News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
ODDS AND ENDS.
New York city has 800 rag-pickers

'AAO ~ OOO Iu1OIS III IUlS country.
A FINE Ice harvest has been gathered
in Maine.
PENNSYLVANIA has an editor 81 years
THERE are 5000, 900 tobacco seed in a
pound.
BosroN looks with favor on the Ele-
waited road.
THERE are 1913, 900 physicians in this
country.
ALUMINIUM has been discovered neal
Tuscarora, New.
The Massachusetts legislators want an
mcre ase In pay.
Texas has shipped 1907, $40 head OF
stock since 1866
The city of Toronto celebrated its fif-
ueth anniversary.
FIVE suicides day was the average in
New York recently.
A DISEASE called "big head" is cpl
demlc in Washington.
DENIS KEARNRY is washing dishes in a
San Francisco hotel.
THOMAS MAST has returned to his work
on Harper'S Weekly.
The largest fax oil mill in the world
Is In Sioux City, Iowa.
THE mouth and foot disease is among
the cattle of Kansas.
ANOTHER suicide due to losses at gam
bling at Monte Carlo.
OVER 2, 600 men are salmon fishing on
the Sacramento river.
THE Russian Army has S64, 219 men,
%, 070 of whom are officers.
EASTERN capitalists are investing heav-
lily in Kentucky coal fields.
THE chestnut stallion Mambrino Turk
has been sold for 81, 500.
TRAMPs are leaving the cities for the
country sign of spring.
CHESTER ALLAN ARTHUR, Jr., is In love
with PrincetOwn lady.
The Academy of Sciences has just
been finished at Athens.
THE Florida sponge crop now amounts
to about $50, 900 year.
PENNSYLVANIA gives an annuity of
S120 to oil her soldiers of 1912.
In Dakota married women retain their
own real and personal property.
THE Church of England Temperance
Society now numbers 49,, GA.
Mr.. CHARLES M. REED paid $1,000
for the trotter Modoc (2:19D.
IT costs S3,OOO,000 year to support
the churches in New York city.
In Philadelphia $50 street lamps are
broken daily, mainly by boys.
THE remains of jerome Collins re-
cefved a public funeral in Cork.
The Chinese cigar makers in San
Francisco have been locked out.
A SYNDICATE of capitalists are forming
a monopoly to manufacture tacks.
SIX United States Senators are aspir-
ants for the nomination for President.
Ass pounds of opium were i'm
ported into this country last year.
SEVEN political State conventions will
be held on Wednesday, April 80.
The bill abolishing the estate paper"
as passed the New York Senate.
AT a recent ball in London lady wore
a skirt studded with dead robins.
NEW ENGLAND railroads killed 221
persons and injured 535 last year.
THE losses by fire in the United States
last year aggregate sos, 100000.
TIE population of London has almost
exactly doubled in forty-one years.
The best macaroni consumed in this
country is made of California wheat
DIR. HOLMES says his best poems are
trees which he planted on the hillside.
A MICHIGAN Senator refuses to employ
a private secretary at public expense.
JENNIE JUNE says it takes $50, 1000 a
year to live in any style in New York.
OVER 81 100000 will be spent on
public education this year in London.
The largest city in Japan is Osaka,
which contains ], 5S5, 695 inhabitants.
THE Legislature of Ontario passed
bill favOring cOeducation of the sexes.
A Los ANGELES, CAL, man is expert |
menting on ripening wines by electricity.
TWELVE million clocks were manu-
featured last year, in the United States. !
Gov. CLEVELAND, of N Y, dislikes to
have newspapers do his counting for him. |
The native Sons of Vermont residing |
on the Pacific coast have an association.
A LONDON lady has just died, leaving |
the pope'a fortune of nearly 81, 500, 900. |
SAN Francesca invites sculptors to |
send plans for the statue of Francis S.
Key.
An international exposition will be
opened at Buda-Pesth, Hungary, May 1,
1885.
A GEORGIA nurseryman realized |
$40, 900 from fruit trees grown on one |
acre.
WICHITA, Kansas, collected fifty car
loads of corn for the sufferers by Ohio |
floods.
STRAWBERRIES grown this winter in
n. j., have sold at 81 per
quart.
A PROCESS of solidifying kerosene oil
has been put in practical operation in
Russia.
Do LEWIS says big hats keep the
sunshine from the faces of American
'CYCLERs are allowed to ride in the
public streets in Paris, Brussels and
Munich
THE South loses annually from s.. 000,-
900 to Sc, 900, 900 by the burning of gin
houses.
The number of Jews in the German
empire is SCI, 612, or 125 for every TO-
OOO VI bAO POPuAatAOA.
SEVERAL of the principal hotels in
Boston have reduced the pay of their
clerks and walters.
OVERS, 900, 900 tons of ice have been
harvested from the Hudson, between
New York and Troy,
THE Smith family occupies fifteen
closely printed pages, of the London
Directory this year.
Mr.. HAMILTON DIssToN, the million
ire manufacturer of Philadelphia, has
400, 900 insurance on his life.
THE sulphur beds of Utah are the
most extensive of any in America, and
embrace several million acres.
THE Grand Army of the Republic has
low on its rolls a quarter of a million
members in good standing.
SIX ladies have graduated with honor
rom the London College of Chemistry
md propose setting up as druggists. ;
A CENSUS of horses in Russia shows I
8, 1915, 1913 in the country, of which H.
30, 051 are fit for military service.
Stories About Miss FOrtescue.