News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-11-29
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THE MORMON TABERNACLE, a CORE
spondent of the st. PauI's Pionee
Press says, is the most wonderful whisp
ering gallery in the world. When every
body in it is quiet the faintest whisper
may be heard in the remotest part of the
house. 1t will seat 10000 persons
There is no means of heating it, and ir
winter the services are held in an as
sembly room that will seat about 1000
persons. The other large edifce in Salt
Lake City-the temple. which was begun
thirty years ago-has cost the Mormon8
say, $l0,000,0O0, and they will require
| IS, 000, 900 to complete it; but a Boston
! architect recently offered to duplicate
the structure and finish it within two
years for $80OQ0O. It's walls are Of
solid granite, 8 feet inches III thick
ness. They have reached height of
about 100 feet, and the six towers will
rise another 100 feet.
In ALL THE COLDER regions of Europe,
says q French writer, cows and horses
near the sea coast occasionally vary their
diet by eating fish. Some horses which
about a century ago were taken from
Iceland to Dunkerque were fed during
the voyage as well as during their stay
at Dunkerque, on nothing but salt fish.
At Saint Waast-Ia-U Uougue fish is given
to domestic animals, which eat it with
great relish. According to NJ. VaIen-
ciennes, a certain kind of fish which is
found in great abundance on some parts
Of the Indian coast serves both fresh and
salted as food for the horses. Kant
chatka dogs, Of course, are notorious
fish eaters, but not even the authority of
Philotsratcs can induce us to believe in
his fsh-eating sheep, although Ellen
backs him up in guaranteeing that their
flesh acquires the fshy taste Of marine
birds. In Lydia and Macedonia sheep
were said to be fattened with fish,
greatly to the detriment of their mutton,
but it must be admitted that the whole
story has a very ancient and fsh-ike
smell.
IF A CERTAIN BROOKLYN suit goes for
the plaintiff, a good many people will
find that they laid the foundation for
prosecution for bigamy when they were
babies. 1t has always been a fayorite |
pastime with the older folks to have toy
marriages, so to speak, among the boys
and girls. Usually the husbands and |
wives are far below the marriageable
age, and are married for that occasion
only. But hereafter boys and girls who
are above the manageable age will
probably avoid such dangerous pranks.
A boy of eighteen was united in this
humorous way at an evening party to
girl of seventeen, and the whole matter,
according to his statement, was regarded
as a huge joke. He claims that he has
never in any way recognized her rs his
wife except by writing her jocrlIarnote
in which he called her ''NIy dear wife. "
To his astouishmcnt, however, she has
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cognjtion of her rs his wife. If his
statement is true, this is bIackmGil, and |
worse.
RUSSIA APPEARS TO BE losing her pre-
as the granary Of Europe in
the face Of spch competing countries as
America and India, but whether or not
she can yet claim to be a great manufac-
uring country may be seen from the
act that, according to statistics lately
in the Ministry Of Finance,
here are just II, 17G large manufactures
md works OF all kinds in tie 50 pro-
-inces-an extent of land rs big as the
est Of EurOpe-with not more than
100, ,OGO work people employed. This
otaI does not include Is, PIP small estab-
ishments Of the peasants of not more
han five workers to each, where chiefly
rticles Of domestic use are wrought,
nd has been calculated for the purpose
# regulating infant and female labor in
works and factories.
One HUNDRED AND FIFTY Egyptians
Iecoved into a mountain deile and mas
acred to man by the hill tribes of
Iubio, is certainly a frightful picture of
avage ferocity, but in harmony with the
character Of barbarians. who know little
md care less for the civilized warfare OF
Christian nations. But what can be said
# Admiral Courbet, of the French forces
II AMMAN, who ordered that no mercy
1e shown to the men, women and
children of their opponents? Nearly
i've hundred of these, while compare
lively helpless, were ruthlessly shot down
ov his soldiers. There is apparently
not much difference between the barbar-
1us tactics of pagan warriors and the
brutal crueIties of modern armies.
A SOUTHERN MAN, writing from Boston
to a Georgia paper, says: "Ihe truth
is, 40 Southern man can see Boston and
its people under favorable circumstances
without feeling very much at home, and
if he takes the trouble to give the mat
ter any thought or investigation, he will
wonder how it is possible that these peo-
pie, reared and educated under such diff
ferent conditions and in the midst of
such diverse surroundings, should pos
sess all the most striking characteristics
of the people of Georgia"