News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
ODDS AND ENDS.

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herit $50, 100000.
CHINESE authorities say that INDIA INK
was invented 1867 B. G.
SMELr fisheries is one of the growing
industries of New Brunswick.
THE Rose Amber secret inquest cost
the State of Connecticut So, 323.3l.
DEAR girls, look before you leap
look at the Young mans bank account.
A. S. MARTIN. of Orange, Vt, has lost
goose that was said to be 100 years old.
OF 500 freeholders worth from so, 900
TO $50, 900, in Washington, 12O are wo-
men.
LoNpoN's police force has been in
creased one-fourth in the past six
months.
THE consumption of tea in Great
Britain is about six pounds to one pound
of coffee.
JOHN H. STEPHENS the first actual set
tier of Minneapolis, Mimi, still lives in
that city.
A NEW kind of cloth is being made in
LYONS from the down of hens, ducks
and geese.
GENERAL TANNATT Mayor of Walla
Walla, Oregon, has dog that eats pins
voraciously.
CALIFORNIA has 900 churches of all
denominations, and about 1,OOO,O 600 OF
inhabitants.
THE use of nursing bottles for chill
dren is strictly prohibited at the Paris
Maternity Hospital.
THERE is a scarcity of gum arabic and
a rise in price. Cause, Ell Mahdi's rebel
lion in the Soudan.
INDIANA has 3,737 church edifces,
valued at So. 555 900. She pays her
ministers 81. OBJ, 1897.
QUEEN VICToRIA's Balmoral estate
covers 25. $50 acres, aud is of the gross
annual value of S12, 900.
GERMANY has 454 theatres and nearly
10. 900 actors. including 9S Mullers, u
Schmidts, and 80 Meyers.
'LADIEs are requested to take off
their bonnets" appears on the play bills
of the new theater at Berlin.
SPARTA, Ga, has only 1000 inhabit-
ants, and yet two barrooms there pay
$3.50 each for license.
A TRUCK farmer near Arredono, Fla,
who has strawberries nearly ripe, has
already engaged them at 50 quart.
THERE were $40 fewer failures in Eng
land Wales in 1888 than in 1892, and
a decrease in bills of sale of 29,915.
The British Columbia Legislature has
passed bill to bounce the Chinese and
tax all of them over fourteen years.
THERE were 727 suicides reported in
h. Thora iS
not a journalist among the number.
SOMEBODY in New-York, conscience
stricken, sent So to the Secretary of the
Treasury on Monday without his name.
LAST year there were taken from the
Sacramento River and tributaries $780,
4O5 salmon weighing 1856, 672 pounds.
STATISTICS just published show that
in 1881 there were only seventy-eight
railroad accidents in the whole of Frrnce.
PEOPLE living on the banks of the
Mississippi reap profitable living by
selling the drift-wood floating down the
river.
UNDER Names laws the number of
deer in the northern part of the State is
increasing. So also is the number of
wolves.
THE city of New-London is to cele-
brate the centenary of its incorporation,
which falls this year, in a fitting man
ner.
CoNNECTICUT's tramp law is inoper-
alive, since any tramp may escape its
penalties by swearing that he is looking
for work.
THE export of diamonds from the
Cape between August l and November
80, inclusive, amounted in value to less
than $4,000
STOVE works, grape sugar works and
several feundries are shutting down at
Buffalo and 1000 men are thrown out of
employment.
EDISON wins a suit in Germany for
priority of invention in the principle of
incandescent lighting the carbon fla
ment lamp.
THE New York Post-office receives
every week $50 tons of newspapers and
periodicals from publishers to be for
warded to subscribers.
THEY are offering wagers in the South
Park, Colorado, that their champion
snOw-shoe traveller can make fifty miles
in day of ten hours.
THE mortgage of $67, 500 on Mr.. Par
nell's estate has been paid off, but the
petition for its sale in the Land Court
has not been withdrawn.
SINCE the opening of the Suez Canal
TEA has, 1879 excepted, declined each
year in price. 1t has never been lower
in England than now.
GERMANY is going in heavily for beet
root culture. Ninety new factories were
started last year, and nearly as many
are III course of construction.
THE President of the United States
Cremation Society says that there are
5000 persons in this country pledged to
have their bodies burned.
THE copper product of 1883 was 116,-
100000 pounds, against 91,OOO 900
pounds in 1882, but the value was only
81, 000,G COO, against $16,OOO,OOO last
year.
The Rochdale system of cooperation
has been introduced in San Francisco.
The capital stock of the first store is
800, 900, and the number of shares
10, 900.
IT is said that nearly half of the pat
thto BDAltu III ItCeuU wears were
for car couplers, and still the bulk of car
coupling to-day is done with the print
tive link and pin.
MAYOR HARRISON, of Chicago, has
letter from W. A Pierce, of Hervey,
Dakota, warning the poor against emf
grating to the prairies of that Territory.
The writer says that men with money
can find better country in which to in
vest it,
They had to saw the pipe off from
hydrant in Allentown, Pa, the other
day to liberate a man who had tried to
drink from the nozzle when the ther-
mometer was near zero. With the
piece of pipe sticking to his lips he was
taken to fire, and there the pipe fell.
The Market Oyerstocked,