News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-21
ODDS AND ENDS.

drops IN iowa are SAID to be III very
fine condition.
THE electric railway at Brighton, in
England, is a success.
The plague is carrying off hundreds OF
people in Asiatic Russia.
SINCE 1915 Arctic explorations have
cost the lives of $50 men.
BEN. BUTLER will be sixty-six years OF
age the day after election.
FLORIDA grape growers count upon
an income of 800 per acre.
THE average number of persons to
family in this country is five.
A GREAT many New Workers are said
to be pawning their diamonds.
NEARLY everybody in Washington
either boards or keeps boarders.
THE Georgia cotton factories are re-
ducing the wages of their operatives.
TIE son of Jem Mace. the pugilist,
holds evangelical services in London.
THE value of the minerals exported
from Australia last year was 60, ABS, sos.
NEARLY $4,000. 600 barrels of petro-
leum is stored in tanks in Pennsylvania.
Mrs. MARY OSBORN, aged ninety
eight, is the Oldest inhabitant of Port
land, Me.
$50 MORE has been added to the Q.
S. Treasury fund by a conscience-stricken
tax payer.
No LESS than $500 persons are
locked up in the jails and prisons of
New York.
THE first English woman to reach the
degree of Master of Arts, is Miss Mary
G. Dawes.
DURING the last six months there
have heen sixty-two suicides in San
Francisco.
THE New Hampshire Republican
State Convention will be held at Con-
cord, Sept. 2.
LIEUTENANT GREEDY has little son
who was born soon after his departure
for the Arctic.
NEARLY all the branches of trade are
dull in England, and there are many
strikes on hand.
CoUNTERFETTERs have been working
off spurious five cent pieces upon coun-
try storekeepers.
SOME of the medical professors of
Vienna are delivering lectures in the
English language.
THE crops in Washington Territory
are being destroyed rapidly by crickets
about an inch and a half long.
The worlds fair at Rome has been
postponed until 1894, as France has set
its heart on having one in 1889.
The agricultural statistics of Ireland,
continue to show a steady decrease in
the number of separate holdings.
CANADIAN hotel managers are lament
ing the decrease in the customary Ameri-
can tourist travel in that country.
IT appeared at his marriage, that the
real name of the apostle of the aesthetic
is Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wilde.
SEVEN hundred and ffty-nine women
registered before the late election, in
Wyoming Territory, and of these 700
voted.
IT is said that fifty Canadian news
papers have declared in favor of indie
pendence. Annexation finds but few
advocates.
The present numerical strength of
Free Masonry throughout the world is
placed at 13S, 065 lodges, with IA, 160,-
543 members.
BUFTERMnK has taken the place of
liquors in Iowa since the Prohibitory
law went into effect, and it is proving
very popular.
THERE is such a tremendous run of
salmon on the lower Columbia River
that the Gamers are unable to keep up
with the catch.
The dwellings and farms of widows,
minors, and spinsters are exempted
from taxation in several States of the
Mexican Republic.
ONE hundred and twenty-f five thou
sand francs has been subscribed at
Vienna for the erection of a monument
in honor of Mozart.
THE Augusta (Ga) Chronicle is in
formed by an eminent physician of that
city that cholera nevr penetrated the pine
regions of the South.
ARIzoNA's production of copper this
year is fifty per cent. greater than last
years yield, which amounted to seven
teen million pounds.
ALTHOUGH Frenchmen were the orig
inal frog-eaters, it is asserted that more
frogs are now eaten in New York alone
than in all of France.
DIR. SELTzER, in the Boston Medical
and Surgical Journal, recommends
DS6A tea IudUC very lOG Will ISu-pSpptI,
for delirium tremens.
THE new water supply for New York
city will cost from S25, 900, 600 to $780,
900, 000 The reservoir will supply
400, 0O0 coo gallons daily.
FOURTEEN million five hundred and
twenty-five thousand persons have
crossed the East River Bridge since its
opening fourteen months 40.
THE semi-annual dividends payable in
Boston in August aggregate 81, 759 1876,
against 50, 051, 1877 in February, and
S3,377, 633 in August last year.
A KNIFE GRINDER who died a short
time ago at Savoy left 500, 900 to be di-
vided between three parishes for the
clothing of poor school children.
THE taxes levied in Cuba the present
year amount to $50, 100000, while the
value of the sugar crop of the island for
the same time is only $4,000
DIR. SCHwEINFURTH, the celebrated
African traveller, has arrived at Berlin
from Cairo, to make arrangements for
tour through the Egyptian deserts.
THE Brazilian Government bill on
slavery, after being submitted to the
Council of State, has been introduced
into the Chamber of Deputies, and, if
possible, will be passed through both
chambers this session,
Eating POrterhOuse Now.