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, 1889-09-07

Caller-Mr. President, 1 have long held
the opinion that the office should seek the
man, and not the man the office, and
cannot adequately express my detesta.
ton of the hungry horde who are worry
ing you night and day. 1 simply call to
pay my respects"
The President-My!myI Come in, sir;
sit down. Won't you stay to dinner?
Caller-Thank you, but time is very
pressing. AS 1 said before, l simply
called to pay my respects; but while here
L might as well leave these recommends
tons and my address, so in case any Of
fee starts on a still hunt it will know
where to find me.-New York Weekly.
, 1889-09-07

A BIG batch of appointments were
made by the president yesterday but no
Wyoming appointments were included
in the list.
, 1889-09-07

Burnett's Extract at
Il. S. JOHNSTON & Bios.
, 1889-09-07

IT Is the opinion of President Brown
that from the present outlook the consti-
tutional convention will last thirty days.
The session will be broken into by fair
week. when very little can be done, and
the visit of the senate committee on irri-
cation later in the month.
, 1889-09-07

The reopenirg of the glass works at
Laramie City is an event which the whole
territory will hail with pleasure. Thefrst
run was highly successful, and as the en-
tire product is contracted for in advance
there seems to be no good reason why the
venture should not now be an unqualified
SUCCESS.
, 1889-09-07

A Missouri crank. who claims to have
been a member of the first territorial leg
~islature, suggests that the new state be
named Uinta instead OF Wyoming. The
residents here are perfectly well satisfied
with the present name.
, 1889-09-07

Send two cents in stamps to E. L. To-
max, general passenger agent Union Pac-
ciic railway, Omaha. Neb., and secure a
copy of Outdoor Sports and Pastimes,
containing complete rules for lawn tennis,
croquet and base ball; Just issued.
, 1889-09-07
Board.

Board in private family IS per week.
Furnished rooms with or without board.
lis West Eighteenth street, neal Capitol
avenue.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-12
High Enjoyment,

One of the highest and best enjoy
ments comes through what is done for
others. This is believed in theoretic-
ally, but seldom practically. If man
has money, he imagines that the way
10 enjoy it is either to keep and accu-
mulate it or spend it Oh personal graft
fication; yet he misses the very finest
of its delights when he refuses to share
it or its benefits with others. So with
our time, our talents, and our thoughts
kept to ourselves, or used simply for
our own delectation, they do not give
us 1.-THE of the real enjoyment that
they afford when we use them liber-
ally for the benefit of the family, or
friends, or the community. No one
who has once tasted the sweets of min
istering successfully to the happiness
of others will ever again relapse into
purely selfish use of his advantages.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-12
This Thrush Was Wise.

There is much more intellect in birds
than people suppose, as recent Incl
dent proves. A thrush. not aware of
the expansive properties of gunpowder,
thought proper to build her nest on
the ridge of a quarry, in the very
centre of which they were constantly
blasting rock. At first, she was very
much discomposed by the fragments
flying in all directions, but still she
would not quit her chosen locality
She soon observed that a bell rang
whenever train was about to be fired,
and that at the notice the workmen
retired to safe positions. In a few
days, when she heard the bell, she
quilted her exposed situation, and flew
down to where the workmen sheltered
themselves, dropping close to their feet.
There she would remain until the ex-
plosion had taken place, and then re-
turn to her nest. The workmen OBJ
served this, narrated it to their employ
ers, and it was also told to visitors who
came to view the quarry. The visitors
naturally expressed a wish to witness
so curious specimen of intellect; but
as the rock could not be always blasted
when visitors came, the bell was rung
instead, and for few times answered
the same purpose. The thrush few
down close to where they stood, but
she perceived that she was trifled with,
and it interfered with the process of
incubation; the consequence was, that,
afterward when the bell rang, she
would peep over the ledge to ascertain
if the workmen did retreat, and if they
did not, she would remain where she
was.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-12

Among the curiosities to be found in
the Minnesota State Law Library are
two volumes of the colonial laws of
Massachusetts, 1850 to 1872. They
are, of course, reprints, but s.ye olden
stylen has been faithfully reproduced.
The code of laws in vogue in those
provincial days was truly very crude.
1t was then that the whipping post was
resorted to as a mode of punishment,
but it is stipulated that ''no man shall
be beaten with above forty stripes, nor
shall any true gentleman, nor any man
equal to gentleman, be punished by
whipping unless his crime be very
shameful and his course of life vicious
and profigate." Again the code says:
off man shall Blaspheme the name
of god, the father, Some or Holy
ghost, with direct, expresse, presumpt-
uous or high handed blasphemie, or
shall curse God in the like manner, he
shall be put to DEATH"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-12
Learn to be Self.Rellant.

People who have been bolstered up
all their lives are seldom good for any
thing in crisis. When misfortune
comes, they look around for somebody
to cling to or lean upon. Once down,
they are utterly helpless, and can
never find their feet again without
assistance. Such silken fellows no
more resemble self-made men who
have fought their way to position,
making difficulties their stepping
stones and deriving determination
from defeat, than bushes resemble
oaks. 1t is unwise to deprive young
men of the advantages which result
from energetic action by assisting
them oyer obstacles which they ought
to be able to surmount alone. Did a
man ever learn to swim we'll who
placed his whole confidence In a cork
jacket? This assistance may be of ad-
vantage for few lessons, but he who
would learn to care for himself must
cast aside all such supports.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-12
Ideas--.Original and Extended,

Original ideas may be so enlarged
upon and viewed through such differ
ent channels of thought that the result
arrived at is often robbed of nearly
all semblance of the original idea; and
thus it Is that we are too apt to look
upon men who are mere offenders of
ideas as though they were original
thinkers-the very fountains from
which spring the germs of original
thought-when, in truth, they are orig
inal only in the secondary views
Which they take of established ideas.
When branch from pear tree is
grated on the limb of an apple tree,
his branch will yield pears. Is it to
be argued from this that the same sap
which produces apples on the other
branches of the tree docs not produce
pears on this branch? Just as the sap
of the apple tree nourishes the pears
through the medium of the branch of
the pear tree, so the original idea
feeds the mind of the inventor of sec
ondary ideas, and tie mental fruit
takes on the characteristics of his
mind.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-12
Resistance Of Pain.

The following anecdote is related in
the travels of a missionary in South
Africa. On one occasion, while the
missionaries were at dinner in their
own tent, some of the native chiefs
and their wives being present, one of
them seeing missionary help himself
to a little Cayenne pepper, its color
attracted his attention, and he asked
for some of it. On getting the Cay
enne, he instantly threw quantity of
it on his tongue, but, OH feeling its
pungency, he shut his eyes, clapped
his hand upon his mouth, and, hold
ing down his head, endeavored man.
fully to conceal the pain. When he
was able to look up, he slyly touched
the missionary with his foot, to init
mate that he should say nothing, but
give the same dose to the others pres
ent. Another chief next got some,
who also instantly felt its powers, but
under standing the joke, as soon as he
was able to speak, he asked for some
for his wife; and thus it went round,
to the great diversion of all after
wards. Though the pungent condi-
ment caused the big tears to roll down
their cheeks, they scorned to show
that they felt pain, until it had gone
round, and then they smiled at each
other with taciturn gravity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-12
Why The President Elect Did Not Shoot.


1t is to be hoped that the President
had more peace on his duck-hunting
expedition than on the last shooting
expedition which he attempted to make.
He was in indianapolis at the time, and
the election had just passed. Mr.. Har-
rison had been pretty well tired out by
the work and worry of the campaign,
and thought he would like to get some
fresh air and some sport. He made
arrangements with "Bob" Pierce, of
indianapolis, who is one of the best
shots of that city, and they started off
for a little quail shooting. When they
got out to the shooting grounds they
imagined they had struck camp
meeting. Instead of few lone quails,
they found crowds OF people who had
come out to see the President shoot
Wagons were standing i'm the hcIas for
miles around. Little knots of people
had come in from the entire surround
ing neighborhood, and an authentic
historian claimed that over 5000 peo-
pie had turned out to see the sight.
.'Thcre isn't much need of one trying
to shoot to-day" General Harrison
said, somewhat ruefully, and Mr..
Pierce responded, eff we did, we
couldn't kill anything geese! !"
and they turned around and went home.
However, there are not only geese
wild geese-but almost every other
kind of small game on the Appomattox,
where the President has been, and
with good luck one can come across
deer or two in that neighborhOod.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-12
A Wonderful Lily.

One sometimes hears of the wonder
full productiveness of the golden lily
Lilium Auratum, Lindley. Some
years ago an instance was recorded of
one stalk, under cultivation, bearing
no less than thirty-tive flowers. This
happened at Pitlour, in Fifeshire,
Scotland, in 1886. The record is quite
beaten by plant in the garden of a
foreign resident at Karuizawa, which
is now bearing no fewer than fifty
seven flowers Oh one stalk. The stalk
itself is six feet high, and toward the
upper end it flattens out, the buds
hanging like keys on a board. The
upper extremity is cleft. Room is
allowed for the remarkable luxurance
of towering just described, In the Far
East of Sept. Is, 1872, it is stated:
This summer there grew III the
garden of Mr.. G, g, Pearson
on the Bluff (No, ny, Yoke
hama, two stems from one bulb, One
was fair specimen of the ordinary
towering of the plant, having eighteen
flowers upon it; but the other, upon a
broad flat stem about an inch and a
half in width, but thin as a lath, had
no less than sixty-three buds, of which
fifty-two were in full flower at one
fine -
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-12
The Wild Girl

The girl of sixteen who will neither
sew nor do homework has no business
to be deckcd out in tinery and ram
bling about in search of fun and frolic.
There is no objection to fun, but it
should be well chosen and well timed.
No girl or woman who will not work
has a right to share the wages of
poor mans toll. If she does work, if
she makes the clothes she wears, and
assists in the household duties. the
chances are that she will have enough
self-respect to behave properly when
play-time comes; but if she should still
be little "wild," the honest toll she
has done will confer upon her some
degree of right to have her own way,
ill-judged though it may be. The
wild girl usually aspires to prominence
in some social circle or other, and her
manners and conduct are in greater or
less degree designed to attract the fol-
lowing of men. She should remember
that followers are not always adj
mirers, and that the most sincere adj
miration a man ever feels for a woman
in Grawlng-room is when he looks
upon her, and says, in his own con-
sciousnessi "She is perfect lady"
That is reflection that never occurs to
him as his eyes fall upon the wild girl.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-12

to do mans livin' Christian
duty for - workin' hours; and the
heft of that is, it's because amt used
to it, and [ ought to be.
$50 this mornin' come around, and
felt mite more cherk. Twas mis-
sionary mornin', and seemed as if twas
sight easier to preach than to prac-
tise. | thought l begin to old Mis-
Vendors. So / put a testament in my
pocket and knocked to her door. Says
l, 'Good-mornin' ma'am,' and then l
stopped. Words seemed to hang, some
how. didn't want to pop right out
and I'd come over to try'n convert
her folks. hemmed and swallered
little, and fin'lly 1 said, says l, I'VE
don't see you to meetin' very frequent,
Mis- Vender.'
"'No, you don't!' says she, as quick
as a wink d stay at home and mind
my business
.E'Well, we should like to have you
come along with us and do We good,'
says L sort of conciliatin'.
"'Look here, deacon!' she snap
ped; 'Pve lived alongside of you if-
teen year, and you knOwed | never
went to meetin'; we amt pious lot,
and you knowed it; we're poor'n
death and uglier'n sin. Jim he drinks
and swears, and Malviny dono her
letters. She knows heap she hadn't
ought to, besides. Now what are you
a-comin here today for, I'd like to
know, and talking SO glib about
meetin'? Go to meetin'! I'll go and
come jest as darn please, for all you.
Now get out O. thisn
HWhy, she come at me with broom
stick. There wasn't no need ont;
what she said was enough. l hadn't
never asked her nor hern to SO much
as l think of goodness before.
Then went to another place jest like
that won't call no more names-and
sure enough there was ten children in
rags, the. bu.. of 'em, and the man half
drunk. He give it to me too, and l
don't wonder. Fdnever lifted a hand to
serve nor save 'em before in all these
years. I'd said considerable about the
heather in foreign parts, and give
some little to convert 'em, and | had
looked right over the heads of them
that was next door. Seemed as if
could hear him say, These ought We
to have done, and not have left the
other undone.'
81 couldn't face another soul to-day,
brethren. l come home, and here
be. I've been searched through and
through and found wantin'. God be
merciful to me, sinner!"
He dropped into his seat, and bowed
his head, and many another bent also.
1t was plain that the deacon's experience
was not the only one among the breth-
rem. Mr.. Payson rose, and prayed as
he had never prayed before, the week
of practice had fired his heart, too.
And it began a memorable year for the
church in Sugar Hollow; not year of
excitement or enthusiasm, but one
when they heard their Lord saying, to
Israel of old, $50 forward" and they
obeyed his voice.
The Sunday school fourished, the
church services were fully attended,
every good thing was helped on its
way and peace reigned in their homes
and hearts, imperfect, perhaps, as new
growths are, but still an off-shoot of |
the peace past understanding.
And another year they will keep
another week of practise by common
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-12
An Episode of Teeth.

1t was about 2 o'clock of a chill
morning when Mr.. X. presented him
self at the door of doctor in the viii
lage of W., and after series of thun-
dering knocks at the door with a good
deal of vigorous exercise upon the bell
handle, succeeded in bringing that gen.
tleman to the window overhead.
"What is it?' asked the doctor.
'Do you pull teeth?" Mr.. X. de-
manded.
Eyes, when 1 have to-" was the
reply.
" Then want tooth pulled"
"All right. Come back in the morn
ing and I'll take it out for YOU"
"Come back in the morningl" ejac-
ulated Mr.. X. What do you take me
for? Here Pve been in torment for
these two days, and for the last two
hours I've been hunting all over this
COMPOUNDED town after dentist, and
now I'd like to have the job done at
once if there is any way to fix it."
The dentist at first demurred, but at
last he consented to come down and get
the tooth out at once; and after due
interval in which he made his hasty
toilet, Mr.. X. was admitted to the
house. The chill of the night was
everywhere. but X. was too intent
upon getting rid of the troublesome
molar to mind that, and he was duly
installed in the operating chair and an
examination made.
"Hold ON there, X. said, as the dem
fist, having satisfied himself which
was the troublesome tooth, took up
his forceps and prepared for work.
81 want to take gas. This tooth has
given me about all the pain l can stand
from it."
"Well," the dentist answered, "the
gas is little low, but if you insist
will give you what there is. 1t will
deaden the pain, though very likely
you will feel 1t some."
The conventional breathing-tube of
black rubber was produced, and X.
proceeded to inhale for dear life. For
a moment the dentist allowed him to
pump his lungs full from the gas res
ervoir, and then, taking the breathing
tube away, he quickly whipped in his
forceps and whipped out the tooth.
Il did feel it some," X. observed,
when he was able to get his mouth in
a condition which allowed him to
speak.
Ibid your" the dentist asked, SYM
pathetically. mot much, hopper"
"Not so very much" X. replied.
"Still, knew when it came"
When, moment later, X. pre-
pared to pay his bill, and asked the
price, he was surprised to be told
sum which was so small that it seemed
that mistake must have been made.
"But is that all you ask for admin
istering gasp he asked.
"Oh, bless you," was the smiling
answer, "'there wasn't any gas there.
only let you breathe into the tube
little to satisfy your imagination.
Y. did not at first know whether
to be vexed or amused, but wisely
concluding that the latter was the bet
ter policy, he wendell his way home,
chuckling, and got himself to bed as
the first streaks of the coming dawn |
began to show in the sky.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-12
Cheerful Girls.

Good and healthy girls are almost
always cheerful. No novelist would
consider his youthful heroine complete
if a bringing laugh" were omitted
from the list of her charms; and in
real life the girls who do not laugh
now and then are seldom trusted or
liked by their companions, Even
beauty will not save them, 4 belle
who fails to understand the jest of her
admirers and smiles in amiable be-
wilderment while other people are
laughing Is soon left with no consola-
ton save to wonder what anybody can
see in her rival-a girl with "tip-tilted"
nose, perhaps, and large mouth and
freckles, but the happy pOssessor of a
pair of merry eyes and cheerful
mind. The gift of gayety is indeed of
great value; but 1t must be gayety
which originates in kind and CHEEKY
heart, not that which is born of mere
excitement or gratified vanity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-12

The following summary of results,
as obtained by Prof. 7. Hunt, of the
Illinois College farm, in his expert
ments in feeding hogs, will be of inter-
est to those engaged in practical pork
producing.
l. 1t required 1890 pounds of skim
milk to produce one pound of pork
when fed with cornmeal ratio one and
one-seventh to fattening hogs.
2. Skim-milk could not be economic
ally fed to fattening hogs unless it was
waste product which could not be
otherwise utilized.
3. 1t required on an average four
and one-half pounds of shelled corn to
produce one pound of pork during an
average period of four weeks, or one
bushel produced Is 12 pounds.
4. 1t required four and one-half
pounds of cornmeal to produce one
pound of pork, or one bushel of corn
made into meal and fed will produce
II ga pounds of pork.
8. When fed dry, shelled corn is
more economical than corn meal to feed
fattening hogs.
o. III required seven ana One-nalI
pounds, or one-fourth bushel of ground
oats, to produce one pound of pork,
when fed with equal parts by weight
Of corn meal
z. One bushel of corn meal is worth
nearly three bushels of oats as food for
fattening hogs.
8. Corn-fed pigs gained four and
one-half pounds per week, and ate
about 81 pounds of corn per 100 pounds
of live weight.
9. Pork was produced during the
cold weather, with corn at 20 cents per
bushel, for less than three cents per
pound.
10. An insufficient food supply for
two weeks caused a very considerable
loss in feeding thereafter.
II. Indian corn is the most econom-
ical pork producing material during
the winter months in regions where
extensively grown.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-12

Sulphurous acid gas is one of the
surest vermin exterminators and most
powerful disinfectants yet discovered.
In using it great care is necessary to
prevent injury from inhaling the gas,
which is deadly poison, and from de-
stroying the building by fire, which
is necessary to employ for the produc-
ton of the gas. A common kerosene
stove and an old iron frying-pan are
the most convenient implements for
generating the gas, particularly where
roll birthstone is used. The place to
be fumigated should first be cleared of
every living thing whose life is of any
value. 1t should then be made as
nearly air-tight as possible, by closing
the windows and thinking the crevices
if any. If the building is a large one
put pound of roll birthstone into the
frying-pan. Set the stove near the
door, SO that it can be reached easily
from without, light the wicks, put
from one-fourth of pound to pound
of the birthstone into the frying-pan,
according to the size of the room, and
place the pan upon the stove,
When the birthstone begins to melt,
turn the wicks of the stove down SO as
TO leave but small blaze, light a match
and touch to the melted birthstone, go
out and shut the door. After the brim-
stone is consumed, which can be learned
by looking through the glass window,
initiate the lungs with air, open the
door just enough to reach the stove,
turn the wicks down SO as to extin-
guish the blaze, close the door again,
and leave the room shut up from twelve
to twenty-four hours. Be careful to
hold the breath while extinguishing
the fire i'll the stove. After keeping
the room shut up long enough to be-
come thoroughly fumigated, open the
windows from the outside, throw open
the door and let it air for a few hours
before venturing inside. We have
sometimes fumigated barn slightly
with excellent results without remov-
ing the stock. A small amount of the
gas can be inhaled with decided advan-
tage by horses suffering from epizoo-
tic, farcy or creased heel.
A stick of roll birthstone two and
half inches long will be sufficient to
fumlSate ue-up 36Xl4 feet, and II
occupied by cattle or horses the win
doWs and doors must be kept open
while the birthstone is burning, When
q kerosene stove is not convenient, an
old iron kettle, holding several gallons,
partly filled with hot embers, can be
used instead, The kettle should be
placed upon large, fiat rock, sheet
of zinc or quantity of loan or sand,
so as not to set fire TO the floor. Put a
few shovelfuls of cold ashes into the
bottom of the kettle, then fill 1t about
one-third full of live hardwood Goals,
Set 1t In the room to be fumigated.
Put some roll birthstone into an iron
skillet or frying pan. Set it OH the
embers and touch lighted match to it
when it begins to melt. Flour of sui
phur will answer every purpose if
birthstone is not convenient.