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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05
One Beautiful China Woman.

Ng zee Nam is the Chinese name
borne by a heautiful- girl who arrived on
the steamer Belgic nearly a month ago.
When the steamer was released from
quarantine and pretty Ng zee was taken
to the Circuit Court to arrange for
proper bonds for her release on writ
of habeas corpus, she created no little
sensation among the officials, attorneys
and reporters present. Instead of hav
ing Chinese caste of countenance, Ng
zee possessed an oval face, nose
slightly Roman, large round, dark eyes,
pearly teeth, and a figure that many an
American beauty would give worlds to
possess. Such was Ng Yee's appear
ance, and her actions in court were
decidedly anti-Chinese. The ordinary
Chinese girls demeanor when among
those not of her own race is proper to
preciseness. She holds handkerchief
to her face, never smiles, and under no
circumstances expresses surprise in
fact prim maiden aunt would go into
ecstacies over such a ward. But Ng
Yee had no one to shake q warming
finger at her; she had all the latitude
possible and took advantage of it. She
peered out of the corner of her eyes at q
reporter in a most bewildering way,
then pouted because,he was too modest
to saunter over where she sat and say
nice things to her. She was well up in
all the articles known by the girls of
the present day, and by those thought
less airs she wrecked her own happi-
ness, for she will be sent back to China.
Consul Bee heard about the waif, and
as she lacked proper credentials he pro-
ceeded to investigate her case, as it
is quite probable she was shipped to
America for immoral purposes. The
Consul said yesterday: "Her case is a
remarkable one, so far as l have gone
Both of her parents were not Chinese
of that l am certain. She has Portu-
guese blood in her veins, and her very
appearance disproves the statement of
Lee Kong You that the girl is his wife's
sister. He says that she was born in
America, and that she returned to
China in 1878. Who purchased her
ticket to this country, and by whom she
was sent, l have not learned as yet, but
[ will bring her to the consulate on
Friday and hear her story. She will
probably be remanded. Francisco
Chronicle.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05
She Saw the Point.

'"That lady, said a Woodward avenue
merchant, pointing to n woman who had
traded about $12 in ten minutes and
was going out, FUSED to be one OF my
worst callers. She'd come IN almost
daily, bother four or five clerks for two
hours, and go out without buying cents
worth"
Chow did You cure herr" ,
"Well, l spoke to her in an oti,hand
way one day, Nnd she fired up and SAID
that as long MS kept clerks 1t was my
business to be bothered. Next day L Sc
lected ten Of the girl clerks, posted EN-
as to what to say, and they rung her
door bell at intervals of an hour all day
and inquired if she wanted a nurse girl!
She didn't, and told them so pleasantly
enough until the tenth ono came. Then
she said:
"'I'd like to know why on earth all
you girls come here bothering me when
l don't want to hire2'
Because, ma'am, so long as you
keep servants it is your business to be
botheredl' was the prompt reply.
81 think she reasoned out the analogy,
for she now sits down and buys what she
wants, and every clerk likes to walt ON
her. '-Detr0it Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05
Speetacles for Horses.

A correspondent of the Manchester
Sporting Chronicle tells the readers of that
paper some interesting circumstances in
connection with ''gOod grey steed in
his own possession" He came to the
conclusion that this equine friend of his
was short sighted. He Couldn't see o
carrot two yards off," he tells us. So he
took the quadruped to an oculist living
in the neighborhood, who made the ne
cessary inspection and certified that the
horse had No. eye, and required con-
cave glasses. The concave glasses thus
indicated were obtained and buckled on
to the head stall. '"The horse seemed q
little bit surprised" he says, "when I
first put them ON him, but his amaze
ment rapidly gave way to demonstra-
tions of the keenest pleasure. He now
half-door of his stable with his spectacles
on, gazing around him with an air Of
sedate enjoyment. F.. When take
him out for drive" continues the vera
cious narrator, che capers about as
frisky as kitten; his manner is alto
gether changed from his former timid-
ity, and he has got over bad habit of
shying which once troubled him." A
week or two ago, however, he turned
the animal out to pasture for few days,
of course, without his specs, and he at
once appeared to be uneasy and uncom-
Portable. All day he hung about the
gate leading into the meadow, whinny-
ing in plaintive minor key, until his
master, seeing what was the trouble,
sent up the stable for the head stall. AS
soon as the spectacles were placed npon
his nose, he was so glad that he rubbed
his masters shoulder with his nose, then
kicked up his heels and danced down to
the pasture in a paroxysm of delight.
Staffordshire was the scene of this his
tory.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05
Found in the Snow.

"They amt mine, and Tn going to
take 'em to police headquarters, said q
farmer on the market yesterday, as he
bundled up several articles Of cloth
ing,
"Find 'em on the road?" asked one of
the men he had been talking with.
ono, sir, found EN- right in front of
my stable door the other morning.
There's a pair of mittens, cap, an old
handkerchief, a plug of tobacco, and a
necktie."
'How did they get there?"
"Well, [ figger that tramp opened
the door and wallged in to find lodging
place. L keep eie door unlocked, but
never go in by it. turned the old mare
around last fall with her heels within two
feet Of the door,"
''And what?"
"Well, about the time that tramp
stepped in she let go with both feet.
One foot hit him Just little below the
belt and the other under the chin. 1t
was nine feet from the door to the spot
where he lit. There was evidence that
he paved around for a spell, got up and
fell into the wagon box, got up again
and fell out, and then he made Decline
across the meadow for the section line
road. He didn't come back for his buds,
and I'll just leave 'em where they'll be
safe when his memory returns and he
wants 'em. "-De5rob Free Press. :
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05

crop on these farms is grass for pasture
and hay, and Western corn is purchased
for feeding. The reason for this is, that
corn is thus produced more cheaply and
easily than It can be grown here, and can
be purchased, while hay is not easily
transported, and cannot be bought profit
ably. Coarse feed should always be
grown in preference to grain food, and
this can be procured outside of the farm,
while the other cannot.
Partial soiling is indispensable for
feeding the cows on milk farm, for
regular supply of milk must be had
every day, and this can only be kept up
after the grass fails by liberal feeding of
succulent green fodder. Ensilage is also
a most useful resource, as it provides
succuleht food in winter. Where salts
factory supply of brewers grains, glu-
cose meal and malt sprouts can be pro-
cured cheaply, these will take the place
of ensilage and can be preserved in the
same way. With these foods, hay must
be fed as a complementary fodder, and
the two kinds will be sufficient for all
purposes without ensilage.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05
Wild Ponies on the Southern Coast.

On the banks or sand bars that divide
the Atlantic Ocean from Pamlico Sound,
North Carolina, just inside the light
house that marks out to the mariner
dreaded Cape Lookout, there is to be
found hardy race of ponies known as
"bankers." These ponies have lived
there as long as the tradition of the old
est inhabitant inhabitant dates back.
Entirely surrounded by deep water at all
seasons, having no communication with
the mainland, and being barren of vege-
tation save a scanty growth of seed
grass and low shrubs, the banks have re-
manned uninhabited except by these
monies. which seem to thrive and multi
NV in spite of the hardships to which
they are exposed.
How they first came there, or of what
origin, is conjecture, and tradition merely
hints the story of some violent storm,
with its attendant shipwreck and loss of
oll on board save lot of ponies from
some European port, which were cast
,pon the sands, and, surviving the storm,
became the prOgenitors of the race now
so numerous Having to rely on instinct
alone. these animals are subject of
study to the naturalist, as they are prey
not only to the driving sands but to the
storms of the cape, that break upon and
over the narrow sand bar and change
with each recurring hurricane the top
oeraphy of the country. The ponies,
choosing the protected sides of the hill
locks, buTow deep into the yielding
sand and stamp out protected stall,
where they take refuge from the storm;
and, while many are destroyed, their
number has increased. -Amsertc0n Agrj-
c1tLtuYiSt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05
Equal to the Occasion.

A good illustration of the necessity OF
prompt decision on the part of a presid-
ing officer and of unyielding firmness in
adhering to decision once enunciated
is found in the case of a former Senator
of Massachusetts, recently deceased.
He was filling the chair in the absence
of the President, and in the course of
the proceedings a Senator arose and
asked unanimous consent for the intro,
duction of a measure which could be re-
ceived under the rules in no other way.
Down came the gavel with peremptory
ring. 1.-The Senator is out of order, said
the President pro TEN. The Senator
opened his eyes in establishment. "Mr.
President" he exclaimed, edo 1 under
stand the Chair to rule that a motion
cannot be entertained when no Senator
Objects" The gavel wielder saw his
error and he also saw the smile that
passed from one to another of the mem
bers, but he was equal to the occasion.
Down came the gavel again. "The
Senator is out of order. His motion
cannot be entertained. The Chair OBJ
jects. boston Transcript
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05
On Benjamin Franklin's Birthday.

At the last annual dinner of the Typo
theta, the society of master printers,
held in New York on Benjamin Frank.
Inns birthday, Col. Thos. w. Knox. the
well known traveller, was called on to
respond to the toast of 1.-The Author. {"
He made plea for justice to the Ameri.
can author by passing an International
Copyright Bill, which would free the
American writer from an unfair competi.
ton with stolen goods-English books
for which the English writer has not
been paid. Col. Knox concluded his
brief speech with an apt anecdote of a
friend, who had spent the summer in a
country village. One day he met an old
colored man peddl ng strawberries. The
berries were very fue and my friend
boughtand paid for four quarts, which
the colored man was to deliver at the
house. They were not delivered, and
meeting the peddler few days later my
friend reminded him of the delinquency,
which was frankly acknowledged. When
my friend, with an elevated voice, asked:
What are you gong to do about it !"
the pcddler calmly replied: Dunno,
dun no; got MORN fifty Jest SIGH cases. I"
Now, I've got ''morn'n fifty just such
cases." but time does not permit me to
give them. Let me urge every man pres
ent to use his influence to secure justice
to the Americans who write, the printers
who print, the publishers who sell and
the readers who read, or should read?
American books. And it will be not
only a measure of justice, but measure
of patriotism, as it will tend to develop
American literature and extend the ideas
Of the New World in place of those of
the Old. As measure of honesty in
paying for the works of foreign authors
when we use them beg you will consider
the words of James Russell Lowell, when
he says: "If you take the book have
bought, it is theft; if you take the book
I have made-what is it," And further
commend his other words:
I'm vain we call old notions fudge,
And bend our conscience to our dealing
The Ten Commandments will not bulge,
And stealing will continue stealing"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05
THE LIME-KILN CLUB.
Bro. Gardner Presents Some New
Aphorisms.


''In walkin' softly long de path Of life
dar' am sartin fngs it would be well to
remember" said Brother Gardner as the
meeting opened.
''Doan' Judge of mans beauty by his
whiskers. He may grow 'em to conceal
pimples an scars.
''Doan' judge of woman's good natur'
by her talk on a street kyar or the way
she smiles in church
"One reason why our chile git licked
SO often is because their parents happen
to be de biggest.
SIT is only fool who goes around
lookin for model man. A man with
out faults would be too soft to stand this
climate.
"While consistency should be re-
spected in q gineral way, doan' hesitate
to squirm out O any sort of loOp-hole
when arguing with lawyer.
"About de time dat man begins to
assert dat dis world owes him hbin' ar
about de date when he should get his fust
sentence to State Prison.
"When you h'ar pusson argyfying
dat dar' am no SIGH thing as fucher'
punishment you has lighted upon an ole
S1uueI WIZ dI bEylnS W llo W ulSS6lI.
"You compliment some men altogether
too highly to call 'em hog. I hev no
tioed dat no hog gets drunk except by
accident.
"While admit dat George Washing
ton was great an good man, would
not, if / was runnin' co'ner grocery,
trust any odder American on that &C
count.
'De man who am allus ready to fight
for his convictions will fight on de wrong
side at least half de time.
eff it wasn't fur nayborhood gossip
some chil'en would go widout shoes, an
some mothers would put six mo- dollars
into DER bonnets.
can egotistical pusson is simply re-
heekshun in Natures lookin glass.
Dignity ar de fence which sartin
people build up to keep de world from
gettin olus huff to find out how bad dey
really am.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05
Says She viii Wed the Sioux.

Cheyenne Agency comes to the front
with a social sensation. Six months ago
the Indian Department at Washington
sent to the land of the Dakotas young
lady. She was well educated, and her
mission was to teach the young Indians.
She soon made warm and personal
friends at Forts Sully and Bennett. In
Sunday school she was leader, and ru-
NOR has it that prominent Captain laid
siege to the young lady's heart, and at
one time it looked as if the marriage
would occur. After remaining at head
quarters few months she was assigned
by Superintendent Wroten to Swift,
Birds camp, fifteen miles above Fort
Bennett. Her departure was regretted,
and a farewell party, attended by the
leading people, was accorded her, and
she left with the best wishes of all.
The correspondent drove to Swift
Birds camp and met the young lady.
She was occupied in teaching some forty
young Indians their A, B, C's, but after
school hours entered into a general con-
versatiOn.
$50 you have come from Fort Ben
nett!" she laughingly asked. "And 1
suppose they have told you all about my
coming marriage
Coming marriageF
"Why, yes. March 16, 1888, I will
be united in marriage to Chaska which
means First Child Bornl or Tom Cum
mings. The day has been fixed, and
to-day Chaska went to see Agent Nc
Chesney and ask him if he would allow
the marriage to take place on the reser-
walton, accompanied by all the Indian
ceremonies. hope he will succeed"
"But is not this foolish fancy, Miss
Fellows2"
''Not bit of it. 1 love Chaska, and
Chaska loves me, and shall marry him.
He means to be a good, true, honest
husband. / have always avowed that
no matter whom loved, would marry
him, and love Chaska and shall marry
him Just as sure as / live
'But, Miss Cora, he cannot support
you"
81 care not for that. 1 shall strive to
educate him, and feel that 1 cam"
The correspondent finally left, and as
he drove away Miss Fellows called out;
"Now you will certainly be at the
wedding"
Miss Fellows is the daughter of Homer
Fellows, who fills an important position
in the Pension Department at Washing,
ton. A daughter also is employed in
the Treasury as clerk. The family ranks
well in Washington society, and the
coming marriage will no doubt be a sur,
prise. Chaska is a full-blooded Sioux,
and has no education.
Agent McChesney will not interfere.
The young lady seems determined to
marry, and makes no secret of the com.
ing nuptials. Chaska is now at Fort
Bennett. Chicago Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05

the moon" the scar will spread, and the
lighter the moon the larger will be the
spread.
Mrs. MARY JOHNSON, who keeps a
store on Independence avenue, in Kan
sas City, discovered a tarantula in a
bunch of bananas she was handling.
The hairy monster jumped at the
woman's hand, but she Withdrew it in
time to escape fatal bite. Her cat was
not so fortunate. 1t attacked the big
spider, was bitten and soon died.
A GENUINE Maine Yankee has been
doing thriving business at Eastport
this winter selling to steamboat passen-
gers a sure preventive to sea sickness for
five cents a package. The remedy is
simply nice, bright, clean strips of dried
Goldfish, and is well worth the money for
the purpose for which it is sold.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05
Smallest Plant In the World.

Writing of minute plants, the editor of
Gardeners Monthly has the following in
regard to Wolfiia Microscopica, native
of India, which is stated to be the small
est plant in the world: 1t belongs to the
natural order Lemnacee, or the Duck
weed family. 1t is almost microscopic in
size. destitute of proper stems, leaves
and roots, but having these organs
merged in one, forming a frond. There
is, however, prolongation of the lower
surface into q kind of rhizoid, the pur-
pose of which seems to be to enable the
plant to float upright in the water. The
fronds multiply asexually by sending out
other fronds from q basilar slit, or con-
cavity, and with such rapidity does this
take place that few days often suffices
to produce from few individuals enough
similar ones to cover many square rods of
pond surface with the minute green gran
ules. But small as these plants are, and
simple In their structure, they yet pro-
duce flowers. Two flowers are produced
on a plant, each of them very simple,
one consisting of single stamen. and the
other of single pistil, both of which
burst through the upper surface of the
frond. There are two species of this
genus growing in the Eastern United
States, one of them, Wolffia Columbiana,
about one-twenty fifth of an inch in di-
ameter, and the other, w. Brasiliensis,
somewhat smaller in size. Tho Ameri-
can species has been collected near Phil
adelphia.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05

There were five fair sisters, and each had an
aim
Flora would fain be q fashionable dame;
Scholarly Susan's selection was books;
Coquettish Cora cared more for good looks;
Anna, ambitious, aspired after wealth;
Sensible Sarah sought first for good health.
So she took DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery and grew healthy and blooming. Cora s
beauty quickly faded; Susan's eyesight failed
from over-study; Flora became nevous and
fretful in striving after fashion and a sickly
family kept Annals husband poor. But sensi-
bic Sarah grew daily more healthy, charming
and intelligent, and she married rich.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05
BnrthoIdi,s Great Work.

The statue of Liberty enlightening the world,
which stands on Bedloe's Island, in the harbor
of New York, is one of the most sublime artis-
tic conceptions of modern times. The torch of
the goddess lights the nations of the earth to
peace prosperity and progress, through Liber-
ty. But liberty is an empty word to the
thousands of poor women enslaved by physical
ailments hundredfold more tyrannical than
any Nero. To such sufferers DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription holds forth the promise OF
speedy cure. 1t is a specific in, all those de.
engagements, irregularities and weaknesses
which make life burden to so many women
The only medicine sold by druggis s. under G
positive guarantee from the manufacturers
that it will give satisfaction in every case. OF
money will be refunded. See guarantee printed
on wrapper enclosing bottle.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05
The FunereaI Month Of March

An observant metropolitan barber SAYS that
he can tell ones physical condition by the
state of his hair!
The Bible tells us that with his hair gone
Samson lost his strength. The Romans con-
sidered badness a serious affiiction and Julius
Caesar was never quite satisfied with himself
because his poll was bare.
The face, however, is the open book, and
one can lily trace in its various express
sions lines, changes and complexion the state
of the system.
The eye that is unusually bright and vet
has pallid brightness, the face upon whose
cheeks nature paints rose of singular beauty
and flush, more marked in contrast with the
alabaSter appearance of the forehead and
nose and lower part of the face, is one of
those whom the skilled physician will tell You
will some day dread the funereal month of
March, because it is then that consumption
reapS its richest harvest. Consumption they
tell us is caused by this, that and the other
thing. by microbes in the air, by micro-organ-
isms in the blood, by deficient nutrition, BY a
thousand and one things, but whatever the
cause, decay begins with a cough and the
remedy that will effectualy stop the cause of
that cough cures the disease of the lungs
That is all there is of it.
The cough is an evidence of wasting. To
stop it effectually, a remedy must be used
that will search out the cause, remove that
and then heal the lung and do away with the
cough. This is the power, special to itself,
and Consumption remedy. This is no new
tangled notion of narcotics and poisons, but
an old-fashioned preparation of baIsams,
roots and herbs, such as was used by our
ancestors many years ago, the formula of
which has been secured exclusively by the
present manufacturers at great trouble and
expense. 1t is not mere cold dryer. 1t is a
system searcher and upbuilder and a con-
sumption expellant Where others fail, it
wins, because it gets at the constitutional
cause and removes it from the system.
J. w Hensaw, of Greensboro, Pa. on Jan.
Is, 1888, reported that he had derived more
real benefit for the length Of time, from
Warmers Log Cabin Cough and Consump-
ton remedy than he had for years from the
best state physicians"
If you have cough, night sweats, "posi-
tive assurance in your own mind that you,
oh-you, have no consumption and yet lose
flesh, appetite, courage, as your lungs waste
away, you may know that soon the funereal
month of March will claim you, unless
promptly and faithfully you use the article
named If other remedies have failed try
this one thoroughly. II others are offered
insist the more on trying this unequaled
preparation.
Some persons are prone to consumption,
and they should never allow the disease to be-
come seated
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05

A RANcHNIAN at Dayton, New, found
one of his COWS choking on potato. He
thrust his arm into her mouth and pushed
the potato down her throat, but when
he tried to Withdraw his ann she set her
teeth in it and kept them there until her
jaws were pried apart with crowbar
The arIl was so badly crushed that it
was found necessary to amputate it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05

Nearly everybody needs a reliable spring medicine
to expel the impurities which have accumulated in
the blood during the winter to keep up strength as
the warm weather comes ON, create an appetite and
promote healthy digestion. Hoods sarsaparna in
the most popular and successful Spring Medi ine.
TRY It this spring and you will be convinced of its
peculiar merit
For five years 1 was sick svery spring, DIs last
year took Hoods Sarsaparilla and have not seen o
sick day siuce" G. w. SLOAN, Milton, Mass.