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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
The Soldier of Germany.

The German boy who reaches the age
of II becomes liable to service in the
army and this liability continues until
he is A. If he is not fit for active ST.
vice he is relocated to reserved force
not called out unless there is danger of
invasion. For nearly his whole active
life, therefore, the German lives in
species of military servitude that ham
pers him should he desire to emigrate,
and may be full of petty annoyances to
him if he does not.
Under ordinary circumstances the
German lad steps into the ranks at the
age OF 20. For three years he serves
with the colors, the next four years he
is in the reserve, and the following five
years he belongs to the Landwehr, an
other reserve more remote than the first
OF these twelve years the first thu e, are
occupied entirely in severe military
- s.t,lpil \, oso,, -, -
o system SO thorough rs Germany's
must be stupid beyond recovery if he
does not turn ont an alert, obelient,
and well-trained soldier. From this
time he takes his oath of allegiance TO
his military superior, the Kaiser, he re-
nouuces the civil responsibilities and
rights OF citizen. With the loss of his
vote he is taught that the sooner lie for
gets political matters the better for him
as a soldier. His life is completely en-
crossed with ba1Tack routine and militia
~ ideas. His only law is the law of
court martial; his only duty is so obey
without question, and the Interpreter of
his duty is the Captain of his company.
With the putting on of his uniform he
becomes ono of an army which in times
OF peace numbers 466, 400 men, thor
oughly equipped, admirably trained,
and ready to follow their officers any
where, from the storming of a Russian
redoubt to charging mob of working
men on strike. The soldier of the Ger
man Empire ceases to be n Bavarian,
Wurtemburger, or n Saxon when he
steps into the ranks. His military SER
vice is personal to the Emperor, from
whom he receives his orders, to the eX-
clusion of all other authority. Every
thing that he sees and hears i'll the army
is calculated to impress upon his mind
that his particular State AMI its par,ic-
ular public men are Of very little consu-
quence compared with an Emperor who
has absolute power over an army such
as he belongs to. He also learns that
fidelity to his duties as n soldier is one
of the few as we'll as the sure means of
securing later in life a position in that
great class of men whose salaries come
from the taxes of the people and whose
appointments hang upon the favor OF
the government.
Every soldier dreams of the day when
he shall possibly be promoted as non
commissioned officer, and at the end of
his term be given berth in the railway,
telegraph, or post Office service, possibly |
on the police force.--Nem York. Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
An Angel With Hhiskers.

The west front of st. Adams Cathedral
presents what is said to be o unique
specimen of ecclesiastical art-the head
of an angel with whiskers. 1t may in
terest admirers of our new nobility to
know that the angel With wniskers is the
counterfeit presentment of Lord Grim
thorpe. suppose from this that ange'
occasionally wear har on their faces
for Lord Grimthorpe, believe, knows
everything. and, In his laudahle anxiety
to appear as an angel, he would no doubt
have shaved for the part had he thought
it necessary. From certain comments
passed on the work, ] should say that
If the whiskers had been eliminated his
lordship would have looked more like an
angel. But then, of course, if he had
looked too mnch like an angel no one
would have known that it was Lord
Grimthorpe. -LondonI Truth.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

L met this evening, says n Paris letter
to the London truth, a Bavarian grain,
fresh from Munich and bound for Madrid.
"What do you think, asked her, "of
the young German EMPEROR 'WcU, -"
she said, ''he's hard to read. He's
changeable MS a bit of shot silk There
are times when he looks Il ramrod of
stiffness, GOODNESS and hardness. His
mode of salGt;n9 at such times is curt
and unpleasant; the eyes stare and
must say it?-glare. They are, when
lie is in his stiff, imperial mood, the blue
g'assy eyes of the high ander at the to-
bacconlst's door. There are other moods
when he is all fun and hcartiness. L
saw him laugh himself into a violent fit
CT coughing. He romps with children,
poEes IN the ribs and tickles princely
lats, H,rts with the firty ladies, and is
tlckled with the merest straw. Blood
easily flies to his head and sets
his thoughts in taugIe.
de hates book sh people and artists.
They bore him. What lie best liked
after dinner was to get away to his own
room and smoke with the young princes
OF Bavaria and the duke of Genoa, They
laughed and talked far into the night
The princes smoked pines and drank
beer. The emperor smoked cigarettes
and qua!ted SELLER water. Ny impress
sion OF him is that he is at once crafty
and impulsive. He means we'll and will
sin and repent gool deal before he has
got much older. F"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

HESS IlUADI NIAGARA OO, n. I :, 7
March "a, 1885,
About year ago was taken with a severe
pain in both lungs. Twas first attacked with a
violent chill, then a dreadful pain and then a
cough accompanied by considerable fever. II
looked very much like bad attack of pneumo.
mia. friend of mine procured five ALLcoCK's
PLAsIERs. One he put under each arm, on,
under each shoulder blade, and one on my
chest close around my throat. In few hours
the cough ceased, the pain gradually abated
and broke out in a profuse perspiration. |
fell into a profound sleep, and the next day
was almost well. Iwore the Plasters eight days
afterwards, and have never had any trouble
since. WILLIAM A. SAWYER
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
A Yerdant GrO0mSlnln.

A little leaven Of embarrassment let
loose in q bridal party leaveneth the
whole, and often produces very funny
results. Rev. Timothy O'Connell tells
in the ST. Louis Globe Democrat how not
long ago he was called to otficiate at a
wedding which was impromrtu. The
invited eroomsman failed to appear, and
a neighbor WAS asked to assist, as the
couple were anxious to take n certain
train. The emergency groomsman was
verdant, an grew 50 embarrassed that
he completely upset the nerves of the
bridesmaid She had two tasks on her
mind-one to arrange her hustle, the
other 10 fasten a boquet to the grooms-
mans lapel. She got these mixed IN
her mind, and pinned the boquet first
on her hustle, and then tore 1t i'm
patiently off and pinned it to his coat
tail A lunch had. been provided on
tray close at hand, and when the clergy
man asked for the ring, the assistant
promptly handed him biscuit. Seeing
his mistake. for want of better place,
he awkward!y put the muffin i'll the
| groom's pocket, took the ring and
| banded it to the bride, at the same time
pouring a glass of wine from the bottle
nj mana lHtO ID uuSUG piCS0 VI AONCiy
Sevres china. Precipitation stood ont in
great beads on his forehead, and as
soon as the ceremony was performed he
looked at the envelope in his hand con-
tanning the fee, broke the seal, saw the
money, and thinking either that he had
earned 1T or that it was intended for
him, put it in his pocket, handed the
clergyman the empty envelope, and fled
1t is perhaps needless to add that the
couple missed the train.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
Suicides and the Weather.

A great many folks have an idea that
the weather has decided influence up
on the tendency of people to commit
suicide, and that on dark, muggy DAYS
the depression of spirits which people
often feel is apt to give the deciding
vote toward suicide in the minds of PEG
pie who have inclinations that way. In
clear weather and under bright sky it
does not seem natural that people should
want to kill themselves. This used to
be, in fact, the pet theory of the old
physicians. True or not, the theory re-
ceived rude shock on Thursday. Six
people in this town on that day nut their
names upon the roll of self-murder in
unusually horrible ways, and the dav
was the finest and most bracing of the
winter.-N. y. Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

"YoU North Americans don't know
anything about the gambling feature OF
horse racing" said an adopted son OF
South America at the Fifth Avenue Ho-
tel, New York. "You kick up q terrible
rumpus when one of your plungers
makes bet of $I0,0 900 on race. Down
in the Argentine Republic they would
laugh at that sort of plunging. Those
fellows make no bones of putting up
100000 at whack when they think
they've got good thing. They are the
most daring gamblers in the world. A
year ago one of them sent to England
and paid 1900 guineas for a horse that
he wanted to win Just one race with. The
animal arrived in good shape and walked
away with the field at 3 to l, making the
owner half million richer than he was
before. A great many horses will he
shipped there by and by from the Uni
ted States. The business has begun al
ready on small scale, n consignment of
trotters and runners picked up around
New York being on the way there now"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
PrOdigiOus Mass OF Quarried Stone.

There was recently cut out from the
Pilkington Quarry, Norwich, England,
IN one piece, without C ack or flaw, q
large stone, weighing upward of 50 tons.
/ he dimensions are IA! feet in length, 6
feet high, and 8 feet 3 inches wide.
The removal of til S mass from the
quarry to its destination, o bleach works
in Bolton, a distance of seven miles,
over a rough, lilly road, was success
fully accomplished. The London Engi-
Teer remarks, it is said to be the largest
stone ever quarried in England.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
A Wood Splitter.

Mr.. w. i. Hathaway, of New Bed
ford, Mass, has the credit of devising a
very ingenious machine for splitting
wool. 1t consists of Il knife attached
to heavy vertical bar, which at its
upper end Is fastened to an eccentric in
turn connected 10y shafting driven by
an electric motor. by means of Mr..
Hathaway's invention sawed wood is
split faster than four men could do it
with an ak. In other words, il is simply
an application of the well known fact
that lightning splits trees.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

ABAR HARgoR teacher, who means to
have her pupils well informet as TO
what is going on in the world, rs Wen
ms to what is in books, has some of the
pupils put on the blackboard each morn
ing "bulletin board " made up from
the headlines in the daily papers. She
also has read aloud articles from the
daily papers that pertain to the most i'm
portant events of the day. This new de-
parture is said to be very successful.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
A Hero Of the " Six Hundred.o

George Loy-Smith, the last surviv
ing commissioned officer who tool
part in the famous charge of the Ligh
Brigade at Balaklava and the last maj
out of the "valley of death" on tina
occasion, has just died in London. IL
was buried without any military honors
and the Duke of Cambridge, Command
er-in-Chief of the British Army, refused
to send gun carriage to bear his bod,
to the grave. Evidently the Duke pay
no heed to the poets injunction to
"Honor the charge they made;
Honor the Light Brigade
Noble Six Hundred ~
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
A REPORT comes from Baku. the great

A REPORT comes from Baku, the great
shipping port of the Russian oil region
on the Caspian Sea, that the oil there is
about exhausted. Recent borings fail
to bring up petroleum, but only afford
water. The flow of oil in the Baku dis
trict has been known from time immc-
mortal and for abundance has long been
unparalleled. Natural oil springs have
been pouring ont their treasures for cen
turtles covering large areas of the Caspian
with petroleum, which, being often igni-
ted, would convert that sea into vast
expanse of flame. This Russian oil has
been almost the only competitor of the
American article, and if the story of it's
exhaustion be true then it must enhance
largely the value of the American oil in
terests. The indications are that petro-
leum is extensively distributed under our
continent, and there is no reason to fear
any diminution of the available deposits
in any brief period.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

A COMPANY has been formed i'll Geor-
gia to scrape the entire bed OF the Ches-
tattee River with dredges. 1t has al
ways been known that the bed OF tins
river is wonderfully rich in loose gold,
and the company proposes to get the
gold. just after the war another com
pany attempted to accomplish the same
purpose by Tuning the river, but 1t cost
so much that the enterprise was aban,
doned. The present company will build
an expensive dredging boat, capable OF
removing 500 tons day.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
TT 10 said that Prince Louis Ferdinand

of Bavaria is very clever surgeon, and
in one of the hospitals at Madrid recent
" operated on a woman suffering from
cancer with complete success. His rel
alive. Duke Charles Theodore of Bava-
ria, the brother of the Empress of Aus
tria, is both an oculist and surgeon, and
very skilful. When the Duke is at
Vienna, he often passes his whole day
at the General Hospital, and If any arms
or legs are to be cut of, he hastens JOY
fully to the work.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

FARMERS in various part of the coun-
try are beginning the cultivation of the
indigo plant, Which forms very I'M
portant feature of Chinese agriculture;
The indigo fern is one of the seed pod
variety of plants, with stock and Leaf
not unlike the fish geranium, but OF
darker green in color. It is very hardy,
easily cultivated, and unlike many OF
our native products is never attacked by
insects,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

EXPERIMENTS are making to ascertain
if greater speed can not be attained by
ocean steamers through placing the
screw at the bow instead of, rs now, at
the stern-to mako it pull, like cork
screw, on the solid water in front, IN
stead of wasting half its force on the
broken water at the rear.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

A HAWAIIAN convict who was con-
demned to death had his life spared on
condition that he should be inoculated
with leprosy by way of experiment. The
incubation took place three years ago,
and the unfortunate man, who would
surely have done better to go to the
scaff;old, is now tubercular leper. The
experiment was perhaps hardly necessa-
ry. The fact that Father Damien has
become q leper since he went to reside
in settlement of lepers is surely proof
enough that the disease is contagious.
Now, however, there is no longer room
for any doubt which may have been felt
upon the matter at one time.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THE Christian World, the most widely
circulated religious paper in England
sagely remarks in an editorial article on
''The American Presidency" that 1.-THE
thirtysix electors OF New York, on
many of whom President Cleveland
counted, voted for Gen, Harrison.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

So read the headlines of many a newspaper
column, and we peruse with palpitating inter-
est the details of the catastrophy, and are
deeply impressed by the sacrifice of human
lives involved. Yet thousands of men and wo-
men are falling victims every year to that ter
lungs, and they and their friends are satisfied
to believe the malady incurable. Now, there
could be no greater mistake. No earthly
power, of course, can re tore a lung that is en-
tireiy wasted. bat DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
L. scOvery will rapidly and surely arrest
the ravages of consumption, if taken in time.
DO not, therefore, despair, until you have tried
this wonderful remedy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

SUPPORT in the work of improving and
cbeapening the food of''the people is
asked by the Swiss Society for the Pro
motion of Public Good. An extension
of the use of milk and cheese is urged
by the society as an important advance;
while DIR. Woltering, of Munster, rec
ommends a greater use as an article of
diet of the inexpensive and extremely
nntritiye pluten,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

MATTHIAS Rock, fashionable tailor
in New York, has gotten a judgm ant
for $386.S7 against Berry Wall, the ex-
dude, and the Paper is about as valu-
able as piece of court-plas,er. Mr..
Wall doesn't deny that he has had the
clothes Mr.. Rock wants pay for, bat
says that the simple fact of his con-
descending to wear them was an adj
vertisement for which the tailor should
have been extremely grateful.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

"Ycs, itpays,'' said big, fat physician, with
q name which is known throughout the medi-
cal world. II have practice worth $4,000 a
wear" "Women?'' Eyes, you've guessed 1t
first time. They pay $40 every time they come
into my office When one gets on my list tell
you she staysl" and DR.. H laughed long
and loud. This is quackery- gilt-edGed, gen.
tcel quackery-to keep suffering women pay
them no good. DR.. Picrce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton cures the peculiar weaknesses and dis
eases OF women. II does not lie to them mol
rOb them
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

JAMES W. ELLSWORTH, of Chicago,
who offers an annual prize of 5000 fc1
the best American painting first ex-
hibited in that city, has added pic
ture gallery to the house, the walls of
which are hung with wine-colored in
grain carpet manufactured for the pur-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

WILLIS B. PERKINS, of Wexford
County, is man who believes in the
irony of fate. Two years ago he was a
candidate for Prosecuting Attorney,
and was beaten by one vote. At the
recent election he ran for the same
Office and was again defeated by one
vOta
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

TIE YOUTHS COMPANION is a welcome visitor
weekly n more than 100000 families, and has
won place in home life obtained by no other
publication. 1t is always safe, pure, instruc-
live and ente; tanning. The onder is how any
family can do without it. Any new subscriber
sendin9 S1.75 now, can have THE COMPANION
free very week to January ], 1889 and for T ull
wear from thai date. Sample copies fee. Ad-
dress THE NOUTH's COMPANION. Boston, Mass.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

The young Emperor William Ii. has
abandoned the use of the word 1--WE, }"
and says a." President Hayes used
to say "we" in speaking of his plans
and intentions regarding the adminis-
tration of affairs. The best editorial
writer's on newspapers avoid the use of
eve" wherever possible, and it is gen
orally possible. Roscoe Conkling said
that "a man with q tapeworm" might
properly speak of himself as eve but
no one else could
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

And each day and night during the week you
can get at all druggists Kemp'S Balsam for the
Throat and Lungs, acknowledged to be the
most successful remedy ever sold for the cure
of Coughs, Group, Bronchitis, Whooping
Cough, Asthma, and Consumption. Get bot
tie to-day and keep it always in the house, so
you can check your cold at once. Price 50c
and 81. Sample bottles free.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

$4,000 in a quart jar This amount Of
money will be given to those subscribers guess
ing tho number or nearest numbers Of kernels
OF corn in a quart jar. SEQ advertisement
How MANY KERNELS" Washington Co.,
proprietors New York Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

Mrs. SMITH (who is reading hume !
Gus paper)-I don't see any fun in thes q
Jokes about big bills for ladies hats. Mr.,
Smith, don't either.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

ANOTHER of the weather prophets has
been heard from. He bases his prophe-
cies, not on the beavers dam, nor yet
on the bone of the goose, nor yet on the
left hind leg of the jack rabbit. He
looks to the deer for guidance. Captain
Travers is his name, and he assures Tie
MiIocaukee Wisconsin, that he is convinced
from the action of the deer that the
winter is going to be an open one.
"With the approach of severe weather, -
he says, ''the deer leave their summer
baunts and come out into the timber.
This season have found none on t G
old runways, which indicates that they
have left the bottom lands. This is
their habit when the winter promises to
be an open one." Call the next prophet.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

THE reports of the Governors of the
Territories to the Interior Departm ent
give both Montana and Washington
.s. -, VII. increase in population,
and Washington Territory am increase
of So, 000,0 600 in taxable property in the
last ten years. The people of Montana
are very proud of their public school
system, each city and town maintaining
schools of the best class. Every child
of school age in the Territory is on the
school roll, and the schools are IN session
MIRO months in the wear The cessation
or InHIan CTouUIos IN Arizona has done
much toward inducing settlers to take
up public lands, so that the general out
look is good for increasing prosperity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

In Switzerland there have been II ,275 drunk
ards deaths in twenty-five years out of pop
ulation Of three mill IONS and hat.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
Tonight md To-Morrow Night,

The Chambersburgh Pa.) Academy decline
10 receive students who use tobacco.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20

How to address the admiral of the fleet
stYour warship"
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" BLACK BART
CAREER OF THE KING OF AMER
ICAN HIGHwAYMEN.

The Story of His Crimes Reads Like
Recommendations Committing
His Dcpredations Handed
and Alone.
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Epitaph for the Champion bridge-jumpe--
Donovan-quished.
Ideal Curc for Epileptic Fits.

To the EGtor-Pleaso inform your readers
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Good name for a bathing machiae man at an
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A Remarkable PAPER.

Of $40, 900 railway employees in Great Brit
ain, Il, 500 are t. tai abstainers.
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Gen eel Quncks.

The Calcutta Mi sionary Conference has re-
solved to organize a Temperance League.
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