won Bismarck, who, at that time, had
no title and had earned no courtly dec
Grafton, looked him hard in the eye and
said: 81 am in the habit sometimes of
saving a mans life. "-JOhn A. KaSSOn
IN North 4AmericGn Re0ieU.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-02
Beer for the Ohio Veterans.

The arrival each morning at Dayton
of car load OF Cincinnati beer, sixty
barrels, to supply the Soldiers Home
saloon, where no other beverage than
lager beer is sold, has created decided
interest there The business there has
assumed enormous proportions, and yet
not glass is sold to any but inmates of
the institution.
Three bartenders are on duty ten
hours, from the opening of the saloon
in the morning until the closing at
night, and it is rush with them until
dark A car load of beer is received
every morning, and the barrels removed
at once from refrigerator cars to ice
cellars Immediately in the rear of the
barrOOm, and there one man is stationed
ali day charged with the duty of keep
ing three barrels on tap at time, and
when once the amber stream is started
it does not cease to flow until the bar
rel is empty, the beer being conducted
by rubber tube into the bar, where
patronage of the bar all day. In the
mornings there are often three to five
hundred thirsty veterans waiting in line
for the saloon doors to be opened.
Checks are sold at the door, five cents
apiece, six to each applicant and no
moe, and these checks are good for one
glass OF beer.
Profits on pretzels and sandwich sales
more than pay the running expenses of
the beer hall. Beer is delivered in car
load lots at the Home at fraction less
than eight dollars per barrel, and re-
tailed at a nickel
Colonel Thomas, treasurer of the
Home, says the profits from the sale OF
beer will pay all police, fire department
and hospital expenses. and clothc all of
the 5000 inmates of the Central Branch.
If the saloon was open to patronage of
visitors, the Home would be self sup
porting.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-02

THE Chicago Tribune tells a pathetic
story of the eldest daughter of John
Brigham Young. one of the wealth1est
men in Utah She was the favorite
niece of Brigham Young, was literally
educated. and was an excellent must
clan. Her father wanted her to marry
a Mormon elder, but she eloped with
young newspaper man, a Gentle. They
came to this city, where he worked as
reporter until his eyes failed. He be-
came blind, and she sang in concert
saloon here and supported her husband,
to whom she was devoted. Then she
lost her voice by sickness. and the two
were likely to starve They drifted to
Chicago, and now the wife, no longer
young, grinds whcezy hand organ day
after day, rain or shine, and still sup
ports her sightless husband.
WERKHoJANCK. in Siberia, latitude
67I degrees north, still maintains its
position as the coolest pace on the
earth. A Russian government survey
ing expedition, reporting to the Acade-
my of Sciences of St. Petersburg con-
erning its temperature observations
there in 1885, gives the mean tempera-
ture of the year as II degrees c., or /
degree Fair, the mean tempe nature of
January of that year as 40 degrees c.,
or --56 degrees Fahr., and the minimum
for the same month as -6S degrees c.,
or so degrees Fair.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-02
Death in Boiling Steel.

The Pail Mall Gazette says: 1t is long
since the newspapers recorded any ac-
cident so horrible as the death of the
Woolwich (England) molder who was
overwhelmed by cataclysm of boilin g
steel, and it is not often that so strange
a ceremony as the burial of poor MoIi-
arty is described in black and white.
The fact is, the poor fellow is now part
of 60.ton gun, in which form he will
continue to serve his country. Yet,
oddly enough, he was buried yesterday.
For some ashes and fragments of cloth
ing were collecte from the ingot and
shoveled into the coffin, which was fol-
lowed to the grave by what is called ali
cortege. TINS solemn but
farce calls to mind another
case somewhat similar, which forms one
of the CHASTITY legends of marlborough.
A laborer had tumbed head foremost
into the fiery liquid, and nothing of
HIM was left. But they ran coffin
full of Stag, held an inquest over it, and
lahl it in consecrated ground in the Or
thodox manner.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-02
WISE WORDS.

DIsparage and depreciate no one; an
insect has feeling and an atom shadow
Troubles are hard to take, though they
strengthen the soul. TONES are always
bitter
He who receives good term should
never forget it; he who does one should
never remember it.
When angercd the best of us mistake
our own motives, as we do those of the
enemy who intiames.
There is nothing so sweet as duty, and
all the best pleasures of life come in the
wake of duties done.
A grief, a disappointment, a success,
is new lens to the eye, changing the en-
tire aspect of nature.
Men think it no shame to give hand
some obsequies to those dead, whom liv-
ing they had suffered to pass unnoticed {;
but the struggle of sinking poverty passes
unseen in its corner.
The crown of mans manhood is some
insight or authority of knowledge that
puts him above the ordinary plan of
everyday things; he must take hold
somewhere, spiritually or intellectually,
upon the things of God.
1t is when we come to rejoice in duty,
to take pleasure in sacrifice, to follow
Justice, mercy and truth, not only with
the firm and steady step, but with low
ing and tender clasp, that we realize tho
true vitality of righteousness.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-02
A Modest Soldier.

A singular instance of soldierly mod
esty was brought to light recently in
Washington.
miliar with the capitol at any time dur
ing the last six years must have noticed
an elderly man with one arm, who was
doorkeeper to one of the ladies' gal
leries of the House of Representatives.
He was notable for his courtesy and his
infallible punctuality at his humble post
of duty. Few people in Washington
knew anything about him except that
he was faithful d0oTkreper at 500 per
month. Those who saw his empty sleeve
naturally supposed that he had lost an
arm on one side or the other of the civil
war. He was q quiet, dIgniied old gen.
tlemaD, who came from his home to the
capitol and returned to his home again
when his work was done.
One day last June he did not appear.
A pale woman came to say that he was
very sick and could not be at his door
for day or two He was never there
again. In week he was dead from
pneumonia. Then the reporters began
to write long sketches of the dead door
keeper. 1t turned out that he had a
history. His name was George ]. Stan
nard He volunteered in Vermont as
soon as war was declared. Promotion
came to him rapidly, and at last he rose
to the rank of major general. There
never was drawer soldier. He was shot
ten times and had his right arm taken
o T at the shoulder by a shell. At Gettvs-
burg and Cold Harbor he greatly dis
tinguished himself. In the army he was
universally loved and honored. Not one
of his associates at the capitol ever
heard him speak of his services, brilliant
; as they were. He accepted his lot in
life with cheerful resignation and fought
adversely to the last as bravely as he
ever faced a hostile army. He was a
faithful, modest man, who never dreamed
that he was hero. He left nothing but
one months salary. A bill is now pend
ing to pay his widow pension of $50 a
month.-AtLanta Constitution.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-02
The Repulsiye Hay-Feyer.

This disease seems to be growing each
year more common. 1t is an outgrowth
of modern civilization, and occurs only
in persons who possess a certain suscep-
tibility of the nervous system, either
hereditary or acquired. It is more COM
mon in men than in women. and pre-
walls largely among men of letters and
intellectual culture The direct eXcit
ing cause is now ascertained to be the
pollen of certain plants, such as the
grasses, rye, wheat, oats, ragweed and
Roman wormwood. The pollen of diff
ferent plants excites it in different per-
sons, but whatever cause produces 1t
once will produce it again in the same
person. Hence it appears oftentimes
with strict regularity year after year, at
seasons varying from May to October.
The first symptoms are those of itching
of the eyelids and nasal passages, fol-
lowed by frequent sneeZing and the dis
charge of a Serious fluid. Henry Ward
Beecher, himself a sufferer, says: "You
never before even suspected what it
really was 10 sneeze. If pane of glass
Is gone you sneeze. If you look into the
sunshine you sneeze. If you sneeze
once you sneeze twenty times. 1t is a
riot of sneezes. First, a single one,
like leader in flock of sheep, bolts
over; and then, in spite of all you can
do, the whole flock come dashing over
in twos, in fives, in punches of twenty"
Next, there is redness and watering of
the eyes, swelling of the mucous mem
brane of the nose and general febrile
symptoms. Sometimes the nose is en-
tirely closed by the swelling Cough
follows, more or less frequent and vio-
lent, generally with but little expector
alton. In a certain proportion of cases
there are paroXysms of asthma, more or
less severe After variable duration
the sneezing ceases, the discharge be-
comes thick and less abundant, the
swelling subsidies and all the symptoms
abate. The only method of preventing
the disease in susceptible persons is to
avoid exposure to the exciting cause.
Certain localities have gained wide no.
toriety from the immunity which they
afford from this disease Bethlehem,
N. H., is one of the most famous of
these Others are found among the
mountains, at the seaside and on islands.
A voyage at sea always gives relief.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-02
Actual Cost of Wheat.

A large stakeholder in the we'll known
Dalrymple farm in Dakota is quoted as
saying that the net cost of raising wheat
with his company is but about 81 cents
per bushel, after allowing 81, 900 per
year for interest and ordinary wear and
tear of machinery. On these figures as
basis the American grower could afford
to send his wheat to England to be sold
there at very little more than one cent
per pound, or not much in excess of
two thirds the current quotation on the
other side of the Atlantic. 1t would
be idle to assert that the small farmer
could afford TO raise wheat to be sold at
anything like these figures, but the lee
way in his favor is not small one. 1t
may be said to be more than equal to
the advantage which the low price of
silver has been claimed to give the In
dian grower of wheat when selling it in
England in competition with ours. An
allowance of 80 per cent. additional to
the average farmer, as compared with
the company which grows 400, 600 bush
els in one crop, should certainly be
enough, and so much of margin would
permit the wheat buyer here to offer the
property in the foreign market as cheap
~ as il can he sold by the man who i'm
ports from India. A great deal has
been said within the last few months
about the necessity of revising our esti-
mates of cost and selling values of farm
products. 1t has been urged that the
cost of production is so much reduced
and so much more of tools and other
supplies can be bought with the dollar
now than it would purchase few years
ago, that it was idle to expect return
20 the prices paid for grain and hog
product previous to the recent decline.
Such figures as the shove no; only tend
to show the force Of the deduction, but
indicate the men who framed it did not
20 far enough in their estimates of tho
extent Of the change now In progress,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-02
A WEARY FUGITIVE.
An Escaped Convict, Tired of Rowing, Re-
turns to Prison Again,
from the indianapolis Journal


A few moments before the hour for
closing the State Executive Office, Sat
urday evening, a we'll dressed man,
about 40 years old, walked into the
presence of the Governor ndlintroduced
himself as Mr.. Julius Coleman, quietly
remarking that he was on his way to
Jacksonville to surrender himself to the
prison officials, having escaped from the
institution four years ago after serving
part of two years sentence. During
the four years of his life as fugitive,
he had, he said, been a wanderer, hav-
ing spent some of the time in Canada,
and for the last several months he had
been engaged in farming in Mexico.
He had seen his wife but a few times,
and then under great disadvantages
He had determined, in obedience to the
pleadings of his wife, to return to prison
and serve out his sentence, so that at
the end of his term he could go to his
family a free man. He did not ask for
mercy. He was tired of the life of
fugitive, and wanted to earn his free
dom. At the close of his interview with
the Governor he was allowed to depart
alone, and on the night tain he pro-
ceeQeQ 10 JeHerSOnVllle.
Eight years ago Coleman was rising
lawyer at Evansville, and gave promise
of brilliant future. His arrest as a
leader in conspiracy to defraud sew
eral life insurance companies out of $50,
600 was one of the most sensational oc-
currences ever known in southern In
diana. He was unscrupulously ambi-
tious to acquire wealth, and after trying
by various schemes to make himself a
rich man, he concoced the insurance
swindle, which resulted in his down
fall. He secured polices on the life of
a half witted young man named Lucas
to the amount of $40, 900. 1t was ar
ranged that Lucas should go from
Evansville to Henderson on a steamboat.
accompanied by man who was in the
conspiracy, and should fall overheard
during the night. Lucas was provided
with rubber suit, which he was made
to believe would enable him to reach
the shore IN safety, where he would be
met by two men who would be waiting
to give him assistance The rubber suit
consisted of a common rubber coat and
overall, showing that it was Coleman's
idea to have a genuine drowning Lucas
WedhcneO at the laSG moment, ana In
stead of falling overheard secreted him
self in the bottom of transfer barge
The drowning, however, was duly re-
ported. An enterprising newspaper
man few days afterward, hearing that
the wife of Lucas had been making sus-
picious visits to an unoccupied house
owned by Coleman, instituted an in
vestigation, exposed the conspiracy,
causing Coleman to be arrested, con-
victed, and sentenced.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-02
"reminiscences of Y ale Days.
How Tilden Thrashed Big Fellow-Eis
Acts of Gene. Osity.

Samuel ]. Tilden entered Yale College
in 1858. He was then nineteen years
old. He did not complete his course.
Owing to his studious habits, his health
broke down in the latter part of his
Freshman term, and he did not return
the next year. When Mr.. Tilden first
entered Yale he was very shy and sell
dom entered into New Haven society.
He was good natured and would put up
with a great deal before resenting a
wrong. A classmate living in this CITY
tells the following little stories Of
him:
When Mr.. Tilden said he would do a
thing he would always adhere to his
promise When the Freshmen of '33
were marching about on a class day
Tilden was among the number. He
carried a good size cane, the same as
the rest. One big, burly fellow, who is
long since dead, took great pleasure in
annoying the "Girl-boy," as he nick
named him. When the students got
down Chapel street the big boy. who
carried no club, tried to take Tilden's
away from him. Tilden told him that
if he did not leave him alone he would
punish him. The other man did not
mind the threat, and the idea of the
little fellow licking him, he thought,
lauchable. So he kept up his 'fOoling"
until 1t got to be unbearable. Then
Tilden all of a sudden dropped his
cane and pitched into his annoyer,
and the thrashing that that big fellow
got was long remembered. The stu
dents all cheered him, and from that
day until the term closed Tilden re-
ceived no more annoyance from the man
whom he whipped.
Tilden was of retiring disposition,
but he delighted in doing good turns to
poor men. One night he carried a poor
drunken laborer to his house all unaid-
ed, while the other students laughed at
him. On another occasion his washer
woman's little chi died and the poor
woman had hardly enough money to
bury it. Tilden got the boys to chip in
and they raised enough to bury the
child decently. He was generous to
fault, and often got taken in by the
other students through his generosity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-02
How Mrs. Ferd. Ward Lives.

In recent interview with reporters
who visited him in his Sing Sing Prison,
says New York letter to the Baltimore
american, Ferdinand Ward, ex-wizard
of Wall street, told them that it was not
true that he had stored away several
millions of dollars out of his ill-gotten
gains. "My wife is living on less than
81, 800 year," he said. l was in SIAM
ford, Conn, the other day on business,
and CHANGED to make some inquiries
about the life of Mrs. Ward, who is
living there. From what l saw and
heard | was convinced that if Mis-. Ward
really does live on less than 81 800 per
annum, she is as peculiarly talented IN
financial management as her enterpriSlng
husband. Her house is large, three
story frame dwelling, standing in the
centre of goodly sized plot OF ground.
A sweeping carriage drive leads past
portico on the side, and in the rear is
well-appointed stable sheltering three
horses. The big shade trees on the
grounds, from one of which depended a
hammock filled with satin covered cush-
ions; group of cosy easy-chairs on the
portlco, vases and hanging baskets filled
with flowers and trailing plants-all this
gave an appearance of wealth which
seemed altogether incompatible with
the small income which Mrs Ward says
she enjoys. While l stood eying the
house with the curiosity and freedom of
q stranger, Mrs. Ward came out the front
door and commenced to water and ar
range the plants in the swinging baskets
on the portico. She wore a dainty
wrapper of foulard silk, which,
despite its flowing proportions, could
not conceal the beautiful contour of her
graceful figure. There was cold, in
different look on her face and a certain
mechanism about her movements which
showed that her mind was not on her
work. Could she have been thinking
of her dashing young husband, pound
ing stove plates within the graystone
walls up among the Hudson hills? 1t
seemed more than possible. as once she
paused, and, sitting herself slowly in
one of the chairs, turned her face weari-
ly skyward. She sat like a statue for
nearly three minutes, when she caught
a glimpse of the motionless spectator
near the street. Then she got up and
Mrs. Wards home is small,
but it is handsomely furnished, and she
keeps three servants. If she lives on
less than So, 900 or 81, 900 per annum,
she certainly has acquired the faculty of
making dollar go twice as far as the
average mortal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-02
She Shed.

A few days ago when Michigan
banker closed his doors against deposit
itors. a woman who had $500 on deposit
took revolver AID sailed up to his
house. The banker wasn't at home,
but his wife was. She had on pair of
5000 diamonds, and $500 gold watch,
and a couple of bracelets worth 800
apiece. "Shed !" observed the woman
with the revolver 'sWhat?" 81 want
that jewelry as security for my money,
and I'm in a hurry. She got it, but she
had not held it for twenty four hours
before it was quietly redeemed and she
was asked to keep num- WaU Street
News,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-02
Giving the O her Woman a Show.

An old shanty boat with a tin stern
wheel and general air of having been
a tender to Noahs Ark, has been at the
mouth of Jacks Run, near Bellevue,
since the spring. John Whitfield, his
vile, and another woman lived on the
boat. The Ark is gone now, and the
happy family is no longer happy.
Whitfield sent his wife TO town to
collect an alleged debt, and in her alb
sence he and the female took the tram
for Wheeling Mrs Whitfield was
broken hearted at first. when she found
that ner faithless lord had flown The
neighbors comforted her, however, and
she said: "We,l, I've supported John
by sewing for ten years, AMI | guess I'll
give the other woman a show now. y
Pittsbur0b DISPATCH.