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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-07-10
Danger from Coal Oil in Summer.

| A frightful succession of coal oil ca
larnities again cope els attention to the
fact that in hot atIfer the products
of petroleum becd he increasingly dan
gerous. As the temperature rises all
these products, froh the heaviest crude
oil to the most volatile naphtha, ey-
pand rapidly and give off gas that,
mixed with the air, becomes explosive.
When cold these fluids do not evapo
rate, and dealers in kerosene illustrate
the safety of their high test illuminat-
ing oils by throwing a lighted match
into vessel filed with the article
which they especially recommend. That
can be done as long as a low temper
allure is carefully maintained, but the
instant the temperature reaches the
point where evaporation begins then
danger threatens. Gas is generated,
and as it spreads abroad fills the vicin-
ity with an explosive compound which,
coming in contact with fire, communi-
Gates in flashing combustion with the
body of the fluid, and an outburst of
flame follows which it is almost impos-
sible for any human agency to deal
with.
This was undoubtedly the cause of
the calamity to the tank steamer Hans
and Hurts, as it was of the similar ca
tastrophe resulting in the destruction
of the steam schooner Louis Bucki at
sea. The gasoline accident at Almond
and Adams streets was of the same
character and was attributable, as
were the others mentioned, to the eff
feet of the hot weather on petroleum
products. The accidents to oil tanks
by lightning are due to the same agen-
cy, electricity exploding the gas gen
Grated from the oil, and the flash set
ting the tank on fire. 1t is difficult to
imagine how these dangers can be pro-
vided against when the products of pc
troleum are of necessity stored in large
quantities; but it is at least a plain
requisite that the dangers should be
recognized and understood, to the end
that extraordinary care may be exer-
cised during the summer season.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
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The House a Woman Built.

1t is seldom that a woman plans and
erects a house precisely according to
her own ideas Some five years ago,
however, a foolhardy Bridgeport man
gave his wife full permission to plan
and build a house as she wanted it.
Then he went away to South America,
and was gone year. When he came
back she ushered him into dwelling
consisting of a parlor, kitchen, bed
room and fTveTlf7 ilSf7f cTosets- In e3icr
closet there were several shelves and
upward of four dozen hooks. Still,
when the Bridgeport man retired that
night lie left his clothes piled ON a chair.
And he did not complain until the next
morning after breakfast, when his wife
met him with board off a dry goods
box, a dozen nails and a flatiron, and
asked him if he couldn't put up an
other shelf in that small closet which
opened off the large front closet.
His left thumb was still sore from
putting up shelf before he went to
South America. He seized his hat and
started downtown, and as he went out
he noticed hooks on the outside of
the front door for the morning milk
man to hang his wares on, and
other hooks on the front gate
on which distributors of advertising
matter might suspend their literary eff
forts \ week later this house was
burned down under suspicious circum-
stances, but though the Bridgeport
man offered q remarkably large reward
for the discovery of the incendiary,
nothing ever came of it.-New York
Tribune
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smugglers Exposed by Lightning.

The vivid fasW zhtning during
Wednesday nights storm exposed to a
keen eyed customs officer one of the
largest smuggling frauds known in the
history of this port. The German tank
steamship Energie was lying at Point
Breeze, loading oil in bulk for Bremen,
and was almost filled, when Night In
spector William Lamond saw by the
lightning hurrying men bringing large
boxes of merchandise on deck, and
lowering them to small boats lying
along the steamships side. Lamond
slipped off his shoes and crept along
the wharf. He climbed on the vessel
and hid himself to see further develop
ments. Heavy packages continued to
come up from the ships cabin to the
deck, and sings were lowering it to the
small boats, when Lamond, with load
ed pistol in hand, rushed on deck and
succeeded in catching Z. Ulrich, a
boatman, who was in charge of the
small boat
He was arrested and detained with
the aid of the mounted police and
locked up Tor the night. Ills compan-
ions ran away and hid on the Energie,
and it was impossible to find them u
rich took the officers to a scow near by,
on which there were forty cases of
brandy, gin and champagne taken Srom
the Energie. The customs cutter Tench
Coke was sent to prevent the Energie
from leaving the port, as she had al
ready cleared, and to notify Capt. Fort
man that he must explain how the
liquor was gotten off his vessel 1t is
estimated that from $50, 900 to $40, 900
worth of liquors are struggled every
year from vessels lying in the Schuyllkill
river, there not being sufficient night
men to cover the territory.
phia Record.
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Salaries of London Journalists.

Herr Blowitz, the Paris correspon-
dent of The London Times (his salary
is $50, 900 a yearD, is the largest sal
aried employee connected with journal
ism in Europe Several London critics
are well paid-notably Clement Scott,
of The Daily Telegraph, who is sup
posed to receive so, a year. An
drew Lang must draw large salary
as an editorial writer for The Daily
News, and, aside from his occasional
journalistic work, he is a fertile book
maker, and he lectures regularly be-
fore number of educational institu-
tons But the large majority of Lon
don journalists are small salaried men
the average reporter gets SIS a week,
and one seldom commands more than
S25-I mean the local equivalent there
for. When Mr. Bennett started the
London edition of The New York Her
aid he paid travelling expenses and $50
"a week to the American reporters he
imported But already he has sent
most of the importations back home
Eugene Field in Chicago News.
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German DiscinIina.

The Empress Victoria, wife of the
late Emperor Frederick of Germany,
has always been a careful and keen
eyed disciplinarian in domestic life.
She notices the slightest variation in
the dress of housemaid as quickly as
she used to detect fault in her chill
dren, and Furnishes ono as inexorably
as the other. Prince Henry, the
brother of the present emperor, had,
when small boy, the greatest objec-
ton to his daily bath, and the nursery
became every morning the scene of a
vigorous and fearful struggle on his
part against tubing"
His mother tried in vain to persuade
him that baths were inevitable, and
that he must submit to them; but she
finally gave the nurse orders one
morning to let him have his own way.
Prince Henry, confident that he had
gained remarkable victory, was ex-
ultant, and when he set oat for his
morning walk took no pains to con-
ceal his triumph. He INDUCED in
sundry haunting remarks to his attend
ants; but on returning home he was
surprised to notice that the sentinel at
the gate did not present arms as he
passed.
On reaching the palace he found a
second sentinel equally remiss, and
knowing as well as any of his
punctilious military race what was
due to his rank, the little fell
low walked up to the man and
asked, severely: "Do you know who
am2" Eyes, Hoheit," said the SEN
tinel, standing motionless. who am
II" ''Prinz Heinrich" 'Why don't
you salute, then2' Because we do
not present arms to an unwashed
prince, replied the sentinel, who had
received his orders from the princes
mother The little fellow said not a
word, but walked on, bravely winking
back the two big tears which filled his
eyes, Next morning, however, he
took his bath with perfect docility, and
was never known to complain of it
again.-San Francisco Argonaut.
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Things One Cannot Move.

Eyes, we are going to move" said ;
young ENemaa-te friend she met Oh
the street car. Fired thinks we need
a larger house as the children are get
ting along. But it is hard work, this
moving. 1t tears things up by the
roots SO. We've lived in that house
ten years, and there's one strip of
woodwork in the front room that I'd
like to take with me-"
rs it decorated2" asked the friend,
with interest.
Eyes. 1t has the height of the chill
dren notched on it from the first year
up to now But there's one missing !
'Arty SO high is gone, l mean that
that he is the one we lost, and that rec
ord of five years is-all-that's left. -
New York Press.
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News and Citizen.
MORRISVILLE and HYDE PARK,
Thursday, July 10, 1890.
THE WOMAN OF THE FUTURE.

She VIII Belong to Combinations to
Raise the Price of Her Labor.
Combination among skilled women
workers is increasing every day,
though slowly, for women are natur-
allv conservative, and they do not
readily accept the principle of union
ism. They have. many of them, suf-
fered sorely from the effect OF strikes,
and though they realize that prolong-
ed combination, if carried out con-
sistently. must improve their position
and in the long run raise their wages,
never lose sight of the long period
during which their employment must
cease till their ultimate demands are
conceded Added to which they do
not forget the bitter feelings aroused
the breach between employer and
servant-and, above all, that in strug-
gle such as a long strike must always
be it is only the strong who win; the
weak ones go to the wall.
All these things make women shy
and slow to join trade union, while
the introduction of foreign labor in
England and the increasing demand,
ON account of their cheapness, for
foreign goods have made a much deep
err impression on their minds than is
generally admitted The skilled wo-
man worker has, however, the securi-
ty of knowing that she can take up her
stand with a greater chance of sue
cess. for with the best women workers,
as with the men, the supply is rarely
in excess of the demand. And were
technical instruction given to women
good deal of the better class work
they cannot do would be carried out
in England, instead of being executed
by French women, who are trained
for it in the many technical schools
which exist for women in France.
In Scotland the question has been
warmly espoused by the women who
work in Glasgow and Dundee, and
the prospect of combining for the un-
skilled as we'll as the skilled workers
is very much more promising than in
England Scotch women are more in
dependent and self reliant, added to
which, though the pay is bad, their
surroundings are less deteriorating
than those of the London women, and
their dwellings are better and rents
are lower.
The rapid increase of the population
and the influx of people from the
country to the large towns make the
problem of how to deal with our skill
ed female labor every year more diff
cult. The education hitherto given to
women in England is purely intellect
ual, and when girl has passed the
standard she at once goes into the
ranks of the unskilled. Ii she can
give time she may be apprenticed and
learn trade, but the number of girls
who can afford to do that is getting
fewer every day. The few shillings a
girl can earn at once is too important
an addition to the family income to be
rejected, and as the majority of them
marry while practically children,
neither the necessity of being appren-
ticed nor of joining a union appeals
to them. -English Illustrated.
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A close, compact, smallish sized body,
placed upon legs of good length; the
neck rather long, with a fine head; a
large upright single comb in the cock,
and in the hen also large, but falling at
one side: and the cocks have large sickle
shaped tails. Of course, the color, plu-
mage, etc., of the Spanish group are diff
ferent in the several varieties but the
general appearance is as here described.
In Andalusians the plumage is slaty
blue, but on the cocks neck and back it
is dark purple or nearly black. The face
is bright red. The birds are of good size,
are prolific layers of large white eggs and
bear confinement well. They are fair
table birds when young, can be kept on
fairly dry soils and are non-sitters. They
require protection from extreme cold.
In selecting Andalusians pay attention
to erectness of carriage and avoid birds
with any white oA the face, as this indi.
Gates cross with the black Spanish.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-07-10
SUICIDE BY FREEZING.
Aunt hIehitabel Collins Attempt 90
shuttle of This Mortal Coil.

shuttle OF This Mortal Coil.
Aunt Mehitabel Coffin, not more
than a short generation ago, lived in
cold old house down on the cold side
of Cape God, with a houseful of
rather frigid maiden ladies, her sisters
and nieces. Becoming a little unset
tied in her mind, Aunt Mehisobel re-
solved that she would battle no longer
with an inclement world. She an
nounced to the family one particularly
cold morning th"t she had made up
her mind to commit suicide.
sLaw'ssakesr p exclaimed her young
er sister Abigail incredulously, chow
do you think you're going kill your
self, Mehitabel2"
''The most nat'ral way round here, !"
said Aunt Mehitabel with a shiver,
sis to freeze to decth. An that's the
way I'm goin to do itI'
The rest of the family laughed her
to scorn. Bnt when she had made all
her preparations to go, and had even
given away her Paisley shawl and
her string of gold beads, their skepti-
cism turned to alarm. 1t began to look
as if she were actually in earnest. The
next night the thermometer went
down almost to Zero Aunt Mehitabel
told them all wailing good-by at
about 9 o'clock in the evening, and
went up to the spare room, which was
of course the coolest room in the
house. She put up the window, sat on
the sill, and hung her feet out into the
icy north wind.
There was no man in the household,
and no woman strong enough or brave
enough to compel Aunt Mehitabel to
get back into the ROOM So the sisters
and nieces gathered about, shivering
in the intensified cold of the spare
room.-
BY and by the suicide began to show
signs of uneasiness in her perch at the
window
oval" she said, Il guess it's bouts
easy to freeze to death on the floor as
It's out here"
She crept back into the room and
crouched down upon the hard floor,
moaning and complaining. By this
time the other women of the house
hold had fled back into the passage
way, and stood waiting in the dark
ness.
Beats ALL" they heard Aunt Me-
hitabel murmur presently, chow hard
this ere old floor Isl l guess I'll sit on
the rug"
She moved to the rug and set up a
new series of world weary lamenta-
tons; but after she had sat there for
some time and had experienced none
of the positive symptoms of freezing
to death she rose and sat down on the
foot of the bed.
This damp, old bed always was
'nough to freeze anybody. and l guess
it'll fetch me, she exclaimed, eff any
thing will"
Presently, almost without her own
consciousness, she sank down upon
the bed, and then one of her nieces
glided into the room and softly COW
cred her with quilt.
"Oh, dearl Oh, dearl" Aunt Mehi-
label shrieked. I'm goin' to sleep, an
that's sure sign I'm freezin' to death.
Good-by to a cold, cruel world-good
by, good-by!'
Aunt Mehitabel slept soundly until
morning, and awoke in a greatly inn
proved mental condition. She did not
renew her attempt at suicide, and
never made any reference to it as long
as she lived.
To people who are born to commit
suicide Aunt Mehitabel's method of
shutting off is perhaps to be recon-
mended.-Boston Transcript.
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Il remember when we were in school
together so many years ago you had a
warm friend who was always praising
your good qualities. What's become
of him2"
"Oh, we're friends still, but I never
hear of his putting himself out to
glorify me-"
''Then you had an enemy who was
forever running you down. What's
become of him?'
"Oh, he's at it yet. Chicago Times.
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Country Merchants, Butch

ers, Peddlers, Produce Dealers,
Tinmen, Marketnen and trad
ers generally will often find
the collecting of Calf Skins a
profta able addition to their
other business.
| desire to arrange with
some good man or firm in
every village in the United
States and Canadas to take in
and ship to me the Calf Skins
taken off in their vicinity.
Cash furnished on satisfac-
tory guaranty. For particulars
address, mentioning this paper,
CARROLL S. PAGE,
Hyde Park, VT.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-07-10

Do YOU ask, g. Where can l do this and
have my money absolutely safe ?" Let
us give you some facts. The Lamoille
County Savings Bank and Trust Co. OF
Hyde Park is an institution run on the
following principles =
1st. Not dollar is loaned without
the personal knowledge of some one of
the Board of Directors that the loan is
safe beyond question.
I'd. 1t is run as home institution
Every dollar is loaned in LamOille and
adjacent counties. and every worthy en-
terprise in the vicinity of the towns
whence the deposits of the Bank come,
is fostered and encouraged in preference
to other investments, so far as it can be
done with absolute safety.
Sd. Under no circumstances is dol
lar invested in any western mortgage or
other out-Of-t he-State security. We
might perhaps pay our depositors one
half of one per cent. per annum more
interest by mourning little additional
risk, if no loss should come, but we
believe there is to-day a long felt
want in Vermont for a savings institu
ton which will loan its funds at home.
1t is needed that Vermont may not
become impoverished. 1t is needed for
the building up and fostering home in
situations. Vermont towns will not
boom without money any more than
towns beyond the Mississippi and in
Alabama. 1t is needed for the greater
safety of the savings of widows and or
phans as well as of all those who look
rather to the absolute security of the
principal than to high rates of interest.
With no disparagement to our neighbors
who prefer to occupy western fields we
offer to the depositing public the La
noble County Savings Bank and Trust
Co. as an institution organized to meet
| the demand for strictly home Investment
Savings Bank. That such demand eX-
lists, and that the people are ready to be-
stow their confidence and encourage
ment upon such an institution, is evil
denced by the fact that the aggregate of
the small deposits alone in this bank
not counting any in excess of $1,000
were at the end of the first six months
of its business, $57, $4,000, record
without parallel, we believe, in the
history of Vermont Savings Banks.
4th. Under no circumstances does
this Bank take over 6per cent. Itwould
not, knowingly, make an investment
which would pay over 6 per cent. The
safest class of loans and securities will
command money at 6 per cent. The
Bank pays the State tax of six-tenths
of per cent. on deposits in lieu of all
taxes to the depositors. 1t must then be
evident that per cent. per annum is all
that the Bank can SAFELY PAY. This
rate it will pay. 1t is guaranteed and
rests ON no contingency. Interest will
be compounded semi-annually if not
withdrawn.
The Lamoille County Savings Bank
and Trust Co., Hyde Park, vt.
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M Gun for Hin.

The Italian who comes to America
does not adopt any new idea in the
matter of weapons, but clings peril
naciously to his stiletto. In the city
of Philadelphia within three years this
weapon has been used in over sixty in
stances, and wherever it has been used
against a revolver it has always won.
Detroit Free Press.
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BUCKLEN's ARNICA SALvE-Hhe best salve
in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers,
salt rheum, fever sores, letter, chapped hands,
chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and
positively cures piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price % cts per box. For
sale by A. O. Gates MorrisYille.
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To Those Who Save.
JUST CONSIDER THIS.

The following table shows the surpris-
ingly large sums which savings of one,
five, ten, twenty-five, fifty, and 100 cents
per day, compounded semi-annually, at
4 per cent, will amount to in 5, 10, 20,
and so years:
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Mr. Humble-To err is human, to
forgive is divine.
Mr. Haughtier-Did you say ito
forgive is divine2
Former did.
Latter-Aheml Then I suppose I
must forgive you.-Chicago Times.
Cholera in:antum has lost its terrors since
the Introduction of Chamberlain Collie, Chol-
era and Diarrhea Remedy. When that RENE
dy is used and the treatment as directed with
each bottle is followed, cure is certain. Mr.
A. W. Walter, prominent merchant at Wal
tersburg. ILL.,, says: 8 1t cured my baby boy
Of cholera infantum after several other RENE
dies had failed. The child was so low that he
seemed almost beyond the aid of human hand
or reach of any medicine" % and 80 cent
bottles for sale by A. o. Gates.
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ANDALUSIAN FOWLS.

A Leading Variety of the Spanish Group,
Which Is Now AN Established Breed.
The Andalusian fowls depicted in our
cut represent a leading variety of the
Spanish group, and are also known by the
name blue Spanish and blue Andalusian.
The appearance of all this group has
been well described as follows:
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OLD TYPE "A quantity of old type for sale
in pound lots, ut Is cents per Id. Just the
thing for babbiting moving machines, &c.
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1t Will Pay Out of Town Customers to Attend

Ladies' Pure Silk Gloves, black and coors 10
cents pair.
Mosquetaire Suede Gloves assorted tan
shades worth 81 %, for GO cents
5-Hook Fosters Lacing Kid Gloves, new
stock, narrow embroidered backs, tan assorted,
20 cents pair.
Large assortment of the best and most pOpu-
lar makes of Corsets. our summer Corset at
81, pleasant surprise; Balls, kabO, and style
Il, also Warmers COraline. and 4-in-hand Cor
sets, sold everywhere regularly at 81, buy them
now at 30 cents.
An importers sample line of Silk Gimp Dress
Trimmings. good assortment of cOlOrs, have
sold at $1.25 per yard choice of this lot but 20
cents.
Elegant lines of Fans and Paras0ls Fans
from cents to 80. and every line bargain.
A manufacturers sample line of Fine Dress
FarasolS which cost at wholesale from $50 TO
IS. take your pick now of them all for $40.
ChildTen's Hose Supporters cents pair.
Fine Summer Dress Shields, 9 cents pair.
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their knowledge, and to-day they believe they
quit drinking of their own free will No
harmful effect results from it's administra-
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and full particulars. Address in confidence,
Golden Specific Co., 1S5 Race Street, Cincin-
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