News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
ODDS AND ENDS.

ITALY is about to SEM out folar GA
petition.
On January &c, 1884, Dakota had IT'S
postofices.
KENrUoKr's hemp crop will be fail
ure this year.
CoUNrERFE1T 25-cent pieces are plenh-
full in Boston.
BANGOR. Me-, has again voted down
STANDARD" time.
South CAROLINA has 613 lunatlcs IN
her asylums.
NEAL Dow, the temperance reformer.
is so years old.
PocAHoNTAs is to have monumentln
jamestown, Va.
A FISH storm recently occurred near
Lancaster, S. G.
FIVE hundred artists now have studios
in New York City.
In Brooklyn $500 stores are licensed
to sell kerosene.
Four churches in Montreal now use
the electric light.
THIS country uses 3O,000,O00,000
clothes pins yearly.
MASSACHUSETTS courts imposed As, 876
sentences last year.
INoENpIAR1sM in Japan is assuming
frightful dimensions.
SAwNILLs were first used in Europe in
the Fifteenth century.
The Chinese written language consists
of 100, 900 characters.
THE cost of the German Army now
reaches SIG, 100000
CHICAGO has 1921 pupils and l, 178
teachers in her schools.
THE temper of steel is regulated by
the percentage of carbon.
CUNNING for. sea fowl is excellent In
the bays OF Long Island.
THE population of Cochin, China, is
about million and half.
ONE of Boston's dog-catchers killed
4,052 CANNES in five years.
CALIFORNIA exports large number OF
bees to France every year.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR lodges are increas-
ing all over the country.
THE beet root sugar manufacture is
being overdone in Germany.
THE State of New Jersey is by law to
have an Arbor Day in April.
The deaths from an@sthetics in Eng
land in 1888 were only ID.
BOSTON pays $4,311. S02 in semi
annual dividends this month.
In SO years Englands daily papers |
have increased from IA to 179.
CHICAGO contributed $40, 900 for the |
sufferers from the Ohio flood.
The cattle and stock interests OF len |
nessee amount to 5000, 900, 600.
EX-SENATOR MITCHELL is called the
handsomest man in Washington.
A CHINAMAN with leprosy in its worst |
form was found in San Francisco.
THE first sleigh seen in Santa Fe, n.
NJ, drove around the plaza lately.
New YORK friends of Carl Schurz are |
raising fund of $4,000 for him.
NAPLES hotels charge one dollar for a
piece of ice worth cent in America.
FIFTY thousand dollars has been re-
fused for the three-year-old Leonatus.
AT Bisbee, Arizona, five men convict
ed of murder were executed together.
LONDON has twenty-eight daily jour
nails, 524 weeklies and 600 magazines.
OF the 1 ,50O, 900 Masons in the world |
one-half are on this side of the Atlantic. |
In Plainfeld, N. J., over 1000 have |
agreed not to touch intoxicating liquors. |
AT Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is Society |
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Board |
ers.
The treet-Cleaning brigade of Paris |
numbers 5000 men, women and chill |
dren.
ODD FELLOWS of America and Great |
Britain expended last year s., 900, 900 in
relief.
SNowBANKs along the Central Pacific |
tracks will have to be dislodged with
powder.
A HORSE trotted a quarter of mile on
the ice, at Portland, Maine, in thirty
six seconds.
A BIRMINGHAM, Eng, firm shipped to
an India Prince crystal throne made
of cut glass.
DURING the past year there were fif-
teen hundred and seventeen murders in
the United States.
LONDON consums annually about $780,
600 head of cattle, 100000, 900 of eggs |
and 10000 tons of fish.
FRANCE offers $40, 600 re ward to any
OhO WIZ ONOhOAhISNNAlf aPPA4Co O4OSt4ASAbJ
to the heating of dwellings.
PETRoLEUM wells to the number of
2, 800 were put down in 1888, against |
$500 in 1882, and 1852 in 1881.
DURING the last ten years the French
speaking population in Canada has in
creased more than the English.
A BLOCK of ice found on the bank of
the Tuscarawas river contained five IN
usually large water snakes frozen fast.
THE average price of farm labor in the
United States is S18.5S per month, an
increase of nearly forty per cent. since
1854.
BUSINESS men of Cincinnati express
alarm that the yield of lard in that city |
has fallen off 9, 1886, 900 pounds since last
season.
A BILL in the English House of Com
mons is to humanize the children, COM |
puted at $4,000, who live on barges and |
in travelling vans