News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

IT has been decided by the British
courts that when person insured has
not been seen or heard OF for seven
years, according to the evidence by re-
lations or others, the presumption is
death, and the company must pay up.
THE wives now living of ex-Presidents
are Mrs. Polk at Nashville, Mrs. John
Tyler at Richmond, Mrs. Grant in New
York, Mrs. Hayes in Fremont, and Mrs.
Garfield in Cleveland. Mrs. Polk, Mrs.
Tyler and Mrs. G lrfeld draw from tho
Government pensions Of IS, 900 year.
THE elaborate icing that initiates
frost and ice on Christmas cards is done
by scattering particles of ground glass
over gummed cards. These tiny atoms
penetrate the lungs Of the poor girls
employed in the manufacture, and
either kill them or render them helpless
nvalids.
IT is proposed to exteAd the ceremonies
at the dedication Of the Washington
Monument over period of ten days,
and to ask Congress for an additional ap.
preparation of $25, 900. The affair VII
be attended by large number of peo-
pie, and will be festive Cccasion for
Washington.
JERRY MCAULEY, the reformed river
pirate, who lately died at his mission post
in New York, bad one or two downfalls
after he began to try and live better
life, and said it was not until he quit to-
bacco that he could keep his temperance
pledge. As long as he smoked there
was a continued thirst which sent him
to the bottle.
The Great Eastern will sail soon from
Liverpool with goods to the exhibition
at New Orleans. After discharging her
cargo the ship will be utilized as a sort
of floating hotel and excursion barge,
where all who desire to pay well for the
privilege can enjoy the novelty of living
on the water and going back and forth
to the shore for business or pleasure.
AN English statistician maintains that
the daily increase of wealth i'll the United
States is upward of S25, 600, 900 or about
sS39, 900. 900 year, which is one-third
as much as the entire increase in wealth
of the whole of the rest of the world.
England, whose increase in wealth is
next to our own, makes only profit on
all her business of $500, 1000, 900 year,
or but little over third of own.
The vote of Dakota Territory indi-
Gates that southern Dakota has popu-
ation of 245, 900, and northern Dakota
It's, 900. The population of the former
section therefore exceeds that in 1880 of
either of the States of Colorado. Della
ware, Nevada, or Oregon. There seems
to be no reason why the admission of
one or both of these sections into the
Union will be longer delayed.
TnE anniversary of one of the families
whose ancestors were hanged for witch
cry has been celebrated in Salem. The
houses are still standing where the
Judges of that famous time lived, and on
saxlss ~ eiAS
old gsbled structure where one sef the
supposed witches is supposed to have.
resided. ..4Itf IS now oceupiedby corn
doctor, who. sells WITCH hazel ointment
to the credulous.
The government painting establish
ment at Washington il the largest in
the world. The. buildings cover eight
acres of ground. While Congress is sit
ting 400 compositors, ETC., are at work
to print the speeches, reports, etc.
There are seventy-five presses in the
establishment, mostly of recent con-
struction. A book of 1000 pages can
here be composed, corrected, printed
and bound in forty eight hours ~