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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30
The Dust Question.
WHAT A DAMP CLOTH JUDICIoUsLY USED
Is ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH.

A housekeeper whose rooms were as
nearly speckless as modern conveniences
admit, furnace being always dust dis
tributor for the entire house, long ago
settled to her own satisfaction that
damp cloth was the key to the difficulty.
Not a wet cloth, for wet is the interpre-
tation that the common mind will put up
on damp, but soft cloth, sprinkled in
a slight degree, enough to make dust
cling till it can be shaken off. Mold
ings, baseboards and all corners should
be wiped in this way. and whoever tries
the experiment will be amazed to see
how the necessity for what is known as
a general Gle ming diminishes.
Sweeping is far less a frequent need
than is supposed, and when it must be
done the damp cloth system is of equal
avail. Put spoonful of ammonia in
half pail of warm water and wipe the
carpet with cloth wrung out from this
water. The dust is removed the colors
freshened, and any stray moth-a posi-
billty everywhere in these days of fur
naces-fnds a sudden end. Fluff, in
stint GUS and unconquerable, forming it.
self in mysterious rolls under beds and
in corners, is reduced to its lowest forms.
sinks into Observation-Disclosures
ness before the damp cloth instead of
sailing tr1umphantlv before the broom.
The broom will still be an essential, but
as servant, not monarch, and even where
one cannot afford a carpet-sweeper need
never again involve the amount of hard
work associated with it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30
THE GREAT SEA SERPENT.
Views of the Scientists Relative TO a Ma
rine Monster.

Prof. Gill, of the Fish Commission,
who is familiar with modern and ancient
sea serpent literature, does not believe In
the existence of any such monster as
that which is reported to be disporting
itself in the Hudson river. The mega
tive evidence he says is very strong as
PRESENTED to the scientific mind. The
true sea serpent is an air breathing ami
NAL and could not exist indefinitely be-
meath the surface of the sea. Such
monsters were common IN the cretaceous
ace of the world and their remains are
common enough in the deposits OF those
times, but nothing remotely resembling
them is found in the deposits OF later
geological ages.
The sea bottoms of these later ages
are in many parts of the world now
above the surface and open to the in
spection of biologists. If any descend
ants of the ancient monsters had re-
manned alive traces of them he thinks
would assuredly be found. There are
monsters of the shark family which
grow to an immense length and swim
with an undulatory motion which might
cause them to be mistaken for serpents,
heads above the surface and gazing
about them, as is reported of the Hud-
son river specimen. Moreover, the
deep-sea inhabitants of the present age
are descendants of dittoral species of
former ages, the ancient reptiiian species
having ceased to exist. There are, to
be sure, real sea serpents now inhabiting
tropical seas, swimming upon the sur
face, and sometimes climbing on ship
board, some species of which are poi
sonous, but they are little fellows, from
one to four or five feet in length.
On the other hand Prof. Goode, also
of the Fish Commission, does not wholly
discredit the statement that monster
as yet unknown to science of reptilian
shape and having the power of lifting
its head far above the surface of the sea
may still be in existence. He has been
told by commander of revenue YES
sci, for whose trustw orthiness he can
youch, that creature of this character
as large around as an ordinary stovepipe
and with head on it once made its
appearance in the vicinity of his vessel
in the Pacific, raising its head far above
the surface of the sea. Prof. Goodies
informant was not talking "for publica-
ton" and was not the kind of man who
would be likely to deceive or be de-
ceived in such matters. From time to
time captured creatures which are re-
ported to be sea serpents fall into the
hands of naturalists, but when submit
ted to the tests of science they uniform
ly prove to be abnormal specimens of
familiar forms such as the basking
shark and the oar fish.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30
Base Ball GambI ng.

1t begins to look as though there was
''job in the base ball League to let the
Chicago club win Detroit has been
given the lead, or has maintained the
lead, long enough to encourage men to
gamble" on it winning the pennant,
and now it is that it appears that the
Chicago men who own stock in the same
are beginning to pull the string and in
sist on that club losing few games so
as to give Chicago the start. A few
more games like that between the De-
troits and Philadelphia on Thursday
will strengthen the suspicion that it is
the intention of the real owners of the
Detroit organization to throw the pen
nant in favor of the Chicago club. This
is the kind of business that ruined the
of this sport few years ago,
and will do so again, just as sure as this
bargain is carried out.-Indianapotis
Journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30
Indian Bellies In Alaska.

A letter to the San Francisco Chr0n-
icle from Alaska s:-Indian bellies
were out in full feather. They waddled
up and down the lanes of the town,
squatted at the street corners or lay in
heaps among the wares which were dis
played upon the narrow strips of side
walk. Many of them had wild berries
for sale or were eating handfulls of
them at invervals to encourage the ap-
petite of the Indifferent customer. Some
of these Indian maidens had their faces
covered with thick coating of SCOT
and oil. the rims of the eyelids, the tip
of the nose and the inner portions Of
the lips showing in striking contrast to
the hideous mask, which they are said
to wear in order to preserve their COM
pleXion. They look for the most like
black-faced monkeys, and appear in
this guise a great portion of the time
in order to dazzle the town, after a
scrubbing. with skins as fair and sleek
as soft-sOap. Even some of the sterner
sex are constrained to resort to art in
the hope of heightening their many
beauty, but these are, of course, Alaskan
dudes. and as such are doubtless par
QOnaDlo. lnere is DaCn mousse III
Juneau and barber shop. They did a
big business on our arrival. There are
many billiard halls, where prohibited
drinks are to be more or less surrepti-
tiously obtained A dance hall stands
uninvitingly open to the street At the
doorway, as we passed it, was posted a
hand lettered placard announcing that
the ladies of Juneau would on the
evening IN question givea grand ball in
honor of the passengers of the Ancon.
Tickets, 80 cents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30
Would Not Die.

zone of the most striking instances
of mind cure ever saw" said Judge
W one day, twas exhibited in
an old lady client of mine; but it was a
case of self-cure. Her name was Nor
ton. She had been a second wife.
She was in bed, seriously i'll, and sent
for me to draw up her will.
Il fastened to the house with paper
and pen. found table and chair
ready for me at the woman's bedside,
and in few moments l told her | was
ready to prepare the will if she would
tell me what she wished Its provisions
to be. l wrote the Introductory phrase
rapidly, and leaning over toward her,
said Now, go on, Mrs. Norton
''Her voice was quite faint, and she
seemed to speak with an effort. She
said: First of all, l want to give my
farm to my sons, Harry and James; just
put that down.
g But, said I, you can't do that,
Mrs. Norton; the farm isn't yours to
give away
" The farm isn't miner she said, in
a voice decidedly stronger than be-
fore.
emo, the farm isn't yours. You
have only life interest in it..
" This farm that I've run for goin'
on forty three years next spring isn't
mine to do what 1 please with It'll
Why not, judgea I'd like to know what
you meanY
=" 'Why-Mr Norton-your husband
gave you life estate IN all his prop
erty, and on your death the farm goes
to his son John, and your children get
the village houses
d" And when l die John Merton is to
have this house and farm whether l will
or nOY
Just So
Then 1 amt going to die, said the
old woman, in clear and decidedly
ringing, healthful voice.
''And so saying, she threw her feet
over the front of the bed, sat up, gath
cred blanket and coverlid about her,
Strengthened up her gaunt form, walked
across the room, and sat down in a
chair before the fire. The doctor and
came home. That was fifteen years
ago. The old lady's alive to-day"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30
SAM COLVILLE'S NERVE.
He Felt Death Coming and Cody Ar
ranged His Business Affairs.

The nerve displayed by poor old Sam
Colville during the last sixty minutes of
his life was amazing to people who
knew him, and they are talking about
it around the city with bated breath.
OF course all theatrical folks knew COT
vile. Almost everybody liked him in
spite of his rather pompous method of
conversation. Indeed, a good many
people IN this business had mighty good
reason to regard him with grateful con-
sideratiOn. For several years back Col
vile has been a sort of theatrical
banker. That it is to say, he has
loaned large sums of money to other
managers in pressing need of timely as
sistance, and when his estate comes to
be settled up there will be some pretty
lively skirmishing by some people 1
know of to pick up the mortgages which
Colville has been carrying along as an
accommodation to his debtors. l fancy
his fortune will be found to be some
where in the neighborhood of $50, 900,
the most Of which is in solid and sub
stantial shape. Colville knew he was
going to die the minute he was struck
with the first CONFUSION of his heart
the other afternoon. He was away up
in Central Park at the time in his car
rage, with his wife's brother, a young
man named Rosenguest, who has been
Colville's business manager for several
years. Said the old gentleman: 'There
is something the matter with my heart.
l am going to die"
Nonsense" exclaimed Rose lquest.
"You never looked better in your life "
DOUBTLESS" continued Mr.. Colville,
"but 1t is nevertheless true that in an
hour | shall be dead man. Now,
want you to pay particular attention to
what have to say"
Then Mr. Colville went on with the
utmost calmness and deliberation, as
though engaged in ordinary business
conversation.
I'm the first place" he said, 81 want
a very quiet funeral, the services to be
rendered by DIR. Houghton Now. as
to yourself. When l am dead you will
have large interests and responsibilities.
Your sisters affairs are to be taken care
of, and you will probably have the full
management of the estate. | want the
importance of the situation to impress
itself upon you, and | desire you to
brace up and be man in every sense of
the term" So Mr.. Colville went on all
the wav down town. Twice during the
journey it was necessary to stop and
give him brandy in order to revive his
sinking vitality When he reached his
home he insisted upon walking in by
himself, and death ensued almost imme-
diately upon his entrance into the house.
boston Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30

A LITTLE HoAx.-Apropos of the
Mexican war talk, says a newspaper
correspondent, read an amusing story
of crack company in neighboring
State. While they were drilling the
other evening a dispatch, apparently
from Washington, was handed to the
captain, asking him how many of his
command could start at once for Mex
leo. He read it to the boys, who with
one accord began to make excuses.
They wished that they had talked moro
warlil1e when they learned that the dis
patch was hoax.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30
HOudin's Skill in Juggling.

NJ. Robert Houdin, in his delightful
autobiography, tell us that when he had
determined to become conjurer he be-
gan by learning to juggle as a prelimi-
nary training for his eye and his hand.
He was instructed in the art by ped
icure" named Maous, who taught him in
month to keep four balls in the air at
the same time. Then the future master
of magic, desiring to acquire the faculty
of doing two kthings at once-a faculty
of inestimable value to the modern ma
gician-improved on his teachers in
structions by training himself to read
while juggling. 81 placed book be-
fore me-" he records, ''and while my
four balls were dancing in the air l &C
customed myself to read it without hes
itation." Thirty years later, when he
sat down to write his memoirs, he found
that, although he had never performed
this feat in public, and very rarely had
repeated it in private, he was still able
to read while juggling, but that She
could then only keep three balls in the
air, and not four, as he had done for
merly. This is additional evidence.
were any needed, that although a dex-
terity acquired early in life may dimin-
ish with the advancing years and an
abandonment of constant practice. it is
rarely lost altogether. -Suturday Re
Tie2D
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30
Follows an Eclipse.

The late Commander Morrison, Roy
al Navy in 1884 published the follow
ing observations on earthquakes;
earthquakes generally follow close on
the heels of eclipses. At the period of
the earthquake many aspects will be
found between the planets in the heav-
ems" In the present instance an eclipse
of the sun occurred on Aug. 20. Jupiter
and Uranus were in conjunction with
the moon on Aug. 81. On the Same day
there were important aspects between
the sun and Jupiter and between Mars
and Uranus. Mars. is at present in
Scorpio, which has been supposed to be
another circumstance favoring the pro
duCtion of earthquakes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30

ALL WAS SnENT.-A gentleman who
has had previous experience with earth
quakes writes to the Post Of Washing
ton that he was near Spottsylvania
Court House, Va, on Monday night,
and closely observed what had occurred.
At the first tremor he looked out of the
window. The evening was quiet and
calm, and the numberless insects that
chirp nightly were In full blast. Sud
denly all these voices of the night
ceased, and there was an intense silence,
broken only by the rumble of the earth
quake, and this silence continued until
after the third shock, and then the in
sects resumed their noisy concert.
He asks savants to account for this.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30
Human Tigers.

We have before us the tiger of the
human specie To no tribe in Ameri-
ca can these remarks apply with more
force than the Apaches of Arizona. To
see them, as they first appeared to the
white men-half clad, half fed, covered
with vermin, with no sembance of
property beyond the rude arms with
which they doggedly waged war
against Implying nature-it was easy
to believe, and many Americans did be-
lieve, that nothing could be more easily
effected than their determination or
subsection. 1t has taken the expendi-
ture of countless treasure and blood
to demonstrate that these naked Indians
were the most thoroughly individualized
soldiers on the globe; that each was an
army in himself, waiting for orders
from no superiors thoroughly conf
dent in his own Judgment, and never
at loss to know when to attack or
when to retreat. The Apache can be
compared most aptly to the wild animal
he fittingly calls his cousin-the coyote.
The civilized settlements are his sheep
folds, and even supposing that a toll,
some campaign results in destroying
forty out of a band of fifty, the sur
vivOrs are as much to be dreaded as
ever, until the very last one can be run
down, killed, or got under control, and
taught to labor for his bread. - General
George Crook in tile ,ournaJ Of the Mill
tdry Service Institution.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30
DEEPEs I BODY OF FRESH WATER.
Captain Dutton's Survey of Crater Lake,
OregOn-His Theories.

A party sent out by the Geological
Survey, under the command of Captain
Clarence Z. Dutton, U. S. A, has sue
ceeded in reaching and making COM
plete survey of Crater Lake in Oregon, a
body of water whose shores, with the
possible exception of one point on the
south, have never before been touched
by the feet of white men. The party's
boats were hauled 100 miles by mule
teams, dragged by detail of soldiers
up the snow-clad sides of tn, ridge
which surrounds the lake, and lowered
by ropes from the crest to the water,
and 900 feet below. One hundred and
sixty soundings were made, the result of
which gave the general character of the
lake bottom. Two large submerged
cinder cones were found, respectively
500 and 1900 feet high, the rest of the
bottom being fiat. Captain Dutton be-
lieves this to be the deepest body of
fresh water on the continent. The
greatest depth attained by the sounding
line was 1905 feet.
LAS regards the origin of the basin, :"
he writes t. Director Powell, II now
have a decided opinion. 1t has, l think,
the great calderas of the Hawaiian ISL
ands, by the melting of the foundations
of the original mounta ms, the blowing
out of the molten material in the form of
light pumice and fine tufa. 1t cannot
have been formed by an explosion, like
a Krakatao and Tomboro in the East
Indies, for there is no trace of the frag-
ments in the country roundabout. But
the pumice and tufa which surely eman-
ated from this crater are seen in vast
quantities anywhere within adius of
twenty to sixty miles, and in quantities
ample to fill the whole vast crater twice
over. The age f the crater is wholly
post glacial l have found at the ex-
treme crest of the wall on the western
side splendid examples of glacial strla-
ton, while the old moraiues are half a
mile to mile below. That the age of
the caldera cannot be great is evident
from the fact that, though the walls are
crumbling at very rapid rate, the talus
has not only not reached the water surface
anywhere, but the sounding discloses
but little of it at the bottom"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30
HARRISON II. OLIVER of Bolton Tex

HARRISON II. OLIVER of Bolton, Tex
as, is noted for having one hundred and
one bullet wounds on his body. When
he was boy friend thought he was q
deer and fired thirty-seven buckshot in
to him; he was shot all to pieces in the
war; and in 1878 a Bolton dentist took
him for an enemy and put fifty one duck
shot into his back, perforating his liver
and kidneys. Sixty bullets, ranging in
size from a duck shot to an ounce ball,
remain in his body,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30
An Editors Testimonial,

A. NJ. Vaughan, editor Of the Greenwich Review, Z"
Greenwich, O., writes: Last January met with
very severe accident. caused by a runaway horse.
used almost every kind Of save to heal the wounds,
which turned to running sores, but found nothing
to do me any good till was recommended HENRYs
CARBoLIC SALvE. bought box and 1t helped mo
at once, and at the end Of two months I was COM
petely well. 1t is the best salve in the Set and
never fail of telling my friends about it. and urge
them to use it whenever in need"
For SPECIAL RATES for advertising in this paper
apply to the publisher of the paper. U3I
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30

DALLAS HILL of Norwood, Ca, made
a "fat meat poltlce'' for a swelling, and
went to bed. While he slept, as only
tired negro can sleep, rats, attracted
by the smell of the meat, came out and
gnawed on Dallas's greasy fingers, lac
Grating them badly, and possibly dan
gerously, without waking him.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30

The editor of the Corsicana, Tex, Observer,
Mr.. G. p. Miller, had a severe attack Of rfeu-
matisn in HIS left knee, which became 50
swollen and painful that he could not walk up
the stairs. He writes that after few applica-
tons of st. Jacobs Oil, the pain entirely disap-
peared, and the knee assumed its normal pro-
portions
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30

The skin of Bridge port, the secon baby
elephant born in this country, has been stuffeu
and placed in the museum at Tufts College.
bridgeport was born in the city whose name
he bore in February, 1882, and died last April
in the stable he was born.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30

Summer coughs and colds generally come 10
stay but the use Of Red Star Cough cure in
vaNiably drives them away. Safe, prompt,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30

If YOU have tumor, Tor tumor symptomsl
Cancer (or cancer symptoms, Scrofula, Erysipe-
las, Salt-Rhcum, Chronic weaknesses, Nervous
ness or other complaints-Dr. Kilmer's EE-
n AIE REMEDY will correct and cure.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30

An Episcopal church in minneapolis has
since the, opening Of the eXposlI ion had these
words in bold lette rs over the door Church
omen. Come in. rest and pray" 1t Is noticed
that a good 8any persons do go in every
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30


We Appeal to Experience.
For long time we steadily refused to pub
fish testimonials, believing that, in the opinion
Of the public generally, the great majority
were manufactured to order by unprincipled
parties a means of disposing of their worth
less preparations.
That this view of the case is to a certain ex.
tent true, there can be no doubt.
At last, several years ago, we came TO the
conclusion that every intelligent person can
readily discriminate between spurious and
bona fide testimonials, and determined to use
as advertisements a few Of the many hun
dreds of unsolicited certificates in our posses
sion.
In doing this we published them as nearly as
possible in the exact language used by our cor.
respondents, only changing the phraseology in
some cases, SO as to compress them into a
smaller space than they would otherwise
occupy, but without in the least exaggerating
or destroying the meaning of the writer's
We are glad to say that our final conclusion
a correct one-that a letter recommend.
Ing an article having true merit finds favor
with the people.
by US is on file in our office, an inspection OF
which will prove to the most Bkeptical that our
assertion made above, that only the facts
given as they appear therein, is true.
But as it would be very inconvenient, IL not
impossible for all of our friends to call on us
for that purpose, we invite those who doubt III
there be SUCH, to correspond with any of the
parties whose names are signed to our testi.
mOnials, and ask them if we have made any
misstatements, so far as their knowledge ex-
tends, in this article. In other words, if we
have not published their letters as nearly YER
batim as possible.
Very respectfully,
+. II. HAZELTINE
Proprietor Piso's Cure for Consumption
and Piso's Remedy for Catarrh.
We append a recent letter, which came to us
entirely unsolicited, with permission to pub.
lish it;
DAYTON, Ohio, Jan. IL, 1885.
You may add my testimony as 20 the inertia
of Pisos Cure for Consumption. / took
severe cold last February, which settled on my
lungs. They became liberated and were 50
painful that had rest for two days and
nights. got bottle of Pisos Cure for Con-
sumption, and was relieved by the time | had
taken half of it. Since that time | have kept
Pisos Cure in the house, and use it as a pre-
ventive, both for lung troubles and Group, for
which can recommend it as the best medl-
cine ever used; and that is saying great deal,
for have used at least twenty others, besides
about as many physicians prescriptions.
Plsos Cure for Consumption has never failed
to give reliefin my family.
Al. GRUBB,