News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-07-26
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plete. Her work has been parodied
by Burdette, the parody bearing the
suggestive title of Schooners That
Pass in the Dark"
The pension bill, as agreed to by
both branches of Congress, carries an
appropriation of $15O,0OO,OOO,
which will undoubtedly enable the
pension department to meet all the
legitimate demands upon it, and at
the same time attest the continued
gratitude of the country to the dis
abled veterans of the war.
The cut-rate war for steerage traf-
tic between the transatlantic steam
ship companies has brought the fare
down to SO from New York. This
rate provides for good sanitary quar-
tiers, plenty of wholesome food and
drink during a trip of seven to nine
days in the finest boats afoat. A re-
Uurn passage to this country can be
secured for $500.
The latest recruits in the army of
bicyclists is the Queen of Italy. Fair
Margherita is fat and 40, but that
fact deters her not from becoming an
enthusiastic wheelwoman. A couple
of hours each day her majesty prac-
tees in the gardens of the Quirinal,
and she will soon be sufficiently ex-
pert to join a club and go spinning
over the magnificent Roman roads,
provided etiquette is agreeable.
Gov. Hogg of Texas is making a
triumphal tour OF the East in compa-
ny with his daughter, Miss Ina, and
81 prominent Texans. 1t is a voice
from the wild and woody West,
through the Omaha Bee, which re.
marks that although the young lady
is just beginning her teens, it is to be
hoped that she will not be compelled
to write her name Ina Hogg any
longer than is absolutely necessary
The treasury department has paid
$12,750,0O0 in sugar bounties this
year, and there are other accounts
amounting to 100000 to be adjust
ed. When the bounty was proposed
it was estimated, on the crop of sew.
eral years, that it would take about
$70OO,00O from the treasury pei
year. In three years the bounty has
nearly doubled domestic sugar pro-
duction, while it has saved to the
consumers about two cents pei
pound, or at least $1O0,0OO,0OO pei
year to the 100000 families il
the United States.
They have a novel method of kill
ing crows in Georgia. Grains of corr
are pierced and through them is in
serted a hair from the tail of a horse
These grains are scattered in the felC
where the crows are in the habit O.
coming. When the bird swallows one
of these grains the horses hair pre-
vents it from passing into the craU
and initiates the mouth. The birC
rolls over, turns on its back anC
scratches to get it out, but to no pur
pose. Death results either from
strangulation or, as is frequently the
| CuoC, nun IuC WcuuOo lnulCJGu DO
the sharp claws. The crows gather
around the victim, but, although
they are of an exceedingly suspicious
nature, they never attribute tn,
trouble to the corn.-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Queen Victoria is not convert tt
the modern theory that cradles ar,
improper attachments to a nursery
She has given the Duchess of Yorl
two cradles for her baby. One is 0
wildwood aud is the same bassine
that originally held the Empress
Frederick of Germany. 1t has an in
scription in silver letters to that et
feet, and also that the Queen gave i
to the Duchess of York in 1894. |
is fitted up with white satin and Hon
iton lace. The other cradle is mad
of mahogany with a rich gilt inlay
and is upholstered in pale blue bro
cade. Both are furnished with tn
daintiest little sheets of Irish law
edged with lace, and blankets as ligh
as elder down, composed of Pyreneal
wool. Which cradle the baby prefer
has not been made known.
The mint has coined a few siIve
dollars this year, with the date 1S9-
upon them, to prove the dies, as j
the practice every year. Congress
man Pence of Colorado announce
the discovery that these dollars hav
been purchased by southern Demo
cratic congressman and are being eS
hibited to their constituents in tn
back districts, where newspapers ar
never seen, to convince them that th
administration is in favor of fire
coinage and is now actually coinin
these dollars. The officers of tn
mint assert that only 406 of thes
Z dollars have been coined, but MI
Pence is suspicious that the admins
tration is helping along the deceE
ton, which is one of the meanes
games of bunco politics. Pence is
Populist, and the spectacle OF Den
ocratic administration stealing b
party thunder makes him feel III
pleasant.