News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-15

GLg& 4%fT mountains. The tire
Of, /" is like the America
x.a5ssF oak, with leaves SINH
v=S lar to the oak, an
scorus. 1t takes ten years for the bark +
becomea proper thickness to be manu-
featured into bottle shoppers, life preserv
ers and s,ine corks. When stripped from
the trees it is to be boiled for two hours
cured in the sun for week and pressed
into fiat pieces for baling and shipping
TIE denuded trunk, like a hen robbed
of her eggs, does not sulk and quit the
business, but throws out a fresh cover
ing for fresh spoilation. One tree has
beeS known to yield half ton of cork
wood. One pound of cork can be man
ufaetured into IA champagne corks.
The baled cork is sold to cork manufac
tuning centres.
A PROPER dust storm passed ovel
Pekin, China. The morning opened
with thick fog, damp and raw, and 6
slight air of wind from the East. In
the forenoon the sun partially broke
through and showed strong current
from the West in the higher regions Of
the atmosphere. Then a deep yellow
haze obscured the sun for some hours
reminding us of the characteristics Lon.
don fog. The air was quite still. In
the afternoon, suddenly as a shot from
a gun, gale broke out from the West,
and blew hard until after sunset, when
it lulled, but broke out afresh during
the night and continued for some hours
more. The morning light revealed a
coating of fine yellow dust over every
thing entirely different from any of our
local productions of that nature. This
dust comes from great distances, and is
carried along in dense cloud at very
high attitudes.
Col. F. D. CURTIS says it is a mis-
take to think it was impossible to keep
pigs without corn. Corn is the farmers
ideal of everything and it is all wrong.
Pigs ought to be fed but twice day to
give time for rest and an opportunity
for digestion. The food should be
strongly impregnated with phosphate
nitrogen. Feed them with meal, turn
them into rye fields, put them in clover
fields and apple orchards, that is nitro
genous food. Follow up with sweet
corn stalks and sorghum. The best
quality of pork is made out of apples
alone. Take your pig for a partner, for
it will greatly aid the fertility of the
soil. He pictured the difference between
the effects of carbonaceous and nitro
genous food, and said pig can be fed
so long on corn as to be starved.
A GENTLEMAN who is about to build a
house in the suburbs wishes to know
what point of the compass his house
must face in order that the sunlight
may shine equally on all its four sides.
Houses are generally built to face one
of the cardinal points of the compass,
and the north side is hardly touched by
mentioned thinks there must be some
way of building the house so that the
sunshine can fall nearly equally on each
side. 1t gives ones brain twist to
think of it, but perhaps some builder or
architect can tell how this can be
done, or if not, why not ?-POrtland Ore
gonian.
A NEGRO woman was prisoner in the
court room at Macon, Ga. Taking adj
vantage of the crowd she slipped out of
the room and made her way to the
gallery, where she took her seat among
other colored women. After a while
she was missed from the prisoners
bench. The Sheriff and every bailiff
began a search for her. They looked all
over-town, ind nobody Thought of look
ing in the gallery, where she was enjoy
ing the commotion among the balllffs,
when court adjoined she went out with
the crowd and was not caught for several
days: Then she told the bailiffs how
she had outwitted them"
THERE are many breeders and sheep
raisers in Delaware County, n. J., and
in years past they have had to cope with
q variety of diseases among their focks.
At the present time sheep are suffering
from the ravages of bugs, and there
seems to be no potent remedy at hand
to kill them. The pests measure from
one-half to three-fourths of an inch in
length and look more like the ordinary
swapping bug than anything else. The
pests burrow their way into the heads
and brains of the sheep, and the loss in
the aggregate incurred thereby is quite
large.
THERE has been an official inquiry into
the loss of the British ship Athelstan,
which was burned from the spontaneous
ignition of her cargo of coal. According
to the account given by London con-
temporary during the time the fire was
confined below the deck, the captain
and chief mate were surprised to find
flame issuing from the tops of the iron
fore and main masts, which were hollow,
and had a number of perforations in
them below deck for the purpose of
ventilation. They operated like two
chimneys to make furnace OF the ships
hold.
THERE is a young couple in Spring
field, Mass, who have been married
about four and one-hah years and have
three children. The husband has left
his family three times, and each time
the wife has sold their goods and return
ed to her parents, taking back her
spouse every time he returned, and
helping refurnishing. Furthermore,
she has left him twice, when he in turn
sold their common possessions. They
are now living together again as if
nothing had occurred out of the usual
way.
The growth of hotels in this country
is astounding. On an average forty no
tells are destroyed by fire every month in
the United States. But while forty ho-
tells burn down sixty five are erected, SO
that the gain greatly exceeds the loss.
Two hundred and seventy-thr million
seven hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars year are expended by hotels in the
purchase of provisions and supplies.
Much as the community may grumble at
the hotel accommodations of this coun-
try, the fact remains that we have the
best hotels in the world.
OHRs are coming into use in which the
blade is made from the best sheet steel,
highly tempered, and is alleged to be
much stronger than the ordinary wooden
one, and cannot be broken without I'M
due violence; the handle fits in a socket
running nearly the whole /, lgth of the
blade, and forming a backbone of great
strength; and the oar, being much thin
ner in the blade than the wooden ore,
enters and leaves the water cleaner.
The handles are made separately, of
spruce or ash.
PROBABLY the most expensive opera
cloak worn by a lady this winter is that
which belongs to Miss Letter, the pretty
Chicago girl, who now claims Washing
ton as her home. The cloak is of white
moire plush brocaded in <ilver, outlined
with silver cord and trD imeG with white
goats fur. Its great valve depends,
however, on the jewel ed clasps, which
are in antique gold 50 with large pearls.
Miss Letter, by tie hy, is the heiress
of so, 100000.
A DYING woman IN Burlington, Me-,
prayed earnestly tAat her infant child
might accompany her on her journey to
the other world. The child was aDDar-