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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-15
A Philadelphia Hercules.

The physical tournament of the
Quaker City Athletic Club took place
at Professor Billy McLean's Philadel-
phla Gymnasium, and the 200 people
present witnessed some wonderful feats
of strength and skill.
A young athlete with only one leg,
who was too bashful to give his
name, beat the class in high jumping,
going over the pole at five feet. George
SOtman and William Lainhoff gave an
exhibition of dumb-b bell lifting. They
started with pair of forty FOUNDER,
and gradually got up to big bell that
weighed $50 pounds. Both men put
this up three times. Then Sotman got
hold of the giant bell, 180 pounds. and
held it aloft while every muscle in his
body quivered.
Athlete Sotman next gave an exhibit
ton of heavy lifting. He stood on a
pair OF standard scales, and the beam
was balanced at his weight, 200 pounds.
A pair of traces were attached to the
scales, and Professor Mclean put on n
OO-pound weight. Sotman lifted that
easily. Two hundred pounds more were
added, and that also came up verv
easily. The weight was raised to 500
pounds, and Sotman took n long breath
and up came the beam. At 900 pounds
the athlete did not falter, and he pulled
1000 pounds without much more effort.
Professor Mclean looked puzzled, aud,
after looking around, he said he had no
more weights.
"Sotman is the strongest man in
Philadelphia, said Professor Mclean.
"and he can kill q mule with n blow. "
--{NiladelQhie Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-15
Paper Making.

The manufacture of paper is a very
interesting study, to look at the rags as
they are cut up by q rag cutter, til en- put
into q tumbler, which is hollow taper
cone covered with wire, into which the
rags are carried by IN endless apron; !;
from the tumbler they go to what paper
makers call devil, or, Us refined people
say, railroad duster or thresher. This
is closed machine, into which the rags
are fed at one end. The inside of this
machine is provided with five or six
heads or cylinders resembling the cylin-
ders of q threshing machine.
These cylinders thresh and beat the
rags very much in their passage though
the machine, and dump them out as the
end. They are next placed in o rag
boiler, which contains chemical solu-
ton, and in which the rags are boiled.
This operation is intended to reduce the
rags to fbres and to take away all or
part of the coloring matter and impuri-
ties. After boiling they are placed in O
washing engine, where they receive a
thorough washing and are made per-
fectly clean. They are next run through
q machine called Jordan engine.
This machine is hollow, and in shape
1OS6LuD1t5 COuOs l. II6 luItIlOI VI lhlS
machine is filled with many blunt
knives, which grind the rags and sever
the fbres one from another. After being
ground, the rags, now pulp, are put into
q tank or receiver, which paper makers
term stuff chests. Here the pulp is con-
stantly stirred or agituted to keep it in
q proper state of solution and even mix
ture.
From this stuff chest the pulp is
pumped as it is used by the paper max
ing machine into screens, which are ma
chimes that operate upon the rags, as
their name signifies, screening the pulp
and keeping all impurities out of the
paper machine. After the pulp has
been screened it looks very much like
water, being thin. 1t is then run upon
the Fourdrinier part of the paper ma
chine, where the pulp is violently agi-
tated, which causes the fibres and
threads of pulp to intertwine into it
what paper makers call felt. From this
part of the machine the pulp is fed be-
tween couch rolls, where the web of the
paper is couched; then it is passed
through, or rather between, four press
rolls, and pressed, after which the web
is conducted by series of rolls through
dryers which are heated by steam.
After drying, the paper is calendered,
then slitted into marketable widths and
wound into rolls, or cut into sheets
ready for papers or other purposes, as
the demand may call for.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-15
A Japanese Court Room.

A Japanese court room at the present
moment is dreary place, but this is
only temporary, for the Introduction of
European laws and European methods
of administering them rendered the old
department of police entirely inadequate
in size and arrangement and new one
will shortly be erected. The court
rooms arc very large and square, with
plain white walls and board floor. Upon
q raised platform occupying one end sits
the Judge in broadcloth behind table
hung with Eaize, with a'clerk, some
times in japanese dress, beside him. In
front OF the Judge and at his feet sit q
couple of policemen. Beyond them is Il
stout railing behind which the prisoner
stands. Then there is the empty floor
and at the opposite side of the room two
or three bare benches for the public, but
tho only occupant of them in each of the
courts that | visited was solitary re-
porter taking notes.
From the animated conversation be-
tween the Judge and the accused 1T was
evident, without word being under
stood, that the system was purely
French. When sentence is pronounced
one of the policemen rises and leads the
prisoner away to sort of guard room at
the back in which you can see through
the glass door that he winds him up
again with the cord and leads him away
In civil cases the benches below the
Judge are occupied by the counsel, who
rise alternately and address him, and so
far as one can Judge without catching
more than word here and there, they
plead with great ease and eloquence.
European dress is the rule for the advo-
Gates, and one of them, who was dressed
in the graceful and dignitied dress OF the
japanese gentleman, and who wore his
back hair hanging in thick mass over
his shoulders, was pointed out to me as
an extremely clever man and famous as
the oddity of the Tokyo bari WashIng-
ton Star.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-15
A VentriIOqulst's Amusing Prank.

In tine first quarter of this century
party of travellers was journeying down
the Missouri on fiat-boat. The river
was covered with floating ice, and pro.
visions were scarce, but the men were
young, possessed of much more wit than
money, and able to extract plenty of fun
out of the danger and privation. Ono
evening two of them, school teacher
and Frenchman, whose occupation
nobody could discover, went ashore to
buy provisions at farm house. The
teacher offered half-a-dollar to the
farmers wife for motherly old hen that
was scratching about the yard. She re-
fused with n torrent of abuse. His com
rade, who was lounging over the gate,
whispered, "Ofler another bit. 'Fivo
bits" said the teacher. The woman
hesitated, when, to her amazement, tho
hen squeaked out: "Tm not worth it !
Tn four years old I'm not worth it -
The the teacher started back in dismay;
the farmers wife, r'gaining her courage,
chased the hen and caught it up in her
arms. Take two bits It's all I'm
worth - it said, tapping wildly in her
arms. She ran, pale with terror, to tho
Frenchman, and put it in his arms,
Streaming out, "Take it away It's
bewitchod !" The young men threw tho
money back to her, and carried off the
hen. Many years afterwards, among
the crowd in the east room of the White
House which attended one of the rccep-
tions of President Fillmore, was the
kindly old Signor Blitz, we'll known 20
all the chllren of the Eastern States as
a ventriloluiet When he was intro.
duced to the President the two men
looked mt ench other moment and then
burst into lnugh. "You never Thought
to sec me here said Mr.. Fillmore;
.'now, for the first time. I understand
thr mystery OF the old hcp -, IyqQAdut.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-15
A Booming Southern City.

The Charlotte On. O. Gronic1e is en-
thusiastic over the cotton manufacturing
enterprises being inougurated there.
Already the busy wheels of one large
cotton factory are revolving day and
night, and three other factories will be
in operation before the beginning of
another year. In the bdilding and
equipment of the three new factories
the sum of 1878, 500 has been expended
this year, of which $2l4, 600 was for ma
chinory and $50, 800 for buildings. The
total capacity of all four factories COM
bined will be 80, ,684 spindles, and they
will consume annually about 10000 bales
of cotton, sending out nearly a, 100000
pounds of yarns and warps', They will
give employment at the start to 400
hands, but this number will be increased
as additions are made to the equipment
of the new factories. The payroll for
wages will be 81, 700 per week, but as
the forcs of laborers is increased the
weekly payroll will,of course, increase
oorrespondingly.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-15
Ut iliZing Niagara's Energy.

A new scheme is suggested by John Ii.
Smith, manager of r. G. Dun " Co.
Agency, for utilizing the current of the
Niagara river. His plan is to cut par
allel or double canal through Grand Is
land, which lies i'll the river between
Buffalo and Niagara Falls. The island
is some eight miles long and over six
miles wide, so that there is plenty OF
room for carrying out Mr.. Smiths ideas.
His scheme is, first, to build n wide
canal from the head of the island to the
lower end. This would be closed at the
lower end by gates. Another canal or
raceway would be built to carry away
the water which would rush from the
high level when used with turbine
wheels, in fumes between the two. For
eight miles there could be continuous
line of factories, all operated with water
power. The lower end of the Island is
six feet below the upper, and this,
Mr.. Smith believes. would give sufficient
power.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-15
A FUNNY SQUIRREL.
1t was Lucky for Farmer Fry's Boy
He Hit in Place to Kill.

Simon Fry, who lives on the Small
farm, in West Virginia, was at work near
his barn, when his 10-year-old son, who
had been nutting in q piece of woods
near the house, came running to him and
told him there was 'funny big squirrel,
without any tail, " in tree at the edge
of the woods, and wanted him to get his
gun and kill it. Fry told his boy that
he had no time to bother with squirrels,
and that he must go away and not
bother him.
The boy went away, going towards the
house. He had been gone but few
minutes when Fry saw O big hen hawk
that had been paying its respects TO his
poultry yard, greatly to its depletion,
sailing about, high in the air. The
farmer knew that the hawk had its eye
on his chickens, and that it was only
watching an opportunity to pounce upon
one and bear it away.
Fry for several days had his gun
heavily loaded with shot in hope that he
might someday surprise this winged
marauder and lay him low. The gun
ho kept behind door in the woodshed,
near the house. On the appearance of
the hawk this day Fry went to the wood
in case the hawk swooped down, but the
gun was not there. Fry turned to enter
the house to make inquiry, when the re-
port of gun in the piece of woods where
his boy had been nutting brought back
to him tho boys information about the
squirrel, and, filled with vague but
dread alarm, he started on run for the
woods.
He found his boy lying on the ground,
unconscious and bleeding at the nose.
him. He took the child i'll his arms
was there found that he had not been
shot, but was suffering from the great
recoil of the gun in firing it off with its
heavy charge. The boys shoulder was
dislocated, and the right side of his face
was badly swollen and bruised. But he
was soon restored to consciousness, and
the first words he said were:
"Where's the funny squirrel without
any taill 1 killed it, know"
He insisted so in having his game
looked up that his father, having de-
spatched messenger for doctor, went
back to the woods to see if the boy had
killed squirrel. What he found sur
prised him. Lying dead, fifty feet from
where he had picked up his boy, Fry
found an enormous catamount. The
boys aim had been good, and the entire
charge of shot had entered the animals
throat, severing the windpipe and all
the arteries. A less effective shot would
have been worse for the infant hunter
than the kick OF the gun, for the fierce
beast, infuriated by its wound, would
have torn him to pieces.
The cntamount, n rare animal in that
locality, weighed over fifty pounds, and
was nearl y four feet long When next
this boy tells his father that there is a
funny squirrel, without any tail, in their
woods, the father will doubtless investi-
cato it. The hen hawk did not get its
dinner that day ont of Farmer Fry's
yard The sound Of tho gun scared him
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-15
Romantic Discovery of u Copper Vein.

AS O rule, dead Indians are more con-
genial to white men on the frontier than
live ones, but here is an instance where
IL band of bloodthirsty Apaches did the
pale faces an actual service without
knowing it. The Globe Dcm0crat says:
"Great discoveries are sometimes
brought about by accidents and unto
ward circumstances. This was illustra-
ted in the discovery of the Yuma copper
and silver mine, in the northeastern part
of Yuma county, Arizona. Five miles
south of this lode passes the old trail to
California, and at that point one night,
about seven years ago, large band OF
Apache Indians were encanped. man
by the name of Jones, well-known
frcighter of that country was in charge
of long wagon train going west over
the trail, aud, when III the vicinity OF
the Indian camp, they were ambushed
by the blOodthirsty savages, and all per-
sons in the train were butchered III cold
blood except Jones, the freighter, lieu
tenant in the United States army and q
man named Files, who escaped to the
Hnrcuv6r Mountains. These men were
compelled to remain secreted i'll the
lodges of the mountains for several days,
until the government troops drove the
Indians farther South. While rambling
over an immense foothill, one mile long,
by $50 feet high, the three men saw a
vein of very fine ore sticking out of a
ledge of rock. They came down from
the mountains, and nothing more was
thought about the discovery. But few
days later the man Files scraped the
acquaintance of ID. G. King and r. X.
McGrath on railway train going to
Sonora, where they had some mining
business, and in the course of cOnver-
sation he mentioned the discovery in
the moutain. King and MoGrath after
ward quietly located the claim and sew
eral others adjoining. They spent all
their money in developing some of the
claims, and two ycnrs ago King came to
st, Louis to organize company which
is now known as the Yuma Copper and
Silver Mining Company.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-15
Fishing for Sturgeon.

The time is approaching, says the
Princeton (Wis.) Republican, when the
sturgeon will commence to run in the
lakes and rivers in this section again
and already the fishermen are making
preparations for big catch. A very
common method of trapping the fish is
to string line Of thousand feet Or
more in deep water, supplying it with
hundreds of hooks and allowing it to
rest on the bottom. The hooks are
baited with suckers, OF which the stur.
geon is very fond. At this season of
the year the monsters of the Winnie
bago and the Fox, it is said, swim near
the bottom of the lake and river, where
they feed on a species of red worm that
abounds in the sand and mud. While
doing so the sturgeon endeavor to eat
the suckers OF other bait on the hooks
that have been set for them, and are
easily caught. The surgeons meat
brings seven cents pound in Chicago.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-15
HE KODE \ WHITE TONY.
One of Buffalo Bills Indians Equal
tOan Emergency.

In connection with the Buffalo Bill
"Wild West" combination which visited
Baltimore few weeks ago, says the
Herald of that city, an interesting story
is told in which well-known society
lady, her too-impressionable son, and
several Indian chiefs figure prominent
ly.
The lady in question is handsome and
viyacious, and has head crowned with
q wealth of bandana-hued hair. With
her son rs an escort she went to Oriole
park to witness the wonders of life in
liam +. Cody, his cowboys, Indians and
dense, and when the performance had
concluded mother and son arose to go.
The youths hat was suddenly lifted
from his head by puff of wind, and
while he made clever jump for it the
mother was pushed on with the crowd.
But it's an i'll wind that blows nobody
good, and the gentle breeze which
lifted the derby from q well-shaped
Uranium and caused temporary separa-
ton between the lady and her son was
the cause of closer acquaintance be-
tween the young man and the Indians.
He strayed to the ''great scouts" tent,
to the occupant of which he introduced
himself, and in return Buffalo Bill
made the North Baltimorean acquaint-
cd with the Indian chiefs for whose SER
vices ne pays liberal weekly stipend.
| Yellow Dog and Sioux Sneak expressed
themselves in the very choicest adiec-
tives of their language as much pleased
t. meet 'white dude" and, fattered
by his reception, the tendsIfoot invited
Mr.. Cody and the Indian chiefs to his
home for tea. Mr.. Cody refused DO
litely, but the two wild men of the west
readily accepted, and in due time the
trio arrived at the house of the young
mans parents.
| 1t is needless to say that the combina-
| tion attracted great attention from sew
eral hundred curious pedestrians, and
when the mother turned the corner OF
the block in which her house was stu
ated, she was not q little surprised to
see n throng of people standing before
her door. Pushing her way through
the crowd she entered, and, to her
amazement, found herself confronted by
two copper-faced warriors of humanity,
gaylv bedecked with chicken feathers,
and squatting upon each side of her son.
! The latter arose, and, with smile upon
his face, presented the two chiefs to
his parent. AS Yellow Dog arose and
extended his hand, the mothers face
became as crimson as her hair, but the
great chief was equal to the emergency,
and Strengthening himself up till he
lowered high, above the lady, he said
"Me big Injun chief. Us come here
to eat. Me drink much big whiskey.
Ne ride white pony"
A Mortified expression came over the
lady's face as she Indignantly ordered
her son to dismiss his guests; but f.
nally, fearing a scalping scene, com
promise was arranged and Yellow Dog
and Sioux Sneak supped in the kitchen.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-15
Longevity of Locomotives.

The average age Of locomotives is
about twelve years, yet many, through
T oper habits of living, taking their
meals regular, and avoiding all intoxi-
eating beverages, attain quite q respec-
table ola age. The oldest running en-
gine in iermany has been on the road
since 4S45, and is consequently 43
years old-quite Methuselah in fact
With regard to its habits it has always
confined itself strictly to water. though
it has beer addicted to smoking all it's
life. 1t Is rGd to see a locomotive grown
prem aturely old by running all night,
but they are often met with, in col
lisiOns.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-15
GIRLS AT A COOKING SCHOOL.
How to Chop Tough Steak and Make
Suet Pudding.

The Pittsburg Chronicle describes O
visit to one of the cooking schools il
that city. Twelve girls, in clean, neat
dresses, with white aprons, caps and
sleeves, formed the class, and one, with
gloves on to protect her hands, was try
ing to make a mirror out of the stove, SC
bright was she making it.
! Two others were busy washing out
the cupboards and cleaning out the
sink. The rest of the class were busy
with their different culinary duties,
while Miss Torrey, the instructress, was
supervising all.
Everything was neat and clean, and
it looked more like q bright, busy
kitchen seen in some home, with the
busy little housekeepers preparing for a
party. They all seemed thoroughly to
enjoy it. Livery word and action of
Miss Torrey was received with strict at
tention, and the willing, cheerful apt
ness showed that the pupils were engaged
In congenial occupation. 1t was like
playing at keeping house.
The first thing done by them was
chopping lean steak. This was soon to
be used i'll making beef stew and
some Hamburg steaks. Miss Torrey
puzzled some of them by asking them
what dough was. This was finally
answered by a little miss to be moist
flour, and Miss Torrey smiled approval
In the meantime the stew was being
prepared. The chopped meat was put
into cold water, some onions were cut
into slices and put into hot spider with
lard and when Drowned were added to
the stew. Then it was put on the stove
to simmer, being put in charge of one of
the pupils. After it had boiled, the
turnips were added and the potatoes,
which latter had been parboiled. The
result was highly satisfactory and the
stew was pronounced AL. 1t certainly
was toOthsOme.
When the chopped meat remaining
was seasoned, some onion juice added,
small fiat cakes were made of the mix
ture, which were put into the hot spider
without any butter so as to broil them.
Miss Torrey used the lemon squeezer to
get the juice from the onion and told
the girls that by washing it in cold water
the taste and smell of the onion would
entirely disappear, but by washing it in
hot water it would remain.
The next production was suet pudding
plain, with raisins and one with mo-
lasses and ginger. During the whole
preparation of the various things Miss
Torrey was talking to them and explain
ing the reason for everything she did.
A practical lesson in washing currants
and stoning raisins was given, and at
the same time an interesting lecture was
delivered on currants and raisins, where
they come from and how they grow.
She said currants should be washed the
day before they are used, and laid in
cloth IN warm closet to dry. Many
instructive and useful things were tod
bv the teacher, and all the class seemed
TO be most anxious to learn, and from
their questions showed that they intend
ed to make good housekeepers.
This work in our public schools can
lot fail to bring about good results.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-15
A CHANGE OF MOOD.

Old gentleman (kindly, to little boy
"Im sorry to hear you use such words,
my boy; you should always be kind and
patient to your little playmates never
lose your temper, and you will find
yourself happier for it.
Just then one of the little playmates
accidently bumped into the old gentle
and knocked his spectacles off.
Kind old gentleman Grasciblyl ::
"Blame ye you miserable little scoun-
drel. I've great mind to have yo
locked up" ."-EpOch.