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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14
ODDS AND ENDS.
The Hungarian novelist Jokai is said

The Hungarian novelist Jokai is said
TO be a millionaire.
Our spare hours are well named;
they seem the shortest Of the day.
The longest name in the Bible is
misunderstanding II occurs in
Isaiah viii, 3.
The thinker must write so that lac
that runs may read, in order to become
"a light and a power"
Farm lands in the United States,
taking the country as a whole, occupy
only 2S9 acres in every 1000.
The New York World paid out $751;
900 for one months collection of news
and publication OF the paper.
Historian Bancroft rated the Amer
lean poets in this order: Emerson,
Bryant Longfellow and Whittier.
The organs Of smell in the turkey
vulture and carrion crow are 50 deli
cate that they can scent their food for
a distance Of forty miles.
Linen that has become yellow from
being laid away may be whitened II
soaked in buttermilk two or three days.
The largest beekeeper in the world is
Mr.. HARRISON, OF California, who has
5000 hives, producing 20, 600 pounds Of
honey yearly.
Mrs. L. ID. +. n. Southworth's full
name is Emma Dorothy Eliza Neuette
Southworth. She is over seyenty-hye
years of age and very feeble.
Tennyson was fifty when his idyls-
elaine" ''Vivien." "Guinevere' -
were published, and was about sixty
two when he completed the series with
"Gareth and Lynette."
Mr. Talmage prides himself upon
being able TO turn ont an excellent SER
mon more rapidly than most men can
write n letter Spurgeon is an equally
quick composer.
Water which is drank is not the only
source Of danger. Many n widespread
and fatal epidemic has been traced 10
milk from diaries where the pans had
been washed in impure water, or the
milk itself adulterated with it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14
Classifying a Minister

Of one of the best known Methodist
ministers a good story is being told
As he himself relates the anecdote with
many laughs there can be no harm in
giving names. He was addressing the
Sunday school scholars at q certain
gathering by ''he" l refer to the
Rev. J. T. Berry-when, to get them
in fellowship with himself, he referred
to the introduction of the superintend-
ent, and queried, with a smile, Now,
boys, what kind of a berry do you take
me to be?' "A strawberry" sang out
a roguish lad in the front seat. "a
huckleberry," chuckled that lads
neighbor. Then, to keep the ball of
good humOr rolling, the Rev. Mr. Ber-
ny called out to an old colored woman
in the rear row, ''Well, auntie, what
kind of berry do you think amp to
which that keen witted grand am made
answer at once, "a gooseberry, l Shout
say, an dom reckon you'll ever ripen,
either! ''-C Cor. New York Commercial
Advertiser
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14
Strategy.

Even an extremely aggressive enemy
can be easily conquered by strategy; Il
is only n question of employing the
stratagem exactly fitted to the case.
An open air preacher Of East London
understood this very well. and his
stratagem fitted TO a charm. He was
addressing a crowd, when n soldier who
had been drinking came up and loudly
ridiculed the service.
Finding that il was useless to ignore
the man, the preacher said. "Ah. my
friend, you're no soldier; you've only
borrowed those gay. red clothcsl No
servant Of the queen would get drunk
and interrupt n peaceful service"
The man warmly protested that he
was a soldier and invited the preacher
to test him.
Very well, was the reply. II WILL
Now then, Stand at easel"
This the soldier did rs well rs his
condition allowed. Right about facet"
This order was also obeyed. though
with some trouble.
Now, quick march, and of went
the valiant soldier, marching down tho
Mllc-end road at n vigorous pace. while
the preacher resumed his discourse. -
Youths Companion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14
HE BRIDAL PATH.

Young Men and Women, So a Policeman
Says, Understand Each Other There.
There is a short section of Madison
avenue not far above the square that
has been christened the Bridal Path by
the policeman into whose beat it comes.
II call it the Bridal Path" said the
policeman, because it leads straight
to the altar I've been on this same
beat now for four years, and tell you
there's something about this strip of
sidewalk that makes the boys and girls
come to terms. The ones that use it
nearly all live around here, and so
learn about their getting married. You
may not believe it, but I've heard the
question popped myself right along this
walk when l was passing by a spoony
couple. And I'll tell of one real case
that had hand in, and it'll prove to
you that there is some secret charm
about this quiet sidewalk that really
brings about marriages.
81 had long watched a girl and her
beau walking along Lexington avenue
on summer afternoons. His face al
ways looked troubled, while she was
always smiling. He would be arguing
with her about something, and she
would never get serious. l saw right
away what the trouble was. The
young fellow loved the girl and was
trying to get her to say yes while she
was coquetting with him and holding
him off. 1t worried me, and thought
if the two would only do their walking
here on Madison avenue instead of on
Lexington avenue they would soon
come to an understanding.
''But they stuck to Lexington, and
the fellow kept on pleading, while the
girl laughed him off. Then l couldn't
stand it any longer, and one night
when the young man had left the girl
at her door 1 stopped him and said l
thought he would find Madison avenue
a pleasanter place to walk. At first he
got mad at my interference, but after
ward he saw that | meant no disrespect
and began laughing at my suggestion.
I guess he thought l was a crank of
some sort. Next day, though, he and
the girl changed over on to Madison
avenue, and when l passed them the
young fellow nodded pleasantly to me.
Now, said I to myself, we'll have a
wedding. For a few days the girl
didn't stop smiling, and I was getting a
little afraid of the charm.
''Then one afternoon the two came
along, and l saw that the girls face
was serious. She was flushed, and she
kept her eyes cast down as she walked.
The young man was talking harder
than ever, but his face was brighter
than I had seen it before. Just at dusk
[ saw him taking her to her door, She
was thoughtful and he was radiant.
Well, sir, the two are married now,
and they say that she dotes on him.
Oh, there's no doubt about the charm.
Look at the boys and girls round here.
There are four couples in sight now,
and every one is a marriage. Why, I
spooned my own wife here, so 1 ought
to know what I'm talking about. D
New York Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14

II never felt myself iloored but once
in my life, said the drummer, with the
air of man who thinks ho has some
thing worth the telling. 1T was down
in Maine" he continued, after waiting
long enough TO set curiosity on an edge.
I'D been living on railway sandwiches
for n week, and / just longed for a
square meal. Well, we had TO stop at
n way station for a couple of hours ON
account of hot box or something o
that sort, and one Of the brakemen
put me on 20 what he said was a first
class restaurant. | looked il up and
ordered a steak.
"The steak came, but IL was dis
appointment. sawed away on II till
my arms ached. 1t was out Of the ques-
ton to chew the small bits tore of
from it, though l tried hard. gave IL
up finally, and as paid my score said
incidentally, That's about the toughest
eating ever experienced. lie took the
money, swept it into the drawer, and
without n culver he coolly remarked,
You don't seem TO consider how much
good it'll do you in the way of exer-
else boston Transcript.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14
The EngIishman,s breakfast.

An American should always under
stand what is meant by breakfast in
London. He will probably take break
fast in his lodgings, or, if he lives in a
hotel, in the coffee room at o. fixed
charge. There are two distinct classes
of breakfast, the light and the sub
stantial, with prices to match. The
first is one cup of coffee, one boiled
egg and three slices of toast; the latter
is one small chop, one egg, a penny
loaf of bread, buttered muffin and
coffee. The principal dish of this lat
ter menu is varied in lodging houses
from day to day, the chop becoming
sausage on Tuesday, ham on Wednes-
day, fried sole on Thursday, and then
the lonely chop again, with the subse-
quent rotation kept up ad infinitum.-
London Cor Chicago Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14

Teachers Of English are plentiful In
this day and generation, but teachers
of American are 70 be met with only at
rare intervals In this city, however,
there are several of the latter who com
mand good prices for their services, and
who find ready employment at all
times. Foreigners who have been
taught English in the schools of their
native land find themselves completely
at sea on their arrival here, and many
OF them vino can afford 1t employ teach
ers to instruct them in learning the pc
culiar idioms employed by tho Ameri-
cans. The localism especially they
find most perplexing to master, and the
teacher mast be well up on all the man
nerisms and slang expressions Of the
day. The bishopo the Russian church
in this city has a young lady employed
to teach him American, and he finds It
a most necessary part of his education.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14
Yon sturdy oak whose branches wide
Boldly the storms and winds defy,
Not lnnn q on an ACORN small

Lay dormant meath The summer SKY.
Not unlike the thrifty oak in its germ. de-
velopment and growth, in consumption.
But even in this mighty foe of mankind,
positively YIELDS to the wonderful curative
properties of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery if taken early Don't be blind to
your own interests and think yours a hope
less case. This remarkable remedy has res
cued thousands 1t is the only medicine of
its class, sold by druggists, under a positive
guarantee that it will benefit or cure in all
cases of disease for which 1T is recommended,
money paid for it will be promptly re-
funded
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14
struck "a Puzzler.

After stranger had been hanging
around the first floor corridor of tho
city hall for an hour or two the police.
man on duty there approached and
asked what he wanted.
Il want to get ON the jury" whis-
pered the man in reply.
what forf'
I've got a friend who has a lawsuit
coming on, and want 20 be on the
jury so as to decide in his favor"
He was walked to the door aud told
to travel, and he went OF looking
much puzzled and annoyed. Detroit
Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14
Beads.

Glass beads originated with the Egyp-
tians. Some have been found with
hieroglyphic inscriptions, showing the
date to be about 1900 B. c. Glass
beads and beagles for necklaces were
used by the Egyptians and many other
ancient nations. They were also used
on cloth employed for mummy wrap
pings. They have been long used by
eastern nations for devotional purposes,
being worn by Chinese, Tartars. Bud
dhists and Turks alike. The Chinese
rosary is composed of 108 beads of
corals, stones, etc, some of them being
as large as q pigeons egg.
They are mentioned by st. Angus
tine, A. D. 366, and by the Druids of
the time of Caesar. Beads of COPPER
have been found in all of the ancient
burial mounds OF northern Europe and
ASIA as well as in the mounds of Amer
lea. Gold beads have been discovered
in some of the cliff dwellings of Arizona
and Mexico. Whether these are earlier
or later than those of Egypt it would
be difficult to say.-St. Louis Republic.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14

nrelation to his scheme for a tubular
railway across the Straits of Dover, Sir
e. j. Reed points out that, unlike the
tunnel, the tube can be destroyed if re-
CURED with torpedoes or mines by the
neet, and hence could never be used by
an enemy to maintain the communica-
ton of an army of invasion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14
1t Has Reached the Nursery.

Fond Mother (calling) go Children,
come to lunch instantly! Why do you
stay up there SO long?
Florric-Can't come, mamma. All
the dollies are down wifi the grip, and
we've teIlyphoned for the doctor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14
Boots in England Nearly a century Aro

o.
In the early years of the present cen
fury number of members of the house
of commons wore top boots. What
contributed to break up the general use
of top boots was the introduction of
the Hessian boot as an article of walk
ing dress. 1t was worn over tight pan
falcons and was q handsome piece of
attire. These in turn were superseded
by the Wellington boot, which was in
troduced by the Iron Duke as being
much more comfortable under the loose
military trousers. This species of boot
has been almost entirely abandoned in
consequence of the universal use of the
short ankle boots, but is still used by
some classes in this country, who stuff
the trousers loosely in at the top.-St.
Louis Republic.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14
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Cook, ParIor and Box.

All the above property will
be sold on liberal terms of pay
ment. Don't expect cash if you
have not got it, but must have
either good paper, security, or
enough paid down to make Sc
curity upon property sold am
pie beyond a doubt.
CARROLL S. PAGE.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14
We are a garden walled around
Chosen and made peculiar ground,
A little plot inclosed by grace
Out of the worlds wild wilderness.

DO not say you have never been in
vited. invite you now to the Kings
feast. One and all. ALI All! But
1 go further, and tell you that
the angels are ready. Some people
think when we speak about angels we
are getting into the region of fancy.
They say it is very well for a man
when he has just entered the ministry
to preach about the angels of heaven,
but after he has gone on further it
is hardly worth while. My friends,
there is not any more evidence in the
Bible that there is a God than that
there are angels. Did they not swarm
around Jacobs ladder? When Laz-
arus' soul went up did they not escort
it? Did not David say, ''The chariots
OF God are twenty thousand, even thou
sands of angels2" Are they not repre-
sented as the chief harvesters of the
Judgment day2 Did not one angel in
one night Stay $50, 900 of Sennacherib's
troops?
oh, yes, our world is in communica-
ton with two other worlds. All that
communication is by angels. When a
bad man is to die, man who has de-
spised God and rejected the gospel, the
bad spirits come on sulphurous wing,
and they shacklo him and try to push
him off the precipices into the ruin,
and they lift guffaw of diabolical ex-
ultation. But there is a line of angels
bright and beautiful and loving angels,
mighty angels-reaching all the way
from Garth to heaven, and when others
gather like them l suppose the air is
full of them. They hover. They fit
about. They push down iniquity from
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14
The CnnnmiffeA Rennrts.

She-Marriage isn't a failure.
He-No; it's only run on the bank.
Judge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14

A somewhat celebrated temperance
lecturer in Missouri is nam ed Drink
hard.
DEAN s RHEUMATIC Pulls, are a sure cure for
all formes OF Chronic and Inflamatory Rheu-
matism sina ~ssuralgia. Entirely vegetable,
always safe.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14

Some of the Grand Army boys may be in
terested in the following from Alex. B. Poap,
A. d. G., Commander, Dept. Tenn. and Ga.
He says: Eve have had an epidemic of
whooping cough here, Stewart Tenn,) and
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been the
only medicine that has doue any good -
There is no danger from whooping cough
when this remedy is freely given 1t com
pletely controls the disease so cent bottles
tor sale by Gates.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14

Two out of half dozen fish frozen
in bunch for many months and
bought of a huckster OF Bucks coun-
ty, Penn, thawed out the other day
and commenced to swim about.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14

TOT = are BY
Chas. Crane & Son, Strong & Wood, C. NJ.
Strong, Hyde Park; II. p. Munson, Geo. X.
Currier, C. H. Socum, Geo. j. Slayton 5 b..
Tiff MOrriSvie
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14

HOLD IT TO THE LIGHT.-The man who
tells you conidGntially just what viii cure
your cold is prescribing Kemp's BaIsam this
year In the preparation of this remarkable
medicine for coughs and colds no expense is
spared to combine only the best and purest
ingredients Hold bottle of Kemp's Bal
sam to the light and look through it; notice
the bright, clear look; then compare with
other remedies Price soc and 81
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14

Senator Plumb thinks we could get
along Just as well if we had no such
thing as foreign ministers in Wash
ington. Most of them, he says, re-
present kings with whom we have no
business.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-03-19
They Never Make a Mistake

Pardon me, but think you have made
mistake in counting this money" said o
mild hammered gentleman TO the paying
teller of one Of the big banks down town.
The mild hammered gentleman had Just re.
ceived bulky pile of currency in exchange
for check, and had taken the precautiou
to count the money on the spot. With a
look Of disdain and in very fripid tones
the teller replied: 1--WE never make mis-
takes here, sir. You will find that to be
correct"
But l am certain" said the gentleman
earnestly. II have counted these bills
twice, and You have given me too''-
You are mistaken, sir" interrupted the
clerk haughtily. 81 never make mistake
in counting money"
But tell you that in this instance YOU
have" insisted the gentleman very polite.
ly. You have given me too much"
Sir, that is impossible. Please don't
take up any more of my time There are
others waiting to be attended to-"
The mild hammered man looked sharply
at the teller,s and then, with gesture OF
lmpatience, said: "Oh, very well. | can
stand it If you can" He placed the roll OF
bills in his pocket and left the bank. An
observer of the incident followed him out
ana yentured to inquire, Are you sure
that the teller gave you too much moneyP"
Yes, SIR" promptly replied the gentle
man. "Ele overpaid me $780, and he will
find 1t out very soon, but he will never ad.
init it, That man would lose half a years
salary rather than admit that he had made
a mistake. With some paying tellers that
feeling amounts to mania. Next to their
lives they prize their regulations for ac.
curacy. New York Times.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-03-19
MOB Law IN NEW ORLEANS.

Mob law is the resolution of the es.
tablished order of things into primj-
tive community, In which public SEN
timeut is both judge and jury, and con-
demnation and punishment are meted
out to all who fall under its bans, the
innocent too often suffering side by
de with the guilty. 1t is the passion
ate protest of people against the pop
ular offender, and its judgments are
swift and terrible. Unhappy that com
munity that places the administration
of Justice in the hands of the bloody
handed and violent.
Occasionally, however, there is a
moral turpitude that so possesses com
munities, that it Is almost impossible
to secure the administration of justice,
because both jurist and jury are in the
hands of the criminal classes, and the
very laws which were framed for the
protection of the innocent, become the
bulwarks of defence for the traitor and
the assassin.
L. is then that a betrayed and defed
people rise up in passionate protest,
and seek vengeance in sea of blood
for the wrongs that have been heaped
upon them. This kind of mob law,
greatly as we may deplore the condi
tions which make such an uprising
possible, is like a strong electric storm,
clearing the moral atmosphere, wash
ing away the filthy and impure, and
making way for ths stronger and
healthier elements, once more get the
mastery.
1t was by such an uprising in Mon
tana that the State was purged of rob.
bers and assassins. and coming nearer
home, it was by such violent protest
that Cincinnati took step forward in
the administration of just government.
That such an electrical clearing-up
has visited New Orleans none can
doubt. The greatest pity is that the
suborned jurists and jury are loose,
with bribes in their pockets, while the
eleven wretched Italian prisoners are
stiff and stark, riddled with balls and
bullets.
The New Orleans Times. Democrat
thinks the great uprising will be the
means of breaking up the Italian as
sassination societies in New Orleans,
through whose fundamentally the
Chief of Police was killed and points to
a still more important work to be per
formed In the following:
The short, sharp and decisive drama
of yesterday had in it, moreover, a
warning for another class, which they
will do we'll not to disregerd; we refer
to the jury fixers, who are experts in
getting at talesmen and jurymen and in
filling the jury box, partially or wholly,
with men pledged to consult above all
things the interests of the criminals
and to see that the convictions shall
not be arrived at by jurles against
them
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-03-19
YestaI Virgins,

Ovid tells us that the first temple OF
Vesta at Rome was constructed of wattled
walls and rooted with thatch like the prim-
tive huts of the inhabitants. 1t was little
other than q circular covered fireplace,
and was tended by the unmarried girls of
the infant community. 1t served as the
public hearth of Rome, and on it glowed,
uneXtinguished throughout the year, the
sacred fire which was supposed to have
been brought from Troy, and the continu-
ance of which was thought to be linked
with the fortunes of the city.
The name Vesta is believed TO be derived
from the same root as the Sanskrit was.
which means "tO dwell, to inhabit," and
shows that she was the goddess of home,
and home had the hearth rs its focus. A
town, n state, is but large family, and
what the domestic hearth was to the
house, that, the temple Of the perpetual
fire, became TO the city Every town had
its Nesta or common hearth, and the colo
nies derived their fire from the mother
hearth.
Should vestal maiden allow the sacred
fire to become eXtinguished she was beaten
by the grand pontiff till her blood flowed,
and the new fire was solemnly rekindled
by rubbing together Of dry wood, or by
focusing of suns rays. 1t might not be
borrowed. The circular form and domed
roof of the Temple Of Vesta were suryivals
of the prehistoric huts of the aborigines.
which were invariably round.-Cornhill
Magazine.