News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
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THREE hundred and two Mormon con,
verts accompanied by seventeen mission
aries arrived from Europe by the steam
ship Nevada.
The population of Mexico. including
natives, Indians, Spaniards and those Of
mixed blood, numbers about 10, 900, 900.
The area of the country is nearly 800, 900
square miles.
Two YOUNG women in New Orleans
earn $4S month by keeping books, and
on this have bought and are paying for
a cozy little home for themselves and
their mother.
CHAMPAGNE drinkers refuse to believe
the most of their favorite beverage comes
from California, but statistics show that
| 15, 600, 900 gallons of it was never nearer
Europe than New York.
LORD TENNYsoN has written to an old +.
bind Sheffield workman who sent him
some verses: ST should have heart
harder than your anvil if l were not
deeply interested in what you write"
THE Lolidon Times says that sat no
time since before the civil war in Amer
lea has so little attention been paid in
England to the affairs of the United
States as during the past four months. "
THE new steamer Oregon made the
passage from Queenstown to Sandy
Hook, in six days, ten hours and ten
minutes. She beats the best record
ever before made by eleven hours, thirty
minutes.
WHAT Sunday is to Christians Monday
is to the Greeks, Tuesday to the Per-
SLAMS, Wednesday to the Assyrians,
Thursday to the Egyptians, Friday to
the Turks and Saturday to the Jews and
Seventh-day Baptists.
CENSUS reports state that the people
of Canada are divided (by classes) into
agricultural class, 662, $50; commercial
class, 107, ,646; domestic class, "a, $50; in
dustrial class, 1926; professional
class, 50, 974, and not classified, 2O5, ,22S
In some parts of Northern Sweden, it
is considered crime to dance on
Saturday night, while every Sunday
night may be spent in dancing. The
Sababth commences at six o'clock p. m.
Saturday and ends at six o'clock p. m.
Sunday.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR favors building
new mansion on Lafayette Square, op-
posite the White House, for the strictly
private home of the Chief Magistrate,
and retaining the old White House for
the executive offices and for holding Off
cial and public receptions, dinners, etc.
FORTRESS MONROE, Virginia, is the
largest fort in the world, covering an
area of seventy acres. It was built in
1917, and to the uninitiated looks i'm
pregnable. In shape the fort is an irreg-
ular hexagon, two sides fronting the
water, while the other four command
the land approaches.
THERE are 10000 deaths yearly in
London. and all the bodies are buried in
tha sslrface soil around thG sly that 5
in thirty years 100000 bodies. In
twenty years, says Sir Spencer Wells, a
body becomes clay, and London has,
therefore, always 1000, 900 bodies under
going ''harmful decay"
AN enterprising capitalist of New Jer-
sey has set out 100, 900 cocoa-palm trees
on tract of ], 900 acres in Dade County,
along the southern coast of Florida. 1t
Will require six years for the trees to
Weld, and the owner calculates that in
ten years the grove will pay ten per
cent. on a valuation of 100000.
BOYS intending this summer to emu
late the bold hunters of the pralrles,
who live on roots when game IS scarce,
should take warning from the boys OF
the training ship Cumberland, stationed
on the Clyde. Ten of them were re-
Gently reduced to inconsistencies and
made dangerously i'll by eating bark
which turned out to be a species OF hem
lock.
A PENSIONERS check for upward OF six
hundred dollars was stopped at the Bos-
ton Sub Treasury a few days ago, 1t be-
ing in the hands of lawyer, who, as
the pensioner said, claimed half the
proceeds for obtaining the allowance OF
the sum. As the retaining of any fee
beyond ten dollars is an indictable Of
fence. the affair made ripple in some
quarters, but was settled in favor OF the
pensioner.
THE United States Government owes
the State of New Jersey seventy-three
cents with interest thereon since 1861,
the State having paid an excess of the
amount assessed upon it for direct taxes
to carry on the war in 1861. The inter-
est amounts to ninety-seven cents and
six mills, and at the present time the
sum of 81. 70.6 stands to the credit of
the State on this account on the books
of the Treasury. An act of Congress
would be necessary, however, in order
to have the debt paid off.
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