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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06
Return of the Orkney Mermaid.

News has reached Kirkwall that the
mermaid" has again made her appear
ance at Deerness, Orkney. The creature
has arrived at the same place now many
years in succession, where it remains all
summer, disappearing in the winter and
returning again with fine weather. Last
year a large sum of money was offered
for its capture, and sportsmen tried to
kill it. As it struck out to sea immedi-
ately it was fired at and was never
again seen till now, it was thought it
had been wounded or killed. Natural
lists who have got a full description of
the mermaid" think it is an ocean seal,
but the people of Deerness, who have
watched it closely for years, say it has
few if any of the seals habits, and main
tain it swims like a human being. At
the present time it may be observed
daily, being very partial to bright sun
shine, but it rarely appears on dull days.
Scotsman
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06
A Street Costume Tn BOSTON.

A procession of girls in fetching gowns
topped off with big white hats were to
be seen on fremont street directly after
the recital given by the pupils of Miss
Gertrude Franklin Thursday afternoon
One of the most striking was worn by q
blond young lady, who succeeded in at
tracing much attention, which, if not
sought, must have been dreadfully en-
barrassing. She was gowned in white
Eerge made with very full skirt, an
Elton jacket with enormous sleeves and
wide revers worn over pink and white
striped shirt waist, wide brimmed
white sailor trimmed with plain band
of ribbon and white gloves with black
stitching on the back. Her gait was
more striking than her toilet. You
couldn't help looking at her feet, which
were dressed in white suede.-Boston
Globe.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06
ODDS AND ENDS.
Say SIT is l." and "He went with me

Say SIT is /" and HE went with me-"
There are no opportunities for the I'M
prepared.
Italy is estimated to be worth about
81, 1865, 100000
Cocus wood is the hardest known wood.
Oak is the strongest.
The Latin Bible was valued at $3.50 in
the fifteenth century.
When faith is lost and honor dies, the
man is dead.-Whittier.
A society which nearly any one may
enter is no society at all.
Chain and cable suspension bridges
antedate the Christian era.
People never think Of whistling in Ice
land. It's violation of the divine law.
Chambers agrees that the somnambulic
state may come upon person in thoday-
time.
Train children carefully to read aloud,
both for the sake of the voice and the pro-
nunciation.
All four Of the British-Australian col
onists have a Scotchman at the head Of
their government.
Woman is in a normal condition only
when she is in love-the love that cheers
but not inebriates.
1t is said that wood for use in making
the best pianos is seasoned for 40 years
before it is deemed serviceable.
One should not make ones trials worse
by letting them become the cause ofper-
manent, perhaps fatal, organic derange-
ment.
One never knows himself till he has
denied himself. The altar of sacrifice is
the touchstone of character.-O. p. Gift
ford.
Spirit Lake, Ia, is situated upon the
pinnacle of one of the most elevated re-
gions in the state, 1850 feet above sea
level.
Street car conductors at Hannibal,
Mo-, are forbidden to aid women in get
ting on or off the cars, except when re-
quested.
Manchester's career as n seaport COM
mences with 1894. At any rate, Sir J.
HARDWOOD expresses himself confident that
the ship canal will be opened in January
next
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06

The special correspondent of the Lon
don Times, whose collected Letters
From South Africa" have been published
in book form, and whose able letters
from Australia are now running in that
journal, is lady, Miss Flora Shaw. A
discussion on journalists and their meth
DDS was once going on in which Lord
Cromer, who had seen a good deal of
special correspondents, took part. Some
body made a remark sighting to the
average journalistic thirst for accuracy.
The British minister, who was of course
a fnancier before he was a diplomatist,
cited from his experience striking ex-
ception.
A journalist had come to him once
about financial matter of great public
Importance. but tedious and complex in
its details. He expounded it, but never
expected to see in print anything more
than some loose and perhaps not very &C
curate generalization on the subject. In
the sequel he was agreeably surprised by
an exposition of the case to the public at
once lucid, detailed and absolutely cor
rect. "And that" he concluded. ''was,
oddly enough, a lady journalist" 1t was
Miss Shaw, who is probably better in
formed on colonial affairs than almost
any other London journalist.-London
Letter.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06
Americans In France and England

1t is likely enough that had the second
empire lasted France and not England
would have been selected by the Ameri-
can millionaire as his European refuge.
Paris, not London, was the place to
which it was said that good Americans
went when they died and to which
Americans good, bad and Indifferent
used to flock in former days. AT the
court of Napoleon III eminent citizens
and citizenesses of the United States
were always especially welcome, and the
court of Napoleon III created and con-
trolled Partisan society. At that time,
too, Americans were, above all things,
urban in their tastes and pursuits. With
the sports and pastimes in which English
men of rank and fortune occupy them
selves they had little or no sympathy,
and hotel in Paris was infinitely more
in their line than such a rural retreat as
Mr.. Astor purchased from the Duke OF
Westminster.
A palace ON the banks of the Thames
would then have been about the last
place in which one could have expected
to find an American millionaire, and the
Champs Elysees, not Cliveden, would
have been as far into the country as he
would have cared to go. Only quarter
of q century ago two well known citizens
of New York, Mr.. William Butler Dun
can and Mr.. Samuel r. Barlow, were
much wondered at for having each
bought a retreat, one at Staten Island,
the other at Long Island, to which they
were in the habit of retiring from Satur-
day to Monday and there entertaining
their friends. What the establishment
would have been if not Long Island, but
the island of Britain had been the site of
their acquisitions it is not easy to mag
ine.-London World.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06
Buy Good Goods.

Already a cry arises from many quar-.
tiers that some Of the new dress mate
rails will slip in the seams, which tend
ency is hated by every woman making
or wearing gown. Hop sackings have
been spoken of, also serges and sleazy
cheviots.
In many cases the complaints are
just, but only where the shopper buys
inferior goods. If merchants would
keep and women buy goods of merit
only, they would never complain of
seams slipping. This does not mean the
most expensive goods, but Trustworthy
quality, of which there are many among
the domestic and foreign dress goods.
An open sleazy weave of wooden or
silk goods will, from its very nature, slip
or pull in the seams if it is Of a poor,
cheap quality. Buy reliable goods Of
medium quality, and no matter how
sleazy the weave they will prove suffi-
GENTLY firm to hold the stitching of tho
seams. 1t is not necessary TO decry GER
tain weaves for this tendency, as tho
remedy lies with the merchant and the
shopper, who should refuse them in
the cheapest grades. Unfortunately in
these days successful materials are often
brought out in cheaper and cheaper
qualities, until they are at last driven
from the market.-Dry Goods Econo-
mist.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06
All the Women Bought the Novel

An amusing paragraph which has
been going the rounds of the press states
that the publishers Of a German novel
recently did neat thing in the way of
advertising. They caused to lee inserted
in most of the newspapers notice to the
effect that il certain nobleman Of wealth
and high position DESTROYS of finding a
wife wanted one who resembled the
heroine in the novel named. ThCreupon
every manageable woman who saw the
notice bought the book in order to see
what the heroine WAS like, and the work
had an immense sale.-Printers' Ink.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06
Passports In Russia.

The reform of the passport system is
about to be undertaken in Russia. AT
present nobody can change his dwelling
even in the same street without sending
his passport twice to be vised by the po-
ice-frst ON quitting the old house and
secondly on entering the new one. This
is aggravated by the slowness of the Rus
sian officials. The wife cannot leave her
home even were it on the most urgent
business without a passport delivered to
her by her husband, and INSCRIPTIONS
husbands take advantage of this. Wives
have been known to purchase the mar
ital passport by the sacrifice of half their
personal fortune.-London Tit-Bits.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06

Children as part of wedding pageants
are more seen this year than ever before
A fashionable London wedding is almost
unknown just now that does not show
in the bridal procession one or more chill
dren in picturesque garb, lending, with
the flowers, charming effect of uncon-
Bcious beauty,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06

"My little boy was very bad off for
two months with diarrhga. We used
various medicines, also called in two
doctors, but nothing done him any
good until we used Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhga Remedy
which gave immediate relief and soon
cured him. | consider it the BEST
medicine made and can conscientious
ly recommend it to all who need a
diarrhga or collie medicine" J. E.
Hare, Trenton, Tex. 25 and so cent
bottles for sale by H. J. Dwinell, Nor
risville; Holmes & Cowles, johnson
DR.. T. P. Hubbell, Wolcott.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06

Last fall | was taken with kind OF
summer complaint, accompanied with
wonderful diarrhGa. Soon after
my wife's sister, who lives with us,
was taken in the same way. We used
almost everything without benefit.
Then | said, let us try Chamberlain
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhpa Remedy,
which we did, and that cured us right
away. think much of it, as it did
for me what it was recommended to
do. John Hertzler, Bethel, Berks Co ,
Pa. % and 80 cent bottles for sale
by II. j. Dwinell, Morrisville; Holmt s
4 Cowles, Johnson; DR.. Il. L. Hub
bell, Wolcott.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06
THE CALL Is ON Won.

Oh, are there not many now who can
utter this prayer, the prayer of the black
man, the prayer of the publican, "God
be merciful to me, a sinner" While /
halt in the sermon, will you not all utter
it? l do not say audibly, but utter it
down in the depths of your souls con-
seriousness. Yes, the sigh goes all
through the galleries, it goes all through
the pews, it goes all through these aisles,
sigh after sigh-God be merciful to me, a
sinner!
Have you all uttered it? No, there is
one soul that has not uttered it, too
proud to utter it, too hard to utter it.
o Holy Spirit, descend upon that one
heart. Yes, he begins to breathe it now.
No bowling of the head yet, no starting
tear yet, but the prayer is beginning
it is born. God be merciful to me, a sin
ner! Have all uttered it? Then l utter
it myself, for no one in all the house
needs to utter it more than my own soul
God be merciful to me, sinner!
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06

The shddo,os
that fill your life, if you're a feeble,
suffering woman, can be taken out
of il. The chronic weaknesses,
functional arrangements, and pain
full disorders peculiar to your sex,
can be taken away. The one
unfailing remedy for them is DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
1t corrects, cures, and builds you
up. 1t improves digestion, cnriches
the blood, dispels aches aud pains,
melancholy and nervousness, brings
refreshing sleep and restores health
and strength. For periodical pains,
internal Inflammation and ulccra-
ton, weak back, leucorrhea, and al
kindred ailments, it's n positive spe-
cifc - one that is guaranteed III
it fails 10 give satisfaction, in any
case, the money paid for it is re-
turned.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06
MBW EtRB.
$500 REWARD '

We will pay the above reward for any case OF
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Hcaiache,
Indigestion, Constipation or Costyeness We
cannot cure With Vests Vegetable Liver Pills
when the directions are strictly compiled with
Ihey are purely Vegetable. and never fail 10
give satisfaction. Sugar Coated. Large Box
es, containing 80 Pills. 25 cents. beware of
limitations: The genuine manufactured only
by IHE JoHN g, WEST COMPANY, CHICAGO,
Ill. Sole by all Druggists.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06

An Official position of great response
bility has been given to an Iowa woman
The board of supervisors of Polk county
appointed Mrs. Anna E. Hepburn of Des
Moines county recorder to fill the place
made vacant by the recent death of hel
husband. The necessary bond was pre-
sented, accepted and filed. Mrs. Hep
burn qualified and was sworn in and
soon was seated in the chair where her
honored husband had sat. The action of
the board is looked upon as correct and
timely.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06

Elder S. S. Beaver, of McAllster-
vile, Juniatta Co., Pa, says his wife
is subject to cramp in the stomach.
Last summer she tried Chamberlain
Collie, Cholera and DiarrhGa Remedy
for it, and was much pleased with the
speedy relief it afforded. She has
since used it whenever necessary and
found that it never fails. For sale by
H. j. Dwinell, Morrisville; Holmes &
Cowles, Johnson; DR.. T. p. Hubbell,
Wolcott.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06
How Henry VIII Wrote.

King Henry VIII of England wrote,
says a contemporary critic, a strong
hand, but us if he had seldom a good
pen. He seems to have written in all
the haste and vehemence with which he
spoke, and hence the untimely destruc-
ton of many an honest goose quill
New York World
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06

The great, gripping, old-fashioned
pills make trouble. DIR. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets prevent it. Theirs
is the natural way. Sick Headache,
Biliousness, Constipation, Indiges-
ton, aud all arrangements of the
Liver, Stomach and Bowels are pre-
vented, relieved and cured. Small
est, cheapest, easiest TO take.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06
ON THE WEST SHORE R. R
AN ENGINEER AND CONDUCTORS
EXPERIENCE.


Mr.. VIM. Huston, of Wechawken, n .
j., the oldest engineer of the West
Shore r. r., member of Unity Divis-
ion, No. 235, Brotherhood of LOcOmO-
tive Engineers, suffered for years from
an aggravated kidney trouble and dys-
pepsia.
In conversation with our reporter,
Mr.. Huston spoke in glowing terms of
DR.. David Kennedy'S FavOrite Remedy
as the one medicine that does what it
is recommended to do. For said Mr..
Huston, g, L had been under the treat
ment OF some of the best physicians
and used many preparations without
deriving the least benefit One day
Conductor Frazer of our road said to
me, If you want to get well and cure
that kidney trouble and dyspepsia, Just
use DR.. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy
L acted upon Mr.. FraZer's advice, and
used Favorite Remedy but a short
while, when my old troubles; passed
away and | have been sound and well
ever since.
one OF ~-----p
said, 81 prescribe DR.. Kennedy's Favor
lite Remedy altogether now for dyspep-
STA, kidney or liver complaints, rheu-
matism, and all urinary diseases, in
stead of the Old-time medicines. as the
results from its use are quicker and
more satisfactory, and | believe every
dyspeptlc or rheumatic victim should
use it,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06

But analyze the publican's prayer a
step further, and find that he expected
no relief except through Gods mercy.
Why did not he say, L am an honorable
man. When | get $40 taxes, pay them
right over to the government. | give
full permission to anybody to audit my
accounts. | appeal to thy justice, o
Godl He made no such plea. He threw
himself fiat on Gods mercy.
Have you any idea that a man by
breaking off the scales of the leprosy can
change the disease? Have You any idea
that you can by changing your life
change your heart-that you can pur
chase your way to heaven? Come, try it.
Come, bring all the bread you ever gave
to the hungry, all the medicine you ever
gave to the sick, all the kind words you
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-06
no SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS

Repent the voice celestial cries,
Nor longer dare delay;
The wretch that scorns the mandate die
And meets the fiery dnv
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-20
HOW He HAD Fun.
lie Pu led Big we'p,a with whieI
to Tackle "a Clcik.

lie Pu led n Big Wetpol with which
to Tackle "a CIoik.
You can't always tell how green
a man may be by the color you may
think he is" said the drummer,
sententiously. and the hotel clerk
ran his eyes up in TO Interrogation
points, says the Detroit Free Press.
"No," he went on, as if the clerk
had put his question into words.
mo, you can't. was in New York
and one night | went down to sleep
by the sea-
"On a bench in Battery park ?"
inquired the disingenuous clerk.
''Of course not, retOrted the drum
mer; down at one of the nearby
seaside resorts. Well as | was
saying, when | got there and had
registered at one of the swell hotels,
a country-looking citizen stepped up
and took my place before the book.
He wrote his name and looked up at
the dignified and imperious young
man behind the counter.
Got any rooms, young feller,'
he said, fer about one dolyer per
day"
Certainly not was the naughty
and Disguised reply.
f" 'How's your rates, anyhow
"'Well, you can get suite for
hundred dollars a day. he said with
the air of one man expecting to see
the other man drop dead.
Good enough. responded the
countryman, without turning q hair.
IN take that kind for five days and
pay in advance. Can you change "a
bill for me" and he slapped down
new thousand-dollar William that
must have looked yard long to the
clerk Whether it did or not he
grew red in the face: said he'd have
to see the landlord; couldn't raise
over hundred and ifty in change
to save his life that early in the
season; and while he was trying to
apologize the countryman stuffed the
bill In his pocket and went across
the street to another hotel
THAT evening | talked with him
on the beach. and he said he was
nicely fixed at So day for a month.
Then he laughingly told me that he
carried that bill along with him to
slug highfalutin hotel clerks with.
and he called it a thousand dollar
billie, because il knocked them
every time.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-20
WOMAN,S WORLD.

Flute-playing is recommended for
weak-chested women.
Angry Husband-I am sorry mar
ried you Angry Wife-Well, Pm sure
l never asked you to. Husband is
speechless.
"Are the Chicl1weed girls in society?"
"Um-yes, they're in society, but
they're not really fashionable They
are too red and healthy"
To keep ice in the sick room owe
night set the pitcher on newspaper,
gather up the ends, twist them tight
and snap on a rubber band.
Mr.. Sealove, visiting at the seaside
My dear, please tell our daughter to
sing something less doleful Mrs Sea-
love-That is not our daughter. That
is the fog-horn.
well, what do you think of the
new neighbors who have moved in
next door, Mrs. Pryer?" Il haven't
had chance to form an opinion.
They haven't had n wash day yet"
Silver-topped scent bottles, with
lock and key attachment, are now
made ostensibly for the purpose of
preventing evaporation, but really to
prevent pilfering on the part of sisters
and brothers.
Marie Henriette, the handsome and
soft-voiced queen of the Belgians, is
especially fond of driving, and does it
particularly well. She also rides well,
talks well, and is an uncommonly
good musician.
Miss Oldtimer-You play tennis very
well for one who has played so little
Miss Newcomer-Thanks. / shall be
glad when can play as well as you
do; but l suppose it takes years and
years of practice
The shah of Persia carefully treas
ures an heirloom in the shape of
small cube of gold literally covered
with Oriental letters and characters.
1t is said To have fallen from heaven
during Mohammed's time.
Women shoeblacks have been MAX
ing their appearance in increasing
numbers lately in Toulon and other
French towns, tidy and coquettish
girls, who wear gauntlet gloves in
their efforts to outshine their male
competitors
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-20
FUSiLADE OF FUN.

Ethel could have loved Harold
Vincent but for one thing. Yvonne-
What was that? Ethel was en-
gagged TO him
Mrs. jay understand that rich
American girl married one of the
landed gentry Of England. Mr. Jay
lie was, when she landed him.
Anxious Wife-John has terrible
toothache. What would you advise
me to do? Mrs. Longwed-Talke the
baby and SO for days visit to your
mother.
II don't see what reason you have
for calling Timmins shvloclx" BE
cause he is bald" "Well?" eff he is
bald his locks are shy, aren't they?
How stupid you are.'
MARY, do you think the work too
hard for you here?' Mary-No, ma'am
Then why are you leaving?" Mary
Its the style of hats you buy, ma'am;
| don't look well in none of EN-
Minister-So you don't believe the
story about the loaves and fishes,
Bobby Bobby-N-no, sir Minister
My little boy believes it. bobby
Yes, your little boy has been going TO
Sunday school longer than |. He's
had more practice in those things than
have.
Mandy-Here, Josiah, is a drug
store; now let us go in an get them
souvenir spoons we've read so much
about. Josiah-Gracious Mandy, you
won't find 'em here. will you? Mandy
Josiah, / know what I'm a-doin'.
Didn't see in paper that they was
q drug in the market?
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-20
Naxlng a Mountain of an Ant-unl.

South Africa is the home OF an in
sect wrongly called the white ant.
because early observers, noticing
that there was much in common in
its habits and those of the ant.
thought that it belonged TO the same
family as the Industrious little crea-
lures which Solomon commended to
the example of the sluggard. The
real name of the insect is "Termes,"
and it is famous, among other things,
for the enormous nests which it
builds of clay. They are usually
about twelve feet high, but have
been known to reach thirty feet in
height, and so hard that men and
large animals climb them 10 view the
country round. In time, too, they
are co;ered with grass and other
vegetation. They are the shape OF
huge sugar loaf, and. though they
have only one main entrance, are
full Of galleries and nurseries for the
big families OF the queen ant.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-20

we'll as cared for. It's intelligence do
velops and the beast becomes very
like the human being. Watched
with loving eyes, the actions of tho
pet are understood and responded to,
and one is surprised TO see almost a
common language tablished be-
tween tho two races IL is won
derful and beautiful study, and that
family has more plea 5ure ana real
companion hip with its pets than eng
other | know.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-20

THE indiscriminate exchange of
lead pencils among school pupils is
condemned by the Minnesota health
commissioners who says that putting
the pencil in the mouth is a very
common habit and that diphtheria
and other diseases are often trans
mitted in this way. II the pupils
cannot be forbidden to lend or ex-
change pencils, be says the janitors
must disinfect the pencils every day.
The men who habitually bypotbe-
Gates other peoples lead pencils
should make q note Of this.