News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-26
ODDS AND I lNDS.

in 1907.
Tyr State of Minneso ia is twenty-six
TIE FIRST steamboat p lied on the Hud-
son in 1907.
TBr first telescope wa used in Eng
land in 1908
Tn chinese of San Francisco have
labor unions
TUE first watches were made at Nuren-
burg in 1477.
CHRISTIANITY was introduced into
Japan in 1549-
THE first newspaper advertisement ap-
peared in 1862
PERCUSSION arms used in the United
States army in 1929.
WOMEN now serve on the juries in
Washington Territory.
A GARGLE of cold, strong black tea is
a remedy for sore throat.
SEVEN new churches are now being
built in Little Rock, Ark.
AT Ems the ladies dress very much
and society is aristocratic.
THE sardine catch of Maine will be
worth 50, 200, COO this year.
THE New Orleans exhibition grounds
embrace thirty-three acres.
THERE are in the United States 1852
theatres, worth $115, 900, 900.
FLowER-PoTs may be covered with the
imitation moss sold by florists.
In southern and middle England
sc, COO women steer canal boats.
MACEDONIA is the most wilfully OPP
pressed of all Christian countries.
THE wood pavement being put down
in Paris is a United States patent.
CARPET beaters. according to the Lon
don Lancet, are infection spreaders.
AN ONTARIO village is lighted with gas
made from sawdust, equal to coal gas.
The judicial powers of the English
provost NJ srshals have been abolished.
BIARRITz is much frequented by
Spanish families who seek sea bathing.
The East river bridge added $40, 000,-
600 to Brooklyn's valuation in one year.
ABOUT 125, 900 elephants are killed in
Africa yearly to supply the ivory trade.
SHIP-BUILDING is revived at Alex
andria, Va, after twenty years of stag
nation.
The North Carolina State Exposition
is to be held in Raleigh, from Oct. to
Oct %.
OVER Is, 1000 pilgrims visited Shakes
peare's birthplace at Stratford- on-Avon
last year.
EIGHT million baskets of peaches are
promised this year from the Delaware
orchards.
The railway system of Prussia covers
over 9, 600 miles-a little more than that
of Canada.
ENGLAND's army contains 63, $50 Eng
lishmen, IA, Ais Irishmen and 2,456
Scotchmen.
The Chicago Times announces that
the bottom is knocked out of the Cgur
d'Alene mines.
THERE are 25O,OOO trees in full foliage
along the $50 miles of avenues and streets
in Washington.
THERE are in London 10000 Polish
Russian jews who have sought refuge
from persecution.
THERE are 8l,7 clergymen and IT,
267, S7S communicates in the churches of
the United States.
SOUTHERN members of Congress quote
from the Bible more frequently than do
Northern members.
STANLEY MATTHEWS will address the
Tennessee Bar July 4, on the heights of
Lookout Mountain.
THE citizens of Pittsburg, Pa, are
proud because their city covers more ter
titory than Chicago.
Two MEN have filed petitions at
Youngstown, Ohio, asking for divorce
from the same woman.
THE financial stringency has caused a
falling off of Is to 20 per cent. in Euro
pean travel this season.
THE indications are that the wheat
crop throughout the country will APP
proximate that of 1882.
The Europeans, or white men, in
China number fewer than 10, 600, or one
to about every 25, 900 natives.
A SUBSTITUTE for genuine human hair
is now being made out of the inner lining
of the bud of the palmetto tree.
THE Republicans of Maine have
nominated all their present Representa-
tives in Congress for reelection.
FIVE of the six murderers hanged on
recent Friday in this country declared
that rum had led them into crime.
A WESTERN paper announced rail-
road collision recently with the heading,
''Boiler Empty and Engineer Full"
A NEGRO VIGILANCE committee" of
Richmond, Mo-, ducked and thrashed a
black man who had beaten his wife.
THE forests of Europe are estimated to
cover 500, 900, 900 acres, or nearly 20 per
cent. of the surface of the Continent.
THE Chicago Rambler says that the
American girl is lazy physically, and
ought to take long walks in the open
air.
AN Ohio manufacturing company
gives its employees half holiday Satur-
days, to discourage dissertation of Sun
| day.
In Maine person who procures a di-
Vorce cannot marry for two years with
out permission of the court granting the
decree.
CITIZENS of st. Paul and Minneapolis
are talking of building a grand boule-
ward. eight miles in length, between the
two cities.
THE Supreme Court of California de-
cided that an apartment which has a
partition running halfway to the ceiling
is a room.
THE late Cardinal Sbaretti was the
! thirty-third of that rank deceased during
the present pontiicate and the fourth
during 1884.
No FEWER than 2,872 hotels in the
| United States have been destroyed by
fire during the past eight years, an av-
erage of 359 yearly.
IT is believed that Washington Terri
| tory is made $500, 900 richer every
month by the coin taken into the coun-
try by immigrants.
DIR. ALFRED CARPENTER, the English
physician, thinks that drunkenness is a
disease which can be cured only by
heightened abstention.
The Luke Voorhees, cattle ranch in
Wyoming comprises 1 ZOO, 900 acres of
land, 40, 900 of which are inclosed by
one barbed wire fence.
BosToN girls are distinguishing them
selves by their feats of pedestrianism.
They think nothing of taking tramps
of from five to eight miles.
The British Church Missionary So
ciety's income was at the birth of the
Queen $3.50, 600, at her accession S445.-
OGO, and is now 81, 100, 900.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to build
Soldiers Home on the Gulf of Mexico
for disabled Union soldiers scattered
throughout the Southern States.