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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09
Stitched With Ants Jaws.

Ants are terrible fighters. They
have very powerful jaws, considering
the size of their bodies, and therefore
their method of fighting is by biting.
They will bite one another and hold
on with wonderful grip of the jaws,
even after all their legs have been Bit
ten off by other ants. Sometimes six
or eight ants will be clinging with a
death grip to one another, making a
peculiar spectacle, some with a leg
gone and some with half the body
gone.
One singular fact is that the grip of
an ants jaw is retained even after the
body has been bitten off and nothing
but the head remains. This knowledge
is possessed by a certain tribe Of Indi-
ans in Brazil, South America, who put
the ants to very peculiar use.
When an Indian gets cash cut in
his hand, instead of having the flesh
sewed together as the physicians do in
this country, he procures five or six
large black ants, and, holding their
heads near the cash, they bring their
Jaws together in biting the flesh, and
thus pull the two sides of the cash to-
gether.
Then the Indian pinches off the
bodies of the ants and leaves their
heads clinging to the flesh, which is
held together until the cash is perfectly
healed .-NeW York Journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09
An Old Mans Strange Story.

There was a strange visitor at the
Capitol yesterday afternoon. An old
man, nearly bli2d, CROPPED his way into
the executive office and asked for the
Governor. Gov. Gordon was absent,
and the old man said Judge Nisbet
would do just as well.
81 have just come for some advice, =
he said. 81 am kinsman of Presi-
dent Zachary Taylor, Col. John D.
Williamson of Rome and Mr.. Sam In
man of Atlanta. My name is Tallia-
ferro. Twenty years ago l was a de-
tective and Swallowed gang of coun-
terfeiters in Mobile. l was discovered,
and the counterfeiters shot me twice,
chloroformed me and carried me aboard
a ship. l was taken to Rome, Italy,
and placed in a dungeon near the
Pope's palace. There l was left for
fifteen years. Finally l escaped and
came back to this country. What 1
want to know is can l in any way
prosecute the counterfeiters if l find
them?"
The question was a knotty one, but
the Judge was equal to it, and advised
the Monte Cristo of this century to go
TO Mobile and consult the United States
District Attorney.
The old man was we'll dressed, and
said he had plenty of money. He
thanked the Judge and left the office.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09
The Doctors Revenge.

An elderly lady who was simultane-
ously very wealthy, and who also had
a very inflated idea of her own import
ance, had a pet monkey, which sud-
denly became quite i'll.
The lady, whom we shall call Mrs.
Portly Pompous, had the assurance to
send for one of the most prominent
physicians to attend the ailing simian.
When the doctor was introduced to the
patient he was very much enraged, but
he did not betray it. He examined the
sick monkeys pulse and asked the
usual questions.
In a corner of the room was a little
boy, a grandson of Mrs. Portly Pomp-
Gus. The doctor approached the boy,
examined his pulse, and then said SOL
EMMY to the lady: "Madame your two
little grandchildren are suffering from
Indigestion. Give them only light
food, with plenty of exercise, and they
will soon come around all right"
After the doctor had said this he
bowed himself out, with the feeling
that he had in a measure vindicated
his outraged professional dignity. The
bill which he sent in was so heavy that
Mrs. Portly Pompous, who is some
what stingy, almost had a tit herself
over II
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
NOTES AND HINTS
FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
How to Make Farm Work Easier and
Home Brighter.

Some people have a strong objection
to the use of sawdust in stables or any
place where it will get into the manure,
and there are many other substances
that will absorb more liquid and be
more readily converted into plant food !;
but where these other substances can
not be readily procured the need of
bedding for the comfort and cleanli-
ness of the animals, as well as for the
saving and mechanical conditions of
the manure, will warrant the use of
any substance which will serve these
purposes and not be positively injuri-
GUS. There is much choice in the vari-
GUS woods on account of the length of
time they resist decay, but sawdust is
all what is called vegetable matter and
is the same substance of which wood
ashes are made, therefore all the valu-
able ingredients in ashes are in the
sawdust.
But allowing that the sawdust is a
negative quantity as regards its fertil-
1zlng elements, anything that will save
by absorbing the liquid manure from
farm stock will double the value and
nearly double the bulk of the manure
pile. Furthermore, the whole mass
thus made can be handled and prepared
for immediate use in the soil as easily
as half the bulk could if it was COM
posed of the solid alone, and was
dropped into the barn cellar in a green,
pasty, air-tight mass. This mechani-
cal condition is too often overlooked
and the amount of sawdust in manure
is counted as so much adulteration.
But we would give more for pile of
manure half sawdust, if the latter was
thoroughly soaked, than for pile that
was free from sawdust, and from the
liquid manure of the stock.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09

| young animal suffer with cold, wet
and filth. Good horses have been pro-
duced under the old system, but we do
not know how much better they might
have been, nor how many have been
ruined by abuse. To make steady
growth colt-or any other young an
imal should have plenty of green or
succulent food during the winter. If
kept on dry food the tissues become
shrunken and it takes long time for
growth to start in the summer when
grass starts; but if the loose condition
of the system is kept up through the
winter, growth will be continuous,
and development more full and equal.
Under the old system of feeding it was
often said, "a horse colt grows one
end at time" and when they are only
half fed this may be the case, but with
proper food and care this uncertain
halfway growth can be avoided.
There has been much difference of
opinion about the propriety of feeding
grain to young colts. We have no
proof that crushed oats are any harder
to digest than dry hay, and we see no
reason why colt should not have con-
centrated food in the place of milk till
the digestive organs get large enough
to digest the amount of hay required
to furnish the proper amount of nour-
ishment.
But colts will make good growth and
look well on good hay and apples, or
turnips, or anything of that kind, and
some men claim that they prefer colt
that has had no grain before it is four
years old. Such colts may be better
for horse dealers, as they will gain
rapidly on good food, but they may
not bear as much hard service and the
food which it demands as those that
were early accustomed to such food.
Colts should have large pens and plenty
OF room to exercise and something not
as hard as floor to stand on. The
latest two years old colt we ever had
was kept the first two winters in
warm, dry barn cellar, among a small
flock of sheep and had no other food
than hay and turnips, and she made as
large and apparently as good a horse
as her mother that had four quarts of
oats day the first winter. But we
are not opposed to feeding grain to
colts on account of that experience.
They need something which will make
hardy growth and muscular develop
ment.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09

German chemists have discovered in
ter, and it is being produced in large
quantities at Mannheim. One factory
turns out 5000 pounds per day, worth
10 cents per pound.
On the Rothamsted experiment farm
of Sir John Laws, wheat has been
grown on the same land every year
for 46 years. The average yield for
the SO years ending with 1887 was
ID IA bushels per acre.
Capital invested in fertilizer is Just
like putting it in any plain, safe, BUSH
ness investment. The returns will de-
pend, in large measure, on the good,
business-like sense and judgment used
in making the investment.
The first school of dairying ever Or
ganized in America has been started
through the efforts of Professor Henry
at the state university of Wisconsin.
1t is intended to give thorough instruc-
ton in dairying and cheese-making,
including the analysis of milk.
The shipment of Maine Christmas
trees to the New York market has COM
menced. The steamer Lucy P. Miller,
it is estimated, last year carried more
than 30 cords of these trees to New
York, and this seasons shipments will
be even larger. The farmers pick up
good many stray dollars in this man
ner.
The packing of hogs at the leading
rnir,tc from Nnrror,ohn,. 1 To
November 90 was as follows: Chi
cage, 335, 900; Kansas City, 5000;
Omaha, AZ, 900; st. Louis, AZ, 900; In
dianapolis, 55, 900; Cincinnati, 81 900 !;
Milwaukee, 40 ,498; Sioux City, Ia,
AZ ,216; Cedar Rapids, 20 sos; Cleye-
land, Is 900.
During the past 10 months England
has imported sol, 249 hundredweight
canned meats from the United States,
3d. PA hundredweight from Australia,
81, 1888 hundredweight from Belgium
and 122 APO hundredweight from other
countries. The receipts from the
United States were $50 hundred
weight greater this year than last.
The industry of making butter in
creameries is quite we'll established in
Maine. There are creameries in Spring
vale, Acton, Limerick, New Glou-
cester, Portland, West Paris, Buckfield,
Rumford, Sebattus, Poland, Turner,
Rockland, Monroe, Mon
mouth, East Pittston, Winthrop, Gin
ton, Skowhegan, St. Adams, Garland,
Bangor, Foxcroft and Fort Fairfield.
At Bradford and Bridgton creameries
are now being established.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09
LincOln's Funeral Car.

While sitting in our office this morn
ing a train passes the town. 1t is run
ming wild and is composed of an en-
CINE and one passenger car. The car
is old in fashion and appearance. 1t
has not seen paint for years, though
it still bears the jaded lines of former
elegance. Now it is only a construc-
ton car, used to convey men to wrecks
and accidents, and holds one of the
humblest positions in the car service
of the Union Pacific system.
But that old, weather-beaten car
has a history, and it has been honored
by grief-stricken people as no other
car in the union has, for under its
faded old top lay the remains of the
martyred President, Abe Lincoln,
when they were borne in state from
Washington to Springfield. Through
that car poured grief-stricken people
at every stop on the journey-sorrow-
ing, weeping women, men whose
pulse-beat meant sorrow and resent
ment, children who are now the main
spring of this republic.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09
WIZARD EDISON.
A PEN PICTURE OF THE FAMOUS
INVENTOR.
Oarelessly Dressed, a Little Deaf and
a Tireless Worker.

Nine out of ten thoughtful Ameri-
cans who should sit down, pencil in
hand, to make list of the men of the
hour would write first, in a jiffy, the
name of Tom Edison.
His history would make a story of
rare interest in itself. That peanut
boy on Michigan railway train should
have brains enough under his cap to
fool Dame Nature and bring all the
world of scientists flocking to learn
tricks of him is something. That a
wandering telegraph operator, happy
go-lucky, here to-day, and gone to-
morrow, should have chained and
trained the subtlest of natures agents
to his bidding, set slow-geing precedent
by the ears and gained the adulation
and reverence of world full of peo-
pie is marvellous.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09
THE MANZANiTA.

Long ere the rattle arbutuS lifts
In her own places down flushed drifts.
On their mad junketings the bees
Have found thee out, and deep in seas
OF rose-fushed snow wade in and out.
The yellow jenkins fit about,
Ne'er guessing thou hast found way
In sinful wise them to betray.
For, siren, thou hast set snare
OF lucent honey hidden where
1t doth entangle and hold fast,
Zen sometimes to their death at last,
Many jetted foot and wing,
In spite of toilsome fluttering.
Not till thy stamens deep rose-red
Have opened Sits like golden thread
and spilled the coin that thou wouldst bind
On fuzzy coats-thy carrier-kind,
Art willing that the bees should SUD
at their own will in thy sweet CUP.
y, Is 1t strange that shame-faced flush
Should dye thy cheeks with ROSY blusbp
Annie Bronson King.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09
A Home Oueeu.

81 don't believe in the woman's
rights business" said Mrs. Henpeck,
as she sat on the piazza tanning her
self, while Mr.. Henpeck washed and
wiped the dishes. 81 believe in men
keeping in their proper speer and the
women in their'n, and | amt no desire
to 90 and onsex myself marching off to
the poles like man. Home is the
proper speer for woman. Hurry up
and git them dishes done, Henpeck, and
then sit down and sew them missing
buttons on your coat before it's time
for you to put the baby to bed. p
brakes Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09
Didn't Think He Could.

"Do you think that | could ever" -
here his voice faltercd and a sudden
emotion seemed to swallow his words.
"Could ever what, GeOrge?"
THAT | could ever"
yes"
"Do you think that | could ever get
used to your fathers ways?"
Just then there was dim rafting in
the furnace room, the gas flickered
glimmeringly and almost went out,
then fared up again, as if some one
were tampering with the meter, while
dire dismal words came through the
register.
She let little sob escape her and
replied:
"No, George, don't think you ever
could. MERIDIAN Traveller.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09

1t is interesting to note the beliefs
corning manures and all fertilizing
substances and the methods of appl-
cations in vogue. A little discussion
ON this matter, which was engaged in
by the Duchess and Ulster Farmers
club at Poughkeepsie, n. Y, in
August, is of interest. David Sands
Halstead of Manchester remarked that
he had thrown away great deal of
manure by top dressing. President
Knapp of this association believes in
drawing out manure as fast as it is
made. Francis Citing of Red Hook
said: 81 drew out manure last fall
and put it on One-half of a lot to be
plowed for corn in the spring.
"The rest of the field was MANFRED
in the spring. The part of the field
MANFRED in the fall far exceeds in
production the half MANFRED in the
spring." W. F. Tabor of Pough-
keepsie believes that some crops need
surface manuring, while others do
much better with the manure plowed
in. "One must bring his land up to
a condition where the roots of plants
can pass through it to get the manure.
From less than a quarter of an acre
this year I dug 103 bushels of potatoes,
of which 1 sold 90 1-2 bushels, receiv-
ing $84. sold 800 worth of sweet
corn from three-fourths of an acre.
When blowing under manure always
use plow that will stand the furrow
on edge"
President Knapp remarked that he
would not allow any other kind of a
pillow on his farm. W. A. Sloan of
Poughkeepsie says that lime should al
ways be plowed in, as it works up
ward, while manure should be kept
near the surface, as it works down
ward; thoroughly composted manures
increase in value. John NJ. Ham of
Washington Hollow said, 81 always
put manure on the surface IN prefer
ence to blowing it under, and L obtain
good results. As an instance, | raised
90 tons of ensilage corn from three and
three-fourths acres of sod land without
any manure the same season. This
shows good feeding of the land in pre-
vious seasons"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09
More Than He Bargained for.

Mr.. Spooney--''What soft eyes your
charming sister has, Johnny! Does
she ever make any remarks about meP'
Her brother-"O, yes; she made a
remark about you very much like the
one you just made about her"
"Indeed, and what was itP'
''She said you were soft. Law
renee American
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09
Soma Ouepr Logic.

1t has been found in Ohio that as i'm
sane asylums multiply in number in
sanity becomes more prevalent. Kalse
a big poor fund and paupers will be-
come more numerous, but it is queer
that people should go crazy in order to
fill up asYlums.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09
They Skinned Him.

There is a Latin name for every bird,
beast, reptile and insect, except the
polly-wog. For some reason they didn't
get hold of him, or it was decided that
he was Latin enough without anything
extra.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09
HOW TO BECOME RICH.
Il Word With You, Boys ana Girls,
Young Men and Young Women.

Il Word With You, Boys ana Girls,
Young Men and Young Women.
Have you ever thought how important
it is that you lay aside some small part of
your daily earningsP Ought you not to
lay the corner stone of a competence
noao by making deposit In the Savings
BankP Do not say that it isn't worth
while to place your little savings in the
Bank. 1t is worth while. 1t is the
very best thing you can do. Do it at
once. Let the beginning be as small as
you like. Only make beginning and
then add to it. Every dollar is made up
of 100 cents AMI every accumulation of
wealth, however great, is but an aggre-
CATION of dollars. If during life you
lay by a competence to care for you IN
old age you must lay by the first dollar.
Lay that by noto and then look out for
the second and the third. To do this is
duty that you owe, not only to your
selves and those near and dear to you,
but to the community in which you live.
The Lamoille County Savings Bank q
Trust Company guarantee the payment
of four per cent, and If not withdrawn
it is compounded semi-annually. Did
you ever think how fast small deposit
regularly made will grow when set to
work atinterest compounded semi-annu-
ally? We think not; and desiring that
you may see, we call your attention to the
table below. To illustrate the table take
for example daily saving of ten cents.
We find that when compounded semi
annually at four per cent. it will amount
In Four Years to. -. .S2OO.S3
11A Zen Il CARS TO-. A40.oA
In Twenty Years to. 11OI.S4
In Forty Years to. .3554.01
How many young men worse than fool.
ishly spend this sum every day of their
lives, which, if saved, would in their old
age amount to competence greater than
nine out of every ten Of the human race
enjoy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09

Those who have so persistently in
sisted, during the past few years, that
there was ga lion in the way" of the
sheep husbandman, can find food for
profitable reflection in the general in
terest manifested in the show-rings at
a majority of the important fairs of the
present season; while the number and
character of the animals shown, the
sales effected, the prices obtained, and
the general satisfactory outlook may
portend an eclipse to the reputation for
prophetic foresight of the few men
who mistook depression for destruc-
ton, none are likely to be found I'M
willing to see and hail with satisfac-
ton the improved prospects for profit
able returns for intelligent flock man
agement.
Some of the great fairs have had
greater numbers of sheep in the pens
in past years, but it is quite certain
that none of them have ever had better
animals. This fact was especially
apparent in the classes for medium and
long-wool breeds, and only less so in
the tine-wool class as regards numbers
of animals on view-a disparity readi-
ly accounted for by recent increased
attention to the production of meat in
connection with the growth of profita-
BILE fleeces. All of which is satisfac-
tory. The men with inferior animals
are self-handicapped. Those who are
without the best animals of their fay
orite type are not likely to find more
favorable time than the present for
securing them.
Prices for really meritorious sheep
are now low-as low as they ever will
believer than they really should be in
justice to the men who persisted in i'm
proving their flocks Through evil as
we'll as through good reports" Those
who cannot realize that the time for
mourning over the condition of our
sheep husbandry is past, and that the
day and opportunity for profitable
flock management has come, had as
well stand aside. They are likely to
be run over by the procession of live
and determined men who propose to
secure success by deserving it-who
set about adjusting their business to
the newer dispensation while others
were waiting for the resurrection of
dead past.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09

Many old customs and traditions
and inconsiderate haste of the present
age, can be traced to some reasonable
and sensible origin or to some condi-
ton which justified the action where
the custom originated. But the old
system of 'toughening" colts, which
simply consisted in allowing them to
suffer with cold, wet and hunger half
the year, we have not been able to
trace to anything sensible or reasonable.
1t is generally admitted that young
animals and plants are in state of i'm
maturity and are readily affected for
good or evil; and if horse after he is
old enough to be of service must be
kept on dry bed and wiped dry when
he comes in little sweaty and blank
eted when there is any suspicion of
draft of air, it is hard to see how it
will benefit colt to lie in his own
filth where it is so cold that icicles
form from the drippings of his hair as
he stands grinding at straw pile.
We claim that if one of these systems
of treatment is right, the other must
be wrong, and any man should be able
to decide which is right by the use of
common sense and his own knowledge
of animal comfort and bodily health.
We would not blanket a colt that
had a warm stable and was not used,
but there can be no excuse beyond
laziness and ignorance for letting any
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09

Advocating the Throne.-Mrs. Upton
Flatte-Why do you cry, cook?
Bridget (about to be married)-It's
mesilf that IL soon be no better off than
the rest of yez.-Christmas Puck.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09

In quantities of less than l 200 pounds
So cents per 100 pounds. Come early If
you want it, as it freezes up about Dec.
!, and as soon as frozen we shall with
draw this offer. Those who are in any
doubt about the advisability of using
Salt as fertilizer need only investigate
to ascertain that $40 worth of home
mace fertlllzer consisting of Salt, Ashes,
Plaster or Lime, is worth more money
Oh many kinds of soil than $40 to $40
worth of the heightened commercial fer
tlilZer sold around the country, and
when used in connection with a little
stable manure is an investment which
often returns two or three times its cost.
We sell it year after year. Several of
our best farmers are now making their
own fertilizers. Come early. as the
amount we have to offer is limited.
- & DANE Audn PnYk
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09

Despise not the day of small begin
nings. but let this day be the day when
you will start on the road to compe-
tence, if you are not already travelling
that way.
LamOiIIe Co. Savings Bank d Trust Cos
Hyde Park. Vermont.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-06-21
Pulpit Declared Vacant.

RICHMOND, VA, June II, 1890.
At a regular business meeting of
the Pilgrim Baptist Church, held on
the 10th inst. the following persons
were excluded from membership and
their names dropped, it being salts
factorily proven that they were ex-
cluded from the Bethlehem Baptist
Church before uniting with us, name
ly: Nelson Taylor, James Gatewood,
Noah Jones, VIM. Banks, Nelson
Taylor, Jr., Martha Taylor, Benja-
min Johnson, j. Scott and Henry
Brown.
The above members were falsely
imposed upon the church by the pas
tor, Sanders Howell and for this
cause we have on motion declared
the pulpit vacant. Done by order o
the Pilgrim Baptist Church.
j. w. KEMP, moderator.
=" Church elk.