News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
ODDS AND ENDS.

UDDO AND ENDS.
CALICO is the name of a town in CAL
ifornia
OALIFoRNIANs pronounce tarantula
"taranchewla."
DAKOTA brags of an ear of corn hold
ing l,742 grains.
HE Pope is said to contemplate Great
ing a Swiss Cardinal.
A FIFTH avenue New Yorker keeps Z
COW IN his back yard.
A MORMON centenarian who died late
ly, left ZIG descendants.
A New JERSEY farmer is raising a
successful crop of cotton.
A FoRTUNE-TELLER in Cincinnati
claims to make $500 a week.
SURGEONS eighteen hundredth SER
mon has just been published.
ITALY has 1858 criminals housed for
life, of whom 204 are women.
THE Denver Mining Exhibition just
closed, was a financial failure.
HIGH and low church troubles are
breaking out again in England.
Los ANGELES, Cal, shipped a carload
OF honey to London the other day.
The average size of American families
has decreased one-tenth since 1850.
A FACTORY at La Honradez, Cuba,
turns oat 8, $50, 600 cigarettes daily.
ALL meetings of the Salvation Army
have been prohibited in Switzerland.
AUSTRALIA exports a great deal of
coal, some of it going even to England.
IT, E,oo~o1. - H~z, L. -
been able to walk for over a year and a
half.
PHILADELPHIA manufactures twenty
two million dollars worth of carpets q
year.
PARIS has nearly eighty popular libra
ries which have over 100, coo volumes
each.
thousand men have signed the
sTy feMperance pledge in Indian
apolis.
PORTLAND, Oregon, now ranks fifth
among the commercial cities of this
country.
CREMATION has been adopted in Por-
tugal. In time of epidemic it is COM
pulscry.
IT is proposed to put a "time" staff
and ball on the top of Washington's
Monument.
AMERICANS spend 81, 900, 900 per year
in small change to street mendicants
and Migrants.
KENTUCKY has a law prohibiting the
sale of illustrated police literature with
in its borders.
APnuADELPHIA school girl committed
~-sa,I0 Hoao1ga chn nOr1lA not Enn~ -,
with her class.
4 CALIFORNIA man raised 50, 900
worth OF honey last year from thirty
nine hives of bees.
ALTHOUGH Canton, China, has n popu-
lation of l, 500, 900, there is not a ews
paper in the place.
ArroRNEY-G GENERAL BREWSTER is
sixty-eight years old, but dresses like a
man of twenty-eight.
CYCLONES have been frequent in many
parts of France of late and have done a
great deal of damage.
IT is said that there are sixty-seven
deaths a minute in the world and double
that number of births.
II President Arthur marries ii will be
the first Presidential wedding since that
OF John Tyler in 1912.
DURING the last ten years Italy has
expended one hundred million dollars
monster war vessels.
IT is said that the round trip expenses
OF an Atlantic passenger steamer vary
from $40, 600 to S70, 900.
a LARGE amount of molasses made
from sorghum will be produced by
Southern Oregon this year.
DR.. HAMMOND says a wonan's beauty
depends on the amount and quality Of
the beef and mutton she eats.
The Chinese government has forbidden
its subjects to resort TO poisoning the
food and drink of the enemy.
An American singer, who died a pau-
per in London recently, once made
S15, 600 a year put of his voice.
THE $4,000 tons of SCOT taken from
London chimneys every year is sold for
Ell, 900 and used as a fertilizer.
THE guanaco of Patagonia has the
head of a camel, the body of n deer,
wool of a sheep and neigh of a horse.
THE salary of the Viceroy of India is
1926, 900 a year and is only sufficient to
allow thatofficer his bare living expenses.
FoUR-FIFTHs of the aspirants for stage
honors in the New York school are fe-
males of the average age of twenty years.
A HoMING pigeon went from Liberty,
Va, to Newark, n. j., 376 miles, in 493
minutes, or 5,026 feet, nearly one mile
a minute.
SINCE the cholera appeared in Italy
summer to the LIST of October, when
its violence abated, 10, 1852 cases and
9 1924 deaths occurred.
The agricultural classes of France
have 5000, 600, 900 on deposit in the Gov
eminent savings bank, on which they
are paid 4 per cent. interest.
The Director of the Mint estimates
the amount of gold and silver coin in
the United States on the LIST of October,
1884, to have been SS15, OO0, 900.