News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-01
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

SPAN PRODUCES ABOUT 100, 900 tons OF
lead in a year, one-sixth more than
America, which comes next on the list,
while Germany follows with 80, OOO.
A BUFFALO PHYSICIAN LAYS THE large
increase in the number of midgets and
dwarfs in the past fifty years to the con-
sumption of nicotine by fathers VINO
smoke excessively,
THE DOMINION ALLIANCE FOR THE
suppression of the liquor traffic has IS
sued circular urging immediate aglta-
ton for the adoption of the Scott act In
every county in the Dominion.
| In CHINA, so LONG RESIDENT OF that
country says, son is obliged to divorce
his wife if she displeases his parents.
Mother-in -in-law means something in China,
and the young wives soon find 1t out.
THE MINES OF THE BLACK Hills, in
Dakota, have mined and milled 1 ,512, OBJ
tons of gold ore, yielding $40, ,434, 116,
an average of only $5.78 per ton, making
profit Of, and paying in dividends,
SO, 142, 500.
THE STATISTICS SHOW THAT there are
in the United States physicians and sur
geons of all classes, schools and qualifi-
cations, about 60O0O; and estimating
our population at 55,O00,000, there is
one to every 900.
Mr.. CHILDs' PRIVATE SECRETARY says
that as many as 200 begging letters are
received in one day, and the total of the
applications for money made to the
Ledger publisher by letter often aver
ages $50, 900 day.
The BUTCHERS OF New York are try
ing to discontinue the transportation
from Chicago and other Western cities
of dressed cattle. The butchers say
that the meat is tainted when it reaches
the city, and unfit to eat.
THERE Is PHYSICIAN IN Rochester
whose heart makes only twenty-six pull
sations a minute. He is A years old,
and enjoys excellent health. The aver
age for healthy men is sixty-fve heart
beats to the minute.
A SINGULAR ACCIDENT HAPPENED
LATELY at mill in Nashville, Tenn. A
workman was thrown toward circular
saw, and thinking he would strike it,
died from fright. When picked up he
was dead, but there was no sign of
bruise on his body.
On JAN. l, 1882, THE INHABITANTS of
Russia numbered 81, 118, ,514, living in
sixty-three provinces and eleven dis
tricts. During the year 1881 there we're
4,043, 1853 births and 1896, 43S deaths
registered, the growth of the popula-
ton being 1877, 425 inhabitants.
ABOUT $50 MILES NORTH OF Missoula,
Montana, region has been discovered
by an exploring party in which are
twenty-five cascades over 500 feet in
height, and true glacier with mile
frontage and 500 feet fall. 1t is said to
be a more wonderful region than the
Yellowstone.
Col. CAIKINs, A WAR DEMOCRAT, and
editor of the Milwaukee Sunday IeLe-
gram, the Western organ of the Grand
Army of the Republic, says it is not true
that the G. A. r. is political organiza-
ton. Politics is tabooed in the order,
and any attempt to introduce it would
be frowned down at once.
ANY PERSON WHO is THE head of
family or who has arrived at the age OF
twenty one years, and is citizen of the
United States or has filed his declara-
ton of intention to become such, is en-
titled to enter one-quarter section or
less quantity of unappropriated land
under the Homestead laws.
GEORGE WARRELL, OF MINNESOTA,
went to be married. He found his pro-
gress impeded by river swollen by the
=K,ri,les floods. He SWAN the stream, and
then on raft towed over his clothes
and two saddles, one of them his we'd
ding present to the bride. Then the
horses were guided across, and the we'd
ding was celebrated.
They ARE HAVING TROUBLE IN Texas
over man who has just received two
sentences, one of fifty years imprison-
ment, and the other to be hanged. They
want to hang him now, but the man
claims that he ought to. serve his term
first, as that sentence was pronounced
prior to the one of hanging.
In SPEAKING OF THE TEMPERANCE
question the New York Hour says
There can be no doubt that the liquor
bill of the Republic is far larger than is
desirable; but it can hardly be main
tanned that the present generation is
more Incorporate than that which pre-
ceded it. Outside of the great cities there
is little inebriety. As a class, the farm
ers and the farm laborers lead lives of
very great sobriety.