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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-03-23

\ rellahie pr ng medicine Ike Hoods sarsaparilla 10
enpel the impurities which have accumulated In The
blood during the winner, 10 keep mp strength - the
warm weather comes on, create an appetite and pro-
mote healthy digestion. Try Hoods sarsspaiilla this
spring AID you will be convinced that # does possess
superior and peculiar merit.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13
IHOEU sIaII 7 UuIIt my WtdEy 80
In seas of heavenly rest,
And not q wave of trouble roll
Across my peaceful breast.

Dr.. r. J. GATLNG, the inventor OF
that terrific engine of destruction known
as the Calling gun, has spent several
years of study and experiment upon a
new method of making heavy ordnance,
and as a result has obtained patents in
this country and Europe upon an inven-
ton which may revolutionize the entire
system of manufacturing heavy missile
projectiles now in vogue. The only
plan on which these guns have ever
been constructed is on the brlilt-up
method, which is the style of gun now
turned out by Krupp, Armstrong and
other manufacturers. Results obtained
from these guns have always been I'M
satisfactory, the record being that
nearly all of them burst sooner or later.
The best gunmakers of Europe will not
warrant their guns to fire more than
100 times One or two attempts have
been made in this country to make
solid steel guns by casting huge ingots
of steel and boring them out From a
scientific standpoint there are serious
objections to this method, the chances
for inperfections largely predominant
ing. DR.. Gatling's new invention is
said to be the casting of the heaviest
ordnance in solid steel around a CEN
trail core, which is used in several ways
Cor obyiating the disadvantages of the
old style guns. The result, it is
claimed, will result in the production
of an infinitely better gun at reduc-
ton of so per cent. in cost. Opera
tons are now under way to have two
six-inch guns made for the purpose of
demonstrating the practicability of DIR.
Gatling's pew system.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13

In Australia several attempts have
been made to educate the blacks out of
their nomadic habits and into q civil
life, but in almost every case the phil
anthropic effort has failed to eradicate
the instincts of barbarism. Mr.. Ballou,
in "Under the Southern Cross" tells
the romantic story of one of these fail
ures. A young native, lad of 10 years,
was taken from his wild life and brought
to Brisbane to be educated and to grow
up in the home of a white family.
Those engaged in the experiment Sc
cured the consent of the boy, of his
parents, and of the tribe. They did
their best to make him comfortable and
happy. During nine years everything
promised success. At school he proved
an apt scholar, and became q favo-
rite with pupils and teachers. He was
dressed like his associates, and seemed
so satisfied with Il civilized life that
many good men and women looked
forward to the day when hewould exert
a strong and beneficial influence upon
his own people. One day, shortly after
he had passed his nineteenth birthday,
he was missing from Brisbane. No
one knew what had become of him save
one young lady, and she kept her
knowledge to herself. After months of
search he was found at his former home,
living the nomadic life of savage. No
inducement could prevail upon him to
return and live among his friends. At
last there came out the romance which
revealed the secret of the young blacks
nine years sojourn among the whites of
Brisbane. He had fallen in love with
the lovely daughter of the white family
with which he made his home. She
reciprocated his attachment, for he was
fine specimen of his race, and her in
fuence made him studious and so
jOurner at her fathers house. When
his hereditary feelings begat a longing
for the bush and nOmadic life she re-
strained him from returning to his tribe.
At last he frankly told her that he loved
her too sincerely to suggest that she
should go with him to his savage home,
but that he was unhappy and restless
and must seek his native wilds. She
had the good sense not to protest against
the separation, for he would not remain
and she would not go. Accepting the
inevitable they parted; he to live as a
savage and she to die.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13
A BUTCHER SHOP.
What 1t Costs 20 Start and What 1t
Pays i'll Return.

According to both masters and men
there is no trade in Chicago in more
flourishing condition than butchering.
Work is said to be plenty, wages good,
aud both employers and employed salts
fled with each other and themselves.
There IS more hard work in butchering
than in most of the other trades and
longer hours, but these are only the
shadows of the picture. 1t is claimed
that a young butcher who will save his
money and keep his eyes open has a
better chance of starting for himself than
any other tradesman i'll the city. With
a view to find ont what it would cost a
young man TO make an opening for him
self n Daily Ne3cS reporter investigated
closely the cost of fitting up o butcher
shop, taking the opinions of men only
who had been working butchers and
who are now the leaders of the trade in
Chicago.
"To Justify young man ir opening
up business for himself" said ono of
these, che ought to see his way to a
trade of about 500 day; for many rea-
sons, until he can do that he had better
wait. Now, as | understand it. Won
want to know what the plant would cost
him.
"Thnt is it, exactly"
"FTst, he must get good location,
and you can put rent down at $50 per
month. Now, for his fixtures he will
want an icehox, which viii cost him S75;
two blocks, SO; counter, SIS; two sets
of scales, platform and small, $50; tools,
$3.50; racks, $40; extras, SO. That
makes altogether $3.50. That is all
the moneI he will have to spend before
he opens his door ut all, and it is low
estimate, too. Then he will need meat
beef, pork, la on, ham, mutton and
veal. In all, should say $50 ought to
stock the shop. and add to that $15 or
$50 for extras, and put the amount for
melt at 500. That way We get to
$33S.50. 1t is ont of the question that
one man can do the work of a shop by
50 you can put down $50 IL
month for working hatcher with him,
and then put about $50 a month for his
own services-thut is Sl35 more--which
brings the whole expense up to $473. 50,
say $500. which is as small an amount as
n prudent man woHld try t. start with.
''Nell, saying that your man had
spent his m0n~y this way, and had II
good stand, what should he ma e."
Gle ou2ht 10 pay Tho wages that [
have name d for himself aud his help and
lay by 500 n month besides, and tins
he can do If he PLAYS lis cards proper
ly. Chicago Nere.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13
PERSONALS.

THE Archduke Joseph is compiling
dictionary of the gypsy language.
Don MANUEL BRAZILIAN, President of
Guatemala, is renowned shot with a
rifle.
MISS KITE G. WILKINS, of Idaho, is
the owner of between 700 and 800
horses.
THE Emperor of China has toy rail
way three miles long in his palace
grounds.
ERNEST RossI, the great italian
tragedian, has concluded to retire from
the stage.
THERE are ten ladies in the world at
the present time who bear the title of
empress.
Mrs. ELIZA CARVER is the first wo-
man politician of South Carolina to
take the stump.
CHAIRMAN BRICE, of the Democratic
National Executive Committee, is an
expert billiard player.
Miss ALICE B. FARLEY, of Port Hud-
son, La, is one of the most successful
cotton growers in the State
HI1OhNf1 0ENEkAL OARLAND HIS q
pack of ten hounds and a fine collection
of fishing-tackle, rifles, and shotguns.
NINE. PATHS castle in Wales will be
sold because its fair owner has been
robbed right and left by her neighbors
THEODORE TILToN is much noticed on
the Champs Elysees, Paris, because of
his marked resemblance to NJ. Floquet.
STmsoN HUTCHINs proposes to buy
and present to the State Horace
Greeley's birthplace and early home in
New Hampshire.
Mrs. CRAWFORD, the Paris CORE
spondent of the London Daily Ne1US, has
been admitted to the National Associa-
ton of Journalists.
JUDGE JOE HOLT, who was in Buch-
anans Cabinet and was afterward Judge
Advocate General, is leading the life of
q hermit in Washington.
The Princess Beatrice has sent some
of her own musical compositions to the
Exhibition of Women's Industries to be
held in Sydney, Australia.
MISS FRANCES WETMORE, who has
been appointed Government Physician
for the Island of Hilo, makes her visits
on horseback and answers every call. !;
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13
"DIAMOND JOEv REYNOLDS.
Sketch of the Millionaire and How
He Rose to Fortune.

Mrs. Joseph Reynolds, wife of
Diamond Joe" and the Steamboat
K:Gy," is spending portion of the sum
NOR season with her widowed mother,
Mrs. Morton, in the town of Roakland,
Sullivan County. Here, in o locality
known rs Thunder Hill, Joseph Rey-
nolds and his wife were born about 60
years ago, and here they grew up and
were married. Rockland was then a
rough wilderness town, inhabited by q
few scattered settlers, who made coarse
living by running RATS of lumber out of
the creeks into the Delaware River, and
thence to Philadelphia, or by peeling
bark for the tanneries that had been
established III the bacllwoods region
roundabout. Among these forlorn sur
roHndlngs the young man, Joseph Rey-
nOlds. starlegl out - his career, with no
possessions out the clothes on his back
and glad to earn dollar day at bark
peeling or laundering.
The millionaire owes his nrst rise in
life to the kindly aid and encouragement
given him by Zadoc Pratt, of Prattsville,
in his day big tanner and politician.
1t was Zadoc Pratt also, who gave Jay
Gould, the young Delaware County land
surveyor and local historian. his first
start, by loaning him money with which
to engage in the tanning business, near
Scranton, Penna. Pratt took liking to
Reynolds, and gave him large contracts
for supplying bark to the tanneries at
advantageous terms. When the young
man had got together little store of
money he moved West and engaged in
steamboating in an humble scale on the
Mississippi River, he made money rap
idly and soon owned fleet of passenger
and freight boats of all descriptions ply
ing on the Mississippi and its tributa-
RES. 1t was a fancy of his to have freight
consigned to his boats marked by the
word "Joe" inside of u diamond figure,
and hence he acquired the sobriquet of
Diamond Joe" by which he is best
known throughout the West. He is re-
puted to be worth several millions. He
is the sole owner of the Hot Springs
railroad, of Arkansas, n narrow gauge
line "a miles long from Malvern to Hot
Springs. Heis half owner, along with
the mining Millionaire, John d. Morris
sey, of the Crown Point Mine, of Lead
vile, Col, which yields to its owners
princely revenue. His income from his
boats and mines is said to be over $780,
600 a year. He lives in Chicago in good
style.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13
The California Back Scratcher.

The back-scratcher has reached Phila-
| delphia. 1t comes from the Pacific coast,
and out there it is a very useful article.
Here it remains to be seen whether it has
a place in everyday life. The back
scratcher is little stiff brush with a
long, ivory handle, and the first speci-
mems seen in Philadelphia were brought
yesterday by party ofreturned tourists
from San Francisco. ''What are they
for?" echoed one of the party to a
curious reporter. "Why we scratch
our backs with them. What for? for
feas, to be sure and it is fun to go into
q Pacific coast theatre some times and
watch the dizziness and art with which the
spectators use their back-scratchers.
Fleas abound on the Pacific coast, and
even the most aristrocratric belle OF the
upper ten cannot say when any OF these
pests will make himself known. Now
you will readily see that the safest place
for flea is on the back, where he is
out of the reach of all ordinary modes of
disturbance. That is why the back
scratcher was thought of, and it is now
in general use on the Pacific coast. One
sees, for instance, lady and her gen.
tleman escort seated quietly at the
opera, listening enraptured to charm
ing tenor, when all at once a spasm eros
ses the lady's face, she twists uneasily
in her seat and finally appeals to her
companion. He at once responds with
the little back-scratcher. He thrusts it
gently down the back of her collar and
pushes it on down to the spot where the
offending insect has taken refuge. When
she tells him that the pest has been re-
! ached he proceeds to scratch with the
, brush. The relief which this affords is
at once testified by the clearing up of
the lady's face and the appearance of a
soft smile of satisfaction and comfort.
| One can also use these scratchers on
ones own back with success, but more
frequently the operation is performed
by a second person. We brought back
these we have with US more as curiosit-
les and trophies of our trip than for any
other reason. They are very interest
I ing to US as mementos."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13
GOOD NERVE OF A CRACKSMAN.
Conversing with the Owner of the
Safe while Opening 1t.
From the st. Louis Republic. I


ga safe was cracked some years ago in
Chicago" said a detective, " under cir
cumstances that should ave awarded
the operator the front seat as the repre-
sentative of American gall. [ forget his
name, but he was certainly daisy and
l will call him Eli. He entered bust
ness house on State street from rear
window and set quietly to work boring o
hole in the safe. The house was a part
nership affair belonging to q brace of
merchants whom l will call Smith &
Brown. Eli had been engaged in his
nefnrious nocturnal industry half an
hour per haps, under the glimmer of a
star candle, when he heard the sound of
key being inserted i'll the back door,
The shutters were up in front, and hence
his retreat was cut off. but his nerve
came to his rescue.
"'Come in,' he shouted, and began
whistling a popular air.
SIN walked Smith, the senior partner.
"'Hello, was the greeting the mer-
chant received, and then the slick bur
glar began a TRADE against safes III
general and this one in particul +, de-
claring that it was the all-fredest most
intricate concern that ever an honest
locksmith tackled.
"Now it happened that Smith had
been out of town and had just returned,
so that visitor in his Office at that most
unreasonable hour did not upset him so
much rs it would have done had he left
the store in the quiet gloom of entire
desertion the night before. Still he
looked an inquiry at his burglaristic
nibs, and the latter caught on IN
great shape. This is what he said
" Il won dn't have come here tonight
for four times what l get for this job,
except as an accommodation but when
a friend of mine wants me to repair
defect in his safe after business hours,
I'm not the kind of mechanic that re-
fuses to oblige him.
"The merchant was thrown complete
Iy off his guard and said
whats the matter with the safe!'
"The craftsman declared the combi-
nation was out of whack, but would he
all right in a few minutes. and he lnvl-
ted the part owner of the 81, OOO III bank
notes that were inside to wait till he was
through aud they would go out together.
But the latter was fatigued by nights
ride on the railroad and hurried away,
bidding tho supposed workman good
NIGHT in the friendliest manner. His
credulity cost him $1,000, for the next
morning the safe lay on its side, the
door blown off, and that amount III bank
bills was missing"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13
A CONNECTICUT Yankee suggests the

A CONNECTICUT Yankee suggests the
use of fash-ight photography as a
means of protecting bank vaults from
| burglars. He says: 81 would have q
camera placed in a position where it
would command in the field of the lens
space of ten feet square or more in
front of the door of the vault, and have
the other apparatus so arranged that as
soon as tampering with the vault door
was attempted the whole would be
placed in operation. My plan would,
of course, include retaining the burglar
alarm connecting with Police Head
quarters. AS soon as the burglars had
begun operations the police would be
alarmed, and at the same instant a pic
ture of the men would be made by the
camera and fash-light combined, so that
even if the men escaped the police they
would leave behind them evidence which
would probably eventually result in
their detection.
A GIRL from Philadelphia, who is an
expert oarswoman, is the belle of Bar
Harbor this summer, and her rowing
costume is mighty taking. She wears a
white pleated skirt of flannel, with a
thick white Jersey shirt reaching some
inches below the belt, and ending in a
thick border like heavy rope A white
belt is worn around the waist, and O
white felt alpine hat, with white wing
at the side, russell leather shoes, russell
hose, and yellow silk scarf knotted
about the throat, complete the pretty
costume.
A FEW days ago fly flew into the ear
of John Lord, who lives near Athens,
Ga. He got the insect out almost i'm
mediately, and thought no more about
it until he was awakened in the night by
violent itching in the ear. The itch
ing became pain, and that increased
until the man was almost crazy. He
sought doctor, who, with considerable
difficulty, brought out eleven well-devel-
oped and very active maggots, which
had Matched from the eggs laid by that
fly during its brief stay in Mr.. Lords
ear.
AT THE camp meeting in Douglas,
Mass, the other day man arose and
said that he was recently escaped con-
Wet from the Rhode Island State prison,
that he had determined to lead q better
life, and that as beginning he should
go back to the prison and serve the re-
mainder of his term. The prison Chap
lain was present and heard him, and
knowing something of human nature,
helped the convict in his good resolution
by telephoning for officers and capturing
him before lie weakened.
FoRTY-oNE years ago young man Of
Rhode Island asked n young woman of
the same State to marry him. She said
ono" The yOuOp man went about bis
business, but he kept his eye on the
woman, and from time to time renewed
his suit, she refusing offer after offer.
He persevered, and his constancy was
rewarded a short time ago, when she ae-
copied and married him. He was then
Y years old and she 81.
GERMANY is doing considerable foreign
missionary work nowadays 1t has
eighteen societies and supports 522 mis-
sionaries, who look after their 100000
converts. Last year their total recei pts
in money were over 100000.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13

A GIRL from Philadelphia, who is AN
expert oarswoman, is the belle OF Ban
Harbor this summer, and her rowing
costume is mighty taking. She wears
a white pleated skirt of flannel, with a
thick white Jersey shirt reaching some
inches below the belt and ending in a
thick border like heavy rope. y white
belt is worn around the waist, and a
white felt alpine hat, with white wing
at the side, russell leather shoes, russell
hose, and yellow silk scarf lnotted
about the throat, complete the pretty
costume.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13

TIE Count Won Waldersee, the sue
cessor of Gen. Won Moltke, was born in
April, 1882, and began his military
career in 1850 in the artillery. After
serving with his battery during the
Danish war, he was appointed to the
general staff in 1866, and passed
through the Austro-Prussian war with
credit. In January, 1870, he was sent
to Paris as military attache, and when
the Franco-Prussian war began he was
appointed Chief of STAFF to the Grand
Duke of Mecklenburg- Schwerin, with
the rank of Lieutenant Colonel In
1875 he got his brigade, and in 1876 his
division. In 1881 he was placed on the
Emperor's personal staff, and in 1882
he became Lieutenant Genero' and
Adiutant to the Emperor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13

The balance of trade between this
country and Europe is now positively
against us. The balance in our favor
has been growing smaller for a number
of years, and last years failure of our
corn crop was undoubtedly responsible
for the change to the other side 1t re-
mains to be seen whether the balance of
$27 ,000,0 600 against us the last twelve
months will be entirely overcome
Corn at least Promises we'll, but our
wheat exports can hardly be as large
in bulk as year ago, though if farmers
are not in too great hurry to sell,
wheat should bring higher price. The
failure of our crop of 1887 shortened
many exports besides that grain. 1t
diminished our exports of pork, beef
and dairy products. Unless we export
more, or import less of merchandise,
this country must lose some of its gold.
But even this may be better than to
have the farmers of the country bear
ing the entire burden of our imports,
by growing wheat and other products
to be sold below cost of production.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13

The Proprietor of Kemp's Balsam gives
Thousands of Bottles away yearly This mode
of advertising would prove ruinous If the
Balsam was not a perfect cure for Coughs and
all Throat and Lung troubles. You will see
the excellent effect after taking the first dose.
Don't hesitate! Procure a bottle to-day TO keep
in your home or room for immediate or future
use. Trial bottle Free at all druggists. Large
Size 50e and 81.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13

Don't be affected. It's deformity.
All civilized idols are made of gold.
Sleep is the parenthesis in sorrows
tale.
Learning and wisdom do not always
go together.
You fight fire with fire, but poverty
with industry.
What the sunlight is to flowers love
is to woman.
When you want to buy thing, ask
the opinion of your purse about it.
The man who uses swear words as
adjectives shows paueity of language.
Don't expect to gather roses without
running foul of thorns, but care will
keep your fingers unpricked.
There are only two kinds of men who
can afford to wear shabby clothes, the
rich man and the genius. Philadelphia
Cal.
THE Introduction or American watches
into England has reduced the number
of gold cases marked at the London
ASSAY Office from $685. in 1876 to 90
416 in 1886, and of silver cases from
1884 in 1876 to %, 708 in 1886.
Loud shoes-Those that squeak bad
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13

stands for Pudding, for Peach and for Penr,
And likewise for Poetry and Prose;
The Parrot, the Pigeon that flies in the air, =
The Pig with a ring in his nose; =
For Paper and Pen, for Printer and Press,
For Physic, and People who sell it;
But when you are sick, to relieve your distress
Take at once Pierces Purgative Pellet.
Oh yes, indeed! These are the P's for you.
poor, sick man or woman. Nothing like them.
for keeping the bowels and stomach regulated,
and in order-tiny, sugar-coated granules..
scarcely larger than mustard seeds. They
work gently but thoroughly.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13

A NEW religious sect has been organ
lied in Zwickau. Its members call them
selves Gree men in Christ" sing the
hymns of the Methodists, reject infant
baptism, as do the Baptists; are like the
Irvingites in believing a bodily return
of Christ, and in place of the Lord
supper hold love feast.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13
Eafe and Effective.

BRANDRETH's PILLS are the safest and most
effective remedy for Indigestion, Irregularity
of the Bowels, Constipation, Biliousness,H Head
ache, Dizziness, Malaria, or any disease aris-
ing from an impure state Of the blood. They
have been in use in this country for over fifty
years, and the thousands of unimpeachable tes-
imonia' s from those who have used them, and
their constantly increasing sale, is incontro-
vertible evidence that they perform all that is
claimed for them.
BRANDRETH's PILLS are purely vegetable,
absolutely harmless and safe to take at any
time.
Sold in every drug and medicine store, either
plain or sugar-cOated.