News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-07-17
ODDS AND ENDS.

UDDS AND ENDS.
A BARREL of rice weighs 600 pounds.
A BARREL of flour weighs 1876 pounds.
A BARREL of pork weighs 200 pounds.
A FIRKIN of butter weighs Sc pounds.
THE first steel pen was made in 1889.
Slow rivers flow four miles per hour.
A SPAN is ten and seven-eighth inches.
A HAND (horse measure) is four inches.
RAPID rivers flow seven miles per hour.
A RIFLE ball moves 900 miles per
hour.
WATCHES were first constructed in
I476.
PosToFFICEs were first established in
1864.
A STORM moves thirty six miles per
hour.
ELECTRICITY moves 2SS, 900 miles per
hour.
The first iron steamship was built in
1880.
THE first lucifer match was made in
1909.
GOLD was discovered in California in
1913.
THE first horse railroad was built in
1861.
THERE are sixty Catholic churches in
Montreal.
QUEEN VICTORIA has nineteen grand
daughters.
GLASS floors are being laid in the
stores of Paris.
GREAT Britain has 100000 more fe-
males than males,
A MoBRInToN ARK. lady is the widow
of eleven husbands.
THE rife carried by John Brown is
owned in Hagerstown, Md.
A PARIS restaurant advertises Gamer
lean pumpkin pie speciality"
THE pictures of MISSIONER exhibited
in Paris are insured for 100000.
A PROJECT is started to establish an
American medical college in Japan.
IN LUBEc, Me-, 4,340,00O boxes of
''sardines" were put up last season.
THE stenographic reports for the Con-
greSsiond Record cost $50, 200 year.
The people of the Northwest Terri
tory are introducing the sheep industry.
LONDON is the only large city in the
old world that doesn't possess a univer-
sity.
JEWS have been so prosecuted in Linn
erick lately that numbers have left the
city.
TIE National Library of France boasts
a million more books than that of Eng
land.
A GEORGIA paper is inclined to believe
that the fancy for Jersey cattle is a
craze.
The mode in Paris of disposing of
babies is to leave them under a seat in
church.
AN exchange wants to know if poets
four-year-old boy ought to be called a
sonnet.
THE Bartholdi Statue is completed.
France will detail ship to convey it to
America.
The cultivation of hops is urged upon
the farmers of Colorado by the press of
that State.
The Grand Duke of Hesse- Darmstadt |
rules over a domain of half the size of |
Connecticut.
IT COSTS not less than $50, 200, OOO |
annually to support the dogs of the |
United States.
A REWARD of merit for Mexican school
boys is to allow them to smoke cigars
while studying.
A RICH Englishman has introduced
Venetian gondola with native Condo
lier on the Thames.
IT is said that among all the mormon
converts at Salt Lake there is not sim
gle French woman.
A WATER SPOUT that burst recently in
Texas caused the great Trinity River to
run up stream all day.
OLD Thomas Allen, survivor of the
Balaklava Charge, died the other day in
a poorhouse in London.
THE 26th of June is great day in Old
England. The annual Rat Catchers'
Festival occurs then.
MIR. VINToN, the artist, has been
selected by the city of Boston to paint
the portrait of Wendell Phillips.
WHEN but seventeen, De Lesseps
acted consul at Cronstadt, and filled
several diplomatic posts.
EACH of the special performances in
Munich before the King of Bavaria, as
sole auditor, cost over $4,000.
The directors of the Chicago Driving
Park have resolved that hereafter races
shall be run there on Sunday.
THERE is bird in California which, it
is said, sets to screaming two or three
days before rain commences.
THERE are thirty-six thousand islands
in Lake Superior, according to Mr..
Cabot of the Agassiz Expedition.
THE spruce trees of Vermont are dy-
ing from some mysterious disease and
landowners are becoming uneasy.
THE London Religious Tract Society
last year issued 30,000,0"O tracts, and
its ''trade receipts" were $948, 155.
QUEEN VICTORIA is the person to whom
the credit of urging the employment of
women in telegraph offices is due.
A FRENCHMAN who has made the pill
grimage to Mecca estimates the pilgrims
at 60, 900 and the camels at 1000.
FRANCE has given the city of Algiers
institutions. The Town Coun-
Gil met for the first time On May 20.
VISITORS pay one franc to enter where
the Bartholdi statue stands, the francs
being to pay its passage to America.
WALTER BEsANT says that story tell
ing is an art, but it can be practiced
only by those having the original gift.
TEMPERANCE men in England COM
plain that at bars ginger ale costs twice
as much as the same quantity of beer.
TWENTY ONE thousand dollars for free
beds have been left to the Bridgeport
Conn. Hospital by Francis E. Pomeroy.
THE dairy exports for the wear ending