News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-31
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of rails, while the so-called electric
omnibus of Paris is in reality tram
car running on track.
A farmer at Hood River, Oregon,
shipped sixty sacks of potatoes that
weighed about 100 pounds each to
Portland, Or, short time ago. The
potatoes sold for 40 cents per 100
pounds, the top price The freight
was so cents per hundred, the drayage
two cents and commission two cents,
which, with six cents for the sacks,
consumed the entire proceeds of the
sale, leaving the farmer not cent for
his seed, the labor of planting, cult
waiting, harvesting and shipping, that
any one knows who has hoed, dug and
picked up potatoes, is no trifing mat
ter.
When one kills his first alligator he
is all enthusiasm. Nothing will do
but that he must secure the body Of
his game and hack out some of the
teeth as trophies the nasty, wet
form of the saurian is dragged aboard
to the amazement of the timers, who
watch the gloating ecstasy with which
the slayer examines his prize. When
after Staying a dozen or so, the nov
ice finds out what useless things alli-
gators are, he pots the beasts with IN
concern and does not deem it neces-
sary to interrupt the pleasure of shoot
ing with the labor Of securing the
game.
Girls, don't answer matrimonial adj
vertisements.- But if you do so don't
indulge in any Stiffness. The Norris
town Herald says a young man worth
81 100000 advertised for wife just
for fun. He received several hundred
replies, the writer's signing their front
names Sadie, Hattie, Maggie, Matte,
Minnie, Mollie, Mamie, Jennie and
other specimens of nomenclature end
ing with ''ie." There was one excep-
ton, however. One of his correspon-
dents simply signed 'Sarah," and he
concluded that she must be so much
more sensible than the others that he
answered her letter, and-''and so
they were married"
A Philadelphia business man has
hit upon novel scheme for avoiding
unwelcome callers. He has placed a
detective camera directly opposite the
door of his office. When a visitor en-
tiers, the office-boy, a bright lad and
well schooled in the diplomacy OF his
profession, turns the knob and takes
an instantaneous photograph of the
intruder. This is developed and
forms one of collection of undesira-
BILE visitors, which is kept in a book
for the boys instruction in the future.
People who come to waste others
time, collectors with bills that they
wish paid and the thousand and one
disagreeable characters known to the
average business man form the basis
of this unique collection.
AS soon as the first cold wave ap-
pears, many people seal up their
houses with the apparent belief that
all air must be avoided. Many fore
90 the custom of airing their rooms in
the morning and do not notice the
peculiar, disagreeable odor which per-
meates the house before spring. One
excellent rule to remember is that
pure air makes a room warmer. If
the room is chilly, open the windows a
few minutes and you will find the at
mosphere more comfortable after they
are closed. In case of convalescence,
if the weather is very cold, the invalid
will derive great benefit by walking
about well wrapped up in room in
which all the windows are opened.
Sun and fresh air are distinct curative
agents.
The disclosure of the famous Muir
Gibson letter is of little public impor-
lance beyond the fact which seems to
be established that the device for
drawing out Lord Sackville was Mr..
Osgoodby's own private conception.
The Democrats and mugwu mps, in
the howl raised by them over the af-
fair, laid the ''fraud" upon the Repub-
lican national committee, and through
them at the door of the Republican
party. But the Republican committee
had nothing to do with it. The writ
er of the letter, who, as it appears, is
a quiet and substantial citizen Of En-
glish parentage, says that his object
was ''to ascertain through the agency
of an unofficial letter, direct from the
British minister, the real attitude of
the British government toward the
two great political parties in the
United States" He consulted no
one but his wife till he received Lord
Sackville's reply. That proved to be
too good to be kept secret, and it was
soon in print without the knowledge
or assistance of any one having any
official connection with the RepuEli
can party.
Diphtheria is, beyond doubt, conta-
gious, both in severe and mild forms,
and is as much so as smallpox, and
the same precautions should be taken
to prevent it's spread. There is more
danger from the mild cases than from
the severe ones, from the fact that
less precautions are advised. What
is commonly called follicular tonsilitis
in one patient may cause the severest
case of diphtheria in another member
of the same family. A leading ply |
stefan says: "FolIicular tonsilitis is
seldom dangerous TO the patient, as
the tonsils have very little communi-
cation with the rest of the body, but |
it is contagious. Even without it
diphtheria may last for weeks, but
with it the patient is liable to sudden
relapse. AS long as it lasts, howeV-
er, it is contagious. AS diphtheria is
but mild affection in many adults
who disregard it and frequently do
not care to mention its existence, pain |
in swallowing being the principal symp-
tom, the question of transmission by |
means of clothing on the part of third |
per sons is capable of becoming more |
difficult to answer than it ever was.
Many a case that has been believed to
be thus carried is probably one Of di-
rect contagion from patient to a /
second person, and from this person |
to another"
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