News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
ODDS AND ENDS.

In England a drummer" is called a
''bagman."
FIG brandy is the name of a new Cali
fornia drink.
NORWAY has at present ,565 kilome-
tiers OF railroad.
THERE are 5000 carp ponds in the
State of Georgia.
Mrs. NELLIE SARToRIs will spend the
summer in America.
The valuation of Atlanta, Ga, was in
creased s., 900, 900 last year.
A PAPER chimney fifty feet high has
lately been put up at Breslau.
LONDON milkmen and newsboys use
tricvcles in their daily rounds.
THERE are at least $50, 900 children,
whites and blacks, in Louisiana.
A MONUMENT is to be erected in Paris
to Berlioz, the eminent composer.
The population of the United States
is now not less than fifty-six millions.
In Sweden workmen are paid ten to
twenty-five cents for twelve hours labor.
SIMON CAMERON devotes his farm at
Lancaster, Pa, to tobacco raising chief
~.
THE death rate in Rochester, n. Y,
last wear was Is. Z per 1 ZOO. The deaths
1,765.
BUFFALO, N. Y, is already making
preparations for big musical festival in
June.
In California, last year, $50, 1000
pounds of salt were extracted from sea
water.
A PAPAL Encyclica has been published
containing strong attack upon Free
masonry.
ONLY two women in the Washington
departments have reashed an 1900
clerkship.
MADAGASCAR, the third largest island.
Is over 1000 miles in length, and $50
miles broad.
The Washington Monument goes up
at the rate of two feet day now, in all
fair weather.
THE Brazilian Government has Just
spent so. 900, 900 upon the new water
supply of Rio.
A LEATHER cannon was proved at Edin-
burgh in ITS, fired three times and pro-
nounced good.
Texas makes highway robbery pun
lshable by an imprisonment of not less
than ten years.
A MASSACHUSETTS woman is suing her
mother-in-l law for S25, 900 damages for
alleged SANDER.
THE yellow fever may be spread by
the lively mosquito, says DIR. Carlos Fin
lay, of Havana.
ROBERT @. WINTHROP is to deliver the
Grafton at the dedication of the Wash
ington Monument.
No NORWEGIAN girl is allowed to
have beau until she can bake bread
and knit stockings
BOB. INGERsoLL is described bv
Western paper as ''the great, round, fat,
oily man of Sltan."
HUCKLEBERRY pie will be scarce this
season. The forest fires have killed the
crop in many sections.
The number of lives lost in Colorado
the past winter from snow slides alone
was over one hundred.
The people of this country consume
patent medicine to the amount of
5000, 900, 900 every year.
twelve women doctors in the United
States. Now there are $50.
THE new port which has been opened
at Trieste has been fifteen years build
ing, and has cost 81, 5000
THOUSANDS of horses and mules have
been killed in the upper swamp counties
of Mississippi by buffalo gnats.
in the United States, 90 legal execu-
tons, and 11S men were lynched.
The cattle market at Brighton, Mass,
is closed, after continuous existence |
ever since the Revolutionary war.
THE old ballad of ''The Babes in the |
Wood was a covert account of the MUIR |
der of his nephews by Richard III.
lady STR1DBRoKE was paid three dol
lars and twelve cents for the paragraph
which brought Edmund Yates to grief |
A FRENCH scholar has made the curl |
GUS discovery that bald-headed soldiers |
are the bravest.
THE ranch of Charles Goodnight, in |
Texas. contains twenty-five thousand |
acres more than the State of Rhode Is
land.
NEW JERSEY charges the lowest mar
rage license fee-12 cents. Six States,
including Pennsylvania, make mo such
charge.
A MISSIONARY has just completed the
translation of the Book of Mormon into
Spanish, and is on PROSECUTING tour
with it in Mexico.
A FIRM in Jacksonville, Ind, has sue
ceeded in casting the largest glass plate
ever made in this country, showing a I
surface of 156 square feet