News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
ODDS AND ENDS.

A EUROPEAN conference Is to be held
IN regard to Egypt,
Irving, the actor, made S4OO, COO dur
ing his American tour.
The Rothschilds own 500. 900 600 of
United States bonds.
koNIesBERG was founded by the leu
tonic Knights in 1855.
THREE-FoURTHs of the officers in the
HERMAN army wear corsets.
IRELAND's population is now 5, 100, 900
j, O9O, 900 less than in 1641.
The stealthy moth has begun flying in
clothes closets and boudoirs.
THERE are twenty eight direct heirs to
the succession to the British throne.
The semi-anAual dividends payable in
Boston in May aggregate So, 1913, $50.
T. LORILLARD & Co. have donated
$1,000 to the Bartholdi Statue Fund.
The Bank of England has just opened
areading and eating room for its clerks.
NINE yearlings of the English horse
Hermit have sold for more than $42, 900.
IT is probable that trade unions will
take an active part in politics this fall.
THE New York Driving Club will give
$4,000 for meeting June 49, 10 and
20.
THE order of the knights of st. Pat
rick was instituted by George III. in
1888.
The raising of sugar-beets in Den
mark promises to become an important
industry.
GERMANY, it is now stated, uses paper
instead OF wood in the manufacture of
lead pencils.
To KEEP up the supply of horses in
the United States 100000 must be
bred annually.
FLOWERS are received in London from
Italy as fresh as if they had been cut
only an hour.
DEPRESSION in the English shipbuild-
ing trades has thrown 25, 900 men out of
employment.
THE new imperial palace at Strasburg
Is to be completed in three years, at
cost 81, 100000.
THERE are hundred students in the
1rlsh College of Paris, all of whom are
Irish by birth.
ABOUT two million sheep are at pres
ent in Colorado. The clip this year will
De ten mlIllon pounds.
BRUTALITY to mothers" saws a
Massachusetts Judge, sis more COM
mon than wife beating"
THE convict mortality in Alabama's
State Prison is larger than in that of any
other, except Mississippi.
MICHIGAN raises nearly one-half of the
worlds supply of peppermint, the an
nual yield being rs, 900 pounds.
The amount of Peruvian indebted
ness guaranteed by the nitrate and guano
deposits aggregate EGO, 900, 900.
Mrs. PIERRE LoRILLARD, JR, of New
York city. is the authoress of the novel,
''Those Pretty st. George Girls"
MORE than three-fourths of the cedar
used IN the manufacture of cedar pencils
In the world is shipped from Florida.
EIGHT THOUSAND Cinnamon are en-
ployed in California as house servants.
and they get from $50 to $50 month.
An agent predicts that steerage pas
sengers will be able to cross the Atlantic
for $40 or So before another year passes.
The German Government has for
hidden the transit through German terri |
tory of early fruits and vegetables from |
France.
A wALNUT tree eight feet in diameter
at Fort Smith, Ark, is to be felIed to |
send a section to the New Orleans Ex-
position.
AN Ohio postmaster's name is Eman-
cipation Proclamation Coggswell. He |
was born on the day the proclamation |
was issued.
CAPTAIN EADs promises that his ship |
railway in Tehuantepec will be in work |
ing order within five years. 1t will be
40 miles long.
NINE. NILSSON has arranged with |
Theodore Thomas to sing in twenty
three concerts, for which he is to give |
her $685. 600.
IT is estimated that there now are be-
tween 600, 600 and zoo, 900 people in Da-
kota Territory, and 200, 900 more are ex-
pected this year.
electric launch forty feet long, with a
storage battery, speed of seven knots |
an hour was attained.
A LANCASTER (Pa) young lady was
made dangerously i'll by the practice of
moistening the end of an indelible lead
pencil with her tongue.
IHE Lancet tnlnkS that now 1t has be-
come penal offence to sell in France
such wines as contain saicylic acid, they
will be sent to America.
THE brokers Of Mark Lane, London,
say that people want 20 per cent. more
bread when the weather is cold than
when it is mild and muggy.