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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06
Money Made X eepiur Hens.


Hundreds of farmers who never kept an &C
count, would kill every "pesky hen" on tn,
farm, if it was not for the women folks" Tit
women intuitively know that the hens do no
'eat their heads off every six MONTHS" bu
properly kept pay better than any other farm
animals.
This is true. 4 record, simple to keep, so il
would be used and show the facts in detail
would prove that every hen paid profit They
could be made to pay, from one to three dollars
each. Mr.. James L. Burgess, Nashua, n. II.
reported to the Nashau TsIegrdph that his
wife made a clean net profit last year, of $50 IS
for eggs alone, from only sixteen hens. He
thinks her success was largely due to using
Sheridans Condition Powder, a much adver-
tised preparation to make hens lay.
Do your hens pay like that? Do you want
to learn how to make them pay betterI
Are you in delicate health, and want to COM
mence poultry raising, for the sake of open air
employment? If So get some reliable advice
how to do it. new, enlarged, and much i'm
proved edition OF that valuable book, the Far
mer's Poultry Raising Guide, has just been
printed. 1t contains much very practical in
formation.
Among the many new features, which every
person who keeps hens should have, is blank
records and accounts for cacn month of the
valuable articles by A. Il. Hunter, How TO
Make Money With Few Hens" OF him the
Lowell, Mass, Journal says: The most sensi-
BILE poultry literature we have read we find I'M
der the name \. f. Hunter lie evidently knows
what he is talking about" These two features
alone, are worth ten times the cost of the book:
which the publishers /. :. johnson x Co, -
Custom House St, Boston. Mass, send, post
paid for only = cents in stamps.
There is really no way that persons on
farm or near a large town can secure a cash
income, with so little effort, as by keeping a
few hens. For such, this book is very vau-
able. Send to Johnson ~ Co, for testimonial
circular.
G. w Gushing. of bingham, Mass. says: Il
believe, the Farmers Poultry Raising Guide
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06
The Panama Canal Co.

The latest statement of the affairs of
the Panama Canal Company is hardly
calculated to cheer the hearts of those
whose means are invested in that enter
prise. The amount spended ON the
Canal during the fiscal year ending June
80, 1888, was nearly $39, 100000, and
50, 900, 600 more will be needed to settle
the balances. OF these millions about
one-half w paid out for interest and
the cost of administration. Owing to
the partial failure of the recent attempt to
raise money by lottery, the Company
has only about $12,000,000 for use on
the Canal the coming year. According
to the statement of expenses just made,
the sum will not be sufficient to pay even
the interest and cost of administration,
to say nothing of the cost of construction.
How failure can be averted for another
year is therefore question which waits
to be answered. As an instance of the
recklf ssEcss and extravaganza which has
characterized the Canal management we
append an extract from letter written
to the Montreal Gd=ette, by n gentleman
residing at Panama: 1.-The company
takes credit for $50, 600, 900 worth of ma
chinery. An engineer informed me that
two thirds of it is absolutely useless.
Trains of dumping cars are hidden in
the rank grasses. A whole siding of
locomotives has been lost to sight. In
the canal basin at Colon all kinds of YES
sells can be seen, steam tugs, steam
launches, barges, boats, etc, abandoned
and useless, some partly submerged-a
marine graveyard. If the whole Canal
does not prove financial graveyard, it
will not be the fault of the manage
ment.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06
The Street Bands of HObOken.

There are few, if any American cities,
whose residents are furnished with as
much music as Hoboken. The select
ions are rendered by bands of music on
the street, and musicians are satisfied
with what money they can collect. Vul-
CARLY these bands are called ''mud gut
ter bands" but their names cannot be
applied to those of Hobkoen. Each music
ian is thorough one and some of the
most aristocratic people of this and other
cities have sat for hours and listened to the
musical programmes furnished by these
musicians. A few afternoons ago one of
the Ecening Sun men was strollling up
Hudson street, and in front of
Myers Hotel had assembled q band of
ten pieces. 1t was not what one would
call brass band, but rather an orchestra
The musicians were all uniformed, and
each had music stand with a sheet of
music on it in front of him.
The reporter remarked to friend who
was with him that the music was better
than that generally heard in the streets,
and the selections of instruments much
better. In reply the friend volunteered
the following information "That band
is off of one of the German steamships.
You see on every one OF tne GERMAN
steamships there is a band of music made
up of the walters. Every evening they
furnish music to the passengers, who re-
spond literally when the hat is passed
around. When the steamship is lying at
the dock the musicians are idle, and to
turn q few dollars they go about the
street playing. In the afternoon they
don their uniforms and go from house to
house. At dark they return to the steam
er, change their uniform for an evening
suit, and then you will find them at one
of the large hotels giving a concert. The
hotel proprietor pays them, and the tran
sients more than repay him in their pur-
chase of liquid refreshments. They are
all good musicians. And somo of the
hotel concerts are well worth attending.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06
A GYPSY HEALER.
She Sells $50 Worth of Magic to a
Farmer Who is Cheated.

RICHMOND, Va.-During ten days
past band of gypsies has been camped
in the woods near here. They left a
few days ago. This morning well-to-
do and intelligent farmer called
at detectives Office and told this story:
81 live about seven miles south of
Manchester. Ny wife has been in bad
health for some time. On last Friday
she came to Manchester. About mile
beyond Manchester there was a gypsy
camp. My wife had talk with one of
the gypsies, who informed her that they
would restore her to perfect health, and
requested her to come next day and
bring me with her. On Saturday my
wife and visited their camp. l was in
feeble health myself. I was informed
by one of these gypsies. that if [ would
put 50 into her hand for good luck, she
could, for the additional sum of $40, re-
store us both to health.
sI had with me at the time $50. I
accepted the proposition. [ put 81 in
her hand. She then said L must put one
$40 note on my hand and blow my
breath at it, and then place it on her
hand. did so.
"'Now,' said she, take the next $40
note from the roll, place it on your
hand, and blow your breath on it, and
place it in my hand and thus contin-
he'd n doing until I had placed the $50,
all I had, on her hand. Now said
she, you take your hands and fold the
bills up. don't want to touch them.
If I do it will destroy the magic power.
Having folded them as directed, she
took the money and placed it in her bos-
ON and said: Now, you aud your wife
come here on next Saturday and you
will be each restored to perfect health,
and I will then return you this money,
except the 81 which you placed in my
hand for good luck, and the $40 which
1 charge you for the cure. [ shall have
to keep all the money, otherwise the
magic power will leave me.
The farmer then said that when he re-
turned to see the gypsy the gypsies had
disappeared, and he wanted to know
how to get his money.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06
Death of q Celebrated Giantess.

Auna Swan Bates, the Nova Scotian
Giantess, is dead, and her death leads
to q desire to know more concerning
this wonderful woman. and her eq, ally
wonderful husband, both of whom have
delighted and astonished hundreds of
thousands of eyes.
When u years old she went to Eu-
rope with Barnum, says the Cincinnati
Ijnes-StGr, and when grown to maturity
she went III company with Capt. Bates,
the Kentucky giant, and also Mile
Christine, the Double Headed Nightin-
gale, with two heads, two arms and two
limbs, all being exhibited by Mr.. Bar
mum at charge of one guinea. During
their exhibition Capt. Butes and Anna
were married at st. Martins Church,
Long Acre, London. They remained
short time in London, then returned
to America, when Rob. Langdon took
them all over the United States, showing
under canvas, in halls, opera houses,
etc. Huge paintings were made of them
on the outside of the canvass twenty-fOur
feet in height, and various other paint
1ngs OF them, representing the presenta-
Lion to the Queen, at tile marriage altar,
etc.
By this time Bates and his wife had
amassed large fortune; they left the
road and purchased an estate at Seville,
Medina county, O., on which they erect
ed an immense house after their own
fashion, large doors, large windows, in
fact, everything was On a large scale.
Even their coach, horses and driver
We're of very large size. The Captain
was great worker, fencing all his own
farm, even digging the holes in the
ground for the fence posts and gates.
When on exhibition he would dress as a
captain in the First Life Guards of Eng
land, scarlet coat, buckskin trousers,
big Hessian boots, helmet and crimson
plume; his wife dressed in full dress of
silks and satins, taking seventy yards
for one dress. Their bedstead was six
feet wide and nine feet long, the timber
being black walnut and of tremendous
size. They had one child born to them,
and that while they were on the farm
up in Medina county, which was born
alive but onty lived a short time, weigh
ing the enormous sum of twenty-five |
pounds. 1t is not known what the Cap
tain will do since his wife is gone, but it |
is thought he will go on exhibition
again.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06

The Garrett residence is q wonder of
architectural and decorative art; and
its formal opening, by a grand ball early
IN January, 1887, was the event of that
Baltimore season. The ground plan is
60 by 100 feet; there are three stories
and basement, with solid front of
brown stone. The general style is of
French Renaissance, but the designer
allowed himself much latitude. The
main hall is that of an old English manor,
and all the woodwork is of English black
oak, elabortaely carved, with panel deco
ratiOns, choice paintings and steel suits
of mail. There is also a library finish
ed in mahogany, dining room in the
Dutch style of the sixteenth century,
parlor upholstered in Gobelin tapestry,
with deep friezes of allegorical paintings,
a wonderful balcony, and a conservatory,
40 by 60 feet in size, which is perfect
paradise of ferns and exotic flowers,
with bubbling fountains and waterfalls,
over all of which is light soft as that of
a full moon. Altogether it is neigh
borhood of which the possible colored
orphan neighbors would have no cause
to feel ashamed. The real wonder of the
place. however, is the bathroom, mod
elled after that of the luxurious Louis
XIV. of France. The ceiling is an imita-
ton of lattice work, with vines and
flowers; the immense later (vult to
voce, "tub') is of silver and Tennessee
marble; the water comes in through
brass pipes and gold-pl fixtures, and
all the adornments are of sybaritic ele-
gance. Philadelphia Nc1os
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06
A CHINESE MILLIONAIRE.
The Pagan Owner Of Peruvian
Plantations Returns to China.

The steamer Parthia, which sailed for
the Orient, carried among her cabin pas
sengers distinguished Celestial. The
passenger, although wearing the queue
according to Chinese custom, had dis
carded the usual costume of his country
men and was attired in neat-fitting
suit of black broadcloth. A high stand
ing collar of the latest fashion encircled
his neck, and, unlike other Chinese, he
wore tight-fitting pair of CATERS.
Just before the steamer departed
yesterday morning he paced the deck of
the steamer with the air of a nabOb.
The voyager is registered on the pas
senger list as Chun Lee, Peru, bound
for Hong Kong. Hell said to be worth,
in coin and other property, over million
dollars. This fortune he amassed in
Peru, in which country he has resided
for thirteen years, having arrived there
in 1875.
When he left this city he had but
$500. This amount he placed to ad-
vantage in a plantation. He made
money rapidly, and gradually increased
his acreage, until he now has large
tracts in different parts of the country.
He decided several months ago to visit
his native country, and, leaving his
property in the hands of his managers,
he left for Panama, at which place he
took the steamer for this city. He ar
rived here about two months ago, and
during his stay has made things exceed
ingly lively for his friends. Swell
banquets and dinners on the Chinese
plan were numerous, and all given at the
expense of Chun. His friends also en-
joyed carriage rides and trips to the
suburban cities through the pagan mil
lionaire's iberality.
He made things fairly hum during his
short stay and his friends reciprocated
by giving grand farewell dinner to the
distinguished visitor. The dinner was
had at the residence of q leading Chinese
merchant and the tables groaned with
all the luxuries that the Chinese res
taurants afford.
A number of the Chinese merchants
were at the Oceanic wharf yesterday
morning to see Chun off. He shook
them all warmly by the hand and babe
them good-by, after which he boarded
the steamer, where he was seen by an
Examiner reporter.
He talks but little English, and his
remarks are almost unintelligible. He
refused to say anything regarding him.
self or his business interests in Peru.
He stated that he was going to make a
complete tour of the Flowery Kingdom.
When asked if he was going to travel
alone, he smiled slightly and pointed to a
mite Of q Chinese woman, and remarked
that the female was his wife. He mar.
ried her in this city previous to going to
Peru. The pair expect to be gone about
four months.
Chun is a man about 40 years of age,
and his better half is about ten years his
junior. Francisco Examiner.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06
Watermelon Juice for the Com plcxion

Miss Carrie Townsend, South st.
Louis, tells the following: 81 always
have feeling of pity for girls who have
fiorid or sallow compilations, or whose
faces are despatched with freckles, look
ing as if they had been about when q
bran bin had exploded. L feel sorry
for them, not because of any harm that
the freckles do, for really think them
nice, as they are evident of pure light
and healthy complexion, but because
the removal of them or the sallowness is
so easy if they only knew how. I acct
dentally discovered sovereign remedy
a couple of years ago. which costs next
to nothing.
cone day the plumber shut orr wnfor
of, and 1 could get none in which to
wash my face. [ was fearfully soiIed,
and, looking out of the window just
then, [ saw a friend approaching to call
on me. CHANGING about me l noticed
half of watermelon from which the
meat had been removed some time be-
fore. 1t was partly filed with juice and
l hastily washed my face in it. The re-
suit was so soothing that | repeatedly
washed my face i'll that manner. Judge
of my establishment few days later, on
seeing that there was not q freckle left
on my face. A number of my girl
friends then tried it, and the result was
a great identifying of countenances. No
matter what is wrong with the face, the
juice of the watermelon will rectify it
and produce a clear skin.-St. L0uts
Globe.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06
Chinese Have No Nerves.

The North CHINA Hera!6 says the
quality Of ''nervelessness' 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 ivory. do indefinitely
tedious jobs for ever and ever, and dis
cover no more signs of WEAKNESS and
irritation than if he were machine.
This quality appears early in life. There
are no restless, naughty boys in China.
They are all uppallingly good, and WLt
plod away in school without recasses OF
recreation of any kind. The Chinaman
can do without exercise. Sport or play
seem to him so much waste labor. He
can sleep anywhere, amid rafting ma
chinery, deafening uproar, squalling
children, and quarrelng adults. He
can sleep on the ground, on the floor,
on a bed, i'll any position. 1t would be
easy to raise i'll Oh ma an army of mil
lion 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 M uths wide open and q
fly inside,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06
LARRY JEROME AND THE BRUISER.
A Practical Joke That Came Out
Differently Than Was Anticipated.

A Chicago man tells good story of
the late Larry Jerome. Without being
fighter himself, Larry was great adj
mirer of the manly art, and patronized
SO many pugilists that he well knew and
could cleveriy counterfeit their ways and
manners. That be loved practical
joke goes without saying. One day Je,
rome stood with party of friends upon
the rear platform of the rear car of a
New York Central passenger train that
was pulling out of the station at Roches-
ter. Standing by watching the outgoing
train was big, burly fellow with the
jaw of bulldog and the biceps of a
prize bull. He looked every inch the
fighter.
''Do you see that big slugger," ex-
claimed Gerome to his friends; she is
the boss slugger Of Rochester, and am
going to have some fun with him."
And Immediately Larry hailed the big
man and began abusing him. He shook
his fist at the astonished stranger, called
him liar, a thief, a coward, sneak,
and dared and double dared him to come
on and show what he was made of. AS
soon as he had recovered from his
amazement the ugly looking fellow did,
indeed make few steps toward his enc
my, but the train was going so fast that
even had he been a sprinter as we'll as
pugilist he could not have overtaken it.
Larry and his friends enjoyed the joke
hugely. AS long as they could see the
discounted pugilist stood watching the
train, with his fists doubled up and lip
quivering with anger. Entering the car
the party proceeded to make merry over
another GoLtls.-
But suddenly CONSERVATION seized
them. The discovery was made that
the train had stopped, switched over to
another track, and was now backing into
the station. They rushed to the plat
form again, and saw the boss pugilist of
Rochester standing in eager expectancy.
A smile played on his lips, and his right
arm was seen to be in gentle motion, as
if it were being limbered up.
"Great heagens p exclaimed Jerome,
with blanched face. THAT man will eat
me up. Whist shall / do2"
AS the Rochester slugger sprang for
the now Slowly moving train Larry fed
from coach to coach till he found a
brakeman who agreed to hide him in
safe place til, all danger had passed.
The puglllst how became a passenger,
and rode some twenty miles, hunting
the train from one end to the other for
his victim. He found him not, and
threatened to wreak his vengeance upon
Jerome's companions, who remained
meek and loVly, though snickering when
they dared al their friends predicament.
Buffalo was well nigh reached before
Larry ventued to emerge from his hid
ng-place, ard he did not then come
forth till he had been assured over and
over again that the man he'd been hav-
ing fun with aad left the train.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06
FOUND IN A CLEFT.
A Steed and His Rider who had been
Hidden there for Years.
From the Larimie Boomerang.J

Henry Martin, who resides up in tie
direction of Antelope Basin, W. T.. re
Gently came across CHASTITY relic of
early days which might we'll form the
foundation for q tale of frontier life.
He was out prospecting in a wild and
broken part of the country, where in the
midst of an elevated plateau it is not I'M
common to suddenly find ones self ON
the brink of a crevasse or cleft in the
rock, a plunge down which would in
evitably prove fatal. 1t was in examin-
ing one of these strange openings, formed
during some tremendous CONFUSION of
the earth ages ago, that Mr.. Martin saw
pinned between the adamantine walls
far below him the whitened bones of a
man and horse. He made circuitous
journey around the hill, which brought
him to where it was possible to enter
the narrow gorge, and by difficult
climbing over ragged boulders to reach
the skeletons. He cautiously picked his
way through for distance of several
hundred feet, and at length reached the
object which had excited his curiosity.
There was no doubt, from the position
of the animal and his rider, that they
had plunged headlong to their death
while being pursued or in some mad
ride which did not leave time to check
themselves on the brink of the yawning
chasm.
The man must have been fully feet
in height and between so and GO years
of age, the latter supposition being es-
tablished by the fact that he had during
life lost some of his teeth and the bone
had grown over the cavities.
The skull showed rather intelligent
forehead and cheek bones were promi-
nent, and the general shape of the head
indicated that the bones were those of
Mexican. This theory was confirmed
by the discovery of n rich Mexican SOM
brero, with heavy gold trimmings, all in
a good state of preservation.
The skeleton was found in perpen-
dicular position, the head downward and
tightly pinned between the two walls of
rock. The rider had fallen from his
steed and bones of the latter were SINH
larly suspended, but 20 feet further up.
In q little basin at the foot of the
gorge was discovered n copper plate about
SIX inches square, and, strangest of all,
plug of tobacco, of apparently ancient
manufacture, but seemingly as perfect as
when the dead man had put it in his
pocket to solace him in his lonely ride
across the hills,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06
A Sind Storm ut Sea.

The British steamship Glenshiel, from
the East Inlies, recently arrived at
New York, reports sand storm which
occurred on the evening of July 10,
while the vessd was making for Suez.
When half waF up the Red Sea a most
terrific sand storm, which lasted near
ten hours, Suddenly swept down. 1t
was impossible to see anything a ship
length away. The wind blew a gale,
and 1t was found to be dangerous eX-
pertinent to stty on deck for any length
OF time. Thesand was hot, and when
1t came into contact with the body,
would sting Ike the point of a knife.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06

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brigbfening many a dark cloud and tighten
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06

6. G. Treat, of West Granville, Mass, write.
of ALLCOCK's Porous PLAsTERs:
For rheumatism, neuralgia, pain in the side
or back, coughs, colds, bruises and any local
weakness, they truly possess wonderful cura-
tive qualities. h we recommended them to
my neighbors with the happiest results, many
of whom but for ALLCOCK's PLAsTERs would
be n crippled condition at home. In every
instance where they have been faithfully and
prop rly applied the result has been wonder
fully satisfactory.