News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-16
ODDS AND ENDS,

VICTOR HUGO denies report that he
is to visit America.
TURIN now makes the finest church
organs in Europe.
BEAUTIFUL fish fossils are found in
Umatilla county, OregoE.
TIE Duke of Argyll says the world is
ten nIlion years old.
CORRECT returns show that drunken
ness Is decreasing in England.
LoTs OF English noblemen are coming
over to ''the States" this fall
Mr.. ToUReEE, of the Continent has
recovered and is on the stump.
HE late Senator Anthony's estate
proves to be worth about $500, 900.
PRoF. MosELEY has discovered beast,
or Mollusk, which has Il, COO eyes,
VERMONT school teachers are prohib-
tied by law from the use of tobacco,
HE Pennsylvania State Fair offers
SZUO premium for homemade dresses.
HE cholera has created a great de-.
mand for mineral water in Europe.
HERE is an unprecedented mortality
among the New York police force this
year.
BETTING, next to drinking, is said to
be tAe greatest cause of crime in Eng
laRd.
DURING forty-eight hours last week
there were forty-tive suicides in st,
Louis. wv
a GEORGIA man run a small brier in
effects.
New York authorities are making a
vigorous war on dealers in oleomar-
garine.
Run lighted the streets of Decatur.
H., through the payment of license fees
by dealers.
Mr.. WALTON HALL owns Daniel Web
-ster's Marshfieid estate, which is now
stock farm.
The study of type-writing has been
introduced IL some of the public schools
in Chicago.
A 81. LOUIS dry goods merchant fills
I'VE pages OF a daily newspaper with his
advertisement.
"Lo,' TgE poor Indian, will draw
50, 400, 3S9 from Uncle Sam for his sup
port this year.
The Garfield Memorial window at
Williams College has been finished at a
cost of So, 645.
THE wealthiest United States Senator
Is James s. Fair, vino is worth forty
million dollars.
DBUsED burial grounds in England
are being converted into places OF recre-
alton for the living.
HARRY CoURTANE, not long ago a
popular American actor, is ragged beg
gar in London. Rum.
MosT Of the English commercial
firms who adopted the electric light
have gone back to gas.
UNDERGRADUATES at Oxford and Cam
bridge. Eng, are engaged in an attempt
TO abolish the title OF esquire.
HE Europeans, or white men, in
China number fewer than 10, 900, or one
to about every 25, 900 natives.
TIE population of Los Angeles, Cal.
has increased from Il, 900 by the census
OF 1880 to $4,000 at the present date.
AMERICAN beef is now sold as Scotch
IN the English market, and brings four
cents more per pound ON that account.
The Southern States of 1861 had a
million more dwellings and 800 600
more families In 1880 than they had in
1860.
IT is related that at Bowling Green.
Ky, man 80 years old drove fifteen
miles to see a circus, and enjoyed it
hugely.
THE italian Government is quietly
but actively completing the defensive
system of fertilization on its northern
frontier.
KING JOHN of Abyssinia has deter
mined TO abolish slavery, and has pro-
hibited the slave traffic in his do
minions.
A KEY said to be capable of opening
y, 500 different patent lever locks is dis
played at the WOlverhampton Exhibit
ton, England.
On the strength of judicial decision
that the act is legal, many Philadel-
phians are cutting the telegraph wires
crossing the roofs of their houses.
The couceit of Kansas man is to re- |
move the tombstones from his family
burial plot to the roof of his house,
where they stand in row 81 seven along
the ridgepole.