News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-18
NOTE AND COMMENT.


A western paper says that the
farmers are kept awake nights now
by the noise made by the corn, it
grows so fast this hot weather.
Twenty young ladies of Carthage,
Mo-, are furnishing inspiration to the
Republican campaign. They have ar
ranged themselves into a campaign
Republican glee club.
A Mississipian ate 100 good sized
peaches the other day, just to see
how many he could devour, and two
days later he was carried to the Gem
etery.
A bill posted on a wall in village
in the west announces that ga lecture
will be delivered in the open air, and
a collection made at the door to de-
fray expenses"
A petition from railroad authorities
has been received at the treasury de-
partment at Washington, asking that
the quarantine on the Mexican border
be raised. 1t is not probable that
the request will be granted during the
prevalence of yellow fever in western
Mexico.
Hand made envelopes sold for five
cents apiece at first, but now machines
turn them out so that 1000 may be
had for so cents.
The department of agriculture re-
ports cotton suffering from drouth.
The yield of winter wheat is above
the average. 1t is thought the spring
wheat crop will amount to OO,0O0,-
900 bushels. The corn crop is in bet
ter condition than in any September
since 1880, and the yield will be the
largest ever reported. Good crops of
oats, barley and rye are indicated.
The following knotty question comes
from an old gentleman IS years old,
who lives in Tolland, Conn. We sup
pose there is some answer to it, for
we cannot believe that a man at this
time of life would wilfully deceive
trusting public. The question is this:
If man and boy can build table
and q chair in five days, and man
and two boys a table and two chairs
in six days, how long would it take
man and three boys to build two ia
blcs and seven chairs?
The American Missionary Associa-
ton, which closes its fiscal year Sept.
80, is threatened with debt of $780,
600. Its work is at the south among
the negroes, and at the west among
the Indians and Chinese. The work
has grown so on its hands as to de-
mand 81 1000 per day for its proper
support.
In q rock that is washed by the sea
near Boulogne, a grotto from eight to
ten metres high has been discovered.
Human bones have been found in it
as we'll as ancient earthenware, mark
ed with allegorical figures, and coins
which are believed to have been struck
by the early Gauls.
Sergeant Brainard is said to be the
originator Of practical joke at the
place nearest the North Pole ever
reached by man. He carved his name
in rock at that point and ''for the
fun of the thing" added an advertise
ment of Plantation Bitters that he
had noticed on the rocks all over the
i United States. The next explorer
will behold the mark of the American.
i Wheat is cheaper now than it has
been for century in England. In
the first half Of the present year the
average price in the markets there, as
recorded weekly in the London Ga
zette, was only FL lis. Sd. per quarter.
We have to go back to 1880 to find as
low a price. In the interval of 104
years the quarter has only twice been
under f.. The cultivation of wheat
has almost ceased in Ireland and Scot.
land, has greatly diminished in the
western part of England, and is steadi-
ly declining even in the eastern.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and ST.
Paul railway will lose in the Chippe.
wa Valley half a million dollars worth
of property by the recent food. The
lumber companies all lose heavily, but
the heaviest losers are the poor PEG.
pie, whose homes are swept away
The newspaper offices are all flooded
: and no papers are issued. A man
named Ehler was drowned while trying
to rescue his sick wife. The east and
west sides of the Chippewa are cut of
from communication with each other
except by way Of Omaha bridge, foul
miles up the river. Fifteen buildings
, on the Chippewa Falls side of the
river and twenty on the other side
have been carried away. The loss
will not be less than 81 900, 900.
An English doctor has been attend.
ing a patient for several years, and
= yet has never seen his patient. The
+ latter believes that he has an 9soph-
; agus of peculiar construction, and
that he is accordingly liable at any
, moment to be choked. That help
may be at hand whenever any sudden
emergency may occur, he has ply
, stefan in the house night and day.
! The physician being human must
: needs take his walks abroad, and il
f becomes necessary to provide sub
stitute for him two hours day. Ac.
, cordingly doctor attends regularly
, from II to 2, fills up his time by dis
posing of an admirable lunch, anG
finds the gold and silver coin, in theil
usual happy combination, neatly put
3 by the side of his plate in tissue pa.
per. Up to the present date he has
never had the pleasure of exchanging
words with his interesting patient.
The ingenuity displayed by West
Point cadets is wonderful. A lot o.
them sent down to New York anC
, got a billiard table, which they sue
! ceeded in getting up in the coal cellar
undetected, and had the enjoyment O
it nearly three months. The officers
; got wind of it finally, and organized
J plan to surprise the whole gang ant
o put them in limbo. On the night o
| the proposed raid the officers congrat
ulated themselves that they would
f bag the whole party; they saw thu
lights from the billiard cellar CLEAN
ing brightly. They made rush 70
the door, which yielded, unexpected
e ly, and they all tumbIed into the room
D in bunch. When they had picked
4 themselves up and rubbed their shin'
III al.