News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-05
ODDS AND ENDS.

THE ship laborers of st. John, n. B.,
are on a strike.
CUBA was discovered by Columbus
October %, 1892.
ALL the United States Senators but
two wear spectacles.
ST.. HELENA was discovered by the
Portuguese in 1902.
The incompetent citizen is the legally
competent iuryman.
HNDoo witnesses are sworn by the |
waters of the Gauges.
MARY ANDFBsoN's profits abroad are
estimated at $500, 900.
THE Oldest church in America is ''St. |
Johns" at Hampton, Va.
THE Walters Union, of Boston, has
reserve fund of nearly 81, 900.
The kindergarten system was first |
practced in Germany in 1S49.
HE dogs of Maryland are supposed to
have killed 5000 sheep last year.
The ancient BIitons wore leather cui- |
rasses until the Anglo Saxon era.
The mouth of the Amazon river IN |
South America is 100 miles wide.
Work is proceeding with the great
railway tunnel under the Mersey.
Spring has come, and with it the girl
who falls dead jumping the rope"
GREAT BRITAIN has been turning out
yearly million tons of new shipping.
IT is said that some Australian wheat
fields turn out seventy bushels per acre.
The price of gas in Philadelphia has
been reduced to S1.70 per thousand feet.
WHEN Piute Indian doctor loses
three patients in succession he is killed.
FREDERICK BILLINGS, of Vermont,
gives $1,000 to Whitman CIV. IT, Col
lege.
The South Sea Islanders make bird
Kites almost as ingeniously as the Chi
nese.
THE French originated the industrial
exhibition; the first was held in Paris in
-179S.
EMIGRATION from Hamburg in March,
1884, was double what it was in March,
1888.
THE Japanese entangle whales in nets
and then kill them with harpoons and
lances.
San DoM1NGo has passed bill to es-
tablish free trade with the United
States.
MILE. NEVADA, the American prima |
donna, sends all her floral gifts to the |
Paris hospitals.
The game of curling was introduced
into Scotland from Holland in the six
teenth century.
THERE are twenty-eight branches of
the Carpenters Amalgamated Union in
the United States.
THERE have been thirty-two criminal
executions on the Pacific coast within the
past eight months.
DIR. NAcHTIeAL, the celebrated Ger
man explorer. is shortly to start for the
west coast of Africa.
JAMES RILEY founded the Universal
lists in England in 1850 and John Muir
ray in Boston in 1770.
THE largest cotton grower in south
east Arkansas has between 5000 and
5000 acres in cultivation.
HOMEOPATHY was first brought to the
worlds notice in 1910 It was intro
duced into England in 1927.
LAST year there were ]. SIT murders
In the United States, SO legal executions
and lis men were lynched.
Four young ladies acted as pall-bear-
ers at the funeral of one of their school
mates In Caernarvon, Penn.
ALL the rich obese are focking to
Bismarck's doctor, who reduced him in
size without injury to health.
In Sweden there is a law taking away |
the right of suffrage from every man |
who has been drunk three times.
AN estate in Algeria has been pur-
chased for use as an agricultural school
for 200 INDECENT French children.
THERE are several sorts of fishes which
are armed with poisonous spines, and
many which have poisonous flesh.
lad0,. IS s'i a line of tree stumps of an I'm
known kind in all stages of petrifca-
ton.
A BOGUS Jeanette survivor, calling
himself Captain W. E. Spencer, is prey
ing upon the provincial newspapers of
Ohio.
Gov. ROBINSON, of Massachusetts,. |
signed the bill to prevent life insurance |
companies from discriminating against |
colored people.
In Washington county, N. Y, pota-
toes are drug in the market, and are
being bought for the starch mills at 20
cents per bushel.
THE total number of criminal cOnvic-
tons in France in 1888 was 1856, no, and
of these rs, 998-that is A per cent
were of old offenders.
In the Paris Bon Marche, where 1000
persons are employed, each girl has
room to herself. There is also drawing
room with piano, etc.
BARNUM says the nearer circus per-
former can come to breaking his neck
without actually doing so the higher the
salary he has to pay.
MOUNT PIsGAH, Col, where immense
gold deposits were rumored several weeks |
ago, is now deserted, the hordes of
miners who rushed in there having left |