News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-04
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A DAKOTA clergyman, after long
period of intense inebriety, preached a
sermon of correspondingly deep con-
triton. Several passages of the remark
able discourse were devoted to vivid
description of delirium tremens.
ENGLISH opinion on the Greely ex-
pedition sympathizes with the American
dea that no more Arctic expeditions
should be sent out, but hints that 1T
will not prevent other Arctic expeditions
any more than the latest accident on the
Mont Blanc will prevent Alpine ascents.
An artificial flower maker rejoices In
the extravaganza of the time. Bouquets
of artificial flowers are carried by many
ladies at balls. A wreath of artificial
flowers is a pretty trimming for
drcsq. One made for lady at Saratoga
was of pinks and dropping grass, and
cost 800.
A CHINESE physician in this country
says that very small proportion of Chi
namcn die of consumption, because,
three hundred years ago, T'sang Loo,
learned doctor, discovered that people
become afflicted with the disease by
breathing through the mouth instead of
the nose.
THERE are more than quarter OF
million women i'll London who work with
their needle for a bare subsistence.
Their lot since the introduction of the
sewing machine is even worse than the
condition depicted in the 'Song of the
Shirt" Then they might live, now they
barely exist.
Mr.. THOMAS CoNRoY is hardworking
shoemaker in Tanners Falls, Pa, who,
in fulfllment of a VOW, for twenty-six
years has refused to touch fortune of
95, 900 and accumulated interest await
ing him in Dublin, Ireland, until his re-
latives should apologize for having er-
roneously accused him of sympathy
with the Molly Mcguire organization.
PROF. AUSTIN PHELPS, d. D., says
that death is to all minds alike a dread,
appalling presence, from its first concep-
ton till life's close. Say what men may
Of it, all men fear it. He declares that
the most devout Christian and the most
sensuous skeptic recoil from it, resist it,
put it of sight, struggle to forget it to
the last. "It is the one overwhelming
terror OF every human life"
II is said that the following anecdote,
which has been told of a number of peo-
pie, originated with Lord Cowley, who,
at one of his own parties in Paris. was
leaning against the mantlepiece when
an unknown gentleman said to him,
''Do you mean to say that Lord Cowleys
parties are never liyeiier than this ?"
'Never." "Well," said the stranger,
''then I shall take myself off at once"
you're a lucky man," said Lord Cow
ley, with a sigh; I'm obliged to stop"
From a paper contributed by the
veteran scholar, DIR. Edkins, to recent
number of the Chinese Recorder, it ap-
pears that about B. G. 220O the Chinese
possessed a knowledge of the art OF
writing, year of 366 days with an in
tercalary month, the astrolabe, the
zodiac, the cycle of sixty, of twelve
musical reeds forming a gamut, which
also constituted the basis of denary
neurology for measures of length,
weight, and capacity, diyination, and a
feudal system.
The manufacture of "bnffalo-horn"
furniture has become an industry In
New York City. The horns are not
those of the bison, as is commonly be-
lieved, but are from the cattle killed in
the abattoirs. They are sold at the
slaughter houses for little more than
what the button manufacturers give, are
cleaned, dried, scrap d and polished.
The cost of making these horn goods is
less than that of carved wood, but they
bring two or three times more than the
latter. The new industry is almost mo-
nopolized by Germans from Saxony.
On the 21st of July, 1909, died Daniel
Lambert, at the early age of SO. What
his actual weight was at the time of his
death is not exactly known; but three
years before that melancholy event
when he exhibited himself at his house,
53 P.cadily, he weighed, according to
one of his exhibition bills, l, ,222 pounds,
London weight. The coffin enclosing
his remains, which was with some diff
Gully deposited in st. Marks Church
yard, contained no less than 112 super
fetal feet of elm, was 6 feet 4 inches
long, feet inches wide, and feet 4
inches deep.
SOME of the Tichborne claimants
friends visited him in Portsea convict
prison the other day, and told him of
the proceedings in the colony of New
South Wales for the release of "Arthur
Orton" from the Paramatta lunatic
asylum. The claimant said he did not
mean to slumber when he came out of
prison. Hewill be released on the Oath
of October next from Pentonville
prison, to which place he will be re-
moved about week previously. Eleven
members of Parliament have signed the
memorial to the Home Secretary for
"Arthur Orton" to be brought to Lon