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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-06-13

At the annual election of teachers,
held yesterday, all the indumbents
were reelected with the exceptions of
Miss Emma Sayre and Miss A. Bel
lnap, who were not applicants forre-
election. Mrs. Stewart and Miss Mag
gle Laws were appointed to fill the va
cancies in the department. The fixing
of the salaries was deferred until the
next meeting of the boards except in
the instances of the principals. No
city superintendent has yet been
elected.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-06-13

Peter Nelson, a native Of Denmark,
aged AZ years was drowned on Sun
day afternoon by falling overheard
from his boat while sailing up the
river past Booths cannery The body
was recovered shortly after the acci-
dent. Nelson was intoxicated at the
time, and no blame was attached to
anyone but himself. A verdict in ac-
cordance with the above facts was re-
turned by the coroner's jury yesterday
Nelson was working for the Astoria
Packing Company.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-06-13

The original Root Beer Extract is
RaseE's.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-06-13

Westpcrt cream fresh every morning
at Smiths Ice Cream parlors. Third st.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-06-13

For fine wines and liquors call a
August Danielson's Sample Rooms.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-06-13

Strawberries and cream at Col
mann's.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-06-13

Raser's Extract Root Beer, the pur-
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-06-13

Fresh Clatsop cream received. every
morning at Colmann's.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20
The Indian Games.

The Indian games. a thoroughbred va
riety of fowls that has gained popular
ity during the past two years in this
country, are largely bred in England
and differ somewhat from the other
games. The cock weighs about nine
pounds. and the hen from six to seven
pounds. The body is firm, compact and
muscular. The carriage and style of the
cock is very upright and commanding.
giving an appearance of vigor and ac-
tivity. The feet are large, clean and
fat; the head of medium length and
width: eyes full, with bold expression;
face smooth and fine in textures; comb,
pea, small, fine and closely set on the
head; wattles scanty; ear lobes small.
The plumage is short and glossy; neck
and tail are glossy green-black, with a
large proportion of dark crimson plum
age ON saddle, wings, etc.
In England the Indian game is ranked
along with the Doriing for the dressed
poultry market. 1t is claimed by Ameri-
can breeders that this breed grows rap
idly. and the body of the fowl, being
plump and round, is adapted for the
table. 1t is also claimed that for cross
ing on common hens, to produce table
poultry. the Indian game has no equal.
The hens are good layers of medium
sized eggs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20

Harlem has always been nCtei for the
bright youngsters who run around its
ozone laden precincts, and it now holds
one especially bright boy from whom all
New York may expect to hear Il the next
dozen years. He lives on Lenox avenue
and has to amuse himself on it's leve!
pavements velocipede, 81 express
wagon, pair of roller skates, Il big iron
hoop and pretty little sister.
Most boys would be satisfied to play
with one, or at most two, Of these arti-
Giles at a time, but not this yodngster.
He is a firm believer in the doctrine of
getting the greatest amount of good out
of the greatest number Of THINGS in the
shortest amount of time, and this is the
way in which l saw him carrying out his
principles few days ago:
He strapped on his skates, hitched his
wagon to his velocipede, put his little
sister in the wagon. bestrode the velOci-
pede, started off with few strokes of his
skates, and while steering the machine
with one hand guided the hoop with the
other.
The other and less progressive boys of
the neighborhood watched him with an
expression in which awe and envy wero
nicely blended, and his parents came out
to brag about his ingenuity.
His little sister thinks there is no one
like 'BruEver Jack. New Y ok Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20
Forming Squares.

1t is remarkable that recent tactics in
the Soudan, when we formed squares to
resist the rush of our fanatical oppo-
nents, are simply copy of those which
Napoleon was compelled to adOptil that
part of the world nearly century ago.
The Mamelukes, who were his most dan
gerous antagonists, were better trained
and better mounted than any cavalry he
had to bring against them, and, more
over, greatly outnumbered the French
squadrons. He was obliged, therefore,
to rely entirely on his artillery and in
fantry, and these were formed into
squares, with the guns at the angles, just
as our troops Were drawn up to stem the
rushes at Ell Teb and Tamai.
At Ulundi our formation was the same,
and, like us on that occasion, we rid
that Napoleon placed his baggage and
cavalry III the center of the square, and
when the foe was beaten launched the
horsemen to the pursuit just as we loose
our squadrons on the Zulus.-Saturday
Review
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20
Essentials In Corn Culture.

A speaker at an Iowa meeting of farm
ers remarked that there are four essen
tials to the production of first class corn
proper preparation of the soil, good
seed, uniform distribution and thorough
cultivation. If the surface soil is prop
erly cared for. the subsoil will take care
of itself. 1t is a question whether sum-
mer blowing is good where land must be
subject to action of mud and rain. Drill
planting is preferable, putting kernels IL
TO 10 inches apart in tho rows. Drilled
corn will mature 10 days sooner than hill
planted and is easier to husk.
The objection to drill cultivation of
corn ought not to be considered. now
that improved tools exist for tending 1t.
In hill culture there can be no uniform
ity of cultivation as regards time be-
tween plowings. while with drilled corn
all can be treated alike. The planted
field should be gone over once in four
days before the corn is up and as often
after that as possible. The assertion was
made that the days of long pointed
shovels are numbered, and they should
be done away with altogether. The in
crease from shallow cultivation was
equal to 20 per cent. The advantage of
shallow cultivation is more noticeable in
a dry season than in n wet one.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20

A girl IS years old, who weighs $40
pounds. is the daughter of o. B. Braiser,
a farmer, who lives at the foot of Cum
berland ridge. At the age of the child
was of ordinary size and intelligence,
but about that time she began to increase
rapidly in flesh, and it was within year
after that she attracted attention on ac-
count of her abnormal growth. From
that time on she increased to such pro-
portions that people for miles around
focked to see her, and she became the
wonder of the day.
She is yet a child in age and actions,
engaging heartily in sports with neigh
Dor children, and is clever and energetic
in all her movements. The skill of the
physicians has been ineffective in staying
the rapid growth.-Franldin (Tenn.) Re-
view-Appeal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20
ODDS AND ENDS.
London has 5000 sailors.

London has 5000 sailors.
Among the British nobility 10 per cent
are childless.
New Zealand Knights of Labor will try
cooperation.
Bayonets were first made at Bayonne,
France, in 1917.
Three may keepa secretif two of them
are ead.-Franklin.
A watch carried by Emperor Charles
V in 1880 weighed 81 pounds.
When packing dresses, put paper be-
tween the folds to prevent creasing.
Long visits should be like angels visits
in one respect at least-few and far be-
tween.
The father of Turner, the painter of
the ''Slave Ship" was barber and hair
dresser.
In 1875 the number of telegraph mes
sages in Great Britain amounted to co.
100000.
A diamond brooch is appropriate witha
black reception dress that is not trimmed
with Grape.
An old proverb says, IF yol listen at
all, take the first advice of woman, not
the second"
Both mandibles of the parrots beak
are movable, but most birds are able to
move only one.
The Chinese for actual use carry hand
kerchiefs of paper. which are immedi-
ately discarded.
Love cannot be justly said to be all
tomfoolery. There is a certain percent
age of life elixir discoverable therein.
If horses stretch out their necks and
sniff the air and assemble in the corner
of field with their heads to lee v&rd, look
for rain,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20
Peculiar Plant Lice.

Livingstone tells of species Ct aphis,
or plant louise. which inhabits the fig
trees of Africa, which constantly distil
water until it forms in great paddles on
the ground underneath. There seemsto
be some contention among Laturalists
as to whether this insect disttl3 its wa
ter from the sap of the plant which it
infests or the atmosphere. Livingstone
found some of them at work on caster
bean plant and set about making an ex-
pertinent. When first surprised at their
work, distillation was going q at the
rate of one drop every 67 seconds, or
about 81 tablespoonfuls every - hours.
He destroyed the bark of the plant be-
low them, and although it is known that
sap must come from the earth they were
actually distilling drop every five Sec
onds, the flow being ID times greater
than it was the day before. He then CIR
died the pla.lt so deeply that it dried and
broke off. Still the little colony Of insect
wonder kept at work, regularly distill-
ing one drop every five seconds, while
another colony on a green twig only
managed to distil a drop every II sec
onds.-St. Louis Republic.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20
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LIGHT BOARD FENCE FOR BACK YARDS.

LIGHT BOARD FENCE FOR BACK YARDS.
the side or rear end of many village lots
a tight fence is the preferred kind, often
screening the back yard from other back
yards.
Instead of the ordinary board fence,
with straight top, one made after the
pattern here shown affords relief 20 the
eye among so many straight topped
fences and is less inviting to boys who
climb and play on fences. In any event
the back yard fence should be mantled
with climbers of several kinds. Ampel-
opsis and climbing loniceras are fine for
this purpose.
Where a COW is kept on a small farm
it is often a matter Of convenience to
have a few dozen panels Of fence that
car be used in improvising temporary
pasl ure lot. The form of panel shown
in the second cut has. according to
American Gardening, from which the
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20
The Childs Glacier.

One of the great glaciers of north
Greenland has been named after Mr..
George W. Childs by Professor Heilprin,
the leader of the Peary relief expedition.
While the members of that party were
engaged in their mission they spent some
time in large and beautiful bay, which
is called after Mr.. Sonteg, one of DR..
Hayes party, who lost his life in that
neighborhood while on an exploring trip.
At the head of this bay are two large
and particularly handsome glaciers, one
empyting into the waters from the north
side and the other from the south.
The latter seemed to afford exception
al opportunities of testing much moot
ed question whether it is possible to
reach the great interior ice cap by means
of these frozen rivers with the usual i'm
pedimenta of arctic travellers, and Pro-
fessor Heilprin decided to attempt the
work, which was carried out successful
by, all the members of the party taking
part except two, one of whom was laid
up through slight accident. This gla-
cier is the one on which the name of
George w. Childs has been bestowed
Ut. Louis Globe-Democrat.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20
Experiment Station GIeanInrs.

Bulletins issued from the agricultural
experiment station at Raleigh will be
sent to any address in that state ON writ
ten application to the director, H. B.
Battle.
w. II. Caldwell, assistant agriculturist
at the Pennsylvania station, has been
selected by the American Guernsey Cat
tie club to take charge of the Guernsey
cows entered for the test Of dairy breeds
at the Worlds Columbian exposition.
A number of the leading tobacco grow
Grs of the Connecticut river valley have
organized as the Valley Tobacco Exper-
iment association. Their object is to
experiment in fertilizers and methods of
growing tobacco in connection with the
government experiment station at the
state agricultural college.
At the North Dakota station Z. S.
Keene has been appointed agricultural
engineer with aview to having investiga-
tons of farm machinery conducted at
the station. The first work will be on a
stubble burner for removing all straw
from the soil after harvesting, thus do
ing away with the necessity of annual
blowing for wheat.
From the Arkansas station comes the
report of successful experiments with
wheat, oats, grasses and clover at New
port and Pine Bluff, localities in which
cotton is now the chief crop.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20
Why the Barber was yI,uns.

A distinctive feature of one of the lux
uriOus barber shops in the dry goods
district is a razor wielder who can out
talk the traditional talkative barber.
His tongue is seldom idle when he is at
work, and were it not for the fact that
he is barber of uncommon skill and
neatness he would have been banished
from the shop long ago. AS it is, most
of the customers put up with his chatter
good naturally, and some of them en-
courage him to talk out of pure mischief.
One day last week an Overworked and
weary "head of department in large
dry goods house hurried into this par
ticular shop for quick shave. An in
voluntary shudder shook his frame when
he saw that the only vacant chair be-
longed to the talkative barber.
He nerved himself for the ordeal and
was greatly surprised when the barber
said nothing to him as he took his seat
His establishment increased when he
found that the usually loquacious artist
was actually shaving him without say
ing word. The job was done quickly
and neatly, and when the barber had
finished the customer jumped up and eX-
claimed enthusiastically: by Jove, that
is the most restful shave l ever had.
Here's a quarter for you. You seem to
have turned over new leaf"
The knight of the razor shook his head
gloomily and muttered: Cant talk.
Burned mouth with carbolic acid.
Thought it was sherry wine."-New
York Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20

1t seemed impossible for many years to
find the parallax of a single star, an es-
sential element in determining its dis
lance and consequently its mass. Bessel
in 1888 found the parallax of 81 Cygni
and from it computed its distance to be
seven light years, or that it takes seven
years for its light to reach the earth.
This star, the nearest to the earth in
the northern heavens, is a small fifth
magnitude star in the Swan. Its compo-
nents, nearly equalin size, are of the fifth
and sixth magnitudes, shining with a
white light tinged with yellow.
The components of many binary sys-
TENS are of different colors. Beta Signi,
a double star, displays the exquisite COM
bination of topaz yellow and sapphire
blue.
Epsilon Lyre is a quadruple star. 1t
is called naked eye double, since the
eye just separates it into two compo-
nents. These can be again separated,
giving double double or quadruple star.
Sigma Orionis is multiple star. Each
of its two principal components is triple,
and it's leading member can be again di-
vided into two stars. These seven minute
telescope objects are suns of great size
and splendor and of every variety of col
or.-Youth's Companion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20
THE rSPOTTER" MUST co.
Street Car Conductors Are Too Familiar
With His WAYS to Be Caught,

Street Car Conductors Are Too Familiar,
With His Ways to Be Caught.
F'The railroad spotter has about out
lived his usefulness and will soon have
to seek another occupation" was the re-
mark of Broadway street car conduct
or FNearly all the spoilers in the city
are now known personally to all the con-.
ductors, for the new men are introduced
to the conductors by means of a secret
code of signals while they are being
broke in"
The system of checking is also so we'll
understood that the moment new spot
ter commences he is himself spotted and
laughed at. The most popular method
is to read book and to turn over page
every time a passenger enters q car or
pays his fare.
Many of the ladies who skim through
book carelessly as they ride on car
are spoilers, and some of them are so
careless that they use the same book day
after day, never thinking that it must
be spotted and detected. Other spoilers
of both sexes use row of pins, and act
ing as though they were nervous trans
fer them from one part of their vest to
another, taking care to move one every
time passenger gets on. Taking notes
on shirt wristbands is much simpler and
really attracts less attention, but it does
not possess the desired mysteriousness
and is seldom done.
A book could be written on the jokes
that are played on spoilers after they be-
10 1,o To
accost one of these worthless personally
and ask if the register is all right is an
act resorted to in retaliation for special
meanness, and the sting in this lies in
the fact that the spotter knows that dis
charge will follow if the company knows
he has been recognized. Another plan
is to purposely omit to ring up fares, but
to keep careful track of the number
taken. The spotter takes note of the
omission and prepares a report to the
superintendent. In the meantime the
conductor has rung up the fares, doing
SO the moment the spotter got off, and
when the report is compared with the
trip sheets 1t is found that the mistake
has been made not by the man reported,
but by the man or woman making the
report.
But the conscientious spotter is not so
much to be feared. The spotter who
makes the lives of conductors miserable
is the one who guesses. Instead of keep
ing actual tab of the number of pas
sengers some spoilers will make an esti-
mate and actually base report on it.
This is as ridiculous as unjust, for while
the trip cars are out the crowds are so
large that the conductor himself could
not make even an approximate guess as
to the number of fares taken. Still some
of the detectives in embryo will assume
the ability of doing this, and more than
one man has gone out into the world
with slur on his reputation for honesty
because of this combination of idleness
and conceit.-New York Telegram.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20
George Was Tired of Being Away.

Georges mother had company in the
parlor one evening when the nurse was
away. Mamma put him to bed and told
him to go to sleep like good boy. He
was very unwilling and was hardly per-
5uaded even when she told him that he
would not be by himself, for God was
with him and would take care of him.
At last he consented, and she went down
stairs to her visitors. After an hours
pleasant chat she congratulated herself
that the baby was fast asleep, when what
should she see at the parlor door but her
little boy in his white nightgown, look
lg as if he had just stepped down from a
picture and saying pathetically, "Mam-
ma, dear, you tum up and tay wifi bod
awhile and let me tum in here."-New
York Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20
Onions From Seed.

Onions grown to commercial size in
the usual way, if set out the next spring,
soon enlarge to size fit for table. The
difference between the two is chiefly
caused by different cultivation. In the
one case the onion, under favorable con-
ditions. natures from the seed the first
season; in the dwarfed condition it re-
quires a second season for full maturity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20
Pleuro-pneumon ia In Canadn.

1t has been officially declared by the
authorities of Great Britain that con-
tagious pleuro-pneumonia exists in the
Dominion of Canada. With view to
protecting the stock interests of the
United States the secretary of agricul-
ture has ordered that all cattle to be i'm
ported from Canada into the United
States be made subject to the same con-
dltions and requirements as if they were
imported into the United States from
Great Britain or the continent of Europe.
1t is also ordered by Secretary Rusk that
all neat cattle imported from the Do
minion of Canada must be entered at
the port of Buffalo, which is distin-
xuished as quarantine station.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20

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Druggists and Sole Agents. Morrtsville. VI.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20
Helpful Hints.

Peas may be planted as soon as the
ground is open enough toreceive the seed
When Il very early crop of potatoes is
desired, sprout the potatoes used for seed
before planting.
The Bush lima bean has stood the test
now of several seasons in many different
localities.
ConOver's Colossal, a leading asparagus,
has now a rival in earliness in the newer
Palmetto.
The new variety of cabbage christcned
luccession, it is claimed. is a good va
riety for the amateur, as it does well
whether for medium early, main crop or
winter use, under average conditions.
Plant few seeds of gourds for summer
climbers. Get the ornamental gourds
seed, and you will have not only luxuri-
ant foliage, but curious fruits in the way
Of gourds of various sizes and shapes.
Farmers who are not provided with the
necessary conveniences for spraying are
behind the times. Spraying for insects
and fungous affections has become inn
perative for successful results in orchard
and garden.
Reports from New Orleans show that
the Louisiana sugar crop reached last
year 1S9, 500 tons, upon which the bounty
will be S7,5SO,OOO as against S6,ss2, 500
paid in bounties last year.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20

PANEL OF PORTABLE wINDPRooF FENCE.
foregoing is reproduced, the important
merit of being windproof as well as
stockproof. Its construction is so sim
pie that no directions other than the en-
craving will be required.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-04-20
Amethysts In Cape Blomidon.

1t is said that a Cape Blomidon
amethyst is in the crown of France,
and that 275 years ago Sleur de Monts
carried several large amethysts from
one of the islands in the basin to
Henry " of France. These gems are
generally found in goodies or after a
fresh fall of traprock Minerals.