News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-13
ODDS AND ENDS.

SEvEN-PoUND sage hens are killed in
Nevada.
CHICAGO boasts a population of
610.323.
CAYENNE pepper is a popular remedy
for colds.
GENERAL BUTLER smokes fifteen CT
gars day.
VIENNA has an International Fisheries
Exhibition.
BELvA LOCKWOOD is said to be an ex-
pert rifle shot
PORTLAND, Ore, has lost 81, 900, 900
by fires this year.
| HE population of Paris, according to
recent returns, is 2,239,929
RABBITS damage Australia to the ex-
tent OF $40, 900, 900 per year.
| The dentist to the court of Italy is an
American, Dr. Chamberlain.
The number of Quakers in the United
States is put down at 1905
BALTIMORE boasts more pretty young
girls than she has had for years.
| BARONESS BURDETT- Courts is in failing
health, and rarely enters society.
A GEORGETOWN, KY, duck has three
legs and feet, all fully developed.
The Russians are reducing their war
expenditures by 81, 500, 600 yearly.
OPIUM has increased twenty-five per
cent. in price since the Chinese war.
A GEORGIA boy of eleven years is
serving term in prison for murder.
QUAIL are now SO abundant in Cali
fornia that they throng the roadways.
AN Alabama farmer obtained eight
gallons of molasses from 100 water
melons.
JOHANN STRAUSS has celebrated his
fortieth anniversary as a director in
Vienna.
ONE single oyster will produce 1885,
900, 900 young oysters in the course of
one year.
The province of Quebec will celebrate
November 6 as day of Thanksgiving
this year.
THE American colony in Paris is
divided against itself and is already
tottering.
Two HUNDRED cars are now in use
transporting fresh fruit from California
i to the East
SANTA BARBARA exhibits an onion
weighing one pound and fourteen and
half ounces.
DURING a review at Berne, soldier
stepped from the ranks and shot himself
dead. Crazy.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has no male de-
scendant to bear his name, although
twice married.
A POPULAR sport in Red Bluff, on the
Pacific coast, is fishing for rats with
hook and line.
A New YORK artist exhibits a study
from still life and the name of it is ga
Tramp at Work.
ONE grain of Dakota wheat in three
years produced two bushels of grain.
This is authentic.
Tue ightest, pleasantest article in the
world is said by Englishmen to be the
American buggy.
THERE is tree in California $50 feet
high and 81 feet in circumference at the
base of the trunk.
IT is asserted that about third of the
banking done in the world is done in
the British empire.
WILLIAM MILLER is Wisconsin farm
err who has made 81 900, 900 out of the
products of the farm.
HIRAM GRUBLER, miser in Ringers
town, Pa, has become insane over the
loss, by theft, of 800.
HUNDREDS of German children are
christened Elsa now in honor of Wag-
ner's Lohengrin heroine.
WILD geese are passing south a month
earlier than usual and this is said to be
indicative of an early winter.
PEOPLE who have buffalo robes would
do we'll to hold on to them. They will
soon be valuable as curiosities.
The Senate House at Kingston, N. Y,
was erected in 1876, and is the oldest
public buildi8g in the country.
LIEUTENANT ScHwATKA is going to
employ himself, after his arctic work,
In cattle raising in the Aleutian Islands.
THERE is such a glut of apples in
crops a. low -oight-eents per -bstsfsei.-
TIE Temperance societies of New
York will celebrate Father Mathews
birthday anniversary with great enthu-
siasm.
THE Episcopal denomination has been
growing very rapidly in Scotland during
the past thirty years, having gained over
80, 900 members.
The cotton seed which is shipped
from the Mississippi Valley to Europe
in a crude state comes back to the South
as pure olive oil. -.
The first persons in the world to pro-
test against negro slavery in America
were the English colonists at German
town as early as 1858.
A MAN in Greenville, s. c., has been
blind for years, yet drives alone in q
buggy, and runs both a sawmili and a
gin mili-that is. a cotton gin mill.
AFTER December l the Germans will
be taxed for insurance purposes. The
money is to be given to sick and disabled
workmen and for the burial of those who
die.