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

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~ WITT adv advertising ati,sdago ba M; s1
L. too heavy for him
The fellow dropped the handle of the
banner on the pavement and looked ur
with broad grin.
ga dollar day." he said.
cts not much"
"That's so, but''-and he clutched the
handle little tighter-'sit's hundred
cents better than dom nothin'."
Mr.. WILLIAM KNOX, of Santa Monica,
Cal, who has become rich through the
boom out there, wants wife, and SEN
sibly goes to the newspapers to help
him. In letter to the San Francisco
Examiner he says that at night he
wouldn't feel so lonesome if he had
some good woman to ''l1ind of cherk him
up little. ''The boom has made me
is concerned it amt the same with dirt.
There amt no boom in wimmen. In
fact, it beats me how scarce they are in
this glorius land. Any poor girl who
may wish for home in Southern Cali
fornia can have one by addressing to
William Knox, who is in want of a wife
between the age of % and 35 years. The
first who calls will have the home for
life. She will have good, hard work
ing man. She will have good, honest,
sober man, and man who is never seen
go inside saloon. What more do wo-
man want?"
ANOTHER curious feature in Chinese
life Is reported in the native press. A
difficulty having been found by good
looking humpbacked girl in procuring
a husband, the go between discovered
that an identical difficulty prevented a
certain humpbacked young man from
getting a wife. She accordingly Az
ranged matchl but as each party was
of eligible quality in other respects,
each of the respective parents insisted
upon obtaining a surreptitious view of
the amorous one on either side. The
go-between accordingly arranged that
the girl should be interviewed as she sat
at her spinning wheel with her hump
deity inserted in a hole in the mud
wall, while the man was introduced as
he was conducting home water buffalo
and leaning over its neck with his rain
coat negligently thrown over his back.
The marriage took place, and it then
had been Endorsed by law.
JOHN J. FLANAGAN, the late city editor
of the Utica Observer, was city editor of
the Utica Herald at the time of hanging
of Earl in Hamilton county several
years ago. The Observer says: 1.-The exc
cution occurred in an inaccessible part
of the mountains, and Flanagan was the
only newspaper man present. In order
to get back to the city with his report
he was obliged to charter special train.
Even then it seemed impossible for him
to reach Utica in time for him to get his
story into the newspaper. Here the
condemned man Earl, who had learned
of the reporters predicamcnt, came to
his rescue, and agreed to be hanged two
hours earlier to allow Flanagan to start
for home! Flanagan had an elaborate
account of the hanging for the next days
paper.
A PROJECT is on foot in Milwaukee to
build an old settlers and pioneer club
house. One of these old boys is said to
have expressed a general sentiment when
he said: "Tm in favor of a hum or a
meetin' place for us old fellers. / don't
want none of yer new tangled club
houses, but sort of place WHARF we kin
GET together ag'in and swap yarns and
white. That's what want morn any
thin'-a place to whittle in. I've been
alookin' round, but its fact, just the
same, that there amt a place in all Mil
waukee WHARF q man can set down and
white. Gentlemen, when you are
talking over all this business put me
down for club house, or whatever you
call it, an, remember what I've told
you, there amt no placeto whittle."
A CURIOUS freak of memory is that of
forgetting words of poem or speech
which has been said over great number
of times. The leading lady of play
which has been performed 700 times
cannot remember her lines, even by the
most violent effort, and only complete
rest of day or two would recall them.
Another actress of a play which had a
great run had to be constantly prompted
toward the end, rehearsed every day,
and yet was constantly pursued by ter
rible consciousness that what she was
saying to the audience was simply
unmeaning gibberish.
THE politest and most accommodating
people in the world live right here in
Mobile, says a letter writer. 81 saw
some. hing to-day | never expect to see
again." said gentleman yesterday. 81
saw street car stop in order to allow a
lame negro, vino was a passenger, order
and receive a flask of whisky at a corner
grocery. The storekeeper came out to
the car for the purpose, and the goods
were afterwards wrapped up and deliv-
cred with all the deliberation due to so
important a commercial transaction.
Then the car with its 10 passengers
moved on"
WHAT looked like the largest, straight
est, soundest, and longest walnut log
ever foated down the Cumberland
reached Nashville the other day. 1t be-
longed to a green-looking cOuntryman
who gave good reasons why he must sail
it Immediately. 1t was such a fine log
that despite the owners anxiety to sell,
it fetched almost its apparent value. In
due course of time it was taken out of
the water, and proved to be sycamore
log with walnut bark tackled all over it
in the most artistic manner. The green
countrymRn has not been seen since.
THERE is a naughty little girl in Balti-
more who takes pleasure In giving police
men trouble. She begins crying on the
street, says she is lost, and gets police
men searching for her home. She gives
careful descriptions of her home, and
the officer takes her there, and then she
says that isn't the place. She kept
three policemen busy all day recently,
and then confessed that she knew where
her home was all the time, and could
have gone there alone.
Mrs. JAMES HUGHES lived on q ranch
seven miles from the town of Paradise,
The other night, while her husband was
away, her cabin caught fire. She got
her seven children out safely, and bum
ding them up in such clothing as she
could save, left them to keep warm by
the burning ruins of their home, while
she walked the seven miles to town
through deep snow, with the mercury
200 below zero. After she had got help
for her children she discovered that she
had frozen her feet badly.
HERE'S short but effective paragraph
cut from the Times of Deadwood: "There
Is q heightened cuss on Sherman street
of sOcialistic tendencies who practises
his political teachings. He has no wood,
but poor woman in the neighborhod |
has. She-worked and earned it, and he |
divides with her; he always waits until
he thinks she has gone to bed before he !
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