News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-13
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

AN American who went into business
in Paris, and advertised on the fences,
was fined $50 by the courts 'for annoy
ing the vision of the public
A BILL before the Vermont LegisIa-
ture provides a bounty of from 30 cents
to $1.50 per bushel for grasshoppers,
according to the season in which they
are killed.
Ell MAHDI, the false prophet, sleeps
during the day and transacts business at
night. Just like the newspaper man,
except the newspaper man does not
sleep during the day.
A CHECK for $500, signed by William
81. Vanderbilt, was sei:t to the Police
Headquarters in New York. The money
is to be added to the fund for the aid
of disabled policemen.
THERE are now more than 800, 600
persons in England who use the bicycle
and tricycle., and the capital invested in
the manufacture of these machines is
S15, 100000, employing nearly 10000
men.
AoooRDIN to the Druggists Journal
potatoes do not absorb the arsenical
preparations used for destroying the
Colorado beetle, but the productiveness
of the soil is impaired by the use of ar
senic.
ST.. JOHN, the temperance candidate
for President, does not have much faith
in politicians. He said in late speech:
eff Cinnamon could vote, the average
politician would walk up behind him and
stroke his long queue and say. John, it's
a daisy"
JACOB THoRNE, of New York, i'm
ported the first Sborthorn cattle ever
brought to this country. He was a
prominent merchant, and his death
which took place lately was regretted
by all. He was noted for his acts of
kindness.
THE Chinese city of Foo Chow, ac-
cording to letter writer, is surrounded
by high wall twelve feet wide on top.
The streets are narrow and filthy and
the climate very hot. The inhabitants
excel in the manufacture of ornaments
from soapstone.
Mr. Ell. O. WHEELER, one of the Vice
Presidents of the Iowa State Agricul-
tural Society, has $500 acres of land
fenced and under cultivation. He has
1000 acres in timothy, 200 in clover,
600 in wheat and oats, 1,500 in corn,
and J. 800 acres in fax.
THE financial condition of the italian
Government has very much improved OF
late years; deficits in the annual budget
are smaller than formerly, the one for
1885 being set down at only million of
dollars. The peninsula no longer keeps
financial company with Turkey, Spain,
and Egypt.
CHLeRIpe of lime should be used with
care. A young lady recently put large
quantity in a clothes press where there
Was uuety spell The bad otlor was
entirely destroyed by the chemical. but
bleached to dirty gray hue and reA-
dered almost useless.
WEES the late Bishop of London re-
visited the University Chapel at Cam
bridge, after long absence, he found the
same yerger there whom he remem-
hered in his college days, and said to
him: "You bave much to be grateful
for" 81 have, indeed, my lord," re-
piled the old man, 'for I have heard
every sermon that has been preached in
the chapel for fifty years, and, bless the
Lord, am Christian STILL"
Mr.. Powers, the London Tines
correspondent in Khartoum with Gordon
Pasha, writes: "One Arab horseman is
enough to put 20G of the bulk of our
men to fight. The day Saati Bey was
killed eight men with spears charged
200 of our men armed with Remingtons.
The soldiers fed at once, leaving Saati
and his Vakeel to be killed. A black
officer cut down three of the Arabs, and
the other five chased our men. A horse
man coming up rode through the flying |
mass, cutting down seven. With such |
men as these we can do nothing. The
negroes are the only men we can de-
pend upon"