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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
Clever SwindIe ON Jewellers.

The great jewellers of Paris have Just
been the -daDes of a singular franl
practiced upon them with extraordi-
nary success. The swindle has been
accomplished in the simplest way, and
all it needed for its execution was adj
dress, audacity, and little capital.
French jewellers dress their windows
with consummate taste, exhibiting as q
rule, only a small portion of their
stock, but of the highest quality and
value. The swindlers had amongst
them a working G ldsmith, whose aid
they called in. He studied in the win
dows the patterns of pieces selected to
be stolen. They were chiefly rings
and earrings and brooches, where the
setting was very plain, and the great
value lay in the stones.
Duplicates of these were prepared, the
setting of real gold, and the stones of
the very best imitation. Furnished
with these the swindler entered the
shop, made purchase or two, and in
spected the costly jewels, but rejected
them as too dear. 1t was not till some
time afterwards that the diamond
dealer found that he had been left
with beautiful paste in first-rate setting.
And the same trick had been practised
on the same day upon a number of his
brethren. If the thieves come again,
they'll get paste instead of stones. The
jewellers have now had duplicates
made of all their best stock, and the
window exhibits are all limitations.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
QeWs and Citizen.
BIRDS AT SEA.
Winged Spectacurlars You See in
Crossing the Deem

Winged Spectacurlars You See in
Crossing the Deep.
Every day we see playing around
the ship and swimming UP and down
the wave sea swallows, no larger than
thrushes. These fearless people of the
air have not by any means followed
US from the land, living, as gulls often
will, on the waste thrown from the YES
sell Iney are vague and casual
roamers of the ocean, who, spying the
great steamship from afar, hav sailed
close up to see if we are rock or an
island, and will then skim away again
on their own free and boundless bus
mess.
Yonder tiny bird with purple and
green plumage, his little breast and
neck laced with silver, is distant l, 600
miles at this moment from drop of
fresh water, and yet cares no more for
that fact than did the Irish squire who
'lived twelve miles from lemon"
If his wings ever grow weary it is but
to settle quietly on the bosom of a
great billow and suffer it for time to
rock and roll him amid the kissing
spendthrift, the milky flying foam and
CLEANS and disappears again upon the
dark slopes. When he pleases, a
stroke of the small red foot and a beat
of ythe wonderful wing launch him off
from the jagged edge OF mis- pillow, and
he fits past US at one hundred knots
an hour, laughing steam and canvas
to scorn, and steering for some name
less crag in Labrador or Funday, or
bound it may be homeward for some
island or marsh Of the far-away Irish
coast.
Marvelously expressive of power az
is our untiring engine, which all day
and all night throbs and pants and pull
ses in noisy rhythm under the deck,
what clumsy, imperfect affair it is
compared to the dainty piumes and de-
hcate muscles which will carry that
pretty fearless sea swallow back to
his roost!-London Telegraph.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
A Washington Memorial Arch.

The Rev. Frank Sewall in the Wash
ington Evening Star suggests that a
magnificent memorial arch should be
erected in Washington as q suitable
commemoration of Columbus discoy-
cry of America. He finds q proper
site at the elevation at the northern end
of Sixteenth street, just beyond the
boundary, and says:
If the proper bills could be intro
duced and passed by the present Con-
gress for the improving of this site
and for the erection of a memorial
arch thereon of grand dimensions, to
be called the Columbus Arch, to be for
ages to come a reminder of the gate
way from the old world to the new,
o"ened by the great discoverer, and if
the magnificent avenue leading thence,
as it does now, straight to the portals
of the White House, the simple but
ever beautiful homestead and hearth
stone Of the nation, could at the same
time, in place of its present insignifi-
cant designation, be named Columbus
Avenue, believe the people of the
country and of other American States,
and visitors from foreign lands, long
after the splendors of the Worlds
Fair have vanished, will be deeplv i'm
pressed with the dignified memorial
thus left to perpetuate the memory of
that great event.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
Modern Military Rifles.

Tie London Standard says: On the
whole, there seems GOOD reason to be
satisfied with our own rifle, the Lee
Milford. 1t is light-9lb GOETHE
lightest in Europe, except the French
arm, which is two ounces less; it fires
eight rounds, and in this direction is
surpassed by no weapon; and it has a
range of 10 less than $500 yards, with
a smokeless nitro COMPOUND. AT 1000
yards the percentage of hits when ex-
periments were lately made, the object
being four companies in quarter column
standing-a good sized target-was
AZ; at 1890 yards it was 90 per cent. /;
and at 800, Is; but the latter range is
over mile and half, and if on y Is
men fell before the enemy at that dis
lance it would have its effect. Another
advantage of the new rifle is its reduced
calibre, for this enables the soldier to
carry more ammunition.
The late General SkObelef, who saw
as much fighting as any one of recent
years, was of opinion that 1870 rounds
were necessary to keep up a fight
when once troops were committed to
it; and it is certain that 80 rounds
per man were found too few at st.
Privat, where the French fired away
all they had, and were forced to re-
treat, ammunition wagons not having
come up. Russia is supposed not to
have settled what magazine rifle she
will adopt; and this is also the case
with Spain, Portugal, Norway, and
Sweden. Even non-progressive China
has magazine rifle, the Lee, which
fires five rounds.
The new rifle and field artillery have
enormously extended the danger zone
into which no troops can pass without
peril of death. The new field-pieces
make capital practice at a range of
three and half miles, md the rifle is
sighted up to a couple Of miles. What
is the result? Obviously the troops
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
The Bleaching Of Horses.

A curious statement comes from Ar
kansas concerning a gang of horse
thieves, who had for their chief as
sistant a young woman-a bleached
blonde-with the nickname of Sorrel
Sue. She was given this name because
she always appeared in public riding
sorrel horse. Her excellent horse
womanship and her dashing manner
brought her many admirers. The
shooting affair which forces her into
notice was all ordinary case of plain
jealousy. Two of her admirers, both
members of the gang, fought for her
favor. One was killed, and the sur
vivor was severely wounded. A sur
geon was sent for. He mistook the
direction and walked into the cabin
occupied by "Sorrel Sue."
Before he cou d be hustled out, he
saw certain things which aroused his
suspicious. These he reported to the
sheriff, who with a posse managed to
surround the den of the horse thieves,
capturing Sue and two of her gang.
The sheriff, though pleased with the
capture, was more than elated at the
discovery of the peculiar method of
Disgusting the stolen animals adopted
by the gang. He found that Sue had
applied the means of bleaching her
own hair to that of the horses.
When the posse entered, they found
a hope cnveloped In Jacket MADE out
of rubber coats, being treated TO
sulphur vapor bath.
The appliances were very ingenious,
and worked very well. A black or
bay horse would be stolen and run into
the bleachery. After its color was
changed and its tail and name trimmed,
tie disguise became so pronounced
that without any great risk the animal
could be taken in daylight through the
very district from which it had been
stolen. 1t was Sues business not only
to superintend the bleaching, but also
to ride the animal out of the country.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
Longevity of Poets.

Oliver Wendell Holmes writes: l
said to Longfellow that certain statis-
teal ables | had seen went to show
that poets were not long-lived race.
He doubted whether there was any
thing to prove they were particularly
short-lived. Soon after this, he handed
me list he had drawn up. l cannot
lay my hand upon it at this moment,
but l remember that Metastasio was
the oldest of them all. He died at the
age of eighty-four. l have had some
tables made out, which | have every
reason to believe are correct SO far as
they go. From these, it appears that
twenty English poets lived to the av-
erage age of fifty-six years and little
over. The eight American poets on
the list averaged seventy-three and
half, nearly, and they are not all dead
yet. The list including Greek, Latin,
Italian and German poets, with Ameri-
can and English, gave an average of
little over sixty-two years. Our young
poets need not be alarmed. They can
remember that Bryant lived to be
eighty-three years old, that Longfellow
reached seventy-fve and Halleck sew
enty-seven, while Whittier is living a.
the age Of nearly eighty-two. Tenny.
son is still writing at eighty, and
Browning seems in fourishing health
and yigor at seventy-seven.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
A HScalper'' ScaIped,

Judge Cooley has way of round
ing up the scalpers that puts stop to
their operations. He does not wait
for the railroads to bring in evidence
against them, but goes on a still hunt
by himself, and generally goes home
with his bag full. The last time he
was in Chicago, he dropped in upon
one of the most obnoxious of the
brotherhood and brought him into
camp in manner which gave the
other scalpers cold feet for month.
"What can | get ticket to New York
for?" said he, leaning confidentially
over the counter and tipping a wink
to the man behind. Seventeen" re-
piled the broker briskly. Cant you
do any better than that?" responded
Judge Cooley persuasively.
Well, the broker thought that he
could, and finally arranged to give the
judge four tickets way down below
the legal rate. "Well, bring them
round to my room at the Grand Pacific
tonight" said the judge. 81 haven't
the full amount with me-" So at the
appointed hour the broker appeared at
the rooms of the judge. The judge re-
ceived him kindly. s'Hold up your
right hand" said he, casually. The
broker did, with some amusement.
Now" continued the judge, edo you
swear to tell the truth, the whole
truth. and nothing but the truth?"
"I'li be - if l do anything of the
kind !" said the broker, as his express
sion changed to blank amazement, and
his hand dropped like shot.
ooh, l guess you WILL" returned
Judge Cooley, with careless drawl:
''here's my friend, the United States
marshal, sitting by my side, and you
will be given over to his custody if you
don't. So now sit down in that chair
and tell Judge Cooley, of the Interstate
Commission, all about those tickets you
offered to sell him below the legal rate,
this afternoon. l want to know exact
ly how much each road got for them,
and your commission" The broker
fell in limp heap in the chair, and
before he left the room the Interstate
Commerce Commission exacted some
information which struck the brokers
all in heap the day after.-Minne-
apoiis Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
4 stream Of Phantom Fish.

A stream near Benton, Tenn, is said
10 be full of phantom fish. Standing
on the rocks and looking down into
the water the eyes can see hundreds
Of trout. some Of them remarkably
large, darting about the pool or rest
ing with the gentle motion peculiar to
their tribe. The angler casts his line
in one of these pools literally swarm
ing with fish, to all appearances, and
no matter how attractive the fly or
how skillful the fisherman, he never
gets bite. AS plentiful as they seem
TO be no one has ever yet been able
to catch trout in that stream. The
fish pay no attention to the hook or
line, and the bait is thrown at them,
or an attempt is made to spear them,
the instrument has the appearance of
passing through the fish, but he is not
caught; when the barb or spear is re-
moved he is still there.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06

A teaspoonful of borax added to
cold starch will make clothes sitter
than anything else, though it adds no
polish.
In using ammonia for domestic pur-
poses one tablespoonful to about a
quart of water is about the ordinary
proportion.
If you dip the wicks of lamps in
strong hot vinegar and then dry them
1t will do away with much OF the dis
agreeable smell
Before beginning to seed raisins
cover them with hot water and let
them stand Is minutes. The seeds
can then be removed easily without
particle of waste.
An old recommendation often given
young housekeepers is to use tea leaves
In sweeping carpets; but their use on
delicate colors should be avoided, as
they will surely stain light carpets.
A box of powdered borax should al
ways be kept on the sink shelf. A lit
tie added to the water in which dish
towels are washed will help much to
keep them clean and at the same time
keep ones hands soft and smooth.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
A Disguised Count.

Count Gleichen's "Twelve Hours in
New York" is a brief but delicious
page in the diary of that humorous OBJ
server. He reached the Jersey City
Station in the morning, and timed his
arrival so as to allow whole day to
see the beauties of that city. He paid
half a dollar to the hotel "busman,"
who declined to take his bag in for
him. The colored servants seemed
equally supercilious. AS he was not
sleeping at the hotel he was told that a
bath would cost two dollars and half,
and the man at the ''trunks bureau"
quarter of dollar for taking care of
his bag.
The Count then went in an omnibus
"a one-hOrse one-to Central Park,
which he describes as a weird-looking
apiece of wooded ground, intersected
by paths which run up and down and
underneath artificial hills and rockeries
and you are forbidden to go on the
grass" The pavement, the policemen,
and the post-boxes nailed to telegraph
poles amazed Count Gleichen. He
drank at the Hoffman House bar, and
went back to the Metropolitan for
dinner, where, on the principle of eat
ing foreign food in foreign lands, he
ordered clam soup, pumpkin pie, hon.
my, buckwheat cakes, sweet potatoes,
very nasty wild turkey and cranberries.
He then went to Days Theatre and
paid dollar and half for ten min
utes' drive to the Britannia.
Count Gleichen, who had just re-
turned from Canada, regrets that he
did not spend the day there. After
accounts led him to regret that he did
not dine at Delmonico's. Many peo-
pie will agree with the first regret and
congratulate the Count ON having lost
an opportunity of making still bitterer
reflections on New York City and its
''goings on"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
They We're Not on the Market.

A little boy of 5 went with his
mother to make call. The lady of
the house, who was very fond of chill
dren, told him she was going to ask
his mother 10 let her have him. Don't
you think that your mother would let
me buy you?" she asked.
. NO." he said, you haven't got
money enough"
"How much would it take?" she
asked.
Three hundred dollars" he an
swered, promptly; 'and you haven t
got that much"
II think I could manage it," she
said eff can, will you come to me?"
NO" he said, with decision, "mama
wouldn't sell me, anyhow. There are
five of US and mama wouldn't like to
break the set.n
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
They Had Screwed I'm the Door.

During the war, when patriotism
and sentiment were at food tide, the
rolls of the two houses of congress
were increased almost weekly to make
room for wounded soldiers who had
been discharged from the service.
Doorkeepers, messengers, and watch
men were so thick around The capitol
that they were in each others way.
Judge Holman happened to be in the
basement one day, says the Washing
ton Post, and endeavored to go
through a doorway, guarded by one
legged veteran
s8Can't get through there" said the
guardian of the portal, unconcernedly.
81 am a member OF congress-" said
the Judge, quietly.
81 don't know that that makes any
difference, said the doorkeeper, ''un-
less you came from a district where
the people can walk through wood.
That door is screwed up"
Then what are you doing here?"
INQUIRED Judge Holman, whose
curiosity was naturally excited.
'.pm here for $500 a day. There's
a fellow from the Sixth Pennsylvania
cavalry watching the other side of it.
and mebbe he can tell you more than
! can"
By circuitous route the judge,
through committee rooms. reached the
other side of the door. Sure enough
there sat another veteran leisurely
reading a newspaper. He was equally
frank in announcing that the door was
screwed.
'.You see," he said by way of ex-
PLANTATION, 'both me and my partner
are subject to rheumatic since we've
been in the army and we screwed up
this door so we wouldn't be in the
draught."
Judge Holman thought that If the
government was paying two men S3.2
a day each for watching a door that
could not be opened it was time that
somebody proposed retrenchment He
threw himself into the breach, secured
reduction in the house rolls and ever
: sf7o5 has been the determined JeBemy
of sinecures and extra salaries.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
WHAT DOES YOUTH KNOW OF
LOVE?
What does youth know of love?

What does youth know of love?
1t plueks at viii,
Content in thinking everywhere its fill
Is waiting within reach like buds in June
As in the heart of music some new tune.
What does youth know of love?
The heart may try
A thousand springs, and yet none satisfy;
A thousand forms may touch us in the press,
And still the spirit cry for loneliness.
What does youth know of lover
The hand, the face
That find their way to the SOUPS sacred place,
All! these come not at will; but having
come,
Thenceforth wherever they may be is home.
What does youth know of love?
Its need is strong.
IT is life's long music, not its morning song.
joyful the middle age that finds IFS own,
And sad the same whose early dreams have
flown.
What does youth know of love?
Age knows it best.
Loves memories few and precious are its
rest.
God and eternity shine through dear eyes,
And teach us of the bliss that never dies.
Helen L. Carey.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06

NV Calf Skin Business is absorbing my
capital, time and attention, and, having de-
cided to close out all of my other branches
of business, as we'll as my miscellaneous
personal property and real estate, offer
for sale all the land [ own except that oc-
cupied in my business and my dwelling,
and will dispose of same at very low figures
and on easy terms of payment.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
The .sSenseIess'' kissing Habit.

1t is said that the nursing sisterhood
of St. Vincent, in France, have not
suffered from the influenza, owing to
certain sage rules of the founder. He
discouraged asceticism, enjoined warm
clothes and every reasonable comfort,
because the sisters should regard them
selves as fighting against the evil prin-
ciples which cause suffering in the
world, and the combat with which
needs bodily strength. They slept in
good beds from nine at night to five in
the morning, had good succulent diet,
were free from care unless to do their
duty, and were not to salute any one
by the way when outside of the
convent on their errands of mercy.
Solicitations in cold weather were, said
the reverend mother, one of the most
fertile sources of throat and pulmonary
disease. In fine weather they were a
a cause of loss of time, and took the
mind from the object on which it should
be set. The Hospital says it is glad to
note this onslaught on the habit of
kissing, habit in which women in
dulge in a perfectly senseless manner.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
An hour later 1 sank into blissful

An hour later 1 sank into blissful
sleep, soothed by the music of in
exhaustible lullabies. The next day
was one of the happiest Christmas
Days that l can remember-I was so
petted, made much of and praised, and
SO relieved by an unburdened con-
science. Only one thing troubled me !;
Aunt Sukey would not hear of gene
raj public confession. "Pll jes' tip de
wink to de mistis," she said-there was
a whole volume in her infection of
"mistis." "Cause she's dat disjected
t'inkin' twas her doin's, sho'ly, but l
'clar l amt agoin to hab you lettin' on
to all dem or'nery Simmonses, an see
dat Ester, as looks so mighty peart
anyhow, desc days, holdin' up her head
sky high and CROWN ODER YOU"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06

must be spread out more as the area Of
the battlefield widens, and the men
must no longer advance in massed col
umns. These changes necessitate the
abandonment of the old cast-iron tao
tics, and the adoption of a new system,
In which much more is left to the indi-
vidual intelligence of the soldier.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
To Those Who Save.
JUST CONSIDER THIS.

DO you ask, "Where can do this and
have my money absolutely safe ?" Let
us give you some facts. The Lamoille
County Savings Bank and Trust Co. or
Hyde Park is an institution run on tho
following principles -
1st. Not a 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 q dol
lar invested in any western mortgage or
other the-state security. We
might perhaps pay our depositors one
half of one per cent. per annum more
interest by mourning a little addition
al risk, if no loss should come, but we
believe there is to-day a 'long-felt
want" in Vermont for savings institu-
ton which will loan it's 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
orphans 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 neigh
bors who prefer to occupy western
fields we offer to the depositing public
the Lamoille County Savings Bank and
Trust Co. as an institution organized to
meet the demand for strictly home in
vestment Savings Bank. That such
demand exists, and that the people are
ready to bestow their confidence and
OPO1 OuCu
ton, is evidenced by the fact that the
aggregate of the small deposits alone in
this Bank-not counting any in excess
of $1000-were at the end of the first six
months of its business, $57, 1877. 90, a
record without parallel, we believe, in
the history of Vermont Savings Banks.
4th. Under no circumstances does
this Bank take over 6 per cent. 1t would
not, knowingly, make an investment
which would pay over 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 depositor. 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
DO compounded semi- annually III not
withdrawn.
The Iamoille Co. Sayings Bank
ard rr,.,- 60 "a TvSa peri- rT%