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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
DRIVE AT LETZLrNGEN.

The large thiclet in front Is sur
rounded for the time with high nets
The stands of the emperor and the
principal guests are to the west OF the
driveway, and are built twelve feet
over the ground. The occupants of
these only shoot towards the linen
tolls. The gentlemen shoot only to-
wards the outer nets, never into the
drive. They stand at distance of
one hundred PAGES one from the other,
and before them towards the nets is Il
clear forest, also two hundred PAGES,
with an underground of bushes, which
affords a good clearance for shooting.
The stands of the emperor and the
royal p rinces are built at least twelve
feet in height and have each room for
three persons, for with the quantities
of game it is necessary that two men
load the rifles, while their owner only
shoots. These kanseln are thickly
shrouded with green bushes to screen
them from view. AS soon as all the
gentlemen are placed the bugles sig
nal the beginning of the drive, and at
this instant the hunting-toils OF the
first CAMERON fall, and its inmates
rush through the so-called "long run"
where the emperor stands into the
thicket behind. There the gamekeep-
ers with the dogs await them and
drive them towards the nets and past
the guests who lie hidden in waiting.
To each CAMERON" are from one
hundred and twenty to one hundred
and fifty stays and deer.
Ten minutes later the second game
room is opened, and so on till all the
game has been freed. The drive
usually occupies two or three hours
and it ends at bugle signal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
CASTLE ATLETzLNGEN.

After the first drive the company as.
sembles in large tent, where luncheon
is waiting. At I'm open bonfire in front
of it the hot dishes are cooked. Pota-
toes roasted in the ashes are favorite
delicacy; so, also, is Irish stew and hot
sausages with beans and sauerkraut
All kinds of wine are abundantly pro-
vided, but hot drinks are preferred,
especially "negus."
During luncheon the game that has
been killed is collected and loaded on
carts.
The animals that have fallen to the
emperors gun are laid out for inspec-
ton and viewed by the company. The
young kaiser is very firm shot, al
though obliged to hold his gun only
with the right hand. The weakness Of
his left arm has forced him to train
himself to hold the gun or rifle like a
pistol, and his aim is very steady and
sure. The strength in his right arm
has wonderfully augmented by contin-
nal training, and he can bear the great
est fatigue without feeling it.
Soon the carriages again come up to
take the company to the meeting for
the second drive, which Is organized
exactly in the same manner as the first
After there turn to the castle dinner is
ordered for five o'clock, and the gentle
men appear in evening dress with black
neckties.
After dinner the company descends
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

teaspoonful soda, nutmeg, cinnamon.
Add more flour if the dough is too thin.
LEMON PIE.-One lemon, one cur
sugar, three eggs one cup water, half.
tablespoonful cornstarch, one table
spoonful -four. Cook over a Kettle.
Bake crust separate. Frost with the
whites of the eggs.
SPICED MoLAssEs CAKE.-One Gun
sugar, half-cup butter, stir well to-
gether; three eggs, one cup molasse s,
one cup sour cream, one teaspoonful
soda, one teaspoonful cloves, nutmeg
and cinnamon, p cups -four.
CORN MEAL GEMs.-One cup gran
ulated meal, two teaspoonfuls flour,
two teaspoonfuls sugar, one heaping
teaspoonful baking powder, one egg
ana sweet milk enough to make a
thin batter; bake in gem tins In a well
heated oven.
CREAM CAKE. eggs, one pint
sour cream, one cup of sweet milk,
one cup Of butter, four cups Of sugar,
two teaspoonfuls of soda, four OF
cream OF tartar, -four to make a stiff
batter. This makes very large de-
licious cake; bake forty minutes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
The Ancestral Horse in Nebraska.

Professor o. G. Marsh, of Yale, is
still on the sunny side of so, and d
vigorous, pushing man. Mr.. Marsh
is probably the best known on the
other SIDE of the water OF all our geol-
ogists. He received great honors
from foreign societies and governments
a few years ago on account of his dis
covery of the ancestry of the horse,
bringing up his evolution from the
lower order of animals to his present
perfect state. His discovery came
about in this wise, says the N. Y.
Star: During vacation one summer
he took a number of Yale students on
a working frolic to "the bad lands"
in Nebraska, which is regarded as the
best for obtaining all sorts of fossils of
any territory in the world.
During this trip the professor and
his party discovered dried-up swamp
that had probably been lake centu-
ries ago. Workingmen were building
a railroad through it, and throwing
up thousands upon thousands of
strange bones. These the professor
gathered up in large quantities, and
before he had finished his examination
of them he had traced the origin of the
horse six states back. His discovery
complete, he sent its results and full
specimens of the bones to different
scientific schools. and was greatly
honored therefor. Probably NO discov-
cry of recent times attracted so much
attention.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

This talk about introducing copper
cents in San Francisco, reminds me of
the attempts made to bring scent
pieces into circulation in Virginia
City," said Gen. Daniel O'Connel. "a
dime has always been the smallest
coin there, and the nickels that men
brought in their pockets from Califor-
mia had either to stay there or be
thrown away. No one in Virgil MIA
City would compromise the dignity of
the place by accepting them. Finally
a dry-goods merchant returned fro m
the city with lot of half-dimes. He
didn't want to lose them so be adver-
tised great 20-cent sale. His scheme
was to give the nicl1els in change for
the quarters that would be rendered for
his bargains. Well, do you know, sir.
that as soon as the ladies got on to his
scheme they just boycotted his place,
and within two months he had to close
his shop. That stopped the nickel
business, and to this day dime is
the smallest change you can get on
the Comstock. II there is Is cents
in change coming to you you lose 5
cents, and if you complained the
whole town would jear at you" San
Francisco Examiner
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

A middle-aged woman who had been
in the habit of purchasing treatises on
nursing at well-known book store in
Boston came in one day and bought a
number of physiological and other
works of a more distinctive medical
character. The salesman had con-
ceived the idea from her previous pur-
chases and from certain style of
dress and bearing that his customer
was professional nurse, or at all
events was in training for that posi-
ton. When, therefore, she bought
the medical works, issued under the
auspices of the Boston College of
Physicians and Surgeons, he was some
what nonplused, but, his curiosity hav-
ing been excited he said: Il see you
have got through your studies as a
nurse" The woman replied blandly,
but with a certain manner which
seemed as much as her words to repel
the salesman's inference, II am not a
nurse; / am a Christian scientist"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
Health Hints.

Don't contradict your wife. Don't
tell man he is stranger to the truth
because he happens to be smaller than
yourself Errors of this kind have
been known to be disastrous. Never
go to bed with cold or damp feet. Leave
them beside the kitchen fire, where
they will be handy to put on in the
morning. 1t is bad to lean your back
against anything cold, particularly
when it is an icy pavement, upon which
your vertebral arrangement has carom-
ed with jolt that shakes the buttons
off your coat. Always eat your break
fast before beginning your journey. II
you haven't any breakfast, don't jour-
ney. After violent exercise-like put
ting up the stove or mailing down car
pets-never ride around town in an
open carriage. 1t is better to walk.
1t is also cheaper. When hoarse speak
as little as possible. If you are not
hoarse, it won't do you any harm to
keep your mouth shut, too. Don't
light the fire with kerosene. Let the
hired girl do it. She hasn't any wife
and children. You have. Don't roam
around the house in your bare feet at
the dead of night trying to pick up
stray tacks. Men have been known to
dislocate their jaw through this bad
practice. When you see a man put
the lighted end of cigar in his mouth,
don't ask him il it is hot enough. Seri-
Gus injury has often resulted from this
habit Inquirer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
A ROYAL DEER HUNT.
Emperor Wilhelm's Autumn Drive in the
Letzlingen Forest.
How It Is Conducted by the Kaiser and His
Guests-The Game Shot from Stands Hid
den by Foliage Skill with the
Rifle


Guests-The Game Shot from Stands Hid
Rifle.
In November and December the en-
peror OF Germany attends weekly one
or more hunting excursions. In the
large forests belonging to the state the
game in them is by right the property
of the crown and the emperor's forest
ers look after it. Therefore, the invi-
tations for shooting parties are sent
out in the name of the emperor to 9TH
er German courts, to royal princes and
to members of aristocratic society who
are sportsmen, as we'll as to military
officers. The number of these invited
guests varies from forty TO seventy.
The preparations for a royal hunt
are exteD sive and costly, all the ex-
pense being borne by the emperor.
The average cost of two days shooting
is fifteen thousand dollars. Numbers
of foresters come from afar to assist
in the work, bringing loads of nets,
rags and tolls necessary to surround
the drives and fodder for the game.
The imperial Household comes with it's
retinue OF servants, kitchen officers,
carriages and horses, and all the par
aphernalia needed to transform the SOL
1tary bastlle into a pleasant abode for
several days.
Letzllngen is a village situated in
one OF the large forests in the "Pro-
VIM Sachsen.n
The forest contains about fifteen
thousand hectares of fir trees, beech
covers and old oaks. IeSsb8s large ex-
panse game abounds and is carefully
kept and preserved in winter, when
the snow lies deep on the ground.
The castle of Ketzlingen dates from
the sixthteen century, and is surround
ed by moat- 1t was rebuilt and reno
waited some twenty years ago by EN-
peror Wilhelm l., and can accommo-
date forty or fifty guests for the night.
Over one hundred can sit down to
dinner in the great hall. A bridge
leads over the moat into the yard be-
fore the castle, and the entrance opens
on the large dining-ball, which is beau
tifully decorated with stays and wild
bears heads.
The emperor arrives in the evening
" Avn LILO 3 oSoOo ny q SpCCLoA Gtdlu 1rOu
Berlin. Supper is served early. Be-
fore the company .retires "Kaiser
punch" is served, according to the
old custom.
Early on the following morning the
trained band of foresters sound the re-
veille on their bugles to awake the
guests. Punctually at eight o'clock
breakfast is served in the hall. Then
the carriages come to the door and
the gentlemen enter, each acc ompa-
MED by his private gamekeeper, who
carries the reserve guns, and loads
them during the drives. Each sports
man gets number designating his
carriage and his place in the drive.
Soon the company reaches the rem
nervous, where they are greeted by
the fanfare furstengrass' sounded on
the bugles. The game in the forest is
driven a week or so before the shoot
ing day into so-called "game-rooms."
These are Enclosures surrounded by
nets and linen tolls. In these the ami
mails remain quietly and get plenty of
fodder.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
A Tiny Railroad.

A wonderful railroad is the one
which connects the towns of Bedford
and Bellevue, Mass. 1t is nine miles
in length, and is probably as unique
as any on the globe. The distance is
not astonishing, except when the gauge
of ten miles is considered. In the
short distance traversed by the pigmy
it crosses eleven streams, with bridges
from five to thirty-five feet in height.
The rails weigh but twenty pounds to
the yard, about the size of those used
in the mines of Missouri and Illinois.
The cars and engines are constructed
so as to be very near the ground, in
surfing greater safety. The cars are
provided with single seats on each side
of the aisle. The car itself weighs
but four tons, the weight of an ordi
nary car being twenty to twenty-siz
tons. The engine, without the tender
we CHS seven tons, and runs with two
passenger or freight cars at the rate OF
twenty miles an hour. There is {
smaller railroad than this in the United
States-the one in Bucks county, Pa.
out it is only kept as an expensive toy
by rich farmer who has made for
tune out of oil.-Albany Argus.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

into the courtyard, which is illumi-
mated with Bengal lights. Here the
whole ''strecke"-the result of the
chase-is laid for view in rows and
divided according to the names of the
sportsmen to whose guns it fell. The
animals shot by the Emperor are plac-
ed in the first row and after them fol-
low those of the royal and other
guests. The bugles of the foresters
Sound "Hallalli' and this picturesque
romantic sight ends the day. The
game killed on the. first day regularly
averages from six hundred head OF
red and fallow deer.
The evening is spent by the company
in the sitting and billiard-rooms, where
whist-tables are also set. The emperor
joins in these games with spirit. re-
member wildly one such evening some
years ago, when the late Emperor
Wilhelm l. merrily joined in a game
of whist He won three marks, and
put them in his pocket, we'll pleased,
saying:
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
NEVER TOLD BEFORE,
An Incident of Farragut's Journey
UP the MISSISSIPPI.


Up the Mississippi.
Facts about she civil war, which,
had they been known at the time,
would have changed the complexion OF
affairs in many battles, are still COM
ing to light On Sunday, having oc-
casion to go aboard the British steam
ship Lassell, had chat with Mr..
Weeks, the second officer. Sunburnt
and bewhiskered and picture of
typical sailor, the conversation with
him turned to nautical matters, and
gradually to the revolution in marine
warfare caused by the building OF the
Monitor. do you know" he said, 81
was on the confederate gunboat Louis
lana when Farragut began his journey
up the Mississippi; and had he known
how we were fixed in there he could
have captured the boat without any
difficulty. The Louisiana was hurried
ly built by joining two tugs together
and an endeavor was made to arrange
the two tugs shafts so as to work a
large wheel between the two boats.
The deck of the boat was covered with
a fiat roof and slanting sides made OF
three feet green oak logs with the
bark on covered in turn with foot OF
railroad iron. When Farragut passed
up the river the Louisiana was sent
out to meet him; but after going bali
mile the engines failed, and the boat
was transformed into a floating fort
She carried eighteen guns. While III
this disabled condition, we were Crap
pied by the United States man-of-war
Brooklyn and another frigate. Before
being grappled we used both our
broadsides on them with considerable
effect; but after that we could not use
our guns, owing to the smoke caused
by repeated discharges from the two
men-of-war. Our ports were not large
enough to allow the csc Ape OF the
smoke caused by their guns, and 1t
soon became so thick we could not see
each other. The two frigates peppered
our iron roof without avail, and finally
drew off and we drifted down the river,
where we grounded. When we were
able to open the vents in the roof we
found that more than quarter OF our
men had been rendered unconscious
by inhaling the smoke. Had the mem
of-war continued their firing fifteen
longer it is safe to say that
every one OF the 100 men under the
roof of the Louisiana would have been
New York Star.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
RAND Transit Extraordinary,

We have heard of many schemes of
rapid transit, but the one proposed by
Leonide Apostolotf, a young Ctssack
engineer, eclipses them all. 1t is moth
ing more nor less than a submarine
boat that will cross the Atlantic in
twenty-six hours. A rifle ball that is
given twisted motion travels farther
than one sent out of a smooth-bore
gun. His boat will consist of an outer
and inner shell. The outer shell re-
wolves on a screw arrangement, and
thereby lessons the resistance. The
inner shell keeps its balance on beam
supported by the ends of the outer
shell. The scheme, Notwithstanding
its sensational features, is possible.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06


The Illustration, sketch of which
was sent us by J. W. Graham, N. c.,
Is simple double gate frame, made to
open either way, and closed in the
following manner: Midway between
the gates is short post firmly driven
N the ground, or mortised into the
ground sill, on both sides of which is
large button" as shown in engrav-
ing. These buttons" are fastened to
the post by a small iron bolt with head
and nut and washers, and turn with
difficulty. When the gate is to be
opened either way, turn the button"
vertical on the side toward which the
gate Is to be opened, and both gates
are at once free to oDen that way only.
Near the lower and outer corner of
each gate is continuance for keeping
the gate in position after it is opened,
which may be used to help keep it
firm when closed. 1t consists OF a
small piece of timber as broad as the
gate-frame and about an inch and a
half in thickness, through which is an
auger-hole; and in this is the cylindri-
cal piece, which should be pointed on
its lower end. 1t then passes through
an auger-hole in the lower horizontal
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

The man with the biggest brain ism t
always the best man. The largest
brain on record was that of a man who
was quite idiotic. The brain OF the
homicide and suicide Daley has been
found to weigh fifty-nine and one-fourth
ounces, which is just the weight of the
murderer Rulotf's brain-an ounce
heavier than Jim Fisk's and six ounces
heavier than Daniel Webster's. As
with most other things, in brains quail
ity counts for more than quantity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

THE Marquise de Galliffet, one of the
most beautiful women in Paris, is suf-
fering from strange form of insanity.
She goes into commissions whenever
she sees her face in mirror. Usually
women are affected the other way, and
in twelve cases out of dozen would be
Historically mad if there were not a
mirror in the house
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

The canvas-back duck is found in
many quarters of the country, but he
is never a canvas-back duck anywhere
but in the region of Chesapeake Bay.
The reason that canvas-back duck is
a canvas-back duck is because he eats a
particular food which abounds in the
Chesapeake Bay and its tributary
waters, and is found nowhere else, so
far as | know. This food is what is
commonly called wild celery, though it
is not celery at all, or any kin to the
celery plant. Its botanical name is
Zostera valisneria, and the latter half
of the name constitutes one-half of the
scientific name of the canvas-back duck.
This plant is species of water grass
which grows on flats where the water
is from seven to twelve feet deep, and
it is only the white, succulent nutty-
favored root of it that the duck feeds
upon. This gives the flesh peculiar
favor that distinguishes the canvas
back duck above all other waterfowl
as delicacy and delight.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
Phosphate For Poultry

The advice to give bones to hens to
make them lay has been improved by
a farmer who accidentally learned that
commercial phosphate answers the
same purpose. He spilled some with
seed wheat last September, and gath
ering it up mixed with soil gave this
to his hens. Rather to his surprise
the pieces of phosphate were eaten as
readily rs the grain, and about the
same time his hens began laying as
they had not done before. Not all of
the commercial phosphate sold now
is made from bones. This incident,
which a Tribune correspondent fur
nishcs, indicates that tho rock phos-
phato may serve q good purpose for
hen feed, az we know it does for crop
food
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
Rnt He Mont Co

A publication interested In coloniz-
ing the blacks of America in Liberia
says that no resident of that country
ever has a cold, sore throat, chillblains
or rheumatism. This is big advan-
tage over the United States, but no in
ducement for the colored man to leave
The Liberian watermelon never grows
larger than a quart bowl and is as
tastelsss as pumpkin.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

IT is really excruciating to hear the
everyday office hunter protest that he
sis not a candidate for that or any
other Office in the sense of entering in
30 scramble for place; butI'etc.
when everybody knows that he would
move heavens and earth to secure the
nomination
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

DO you ask, "Where can / do this and
have my money absolutely safer" Let
us give you some facts. The Lamoille
County Savings Bank and Trust Co. Of
Hyde Park is an institution run on tho
following principles -
list. 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 a 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 in reference
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-the-state security. We
might perhaps pay our depositors one
half of one per cent. per annum more
interest by mourning little addition
al risk, if no loss should come, but we
believe there is to-day ''long-felt
want" in Vermont for 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
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
encouragement upon such an institu-
ton, is evidenced by the fact that the
aggregate of the small deposits alone in
this Bank-not counting any in excess
of $l00O-were at the end of the first six
months of its business, $57, 1890, q
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 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 il
all that the Bank can sAFELYPAY. This
rate it will pay. 1t is guaranteed and
rests on no contingency. Interest will
be compounded semi-annually If not