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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03
Kindness Amply Repaid.

Last week, says Chatter, we told
something about the fortune of Fred
erick Cook, eX-Secrctary of the State
of New York, which had its beginning
in little kindness he was able to do
for George Pullman, when Pullman
was as poor as a church mouse and
starting his famous car company.
Now we hear of another instance
that goes towards proving the merit of
that little Sunday-schoOl song, "Scatter
Seeds of Kindness"
1t appears that when the Westing-
house, the millionaire inventor, was
young and poor he got place as third
assistant engineer i'll the Navy. 1t was
during the war. His workmen
plagued him a great deal, as experts
often do a green hand. They used to
keep him running on errands for tools
that had no existence.
In that cOterIe was a man named
Snyder, who treated Mr.. Westinghouse
in kindly and helpful manner. Mr..
Westinghouse has recently made him
manager of the Union Interlocking
Switch Company, at big salary and
with fine house to live in.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03
Warm Water for Cattle in Cold Weather.

Considerable discussion has been in
dulged in within two years over the
question of the utility of warming
water for cows during the cold season.
Common serse and reason would seem
TO say, H1tgko tho chill off from the ire-
cold water Cor stock ia zero weather.. :,
But when we consider that spring
water, or water from a good well re-
tains about the same temperature sum-
mer and winter, stock supplied with
such water would not be likely to be
benefited by warming such water as
much as they would were the stock
compelled to drink from a stream fow-
ing above ground, or from cistern
water. Some recent experiments, TO
determine the adyantages-if any-of
furnishing warm water to cows in cold
weather, conducted at the Wisconsin
Experiment Station, seem to show that
the advantage is not so great as is gen.
orally supposed.
SKINNED milk at % cents per quart,
corn fodder at 50 per ton, the cost of
warming water for forty cows 100
DAYS at S15, the results obtained from
cows OH the experiment indicated that
a net gain of S2l.36 would be realized
on a herd of forty cows, averaging six
cen pounds of milk pc day per cow,
and at least $40 on herd of ten cows.
Counting corn fodder at so per ton,
the net gain on I'd of forty cows
would still be S12.4S.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03

In conversation with representative
of the Washington Post, Gen. Hazcn
gave some interesting details concern
ing the stamps used by the United
States.
The ultra-marine blue one-cent stamp
bears the vignette of Franklin, who
was thus honored because he was the
first Postmaster-General. Singularly
enough, too, he is the only Postmaster
General who has been thus honored.
Washihgton's bust, which ornaments
the new carmine stamp, is tribute to
one who was first in war, first in
peace and first in the hearts of his
countrymen.
A change has been made in the three
cent stamp, which formerly contained
the head of Lincoln, but out from the
purple tint there now peers the rugged
features of ''Old Hickory" as Andrew
Jackson was called by his admirers.
Lincoln's familiar countenance is
shown on the four cent stamps, which
are chocolate colored, and his contem-
porary, Gen. Grant. adorns the brown
five cent stamps, which are used for
foreign postage.
Shortly after the international postal
conference at Bcrne, Switzerland, i'll
1874, Postmaster Jewell wanted to
place General Grants face on this
stamp. Upon mentioning the matter
at cabinet meeting one day the Pres
ident vetoed the proposition i'll the
most emphatic manner, and it was re-
served for another administration to
do honor to him.
Claret-colored is the term that
would be applied to the six-cent stamp,
upon which appears an excellent like
ness of Garfield.
The famous utterauce of Webster,
the union one and indivisibIe, was
thought entitled to place on the green
ten-cent stamp.
Henry Clay has been honored with
a place on the fifteen-cent stamp,
which is very appropriate, as the blue
tint is strongly suggestive of the gras-
sy slopes of Kentucky.
On the black thirty-cent stamp there
is a reproduction of the face of Thorn
as Jefferson, author Of the Declaration
of Independence.
Probably the handsomest, as well as
the most valuable stamp, intrinsically
considered, is the orange-hued;nin
cent stamp, upon which Commodore
Perry, the hero of Lake Erie, is de-
picted
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03
SLANG WORDS AND PHRASES.
Origin of Some of the Expressions Now
in Popular Use.

in Popular Use.
I ''Dun" is a word now whose mean
ing is known to every one who under
stands the English language. About
the beginning of the century a consta-
bic in England named John Dun be-
came celebrated as first-class collector
of bad accounts. When others would
fail to collect bad debt Dun would
be sure to get it out of the debtor. 1t
sOCn passed into current phrase that
when person owed money and did
not pay when asked he would have to
be "Dunncd." Hence it soon became
common in such cases to say, 'You
will have to Dun So-and-so if you
wish to collect your money"
Until the nomination of Franklin
Pierce for the presidency, the word
"Outsider' was unknown. The COM
mittee on credentials came in to make
lis report and could not get into the
hall because of the crowd of people
who were not members of the conven-
ton. The chairman of the convention
asked if the committee was ready to
report, and the chairman of the COM
dllsh CIcu, 1CS, NIL.
but the committee is unable to get in
side on account CT the crowd and pres
sure of the outsiders" The news
paper reporters took up the word and
used it.
"You are daisy" i used by Dick
ems in 'David Copperfield," in the
sense of calling a person a daisy in a
way to express admiration, and, at the
same time, 10 laugh at ones credulity.
Steerforth says to young Copperfield:
"David, my daisy, you are SO innocent
of the world. Let me call you my
daisy, as it is so refreshing to find one
in these corrupt days SO innocent and
unsophisticated. My dear Copperfeld,
the daisies of the field are not fresher
than YOU"
"Too thin" was given currency by
the Hon. Alexander III. Stephens, of
Georgia, in the United States Congress
in 1870. Some members had made
reply to Mr.. Stephens and the latter
had his chair wheeled out in the aisle
and said in that shrill piping voice
which always commanded silence
"Mr. Speaker, the gentleman's argu-
ments are gratuitous assertions made
up of whole cloth. And cloth, sir, so
gauzy and thin that it will not hold
water. 1t is entirely too thin, sir"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03
Incubation Witnessed.

A French scientist who removed the
shell on either side of the egg without
injuring the membrane, in patches
about the size of the diameter of pea,
and snugly fitted the openings with
bits of glass, gives the following re-
port of the wonderful experiment:
81 placed the egg with the glass
bulls eyes in an incubator run bv
clockwork, and revolving once in each
hour, so that | had the pleasure of
looking through and watching the
change upon the inside at the end of
each sixty minutes. No changes were
noticeable until after the end of the
twelfth hour, when some of the Inca
ments of the Lead and body of the
chick made their al pearance.
"Ihe heart appeared to beat at the
end OF the tWenty-fourth hour, and in
forty-eight hours two vessels of blood
were distinguished, the pulsations be-
ing quite visible. When 451 hours
had elapsed we heard the first cry of
the little imprisoned bipcd. From
that time forward he grew rapidly,
and came out a full hedged chick at
the proper time"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03
Florida PhOsnhate Deposits.

The discovery of supposed beds of
"phospha e'-the bOny remains of Il
variety of antediIuvian creatures, both
marine and land animals-in almost all
parts of Florida, has stirred up a good
deal of excitement, and apparently led
to universal "great eXpectatio s.
throughout that large peninsula. For
SIX months the owners of land in Yari-
Gus parts of that State have been more
or less excited over these supposed dis
coveries. Every day brings out Il
dozen fresh ''finds:" and the idea
seems to possess Florida landowners
that every one of them is going to be
speedily made rich by means of this
phosphate" Doubtless some of the
Florida beds will 'pay," and the
larger lumber viii not prove to be
worth the working. The South Caro-
lima deposits, an extensive bed, or
series of beds, on what was once an
ancient ocean beach, but is now in the
country dozen miles back, or West of,
the city of Charleston, must be paying
handsomely. This discovery was
brought to general notice. and util-
lied as paying bus ness directly after
the war. 1t has grown to large pro-
portions, and mills are employed to
grind up the bones, when the product,
mixed with acid, and a certain portion
of guano, is converted into valuable
fertilizer, and at aimed an important
commercial value.--Hartford Post.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03
Hone Born of a Wink.

Night before last Col. John T.
Clark, of the American Express Com
pany, went to his home in Avondele,
says The Cincinnati Times, with many
forebodings. His laughing little boy
Leonard, who is always full of jokes,
and who for several weary DAYS has
been very low with typhoid fever, was
at the crisis, and the worst was feared
With heavy heart, and accompa-
MED by his wife, Mr.. Clark, as soon
as he reached his house, hurried to his
boy. Looking down into his eyes, he
anxiously asked:
"Leonard, do you know me?'
The boy without moving his lips.
parched with the terrible disease, gave
forth sound that was understood as
an affirmative, when Mr.. Clark, to en-
courage the little one, continues:
leonard, nv little man, you want
to hurry up and get well, for I'm Going
to take you East, where you win have
lots of fun. Don't you want to go?"
And there was an assent, but with
out single muscle of the burning face
moving. Again the father, anxious to
,
though awfully sick, had some of bis
old love for fun left, asked:
Leonard, can you wink at me?'
Slowly the muscles around one of
the eyes began to move, and finally
the lids of that eve came together.
If the little fellow had burst forth in
song he could not have more fully
braced up his Respondent parents. To
them that wink, sluggish and possibly
painful, had spoken volumes. 1t told
them that the flaming fever had not
yet consumed the little fellows spirit.
He was yet their fun owing boy, and
both smiled again, and Mrs. Clark
then consented to go out for a breath
of fresh air.
To-day the doctor says the crisis is
passed and little Leonard is on the
mend.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03

There were probably a hundred peo-
pie in the old Island House Depot in
Toledo when a tall, thin man, who
might have been 40 years old and did
not look to weigh over ninety pounds,
who had roIe harness on him, passed
around the waiting rooms and said:
81 am going 10 give an exhibition of
strength outside the building, and
shall expect the small sum of a dime
from each looker-on. | am going to
attempt to raise dead weight of two
tons"
All the men and quite number of
the women went out, and enough
toWnspeUple came down to make a
crowd of three hundred. The thin
man passed around through the crowd
and took up collection, and he must
have got an average of 10 cents for
every one present. When he had
pocketed the money he approached
several large grindstones lying in a
heap and chained together and an
nounced:
"Ladies and Gentlemen: l thank
you kindly for your contributions.
Here is a lightweight of 5000 pounds
| shall attempt to lift it."
An iron hook in the harness was
hooked into the chain Stacking the
grindstones, and the thin man began 10
straighten up. He was encouraged
and applauded by the crowd, but the
strain he put out would not have
raised fifty pounds. He kept at it
three or four minutes, and then I'M
hooked and backed off. and said:
E'La,lies and gentlemen, it's no use
| can't do it. ] have tried and failed"
''See here--this looks like fraud J"
exclaimed man who had Clipped in
quarter.
''Oh, don't say that.' sorrowfully
replied the thin mar, "You al saw
me try"
''But you led us to believe you could
lift 5000 poundl,"
"Well, [ was in hopes l could. l
really wish l could, but don't believe
| ever cam"
"That's pretty durn thin!' growled
red whiskers, ''and Pm good mind to
give you a taste of my boot"
sob, please don't! l tried my best,
and when a man has done his best such
talk hurts his feelings. You don't
know how badly | want to lift 1000
pounds"
81 believe you are fakir."
GA fakir! Hear him, ladies and
gentlemen! Because | am not as strong
as dray horse he calls me fakir!
This is too much-too much L am
used to adversely, but this breaks
mel"
And he sat down OIL the 1000 pounds
of cold grindstones aud wept like
until the crowd scattered,
and he could get away with his $50
without being kicked.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03
Cremation Growing Popular.

Cremation is making rapid advance
in public favor. The first cremation
at Working was conducted in the Spring
of the year 1885. About fif Y crema-
lions have taken place since 'ast May,
when operations were resumed after
the entire reconstruction of the build
ing hitherto existing there, and the adj
dition of the handsome little chapel.
On several occasions there have been
two bodies cremated on the same day.
Not only is hostile sentiment giving
way, bur it is beginning to be found
that for middle and upper class funer-
ais cremation is rea ly cheaper than
burial. The total cost of it, including
everything ordinarily implied when
we speak of funeral, is stated to be
G15.-Pall Mall Gazette. ,.r.,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03
How He Lost His Hair.

Opie P. Read is an inimitabIe story
teller, and lis story of the blotting out
of one country paper that he started
shows how the most minute circum-
stance has its influence on the destinies
of nations. 1t seems tn his landlord
was a violent man, with head of hair
that was not only long but thick, black
and wirv. The landlord slept on the
ground floor, while the printing office
was above, with s.ovepipe hole be-
tween the two floors. The landlord
got drunk and went to sleep below,
under the stovepipe hole, and
Read and his partner slept up
stairs. After working off their
edition and washing the forms
they retired, when cat got into the
room, and Read threw boot at the cat,
which tipped over crock of "concen-
trated lye," used 10 wash forms with,
stronger than aqua FORTS. OF course,
the I've went down through the stove
pipe h lie and drippcd on the wonderful
head of hair of the landlord, witt the
result tina. when he woke up in the
morning and run his fingers through
his hair, the hairs all came off, leaving
the landlord as bald as a two-gallon
jug. The landlord opened fire on the
printers, and they got out of town on
the first stage, alive, and had their
press and type sent to them by mail.
To hear Read tell the story is worth
the full price of admission.-Peck's
Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03
A Queens Voluntary Slavery.

Hester Cora Mitchell, as she was
known here after becoming the slave
of Ex-Governor Mitchell, is buried in
the cemetery in this city. She was a
Queen of some African tribe, and
came to this country Voluntarily, bring
ing with her all the insignia of her
royalty-crown and robes and jewels,
etc. She was pleased with this coun-
try, and resolved TO lay down her robes
of royalty and Lccome n slave, as above
stated. Every Christmas. until her
death, she would appear before the
negroes in all the gorgeousness of her
queenly paraphcrnalia. After this ex-
hibition, she would retire, lay aside
her queenly attire, and go into the
kitchen as humbly as any of the other
servants of Gov. Mitchell. When
Hester Cora died Gov. Mitchell had
her buried in her regalia.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03
An Easter Egg Costing $1,000.

A Partisan firm has just finished
making an Easter egg, intended for a
wealthy Spanish lady, at cost of
$4,000. 1t is most ingenious piece
of mechanism and is made entirely of
pure white enamel. 1t is provided
with doors ard slides, the inside being
engraved with Easter gospels. The
opening of door sets a tiny bird sing
ing and musical apparatus going
which is capable of playing twelve
airs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03

had made an appointment with GUS
toner in town, but on arriving at the
place found only note, in which the
man apologized for being unable to
come. In order to save himself the
long walk back to the factory the good
husband resolved to surprise his wife
by returning home earlier.
On entering the vestibule of his
house he was Immediately greeted by
the ringing of the telephone. '"The
DEVIL" he said to himself, ''now | am
in plight! My uncle is talking 10
my wife. The only thing for me to
do is to vanish again as quickly as pos
sible.'' Where-what did he hear!
IT was strange voice and not his
wife's at all.
"Why, this is impossible" he NUT
tered, and yet was soon convinced that
it was not his wife's voice. "Perhaps
she has visitor" he said, ''and the
visitor is using the telephone" Sure
that he has hit the truth, he hurrles
forward; but soon stops, rooted to the
spot.
Through the open door he sees his
wife lying on the sofa with book in
her hand, and their landlady standing
at the telephone. elf my old man
doesn't come home too late for dinner
| give him three kisses, otherwise he
gets none" These words, full of
charm in the mouth of his wife,
soundeds like proclamation from the lips
of this old woman. Heavens! What
kind of a mystification is this?
'"Jcsu Maria" cried the landlady,
who, accidentally glancing over her
shoulder, had e. pied her master.
Mrs. S. sprang up, but for embar-
rassment could not utter a word.
"You here?" she finally gasped.
GAS you see."
"And who was answering the tele-
phone?"
f'Probably an acquaintance of our
lahdlady's. 1, at least, have nothing
10 do with her!"
Mr.. S. was not long in grasping the
situation. The same brilliant idea that
factory had been duplicated at home by
his wife and the landlady. But he was
resolved to profit by the occasion.
Naturally, you thought that | was
speaking he said, quite seriously.
sob! oh! what have | done?" ex-
claimed the poor woman, bursting into
a flood of tears.
''Dear, dear, calm yourself. | am
not angry with you. For really, at
bottom, this whole telephone business
is nonsense. The moment l began to
suspect the voice was not yours l COM
missioned my uncle to act as proxy,
and fastened home to witness the
farce of conjugal tenderness as acted
by deputies. / enjoy the joke while
you take it too seriously to heart. But
this is childish. Give me the promised
reward for coming home so early"
he kissed her, and she was
enraptured with his unparalleled good
ness.
From this tine the telephone ceased |
to fulfil its function as a medium of |
discourse between the lovers. 1t was
only resorted to in some case of real |
necessity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03

1t would be hard to find anywhere a
hotter, wetter, wOrse-smelling, or
more generally disagreeable place to
live in than Anegada; but singularly
enough it appears to be for the most
part pretty healthy place-at least
for the natives, of whom nearly all are
black or colored. In the antecolonial
days the Indians used to come hither
in their canoes, and they have left i'm
mense kitchen-middens or heaps of
shells; but no Indian could ever bring
himself to make a permanent home in
Anegada with its steaming fogs, its
squalls, its sea floods, its fresh water
foundations, its strong smells, and its
dense swarms of insects.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03

PAUL VANAULT has been sentenced
to five years Imprisonment and a fine
of 5000 francs. in Paris, as spy. He
had been detected in attempting to
procure secret documents relating to
the national defense, and incrimina-
ting correspondence with parties con-
nected with the German government
was found upon him.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03
A Divers Experiences.

eyes," said Mr.. c.. p. Gilbert, in
answer to a question, 81 used TO be a
diver in government employ and have
been "down among the dead men"
more than once"
''What were your sensations when
you first began as diver?" asked the
representative of this paper.
'ESometimes they were rather giddy
ones, as for instance when | lost my
balance under water and came up in q
hurry feet foremost. That is thing
that is apt to happen if you are not
accustomed to the dress, which weighs
about 200 pounds"
'EWhat is the depth of the water
You trayersed?"
II have never been down further
than thirty-two feet, said Mr.. Gill
bert, ''but | can remain ut that depth
two hours. n is very interesting and
eNhiIaratiHg, as there is double the
quantity of oxygen that we breathe
on land. | can see around me in a
circle of forty feet, all beyond that is
fog. 1t amuses me to have the fish
swim up and look at me curiously
through the glass eyes of my helmet.
If [ move they are gone like flash.
but as long as 1 stand still, they will
look in at me as much as to saw:
what kind of monster are you?'"
''What is the greatest depth to
which diver can descend?"
al do not know of any here who
could go deeper than 125 feet. /
could dive, myself, to sixty feet, but
no further. They can only stay down
five minutes at a time at the deepest
depth. 1t is very easy for me, but
some of my men who .ried it would
be laid up two or three days. | can
walk about on the bottom of Lake
Huron with perfect ease. When |
am waiting, | lie down. There is a
floating motion that assists diver to
walk easily. My work was to oversee
the construction of piers on Lake
Huron. / have gone down to inspect
wrecks. Diving suits me so well that
| sometimes think I was born for it,
All the sensations are pleasant ones.
When L look up there is nothing
above my head but a great circle of
liUht3
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03

ALWAYS gallant. those Frenchman.
even under the most trying circum-
stances A beautiful Partisan lady,
whose husband was dangerously ILL.,
was lamenting in the presence of an
old admirer. Mon Dieu!r she cried
.df he dies, what shall become?"
"a widow madame, the prettiest wild
ow in Paris" answered her admirer,
with a graceful bow"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03
How TO Classify Roses.

The dog rose-for dudes.
The blush rose-for b: ides.
The thorn rose-for scolds.
The tea rose-for old maids.
The prairie TO e-for settlers.
The hedge rose-for the poor.
The cabbage rose-for tailors.
The Banksia rosa-for bankers.
The button rose-for bachelors.
The white rose-for young ladies.
The gloria rose-f I the religious.
The moss rose-for married ladies.
The pink rose-for young matrons.
The damask rose-for masked balls.
The wild rose-for men about town.
The golden yellow rose for tho
rich.
The Marechal Mel rose-for Sold
iers.
The Jacqueminot rose-for gentle
men.
The rose of Sharon-AfeE heirs to an
estate.
The Martha Washington rose-for
presidents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-03

THE editor of lifeIess paper is al
ways willing to see the editor OF pub
lic-spirited journal sued for libel The
suits are accepted by him as mega
tive tribute to his character as harm
less individual. But they might with
much reason be accepted as insults to
the judgement of his subscribers