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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
The Shah's Great Wealth.

What he terms his museum is a curious
place. 1t contains profusion of costly
articles and objects of art such as exist
nowhere else at the present day, it being
the opinion of well-informed Europeans,
who have viewed these treasures, that
their money value is perhaps twenty-fold
that of the contents of the So called green
vaults at Dresden. 1t is impossible to
give exact figures, for they could only be
obtained after long and minute inspec-
ton and valuation by experts; but
roughly estimated, it is probable that
there is more than 800, 900, 900 worth of
jewelry, precious stones, coined and I'M
coined gold, costly O5jcts de rertu, fine
porcelain and glassware, old weapons
and armor, tableware and ornaments of
exquisite Persian and Hindu workman
ship etc. The so called peacock throne
"a part of the plumber Nadia Shah car
ried off from Delhi 150years ago. is alone
valued at many millions, even after
number of the large, rough and uncut
jewels have been broken out and stolen.
1t is an incongrflous place, this museum.
There you will see vases OF agate or gold
and lapis lazul, said to be WORTH millions;
and alongside of them empty perfume
bottles of European make, with gaudy
labels. that can be had at wholesale for
about five cents apiece. You Will see
priceless mOsaics and eXquisitely painted
cups and cans and vases, which were
presented by some European pOtentate;
and side by side with them you will
notice horrible daubs, veritable 10-cent
chromos, picked up the Lord knows how
and where. You will perceive glass
cases filled with huge heaps of rubies,
diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, turquoises,
garnets, topazes, beryls, of all sizes and
kinds, cut and uncut; and check by iOwl
with these your eyes viii see cheap music
boxes, Jews harps and squeaky hand
organs.
The Shah must also be in a condition to
bull the market on pearls, for here is,
| for instance, a big glass case, twenty
four inches long by eighteen inches wide
and high, that is more than half filled
with beautiful pearls (mostly from the
Persian Gulf tisheries) of all sizes and
degrees of loneliness. In a separate long
case the orders and decorations of the
Shah, coming from nearly every country
in the world, are kept on exhibition: but
the crown jewels are in a little box that
is always locked and for which the Shah
himself forever, waking or sleeping,
carries the keys The contents of this box
| and of the several vaults where he keeps
his piles on piles of bright, shining, un,
used money, he never allows others to
view, although the museum may be
visited once a year by the European
diplomatists and the friends that they
vouch for Cosmopolitan.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
His Wife Hal Railroad Pass.

81 thought it was economy" said Il
man very mournfully the other day, ''for
she was bent on seeing the State, and l
thought it would save railroad fares, but
she is simply running me since she got a
free pass all over the place. You see, I
did some little service to the railroad
people, and happened to mention that
my wife was going down South. Here
you are, said the railroad man. 'We
owe you something. Here are free passes
for the State for your wife.
81 took the blamed things home and
gave them to her. They began to burn
her pocket-book right away. Next
morning she said: 4 guess I'll go to San
Jose on my free passes All right, l
said, it won't cost me anything. No,
she said, isn't it lovely not to have to
pay any farce Beautiful, said 1.
Nov, dear, L want you to give me $25.
[ really must buy some clothes to go to
San Jose in. Twenty-Five dollars 2
yes. You wouldn't like your wife trav-
cling without any style, would you|
We'll, said, is it quite necessary for
you to go to San Jose 2 No; but L
might as well. [ don't need to pay any
thing on the train. And the first break
that free pass cost me $35. Well, she
started off to San Jose, and she con-
cluded she would go on the broad-gange
road. When the conductor came along
she pulled out her pass. 1t was the mar
row-guage road pass. She had to pay
her fare. When she started to come
back she concluded she'd take the mar
row-gauge to San Francisco, and she
forgot she had narrow gauge pass, and
bought her ticket Yes, the free pass is
q very economical thing for woman. -
Gnll ElnneiseO NArOnicEe.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
A Great Stock Farm.

"You people in the East know moth.
ing about stock farms, said John Mac
key, the California horseman, in the st.
James Hotel the other evening. There's
eX-Gov. Stanford's farm in San Mateo
County as an example. He had 34S
trotters and thoroughbreds on his farm
when l left, and of the lot 285 were
trotting- bred brood mares. He runs to
trotters and has been wonderfully sue
cessful at it. New Workers think of the
thoroughbred horse as the great animal
of the stock farm, but the trotter is in
reality the fellow who brings to the
breeder the handsomest returns after
all" Horses who can trot in 2:25 out
there, says this excellent authority, are
plenty as three minute horses in this city,
and the price asked for the former there
is about the same as can be readily OBJ
tanned for the latter here. A 3 or year
old that cannot show better than 2 30 on
the road isn't worth owning in the
opinion of these California horsemen, and
can easily be had from 5000 to $780,
NeIo York Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
His Reformation.

There is in Kentucky an inebriate
asylum where everything the patient
eats OF drinks is seasoned with whiskey.
This method, it was thought, would in
spire such disgust for liquor that the
patient, when discharged, would be
only too glad to drink unpolluted spring
water. Some time ago old Jethro Mills,
drunkard of well known thirst and ca
pacity, was sent to the asylum. Some
of his friends demonstrated with Mrs.
Mills. "Such treatment will almost
kill him, they declared. CAB Wilson,
who was there awhile, says that he came
within one of dying. No matter which
way he turned there was the scent of
whiskey to gag him. Don't, we beg OF
you, infict such cruel punishment on
your husband. Madam, we speak from
experience when we say that after the
human system begins to rebel against
whiskey there is 10 greater punishment
than it's retching fumes"
Mrs. Mills, being strong minded
woman, did not yield to the entreaty,
but sent the old man to the asylum.
Several months afterward the old fellow
returned, and some one who was anxious
o. testing the strength of his enforced
reformation asked him if he felt like 60
ing over to the saloon and taking a lit
tie something.
"Wall," said old Mills, "bl'eve I'll
jine you. Amt SIGH powerful hand
fur Ticker, but [ giner'ly take little
this time O. day"
They went over to the saloon, and
while the bartender was ''mixin' the
nominated pizen," one of the boys ask
ed him how he liked the asylum.
"Wall, Jimmie" he said, "takin' it
all in all, it is a putty good sorter
place"
''Put whiskey in everything, didn't
they?"
Eyes; they made stagger in that di-
rection. I only found fault with one
thing"
"What was that 2"
'They didn t put quite enough Ticker
in the soup. Wy, boys, had to drink
about a dozen platefuls before | gunter
feel it, which, you know, is imposin'
nightly on a ole man"
Chow was the coffee?"
"Done putty well. Ireckon thar was
about teaspoonful O ticker in each
cup. Not enough, you know, but it
showed that the superintendent was dis
posed to act squar. Wall, here's a
hOpin',"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
An Unfortunate Farmer.

II s'pose you fellers amt got no paper
you want me to sign an beat me out O
some money" said Dakota farmer
near whose house We camped one night.
"No," Ireplied.
81 told the old woman you didn't look
hardly sharp enough to be in that style
O business " replied the observing agri-
culturist.
"Have you been troubled much by
those kind of sharpers 2" I asked.
"Well, [ pear to be dom my share O
sportin' them. There's a churn over in
the corner that cost me $50-they got
me to order a dozen of 'em when [
thought was signin' greement to tell
the neighbOrs what good churn they
was. got a 500 hay rake out to the
barn on the same plan. Then [ had to
pay for eight Eighteenth rods on my
house, when I thought I only signed for
one Mother man ct dinner here, gave
me a quarter for it, an [ signed q receipt
that turned out to be a check for $50 on
my bank account. Mother gOOd-lOOkin'
Teller said he was collectin' autographs
O prom nent men, and / showed mine
onto blank piece O. paper, which he
went an filled out as q bill o. sale for my
DtSb lOSS, dIlCl leu UIlC CllItCI OIls
''Then [ made a three boss ev'ner
that I thought up all my self one night,
an bout month after had to give a
Teller $15 cause he said he said he got
patent on it ten years ago. [ gotta drive
well III the back yard that I have been
paying $25 on bout twice a year. There
are two notes at the bank for me to pay
now that L signed when [ slapped my
name onto some recommendations of Il
mowin' machine an which the teller cut
in two and made notes of. Then yester-
day another cuss come long with per-
tition to the Lesgislatur' ag'n high taxes,
and I socked my name onto it, an now
Tn waitin' to see whether it'll turn out
a mortgage on the farm OF only a COM
mon note. I'm mighty glad you follers
amt got no scheme, cause I'd be sure
to go into it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
A WOnder Bird.

| had not been many minutes on the
key before I discovered a large snow
white bird nesting on the ground under
a spray of Rhacichallis. It's wings were
barred with Jet black; its bill was
bright yellow aa1eltapered to spear
like point, which forbade too close
familiarity. This proved to be the
yellow billed tropic bird Phpton favi-
rostris), and we afterward caught several
in our hand, taking them from the nest.
When held up by the wings they strike
Justify with their bills and utter a pecu-
liarly shrill cry. The tropic bird lays a
single egg on the ground beneath rocks
or bushes. 1t is about the size and make
of the hens, and is finely sprinkled
with reddish brown, so as to appear of
an almost uniform tint. One of these
birds, which my companion shot and
slightly wounded, flew short distance
and then alighted on the water. AS we
sailed toward it, first one and then an
other bird came and lowered over it as
if urging it to take fight, which it pres
emily did, and with its attendants soon
passed out of sight. These birds resem-
bic the gulls in many points, but are
distinguished from other sea fowl by
two long streamers in the tail, which
wave behind them as they fy.-P9pulGr
Science Monthly.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
FARM AND GARDEN.
SAVIOR in Dairy Sailing.

A Wisconsin dairyman lately told me
he MIXED seventeen COWS the past sea-
son and early in the summer ran out of
salt, and having read in an agricultural
paper that cows do Just as well without
salt he neglected to get another barrel.
The drouth came, the milk flow dropped
to about 200 pounds day, which gave
no profit, nor did it increase after the
pastures were frcshened by rains. lie
bought a carload of millstuff and began
feeding, but still received only 22O
pounds of milk day, and several of the
cows would hold up their milk once or
twice a week. Then he began to salt
regularly every day, and the COWS i'm
proved at once and the increase was
steady until on the same feed they were
producing 80 pounds of milka day, and,
instead of being kept at loss, yielded a
fair profit. The farmer needs to be
wideawake and careful. A well-bal-
anced ration fed at regular hours and in
regular quantities, with attention to
water, salt, bedding, and all the points
which go to make the animals comforta-
BILE, will save money, particularly in a
season when feed is high-priced. l
never found work hand to whom
could afford to trust the winter feeding
of my stock. Waldo +. Boon, in Iri-
bune,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
Value Of a Hobby.

If we ever became vindictive toward
fellow man, and desired to punish him,
we would deprive him of his hobby;
without that he would be lonesome in
crowd, and crowded into a wilderness,
and would seek what he had lost and
find it not. The business man with n
hobby that he rides is # happy man; bu'
if the hobby rides him, the business
will suffer sooner or later. The man
without hobby will be found in the
club room, the billiard room, or card
room. The lobbyist, with his loft Of
pigeons, his bird skins or eggs, bugs or
beetles, takes more substantial happi-
ness than all the members of the highest
toned club in a city combined. Besides
that, home and Dame Nature is all the
world to him and all the heaven he ever
aspires to.-TKdde's Fibre.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
Grass Farming.

There are so many desirable qualities
in the ideal meadow or pasture, says the
Farm and Home, that no single grass has
been found that will fully satisfy the
progressive farmer. In some of the older
shires in England, as many as two or
three dozen different varieties of grasses
are in use on one farm. And a proper
tionate admixture of seeds of valuable
grasses is done with great intelligence.
In the older parts of this country it is al
ready admitted that grasses which ripen
early and late, with others that mature
between, are requisite for pasturage; and,
as more and more experiments are made
in this direction it is found profitable to
have wider variety of grasses for now
ing than was formerly thought necessary.
Not only does the quality of the feed i'm
prove by variety, but droughts are
oftentimes overcome, and seasons for
cutting made later, earlier, or both, so
that two crops can be harvested where
but one was obtained under the old
method of seeding. The 1886 bulletin
of the Iowa Horticultural College
remarks that farmers of the State
would do well to experiment with
greater variety of grasses, as there are
many valuable kinds not now in cultiva-
ton which could be raised to advantage,
and names the following mixture: Red
clover and orchard grass, 80 pounds of
the latter to Is of the former tall meadow
oat grass and red clover, so pounds and
Is respectively. This admiXture is found
to blossom the last of May, and. when
mown early in June the clover stood 20
inches high and the oat grass feet.
About 70 per cent. of this hay was red
clover, Is per cent. tall oat grass, and 10
per cent. orchard grass which had crept
in. Being on an exceedingly rich piece
of ground, it was estimated to produce
at the rate of 12a tons per acre of dry
hay. Besides this, second and third
crops of 26 and II inches were produced,
and the grasses showed in every way the
adaptability to each other for meadows.
Tall meadow oat grass and timothy, 10
pounds each, and 20 pounds of orchard
grass, was found to be a poor mixture,
on account of the difference in the time
of ripening, and this was true of a
variety of mixture which did not seem
to be adapted to each other. This mis-
take of putting such grasses as timothy,
which blossoms and natures late, with
orchard and other early ripening grasses
was very apparent.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
Curing Meat.

The season of the year in which
meats may be cured on the farms with
best success is from December 18th to
February 18th, the interval between these
dates affording two indispensable con-
ditiOns, viz, cool weather and i'm
munity from insects and pests. Pork
must be cut to suit the demands of the
different markets in which it is to be
sold, but never lose sight of the fact
that it ought to be in such form as will
pack snugly. Remember too, the i'm
portance of having the meat thoroughly
relieved of animal heat previous to pack
ing down.
The two processes, sailing with and
without brine, are both popular and
effective when carefully performed.
When it is desired to use brine the
meat may be packed in layers F. d.
Coburn, excellent authority, advises salt
at the rate of 8 pounds to each 100
pounds of pork. Sprinkle the salt evenly
over and around each layer until the
cask is full; then clear rain water or
other pure water is poured in until all
the interstices are filled. Many prefer to
to prepare the brine by adding to
the salt some sugar, saltpetre, etc,
dissolving them in water and pouring the
pickle over the meat. A recipe recon-
mended by Coburn is as follows: For
100 pounds of pork, ounces salt
petre, 3 pints common mOlasses or 2
pounds brown sugar, and pounds salt.
When dissolved, pour over the meat.
Some boil the pickle, skim it of i'm
purities, let it get entirely cold and then
pour it over the meat In any case, be
sure the meat is always covered with
the brine.
The length of time hams and shoulders
should be kept in pickle depends on
their thlckncss-from one to two months.
For curing the abore without brine the
aqtAority quoted from suggests the fol-
lowing recipe: 10 pounds fine salt, ,
quarts mo!asscs, ! pound saltpetre, well
mixed, for $50 pounds of meat. Rub
hams and shoulders thoroughly with the
mixture, and lay out singly on u plat
form in cool, dry place At the end
OF the first and second week rub them
again as at first, and then expose to con
tinuous smoke for ten days.
A simpler plan, in which any portion
or all of hogs carcass can be cured, is
to put layer of half an inch or so of
salt on platform or the bottom of a box
or cask, then layer of meat en- this a
a layer of salt, and so on until all
is packed and the top well covered with
salt. All kinds of cured meat should be
kept in dry, dark, cool place.--NeaO
York World.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
Horses Feet,

There is too much neglect of the feet
of horses. When they arc unshod, the
feet will generally take care of them
selves and keep from getting foul; but,
when they are shod, they must be fire.
quently cleaned out, or the earth and
manure will pack so tightly inside of the
shoes that the bottom of the feet will get
sore, and about the frog inflammation
will set in, and the result will be disease
known as thrush. This may be cured by
washing the creases along the frog with
a dilution of carbolic acid, or with brine
and then packing dry salt in the spaces.
The packing OF the earth will often make
a horse lame, and it is sure to do so if
gravel or small stone is pressed into the
sole of the foot and kept there. Some
times the gravel will force its way
through the sole and only come out at
the top of the foot. When this is the
case the horse is very lame and it takes a
month or two for it to get over the pain
full trouble. The feet of horse should
always be cleaned out after drive in the
mud, and when they are pac%ed with
snow. The bottom of the foot and the
frog should be let alone both by owner
and blacksmith, and not be cut down. A
horse wants all its frog to reduce the jar
of travel and to protect the bottom of the
hoof. 1t will wear away as fast as it is
necessary. The feet of horses are cut
down too much, and many a good one
is ruined by fancy shoeing. DIR Conn.,
try Home.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
How Miss Kellogg Was Won.

Speaking of actors and the craft gen
orally reminds one of the romance of
Miss Kellogg's marriage to her manager
1t seems that it is an old affair, and that
the lady would have consented long be-
fore, but that she is like st. Theresa, of
Spain, in that she hates to be asked
"Why?" To avoid the question of
friends she therefore put herself in the
position that no one could question her.
1t seems that her mind was made up one
evening last summer when rowing on Il
lake in Western New York. A storm
came up and the boat overturned, but
the bold Stral1osch was near, leaped into
the water and rescued her, let us hazard,
as she was going down for the third
time. He is of German extraction, and
said to be about % or 26.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
A SKATING SONG.
Skate, skate, skate,
EarlY aad late.

Skate, skate, skate,
Early aad late,
While the ice is sparkling and strong;
And the air is gay,
In its winter array,
As in summer with flower and song;
With the laugh, and the shout,
AMI the dazzling quick rout,
And the musical click of the skate.
Skate, skate, skate,
Keep your knees straight,
And your arms from windmill sprawl;
For the "outer ron,n
And the firm "cross ro!r'
Strike out, with no fear of a fall;
With the head quite upright,
And with grace and delight,
And the rhythmical glide of the skate.
Skate, skate, skate,
The figure eight"
And the figure three" in both ways;
And the double three"
Back and forward free,
And loop in its serpentine maze;
With the laugh and the shout,
And the dazzling quick rout,
And the musical click of the skate.
Laura Sanford, an Independent.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
A Tell.Tale Note.

In Sir John |. Socks recent London
lecture on Saeages and Their Manners"
he gave an amusing instance of the way
in which writing is pulling to savages.
In South America, on one occasion, a
native was sent by a missionary to a
TREND with note apd four loaves of
bread. The native ate one loaf on the
way, and was amazed to find that the
note discovered his theft. On the next
occasion that he was sent with four
loaves, he sat on the note while eating
one of them.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
The Origin of "John Bull. "

The name John Bull, as applied to the
English people, is first found in Arbuth-
not's ludicrous "nistory of Europe" a
book sometimes enormously ascribed to
Dean Swift. In this satire Arbuthnot
calls the French Lewis Baboon and the
Dutch Nicholas Frog ''John Bull a
comedy, by George Coleman, the
younger, was performed in 1905. The
.JohI, Bill, a Tory newspaper, supported
by Theodore Hook, was first published
in 1890
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02

The distinguishing point in one of the
counterfeit hundred dollar bank bills
floating about the country is black eye
worn by the Goddess of Liberty. Evil
IDENTIFY the cOunterfeiters had a grim
sense of humor when making that plate
They reasoned, probably, that a country
of liberty should promote liberty of ac-
ton in making money. Hence the
black eye given to Liberty's Goddess. -
Men York Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02

She is permaturely deprived of her charms
of face and form, and made unattractive by
the wasting effects of ailments and Irregular
ties peculiar to her sex. To check this drain
upon, not only her strength and health, but
upon her amiable qualities as well, is her first
duty. This is safely and speedily accom-
plished by a course of self-treatment with DIR.
Pierce's FavOrite Prescription, a nervine and
tonic of wonderful efficacy, and prepared espe-
cially for the alienation of those suffering
from dragging out" pains, sensations Of
nausea, and weakness incident to women-a
boon to herseX. Druggists.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02

The modern idea of winter dairving
advances in favor. &
White Minorca poultry is attracting
much attention of late.
Lice are a great annoyance to calves,
and will keep them poor.
Keep seed potatoes in dry, cool
place and prevent sprouting.
Cutting fodder is saving of one
third, according to the Raral Np,o
Y0rk6r.
The eggs of o bag worm can be plainly
seen in winter and should be then de-
strOyed,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02

AS well as the handsomest, and others are
invited to call on any druggist and get free
trial bottle Of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat
and Lungs, remedy that is selling entirely
upon its merits and is guaranteed to cure and
relieve all Chronic and Acute Coughs, Asthma,
Bronchitis and Consumption. Large bottles,
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