News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

| NUIES AND UOM MMENlS.
AT Toulon, France, two foolish
vouths made a bet as to which one
could drink the more seltzer water. One
drank. nine syphons and the other
eight. Both died shortly after of choI-
era.
The phylloxera has reached Rouma-
MIA and the disease is spreading rapidly.
r. was introduced in vine imported
from France by some imprudent snug
ol.r in contravention of the most strin-
gent precautions of the government.
IT is said that by the following sim
nle method almost instant relief of ear
ache is afforded: Put five drops of
cbloroform on little cotton or wool in
the bowl of clay pipe, then blow the
vapor through the stem into the aching
ear.
IF the stories that are told about the
filthy condition OF Toulon and Mafseilles
are true it is a wonder that they are not
afflicted with the Black Plague instead
of mild form of cholera. Both of these
cities, virtually without drainage, have
been sitting by the side of tideless sea
and stewing in their own nastiness for
years.
JOHN A. SUFFER- is buried in corner
of the old Moravian burial ground in
Litiz, Penn. 1t was on his farm in Cali
fornia while digging for q mill race that
gold was first discovered in 1S49. He
was born in Germany and went to Cali
fornia from the Sandwich Islands. He
died not long since in Litiz. where his
children were being educated
KRUPP is now building up gun-barrels
weighing 124 tons. How to lift them
becomes q matter of moment. The
largest steam crane in Europe-that at
Antwerp-is capable of lifting only one
hundred and twenty tons but one is
being constructed at Hamburg which
will lift an object weighing one hundred
and fifty tons and swing it aboard ship.
L. J. ROSE has sold his estate, prob
ably the finest in California, for $780,
900. The plantation is known as Sunny
Slope, near Pasadena, and it contains
more than 1000 acres of well-watered
land. The orange crop was sold on the
trees by Mr.. Rose this year for $16 900,
and the vintage last year from 900
acres of vines was 1,S00 tons of grapes.
SETH GREEN states that the cause of
the death of the vast number of alewives,
the bodies of which are found floating
on Lake Ontario, is starvation. He says
they travel about in large schools, the
strong ones naturally taking the lead
and getting most of the food. Those in
the rear get positively nothing at all,
vet they will follow the school day after
day until they die of actual starvation.
Mrs. THOMAS ROWLAND of Spring
vile, Ala, seeing a storm approaching
took refuge with her FIVE little children
in cyclone pit under the house. The
lightning struck tree in the yard, the
roots of which ran in to the pit, and the
duid followed the roots with faIai Fas-nIts-
The infant in the arms of the mother at
the time she was struck to death was
not injured.
THE business of making wooden
bouses in the United States for custom
sale is stimulated by brisk demand for
these products in Brazil. Several large
sbioments have been made to Rio JAN
eiro. and they we're all sold soon alter
their arrival. Fifteen hundred of them
have already been erected in the new
city of La Plata, the new capital OF the
province of Buenos Ayres.
MUCH has been said as to woman ply
| sicians in Russia, but according to
competent authority there are only some
$50, and whatever their requirements
and abilities they are only allowed to
treat the diseases of women and chill
dren. Even in country districts, where
there is, perhaps, no male physician
within fifty miles, apothecaries have
been forbidden to put up prescription
emanating frora woman.
In the German Empire seventeen
years ago there were 800 towns, with
populations of between 5000 and 20, 600,
which were without railway accommo-
dations. In the year 1880 the number
of such towns was only 1872. OF towns
having populations of between 2,OOO
and 5000 there are in the empire 1878,
of which only 468 had any railway ac-
commodations seventeen years ago. BY
1880 the number of towns so provided
had risen to 932.
MISS SUTRo, the daughter of the man
who built the famous SCtro Tunnel, re-
, ceived great many letters from pro-
fessor in Berlin, who had seen her pho
, tograph and had been captivated by it.
proposing marriage. She sent them al
, unanswered to her father, who was II
} Spain. Mr.. Sutro afterward saw the
} professor in Berlin, and liked him Sc
much that he advised his daughter t'
answer his correspondence, and the enc
of it is that they will marry.