News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
DRIFTWOOD.

CINCINNATI packed 10000 hogs last
winter.
The U. S. navy cost from 1866 to 1883
1886, 100000.
$3.50 has been paid for an Eliot Bible
in New York.
MASSACHUSETTS has $4,000 farmers
who own dogs.
SEVERAL seal have been captured in
New York Bay.
Iowa has 5,413 Royal Arch Masons,
and Ohio 10,0S5.
THE governor of North Carolina
grants no pardons.
THREE white deer have been captured
in the Adirondacks.
AN ostrich farm has been started in
Southern California.
THE dividends payable in Boston this
month are $4,311, 1902.
The State of Maryland charges $3.50
for marriage license.
JAPAN has 4, 733 miles of telegraph,
and % miles of railway.
A LYNN man recently rode bicycle
on the ice at Flax Pond.
THE Arabs mutilated the British dead
that fell into their hands.
CITIZENS of Boston contributed $19,-
145 for sufferers by floods.
JAY-EYE-SEE is six years old; Maud
S., ten; st. Julin, fifteen.
THERE are now in Chicago elevators
%. 541 ,688 bushels of grain.
CREMATION has become an issue in
Wales and has won victory.
The Gar of Russia now mingles in
society more than he used to.
MISSOURI is making rapid progress in
wealth and industrial matters.
THE annual mortality from intemper-
ance in Great Britain is 10000.
FISHING through the ice for smelts
is a thriving industry in Maine.
The League of Liquor Dealers is
called the new order of LIDS.
A NOTARY public certificate has been
issued to woman in Connecticut.
INDIANA block-coal mines in the year
1888, shipped $50, ,074 tons of coal.
THE Massachusetts Legislature re-
jected the bill for biennial elections.
CAPT. JACK HUssEY, gateman at Castle
Garden, has just saved his 9th man.
THE proposed reform bill in England
will enfranchise about 100000 men.
A CITY paper pathetically asks, Is
there such a thing as genuine butter?
OPIUM smoking is the issue in the
Mayorality campaign in Vallejo, New.
CHRISTINE NILSSON owns $3.50
worth of real estate in New York city.
CANoER seldom appears in persons
apder 80. 1t comes between As and 60.
CALIFoRNIA's school trust fund
amounts to 81, 1,97S, 900 for 900, $40 chill
dren.
WENDELL PHILLIPS left but little
manuscripts behind him in collected
form.
A FELLOW in Cleveland, Ohio, taught
dog to steal newspapers from door
steps.
EXPERIMENTS are being made with
a view to telephone to Europe over the
cables.
C1ARINDA CoNKLING, of Cleveland,
sues gambler for Sc, 600 won from her
husband.
CRICKET teams from England and
Australia will visit the U. S. the coming
season.
CONNECTICUT has 149, 1866 children of
school age, and ninety per cent. of them
attend school.
Mr.. CHENERY was the only editor of |
the London Times who ever visited the |
United States.
SAN Francisco shipped 8,S2S barrels
Of -four to England last January, against |
1000 in January, 1888.
PETER MITCHELL, at Charlestown,
Ind, kept his expenditures within fifty
cents day. He left $40, 900.
CLOTHING can be made cheaper in
New York city by the Polish Hebrews
than by contract prison labor.
A MAN named Sylvester Edwards in
the Fulton county On. W Poorhouse
has been asleep for seven years.
The employment of colored men as re-
porters has created excitement among |
the white reporters of Philadelphia.