News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-26

man to put on his head. 1t is hot an(
air-tight, causes headache and loss o
hair. The ''plug hat" is airy and it
roof is so high that the action of thu
sun is not apt to Immediately affect tn,
brain. 1t is the most sensible hat yet
invented, unless it be a straw hat fol-
summer.
In a paper recently read before one o
the English associations of engineers
the writer asserted that, according t.
present methods of dealing with the
motive power of the steam engine, only
some twenty per cent. was made availa
BILE, eighty per cent. of the energy de
veloped in the furnace being thrown
away, and it is quite common to realize
no greater efficiency than about four pei
cent. on the gross or potential energy o
the fuel. In large factories, that admit
of the power being concentrated in ont
or two great machines, condensation cal
be taken advantage of, and, with watel
heaters. and other appliances, double
the above figures realized-but in the
very best engines, with all the latest i'm
provements and Celebrations, not NOR,
than twelve and one-half per cent. ha
ever been realized, nor is it possible t,
realize more, and even this twelve ant
one-half per cent can only be obtained
by the finest of wire drawing and tn,
best of coal.
A CHURCH in Wisconsin town is pro
badly the only edifice in the country
which depends upon champagne bottle:
for its drainage. When the church was
built funds were scarce, and many small
economies were praeticed. The congre
cation on first occupying their place Of
worship found that it was uncomfortably
damp. The fact was mentioned to one
of its members, who said: "Pll tell you
how to remedy that. Go into my cellar
and you will find enough champagne
bottles to build drain with. They are
often used for that purpose in England,
and when once laid they will last for
ever if not allowed to choke up" The
bottles were secured, the bottoms deity
knocked off, and the necks abbreviated
in length. Then by placing the neck of
one bottle in the bottom of another, and
so on, drain was constructed which
has kept the little church ''extra dry"
ever since.
A PHILADELPHIA drummer saw a man
In railroad car whom he thought he
knew, and, slapping him ON the back,
asked him how he was. The man looked
up, and the drummer saw that he was
stranger He apologized, saying he
thought that he was a friend of his.
What followed is thus told by Jersey
newspaper: {" Il hope am friend of
yours the man said, and they got to
talking, and the commercial man, seeing
the gentleman's gripsack, thought he
must be q commercial man also, and
asked him what house he represented.
Il represent, said the gentleman, the
largest house in the world. We'll,
said the travelling man, 'if you repre-
sent the largest house in the world you
certainly have a snap. What house is
is itl' The Lords house. said the
gentleman. My name is Bishop John
Scarborough of the Proste5tant Episco-
pal Church.
A LEADING druggist in Lynn, Mass,
tells curious story of his fathers adj
ventures. The fathers name was John
Colcord, of Sanford, Me-, and he was a
sailorman. Years ago he was wrecked
on one of the Sandwich Islands, and be-
ing true son of Maine, set up as
manufacturer of gods for the ma
tives, making the idols from the iron
cast ashore from wrecked vessels. These
indestructible deities became very pop
ular, and so did Colcord, who married
native girl. One day in Honolulu he
met Maine sailor, who had also been
wrecked. The man proved to be an old
schoolmate of Colcord. He brought
Colcord's four children to this country
to be educated, and they afterward went
back. Colcord, after the death of his
wife, came home to Maine and married
again, and the druggist is one of the
children by the last marriage.
WILLIAM WALKER, aged II years, and
his younger brother Frank, sons of
Derbyshire farmer, went to tend their
fathers sheep, and on their way home
paid visit to Winstone Lee ''to see the
snow" While looking up the cliffs an
immense mass slipped over the edge and
they were buried. The dogs returned
home, and by their peculiar manner at
tracted the attention of the boys pa
rents, who started a search. The dogs
led them to where the boys were, and
heels were visible, alive. His brother
WAS Jug Out uedu uOH d uoPGn VI many
feet.
AN English analyst recently received
twelve specimens of supposed butter,
which he was to analyze to discover
which was pure and which was oleomaf-
garine. After taking what he wanted he
set the twelve plates in his laboratory.
Next morning the butter had disappear
ed from ten and on two it remained.
These two were adulterated and the
others pure. Suspecting mice, he set
out other plates, some containing pure
and some adulterated in various de-
gress. Again the pure butter was
cleared away, the slightly adulterated
half eaten, and the much adulterated
only nibbled.
FRANK MCKIBBRS, well-to-do and
industrious farmer of Coffeeville, Miss,
picked up his axe one day in the latter
part of January, walked up a slight in
cline from his residence to where a log
of pine lay, and stepped up with the in
tention of splitting it. His son, aged
10 years, ran down to where his father
was at work, and, when within ten feet
of the log, slipped, the ground being
covered with ice, and shot straight I'M
der the axe as it was descending. Nc
Kibben, in wild effort to save his son,
fell off the log on his back, but too late,
the axe sunk in the little fellows head.
A PHYSICIAN writes in a medical jour
nal that he learned how to get cinders or
other substances out of the eye from an
engineer on whose locomotive he was
riding. The doctor got cinder in his
eye and began to rub it. "Let that eye
alone and rub the other" said the engi-
neer. The doctor paid no attention.
''Do as 1 tell you," said the engineer,
"and you'll have it out in two minutes.
The doctor obeyed, rubbed the well eye,
and in a moment the cinder was lying on
his cheek He says that the treatment
never fails, where the substance has not
cut into the eyeball.
A MANUFACTURER of Philadelphia of
great experience as we'll as of much in
telligence instructs his workmen to hold
large steel tools in a north and south
line while the tools are being tempered.
He says that many years ago he noticed
that such tools would often fly apart
when being tempered if held least and
west, and that the liability to such &C
cidents was greatly lessened, if not en-
tirely obviated, if the tool was held
north and south.
A CHILD or an intoxicated person will
rarely endeavor with any great effort to
recover their balance when they slip or
topple over. Hence no special resisting
force is exercised, and they sink into a