News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


the battle of Teb said they knew moth.
ing of the English forces, had never
heard of their victory over Arab, had
never heard of Arab himself, and had
never heard of Tewfik.
ST.. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS ARE SEP
ARATED from each other by the Missis-
sippi River, but are now, in all but the
mode of government, one city. In the
past year $500 buildings have been
erected at a cost of ST., 494, 900.
] A LONDON CORRESPONDENT AT BERLIN
writes that Prince Bismarck's exaspera-
ton against Minister Sargent is aggra-
waited by his intimacy with Frederick
Kapp, once of New York, and recog-
nized members of the opposition.
JACOB EYLER. OF TRoTwooD, OHIO,
aged Y years, a very wealthy man, COM
mitted suicide because he feared that
he would have to pay a neighbor 800
damages, resulting from an overflow of
water from one of the bitches on his
farm.
JOSEPH MCCAIN, A CoMPosIToR on
the N. Y. Herald, in one hour set 1900
ems of solid minion type, and in the
second 2,013 ems. George Arensberg, on
the N. Y. Times, in one hour, on Feb.
10, 1870, set 2,064 ems of solid minion.
This is fast work.
1T HAVING BEEN ASSERTED THAT THE
French General Schramm, 95, who late
ly died, was the Oldest General, a Bel
gian paper says that Antwerp can pro-
duce one yet older, SO, who took part in
the retreat from Moscow, and is still
able to enjoy life.
A BY WAS SENTENCED BY Laporte.
Ind, jury to four years imprisonment
at hard labor for stealing suit of
clothes. A jury in the same town and
ON the following day gave Henry Au-
gustine only five years imprisonment for
the murder of his uncle and cousin.
UxBRIDGE, MASS HAS WOMAN who
makes her own dresses, plays the piano.
votes for school committeeman and sits |
on the board herself, milks the COWS and |
makes and markets butter; she can also
chop wood, hoe corn, swing the scythe |
and expects some day to vote for Presi- |
dent.
LIVERPOOL IS THE GREATEST SHIPPING |
port of the world, its annual tonnage |
being 2,647,372 tons. London is the
next port, with 1880, 6SS tons. Glas-
gov ranks third, with ], 432, ,354. New |
York comes fourth ON the list of shipping
ports of the world with tonnage of
], 1885
f. ID. WINDsLow, WHO ACHIEVED fame
as forger in Boston, is now very big
man in Buenos Ayres, owning and edit
ing newspaper of that city. He also
owns blocks of buildings, drives the
fastest pair of horses in the city, has un-
linnitn1 nrn1it. oo1 80 nonaidarad aati-
mable citizen.
The OLDEST TOWN IN THE United
States is Ysleta, the chief town of the
county of that name in Texas. 1t has a
population of $500 souls. A Spanish
military explorer, named Corando,
visited the town in 1910, and found it
then popular and prosperous civilized
Indian community.
GEORGE MUNRO, THE PUBLISHER of
cheap novels, says the public have mis-
leading notions as to the circulation and
profit of these Libraries. He adds
L have had to take back million and
half copies at a time from the news
companies. The first edition of book
seldom exceeds 1000 copies.
NEARLY FIFTY YEARS AGO woman
named Lois Lyman, of Cabot, VT, be-
gan to plait the combings of her hair
into rope. 1t was half an inch thick
and of various shades, the hair having
changed materially during the half cen
tury. When she died few days ago |
the rope was nearly 100 feet long.
THERE IS GOOD STORY OF AN old and |
unsuccessful dramatic author who |
drifted into very INDECENT circumstances.
He had son in prosperous business,
who made him an allowance for his sup,
port. When asked by his friends how
lie was getting on he always said, "Oh,
am living on my authors rights.
DIR. OTTO KRUMMEL, OF GoTTNGEN,
who has been investigating the area of |
oceans, estimates the superficies of the
Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans at
1914, 787, 425 square miles, and the total
superfcies of all the seas on the globe
at 231, ,915, 905, while the. total super
icies of the continents and islands he
puts at 81, 354, $50 square miles.