News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-07-10
ODDS AND ENDS.

A PACE is three feet.
A FATHoa is six feet.
A PALM Is three inches.
A LEAGUE is three miles.
THERE are 2,750 languages.
Two PERSONS die every second.
AMERICA was discovered in 1892.
SOUND moves 743 miles per hour.
ENVELOPES WERE first used in 1889.
TELESCOPES WE'RE invented in 1890.
A SQUARE mile contains GAO acres.
LIGHT moves 172, 900 miles per hour.
TOLEDO, Ohio, is discussing plans for
new parks.
THERE are 100000 farmers in the
United States.
A CITIZEN of New Orleans is making
fortune selling iced tea.
THE Bank of England spends $50, 600
year in lunch for its clerks.
LONDON has a greater population than
the entire Dominion OF Canada.
The debt of New York was reduced
during the past year SIS, OG0, 900.
THERE are now thirty-nine circuses
travelling through the United States.
THERE are $50 women enrolled as
students in the University of Michigan.
QUEEN VICTORIA paid S20O,000 for a
pearl necklace for her married daugh-
ter.
The Philadelphia Press states that
many scientists believe in the sea ser
penis.
IT is estimated that the Pennsylvania
wheat crop of 1884 will reach II, $50, 900
bushels.
THE estate of the late T. Bigelow
Lawrence, of Boston, is valued at
$685.. S97.
The Q. S. Senate has voted TO give
the letter carriers a two-weeks' vacation
annually.
4 NEW species of the army worm has
made its appearance in New York and
Pennsylvania.
RowELL, the English pedestrian, ha.
earned eighty thousand dollars by hi
walking matches.
FIFTEEN Massachusetts girls are abou
to undertake tramp of 800 miles in tn,
Adirondacks.
PINK lilies of the valley are nov
grown in Germantown, Pa, as freely a:
the white ones.
PHILADELPHIA has prohibited the fir.
ing of crackers; squibs, ETC., within its
limits July 4th.
THE annual convention of the Ameri-
can Bankers Association will be held al
Saratoga, on August Is and IA.
IT is said that among all the Mormon
converts at Salt Lake there is not sin
gle French woman.
The taxable valuation of Connecticut
is s44S, IA, $40, an increase of sc, $50,
313 over last year.
THE population of Texas is 1000. 900.
The largest city is Galveston, with
$1,000 inhabitants.
The Imperial Canal of China is the
longest in The world. 1t is 100 miles
long, and connects Al cities.
LITTLE boys in Mexico who obey their
teacher in school are awarded by being
allowed to smoke while they study.
In the Mesilla valley, in New Mexico.
apple trees bear the second year from
the seed, and grapes the third year.
TWENTY-FIVE dollars Is the penalty
State between May and December ].
JULES VERNE is off for a cruise in the
Mediterranean on board his yacht, St
Michael, to find materials for new
story.
TWENTY years ago the number of
Professionals of all denominations in
Paris was $1,000; the total at present is
$4,000.
RECENT returns show that the savings
banks of New Hampshire have 50, Co.,
600 more in deposits than they had one
year ago.
IT takes 80, 900 rose blossoms to yield
an ounce of altar, and the genuine arti-
Gle costs 800 per ounce at the place of
distillation.
THE ruined cliff city discovered last
summer in Arizona, which occupied
the sides of canyon, has been named
Walnut Canyon.
THE tax valuation of Chicago is, real
and personal, about S133, 900, 900; that
of Cincinnati for the same year QSS3)
was S169, 100000.
ACCORDING to the San Francisco
Chronicle the removal of boards from
ladies faces has become lucrative pro-
fession in that city.
A MICHIGAN Justice is in trouble for
having turned over to the complainant in
an assault case the fine which was i'm
posed on the prisoner.
THE shaft of Gen. Suffers old mill at
Coloma, CAL, where gold was first dis
IN, ,N1a
museum in San Francisco.
THE tonnage of the New York canals
for the last three weeks of May, 1884,
was 650,S81; same weeks in 1888,
603, sol; increase, 1880.
TIE largest school in the world is said
to be the Jews Free School at SpitaI-
fields, London. 1t has a daily attend
ance of over $500 pupils.
GENERAL BOOTH claims that the Sal
walton Army is the largest missionary
force in the world, and is strongly in
trenched in eighteen countries.
The dying words of Jefferson were :
ST resign my soul to God and my daugh-
ter to my country" His granddaughter
has been refused pension by Congress.
GOVERNOR ROBINSON, of Massachu-
sets denounces fashionable drinking. 4"
and hopes to see the time when it will
be abolished at all social entertainments.
THE New York State Agricultural So
ciety will hold its forty-fourth annual
fair at Elmira September to 10 in
elusive. The entries will close Au-
gust 5.
An act passed by the Legislature of
Kentucky prohibiting the sale of illus
trated police newspapers has gone into
effect, and hereafter such literature will
not be sold in that State.
THERE is a fortune in so small a thing
as device for fastening a necktie. %One
OF the patents in that line has Just been
sold to company for 81, 900, 600 in cash
and royalties that may amount to as
much more.