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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-07-07
PRACTICAL COOKING.
An Englishwoman Teaching Working
People Economical Cooking.

An Englishwoman Teaching Working
| People Economical Cooking.
About 200 women and girls are now
attending the cookery demonstration
class in the shipbuilding district of
| Govan. Miss Gordon, the demonstration,
has been specially trained for her work
and is at once a skillful cook and a cley-
er teacher. Her method Of work is es-
sentially practical Assisted by the
more advanced of her pupils, and i'll full
view of the others. she makes soups,
| dresses vegetables and M nufactureS
| dishes of various kinds. The fire by
which she cooks is an ordinary open
CRATE of the sort found in most work
mems houses, and the saucepans and
other utensils are all Of the simplest de
scription.
This is matter of Importance, as
cookery demonstrations involving tho
use of costly apparatus are worse than
useless for workingmen's wives. The
things made are, us a rule. of the most
inexpensive kind, and they all depend
for their value upon careful seasoning
and cookery rather than costly ingre-
dents; for the demonstration never for
gets that the chief object of the school
is to teach poor women how to provide
nutritious food for their families ut the
least possible cost.
Soups are a great feature of this class,
pupils being shown how to make up
ward Of twenty different kinds--all
savory, nutritious and inexpensive.
During the lesson the cost of each thing
I
turtle soup for six persons costs Is. 3D.;
the same quantity of sheepshead broth,
sgd; of fish soup. Cd, and of barley
and beef bone broth, 4d. One of the
things specially taught is how to cook
potatoes PROPERLY difficult feat in it's
way. At the same time great efforts
are made to induce people to use lentils,
peas, beans, rice and macaroni.
Proof is afforded them, too, that many
of the so called weeds which grow wild
by the roadside-sorrel, for instance
are delicious in soups and salads. In her
lectures Miss Gordon lays the greatest
emphasis on the necessity for variety in
food insisting that the most wholesome
dish loses many of its nutritive qualities
if eaten day after day. She shows, too,
how this variety could easily be obtained
if, instead of always buying beef and
mutton, people would inst occasionally
have rabbit, some fish, or even liver
In full course of lectures the demon
strator teaches her pupils not only how
to cook beef and mutton in every mag
Unable way, but how to make great
variety of buildings, omelets, scenes and
cakes, as well as every kind of sick
room delicacy, and even poultices.
She teaches them. too, that most diff
cult of arts-how to season what they
make. AT the close of each demonstra-
ton the various dishes are sold in half
penny portions-an arrangement which
has the double advantage of defraying
the cost of the materials used, and en-
ables those present to test the quality of
the food.-London Letter.
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Lake Currents.

During the next few months great
many bottles viii be cast upon the
shores of Lake Michigan. They are to
be thrown into the water for expert
mental purposes by lake captains, who
will undertake the service at the re-
quest Of the United States government.
The experiments are to be conducted for
the purpose of determining the set and
drift of lake currents, and will be under
the direction of the weather bureau.
The bottles are to be given out to vessel
captains, who will agree to throw them
overheard and enter certain data on
blanks furnished for that purpose. In
order to do the work Systematically the
great lakes have been mapped out in
numbered sections, commencing at Du-
luth and numbering eastward
There are 410 sections in all, each one
containing about $50 square miles.
When the captain throws one of the bot
ties in the water he will place in it be-
fore so doing slip of paper, upon which
the data and the position of the vessel is
entered. On each slip is the request
that the finder send it to the chief of the
weather bureau at Washington or hand
1t to the nearest government observer,
lighthouse keeper or postmaster to be
forwarded. BY noting where the bot
ties go ashore, data will be obtained from
which the movement of the lake cur
rents can be calculated. Philadelphia
Ledger.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-07-07
Saving Eyes by Electric Light.

The public is beginning to realize
that the use of the electric light does
more for the preservation of the eye
sight than any other artificial luminant.
One of the most reassuring evidences of
this is the adoption of electric light in a
large number of hospitals devoted to
the treatment of eye diseases. The
Royal South London Ophthalmic hos
pital, which is undergoing extensive
structural enlargement and improve
ments, is being fitted up throughout
with electric light.
1t is also stated that quite an impetus
has been given to the introduction of
electric lighting into Londonderry, Kill
kenny, Galway and other towns in
Ireland by the declaration of one of the
surgical staff of the Royal Ophthalmic
hospital in Dublin that the electric
light is the best light for eyes that are
weak OF affected with disease, and occa-
sions them less discomfort and injury
than that produced from gas, oil or can
dles.-New York Telegram.
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A Year without a summer.

During the extraordinary year of 1916.
according to the best records, Janu4.y
and February were warm and spring-
like. March was cold and stormy Vege-
tation had gotten well along in April.
when real winter set in. Sleet and snow
fell on seventeen different days in May.
In June there was either frost or snow
every night but three. The snow was
five inches deep for several days in sue
cession in the interior of New York, and
from ten inches to three feet in Vermont
and Maine. July was cold and frosty;
ice formed as thick as window panes
in every one of the New England states.
August was still worse: ice formed
nearly an inch in thickness and killed
nearly every green thing in the United
States and in Europe, In the spring of
1917 corn which had been kept over from
the crop of 1915 sold for from five to ten
dollars bushel, the buyers purchasing
for seed. On May 10, 1885, snow fell to
the depth of a foot in jamestown, Va,
and was piled up i'll huge drifts in most
of the northern states.-St. Louis Re-
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The superintendent of the New York
State Lunatic asylum has discovered q
novel cure for lunacy. 1t is nothing
more nor less than frequent doses of the
national game. Says he: Il believe that
baseball is a homeopathic cure for luna
cy 1t is a kind of craze in itself, and il
gives the lunatics a new kind of crazi-
ness to relieve them of the malady which
affiicts their minds. | have noted our
most melancholy patients watching base
ball play laughing heartily and even
immoderately at the mistakes of the
playing and the funny incidents of the
game. The free air which they breathe
while sitting around the baseball field
is beneficial to most of them, and | Gull
tivate baseball both because | like it
myself and because | believe it is bene-
fetal to the asylum patients, Chicago
Mail.
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A Ships Lively Cargo.

Several citizens of Portland dozen
or so years ago joined in trading voy-
age to the Sandwich islands on the Ed
ward James. They loaded her with a
general cargo, consisting of lumber, live
stock, salt, salmon, hoop poles, dried
apples, hard cider and some live bears.
One of the parties had heard that cats
were in great demand at the islands and
determined to make small venture in
felines. He offered the boys twenty-five
cents each for all the cats they might
bring. Portland boys were the same
then as now, only more so, if possible,
and the city was raided and cats cap
tured till there were over a hundred
brought aboard. They were dumped
down the hatchway into the hold with
the bulls and the bears, and they cater
wauled, and the maids and madams who
who had been robbed of their favorite
tabbies wept and walled as the good
ship sailed from the shores of America.
When out on the raging deep dread
full storm arose, and naturally the ship
was tossed about in a fearful manner.
The bears on the lower deck broke loose
and, amid horrible howlings, proceeded
to devour the bulls, which roared like
lions, and there was pandemonium
broken loose in the bowels of the ship.
Captain O'Brien, well known here, went
down into the lower regions to shoot the
bears to save the cattle. The place was
dark, but in all directions CLEANED the
glaring, greenish, CLASSY eyes of scared
and enraged cats. To make long story
short, bear was killed, lot of cats
thrown overheard and the vessel was
fifty-seven days in reaching Honolulu,
which place she should have reached in
seventeen.-Portland Oregonian.
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A LocomntIre Steamboat.

Swedish papers describe novel kind
of construction, termed locomotive
steamboat, built at Kristanstud, for the
navigation OF a chain of small lakes,
separated by falls, the boat being fitted
for this purpose with wheels fitting a
track, and power may be applied to
either the propeller or the driving wheels
of the locomotive part of the machine;
the track is feet inches gauge, with
grades of one in thirty-three, and having
curves of a radius of 100 meters.
One Mans Food Another's Poison.
Why will people insist in laying down
one rale with regard to cures and die
tary and not considering that both must
vary according to constitutions? Some
Will tell you that Welsh rarebits are
most indigestible and cucumbers will
give you the nightmare. | always find
toasted cheese most excellent dish for
supper and have eaten whole cucum-
Der late at night without feeling any
evil effects.
You often find certain things get a
bad name which they never deserve.
Port wine has long been considered the
essence of govt, but years ago L recon-
mended it as cure for the govt and I
have known many persons who have
used it for such a purpose with signal
uccess.-London Graphic.
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Gagged Snakes and Their Food.

Many persons. suppose that the crea-
lures introduced alive into the dens of
huge monsters suffer fortunes of terror
and fear We have often observed the
process, and confidently affirm the sup
position to be entirely groundless. The
rabbits and dscks, which we saw put in
with serpents, showed no signs of fear
whatever, sometimes even giving the
plainest demonstrations that they were
governed by quite other emotions.
On one occasion we recollect noticing
rabbit running about beside and over
the coils of huge python. When ex-
actly opposite the head the serpent
moved it slightly and projected its
tongue several times. The rabbit took
no notice of this, and little afterward
began to try and nibble the skin of the
python's body.-Quarterly Review.
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BY n Greater Crook,

81 have made arrangements with a
number of miners in Siberia to buy gold
dust and small pieces of gold of them.
They are able to secrete these in the
folds of their dress, take them home and
there sell them to me for a nominal
price. After having collected guam.
tity and brought it here, | now offer il
to you for sale. | do not propose to sell
you the precious metal for trihe, but ]
will guarantee that the metal shall pass
the frontiers of both Russia and France
without paying any tax or duty. Thus
your profit will be the amounts total of
these government charges"
Such were the contents of letter re-
ceived by a Partisan jeweler from Riga,
in Prussia. He went to see the dealer.
He had the powder and gold pieces
weighed with care, chemically exam
ined, and, after paying for them, had it
well packed under his own eyes. The
man had promised to take the goods
over the frontiers to escape paying duty.
He travelled with the Partisan by way of
Belgium. Having passed the French
frontier, he took his leave at the first
depot on French soil. When the Paris
ian arrived home and opened his precious
box he found in it nothing but copper
dust and copper pieces. The clever
crook has not yet been found.-Chicago
Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-07-07

The warm suns are starting the usual
snowslides and avalanches in the Cas-
cade and Olympic mountains, says a
dispatch from Seattle, Wash. From
Sultan City, mining camp in the Cas-
cades, curious sight is reported. The
men at work in the Silver Top tunnel
heard noise, and rushing out found
vast snowslide coming down the noun
tain, not 800 yards away. In the middle
of a mass of snow ten rods wide by
quarter of mile long were five bears
and fourteen mountain goats. The ava
lanche plunged over the cliff, and the
whole menagerie except one bear was
buried in the debris.
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Snakes and rabbits in Australia.

A good deal of attention has been be-
slowed upon the subject of rabbit de-
struction, and some astounding pro
posals and suggestions have been re-
ceived from various parts of the world.
The last suggestion, which is from south
Australia, is that number of carpet
snakes should be let loose among the
rabbits, which W Duld, it is asserted, be
speedily eaten up by the reptiles. The
correspondent also furnishes some re-
markable data regarding the feeding
capacity of carpet snakes. When from
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five to six feet long they are, he says,
able to eat two or three rabbits at a
meal: but when they are fifteen or six
teen feet long they are able to eat six
rabbits.
Anticipating inquiry as to what would
happen if the snakes became more
numerous than rabbits, he proposes that
carpet snakes of one kind only should
be used, and after eating all the rabbits
each other.-London Public Opinion.
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Troublesome Brides

Young married people are the most
troublesome customers except babies
that photographer has, and few pho
tographers like to see a couple in their
wedding fnery enter a gallery The
man never makes any objection, he gen.
orally has trouble enough to keep his
hands out of his pockets, but the bride
seems to consider it part of her duty
to find fault with everything. She will
object to the accessories, to the way the
folds of her dress fall, to the groom's
pose, TO I, ies size of her feet and hands
in the negative, to everything and every
body, apparently just to find fault
Pleasing her is out of the question, so
the photographer generally does the best
he can and lets her grumble Interview
in st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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Satisfied.

A Sumter county (Ga.) farmer, having
Accumulated some property, decided
that he wanted to get married. He
went to Americas shortly afterward and
made known his desire to well known
merchant. The latter agreed to help
him all he could and named over several
good looking women whom he thought
would make good and faithful wives.
Among others he mentioned two buxom
and comedy widows of the same name.
The matrimonially inclined farmer
decided that he wished to wed one of
she widows. His mercantile friend
lgreed to do the negotiating, and short
ly afterward called upon certain lady
and informed her of the honor his bash
full friend wished to confer upon her.
The widow, knowing that the farmer
was blessed with a pretty good share of
this worlds goods, expressed, without
moments hesitation, her willingness to
join her lot with his
Preparations were at once made for
the wedding. The day arrived and the
prospective groom procured marriage
license and started for the home of the
future partner of his joys and sorrows.
Just here the funny part of the affair
came in.
The farmer had never seen either of
the two widows. Both bore the same
name and he got them mixed up in his
mind. The result was that he went to
the wrong house. When he found him
self alone with the lady he blurted out,
I've come to marry you"
After moments hesitation the widow
confessed that she didn't care if she did
''step off" with him. They accordingly
proceeded to preachers house, where
the twain were made one.
A few days afterward the newly mar
ried planter came to the city and went
to look for his friend. He was telling
him of his newly found happiness, when
the merchant suddenly exclaimed with
a groan:
'Merciful heavens, man! You mar
ried the wrong widowp
"Oh, that don't make any difference"
was the reply. I'm very well pleased
with the wife I've got "-Exchanoe
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wilderness" Oh, how suggestive of the
condition of t.ose who die in the wilder
ness of sin through thirst We take
hold of them today. We try to bring
the cool water of the rock to their lips
We say, "Ho, every one that thirstethl"
God, thy father, awaits thee. Minister
ing spirits who watch the ways of the
soul bend now this moment over this
immortal auditory to see what we will
do with Jesus.
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Shifting the Responsibility.

AS was walking along the street the
other day lady and child were walk
ing along in front of me, but being in a
hurry passed on. Just as was going
by the couple l overheard the mother
speaking to the child in words that in
dictated that the child had been doing
something wrong and the mother was
reproving the action. When the lady
had finished, the child looked up inno-
Gently and said, ''Well, mamma, God
didn't make me nice. Boston News.
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A Good sized Youngster.

Little Dixie Edwards, the daughter of
B. H. Edwards and wife, of Maury City,
Tenn, is eight months old, and weighs
thirty-one pounds, having fallen off five
measures twenty-one inches around the
chest, seven inches around the forearm.
seven and half between the elbow and
shoulder, and nine inches around the
calf of the leg.-Cor. st. Louis Re-
public.
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The FresneI Lens.

One of the greatest of human inven.
tons is the Fresnel lens, now used in all
lighthouses, which condenses the light
by an arrangement of compound re-
tractors so as to throw all the rays in a
single sheet. By its means first order
light, naturally of $50 candle power, OBJ
tains power of 10000 candles.-Wash-
ington Star.
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DR.. MoreI1 Maokenzie,s Income.

The amount of money earned by DR..
Morell Mackenzie during his thirty years
of practice must have been very large.
Within few years of his commencing
practice Gin 1862 he was making $25, 600
year, and his income rapidly increased
as his reputation spread, till about 1875
he touched high water mark, with ''tsk-
ings" of from sec, 900 to $40, coo year
an enormous figure for a practice, the
bulk of which consisted of guinea fees
San Francisco Argonant.
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One Mans Food Another,s Poison


Father-You want to marry my daugh-
ter? What are your prospects?
Lover-Splendid! | consulted a for
tune teller yasterdoy, md she says L am
going to be rich.-Exchange
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Tried for 20 Years.
Q N L Y
GENUINEANO ORIGINAL.

The original and only genuine Compound Oxy-
gen Treatment that of Drs. Starkey & Palen is
a scientific adjustment of the elements of Oxy-
gen and Nitrogen magnitized, and the compound
is so condensed and made portable that it is
sent all over the world.
-
1t has been in use for more than twenty years;
thousands of patients have been treated and
over one thousand physicians have used it and
recommended it-a very significant fact.
-
The great success of our treatment has given
rise to host of imitatOrs, Inscriptions persons,
some calling their preparations Compound Oxy
gen, often apprOpTating our testimonials and
the names of our satIents, to recommend worth
less connections. But any substance made else
where or by others, and called Compound 0Xy-
gen, is spurious.
compound OXygen-Its Mode of Action and
Results" Is the title of a book Of 200 pages pub
llshed by Drs. Starkey & Palen, which gives to
all nquirers full Information as to this remark
able curative agent, and q record of surprising
cures i'll wide range of chronic cases-many of
them after being abandoned to die by other
physicians. VIII be mailed to any address on
application.
Drs. STARKEY & PALEN.
I'D Arch Street, Philadelphia, Penn
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&c TIVE,

Affective years l1s weight
pounds fiat wide
AHecus Acantara Wilkes
OF General
the list and his daughters including
216 L. Ncus dam Irene
His
% Lemnd
daughters
lectus % IA and Don Wilkes
20 to
BROTHER with records
Abitar
Brood Mare list
is rarely wel-bred colt of WikesKnox blood
Carleton Affective
highly both breeding
and II they will be literally prond They both
Will be demonstrated The
personal knowledge of these horses and late
M
OK
or
AN
mne
be 4
OF sJeeP
TERMS :---careton, S25 to warrant; Affective $40 10
Warrant Two Mares to Carleton, owned by person
$40 to Warrant Two Mares Affective, $40 to War
rant.
MoRRIsvnLE April 4, 1892 GEO W. HENDEE.
JOHN UTToN Manager.
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CHEROKEE X CHIEF.
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Sired by Am9n Eagle record 2H bother to Piedmont 217
Amont by Abdaah 10 (sire of Goldsmith
in 23O). ~
AMoNT 3D. sire of Amont sire Wesmont 13z
Puritan PIG Fanny Witherspoon 26H
charmed circle
LA Aabase 10 j. b. Richardson Catchy
2lSA Bismont 2.1Sa, and 40 Others n 3 better
First dam Columbia by of
Knox, of 21SH in the list second dam nv
Vermont Hamhetonian Lander 26S
dam OF Allison PAY Gen Knox Lady 1sK Buah 10H
and ID Others inside
I6 Au6ne 9& Martyr 90 222H Myriad CD 22sk Trapeze Isl
2.29A and 13 Others inside 40 r. w
s a
in 80 seconds and halves
kndst disposition weighs 100 mounds color
dark brown, foaed 1881 F' '
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a highly humorous legend is appended
to magnificent drawing by Raffet. 1t
was during the last war in Italy; a group
of French grenadiers are camping around
fire that is being put out by the rain,
which falls in torrents. An old sergeant,
with an air of grim satisfaction, rubs
his hands and exclaims:
won't those Austrians come in for
drenchingr'-Petit Parisien.
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G. A r L e II ON

Carleton horse fine quality
section
speed both sides Sired by Mambno
the world lie has the list
toms dam Barbara produced Pany dam
Belle Richmond by Hambonan produced
sired by Kentucky Prince
than Others
Prince lie died when 10 sired
Majoca 215, Wilson Phalas
Eecioneer 2l7 IL and fifteen others
2 Edgar Wilkes
Mshake
2 is IL to Edwin Forrest the
two in the list and the dams So So u Il Mambno Dudley "a
Others the list He the
ton To- Angne rs Il Mike Wilkes 10 "a and Of % Others the 2sO
list also the Adrian Wilkes Wilkes,
King service fee this Sl00 and that Of Kentucky Prince