News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-06
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A CASE has been found in Chicago
where woman was paying a pawn
broker $58 per year for the use of S25.
This was paying pretty dearly for the
whistle.
IHE two islands in the Straits of Sun
da, Steers and Calmeyer, which sprang
up last year at the time of the Krakatoa
eruption, have again been swallowed up
by the sea.
A PROPOSITION to give the present
Lord Mayor of London a second term
was promptly snuffed out by that high
functionary, who seems to have had
quite enough of it.
IT is calculated that the Southern
States, owing to the fine crops there,
will reduce their purchase of foodstuff
this year from $175, ,0OQ, 600 or $500, eco, :
600 TO tesSthan $f25, ooo,000.
A CARRIAGE is being built for EN-
peror William, the whole upper portion
of which is to be constructed of glass,
and which is to enable the monarch to
attend manoeuvres, parades, and other
public occasions in unfavorable weather.
BLANoH K. BRUCE, Register of the
United States Treasury, is handsome,
dignjfied coiored man. His wife is beau
tiful and almost white in color. She
was formerly school teacher, and two
of her sisters are still employed in that
capacity in Indianapolis.
In Missouri there is lake which is
unique. It possesses a beach largely
composed of lead sand. This has been
produced by the gradual breaking down
of bank containing veins of galena.
The water is said to be poisonous, and
no fishes are ever found near the beach.
IT is said that there are four unique
mountains in Lower California, two OF
alum, one of alum and sulphur mixed,
and one of alum. The alum and sui
phur are almost chemically pure. 1t is
estimated that in these mountains there
are 100000, 900 tons of alum and 1,0O0,-
900 tons of sulphur.
AT one time, when Louis Jennings
was the night editor of the New York
Times, he reached the office to find that
not line of editorial copy had been
prepared and not an editorial writer was
in the Office. He calmly sat down, Sc
lected variety of topics and wrote four
columns of editorials.
Miss MILDLY MORGAN, the famous live
stock reporter, has been regularly en-
ployed in the Times and Herald for
number of years past, and is recognized
as the best authority on live stock in
the world. She purchased Victor
EmanuePs stud of horses for him and
received diamond-studded watch as an
evidence of his regard.
THE dreadful discovery has been made
at Toulouse that a woman supposed to
have died of cholera was inferred alive.
The coffin was temporarily placed in a
deed house, and when taken up again it
was found that the position of the body
had changed. Examination amply con-
firmed the suspicion. 1t is to be feared
that this a frequent event in panics
about disease.
THE Buenos AyreS Standard says the
saladeros of Uruguay have slaughtered
about 100000 head of cattle up to the
end of June. This means $16, 100000
to the country on that item alone. To
this has to be added half a million hides
of animals slaughtered for consumption,
and the wool and produce of about $15,-
coo, 900 sheep; all this in the hands of
about 500,000 people.
A WESTERN paper says that the work
houses and prisons of the West are grad
ually filling up with the kids sent out
there by the New York philanthropists
to find homes and become goody good.
These boys are sent West with the best
of motives, and if they go to the bad it
is to be sadly regretted. They would
be wicked all their lives unless separated
from their evil associates in the East.