News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-18
ODDS AND ENDS.

A COMPANY in Mexico is to try ostrich
farming.
THE electric railway at Brighton,
England, is success.
OLD Parr married for the third time
at the age of 102 years.
TURIN bread is an eighth of an inch in
diameter and yard long.
CHICAGO uses ninety million gallons of
water day in hot weather.
IT is said that s, 900, 900 meteors pass
through the atmosphere daily.
THERE are said to be 1871, pit litter
ate voters in the United States.
MONTREAL policemen are required to
speak both English and French.
THE Governor of each one of the ter
ritories receives 81, 600 per year.
The postal service of the United
States costs SAG. 225, 900 this year.
A JAVA plant, called kappe, can be
spun and dyed, and resembles wool.
THE manufacture of postage stamps
will cost the government $146, 900 this
year.
IT costs the United States S., 1885,
$50 81 to take care of the Indians this
year.
ONLY 5000 ont of $1,000 miners in
the Pittsburgh district are reported at
work.
EIGHTY million dollars is spent an
nually for public schools in the United
States.
A MICHIGAN female physician has
| found the cause of many divorces to be
tobacco.
IT costs So, lose. 200 to improve the
rivers and harbors of the United States
this year.
POP corn is placarded in the Crystal
Palace, London, ''as sold to the
nobility"
THE wool clip of this year is estimated
at 800, 600. 900 pounds and is worth
$50, 100000.
FORTY new lodges of the Knights
of Labor were founded in July of the
present year.
THERE are nine establishments in the
United States which turn out 1850
watches day.
THERE are to be fifty seven expositions
in the United States during the remain
der of the year.
MARYLAND papers predict an oyster
season characterized by better quality
and lower prices.
THERE is nothing in Florida that can
equal the LIE Conte pear in its rapid,
vigorous growth.
Forty SEVEN gallons of wine each to
every man, woman and child was drank
in Paris last year.
GRAHAM bread and SKINNED milk
have been Senator Anthony's diet for
nearly six months.
DURING the last five years New
Workers in Paris purchased 81, $50, 900
worth of paintings.
THE largest importers of tea from
China say that the present war will not
effect the tea-trade.
Mrs. L. NJ. BATES, who is at present
enhancing the attractions of Saratoga,
carries a 81, 900 fan.
The census of 1880 gave the popula-
ton of the United States of 10 years and
upwards as SO, 761, 6O7.
THERE are $50, 900 miles of telegraph
lines in the world, of which the United
States has 143, $40 miles.
THE hop crop of the Pacific coast is
estimated at GO 800 bales, where ~, 027
bales were raised last year.
DIR. BABToL, of Boston, once said,
'It L had found out there was no God,
could not tell the bad news"
PENNSYLVANIA has 3,S46 postoffices,
more than any other State in the Union.
New York comes next, with 3, 131.
A SMALL place on the Danish island
ct Mors, known as Fieggeklit, said to
be Hamlet's birthplace, is for sale.
IT is thought that from 2, 500 to 5000
Cinnamon will be employed in Sacra-
mento County, CAL, in picking hops.
The wealthiest man in Oregon is liv-
ing this summer for fun in the log cabin
which he used to inhabit from necessity.
BEFORE inventipg his. air-brake,
George Westinghouse was regarded
with pity, as a person without ''gump-
ton. ;"
The gallows during the present year
has filled more graves than i'll any pre-
vious year in the history of the United
States.
The supply OF postal cards this year
will cost the government 1892, 000, and
$1,000 additional to pay for their distri-
button.
The digging of irrigating canals is be-
coming an important industry in Colo
RADIO, New Mexico and other parts of
the West.
THERE are 10000 periodicals pub
lished in the United States, and the
country has an army of 275, 900 school
teachers.
The builder of the first iron steam
ship which made a sea-voyage, Charles
Marley, has lately died in England, at
the age of eighty.
MRS. LANGrRY is chilliEgly polite to
her former friends in London. because
she believes that they have talked I'M
charitably about her.
A TRAMP was arrested in Nashville
lying in an alleyway. Concealed in his
ragged clothes was over 81 900 in large
notes and gold pieces.
THE California Chinese ship quaint
ties of shrimp shells to China, where
they are much esteemed as fertilizers,
especially for the rice crop.
A Boston contemporary asks why the
space on top of house should be al
lowed to go to waste any more than the
space Immediately under it -?
Mrs. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON is out
with plea for new divorce laws, in
which the rights of father, mother, and
child shall be equitably guarded.
Our navy, says the Atlanta Constitu
ton, is in the happy possession of seven
admirals, eleven commodores and TWEEN
ty-six captains in each gallant vessel.
Some Wise Cows.