News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-15
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Secretary Folger has ordered that
the word cents, be stamped on the
new, nickel five cent pieces.
A few nights ago Blanche Douglass,
who gained such an unenviable nOto-
riety in the Jennie Cramer case, at
New Haven, was picked up drunk in
Mulberry street, New York. She is
fast going down to ruin.
4 New York city judge said the
other day, that he would double the
penalty to be. inflicted upon any boy
brought before him who should prove
to be a cigarette smoker. - Cigar
smoking is bad enough" said his
Honor, - but cigarette smoking is de
stroying the brains and health Of the
Young. Something must be done to
check it."
A memorial tablet in honor of Pro-
fessor Morse was to be unveiled in
Rome on March >.
1t is rumored that Mrs. Langtry's
unexpected visit to New York is to
7 attend to some real estate matters.
she thinks of purchasing Il house on
Fifth Avenue and becoming Il resident
of New York.
Newport Or. |. } now claims to be
the leading telephone city in the world,
having one subscriber for every forty
five inhabitants.
An English paper asserts that it
costs as much to transport bushel of
wheat twelve miles on the turnpike
road in England, as from an American
seaport across three thousand miles
of ocean.
Comets are still booming; another
discovered Feb. %.
When a man goes to law he does
not stop to count the cost. He leaves
the clerk Of the court to do that, and
as rule none of the items are omit
ted.-Ne1c Orleans PicaylSne.
William NJ. Singerly, of Gwynedd,
Penn, lost eight horses by choking
distemper" The disease, though
known for thirty years, continues to
battle veterinary skill, and kills in
fIom forty-eight to seventy-two hours.
The bill authorizing the issue Of
postal notes for sums less than s.
was passed by Congress on the last
day of the session. They will prove
Il great convenience for the remittance
Of small sums, as they require no adj
vice, being payable to bearer, and
cost but three cents. Reductions were
also made in the charges for postal
orders. The law goes into effect on
the 1st of July.
There are only four nations in the
world to-day that are paying their
way. England generally manages to
make both ends meet and show trih-
ing surplus Of two or three millions to
be applied to the reduction of its enor-
nous national debt; the United States,
in spite of Congressional extravaganza,
puts by every year nearly fifty times
as much and Holland and Belgium
both keep about even. With these
exceptions every nation in the world
shows an annual deficit Of more or less
millions.
About this season of the year, many
people are asking what it Is that de-
termines the date Of Easter The an
swer is, that it is the moon of March,
which Tennyson calls ''the roaring
moon Of datfodiIs." The old rule is
that Easter shall fall on the Sunday
after the full moon which comes after
the vernal equinox. That brings Eas-
ter this year on the 2jth Of March. |
In 1918 it fell on the 22nl Of March,
the earliest date possible. 1t will not
fall upon that day again, in this or the
following century.
In New York recently, the Jews
dedicated as a temple, building for
merly used as Methodist church, and /
the sermon of the Rabbi began in this
rather strange way: The COngrega- .
ton has taken house that has been
used by the Methodist wOrshppers.
in business parlance, this is
simply q re-opening. The old firm
consisted of the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Ghost. Now the partner
ship is dissolved. The Son and the
Holy Ghost have stepped down and
out, but the business still will be con
lucted by the Father, the old head Of
he firm, the one you have always
rusted. The same goods will be Of /
cred for sale. We shall continue to
leal in charity, brotherly love, and !
I'll the virtues, and we appeal to all the I
i'd customers to continue their trade" s
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