News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-11
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

RECENT statistics carefully made up
as to the employment of women in Eng
land reveal the fact that there are 347
female blacksmiths who actually swing
the heavy hammers, 9,198 women en-
ployed in Matchmaking, who make nails
for horse shoes.
SOME funny election bets were made.
One in Owego, N. Y, calls for the loser
to black his opponents boots twice each
week for month. Another calls for
the loser to make his weight equal to
to that of the winner, the present differ
ence being 4S pounds.
THE German hop crop this year will
yield about 100000 cwt. The crop of
the United States is larger than that of
last year, and on the Pacific coast the
gain is reported to be 80, 900 bales of $50
pounds each. This will cause the hop
market to be dull and prices low.
GEN. WILLIAM CUTTINGS Delmonico's
dinner in 1872 in New York, is still re-
membered and often spoken of by those
who love their stomach. At this dinner
live swans swan in a miniature lake in
the centre of the table. and each plate
cost $3.50, outside of the wine drank on
the occasion.
DIR. G. JOHNSON, we'll known Eng
lish physician, lately told the British
Medical Association of patient of his,
55 years old, who had lived upon milk
diet for five days. He took gallon of
milk day, but not particle of any
other food. This treatment cured him
of Bright's disease.
THE census of 1880 showed that there
were 48, 929 blind persons in the United
States, of whom about 5000 were in New
York State. The official report gave the
number in public institutions of New
York in October, 1888, as only 666, and
large proportion of the whole number
are self-supporting.
THERE are more than 100, women
and girls who make a living on the
streets OF Paris as licensed venders.
Thirty-fiv thousand of them are under
IS, 1900 under Is, and 5000 of them
are little girls under 13 years of age.
They are allowed to grow up as pagans,
with no religious or moral instruction.
In the United States the proportion
of voters to population is 25 per cent;
in France. % per cent; in Germany 20
per cent, and in England, where it is
now per cent, with the new franchise
it will be less than Is per cent. The
recent extension of suffrage added
about two million laboring men to the
voting list.
MEN digging trenches for sewers in
Schenectady, N. Y, have found at
depth of 16 feet the old corduroy road
which was laid in 1890 and led to the
fort at the time of the massacre by the
Indians. On another street the hollow
logs which were laid in 1906, and served
for pipes for the city s water supply, have
been found in an,excellent state.
In that part of Washington known as
the Northwest" a suite of two rooms on
the first or second floor, if rented to
Congressman or lobbyist, is expected to
bring from 500 to 5000 a month with
out board, and board in such cases in
creases the bill to the extent of $25 per
person. Ordinary persons can get these
same rooms for one-half that amount.
A NOVEL experiment of carrying rail
road through forest has been tried in
Sonoma county, California. The trees
are sawed off and levelled and the ties
are fastened on the stumps, two of which
are huge redwoods standing side by side
and reaching seventy-fve feet from the
ground. So firm is this support that
heavily loaded cars pass over with per-
feet security.
UTAH is herself striking a most ef-
fective blow at polygamy in the educa-
ton of her youth. Seventy-one school
buildings have been erected, at cost of
S297, 900, and more than dozen other
schools are held in rented buildings. In
all eighty-five schools are sustained
with funds from outside the Territory,
in which are employed 1856 teachers,
whose salaries amount to $28, 600 a year,
and nearly 1900 children are taught
The London Vegetarian Society gave
a dinner to about 100 ladies and gentle
men at the Health Exhibition the other
day. The object of the dinner, which
is one of series, was to show how an
ample and varied diet could be procured
without the use of any sort of animal
food. The menu included, among other
dishes, "Chestnutina de Lyon" soup.
pea fritter and fried onions. and barley
pudding. After the dinner DIR. Ridge
delivered short address, in which he
laid stress upon the fact that it had been
abundantly proved that vegetarian
diet was not only possible but profitable,
and expressed his conviction that the
excessive use of condiments was the
cause of large proportion OF dyspeptio
illness. 1t was also believed that vege-
tarians lived much longer than the flesh
eating members of the community.