News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

"GAzE UPON YoNDER EVENING star
and swear to be true while its light shall
shine Swear, my love! Swear by
Venus !" exclaimed a youth in impas-
stoned accents to one of the Vassar
girls. "How stupid you are, y she an
swered. "That is not Venus. The right
ascension of Venus this month is 15h.
9m.; her declination is II degrees 25m.
south, and her diameter is 10.2."
"THE ONLY MIsGIvING l HAD when L
left the cutter" says Lieut.. Rhodes, the
Gay Head hero, ''was about my baby.
You didn't know that I had one, did
you? He is a bright little boy about
two years old. His mother died some
time ago, and as I left in the boat L
called out to the captain to look out for
him if anything happened to me-"
| SALLY MALLORY is TO HAVE her PEN
sion raised from 90 rnontl, tn e9o n
month. She is the widow of a soldier
of the Revolutionary and 1872 wars. A
number of Senators thought this would
make others feel that they had been un-
Justly treated, but one who knew about
the case said it was altogether unique.
Sally Mallory is 80 years old and totally
helpless, having been supported until
lately by an adopted SOD, who is now 70
and unable to do any more for her.
ONE KLEIN INDUCED MoCUE TO drink 3
pints of whisky on wager, at San An
tonic, Texas, The feat proved fatal.
McCue's widow sued Klein for damages,
and got verdict for So, 900. On appeal,
the Supreme Court confirms the jury's
conclusion. The ruling was that, as the
drinker was so intoxicated as to be in
capable of consent at the time of swal-
lowing the third and killing pint, the
an who made him do it was respon-
sible.
| A MOST UNFORTUNATE MAN is Will
liam King. Upon being converted IN q
revival meeting in Caldwell, Ky, he
arose and confessed that he had robbed
a store in 1868 of $500 worth of goods.
He went to the proprietor the next day
and paid the amount, with 20 years in
terest, but was Immediately arrested for
the theft, and now languishes in Jail.
"THE SILENT VoN MoLTKE, it is said,
was once seated in railroad carriage
with his aid de-camp, when another Off
Ger, crowding past him to get out, said:
"Pardon me" :" and a few moments later,
coming in and passing his chief again,
| - hn aIl
marshal, annoyed at such prodigal waste
of verbiage, turned to his aide and
growled: '"That chatterer !"
IT is ESTIMATED THAT the United States
Senate is the wealthiest deliberative body
in the world, the seventy-six members of
that body representing $3.50, 100000.
INTHE UNITED STATES to-day, accord
ing to the last census, there are loo sewing
machine establishments, with an invested
capital of $12, sol, $50, employing 9,283
persons, to whom are annually paid in
wages, 81, 636, ,O99. 9.z--=--
Mrs. MYRA CLARK GAINES, a very
old woman, after winning one-half or
thereabouts of New Orleans after fifty
years litigation to get her property, is
living in Washington in almost strait
ened circumstances. She lives in
furnished rooms and supports herself,
her daughter-in-law and two grand
children on the 500 month pension she
receives rs widow of Gen. Gaines.
SINCE 1882 WHEN THE GREAT flood
took place, until last year, no flood III
Ohio has brought destitution to any
great number of people. During that
period towns have been built on low
land all along the river, and in the great
cities all the low land has been built
over, SO that the losses are frightful.
Rev. DIR. FULTON, OF BROOKLYN, does
not like theatres. He says: 'Place me
upon polar iceberg, where no verdure
greets the eye, where naught but the
white bears growl can be heard; let me
live where no friend shall cheer me with
smile; bar me in prison; but do not,
oh, do not compel me to mingle with
the ungodly crowd of theatre.
UNDER THE LAWS LIMITING the lia-
bility of employers, the steamship COM
pany which owned the wrecked City Of
Columbus will escape all damages, and
the Captain must become the scapegoat
for the young pilot and second mate
who was only 21 years of age. and coulo
not legally take charge of the vessel al
the point where the captain retired tt
his stateroom, leaving him in command
LONDON Truth SAYS: ''Lord Gar
movie wrote to Miss Fortescue that one
} reason for breaking off the engagement
, was that the Duke of Richmond ha(
) said she could not be received at court.
2 Apropos of this Truth taunts the Duke o
e Richmond with being the descendant o
the i1egitimate offspring of Charles II.
and French woman, Madame Carewen
q The LUoKIEsr MAN ON board tn
ill-fated City of Columbus was the on
rescued by the tug Speedwell. He ha'
a baggage check in his pocket, and whel
the tug picked up a floating trunk h
coolly produced his check and claimet
his baggage. AS there was correspond
. ing check on the trunk his claim was III
= disputable.
9 HENRY WARD BEEoHER, who has
>. habit of giving good advice incidental
r in his sermons, made a remark Sunda
q which certain unhappy Christians migE
well lay to heart. He declared that it
J. better to burn down church than
n quarrel in it; and that calling counc
a will not settle the difficulty.
NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION RATES in Tia
Argentine Republic are little mixet
y The Buenos Ayres Herald carries tn
le paragraph at its head: ''Price for tn
rs edition, Sc gold a year, or $3.50 currenc,
s. foreign postage extra"
81 The RUBBER INDUSTRY IN THE Gnitt
70 States has no rival in foreign countrie
III There is something like $75, 900, 900 i
vested in the business of manufacture
rubber goods, $4,000, 900 of which
confined to the rubber boot and shoe i
q dustry. The total number of employe
ID is placed at Is, 900, and the total numb
IN of factories at 120.
,e AN Iowa CONGRESSMAN WHO
m divorced from his wife, called on S
te Louis friend who invited him to dil
IN with him. He consented to do so, wht
st the man continued "By the way, the
,e is to be a marriage at our church
D. night and we expect to attend TT