News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15
ODDS AND ENDS.

THERE are 125 licensed distilleries in
Scotland.
GERMAN horse dealers are purchasing
largely in England.
HE assessed valuation of Minneapo-
lis Is SS0,0O0,0OO.
A NEW Petroleum Exchange was
opened in Pittsburg.
A GENUINE vampire was recently cap
tured In Los Angeles, Cal.
SENATOR EDMUNDs' private law prac-
tce Is worth S75, 900 year.
GOAT ISLAND at Niagara Falls is esti-
mated to be worth 81, 900, 900.
THE Chief Signal Officer has decided
to establish station In Alaska.
A PAPER chimney fifty feet high has
been erected at Breslau, France.
The deaths in Boston in March, 1884,
numbered 779; in March, 1888, S13.
A DELEGATION of Irish prelates will
visit Rome and confer with the Pope.
PAYN, the English novelist, smokes
nifty pipes day and sleeps ten hours.
THERE were more lynchings than exc
cutlons last year in the United States.
SCHUYLER CoLFAx will deliver a
Fourth OF July Grafton in Waseca, Mimi.
The estate of Daniel Webster, in
Marshtield, Mass, is advertised Tor sale.
BAD dividends have been lately an
nouneed by ocean steamship companies.
A LADY has given Mills Seminary. San
Francisco, 5000 for library building
EVERY one, rich and poor, takes dip
once day in caldron of not water in
Japan. 1880 -
HE Prussian railway system covers
9,OOO miles, little more than that of
Canada.
KENTUCKY expects to raise this season
t tile largest crop OF tobacco ever grown in
LOGAN smokes. For weeks he will not
night cigar, and then he will smoke
constantly.
HALF the sugar consumed last wear in
the United kingdom was made from Euro
pean beets.
LACE factory is to be started at
Mukesbarre, Penn, the first in the
United States.
The Zion Church Conference at New
burg, n. Y, expelled a minister for i'm
moral conduct.
The annual convention of the New
state Sunday School Association will be
held In Oswego in June.
The census returns for 1888 give the
population of Berlin as 1925, 1872, of
whom 20. 567 are soldiers.
A MAN III Braintree, Vt, received a
oequest OF $4,000 from a stranger, to
whom he did chance favor.
JUDGE YERKEs, of Philadelphia, decides
that evidence regarding statements made |
over a telephone wire is admissible.
The scheme for tunnelling under the
Straits of Messina has met with such
difficulties that it has been rejected.
Halls Journal of Health saws a cold
may be cured if the patient will keep
warm In bed and eat nothing for day
or two.
MILITARY authorities say shat thou
sandg cd soldiers with the improved arms
can do ten times the execution that was
done twenty years ago.
THE canton of Glaris, Switzerland.
abolished capital punishment few
years ago. The Government has de-
clded by large majority to reintroduce
In the present British Parliament
Wales has one member for every 45. 400 |
of her population, Ireland one member
for every 81, $50, England one member
for every "a, 216, and Scotland one mem
Der for every "a, 278.
MoNsrGNoR CAPEL called with an
Archbishop ON Roman Catholic Amer
lean lady, who said to her four-vear. old
boy, My son, speak to the Archblsh-
op. The boy held out his hand and
said, Chow do you do, Arch ?"
STATISTICS show that among .OOO
doctors the number of deaths annually |
ranges between fifteen and TWENTY-FIVE.
At this rate the number of deaths an
nualiy among the $4,000 medical men of
this country would be, on an average,
1,S00.
Or the 37,672, O4S inhabitants of |
France, 1.101, 900 are foreigners, of
whom 432, 265 are from Belgium, $40.
733 from Italy, 81, $50 from Germany.
73, Isl from Spain, 66, 28I from Switzer-
land, and only 1906 from the British
Isles. The number of naturalized per-
sons is but n, 046.