News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
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1t is reported that the wife of llar-
vev NJ. Vale, one Of the defendants
in the Dorsey Brady star-route trial
has killed herself at Independence,
! Mo.
The Cleburne (Texas) Chronicle
tells Of cat ranch, about half mile
away from the town, where 400 cats
of assorted colors absorb the atten-
zion of the owner.
A Cincinnati prophet predicts fol
1888 and 1884 financial panic, the
downfall of church and State; a de-
structlve whirlwimd, for the particu-
lars OF which he referred to Joel
seven great comets, one of them
| plunging into the sun aud Increasing
its light seveutold; and earthquakes
of an unheard Of character, the whole
winting 2p with the millennium.
| Evangelist Barnes writes to the
Stanford (Ky.) journal that he has
become convinced that the Anglo
Saxon race came from the tel los
tribes OF Israel. He also learns that
Queen Victoria to-day prides not
herself on being CT the house oil
Guelph, but on better lineage sti!l-a
hneal descendant of David" and that
Disraeli's policy was shaped by 4
knowledge of the same fact.
The New York Tribune has the fol-
lowing AT 4 meeting of the dircc-
tors OF the Bennington battle mOnu-
ment association, recently held at the
Fifth Avenue lIo:el in this city,
George Bell of New Hampshire, pre-
siding. it was the unanimous express
sion OF the board that no reasonable
effort should he withheld 10 render
the monument c:editable TO the event
that it was to commemorate and cred
table To the Nation. and that its COM
p'elion should be attended with IL lit
lie delay as WAS consistent with its
Importance
IN, ,Ifan"n.l- which used to glitter
in the shirt bosom of 3lr. James Fisk,
Jr.. has recently come into the pos
session of Mr. VIM. Clare Of Denver,
Il collector of tliamonds.-EG.
Three hundred persons are sick
ut Waterbury, Conn, with winter
cholera, supposed To be caused by the
mixture of snow with the city water.
Ladies may he interested to learn
from an authority no less than the
New York Sun, that engagement rings
are generally worn on The third finger
of the left han;i. But in Brewers die
tionarY of Phrase and Fable it says
that if one is willing to marry, but not
engaged, 4 ring should he worn on the
index finger of the left hand; if ell
gagged, OH the second finger; if mar
ried, on the third finger; hut if there
is no desire to marry, on the little tin-
ger. Now Young man cut this out
and paste it i'll your hat, and keep an
eye on those fingers.
The new five-cent nickle pieces in
size and general appearance are not
unlike the tive-dOllar gold pieces, and,
if gilded. might very easily be palmed
off as such on unsuSpecting people.
Ono of the tive-cent pieces thus PIE
pared was received at the Treasury III
Washington, Monday. On the reverse
of the coin there is nothing but Il large
V, the word q" cents" not being used,
and this makes it possible to more
easily deceive the unwary with the
gilded coins.
The population in New England
per square mile is as follows: Maine,
Pill; New Hampshire, 1888; Yer
mont, 1888; Massachusetts, 22l.76;
Rhode Island, 254.87; Connecticut.
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