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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11

An Epic in Fits.

PEAcE-The editor in genial mood, sat
in his Office chair; he run his jeweled
fingers through his mass of tawny hair;
he took his golden pen and wrote some
grand and fiery screeds, of wars abroad,
OF politics, and of his countrys needs;
he also wrote a touching poem about a
lover bold, who went across the raging
sea to search for cleaning gold; and how
maiden waited long down on the ocean
shore, to welcome him when he returned
who would return no more.
CLoUDs-The office hireling came to
him; an ugly youth was he, with freckles
scattered on his face most wonderful to
see; he jerked the press, this hireling
did, he swept the dirty floors, he stuffed
the coal into the stove aud did the other
chores. But now his freckled cheeks
were blanched, his voice was hoarse
with fear; he said: cold Smith, who
weighs ton, is waiting for you here;
his face is stern, his lips are set, l fear
he's come for gOre-Oh, master, shall L
let him pass inside your sanctum door 2
CoURAGE-Then spake the editor
with pride, to that lone youth spalle he:
80, Absalom, the towards fear a stran-
ger is to me; why should l tremble,
though he comes to wallcw in my gore?
I'll take him by his swanlike neck and
with him sweep the floor; MS Macbeth
said, what man may dare, that also Will
dare, and should Old Smith but make a
crack, I'll smash him with a chair; go
then, to where he painting waits, and
show him in to me and though he's
once or dOubly armed, no terror will he
see."
DANGER-Then trembling went the
freckled youth, as he'd instructed been:
he led the Bad Man to the door, and,
quaking, showed him in; the door was
closed behind him, and Absalom stood
near, that all the sounds of raging war
securely he might hear; there was a
silence, long, profound, and then his
masters voice, rang out in loud, defiant
tones that made his heart reioice; it
sounded through the oaken door and
echoed down the hall; it ceased, the
silence came again, and then heavy
fall.
DIsAsTER-With winged feet young
Absalom flew to his masters side; all
still and pale that master lay, as though
he just had died; but soon he opened
wide his eyes that fell the boy upon; they
swept the room to see Old Smith, but
Smith, the wretch, was gone. "What
did he do cried Absalom, "that you
have swooned away? You show no
marks to show that you have had a
bloody fray; o master, did he draw his
gun, your form with lead to filll" No,
no, my boy, he drew no gun; far worse
he drew bill!"-Ne5. State Journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11
LABOUCHERE ON PAUPERISM.
The London Editor Gives his Views
on the Subject.

Mr.. Gladstone said the other dav at
the Hawarden Flower Show: 81 don't
SO much believe in over-population,"
Well, no more do /. 1t is the greatest
fudge out. One has never heard the
''Over-population" cry except in coun-
tries having ridiculous laws and where
the industrial ingenuity of man has
been abOminably and absurdly fettered.
"Over-population" is merely another
name for under production" The
well-worn theory about man increasing
in geometrical ratio, and food increasing
only In an arithmetical ratio is neat, but
it is not true. A IN tier of fact, man
L don't mean the natural man, whom no
one living now has ever seen, but man
as we know him in these civilized and
for the most part cold countries-man
who must have cooked food, clothes,
q house of some sort to live III, and only
one wife-is out and out the most sterile
of all creatures, whether animal or veget-
able. He can, if he be let alone, make
food infinitely faster than he can propa-
gate his kind. When he fails to leave
his children better off than he was when
he began life himself, it is either because
his hands have been tied, or because he
has been robbed of his earning.
Take the ordinary typical case of the
English artisan or Irish peasant who has
"seyen children" As matter of fact,
[ believe he has something under five,
but | prefer to be generous and allow
him seven. Well, he leaves them pau
pers, and the closet philosopher, in the
evening newspaper, says that they never
ought to have been born. But the real
fact is, that they were well entitled to
be born, bat have no business to be |
paupers, for their artisan or peasant |
father has in the course of his life made |
food enough to feed not merely seven |
children, but seventy times seven. I'm |
fortunately, the honest man has been |
robbed. The two piles upon which the |
whole rotten ediice of Englands pau
perism rests are landlordism and ignor-
ance. Landlordism depopulates the
country and floods the town, and, COM
blned with ignorance, brings down the
artisans wages to starvation rate. When
we have corrected ourselves of these two
evils, we shall find that we have plenty
of food for q very much larger popula
ton than England at present possesses.
Our only care then will be to see that
we do not suffer from oppression and
ignorance of foreign growth, and that
neither czar nor kaiser takes upon him
self the functions which our ''old nobil
ty' Chiefly grandsons of brewers or
IttOrneys) now exercise, and flood our
streets with paupers ready to work from
morning to night Cor to next morning
9ven on a push for a mouldy crust and
l piece of cats meat.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11

and am content, onIyI wish I could
know that somebody will enjoy my dear
telescope as much as / have done"
and did anybody ?"
MY dear, not n soul has looked
through it since that day! Tom was
out in California and his mine didn't
pan out as he expected, they say, so he
isn't so mighty rich, after all. And Mr..
Brown, the baker, bought the place.
His first idea was to pull the observa-
tory down, but he found he couldn't
without pulling down the house, SO he
just locked it up and no one ever goes
up there. Poor Marianne wonder
if she knows.
g 1t seems lot of money for just that
little while, she added refectively, as
she ''toed'' her stocking. ''Yet, can't
find itin my heart to be sorry about it
either. 1t did make Marianne Denny
so very happy just for that year."
1 glanced up at the knobby dome
where the disused telescope was rusting
its days away. The sunset glinted in
its closed PAGES and tinged them with
fiery pink. ! thought of the brave pa
tience of the denied and narrow life
which had ended in that one year of sat
and neither could l find in my
heart to be sorry for the expenditure of
Tom Burns money.-IHe Independent.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11
EELs As POISONOUS AS vIPERS.
Prof NIasso Makes a Remarkable
discovery About the Fish's Blood.
[From the st. James Gazette.l

NAtk14ShtSsl
In recent number of The Tu0ca
Anto10gid, published at Rome, Prof.
Masso gives the results of some expert
ments that he has lately ma le with the
blood of eals and of certain marine
fishes. If the conclusions drawn by
the Professor from these experiments
are sound, it would seem that, were an
eel provided with an apparatus to inject
its own blood into wound as the ser
pent iniects his venom when he bites,
an eel in the mud would be every bit as
Objectionable thing as a snake in the
grass. Prof. Masso, being anxious to
ascertain whether the blood of those
salt water fishes that died when put into
fresh water differed from the blood of
those that survived the transition from
suit water into fresh, compared the
serum of the blood of the dogfish and of
other salt water fishes that died when
placed in fresh water with the blood of
eels and certain other fishes that were
not hurt by the change from salt water
to fresh. OF the first named he found
the serum of the blood clear and limpid
and tasting of salt water; while of the
others the serum was of q yellowish
color, with white and blue reflections,
like petroleum, and of burning and
acrid taste.
Experimenting with the latter by in
jecting it under the skin of rabbits,
frogs, mice and pigeons, he discovered
that it was a deadly poison, its effect
being similar to viper poison, inasmuch
as death was caused by paralysis ot the
respiratory organs. Experimenting on
dogs with this fish poison and with
viper poison the Professor found that,
minute as was the quantity of the latter
poison required to cause the death OF
the animal in few minutes, it was one
third more powerful than the fish poi
son-that is to say, it required three
times the quantity of the fish poison to
produce the same effect that certain
quantity of the viper poison produced.
In regard to the cure of snake bites
Prof. Masso says that the stimulants
usually given are wholly useless, and
that the only hope of recovery lies i'll
tracheotomy and artificial pumping OF
nir into the lungs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11
Folks Who Have No Nerves.

The North China HeraM says the
quality of ''ner olossness" distinguishes
the Chinaman from the European. The
Chinaman can write all day, work all
day, stand in one position all day, weave,
beat gold, carve worn, do infinitely tedl-
Gus jobs for ever and ever, and discover
no more signs of weariness and irrita-
ton than if he were machine. This
qualify appears early in life. There are
no restless, naughty boys in China.
They are all appnllingly good, and will
plod away in school without recess and
recreation of any kind. The Chinaman
can do without exercise. Sport or play
seems to him SO much waste labor. He
can sleep anywhcre-amid rattling ma
chinery. deafening uproar, squalling
children and quarreling adults. He can
sleep on the ground, ON the floor, on n
bed, on Il chair, i'll any position. 1t
would be easy to raise in China an army
of million men-nay, of ten millions
tested by competitive examination as to
their capacity to go to sleep across three
wheelbarrows, head downward like a
spider, their mouths wide open and fly
inside.
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Young Lady of Electrical Disturbances.

There is living in Cleveland, O., a
lady afflicted with a peculiar malady
which has puzzled and balfied the entire
medical fraternity of this section of the
country. Herself the sister of we'll
known physician, she has been unable
to obtain any relief, and has turned in
despair from one form of treatment to
another without avail. Some years ago,
when q young girl, the house in which
she was stopping at the time was struck
by lightning All of the inmates were
stunned, and more or less seriously in
jured. This young lady suffered more
severely than the other victims. The
shock completely paralyzed both her
organs of speech and motion, and she
lay for deys in a most precarious condi-
tiOn. Recovery, although slow, was ap-
parently complete, however, and in
few weeks the effect of the stroke had
entirely passed away, says the Pittsburg
Dispatch.
One day size felt the dread symptoms
of paralysis stealing over her, and before
assistance could be summoned the un-
fortunate woman was again prostrated,
speechless, and unable to move q muscle
of her body. 1t was noticed at the time
IllaI neaNy Gnunuef storm was brewing,
and that the air was overcharged with
electricity. When the storm was over
the patient rapidly recovered, and the
next day was as we'll as ever save the
nervous shock attending the relapse.
The next thunder storm brought viii,
1t the same alarming state of affairs
and again was the young woman para.
Iyzed, recovering only when the atr1os-
Ihere was cleared of its ovoroIlarayo OF
system, rendered sensitiVe 20 oIStiiic;aT
changes by the frightfuI shock it had
received when she was struck by light
ming, was now susceptible to the slight
est presence of the subtle fluid, was now
and medical science was
called into requisition to effect cure.
All remedies proved ineffective, and
with every recurring thunder storm the
woman relapses into state
of partial or complete paralysis, accord
ing to the severity of the storm. Hen
health has, of course, suffered from the
constant strain put upon her both ply
sically and mentally, but there appears
to be no relief from the malady, if it
can be termed such.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11
A New Glass Cloth.

Mr.. Dubus Bonnet, of Lille, France,
has invented a process Of spinning and
weaving glass into cotton. The warp IS
composed of silk, forming the body and
groundwork, on which the pattern IN
glass appears, as affected by the welt;
The requisit, flexihility Of glass thread
for manufacturing purposes is to be as
cribcd to its extreme tineness, rs not
less than from 50 to co of the original
strands are required to form one thread
of the weft. The process is slow for no
more than a yard of cloth can lie pro
duced in twelve hours. The work, how
ever, is extremely beautiful and COM
paratiyely cheap. A French paper,
commenting on the discovery, says:
'sWhen we figure to ourselves an apart
ment decorated with cloth of glass and
respondent with light, we must be con
vinced that it will equal in brilliancy all
that the Imagination can conceive and
realize; in a word, the wonders OF the
enchanted palaces mentioned in the
Arabian tales. ''-ScientEc American.
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Very Ingenious SNeIcs.

The engravers of Neufchatel have dis
covered Il new field for their art Some
years ago they seized upon tho curious
idea of taking the FaPal centime coins
and converting the portrait of PIus IN.
into a peasants head with leather cap
and a pipe. They have now found that
the head of Napoleon III. on the Trench
two sou pieces might easily be converted
into a Boulanger, and SO they have set
to work manufnc' uring BoulanGcr med
als. The ground is gilt and the head
plated with silver. The neck is pierced
with n steel-blue sword blade and Il few
red drops are seen, recalling the duel
with Floquet. The medals bears the
inscription: "Boulanger l., Empereur. -
1t is said to have large sale in Franco.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11
The Curious ManiStee Fish.

One of the leading restaurants had a
novelty on its bill of fare last week, it
being the first time that Manis ee beef
was ever placed before the Chicago pub
lie. Though called beef, it is in fact
the flesh of fish extremely rare in
these parts. The Manistee is n fish of
the size of the sturgeon, found only in
the Manistee River, in Florida. 1t is
sightless, but acute of hearing, so that
it can discern the approach of an enemy
at distance of mile or more and seek
safety in the reeds or shoals along the
banks. 1t is speared by the negroes, by
whom it is highly priced rs food, and
occas; onally is to be found in the mar
kets of New Orleans and Mobile, but is
seldom found in this locality. The flesh
is coarse and much resembles beef,
though retaining the fshy flavor. Sci
entists have never been able to discover
the origin of the fish, but incline to the
belief that it rises from some subter-
ranean stream or lake and has increased
and multiplied i'll tho Manisteo River,
but, owing to its lack of sight, it has not
been able TO make its way into other
bodies Of water where it might be prop
agated. - Chicago Journal.
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Advertising Rates.
RATE pm YKAa
OF 4 BUTTERFLY?

Over the field where the brown quaiIs whistle
Oy' 7 the ferns where the rabbits lie.
Floats the tremulous down of a thistle.
Is 1t the soul of a butterfly?
See )! how they scatter and then assemble;
Filling the air when the blossoms fade,
Delicate atoms, that whirl and tremble
In the slanting sunlight that skirts the glade.
There goes the summers ineonstant lover,
Drifting and wandering, faint and far;
Only bewailed by the upland plover,
Watched by only the twilight star
Come next August, when thistles blossom,
See how each is alive, with wings
Butterflies seek their souls in its bosom,
Changed thenceforth to immortal things.
81 Nicholas.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11

bouquets of tinted grasses. The ceilings
under the galleries are ornamented with
devices that cannot be described in words
80 as to convey suggestion of their ap-
pearance. Landscapes, maps, flags,
notices, music staff with corn stalk
notes, emblems of husbandry, and quo
tations significant of the fertility of the
country are everywhere shown. A
seemingly infinite variety of designs is
presented to the admiring eye, and the
originality of the decorations is truly
amazing.
The palace is lighted by electricity, is
fitted with appliances for fighting fire
and has a perfect system of sewerage.
Drinking fountains are conveniently
located, and there are all the conven-
fences that are anywhere found.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.

''He is seriously injured, said ply
sician who was bending over the pros
trate form of a ball player, "and must
be taken home at once"
, "Nonsense :" replied kiDgly looking
parsonage who stood hard by. "He can
go on with the game"
care you a medical practitioner"
-humbly asked the doctor.
"Naw, sir. I'm the umpire"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11

Old Gentleman (watching a little boy
fishing)-Do you go to Sunday school,
little boy?
Little Boy-Yes, sir.
Old Gentieman-Then, of course, you
don't swear?
Little Boy-No, sir, not when I'm
fshin'. wouldn't ketch ncthin'.
UNKIND.
Brown (proudly)-I think, Mary, that
baby gets his temper from me.
Mrs. Brown-No, John. L don't
think so. [ think you've got all you
ever had. -Ha1per's Bozar.
THE REGULAR COURSE.
In the spring the young mans fancy lightly
turns to thoughts of love;
Through the summer days he wooeth like tho
lightsome turt.e-dove;
And when summer-tide is over, in the genial
glow of autumn
Home the maiden writes to pepper, Dearest
"a, at last I've caught him.
-HarPer'S Bazar.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11
SORRY.

Old Mr. Bentley (who has just moved
because he couldn't live in the fiat any
longer)-The agent has an advertise
ment in to-day's paper bout that miser-
abe fiat we've jest left. He says the
rooms are large an airy, perfect steam
hent, appurtenances fust class, and the
locality desirable in every way.
Old Mrs. Bently (half regretfully)-
Well, now, Josiah, I'm a 'nasst sorry we
give it up.-Epoek.-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11
BUSINESS MAXINIS.

"There's q fine business motto" said
a peddler to the grocer: "'Honesty is
the best policy It'll pay you to hang
that up"
81 don't know" replied the grocer,
obviously; "but I'll try on an see how
it works. An you can give me five NO
Trusts; there's big money in them" -
Puck.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11

The husband stood at the door, hat in
hand, and spoke with tinge of impa-
tience in his tone.
81 am waiting, Maria," he said, ''for
my customary good-by kiss
81 kissed you only q moment ago,
John, . replied the wife.
"Why, so you did, my love-" said
John, putting on his hat, $50 you did.
eff [ smoked as nasty pipe as you
do" said Maria, ''you would have no
difficulty in remembering my kisses.
-ChicaQ0 Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11

A CALIFORNIA company las been or
ganized to manufacture soap ont OF
material that is skinned from boiling
spring III that State. The substance
hardens by exposure TO the air, IS llll"
soft clay, and is suppose | to be mly-
ture of borax, alkali and iulricatlng oil.
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and recede into temporary distance. 1t
is not that we love man less but our
selves, for the moment, more; some in
stinct of self-preservation prompts us to
be isolated and left alone for a while.
Such period came to me summer be-
fore last, when, after nearly wear of
enforced idleness, I shut myself in the
third story corner-roOm of Mrs. Merry
westher's quaint old boarding house, to
make up for lost time, by short spell
of continuous work. Day after day I
wrote, and read and took notes, sitting
beside a delightful west window, which,
from beneath the pensile boughs of an
immense willow, looked over green
meadows and copses to where a distant
chain of hill Outlines stood against the
sky. With that vague, unseeing gaze
which does not see, watched the cloud |
shadows blow across the distance and 4
dapple the face of the blue ranges, the |
crows rising and falling in the meadow .
with hoarse, largoning cries, the doves
on the neighboring bOughs but not the
village houses, which formed the FORE
ground of the picture, and the men and
women who walked the sleepy streets
among them. This was easy, for l am
unobservant, both by nature and train
ing, and, for the moment, by intention,
l shrank from the idea of interruption,
from the danger of becoming interested
IN man or w,ynan till my work WIS
done. [ elected not to see, so l did not
see. Happily it rained a good deal Just
then, SO there were fewer people and
less temptation.
But by the end of the third week,
when the weather had cleared and nv
wolk was well along, my dormant OBJ
servation quickened, and, among other
things, L began to wonder idly what
could be the purpose of strange struc-
ture on a neighboring roof Tt was {
sEl 1ricaI ia form, and seemed altogether
too big and ponderous for the very s.
mail house which IT sGrmOuBted. I il
esolved to inquire of Mrs. Merryweather al
bout it, but forgot my intention from h
lme to time, until one day, when re- k
urning from walk, found her placid
Y knitting stockings on her own door q
tep, with a book on her lap, and q
recollected to ask the ques n
ion,
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AN INCREASING DANGER,

Young New York Wife (nnxiously)-
Promise me one thing, John, before you
leave the house, or L shan't have a
moment's peace until get you back.
Young Husband-And what is that,
darling?
Young Wife-Promise me that you
will look out for wild Western steers.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11

Miss Prune1la Bombazine cher first
sleepingcar experience)-Are You sure
you locked the door, porter? l thought
heard somebody come in Puck.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11

ANDREW CARNEGIE's income is ST.
500, 900 year, $125, 600 month, $28,
900 a week, "a, 120 day, $343. 40 a
minute and S95 q second.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11

MARGARET Marie WkHuNGToS, who
died recently in Pennsylvania, was %
years of age. 1t is tp he said to her
credit that she never claimed to have
seen the Father of his Country.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11

A five-year-oli boy of Auburn, Me-,
was to spend the afternoon at the house
of young woman who, he heard his
mother say, had been married four
years. He was advised to take some
Playthings for fear he would not be con-
tented, and his answer was: sWell, if
her husband can stand it to live with
her for four years, [ guess 1 can stand
it one afternoon.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11

Breathes there a girl with soul so dead
Who never to herself has ssid,
'Aha' NY n.fg looks daisv."
W hose Luuit hae not within her burned
As she her eyes oir Others turljed,
And S"" that theirs looked Srazy?
-Ncafpo,t Ne'rs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11

A big coal fleet reacAac, Louisville,
Ky, the other day, and tie newspaper
gave the names of the barges and the
number of bushels each carried. A
barge pumper saw the article and read
it carefully, as befitted one who knew
the subject well. When he reached the
point where the words "Grand total,
100000 bushels" occurred, he threw
the paper down in great disgust and
said: "Well, these newspapers are git
ting to be bigger liars every day. [
never heard OF the Grand Total before,
but I'll bet my pile agin a bucket O.
beer that she can't carry nor tow no
seven million bushels of coal, and my
talk goes. There amt no boat on the
river can half do it"
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MERCY,

A learned man of Genoa claims to
haze discovered that Columbus was
morose and solemn, while Vespucci was
Americus.