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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16
SuperstitiOns About the Rainbow.

The rainbow is one of the atmospher-
ic phenomena that have been most gen.
orally personifed. People of almost
every part of the world have made it a
living and terrible monster, whose most
venial offence is that of drinking up
the waters of springs and ponds. The
belief is found among the Burmese, Zu-
lus, Indians of Washington Territory,
ancient Mexicans and Fins, and exists
among the popular fancies of the Slavs
and Germans and some of the French
populations. The Zulus and Karens of
Burmah, imagine that the rainbow
spreads sickness and death. The Ka-
rens, when they see one say to their
children: "The rainbow has come down
to drink; do not play for fear that harm
may come to you'll" Very singularly, too,
the street boys in Volliynia run away,
crying: "Run, it will drink you up!' In
Dahomey the rainbow is regarded as q
heavenly serpent, Danh, which insures
happiness. The modern Greeks hold it
to be benefcient, but just and severe
hero. They say that one who jumps
over rainbow will change at once; but
this saying, which is also current in AL
SAGE, is only picturesque way of indi-
eating the impossibility of Transforming
a man into woman or a woman into
man. The Delhians offered cakes to the
rainbow, and tho Peruvians put its i'm
age on the walls of their temples. The
Caribs considered its appearance on the
sea favorable presage, but on the earth
its influence was pernicious, and they
hid from its view. 1t was personifed by
a viper. Monthly.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16
How the Islanders Make Fire.

SAYS Solomon Islands correspondent: ::
''The native method of producing fire
is by the friction of a small, dry, point
ed wooden stick on the smooth surface
ofanother piece of wood, which friction,
in some three or four minutes, produces
smoke, and, finally, fine powder, which
has been collecting in the small hole at
the end of the groove, (made by the
rubbing of the stick begins to smolder.
After being carefully nursed by the
breath of the operator the tiny fame is
transferred to a piece of touch-wood, and
the object is Obtained This primitive
method is, however, fast giving way and
dying out, owing to the competition of
lucifer matches which the traders now
supply. Torches are used by the ma
tives of Bougainville Straits during their
fishing excursions at night and during
festivals. They are made of a resin
which seems to be abundant, which has
powerful odor, and which is used by
simply wrapping it compact y, after it
has been powdered, in a palm leaf,
which, although outside the resin, an
swers the purpose of a wick. - Westmjns-
ter Regieto.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16
Test for Lard AdulteratiOns.

The United States Agricultural De-
partment has discovered simple test
by which any shop keeper can detect
adulteration in lard. The experiment
is as follows: AS much lard as can be
taken up on the point of pocket knife
is placed in tea cup. About quarter
of an ounce of sulphuric acid is placed
upon it, and the two substances mixed.
If the lard is pure it will coagulate, and
there will be little difficulty in uniting
it with the acid. If it is adulterated
with cottonseed oil or stearine, the mix
ture will take place Immediately and
easily. The substance is then poured
into a common test tube. The acid,
somewhat colored, will sink to tho
bottom, while the fatty matter will re-
main on top. If the lard thus tested
was pure, its color will be light sponge,
changing slowly to a dark cinnamon
tint. If it has been adulterated with
cottonseed oil the color at first will be
darker, changing Immediately to
deep brown. The differences in the
hues are so marked that mistake can
not be made in the analysis. New
York Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Tho usual velocity of waves in tho At
lantic is 22.3 miles an hour.
Twenty g miles in 10 minutes was
the speed lately attained on the
railway between Boston and Bar Har-
Dor.
A gun for projectiles of one hundred
pounds has been completed by
Armstrong. 1t fires seven shells a min
ute.
What may be of great value in ship
building and matchmaking is the dis
covery that steel mixed with twenty
four per cent. of manganese becomes
nou-magn etic.
A Frcnchman claims to have invenNd
q thermometer so sensitive that its in
dcx needle will defect two inches upon
the entrance of q person into room
where it has been placed.
Signals flashed from an arclamp upon
the clouds at the Cape of Good Hope
have been seen at a distance of fifty
miles. The method of signaling may
prove useful at sea, especially for ves-
sells in danger.
Electric engines of two hundred horse
power each, three together in each To-
comotive, working Independently, arc
about to be substituted for steam loco
motives on the Metropolitan Under
| ground Railroad in London
From an estimate by w. Kohlrausch
it appears that if the energy of light
ming were stored up and distri buted for
electric lighting, from seven to thirty
five flashes would be required to
keep one incandescent lamp aglow an
hour.
Railway companies in Australia, after
experimenting with various kinds of
"quick fencing for railways, especially
with view to keeping out snowdrifts,"
have settled upon hedges of the 'Rose
of Providence" 1t is said that feRce
six and one-half feet high and three and
one-fourth feet thick will check snow
drifts. The blossoms are salable, and
so the fence is profitable.
Cretonne of the cheap sort used for
decorating rooms, turns out to be as
arsenically poisonous as green wall pa
per. Out of forty-four samples recently
examined in London, none were free
from arsenic, three had only faint traces
of it, twenty-one had larger traces, eleven
were classed as very bad, and nine were
called distinctly dangerous" One
specimen yielded nineteen and half
grains of white arsenic to the square
yard. The green's and blues were tho
least harmful, while reds, browns and
blacks were heavily loaded with poison
Oil of vitriol is 10 oil, neither are oil
of turpentine and kerosene. Copperas
is an iron compound, and contains no
copper. Salts of lemon is the extreme
ly poisonous oxalic acid. Carbolic
acid IS not an acid but phenol. Cobalt
contains none of that metal, but arsenic.
Soda water has no trace of soda, nor
does sulphuric ether contain any sui
phur. Sugar of lead has no sugar,
cream of tartar has nothing of cream,
nor milk of lime any milk. Oxygen
means the acid maker, but hydrogen is
the essential element of all acids, and
many acids contain no oxygen. German
silver contains no silver and black lead
no lead. Mosaic gold is simply sui
phide of tin.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16

! advance single inch beyond this old Bible.
| Sod was just as capable of debating the
| truth to the prophets and apostles as He is
| capable of debating the truth to
these modern apostles and prophets.
| God has not learned anything in thousand
years lie knew just as much when He gave
the first dictation as He does now, giving the
| last dictaton, If He is giving any dictation
| at all. So l will stick to the
old paths. Naturally skeptic and
preferring new things to old, never
| so much as to-day felt the truth of the entire
Bible, especially as see into what spectacular
mbecility men rush whom they try to chop
Up the Scriptures with tie IN 5at-axe of their
own preferences, now calling upon
philosophy, now calling on the Church,
now calling on God, now calling on the
devil prefer the thick, warm robe of the
old religion-old as GoJ-the robe which has
kept so many warm amid the cold pilgrimage
of this life and amid the chlls of death.
The old robe rather than the thin, uncertain
gauze offered us by these wiseacreS who be-
lieve the Bible in spots.
On July 9th, 1914, at seventy-two years of
age, expire1 Isabella Graham. she was the
most useful woman of her day amid the poor
and sick, at the head of the orphan asylums
and MagIalen nsylums, AMI al angel Of
mercy in hospital and reformatory. DR.. Ma
son, one of the mghtiest men Of his day, said
at her funeral that she was mentally and
spiritually the most wonderfully endowed
person he had ever met She was an I'M
personation of the most orthodox orthodoxy.
Her last word was peaca As sublime
peroration to my sermon, will give an ex-
tract from her last will and testament, show
ing how one who believes in an entire Bible
may make a glorious exit:
An extract from a Will
'My children and my grandchildren icave to
my covenant God, the God who bath fed me all NV
life with the bread that pcrisheth aud he bread
that never per:shetf who has been o Father to my
fatherless children and husband to their widowed
mother thus far. And Low receiving my Redcemer's
testimony, set to my seal that God is true; and
believing the record of John that God hath given
to me eternal life and this life Is in His Son.
who, through the eternal Spirit, overcOmes without
spot unto God and being cousecCated priest for
ever hath with His own blood entered into the
holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for
me. | also believe that lie will perfect what
concerns me, support and carry me safely throEgh
death, and present me to His Father, compiee in
His own righteousness, without spot wrinkle
Into the hands of this reieeming Cod, Father, Son
and Holy Ghost | commit my redeemed spirit.-
ISABELLA GRAHAM.
Let me die the death of the righteous, and
let my last end be Ike hers. "GIory he to
the Father, an 20 the Sou and to the Holy
Ghost; as it was in the begin ling, is now
and ever shall be- world without end. Amen
and Amenm
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16
To Make Sweet Pickles.

| Families who do not make and use
these delicacies certainly deprive them
selves of very appetizing adjunct OF the
preserve closet. In CaSsePS Family Mag
azine a contributor discusses well and
wisely upon this theme, and gives some
excellent recipes. They are worthy OF 8
place here, and here they are:
The very best and incest all-round
''spiced fruits" (for we will so name
them) are made by the undertaking rule
of proportion as follows: z lbs. pared
and trimmed ripe fruit; lbs. pounded
white sugar; pint strongest malt vine
gar; whole cinnamon; cloves and ginger
to taste. Tied up in muslin. few
of the special, fine, delicate or extra juicy
fruits require the proportions to be var
led, and of these particular mention will
be made. Apples, peaches and pears
should be peeled; stone fruits of all
kinds, tomatoes, and fruits with thin
but toughish skins, should be "docked''
or pricked; fine berries will be treated
of elewhere.
The method is simple. Lay the pre-
pared fruit in preserving kettle, in al
ternate layers, with the sugar; heat
slowly-very slowly-till all comes just
to a boil, when at once add and stir in
the vinegar and spice. Allow five min
utes' actual boiling-not more-and then
remove the pan from the fire. With a
skinner pick out the fruit and allow it
to cool; put the syrup, with the spices
in it, back on the fire, and let it boil till
quite thick. By this time the fruit (be
ing only lukewarml should have been
put in slightly warmed glass bottles,
pots or jars, and the thick boiling syr-
up should be poured in over it. Let
all get stone cold, and then close the
spiced fruit in such way as to render
it air tight.
Let me give a word or two of kindly
warning. Sometimes it happens that
the spiced fruit (if not quite air-tight)
will show signs of fermentation. The
reasons for this are twofold: first, the
contents are not air-tight; and second,
the fruit has been removed from the
pan with too much of the half-cooked
syrup adhering to it. The remedy is to
draw the corks or coverings of the ves-
sells the fruits are in, and then, while
uncovered, stand them in large pan,
with enough cold water to reach within
an inch or so of the mouths. Put the
pan on the fire till the fruit is scalding
hot but not boiled. When cold, seal the
bottom, etc., SO that they will be air.
tight.
These spiced fruits improve very much
with age, and should rarely be eaten in
less than a month from the time they are
prepared.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16
DISCREET SILENCE.

"What if I were one of those bus-
bands, my dear, who get up cross in the
morning, and bang things around. and
kick like everything just because the
coffee is cold ?"
"John," responded his wife, 81 would
/ make it hot for you."
AS her words admitted of more than
one Interpretation, John said nothing
more about the coffee.
SHE WAS A QUEER GIRL.
''Marion, I rejected Mr.. Darringer
last evening""
"Why, Kate?"
| "He was entirely too profuse."
Impossible! A lover couldn't be-"
"And he was gushing as he was vol
luminous. He praised my eyes, hair and
complexion. He
ooh, Kate, thet was just lovely"
'But his gramI1ar, Marion, that was
the hidden reef thg-s wrecked him. He
said: Your eyes is, and all that. Good
ness! / expected g. it,ar him say your
nose are I love him and it makes nv
heart ache to think about it, but 1 could
never marry him. No-never. .'-Detoit
| Free Press.
EASY TO COMPUTE.
"What's my bill ?" inquired a Chicago
| delegate of the hotel clerk.
Number of room ?''
81 didn't have room. slept on the
billiard table
"Oh, sixty cents an hour, please. -
Time.
DIAMONDS VERSUS GOLDFISH.
Two old friends met. "Let me see,"
said one, sit must be two years since I
saw you last, John. You were going
into iewelry store to buy diamond
ring"
"Yes, / remember
"And where are you going now 2''
81 am going into a grocery store to
buy Goldfish. Time.
MORAL COURAGE.
eyes, gentlemen" +" concluded Dumley,
who had been talking for some time
without saying anything, and he
brought his fist down heavily on the
bar, 81 believe in moral courage; give
me moral courage every time
"All right, Mr.. Dumley," said the
bartender, briskly, edo you want little
bitters in it it?''-Ep0ch.
SHE HAD THE NERVE,
Young TITLES (faint hearted)-Just
think, angel mine, how poor I am. Why,
what could I make of you?
She (bravely)-Well, you could make
Mrs. TITLES of me, if you had any nerve.
Washington Critic.
NOT MUCH OF A DIsCovERER.
Policeman to gentleman clinging to
-post)-You had better move on,
friend.
Gentleman-Shay, ofshur, I've been
er-hic-thinkin that Christopher Clum-
bus washn't great man, aft'r all.
Pollceman-You had better move on.
Gentleman-ShGy, offshur, any-hic
fool can shee worls roun'.-IFd Bits.
AN UNNECESSARY INSULT.
Tramp-Please, Madam, will you give
me something to eat?
Madam can give you an old vest if
you want it.
TrampI7Madam, do you take me for
! MoU Ussa,e.
He Cat IN evening party)-May
have the next waltz, Miss Clara
She-Excuse me, Mr.. Wabash, but
owing to the recent death of a very dear
aunt, I do not think it right that I
should dance. But you may take me in
to supper if you ike.-Epoch.
TAKE HIM OUT.
Bishop (on his semi annual round)-
And do you remember me, Bobby?
Bobby-Oh, yes, sir, you are the gen.
tleman ma scolded pa about because
you smoked in the parlor and nearly
ruined the curtains.
WHAT THE LADIES SAID.
Mistress-Did you tell those ladies
was out, Bridget?
Bridget-Yis, mum.
Mistress they say anything?
Bridget-Yis; wan sed to the other.
81 didn't s'pose we wud foind her in;
she's on the strates most av the toime.'
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16
The Government Mules.

"Talking of mules" said Capt. John
S. Loud, 81 was riding with party of
ladies and children in q Government
ambulance from Fort Mckinney to
Douglas, when at turn of the road a
cowboy came galloping into sight, hold
ing q revolver in each hand, and firing
as he ran. My driver had a four in hand
team, and the first thing 1 knew the
leaders were looking me in the face and
we we're all twisted up in a heap. As
the fellow saw that it was United
States military party he drew up and
pocketed his revolvers. Then making a
half defiant, half-shamed bow toward the
wreck, he said: 'Ef id knowd them
was Government critters L wouldn't hev
fired. I'd hate awfully to skeer United
States MULE"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16

fit an I took Bills an he got in the
wagon an we went to Deadwood. The
next day was Sunday an we had the
funeral. Ev'ry freighter that could be
was there, an lots of other folks that
knowed Bill come down where we held
it. l had a preacher, too; Bill was
doubtful, but l told him it 'u'd be bet
ter. When he come Bill took him to
one side, an says he! L want to tell you
fore you begin: You know who am an
our story. Now / don't want you to
preach no sermon cause you might say
something ag'in her when you didn't
mean to an it would be bad for you,
an of course me, too, so jes' read little
out O. your bible-I reckon that's all
straight talk-an' if you must say some
thing jes' say she was squar' and never
went back on Bill Jenks.'
$50 that's about the way it was; the
preacher read some, an then he sung q
song I heard at church when [ was
boy, an some of us joined in a little, an
Big Smith whistled the tune kinder soft
like, an looked at the ground; and then
the preacher said that her that was gone
must have been a good woman or the
husband she left would not mourn her
so much and so deep, and then he put
on: She was always true to Bill Jenks,'
an that was all.
"We buried her down in the gulch, a
little off from the trail, in o little park
'mong some pines-Bill wouldn't have
nothing to do with the reg'lar grave
yards-he said folks might not want her
there, an they needn't have her. He
dug the grave himself so it would be
right, he said. He sent clear to Omaha
after q headstone, an it's beauty
nicer n any they got at the buryin'-
ground.
"The baby, hey? You bet he's all
preachers wife took him for
a while, an then Bill got her an her
husband to go with him an take the
Bills fam ly down there are good deal
he is, an they got lots O money, an
an are taking the best kind O care of
him an when he gifts big are going to
send him to school, an give him an ed1-
cation an big start in life. The old
folks wanted Bill to stay home too, but
be said the life would kill him, it's so
reg'lar, so he's goin' down to see the
little feller once year. wonder when
he grows up an gifts wearin' fine clothes
m one thing n another if he'll ever
know anything bout the start he had
way out here by the trail in the big
freight wagon all covered with dusts
Oh, mother thing, Bill named him Will
lam Queen Eugene Jenks-nothing
onery bout that name, is there? g.
FRED. FL. CARRUTH.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16
Where the Risk Is.

81 wonder that you dare to take so
great risk as going up in balloon" 1"
said young lady to an aeronaut.
''There is but little risk, Miss, in
going up" replied the man of high fly
ing; 'ft is the coming down that gives
us anxiety" Boston Bulletin.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16
Advertising Rates.
THE TERRORS OF CIVILLZA-
TION.


The Injuns never teched him,
Nor the bars;
An the ratilers never bit him,
An the train robbers couldn't git him
On the cars.
Twas a frigid day an drizzly
When the rocky mountain grizzly
Ever crep' within a rod of jim, the Scout;
An the catamount an bison
Never teched him more than pizen,
Which they allus more prefer to do without
But he moved into the city
Just for fun;
An he sold his big six-shooter,
An he thought it would not do ter
Keep his gun.
But muscular garroter,
Who was not legal voter,
Robbed him of his watch and wallet like g
child;
Then gaspipe, overloaded,
Bust, and Jim he got exploded,
An came down considerable permisouous and
riled.
An the bunco steerers feeced him
Left and right;
An the gamins ulster hoot him,
An slugger tried to shoot him
Tother night.
An hocdlum tried to skin him,
An an injine run sgin him,
An a herdic an hoss car an dray;
An agin, little later,
In rotten elevator,
He fell down thirteen stories in one day.
An his house it caught afire
Tother night;
An his gas meter exploded
(Jim didn't know twas loaded),
Awful sight
An his house was widely scattered,
Ger the country it was spattered
In a shower of chunks and spIinters, so they
said.
Jim was so completely shivered,
He hain't never been diskivered,
But the Coroner concluded he was dead.
Yankee Blade.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16
THE JOKER'S BUDGET.
A BATCH OF GOOD THINGS
FROM HUMOROUS PAPERS.

He Lost His Backbone-An Inquisi-
tive Offcer-A Terrible Threat
What the Ladies Said-A Learn
ed MiddIeman, &c, &C.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16

7 was late in Oc-
tober and the
mountain air was
chilly, but the fire
which we had
built, and which
reached up with
its long tongues
OF flame half way
to the dark pine
tops above, made
the camp comfort
able. We had
stopped for the
night inst off the
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16
BILL JENKS'S STORY.

A "REMINISCENCES OF THE DEADWooD
TRAIL.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16
A WANT SATISFIED.

WANT SATISFIED.
This word Is but fleeting show,
And no wise man regrets 1t;
For man wants little here below,
And generally he gets it.
-Sonle3-rille Journal
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16

Father-Who is that young man who
comes to see you SO much?
Daughter-Mr. Chestnut, young
coal dealer from Harlem, papa.
Father-Well, the next time he calls
want to see him.
Daughter-Oh, papa, you won't say
anything you ought not2
Father-(quietly, but firmly L shall
order ton of coal and tell him to charge
it.
THEIR DESTINATION.
''Pa," inquired little Philadelphia
boy as he was trudging home from
Sunday School, "where do the sparrows
go when they die2"
"In this city, my boy, replied the old
man, "they go on toast
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-10

steady. l5935 points up; firm cables, less
active. Sales, 5000 bags, including Octo-
Der Sl425@li.5o November, Sl37O@
1898; December SIS. 201l3 40: January,
sl320Cgl3.35; February, Sl3 20@l2. 10; March,
lS.25Gl3.40; April, sla 25G113. 10; May
Sl3.25@l3.i5; June, Sl3 25@Sl3.45; July,
H3.55@l3.0O; August, 1880. spot-Rio,
strong; more active, fair cargoes, 16c
Sugar-Raw, inactive, nOminal fair re-
filming. 8 7.l0 centrifugns 96-test, ga no
sales refined, quiet and steady.
NEw ORLEANS, La, Oct 9-Coffee-Quict
but steady; Rio, common to prime, 1890
lie. Rice-ln good demand; ordinary to
good, 3H@5c. Sugar - Unchanged; open
kettle grades nominal; cenlrifugals, new of
plantation granulated, 7sSc of white, 3i6
@71sc prime yellow clarified to choice yell
low clarified, 7%@7hc. Molasses-Firm;
open kettle, strictly prime, 5Sc; good prime,
soc; prime, soc; centrifugals, prime 10 good
prime, lSc fair 10 good fair 16@l7c; inferior
TO good common, l0@l5c. Syrup-New, 80
@47c.
CINCINNATI, o., Oct -Whislsy--Active;
sales, l,l25 brs finished goods on basis OF
Slli. Buttcr--Stcady. Sugar-Firm Eggs
Easy; lie. Chcese--In fair demand and
higher; choice mild Ohio fiat, 9H@l0c.
CHICAGO, H., Oct. 9.--on the Produce ex-
change today the butter market was firm
and unchanged egg steady, choice north
ern, lSlEGglOc.