News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
ODDS AND ENDS.
THERE are los, 900 Indians in the Do.

THERE are los, 900 Indians in the Do.
minion.
THERE are over 5000 pawnshops in
London.
A GEORGIA lawyer only practices every
other year.
THERE are $50 Icelanders in Manitoba
engaged as farmers.
An outbreak" of dollar stores is what
is troubling Texas just now.
GOLD elephants dangling from the
ears is late absurdity of fashion.
MEXICO owes English creditors $780,
900, 900 and Americans $40, 600, OOO.
CANNED fruit eaten at wedding in
Illinois fatally poisoned three persons.
A DEvIL-FIsH, weighing 400 pounds,
was caught in Mobile Bay few days
ago.
The loss of thousand dollars through
bunco men instantly killed Califor-
nian.
The American electric light is super
ior to the French in directness and
power.
PH1LADELPHIANs are alarmed by the
prevalence of filth and garbage in their
streets.
Or the 100000 Paris mechanics and
day laborers, only so, 900 belong to trades
unions.
THE population of the United States
increases at the rate of 30 per cent. every
ten years.
A NEW and pretty glove is made in
Paris from the skins of young Florida
alligators.
The University of Heidelberg refused
$4,000, on condition that it should ad-
NIT women.
The British Government spends
about $1,000 year In the photography
of criminals.
DRESS reformers who advocate trou-
sers for the feminine costume are called
pantaloonatics.
TIE price of gas in London is only &c
cents per 1000 feet, and it promises to
come lower yet.
ALTHOUGH Canton, China, has a pop
ulation of l, 500, 900 there is not news
paper in the place.
The q. s. Government has 400 John
Smiths In its employ, and 800 each of
Joneses and Johnsons.
ONE gold mine in Utah has never
levied an assessment, and has paid
$4,000, 600 In dividends.
FORTY thousand men earn their living
in London by selling sandwiches, which
are great staple there.
RUSSIA is to send out an expedition to
the North Pole next year. Only volun-
teers are to be permitted to go.
AUSTRIA has of late been visited by
severe hailstorms that played sad havoc
with the crops for miles and miles.
BOMBAY husbands cut off their wives
noses for punishment. In single week
five such cases were lately reported.
The progress of invention is shown in
steel. In 1910 it cost about 5000 per
ton; to-day it can be bought for S37.
EIGHTEEN steers were fattened at
Shelbyville, Ind, for big barbecue.
All were spitted and roasted at once.
HARRY CoURTAINE, not long ago
popular American actor, is a ragged
beggar IN London. Rum ruined him.
PARIS hotel-keepers are at their old
tricks of swindling Americans, and there
have been several cases carried to the
courts.
The average wages of the farm laborer
in India is 5 rupees, or 81 per month.
Out of this he supports himself and
family.
DURING the last six years it is esti-
mated that 81, 247 young men have left |
Prussia to escape compulsory military
service.
POSTAL robberies have been very fire. !
quent in Vienna of late, and the author
tiles are not successful in capturing the
thieves.
PATTI admits that her voice is not as
good as it once was, but says that there |
will be no reduction in her prices for
warbling.
in Brussels, and the doors not being big
enough, people all jumped out of the
A LATE census shows that of the popu- |
lation of Chicago there are 209, 63I Ger
mans to only I43, 900 native-born Amer
lean citiz ems.
THERE is enough water power in
Georgia to supply 10, 900 times the num-
Der of mills and factories now operated
in that State.
ng in England this year than formerly.
Only two coaches are now running
put of London.
An English manufacturer advertises
hat his safety matches may be eaten by
children with positive benefit to their APP
petite and digestion.
SINCE the development of tree cul-
ure, the forests of Europe have in
;reased from One-sixth to one-fifth of |
he entire territory.
In Floyd county, Ga, one negro in
giving in his tax reported S. worth of
property and ten dogs. Another gave
n 81 and four dogs.
AMERICAN beef N the English mar
zets Is now sold as Scotch, and as such
brings four cents more per pound than
lnder its true name.
CALFoRNIA's wheat crop has for
7ears been more valuable than her yield
II gold, which is likely to be soon beat
N also by her fruit.