News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-19
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
FROM RowELL's New "NEwsPAPEI
DIRECTORY it appears that the tota
number Of newspaper and periodicals il
the United States and Territories is now
II, ,196, increase of 5S5 in twelve months
The most remarkable change has
occurred in the Territories, in which the
daily papers had grown from 43 to 60
and the weekhes from 169 to 243. The
number of mOnthlies throughout the
country now number 1,O34 as against 976
last year, while the dailies have grown
from 996 to 1,O62.
IT IS INTERESTING at this time to recall
that the only woman who in public sang
"Home, Sweet Home to our generation,
and touched the hearts of the people,
was Parepa Rosa. The French artists
garnished it with frills and trills, and
made an aria of it. But she had the
true woman's idea of home, and put the
tone that belonged to it into the words.
1t was a favorite song of hers, and she
wanted it sung over her coffin. Few of
those who ever heard Parepa Rosa sing
it viii ever forget the feeling of the mo-
ment.
IT APPEARS THAT showers of threaten
ing letters are received by great person.
ages of Europe these days, and threats
are made to blow up every great build
ing, from the kremlin to Westminster
Abbey. But it may be noticed that
warnings were not given of the explo-
sions that have actually occurred. The
English Government was not warned of
the attempt upon the public buildings
last week, nor was the Russian Govern
ment warned of the Winter Palace or the
-SfLoscoW railroad mine CsNmsmuu6Ahua-S
Burke We're not warned OF
ing death, nor does Lady l.
appear to have been warned tnaN
TO ee assaulted !3s Isso Inell--ia=w woII1ss' 5
clothes. 1t Is generally understood that
writers of threatening letters are too
cowardly to commit crime themselves |
and little danger is feared from them.
Now THAT TT HAS BECOME apparent to |
all who cross the ferries from New York /
City to Brooklyn that the great bridge is
nearly completed, the question Is asked
by every one, When viii it be opened to
the public? To this question the trus-
tees have given no definite and authori-
tative reply, but it has been stated several
times Of late by some of them that the
bridge will be opened about the first of
June. There have been so many unex-
Pected and provoking delays, a city paper
says, that it would probably surprise a
great many persons if the bridge should
be opened at the time mentioned. There
are indications, however, that this lofty
and breezy pathway in the air viii really
be at the service of the public during
the hot days of the present summer, and
a too often disappointed public sincerely
hopes that this may be the ease. Long
and patiently have all waited
They PLAY CARDS out West for all there
is in them. In the Indian Territory
Brady Bretney, Eli Perryman, Billy
Grimmitt, and an Indian were engaged
in a game which ended in a free fight. in
which the Indian killed Bretney and
PerTyman. Grimmitt. who took no ac-
tive part in the fight was accidently
killed during the shooting by one of the
three. The next morning, two brothers
named Marshall, friends of the dead
men, followed the Indian, and, coming
up with him, riddled his body with
bullets. And thus the game ended.
every one engaged in it dying within l
twenty four hours with his boots on. A
great game is draw poker, out West. ',
IT IS SAID THAT a clerk who robbed the u
Equitable Trust Company of New York ~
itv, Of some $50. 900, pccketed a regular :, :,
of the money which passes y
trough his hands, and the amount he :
nre e~nl azzIa5 o.. ono .- F-vo s.,..-,=5..r.-. -
vas nearly thousand dollars For four !,
ears he kept up his thegt7, living IN the =,
Meantime III good style, and managing p
o disarm all suspicion. Finally, when G
ne saw that he could no longer conceal q
MS dishonest operations, he ran away. q
Well, this is the old story again, and it
contains the same old lessons by which v
both clerks and employers can profit if i
hey will. The clerk was taken into the ?
when he was fifteen years 4
# age, grew up with it, was trusted in t
very way, had good salary, q pleasant t
nome, and apparently everything that Il
leart could wish. Everything is gone h
low, reputation, home. everything. p
IT IS A GENERALLY SETTLED FACT that n
When a man has once acquired a taste h
or the gaming table it is a most difficult a
hing to break off the habit An illustra- Il
ion Of this fascination is given IN the /
Ieath in Mexico Of johnnie" 3" otherwise 5
,ir John Hepburne, a popular land f
rwner in the Lothians." He left Eng I
and on account of his debts. A local L
,aper In speaking Of him says that "a I
more generous, open-handed young fel5 |
ow never lived, and all who knew him
lked him. On one occasion he won with V
he single gold piece left out of the $500 a
le had brought with him to Mexico from /
England COG, 900 in the course of three
II four hours. His friends begged him f
0 send his money home, as it would I
lave paid off his liabilities; but, though +
le promised not to risk more than the {
i'd thousand, he had lost it all IN two
hours afterward" "
The American Blower.
Speaking of smart fellows, SAYS a u
london correspondent, if you want to +
zee the "great American blower" to +
drop In at the " American v