News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25
ODDS AND ENDS.
HrY can eggs in St I.onis

ENGLAND has national debt of S.
7S0,00O.00
MUSHROOMS are unusually plentiful in
England this year.
A LOBSTER yields from 10000 to 3d.
200 eggs annually.
CoUNTERPANEs and pillow shams are
now made of paper.
A RIFLE ball travels faster than the
cath does on its axis.
Boston is about to erect a S25. 900
stItue to Paul Revere.
A GIRL at Louisville, KY, has been
fined for kissing negro.
PUMPKN-PIE festivals are reddening
TIE social sky in Illinois.
PAUPERIsM is reported to be greatly
on the increase in France.
OVER q, 900 men are out of employ
ment in Allegheny county, Pa.
A TRANSATLANTIC steamship carries
twenty tons of ice on each trip.
AsHTABULA, Fla, has hotel for the
exclusive use of colored people.
OEE building in Berlin has 40 fami-
lies In it, numbering ], OPS souls.
COCAINE is expensive. 1t commands
1924 an ounce and S3, 500 pound.
The Garfield Monument will be placed
east of the Capitol in Washington.
A New ORLEANS photographer has
succeeded in photographing lightning.
MANY settlers on the frontier live by
ling wolves. The skins bring So each.
Z THE Confederate battle flag was de-
signed by Colonel Walton of Louisville.
AN Arkansas family travelled sixty. five
miles to see show at West Plains,
No.
SAssAFRAs oil which is used for flavor
ing soap and soda water costs 81 a gall
Ion.
In England now everybody wants to
sell, and nobody wants to buy, real es-
tlte.
THE first penny paper published in
England was the Daily Telegraph, in
1855.
THE island of Java is rapidly recover
Ing from the effects of the recent vol
eano.
BELGIUM has GIL newspapers and
magazines; seventy of the former are
Ilaily.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY has been granted
an audience by the Emperor of Ger
many.
A JUSTICE of the peace in Harrison
county, Miss, presides with his coatand
khces off.
TIE Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Is to discharge from l, 800 to 1000 of its
employees.
! In Tasmania it is proposed to make it
penal for candidate to ask a man to
vote for him.
; The st. James Gazette says life was
over so unsafe in London as at the
1 resent time.
TENNYsoN still wears his soft hat and
comfortable old shabby clothes in spite
IF his peerage.
THOUSANDS of paupers are now being
shipped from Naples and Genoa to South
american ports.
AGRICULTURE is so depressed in Nor
mandy that property has declined fully
T. third in value.
a vIADUor that will contain 1900, 900
bounds of iron is in course of construc-
tion in Chicago.
1T is claimed that Louisiana sugar
cane will be of a better flavor this year
Than ever before.
THE best Cashmere long shawls never
Cost less than six hundred and fifty dol
Jars in the Puniab.
Miss PEARL TYLER was married in the
came veil her mother wore when married
to President Tyler.
The charters of 721 National banks
will expire in 1885. The aggregate capt.
tai is $3.50, 000,0OO
The number of gypsies in the British
Isles is 100000 and in England and
America 400, 000,0 900.
INDINNA polls SOC, 900 votes and must
have 2, 500, 600 population, an increase
OF 500, 600 since 1880.
HE number of mules attached to the
hearse denotes the responsibility of a
funeral in Rio Jaueiro.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE in a late address
alluded to Abraham Lincoln as ''the
man who made black white.'
THERE are seventeen women in France
who have received the distinction of the
order of the Legion of Honor.
TIE average of mans life is said to
have increased per cent. in the last 80
years and woman's per cent.
Our of one hundred and thirty nine
physicians attending cholera patients in
Naples twenty died OF the disease.
HE navigation has practically closed
In Milwaukee, and it Is reported TO have
been one of the most disastrous ever ex-
perienced.
THE population of the world is 294,-
$50, 1913; of these Z, 931, $50 are Jews.
30, o4S, O66 are Christians and 915, 724,-
S27 heather.
The youngest man in the next Con-
gress will be % years old, La Toilette,
of Wisconsin. Kelly, of Pennsylvania,
is the oldest.
THREE thousand horses die each week
in London. Their carcasses are bought
by company which delivers meat TO
cats and dogs.
FRANK HENRY, keeper of the Pressure
Isle Beacon for sixteen years, has re-
signed. He saved fully 100 persons
from drowning.
The Springfield Armory shops employ
ASS men, as against AIS a year ago. The
average product is lao rifles a day.
1T IS said that there are $40, 600, 900 in
money in the Abandoned Property Bu-
reau of the United States Treasury.
A BED of oyster shells as large as din
ner plates was discovered by Tallahas-
see, Fla, man while digging a we'll.
RECENT figures show that the con-
sumption of liquor in the United States
has far outstripped the growth of popu-
lation.
ONE member of the U. s. Senate and
two members of the House died during
the recess, and two members of the
House resigned.
An English doctor has said that per-
sons born during the prevalence of
cholera In 1882, 1849, 1854 and 1865
would be exempt from the scourge now.
THE sensation in West Virginia is the
elopement of thirty -fve-year-o wo-
man with her adopted son, aged 90, to
whom she had acted as mother for ten
years.
Two HUNDRED and fifty thousand cop
les of 'Called Back" have been sold in
Great Britain, two authorized and six
pirated editions have been issued in this
country.
BrignOli's Excessive Vanity.
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