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


London's fashionable bonnet is
called the "Microbe."
Fashionable cats are now orna-
mented with collar and bells, so that |
puss makes music wherever she goes.
Since Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt !
knits real yarn stockings for her mil
lionaire husband, knitting stockings
will be the fashionable craze in fancy
work for the winter.
A Socialist Democrat has been cleo
ted to the German Reichstag in Ber-
lin by majority of 1000 over the
combined vote of the Liberals and
Conservatives. 1t is the first instance
of the kind.
The most juvenile case yet reported
occurred in Philadelphia between IA
years old girl and 81 year old man.
She claims that he deceived her by
saying that he lived in a brick house,
whereas he was brick-layer's appren-
tice.
A Minnesota minister was so fus-
trated by the excitement of his own
marriage preparations that he forgot
to procure license, and the guests
had TO wait until the county clerk
could be hunted up and the papers
obtained.
France has 213,1 children work.
ing in the industrial establishments
where the legal age to commence work
is after the completion of the 18th year,
though in certain Industries they are
permitted to enter shops two years
earlier. .., -..
At Newport dinner party the 9th
er day lady of IS wore a dress OF
nlectrit. blue. crimson stockings, blue
shoes, crimson fan and ribbons, with
bow of combined blue and crimson
in point lace cap, which was fasten-
ed with diamond pins in her snow
white hair.
Some people have no use for rail-
roads. A middle aged white man and
wife walked into Acworth, Ca, the
other afternoon to do little trading.
They stated that they left Rome a
little late that same morning and had
walked every step of the way. They
said that fellow was no account who
couldn't walk Is miles in day. The
man carried a gun and the woman
several articles.
A California paper is authority fol
the statement that redwood tree cut
in Santa Rosa County furnished all
the timber for the Baptist church in
Santa Rosa, one of the larges
churches in that section, the interior
of which is finished in wood, there
being no plastered walls. Sixty thou
sand Shingles were made from the tre'
after enough was taken for the church
There is great rush of visitors tt
see the Christie and Phillips oil wells
the greatest oil wells ever struck il
, teh world, in Butler county, Pa, 81
miles from Pittsburg. The cars ar
: crowded, and it is estimated that n
less than Is, 900 persons went to Sc
the great gushers in one week. Til
Christie wells production of nearl.
5000 barrels of oil in twenty-fou
hours gives it the first place in tn
history of petroleum as the creates
wonder of the oil trade.
For two centuries the entire indus
!, try of Mittenwald, town of Bava
f ria shut in by snow clad mountain
and dense forests, has been vioti1
! making, for which the surroundin
y forests furnish the best of materia
: Every yard is crossed by labyrint
i of ropes and poles, on which hur
dreds of violins are hung to try. EN
v cry kind of stringed instrument, frol
e the finest violin to the cheapest bal
G 10, is manufactured and shipped
70 large quantities to all parts Of the CT
It ilized world.
II Letters from Batavia state that IL
Il islands which sprang up last year
n fhe, time of che volcanic eruption hay
Il again been swallowed up by the sea.
t A young woman WHO ifetently hur
D herself in a Paris hotel, had 60, 0C
franks in bank noes in her pockr
d book.
e The agricultural classes Of Franc
81 81 have 5000, 100000 on deposit in tt
& government savings bank, on whit
It they are paid 4 per cent. interest.
. 1t is found that the educated n
tiyes of India do not live so long 6
the rest OF their countrymen. Th
s is attributed to the adoption
European customs. Late hours, hig
err living than previously accustome
to, and strong liquors are too mut
for the cultured Hindoo, whose ply
ique is naturally weak.
i A most horrible accident occurre
at Thomas coke ovens near Tune
q ton, West Virginia. Six ovens wei
/ burning and three men and a DC
g done the work. Just after dark til
|, three men pushed car Of coal alon
y y the tramway above the ovens. A
J. they passed the fourth oven tie be
e called their attention to crack in tt
d top. They stopped to examine
!, " when the whole caved in, carryin
e with it the men. Then cane a stlfle
|, cry and they were lost to sight in IL
g. mass Of white hot coke. The gasse
n it is thought, must have sti1ed the
IS instantly. Aid was summoned, bl
5; it was fully an hour before the owe
= could be emptied, and then not
f. trace of the men could be found.
- In the Virginia mountains the wal
IF of the cabins are neatly papered vii
?tt old newspapers.
~ ~ A huge vulture was shot at San
ID Paula, CAL, recently which weight
S. 80 pounds, and the spread of i
o. wings was nine feet and ten inches.
or A few days ago two children
st Mitchell county, N. G., were attack
9G by catamount. The youngest, ag'
> six, was instantly killed, and the oil
err sister, aged eight, so terribly lac
E. rated that she died.
Z A college paper is responsible f
~ the following: "What do you thir
n of Fielding?" asked a Boston girl
es a Harvard graduate. "Oh, its il
is portant, of course, but don't amour
- to anything without good batting"
n. English women outnumber men
he he the three professions of medicine, e.
he ucation and drama; and there g
nc | fbraa tipoaO ,,,on,- i