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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1890-09-30
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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1890-09-30
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maB ansssommea.
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
BOycOtted by Women.

A peculiar warfare is being waged
by the ladies of Ferry street, or rather
that portion of it lying between Mag
ara street and Richmond avenue. This
portion of Ferry street is considered
aristocratic. To be sure, it has been
invaded by a street railway, but the
houses are usually fine ones, with
some pretentions in the way of gar
dens, lawns and ornamental grounds.
The object of wrath has been an in
nocent looking building owned by Mr..
Dikeman, who had the temerity to con-
vert the building into a store. This
so provoked the neighborhood that a
remonstrance was sent to him. He re-
fused to change his plans, feeling that
he had perfect right TO do with his
property as he saw fit. So in due
course of time the store was completed
and a grocery was established the rein.
Then began plan of campaign
among the ladies. Some forty-nine of
them BANDED together and agreed that
they would boycott the store and pur-
chase nothing there whatever. The
grocer advertised his wares in vain.
The ladies of the neighborhood passed
him by, refusing to buy SO much as a
bar of soap or paper of pins, He
held out bravely against the crusade,
and worked up some trade away from
the neighboihood. But it was not
sufficient to sustain him. Within a
very few weeks he was obliged to sur
render and one afternoon he quietly
packed up his goods and moved away.
Now the second victim has arrived
in the shape of baker. The boycott
is kept up against this individual, who
is perfectly innocent of any RESPONSE
bility, but who is nevertheless ostra-
cized commercially by the same relent-
less neighbors. They mean to freeze
him out.-Buffalo Truth.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
Washerw0men of Madrid.

Madrid's river of high-sounding
name, Manzanares, is a spatter of wet
from the Guadarrama Mountains in
winter, muddy torrent in spring,
sand-blown ditch in the summer, and
hardly capable fewer at any time of
the year. 1t comes down from the
cold, gray heights to the north of Mad
rid, and winds half way around the
city from the northwest to the south
east. What water flows through it
breaks in sandy shadows, forming in
Vulnerable little islands and curiously
bounded strips of land, all accessible
by any barefoot boy or girl. Ten
thousand women soak and splash and
souse and beat the linen of Madrid
within its scant waters every day. Not
an article of clothing is elsewhere
washed. No other than these Manzan-
ares lavanderas are permitted to labor
as laundresses; and for three miles up
and down the stream, from opposite
the infantry and artillery barracks,
upon the heights of Montana del Prin-
cipe, past the windows of the Que n
Regents apartments in the royal pal
ace, and circling around away beyond
Toledo Gate, the moving dots of red
and blue, yellow and gray, comprise
this great army of Amazons, with arms
and legs on them like tree trunks;
with voluptuous breasts and shapely
necks; hard-muscled and bronzed as
Turks; the most arduous toilers, the
wickedest blackguards, and withal the
sunniest tempered souls in Spain.
By O'Clock you might count from
5000 to 8 900 of the strange creatures
at work. The entire sloping, sandy
banks are covered with drying poles.
AT this time of the year the water
from the mountains is of icy tempera-
ture. But it seems to make no differ
ence with their labors. Here and there
huge cauldrons contain boiling water.
From time to time a trif1e of this is
poured in the little hollow where each
one tolls in the sand and water; but
this seems to be done more from habit
than necessity. Each lavandera brings
her own huge roll of bread, perhaps a
bit of cheese, claspknife to prevent
undue liberties from the struggling
soldiery near as well as to use in cut
ting bread, and, just before noon, they
breakfast in huge wooden sheds On salt
fish, potatoes and coffee, with mea-
sure of red wine provided by the anna,
duplicating this meal at dinner at 4
in the afternoon.
They eat like animals, and the mo-
ment their food is disposed of the tinkle
of the guitar is heard, and you or any
kindly disposed passer may dance with
them as did, until the thirty minutes
allowed them for food and refresco
have expired. On these occasions
every one dances, girls of Is and wo-
men of 80, and the scenes along the
Marz mares are very picturesque and
interesting. But when tell you that
one of these iron-framed wenches
must wash and dry ready for the
"starching," which is done by the
criadas in the city, pieces of linen
equalling the cleansing of seventy
sheets, in order to earn % cents per
day, the poetical sense in it all is with
the interested onlooker rather than with
the drudging lavanderas of the MANI
anares.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
A Famous Story Writer.

Miss Constance Fenimore Woolson
has had more biographical sketches
printed about her during the last year
than ever before in her whole life.
Mr.. Arthur Stedman, her latest bio
grapher and admirer, is perhaps the
. ost enthusiastic, but the most earnest
friends that Miss Woolson has are the
magazine editors, so many of whom
WOO her literary productions so sue
cessfully. As a ''serial' novelist, the
au hor of s"Anne'' is regarded as a
most valuable card, but she can be in
d iced to do very little work now.
Miss Woolson lives almost continuous
ly in Italy, which she finds most desir-
able as a place of residence. She has
never been very strong, and before go
ing abroad to live spent most of her
time in Florida with her mother who
finally died there. Having comfort
able income she is able to live any
where and in any way she chooses, but
fancy her life is not one altogether
of her own choosing-a home has been
denied to her for many years, but if
she has troubles and regrets no one
ever hears of them. She is dainty
little woman, perhaps even more par
ticular than the rest of her sex upon
matters of Observation-Disclosures Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
Large British Feet.

1t was delightfully."- funny, writes a
CORES ]ondent, Nine, Goldschmidt' s
saying to your representative that short
skirts ''would enable English women
10 get rid of the idea in the minds of
foreigners that the English have big
feet!" This speech reminds me of the
reason Bismarck alleged for refusing
10 further the change from German to
Latin letters in the printing of German
books. He said Latin letters woald
be more harmful to the eyesight !
More harmful than the grabbed char
acters in vogue in the Fatherland! Sub
lime assurance!
Max ORell somewhere declares that
every British human foot is twelve
good inches long. The English travel
Ter in France comments on the small
uess of the local foot. What means
this-read backward-bu that British
feet are big?
Some South Africans had house in
a fashionable London street, and the
ladies of the family said it was pleas
ure enough for them to sit at the lower
windows and watch "the enormous
English feet 60 byl The feet of the
father of the family were perhaps
eight inches long. The points of his
boots only just showed beyond the hem
IT uTper-c1afssss 1fT'ssTan feet, s11i- tfren
say are English feet abnormally large
or not. Why not fairly face the fact2
English feet are exceedingly long. AS
a rule they are low in the instep. If
they have good insteps, ten to one
their owner has Norman blood in his
veins. But big, fiat feet only become
supremacy ugly when deformed by
squeezing. English feet, if left alone,
are very useful, though not orna-
mental.-Pall Mall Gazette.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
SpOils Their Dinner.

Amateur after dinner speech-mak-
ers waiting for their turn to come are
wretched creatures. The most tooth
some dishes have no charm for them.
All food tastes alike to their parched
palates, and is equally distasteful.
Their tongues are cottony and the
nerves of their stomachs partially par
alyzed. They run over the heads of
their "few remarks in their minds
while neighbor is trying to converse
with them, and are liable to answer his
pleasant sallies with vacant stare or
smile. They wonder why they were
such fools as to ever consent to play
the peacock by attempting to singSin
public, and resolve never to do it
again. Ex-President Cleveland's re-
mark to the physicians: "You evil
IDENTIFY know as well as | do that of all
congested, distended and fatulent con-
ditions, the worst and most painful
arises from combination of a stom-
ach full of good things to eat and
drink, held in comfortable solution by
an undigested Speech" is something
that many an after-dinner speaker has
realized.-Buffalo Commercial Adver-
ticar
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
Bismarck's Duels.

The Akademische Monatshefte, a
Students magazine, is responsible for
the statement that Prince Bismarck,
during his university life, fought at
least sixty duels. When studying at
Goettingen he had alone with the
Brunsviga Corps fifteen fights. The
corps the Chancellor belonged to is the
Hannoveria, whose archives contain
the records of the combative propensi-
ties of the student Bismarck. Being a
man of powerful physique and six
feet in height, he seems to have mostly
escaped unhurt, the more so as he is an
excellent fencer. The only mark of a
cut he still carries he received from
Herr Biedenweg, member of the
corps of the Bremenses, who died some
tine ago as Judge of the Supreme
Cou in Stade. When the latter, as
member of the German Parliament,
one night was present at beer recep-
ton the Chancellor gave to the depu-
It's his former adversary pretended
that his cut had been ''inkommentmaes-
sig;;" that is, against the rules, which
Biedenweg smilingly denied.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
The Shark and the Diver.

A business-like and very hungry
shark met an unsophisticated diver in
search of investments.
Good morning." said the shark
affably; "'won't you step inside? l
have a remarkably fine interior that l
want to show you, also some corner
lots you'll like-at least, corner lots
like you. Besides, this is my usual
dinner hour and you are just in time,
and can assure you, you are entirely
we'come. Oh, don't hang back; have
ample room to accommodate you, and
[ can't take no for an answer. / have
taken in any number of strangers for
dinner, and not one of them ever COM
planned afterward of the treatment he
received, and l am sure you won't,
either. So don't keep me waiting any
longer"
"Well," responded the diver, s'since
you are so urgent and your family are
VIGOROUSLY such good entertainers that
nobody, once their guest, ever goes
anywhere else, | will not refuse your
courteous offer"
And, in justice to the shark, it is only
fair to state that the diver was never
known to make the slightest complaint.
Life
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
When Woman Mails a Letter.

Femininity in the post office is an
amusing study. In the matter of
dropping a simple, ordinary, white,
everyday letter, for instance, she
affords an insight into the character of
the average woman. The looker-on
had nothing else to do the other day
than to watch this little operation for
5 minutes. Out of 80 young women
who went 10 cast their epistles in the
slot, %, by exact calculation, with
drew the letter without quite letting
go of it to scan both sides of the note
to be every" sure the letter was Sc
curely sealed, properly addressed,
stamped, and to be certain no one
could look through the envelope to
read its contents. Out of these %
lad es three had forgotten to put a
stamp on their letter, and two had to
add something to the address on the
envelope, while another carried off
with her the letter she had intended to
mail. Boston Record.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
The Smallest Baby ON Record.

Mrs. Foster Curtis, of Mason City,
W. Va, six weeks ago gave birth to
what is undoubtedly the smallest baby
now living. When born it weighed
one pound and now tips the beam at
exactly two pounds when dressed. 1t
is perfectly formed, and is now enjoy
ing the best of health, although for a
few weeks it bad hard struggle to
keep alive.
The head of the lusty little one is
about the size of hens egg, and is
adorned with strong growth of dark
hair. Its face has peculiarly amused
expression. A finger ring will easily
slip over its hand, and its fingers are
about as thick as a knitting needle.
The feet are about an inch in length,
and the toe and finger nails look like
little white specks. The baby is girl,
has been named Alice and people from
Pomeroy, Middleport and Mason City
are fiocking into the Curtis house to
the number of at least fifty a day to
see the te.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
A Southern POetess.

Mrs. Lee G. Haby, the Southern
poetess, who has taken up her abode
in New York this W inter-, is collector
and bibliophile. Many of her treas
ures have come to her in a way that
doubles their value, through descent
for many generations in her own
family. Most of her silver is more
than hundred years old, and the
massive sideboard on which the fine
pieces rest has family history of 200
years. Mrs. Hardy is piquant little
dark-hsired woman.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
Eastern Grown Seed Preferable.

California onion seed is very good
the first year it is grown in California
from seed stock onions sent from this
section, Essex county, but if year
after year the same stock is kept and
raised from, it will not take long for
the seed thus raised TO become worth
less for this market. One might say
the same thing is true anywhere, but
the answer to this as that this type has
become so thoroughly established here,
and we in addition take such care in
selection, and TIE great point of all,
know what a Danvers Onion is, that
as matter of fact any farmer prefers
eastern grown seed; but there are
always people who will buy anything
that is cheap, no matter whether they
want it or not.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
A Miners Porous Plaster.

A miner named Tobias, in our camp
on Chickasaw Shelf, had been suffering
with wandering rheumatic pains for
several weeks, and the most of them
finally got together between his shout
ders and hung there. He tried one
thing and another until our brief list
of remedies was exhausted, and then a
brilliant idea struck him. He gathered
some pitch off an old stub, added some
tar scraped from the wheels of pass
ing cart, and melted it up for plaster.
lie took piece of stout canvas foot
square, covered it over with the mix
ture, and then had. one of the boys
clap 1t on his back. The results were
I'll he could have hoped for. In four
or five days the pains left him, but a
day or two later the plaster began
itching so vigorously that he had to
stop and rub his back on stone every
ten or fifteen minutes.
The boys were finally appealed to
to rid Tobias of his tormentor, but we
investigated to discover that the only
way to get it off was to skin him. 1t
seemed to have grown into his flesh,
and the slightest pull at it made him
yell with the hurt. We tried soaking
and greasing and relocating. but it was
no 60. And the more we fooled with
it the more it itched. We had heap
of fun at the poor mans expense, for
by and by he had to get up nights to
90 and rub on his favorite boulder.
BY and by he declared that it must
come off, happen what would. He
wouldn't let one 9f.us touch it, but
planned a way f HE own. He had
one of the boys cut hole in the mar
gin of the cloth at the top and run
small rope through it. The other end
was made fast to a stone weighing
about 100 pounds.
When all was ready Tobias took his
stand on the brink of a gulch thirty
feet deep, shut his eyes and teeth,
grabbed a stake with both hands, and
gave the word to push the stone over.
When the rope Strengthened Tobias ut
tered yell which was heard a mile,
and five seconds later let go of tine
stake and went head over heels down
into the gulch. We climbed down as
soon as possible, but it was no use.
The fall had broken his neck. When
we turned him over to see about the
plaster it was there in the same old
spot. The weight of that stone Ladn't
even started it loose at the top.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
What is the Color of Water?

The color of water, according to
Professor Spring of the University of
Liege, Belgium, the latest to investi-
gate the subject, is blue when the
water is pure and is seen in masses of
sufficient thickness. All the varieties
of color exhibited in lakes and streams
arise from mineral salts in solution.
Carbonate of lime, for example, gives
a tinge of green. New York has green
and bue lakes; the lake of Geneva is
azure-hued; the lakes of Constance
and Lucerne are gr-en; the Mediter-
.anean is indigo; the lake of Brienz is
greenish yellow, the Danube is blue;
the Rhine is green, and the Mississippi
is coffee-coIored; but this last color is
due to the mud, not to salts in solu-
ii IN
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27

which there is no particular favor de-
sired is ten cents. "-Philadelphla In
quirer.
Sweet girl Gin row-hoat)-"W hat
is that placed in the back of the DoaI
for?" Nice young man-"Ihat Is "
put an oar in when you want 10 sculI
the boat. Rowing requires both oars
one ON each side; but in sculIlng
one oar only is used. That is placed
at the back, and worked with one
hand" (After meditation)-"I wish
YOU would try sculling awhile. New
York Weekly.
s.Tbar's the Goddess of Liberty,
Mary y he said, as he pointed from the
bridge toward Bedlow's Island.
UIs it a woman?" she snapped, as
she turned.
"Of course"
..Then you'd see her, for sure Man
n, vour age orter be ashamed OF his
self"
uBut she amt alive, Mary"
ooh. well. we hain't got nothing to
do with the funeral, and we'll pass
on"
He (about winded, and wishing to
say something to prolong the time)
Agnes, how much do you weight
She (of light weight)-Oh, L don't
know.
He-You are nothing to lift; let
She (sotto voc3)-Thanks.
And the darkness congeals slowly
but surely around them.
"They say Count Tolstoi has Won
derful eye."
eyes; I've noticed he wears hori-
zontal colon over it."
Monsieur wanted the picture hung
TO the right; madame wanted it on the
left. But monsieur insisted that the
servant should hang the picture ac-
cording to his orders. Consequently
Joseph stuck a nail in the wall
on the right, but this done, he
also went and stuck another in on the
left. "What is that second nail forr
his master inquired, in astonishment.
ats to save me the trouble of fetch
ing the ladder tomorrow when mon
sier will have come round to the views
of madame. London Punch.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
Big Guns.

Here are some observations made by
English naval authorities on big guns,
the text being the recent trial cf the
Anson's sixty-seven toner: Even
when they do not burst at once, they
are used up in six years in peace time,
seeing that they will not stand being
fired more than ninety-siX times alto
gether, and must be fired thirty times a
year for practice. The Anson's hydrau-
lie machinery for moving the guns
failed twice i'll practice, and discharges
abeam caused the vessel TO heel over
considerably. In real naval action it
is suspected that 6-inch guns capable
Of piercing 10 inches of arlnor at 500
yards, and of being easily handled,
will be he most valuable weapons.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
Ther Saw SHE'S 145 Y. ars Old.

In Dallas. Tex, lives Aunt July
Cole. 1t is said that she is 145 years
old. When visited recently she said;
81 belonged to Col. Cole in Furginny,
and he fit the Britt hers with Gen.
Washington. Norfolk was my home,
sir; right G de sea. My nanny came
from &c Cape in Afriky and my daddy
went back dere My nanny was
named Lucretia, and was give to COL
Cole by Gen. Washington's lady, who
had very many servants. | was brought
to Henry county, Tennessee, and sold
TO Thomas Waters. had great grand
chillun den. After / helped to settle
Tennessee / was sold to William Rabb
for lam. Ma jeff come to take me
home to Tennessee, but ole man Rabb
wouldn't let me go wild him. Den
lived on Rabb's Greek, below La
Grange, Tex. / was took away from
my husband and two chillun in Ten
nessee, and my ole man he run away
and followed me till de- caught him
wild dogs right on de banks of de Mis-
sisslppi River. Yes, sir, right dar in
de bend of de river, whar de hill is and
de high trees, and right down by de
boat in de dark-fur he was runnin' to
git on de boat wild me. But dey caught
i'm and never saw i'm any more"
On being asked her age, the old
woman began to rise slowly, holding,
in the meantime, to the chair for sup
port.
az doesn't know by de figgers, butt
knows by Happenings" she said. She
,,,ox-o1 - N x,ar,r old frt1nlr ubich Vuaal
covered with rawhide with the hair on
and tackled with big-headed tacks.
From this she drew an old letter on
blue paper, which she says was ode
paper given to Mars Waters by Mars
Cole when she was sold. Only the
lower half of the sheet remains, the
other having evidently been taken off
by time, and the only legible portion
of the writing purports to give the
date of Aunt July's birth. The only
words are "was born Dec. 10, 1745."
"Dey says l is er hundred and forty
five year old, an, honey, | spec it is
So"
"What is your earliest remembrance,
aunty? Do you remember Gen. Wash
ington?"
IoNCA SCCu SIG h1ilO, Oub
1 knows when he was General and /
knows when he was President, too. l
heers Mars Cole say when de tea was
flung outen de Boston ship. l has
seed de Tories, an my brother was
wild Mars Cole when he went into de
war wild the Britishers. Dat war was
seven years, and Mars Cole he got shot
in de arm. | members when dey fit
de French an Injuns, too, SIR"
She had only one want-smoking
tobacco-and that was supplied, after
which the writer LETT her at her low,
hairy trunk putting away her docu-
ments. Aunt July is low, slender,
bony old woman with complexion
about black ell ugh for full-blooded
African. She has two upper teeth in
front, the others having been worn
away "years and years ago." as she
says. She is merely an angular frame
of skin and bones, and very little of
that