News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-07-24
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

to $50, 900 pounds of oleomargarine and
other limitations of butter per week.
Very little spurious butter is now sold
in the markets of New York.
A CALL has been issued in Georgia
for grand State temperance conven-
ton to meet in Atlanta on Thursday.
July "a, and continue in session two
DAYS. It will be composed, the call
saws. of all sorts of temperance people.
AN advertisement in the Paris FSgaro
announces that man of Sc. titled, in
telligent, and energetic, would accept
any situation, even one perilous, or re-
quiring him to go far away, or marriage,
in return for the payment of $50, ,OOO
of debt.
PERSONS interested in ferns will be
GLAD to know that monograph of the
ferns of Canada has been prepared for
early publication, in which sixty-three
different species are described, though
only forty-six were known twenty years
ago.
A GERMAN, now resident in England,
says that, having served for SIX years IN
the German army, he can confidently
say that the military system of that
country constitutes the most cursedly
tyrannicaI form of slavery that ever dis
graced civilized nation.
THE United States navy has rescued
ten people from tho Marshall Islands IN
the Pacific, and Commander McCor-
mick, of the Essex, presented the sava-
ges, in the name of the United States,
with several hatchets, some brads and
handsaw. There is good work in our
navy yet
Mr.. BANDEBIER, who has long been
studying the matter in Mexico and along
the Southwestern border, reports that
he finds well-defined system OF growth
from the temporary Indian lodge to the
many storied pueblo-building, (Which
clearly does not owe its origin to any ex-
ternal influence"
FROM the postmaster at Mutt, New
Mexico, the Postmaster General recently
received notice as follows: "Our town
is gone to the Sweet By and By'--only
one family left. 1 respectfully resign
my position as postmaster here. West
ward the star of empire takes its way,
also the p. NJ
MAJOR Ben PERLEY PooRE, on in
quiring into the history of the Marine
Band that discourses our national music
in Washington, finds that it originated
on board the frigate Constitution, Com
modore Hull, cruising in Mediterranean
waters in 1905, and has always been
largely composed of Italians.
AT Mr.. Oscar WiIde's marriage to
Miss Constance Lloyd the brides dress
was fashionable and not aesthetic. The
safffon-hued garment, which brought
him such lucrative notoriety, was dis
carded in favor of creamy brocade and
satin robe, made by one of the best
known French dressmakers.
The Earl of Wilton has just had his
tongue cut out. He bore the operation
well, and it has been successful, at least
in saving his life. Hitherto cancer III
the tongue has been deemed fatal. The
elder Placide, Henry, died Of it, and his
brother Thomas committed suicide
under the suffering which attends it.
SATURN and his rings have lately been
studied from tie observatory at Nice
under extraordinarily favorable condi-
tions, and some features OF great interest
observed. Not the least of these was
the fact that the outer ring is made up
of three separate rings, and each of these
show situations as though Indefinitely
subdivided.
SINCE 1777 New York State has had
wenty-nine Governors. George Clinton
served seven terms, Daniel D. Tomp-
kins and De Witt Clinton four each, VIM.
L. Marcy three, and John Jay, Enos L.
Throop, William Fl. Seward, Horatio
Seymour, Edwin d. Morgan, Reuben
f. Fenton and John T. Hoffman two
terms apiece.
Iryis said that only one small herd of
buffaloes remains in Texas. This has
been feeding on the Pecos River, in the
Staked Plain region, but band of hum
ters is lowering about it continually,
killing the animals as fast as the me
can be cared for, and its days are num-
bered. This is the remnant of what was
known a few years ago as "the great
Southern herd.
VOLCANIC dust is composed chiefly
and essentially of silica-fine particles
of natural glass that which fell during
the late eruption of Krakaton held 65
per cent. A recent volcanic dust shower
in Alaska (Unalashka), however, showed
almost no silica, and the dust was found
to consist of feldspar, magnetic, and
other minerals in irregular splinters.
Col. MA1CzEwsKI, who died lately at
his home in Prussian Poland, was 100.
While serving in the Prussian army he
was taken prisoner, and forthwith en-
tered the French army and took part In
many of Napoleon's campaigns. After
Waterloo he went home, but in the ris-
ING of 1880 entered the Polish army and,
being taken prisoner, passed forty y-seven
wears in Siberia. He was only released
in 1879,