News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18
ODDS AND ENDS.
EDWIN BOOTH is fifty wears old.

ODDS AND ENDS.
EDWIN BOOTH is fifty years old.
OVER 307,000 widows have applied
for pensions.
THERE are 10, 900 medical students il
this country.
SIX women ran for School Director il
San Francisco.
The Parisians think every American
enormously rich.
Ono has more colleges than any othel
State In the Union.
JOHN BRIGHT has just turned his
seventy-third year.
TIE new cremstory at Lancaster, Pa,
is ready for business.
A PHOTOGRAPH of lightning has been
made in New Orleans.
No RAIN fell in some parts of Georgis
IN more than 100 days.
A PAPER chimney fifty feet high has
been erected at Breslau.
Pixies PEAK is covered with snow
down to the timber line.
LICoRIoE is proitably cultivated in
Sacramento County, Cal.
NEWSPAPER compositors receive 81. &c
a day of ten hours in Paris.
A sEAMsTREss has counted the stitches
in shirt. There are 20, Ago.
TIE Japanese are said to be the
greatest fish eaters in the world.
-Four thousand invitations were lately
Issued for wedding in Chicago.
The wife of ex-faster DIR. Tanner used
to earn 50, 900 year as physician.
SIX HUNDRED and ninety women voted
at a recent election in Seattle, W. 7.
PHILADELPHIA has seven public
libraries, containing 100000 books.
MORE favorable reports are now re-
ceived from the Ceur d'Alene mines.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON, of South
Carolina, is a candidate for reelection.
READY-MADE wooden houses are now
exported from this country to Buenos
Ayres.
A CHINAMAN at Portland, Ore, went
crazy because his love was not recipro-
Gated.
EVERY boarding house keeper in New
Orleans expects to make a fortune this
winter.
VICTOR HUGO eats dried herring and
crackers every night just before going
to bed.
In the consumption of soap per capita
the United States lead. Italy is last on
the list.
New YORK capitalists have invested
So, 600, 600 in Montana lands the last
four months.
ONE county in Australia has this yenr
paid bounty on over 25, 900 dozens of
sparrows' eggs.
PHILIP ENsTEIN, of Buffalo, who has
been blind for fifty years, suddenly re-
covered his sight.
PAIERMo, formerly the champion city
In Italy for beggars, now occupies only
the seventh rank.
HARD drinking and hard swearing are
both on the decline in England. They
are questionable.
MARRIED Saturday; divorce proceed !
ings Monday. Such is Battle Creek |
matrimonial record.
The physicians are now beginning to |
put in word about the dangers of ex-
cessive bicycle riding.
THE French are trying to acclimate |
sponges on the coast of Algeria by trans
planting sponge plants.
ACCORDING to the Land Office report
there have been 400, GOO farms taken up
by settlers the past year.
BARTHoLDI's Statue of Liberty will be
shipped from France for New York !
about the LIST of next May.
REPORTS say that the bones of $4,000 |
buffaloes have been shipped from Da.
kota to the East this season.
MERCER COUNTY, KY, has a cave
which has been explored for three miles
without the end being reached.
A sMoKE-CoNsUMING locomotive on
trial on the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway is said to be success.
A SOCIETY has been formed in Water
Valley, Ga, for the purpose of forming a
colony for settling in Nicaragua.
The number of cases of cholera in
Italy up to Oct. 20 is given at 81, $40. OF
which II, 563 terminated fatally.
BOSTON has an apple mission which
distributes 1000 or 5000 bushels of ap-
pies among the poor every year.
ONLY one full-rigged ship built in
Baltimore, Nd, now halls from that
port and bears the American flag.
MEXICO has decided to excel at the
New Orleans Exposition. She has con.
tributed 500, 600 for the purpose.
Our of a school population of 16. 0O0,-
600 there are not more than 10,000,0OC
who are now receiving an education.
In the Montana cattle towns a news
paper, shave and a glass of whisky all
cost the same price, namely, 25 cents.
The payments from the Treasury
during this month on account of pen
slOns will amount to nearly $13, 600, 900.
THE hop crop is much larger than
last year. The gain on the Pacific coast
is said to be $4,000 bales of $50 pounds
each.
OF the 1879 White Cross Society ply
sicians who went to Naples TO assist in
treating the cholera patients, twenty
have died.
A NEW YORK lady of wealth gives
Sunday evening receptions at her home
to the little cash girls from the dry
goods stores.
ENGLAND has II, 900 square miles of
coal lands. 1872, coo square miles Of such
territory have been discovered in the
United States. ;
The Kansas Supreme Court has de-
cined that husband is not liable for
slanderous words spoken by his wife |
when he is not present.
LOTS OF COMETS.
Three of Them Near Together-Eueke,s Ex
pected TO be Visible soon.
Professor Barnard, of the Vanderbilt