News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
DRIFTWOOD.

COUNTERFEIT $5 gold pieces are in cir
culation.
THERE are $1,000 Hebrews in New
York city.
PRINCE BISMARCK does not admire
eloquence.
The Empress of Austria sets type with
grace and skill.
GENERAL GRANT never bites off the
end of a cigar.
The number of volumes in the British
Museum is 100, 900.
The Prussian people believe that Bis
marck is superstitious.
JAMES G. BLAINE sedulously avoids
the Senate Chamber
A CREMATION society has been or
ganized in Boston.
The Prince of Wales's private debts
are pressing him again.
KING HUMBEBT is fond of reading
books on military affairs.
The new City Hall in PHILADELPHIA
has already cost 8,246, 900
ENGLISH colleges have suffered greatly
by the Agricultural depression.
The Episcopalians will build $780,
900 Cathedral at Albany, N. Y.
A JERSEY COW was recently sold at
auction in New York for $4,000.
THERE are in England 1,O69, ,296 pau
pers in population of 26, 100000
A oo1oRED Salvation Army has just
been organized in Charlotte, s..
PRESIDENT ARTHUR seldom wears the
same necktie two days in succession.
JOHN HABBERToN, author of ''Helen's
Babies, has published another book.
TIE Georgia State Democratic Con-
vention will meet in Atlanta on June IS.
THERE are supposed to be about
l 100000 species in the animal king
dom.
ENORMOUS stocks of wheat, oats, bar
ley and maize crowd the London gran
aries.
BEER brewers in England are obliged
to make beer out of hops and barley
malt
VICTOR HUGO has been selected as the
president of a baby show, in Paris in
July.
PRINCE BIsMARoK's annual revenues
amount to about $25,000 He lives
quietly.
The total number of newspapers in
New York State is 1 1928, against 1899
in 1888.
NJ. DE LEssEPs' company pays out
rs, 900 francs day for work on the Pan
anna canal.
A GOOD way to increase the efficiency
of the public schools is to pay teachers
better salaries.
NEAR Vienna, Ca, two women run
their own farm. They raise cotton and
garden vegetables.
A LADY stenographer in New York has
bought and paid for handsome property
put of her earnings.
Four boys of Springfield, O., have
run away from home and gone west to
lnnihilate the Indians.
LORD LoRNE is going to introduce the
Rhitefish of the lakes into several rivers
md lochs in Scotland.
The National Wool Growers Associa-
ion will meet in Chicago on the 10Th
If May instead of the 7th.
In Massachusetts there were five times
IS many signers to the woman-sufrage
petitions this year as last.
A MEMBER of the GAINESVILLE militia who
in the Cincinnati riot has
become insane from excitement.
ENGLISH capitalists have been buying
up black walnut in the west in large
for shipment to ENGLAND.
IN Montana the law prohibits woman
from marrying until she is Is years old,
and man cannot marry until he is 81.
THE London Times says it was to show
What total abstainer could do that
Weston walked his 5000 miles i'll 100
lays.
A SHEEP epidemic prevails in La
Prairie, Canada, which entirely deprives
he sheep of wool and renders its meat
lDtit for food.
THE agricultural outlook is improving
n England, the acreage of unoccupied
arms having considerably diminished
Turing the last three years.
GREAT BRITAIN consumes annually
100000 tons of potatoes, of which
0O, 600 tons are imported, while the re-
nainder are raised on 541, 900 acres of
and.