News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28
NOTE AND COMMENT.

In reply to correspondent we
would say that the Presidential cleo
ton has been held the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November
since the real establishment of the
Federal government.
A lady went to fancy dress ball
in London the other day as a cham
payne bottle, cork and all complete.
A man at another ball went as his
own gravestone. Both had the sat
isfaction of being unique.
The song of the watermelon is
faint this year, and the small boy is
unusually brisk and vigorous, as
thousands of the damaged fruit seek
the bottom of the bay, under the de-
cision Of the inspector of provisions.
The peach crop in the Hudson
River Valley is a failure this year.
The early varieties, which should now
be ready for market, are said to be
fit only for hog feed, and will not be
picked at all in many orchards.
Female physicians in Russia are so
restricted that they are scarcely more
than skilled nurses. they are only
permitted to treat the diseases of
women and children. Apothecaries
are forbidden to put up prescriptions
coming from woman.
The village cart, at present such a
fashionable vehicle, originated in the
county of Norfolk, England, and was
originally known as the Norfolk cart.
1t was popularized by the Princess of
Wales, who used one frequently at
Sandringham, Norfolk county.
A Silk Culture and Development
Company has been recently started
in California with the worthy object
of stimulating silk culture. Mulber-
~ trees will! be distributed to farmers
at cost, and eggs will be given gratis.
All the earlier reports so favorable
to large crops of wheat are confirmed
by the latest. The wheat crop in the
most important wheat growing States
is either harvested or so far advanced
as to be quite beyond the effects of
bad weather. The corn crop, if the
weather continues favorable until
September 10, will be the largest
ever known. The reports from the
cotton growing States for that crop
are regarded as satisfactory, except
in Texas, where the drouth has had
the effect to moderate the high expec-
tations which the early condition of
the plant promised.
w. II. H. Murray is keeping a
temperance restaurant in Montreal.
A correspondent says that it was
opened by band of ladies', Of whom
Mr.. Murray's sister was the moving
spirit until she was taken i'll, when he
stepped in and took her place as man
ager. He is making it not only
financial success, but power for
good among the young men of that
city. Business men, clerks and 9TH
ers are patronizing it largely and it is
one of the much talked Of and praise
worthy ventures of the city, where
Mr.. Murray is very popular.
Chicago Neoos: "Gentlemen, may
1 go with your" "Where?" 81 don't
care" ''But we are going in oppo-
site directions. This gentleman is
going north, while l am going SOUTH"
II don't care" "But which of us
do you wish to accompany" Both"
"But you can't go in two directions
at once" Cant though? 1 guess
you don't know who | am. I'm the
Democratic platform, l am"
Women are beginning to abolish
the earring as one of their personal
adornments, although it will take
long time to wholly Danish this favor
lite but barbarous ornament. The re-
cent aesthetic movement in dress
which introduced among it's absurdi-
ties some truly sensible ideas, had
much to do in educating women to a
better standard of taste regarding
personal adornment. The most ex-
clusively fashionable women do not
now wear earrings in the day time,
and only those with jewels of rare
stones in the evening. Finally, they
may be discarded altogether, and the
money spent for diamonds in this di-
rection will be invested in brooches,
pendents or bracelets. Already some
of the famous actresses and leaders
in fashion make point of not wear
ing earrings. They say pretty ear
Is disfigured by them, and that more
attention is attracted to homely ones
with these attached ornaments. There
are several women in Newport, worth
their millions, who own superb da-
monds, but not one set in earrings,
as they consider them a disGguring,
barbarous fashion.
Every one is said to talk cholera in
Paris. 1t is the subject of CONVERSE