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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-01-28
Question of Corsets.

Judge Wheeler of the federal court
at New York had a most important
question to settle last week, and
that was as to whether or not corsets
are wearing apparel. Ottenheimer
Bros, who imported a lot of corsets
recently, complained because they
were assessed at the custom-hous Sc
at 80 per cent ad valorem as wear
ing apparel. They claimed that cor
sets were simply devices for holding
up and improving the figure, and
should have been assessed at 40 per
cent ad valorem as cotton fabric.
Ottenheimer Bros. were represented
by ID. Ives Mackie, who had the mis-
fortune to be a bachelor, while Assis-
tant United States District Attorney
II. G.. Platt is married. He claimed,
therefore, that he of course new more
about corsets than did Mr.. Mackie.
Mr.. Mackie wouldn't allow it and ar
gued that Il proper appreciation oil
the corset could be obtained from a
study of it in the abstract. "There
is no warmthin a corset, " he claimed,
"they are simply machines to hold
up dresses" Mr.. Platt fatty denied
this. He said there was, sometimes,
a great deal of warmth in a corset,
and asked him how it was, if they
were only machines to hold up dres-
ses, that so many young men wore
them. Mr.. Mackie didn't believe
they did, and Mr. Platt said he could
prove it by common rumor. No eN-
hibits were made. The question was
of such great weight that Judge
Wheeler took it home with him for
deliberation and advisement, but
Saturday he handed down n decision
in favor ofMr. Platt. Corsets, there
fore, are clothes
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-01-28
What is News d?

An ingenius editor of a large and
successful daily, who would be recog.
nized as one of the best newspaper
men i'll the United States if his name
were mentioned, recently had occa-
sion to employ some new reporters
Many men applied, all of whom he
called into his sanctum, and. paving
| no attention to their letters of recon-
mendation, gave each one of them a
writing pad, at the head of which
was the question, "What is News?"
Half an hour to answer that ques-
ton, younggentlemen. Then / shall
know how to make my choice"
There was some lively scratching
for thirty minutes, and the result of
the newspaper examination was in
tensely interesting. Some of the an
swers of the successful competitors
are suggestive. Here are q few of
them:
"News is anything the general pub
lie oueAt to know"
News consists of eventA<Shat aHs.
either very usual or very dnusuai. ~
News is the daily record of the hu-
man race put into convenient shape
for the public"
"News is thepanOrama ofthe world
every twenty-four hours in embryo"
News is whatever the public will
read and pay for"
News is anything from Jones ar
rival in town to the fall of an en-
pire.'
"Newsis historical fact. 1t is what
occurs; not what is imagined"
"News is the truth concerning men.
nations and things. That is, truth
concerning them which is helpful, or
pleasant, or useful, or necessary for
reader to know"
This last definition pleased the edi-
tor very much.-Christian Union.
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ADVERTISING RATES.
The Longest Day.

1t Is quite important when speak.
ing OF the longest day of the year IA
say at what part OF the world we are
talking about, as will be seen bv the
following list, which tells the length
OF the longest day in several places.
How unfortunate are the children of
Tornea, Finland, where Christmas
day is less than three hours is length.
At Stockholm, Sweden, il is eighteen
and one-halt hours in length.
At Spitzbergen the longest day is
three and one-half months.
At London, England, and Bremen.
Prussia, the longest day has sixteen
and one-half hours.
At Hamburg, in Germany, and
Dantzig, in PRUSSIA, the longest day
has seventeen hours.
At Wardbury, Norway, the longest
day lasts from May 21 to July - 4.
without interruption.
At st. Petersburg, Russia. and
Tobclsk, Siberia, the longest day is
nineteen hours and the shortest five
hours.
At Tornea. Finland, June2l brings
day nearly twenty-five hours long.
and Christmas one less than three
hours in length.
At New York, the longest day is
about fifteen hours long, andat Mon
treal, Canada, it is sixteen hours
Kansas Farmer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-01-28
An Escape from Libby,

The escape of Capt. Marion Ander-
son from Libby Prison was a peril
Gus risk to take for liberty. He told
the story in anaddress before Lincoln
Post the other evening. He had re-
ceived a box of provisions and cloth
ing from his father in Indiana that
had been three months on the way.
When he first entered the prison he
had written his father if he did send
him any clothing to put a roll OF
greenback bills in the waistband OF
the trousers, and sure enough he had.
AssoOn as he got the money he feigned
sickness in order to get into the hos
pital, for he knew that it was from
the basement he m ust escape if at all.
In the course of a week or two he
improved sufficiently to walk about
and in the kitchen found the cook to
be Union soldier, a prisoner, who
had been detailed for that duty. He
took the cook into the details of his
plan. The first and great purpose
was to bribe the guard, who every
night from nine to eleven O'Clock
stood at the big double iron doors,
that were barred and spiked from the
inside. The guard at first refused the
bribe of 500, but being a northern
man by birth, Capt. Anderson finally
worked on his sympathies until he
consented, and in the course of two
weeks the scheme for escape was com
pleted. The long iron spikes had
been drawn one at a time and then
loosely dropped back in their places,
as had also the rivets to the bars,
and it took but the work of few
minutes to remove all of them.
Capt. Anderson was the chief eDgi-
neer in this daring piece of work, but
he had a nervy assistant in Lieut..
SHELTON, another hospital patient,
who had resolved to escape with him.
At 10 O'Clock of the night they were
to escape the big heavy doors were
stealthily pulled ajar, and they were
in the act of bounding out into the
street, but the bribed guard waved
them back. The captain of the guard
was approaching. In breathless sill
ence they stood for a few minutes,
and then the guard gave them the
signal to come on. Out they walked,
while on the opposite corners, not
100 yards away, under brightly burn
ing gaslights, were as many as eight
sentinels.
The escaped prisoners passed down
the centre of the street within a few
yards of them, but no notice was
taken of the selfliberated prisoners
of war, and on they trudged through
crowded streets out of city limits, and
by dawn the next morning had gain
ed the forests several miles from the
city. They Travelled two days and
nights, neither one having on any
shoes and but thin and tattered cloth
ing, through rain and mud, wading
and swimming swollen streams, and
without food, before they reached the
Union lines. And then their hard
ships were at an end.-Washington
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What Wnnnan Can do

Miss Marcia A. Douglas has n fine
apiary at ShOreham, Vt. She make,
| n speciality of white clover honey, an,
ships it to order to any part of tn
country.
ANY one who has followed Miss
Amelia b. Edwards in her marvellous.
lyentertaininga accounts Ofthe "tinds'
in Egypt, will have his interest in the
subject quickened by the accounts of
the recent discoveries at Abukir,
about thirteen miles from Alexandria.
At four to six feet below the surface
were found three statues of rose gran
ite ten feet high, with columns and
flooring. The statues are supposed
from the inscription to be Rameses IL.
and his queen, the former in two diff
ferent positions. 1t is surmised that
the temple and statues were over
thrown after the edict of Theodosius,
A. d. $50, abolishing the Egyptian
religion. Much excitement has been
aroused among scholars by these eX-
traordinary finds, and it Is believed
that ere long, if the money for the
work is provided, many contribu-
tions to the education of ancient his
tory will be the result.
An exchange says: "Iess than a
year ago the editor of that bright
little magazine, the Dolls Dress
maker, who conceals her identity un-
der the most suitable pen name OF
Jenny Wren, started her venture in
this unique literary field. This
month it takes $4,000 copies TO sup
ply the demand for the little month
ly-a brilliant testimonial TO what a
woman can do when the need is
great -
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-01-28
THE LAND OF GIYTHARE.

! There are purple grapes in the land of Git
Thare.
| Whose clusters climb higher and higher
In each rounded breast is the vintage of rest
And thrills the dull brain with new fire.
Through musical rushes the streams flow
along,
And the valleys resound with the Daughters
of Song,
And aaunt with their floating attire;
| There is shade and cool fountains, and
music to spare
In the mountain-hemmed wales of the Land
of Git-Thare.
And the branches bend dsEn with pome-
granates of peace,
That OOze with the juice ofGelight
Through the odorous Passr2f the Spangled
From the Lily Pad Lake, tlsst is clearer than
glass,
Dream zephyrs float dcwn from the height.
They are heavy with perfumes and odorous
smells
That arise from the grots of the Daffodil
Where the moon is mixed with the night.
There is perfume and song, ard sweet music
to spare,
In the verdurous vaies OF tbs Land of Git
Thare.
But you climb the tall mountains of Preci-
pice Land
Ere you come to the Land of Git-Thare;
And you cross the White Land of Poisonous
Sand
Till you reach the black shore of the ship
wreck Strand
By the blood Red Sea of Despair.
And YOU sail this sea, like a lonesome
mOrass.
Till you come to the Pass of the Spangled
Grass,
And a strOnG-armed angel is there.
n Ul IN
bare.
To drive back all who seek for the Land of
Git-Thare!
S. w. Foss in Yankee Blade.
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Profit Of Good Country Roads.

From the industrial standpoint, at
least, distance, i'm this advanced year
of grace, can no longer be measured
in miles and leagues. We have gone
beyond all that. London is nearer
to New York than was Buffalo sixty
years ago. We exchange goods with
California every hour of the day.
talk with our friends in Europe i'm less
time than il takes to write aud post
a letter; ride twenty miles by rail TO
business in the morning, and home
by the same route at night; travel
more miles and accomplish more busi-
ness i'm a day than was possible for
our grandfathers TO do in a month;
and have no regrets, except for those
few things which have to be left un-
done for lack of time. To accomplish
all this we have directed the national
hand, and lOosened the national
purse-strings, to the encouragement
of improved industrial methods, TO
the establishment of great CONNER
cial and mechanical centers, and, in
certain directions, TO the aid Of en-
larged and quickened means oftrans-
portation; we have pledged the pub
lie credit, granted public lands, and
passed laws-general and specialize
ameliorate the risks Of capital, and
to insure the construction of rail-
roads and we have spent hundreds
of millions of the public money to
deepen our rivers and harbors and
provide ample outlets for the accum-
ulating inland trade. Meanwhile
what of the dirt road, the only ave-
nue. ofcommunication which connects
the farmer socially and commercially
with the world at large? IL is the
same road that was used a hundred
centuries ago by the naked savage
when chased by storm to the shell
tering cave, and from him itseems To
have descended as an cntailed legacy
/ to the American government. In all
| these years it has not changed, eN-
| cept that the modern article is more
or less churned and mangled by mar
row wheel tires, and flanked 10y cost
! ly and useless fences, two species of
! property unkno wn to our primitive
ancestor, and first conceived at the
later period which marked the divid-
ing line between instinct and imhe-
cility. Measuring a million miles or
more i'm its various ramihcatiCns.
dissolving in the rains of April, bak-
ing and pulverizing beneath the rays
of the midsummer sun, drifting and
disappearing in the whirlwinds of
November, and presenting at all
points but little more than a rough
ened streak of soil to serve as laud
highway for the great volume OF in
ternal traffic, the time seems to have
come when the American common
road may rightfully assert itself as
the most expensive and 10y all odds
the most eXtravagantly maintained
ofall thepublic institutions.-Forum.
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What We Cannot Expect

The people of this state cannot ex-
pect to entertain summer visitors by
offering as attractions the pictur-
esque views in which Vermont
abounds or the hunting, fishing and
other outing sports which they hope
to encourage and develop, unless
their facilities for reaching them are
made easy and pleasurable. The
matter of safe, comfortable, and ex.
petitions transportation by rail il
already assured, The opportunitie,
tor most delightful drives among the
hills and valleys and beside the pleas
ant waters of this beautiful country
are abundant and should be consid
cred in the general progress now evi
| dent throughout the state.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-01-28
The Two Blarnev Stones.

Five miles west of the city of Cork
where two streams meet, is the little
valley of Blarney, with its castle
whose fame is worldwide, for high Oh
the northeastern side is set the ia
nous "Blarney Stone" ." 1t is SAID
that he who is adventurous enough
to reach it, and has faith enough init
10 kiss it, will hencefOrth have Il Gift
Ofmarvelous efficacy. Honeyed words
will flow from his lips and persuasive
powers hang on his utterances. He
will win his way everywhere and will
everybody, and when mankind, anl
much more wOmankind, are takeT
captive by the witchery of his tongue
people will say, "He has kissed the
blarney stone"
There are two stones, however, eacE
of which are claimed to be the rea
talisman; the other being on thes sum
nit of the castle. The stone last
named is about two feet square and
bears date of 1903. The one men
toned in the opening as being set il
the wall on the northeastern side o.
the castle, bears date of the building
of the structure, which is TAG. TIC
kiss this the votary must be let down
from the top of the building some
twenty feet by means OF ropes. This
has the effect of making most every
one believe, or pretend to believe
that the stone on the roof of the cas-
tie is the true "Blarny stone. "
American Notes and Queries.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-01-28
Reading Clubs.

Now that Christmas is over we
should turn our attention in earnest
to the winters reading. Ifpossible,
have several families unite and de-
eide upon some course of reading. Ii
they can, meet once a week and talk
over what they have read. In the
plan do not neglect historical read
ing, and at each meeting let each one
come with one or more questions
upon the past weeks work. When
the questions are read and answered.
the lesson will be pretty well fastened
in the mind. If it is inconvenient
for several families to unite, let each
family form a club of itself. 1t is an
excellent plan to have each one at
the breakfast table give a synopsis
of what he has read the evening be-
fore. This would break up the habit
some families fall into of eating in
perfect silence. Not only is this plan
helpful to those who have been read
ing, but the children will pick up
much valuable knowledge and you
will teach them that there is some
thing better to talk about than the
neighbors' faults Rural Life.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-01-28

me to get some cheese, but Brown
and the clerk were both gone to sup
per and the grocery was shut, so
had to wait. Finally | begun tC
think mothpr'd 90 crazy if | didn
come, and ! went to the house and
Mis- Brown come to the door, and ]
| told her we'd got company, so she
come out and got the cheese for me-
Twas twenty cents. and | told her to
charge it
"HushI" said Eta, having been
vainly trying to still the noisy temp
est of his remarks. which she knew
must be plainly audibIein the dining
room, unless the mixed clatter of
voices and table ware had drowned it,
It's all right, Johnny, | got her
some"
" Wal, I'll go for the cows, and l
hope they'll be through eating when
| get back, for I'm awful hungry. |
didn't catch darned fish, but | had
no end O. bites. Say, Eta, l hope
they won t eat all the cream pie and
Johnny slammed the door as he
went out
To say that cheese became a drug
in the Gibbs family not long after
that eventful day, would be putting
it mildly, there being about ten
pounds of it, undeniably hard and
dry, and growing more so as time
went on, though Mrs. Gibbs hung it
in the cellar, where it only moulded
instead Of softening. Cheese appear
ed regularly on the table three times
a day, but Johnny never ate cheese,
nor did Mr.. Gibbs, unless it Just suit
ed his taste. Eta soon tired of this
particular sort, and Mrs. Gibbs only
ate it from n sense of duty.
Finally, Il few weeks later, when The
Others were at church one Sunday,
Eta had the pigs to feed at noon,
and she gave them, not the regula-
tiOn diet from the barrel, but the con-
tents of the cheese-bag in the cellar.
And her mother never found any
fault.-GOOd Housekeeping.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-01-28

The present condition of excellence
of the volunteer militia is said to be
the result of barely more than dOz-
en- years of well-directed effort. The
February Century will contain a full
ly illustrated article on "The Nation
al Guard, ," written by Captain Fran
els V. Greene, late of the regular ar
my and now a major of militia, de
scribing the origin and present con,
dition of the force, it's object and eX.
tent. A well-armed, well-drilled mi.
litia was subject dear to the heart
of General Washington. His ideal is
just becoming a reality, ninety years
after his death.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-01-28

A YEAR OF MONDAYS The man
with a genius for figures and curious
condolences has discovered that 1892
is the year when Monday "takes the
cake if one may SO speak The
birthday Of George Washington is
February pa Monday. The year
is made leap year by the fact that
there is a 10Th day of February, and
that date falls on a-NIonday. The
Both day OF May, is Memorial day.
and a-Monday. The high festival
of the American Eagle, July 4th,
comes on-Monday. The annual ju-
bilee of the labor organizations is
set down for September's tirst-Mon-
day. Christmas, 1892, and the sue
ceeding New Years day closing the
holiday season are two Sundays,
and hence will be, the one on Decem-
ber 2G-Monday, and the other on
January 2-Monday To this list Of
notable Mondays is TO be added the
18th of April, Easter Monday, and
the 9th of June, Whit-Monday.
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NEWSPAPER LAWS.

|. Any person who takes paper regular
ly from the office-whether directed to his
name or another's, or whether he has sub
scribed or not-is responsible for the pay
ment.
2 If person orders his paper discontin-
ued, he must pay all arrearages, or the pub
Usher may continue to send it until payment
is made, and collect the whole amount, wheth-
er the paper is taken from the office or not.
g. The Courts have decided that refusing
to take newspapers and periodicals from the
postoffice, or removing and leaving them un-
iIled for, is prima f8cie evidence of fraud.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-01-28

NEW YORK and Vermont References. Reg
IN ular Physician and Surgeon. Special at
entiOn given TO the treatment of Chronic and
Nervous Diseases. Office and Residence per-
manently located JOHNSON. VERMONT.
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GEO. S. CAHILL, Nj. d.
A. w. SOULE.

SPECIAL Attention to diseases of the Eye,
= Nose and Throat. Glasses fitted. Eyes
examined free. % Pearl St, BURLINGTON, Vt,
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/. NJ. GEORGE & CO.,

l. NJ. GEORGE. j. L. HARDING.
NOMMISSION MERCH NTS in butter,
cheese, eggs, beans, poultry, maple sugar
and syrup. Also dealers in Foreign and DOmeS-
tic FRUITS. COnsignments solicited and orders
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Z, Z, BOOMHOWER

A-S A~ %D ~ - -
has lust completed the first and ONLY
machine shop in LamOille county and Is
prepared to turn the bearings and re
babbitt and renew all bearings so that
they will run and wear as long as any
new machine in the market. If any
farmer will bring me his Old machine
will re-vamp it and put 1t IN as good or
der as it ever was at a low price, say
from $5tO $S. The work shall be salts
factory or money refunded.
| have worked on the repairs of now
ing machines for thirty years, and nc
kind where the arbOr is worn all on one
side. But put that arbOr into an iron
lathe and turn the bearing true, and
then re-babbitt the same and it is new.
So | mean business. | can take any old
moving machine and make it as good as
new. for if you will keep up the bearings
it will not wear out. Now is the time tC
bring them to me and get them ready in
good season.
If you want your wagon new trimmed
new aXleS or tires, or job work of any
kind, am ready to do it by machinery.
and S cheap as any one.
will say to Lumbermen, if they break down
and want anything mcndcd, or made, Will run
night help so you can get your work done attel
dark, giving you the Senefit of what little snow
comes. | have agreed to shoe horses and OXeT
until we get two more veterinary surgeons il
Morrisville. l will shoe horses new at prices
ranging from 81 to $S, as find thatIs customary
| will sharpen horse all round for 80 cts. and |
cts. eacn a shoe for turning. l will shoe oxen
turned shoes, warranted to stay on four months
for S4 machine steel shoes, 1925; Sbarpened al
round, 50, will do any job in woodwork, as
have got the best man at the business in The
State, and he wants to learn the iron trade, so
agreed to do heavy job work for one year. AM
job that you have, bring it along, and you car
get it in time and the same day, at prices t
suit. We do wood and iron turning of all kinds
in fact anything made or mended in iron, wood
gold, zinc, silver or brass. If we can't do 1T
make up your minds it can't be done. You will
find me at my shop every day in the week. Cal
AMI see me and my perpetual motion and ma
chinery-
Eli Boomhower, Morrisvil1e, Vt.
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A A NILES.

A TTORNEY AT LAW, MoRRIsvILLE, VT
N Agent for Life and Fire Insurance. In
surance placed at lowest rates. Also Pension
Claim Agent. Collections a speciality.
OFFICE IN HALLS BLOCK.
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DENTAL SURGEON, JOHNSON. VT All
i Kinds of Dental operations skillfully per-
formed. Special attention given to the painless
extraction of teeth.
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AUSTIN BELKNAP,

A .TTORNEYS AT LAW.
"A HalPs Block, MORRISvILLE, Vt.
H II. POWERS. GEO. NJ. POWERS.
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III, n. WAITE, M. ID.

DHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Successor tC
L DR.. Cooper. Calls promptly attended to.
HYDE PARK, VT.
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G, w. DOTY.
POWERS. & POWERS,

DRACTICAL UNDERTAKEN. Finest goods
L the market affords Ice box and embalmer.
MORRISVILLE, vt.
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E. j. HALL. Z. H. JOHNSON.
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Office
hours until A.. NJ; from to and to g p.
M. ONCE at DIR. Halls residence,
MORRIsVILLE, Vt.
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VIM. w. GENGE, NJ. D..

DEALER IN Butter. Cheese, Beans, and Pro
- visions. No. II Fulton Street, Boston.