News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-13
ODDS AND ENDS.
BERLIN had 500 fires last year.

cago.
GLAsGow is to have college for
women.
JUVENILE intemperance is increasing
in England.
ORGAN GRINDERS have been banished
| from Paris.
THE number of divorces in Scotland
is increasing.
THE shipbuilding trade on the Clyde
is improving.
New HAMPSHIRE now prohibits the
sale of toy pistols.
In 10 colleges of the U. S. there are
35, 900 students.
LOUISE MICHEL, in prison, is writing
stories for children.
The Paris pawn shops are practically
government offices.
THERE are $4,000 more women than
men in Massachusetts.
VICTOR HUGO is still considered the
best talker in Paris.
AN apparatus for cooking by electricity
is the latest invention.
NEW LONDON, Conn, imposes tax
upon commercial travellers.
CAPT PAUL BoYToN, the lone voy-
age, has Just been married.
A WOMAN has Just died in ireland who
worked as laborer 80 years.
MoNTANA's cattle interests are esti-
mated to be worth $14, 500. 600.
THE mourning for the late Queen Of
Madagascar lasted two months.
THERE is a man in the Mississippi
Legislature named Christmas.
Mrs. MARY CARROLL, aged 50, is q
switch-tender near Macon, Ga.
THE United States Patent Office pays
the Government large profit
Francis MURPHY has made 2, 500 Bos-
tonian converts to temperance.
THERE are over 1,0o0 machinists and
iron workers idle in Milwaukee.
THERE are said to be II, 1000 one
| legged men in the United States.
BLooDHoUNDs are still used in Texas
for capturing escaped criminals.
HARRISON, the boy preacher, is re.
ceiving 800 week In st. Louis.
FATAL cases of trichinosis have &C.
Cured in Michigan and Indiana.
The total cost of the milk supply of
Boston is about So, 500, 900 year.
44S, 93S pounds of opium were i'm
ported into this country last year.
THE Modoc tribe of Indians now num-
bers but 26 families of LOG persons.
JUDGE BDDLE in Philadelphia de-
cides that pool-selling is gambling.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the new French loan
are four times as large as the loan.
KANSAS last year produced 107, $50
pounds Of cotton, valued at 1850.
THE wife of a Chamberlain, S. c.,
street car driver is worth 100000.
THE Buffalo breakwater is 1891 feet
long, and is to be 5000 feet longer.
QUEEN VICTORIA, it is said, saves an
nually from her allowance $500, 600.
The schools in Paris are now visited
twice a month by medical inspectors.
A SCIENTIST who has studied says that
more male children die than females.
A Boston woman has discarded her
pug dog and now pets her husband.
WENDELL PHILLIPS made his will
about three weeks before his death.
NEW YORK STATE expended 81, $685.
GIL on its public schools during 1888.
Two MEMBERS of a party of burglars
apprehended in London were women.
ROCHESTER, n. Y, has twelve banks,
with aggregate resources of S29, 460. $40.
LAST years Cape diamond export
value is put down at nearly S14, 000,0 900.
OF the 113 members of the Iowa
Legislature four are natives of the State.
A KANSAS jury rendered this verdict
death by hanging-round a rum shop"
A LADY, in London Truth, says the
noses of English ladies are deteriorting.
EASTERN Montana will this spring re-
ceive 35, GOO head of cattle from Texas.
THE Knights of Labor have local as
semblies in over thirty counties of Kan
sas.
A WRITER saws that the American~tos
day is not the bilious man of fifty Years
ago.
OF 325 members in the United States
House of Representatives 245 are law
yers.
A FIvE-YEAR- OLD child at Wappinger
Falls, N. Y, was choked to death by a
bean.
THE Elevated Railroad bill for Boston
passed the Massachusetts House, 124
to IS.
Coon skins are used for money in
Kentucky, their value being fifty cents
each.
LORD BALTIMoRE's landing-place in
Maryland Is to have a SO, 600 monu-
ment.
NIHILIsTIc activity is said to be in
creasing among the upper classes in
Russia.
Doe-RACINe is a popular sport in Phila-
delphia. The distance is from 100 to
500 yards.
A VIOLENT earthquake occurred at
Bitlis, Turkey, destroying a number of
buildings.
THE biennial amendment was passed
by the Massachusetts Senate by a vote
of % to 4.
A FEW days ago the lessees of the
Mississippi Penitentiary paid the State
S33, ga. 80.
MORE than 1,5OO, 900 pounds of butter
were shipped from Manchester, Iowa,
during 1888.
B. P. SHILLABER, better known as
Mrs. Darlington, is now over seventy
years of age.
Four HUNDRED women of Boston,
signed a remonstrance against further
suffrage to women.
BEANS are being received from France
and Italy, and they compete actively
with the American.
SINCE August, sixteen vessels have
been lost from Gloucester, Mass, carry
ing down 1876 men.
SOME 2, 1862 new buildings were erected
in Baltimore in 1888, at an aggregate
cost of about SO, 100000.
GOVERNOR WALLER, of Conn, thinks |
the country schools are not so good as
they were thirty years ago.
Do LEWIS says American women need |
sunshine, and not paint and powder to |
improve their compilations.
A BILL in the English House of Lords |
is to afford better protection against the
of diseased cattle.
The United States imported from
Germany last year two and quarter
million dollars worth of buttons.
A PHYSICIAN in Lawrence, Mass, had |
nine patients whose illness was from
1ver-exertion In skating Kinks.
IN Elk County, Pa, 1000 acres of
timber are destroyed every year to fur
lish bark for tanning purposes.
THERE is a laundry department to
Trinity Church, Boston. The object is
10 provide work for needy women.
REAL ESTATE in the flooded districts
mas been deprecated in value % per
cent. outside of damage to buildings.
The Paris artisans are reported to be
making life as much burden as they
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