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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

One hundred years ago the world was
rated at 731 900 900, of whom la, ,0O0,-
600 were Christians; now the popula-
ton has doubled and the Christians
tripled. One hundred years ago the
church was asleep on mission work and
the governments and nations opposed
missions; now, with little exception,
all welcome them. One hundred years
ago English speaking people had not one
mission society; now they have $50 re-
ported. One hundred years ago educat-
ed men could not be induced to become
IN. 10 onaries-the work was too forbid
ding; now we have 1000 missionaries,
nearly one-third of whom are women !;
also 5000 native agents, 5000 of whom
are ordained ministers. One hundred
years ago there were not 800 bible con-
verts among the heathen; now there are
100000. One hundred years ago 1t
was thought vain to hope for conyer
SONS from Mohammedanism; now, in
many parts, as in Lahore, India, most
of the leading Christian pastors are CON
verted Mohammedans. Within the past
two years more than 1000 young men
have gone from the United States and
Canada and are laboring with success
Chicago Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
The Cars FayOrite Dog.

"Malyutcha is dead!" was one of the
first exclamations of the Gar when the
recent railway accident occurred. Maly-
utcha was the Cars favOrite dog and
was well known in court circles at st.
Petersburg. She was crouching at her
masters feet when the crash came and
was killed instantaneously. She was a
huge Siberian hound, with long, silky,
white hair, and was as faithful and gen
tie with those she knew as she was fero-
cious towards strangers. The Gar re-
garded her as one of his principal safe
guards and never allowed her to leave
his side. She was always in the room
when an audience was given, and there
is stoIy told that the Gar had taught
her, on given signal, to get up and
pull the coat-tails of any one who ont
stayed his welcome. "Ah! Malyutcha
has been pulling you," was a slang
phrase at the st. Petersburg court, which
meant that you were out of favor-Lon-
dan ,SfHr
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
American Girls in England.

Anent Mr.. Chamberlain marriage
the Pal MaU Gdzstte has this to say
'"Ihe advent of an American girl into
English society at first was a curiosity.
1t soon became portent. 1t is now as
suming the dimensions of menace.
Before long it will be recognized as
calamity. OF all forms of competition
there is none SO deadly as this. We can
stand our farmers being ruined by Amer
lean corn. We can listen unmoved to
the walls of grazers made bankrupt by
the influx of American beef. But the
American girl is too much. Already we
hear the murmur and the drawing room
growl of the despairing Belgravian moth
er; who sees, season after season, Amer
lean girls swoop down upon the most
eligible partners and cut our native girls
out before the very eyes of their distract
ed parents
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
A Pass Written on Silver.

The other day gentleman bought a
couple of cigars in Dearborn street
cigar-store and threw out q silver coin
in payment. 1t looked like quarter,
but in moment he pulled it back hur
riedly and substituted real quarter.
Then he handed the coin to friend and
said: can uncle of mine gave me that
thirty years ago and told me to keep it.
I met him the other day, for the first
time since, and he asked me if [ still
had it. | was glad L did," 1t was
about the size of an ordinary quar-
ter, and on one side is the inscrip-
tion, "Admit to Woods Minstrels, Tenn
pie of Minstrelsy, 561 and 563 Broad
way, New York" This surrounds a cut
of the theatre. On the other side is,
Warranted pure silver. Woods Min
strels perform every evening, giving a
select and varied entertainment. Intrin-
sic value, 25 cents, 1851" The coins
ring proclaimed it silver. and it is val
liable relic.-Ch Chicago Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
Injury of Bandaging the Eyes.

The custom prevalent among physi-
clans as we'll as the laity, of tightly
bandaging or tying up the eye as soon as
it becomes intiamed or sore is branded a
bad one Ivy the writer in Heath. He
says: at precludes the free access and
beneficial effects of the cool air, and at
the same time prevents or greatly re-
tards the free cgress of the hot tears and
moribund sccretions of the intlamed
conjunctiva or cornea, or both. In those
cases, too, where q foreign substance has
60. into the eye, the bandage (Which is
usually olapped on the first thing) pres
ses the lids more closely against the ball,
and thus increases the pain and discom-
fort by augmentjng the lac rations
caused by the foreign body. This can
not fail to be harmful. In those cases
where the light is painful, it is my habit
to adjust over the organ Il neatly fitted
shade, which, while it excludes the light,
allows the free access of air.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
TicineSe Workers of California.

From the canton of Ticino or Tessin,
in Switzerland, have come to the Califor-
MIA coast some of the most industrious
of Europeans that have settled in our
State. They are a quiet class, attract
ing little attention, and it is probable
that no one Californian in a thou and,
seeing them at work in their different
branches of toll, knows their origin. As
they fraternize with the Italian immi-
grants, speak their language and dress in
similar fashion, they are naturally
supposed to have come to us from sunny
Italy. Inquiry respecting this element
of our population develops the fact that
the little canton of Ticino is represented
on this coast by fully tenth of it's
entire home population, or II, 900 peo-
pie This estimate is made by gentle
man who has an intimate acquaintance
with the subject, and he says that the
figure given is an inside one. Their
chief occupations here are those of dali
rymen, vineyardists, woodchoppers, and
charcoal burners. Many are employed
in the local maccaroni and paste fac.
tories, as well as in the coffee and spice
mills and the bakeries, while not few
are found in the machine shops and iron
workers. Their employers say that the
Ticinese, or Swiss Italians, as they
are sometimes called, are quiet and
steady workers, and the result Of their
thrift and industry is often seen in the
establishment of fruit and grocery stores
or country hostelries with the savings of
few years at the comparatively liberal
wages which they receive in this count
ry. To own store or boarding house
is the chief aim in life of many of these
modestly ambitious Swiss workers, and
some of them accomplish this object in
surprisingly short time after s. tting
foot upon our shores. While there are
many Ticinese in San Francisco, the
greater number are found in the coun-
ties of Marin, Sonoma, Solano, San Luis
Obispo, Santa Barbara, Monterey,
Santa Clara and San Mateo. They seem
to have a decided bovine inclination, as
most of them take to COW culture as soon
as they arrive here. The fruits of their
industry come to us mainly in the
shapes of butter, milk and cheese, in the |
of which they are acknow-
edged experts.-lSan Francisco Chronicle. !
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
GLIMPSES OF MECCA.
The City to Which Mahomet's Fol
lowers Make PiIgrimages

The town lies in a basin among steep
hills of from five hundred to seven hun
dred feet in height, and probably not
more than one thousand two hundred to
one thousand five hundred above the
seq. The whole of this valley-about
one mile and half long by third of
mile across-is packed and crammed
with bui dings of all shapes and siz 8,
placed IN no kind of order, climbing far
up the steep sides of the surrounding
hills, with here and there an outlying
house on the summit of some rock,
looking as though crowded out and
waiting for chance to squeeze into the
confusion below; curious gray mass,
fiat topped, to European eye roofiess,
half plastered, for plaster in this climate
is always either being put ON or we'll al
vanced in coming off, but never to be
seen in its entirety. The walls of the
houses are composed of uncut stone
and rubble from three to six feet thick,
i'll very high buildings even thicker.
Cut stone is used only for the sils of
windows or jams and arches of door
ways, and very little brick is
employed anywhere. Notwithstand-
ing the substantial thickness of
the walls, tottering ruins may be
found by the side of the most thronged
thoroughfares in every part of the city.
Many of the houses are of great height,
large and factory-like, full of little win
dows. Seldom do two adjacent houses
face the same way or are the same
height. Nothing resembling row or
street could by any stretch of imagina-
ton be extricated from such chaos of
masonry. 1t is impossible, even from
an elevated point of view, to trace a
hundred yards of open space between
houses in any direction (many of the
passages are boarded over, which to a
certain extent conceals them), except on
the outskirts of the town, where two or
three suburbs straogle off upon the less
inclined outlets from the valley, and
where the ground is not so thickly built
over, though with the same systematic
irregularity. The rule seems to be that
no two things must be alike, an Eastern
characteristic developed into a fixed law
OF uniformity i'll everything about
Mecca, q town which, built as it is of
the crumbling rock about, made to ad-
here with thirty per cent of coarse lime
together with the dusky crowds creep
ing in swarms about its dark lanes and
streets, If such mere tortuous intricacies.
can be called so, suggests the Slnllle OF
the giant and hill most strikingly, and
indeed it applies better than any other
d; scription. There is great samepess
about all this details d dissimilarity,
from the midst of which the mosque
stands out most prominently, at cnce
fixing the attention, and indeed 1T is the
main feature Of Mecca.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
HER CHOICE.


| her little brother"
HER CHOICE.
"Clara," he said, desperately, in
choking accents, " one word
Certainly, Mr.. Jones'" she replied
coldIy, Zone word, and only one ; and I
choose NO"
ANOTHER VIEW.
"Oh, talk is cheap" remarked Fangle
in the course of an argument.
Is it? replied Cumso. "It's clear
you never figured up the cost OF q
session of Congress-
THIS is INCREDIBLE.
Jones = Strong minded girl, that
daughter of Browns.
Smith-Is she? never thought so.
Jones - You can bet she is. She
refused to elope with the coachman
yesterday.
Smith-Heavens, what will power =
The Idea.
THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY.
Boy-The hen laid an egg.
Aunt-What did you do with it 2
Boy-Boiled it hard, cut it up into
small pieces and gave it to her for break
fast.-Iime.
NEW PROBABILITIES.
When you see a man going home at
o'clock in the morning, and his wife is
waiting for him, it will probably turn
out stormy.
When man receives bill for goods
his wife has bought unknown to him,
look out for thunder and lightning.
When a man goes home and finds no
supper ready, the fire out, and wife Wis
iting the neighbors, it is likely to be
cloudy.
When man promises to take his wife
to party and changes his mind after
she is dressed, you may expect shower.
When a man saves his cigar money
to buy his wife new bonnet and the
children new shoes, it indicates a spell
of sunshine.
When q man dies and leaves nice
widow with plenty of money, and you
see her walking out with the executor on
Sunday afternoons, change is immi-
NeaoS.
MUST BE AVOIDED.
"Friend," said tramp, leaning over
the fence, may quench my thirst at
yonder well!"
"Sartain you may" said the farmer,
"but look out for the washbasin and
soap"
81 will, sir, will I can drink from
the other side of the WELL"
A POLITE LITTLE BOY.
Fond Mother-Little Dick is perfect
bless his little heart. Com
ing down stairs he politely stepped aside
and allowed Mrs. Heavyweight to pre-,
cede him, didn't you darling?
Little Dick-Yes, mamma; 1 was 'fraid
she might stumble. Philadelphia Record.
HOW HE MANAGED 1T.
Two friends who had not seen each
ether for some time met in the corridor
Of a hotel.
jackson how are you getting along
since iY iY25'F .IG2 &c ri 81 s,., e.,
81 didn't think you would, 3" his friend
replied, FFwhen heard that you had
married poetess.
eyes, some of my friends advised me
not to marry her, declaring that it
would be impossible for us to get along, |
but do get along with her."
"How do you manage it, Jackson ?"
81 praise her poetry. "-Arkansaa0
IrGUe55r.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
AMBITION.

AdoWn yon vale, so cool and green,
Where rays of noon were never seen,
So thick the trees were round it,
There stood beech of giant bole,
Upon a velvet, messy knoll;
And birds sang all around it.
A brook flowed softly, close beside,
And tree and knoll upon its tide
Could see their CLASSY doubles;
The whispering trees in love bent nigh,
And joined their arms when winds blew high,
Dividing all their troubles.
But-O! to be a famous tree,
And landmark great for al to see,
Was then this trees ambition,
And now, behold. a clearingis made;
ding trees the axe has laid,
To give the be- ch position.
The book, beneath the burning skies,
Has shrunk to ha'f its former size;
The birds have all departed.
landmark, now, this lonely beech,
Far-placed beyond his reighbor's reach,
Is well-nig broken-hearted.
Rush G. Fdris in american Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
A Well Preserved Balaklaya Hero.

The late Lord Lucan, of England, who
survived the charge of the Light Brigade,
was man of eighty-eight when he died,
few days ago, but he looked hardly
more than forty or for,y His face
was adorned by whiskers, and he always
wore tight fighting frock coat and q
fat brimmed hat His great age was
doubtless attained by the excessive care
which he devoted to his digestive appar-
atus. He ate only certain kinds of food,
and his mt ais were always weighed for
him so that he might not over4at. Tho
result was he mainta ned a youthful ap-
pearance for years after middle life had
been passed, aud up to short time aga
was able to cit horse to perfection.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

lron-toothed rake, wade near the beach,
and as the fish are tolled in by the Ian
tern light they are raked ashore and
picked up. The last and easiest way is
to walk along the shore with lantern
and pick up those that come ashore, and
many a good catch is made that way.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

she saw -ah, dear heaven, what did she
see?
Not her Jim, surely?
A white, dead face-a dark-red stain
on the coverlet-a ghastly wound-and
cold, nerveless fingers, still holding
achati
All, cruel Jim!
A long, shuddering cry rang out on the
autumn night - wild - agonized de-
spairing. Again and again it echoed.
Then all was still
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
UNDERSTOOD THE BASS DRUM.

"Then you think you really appreci-
ate orchestral music, Mr.. Fitzroy ?" she
said i'll quizzical sort of way.
"Well-er-yes. That is l think do.
Once in a while, you know, the instru-
ments seem to be all out of tune, and
wander little, but when the man hits
the lass drum solid all is clear to me- "
--Hdrtt0rG Post.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
DUCKED HIS HEAD.

"You ducked your head" said the
magistrate to Patrick Lane, who charged
Joseph Kavanagh with shooting at him
in the Strand.
"Faith, and I did, your worship.
It's better to be a coward for five min
utes than to be dead all your lifetime. :"
Il Innl7nnl Elnho
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

In the asylum at S. there is fair,
slender woman, with solemn, child-like
eyes and sunny hair.
"Hush!'' she says to the doctors every
day, with lowered voice and uplifted fin
ger. "Hushl jim is asleep. / must
not wake him. He is SO tired, poor Jiml
He does not know that the letter has
come. You will take me to him, will
you not! Not now-but when he
WakesI"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
TIE JOKERS' BUDGET.
WHAT THE FUNNY MEN OF THE
PRESS ARE SAYING.

Taking Bath off Duty-Ducked His
Head-Understoodt the Bass Drum
The Wrong Head, Etc.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
TAKING A BATH.

First Tramp say, have you taken
bath?
Second Tramp (anxiously)-No Is
there one missing ?-Harcard Lampoon.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
OFF DUTY.

Miss Keaue to handsome young phys,
ician) oh, doctor, how do you do?
You look hi,Ilng this evening
Young / ysician Quietly - Thank
you, but I'm not; Pm on duty, don't
you know ?-Drdk6's Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
THE CLAY EATERS.
A COMMUNITY WHICH LIVES
ON MOIST EARTH.

Subsisting Entirely on Soft Clay Dug
from the River Banks When Game
= Scarce "A Pale, Cadayerous
IeopIe
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

''Post these letters for me, King-will
you:" said Archie Lyle, one October
forenoon. "Im off in tearing hurry
to catch a train. Don't forget them,
there's good fellow"
Gan right" said the young man
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
NOT THE FIRST TIME.

"Was it the girls father who broke off
the engagement?" inquired Jenkins.
"No, replied the Tilted lover, "it was
her little brother"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
THE WRONG HEAD.

McSorley-I see there was row in
your street last night I'm glad the
trouble has come to head at last.
McGuff-Well, I'm not.
McSorley-Why not?
McGuf' (emphatically)-Because it
was my head.-LOCeU Citizen.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
THE CAUSE OF THE DISTURBANCE.

A woman's club meeting broke up in
great disorder the other day. 1t was
held in the parlor of the president and
was debating "Ihe Lady or the Tiger.
Which?" when one of the members sit
ting next to the window gave fearful
scream. Then ensued an immediate
panic. The cause of the disturbance
was great big h-o-rr-id spider as large
as nutmeg that hung suspended from
the lace curtains so close to those sitting
there that it could have bitten them. It
didn't bite because it was made of rub
ber and wire. But it was a narrow es-
cape for all those defenceless women
Detroit Free Press
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

"Clara," he said, desperately, in
choking accents, " one word "
"Certainly, Mr.. JONES' she replied
coldly, Zone word, and only one and !
choose No."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
HE HAD TO SAY IT.

Mrs. Brazor-My dear Colonel, Ican't
tell you how entirely and supremly de-
lighted am to see you. Do sit down
Colonel Brusk (who has been waiting
an hour for her to come down stairs)-
Madam, you may be entirely delighted,
and you may be supremely delighted,
but I'm teetotally blest if think you're
e,,J3ooZ,, dali ed -,JlLIEqe.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
MIR. wINKs' EXCUSE.

Mrs. Winks-You surely are not going
out tonight?
Mr.. Winks-Yes, my dear, election
you know.
Mrs. Winks-The election is over
Mr.. Um-er-yes, my dear,
this one is; but therell be another
election in four years my dear, and every
good citizen must begin to think about
candidates, you know, my love. I'll be
back early Philadelphia Record.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
S CAL FORTITUDE.

Dentist , tooth you want extract
ed is very II; ly set. Will you take
gas?
Patient-No. never take gas.
Ever had tooth extracted before 2"
"No, but was best man at a we'd
ding once, and L took no gas then. ,
Nebraska State Journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
THE CoIGNE OF VANTAGE.

"Why do you persist in sitting at that
side of the table, said Mrs. Brown.
"Because," ," replied little Johnnie, 81
want to be opposite that part of the
pudding where the most plums are"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
ANSWERING THE DOCTOR.

Doctor (passing a stonecutter's yard)
Good morning Mr.. Jones. Hard at
work, 1 see. L suppose you finish your
grave stones as far as "In Memory of I"
and then wait for some one to die, eh
Stonecutter-Why, yes-unless some
body's sick, and you're dcctoring EN-;
then L keep right on.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

''Pa," asked the small boy, "what is
a heroine?"
''Your mother is heroine, replied
the parent.
''How a heroine23
Why. sslIsa IIAHsrrLessG IA tho
his income was only 5000 Jo'tr-and
she knew it,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
SIGNS OF SUCCESS.

Mrs. Minks-How has young Mr..
Hopeful's novel turned out?
Mr.. Minks-Guess it's q great sue
cess; must be selling like hot cakes.
"Indeedl has any one told you so2'
''No, but he is letting his hair grow
long and has begun to roll his eyes. -
Philade}phia Record.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

Kansas City Resident (on boarl train
to stranger)-Well, sir, we have reached
the metropolis of the great and grow
ing West at last We are in Kansas
City. This is S40th street.
Stranger (peering out of the window
We'll, what is that peculiar noise -?
Kansas City Resident-That, sir, is
the croaking of frogs. Our climate here
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

"Oh, talk is cheap" remarked Fangle
in the course of an argument.
is it? replied Cumso. It's clear
you never figured up the cost OF q
session of Congress-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-08
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