News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-11
ODDS AND ENDS.

The Bavarians are making a new beer
from rice.
YELLOW will be the reigning color for
September.
BROOKLYN is to have an elevated rail
road at last.
New York produces 1000, 900, 900
cigars every year.
PARRICIDE is increasing to an alarm
ing extent in France.
The Labrador fishery is almost COM
plete failure this year.
FAsTIDIoUs WOMEN declare that lace is
becoming too'popular.
FoRRsrs still cover nearly one-ifth
of the surface of Europe.
THE recent Chicago pork corner made
81 900, 900 for Mr.. Armour.
a MEETING of brewers at Berlin was
termed Psychological Congress-"
Mr.. GossE has discovered an unpub-
hshed poem by Gray of some length.
Tn mines of great richness have been
discovered not far from Pinal, in Arizona.
TwENTY-THRFE members of one family
belong to a single church at Cowela, Ga.
THE wife of a wealthy L1gansport
Qnd. } ieweler eloped twice in one week.
SEVEN Chicago policemen have been
sent to luuatic asylums during the past
year.
THERE is not SO much elaborate dress
ing at the summer resorts as usual this
season.
The merchants of the City of Mexico
have formed a battalion of the national
guards.
THERE is nearly 5000, 900, 900 in silver
coin in the Government vaults in Wash
ington.
THERE is more snow on the Sierras
than has been known at this season for
20 years.
"NEARLY all the rich men in the
United States" says Mr.. Moody, "were
born poor"
THERE are at present sos potteries in
the United States, half of which are in
New Jersey.
FIFTEEN young women from Mt. Holy
oke, Mass, are taking tramp in the
Adirondacks.
In making infants shoes fifteen differ
emit machines are used, costing between
$3.50 and S4OO.
FEMALE physicians in Russia are so
restricted that they are scarcely more
than skilled nurses.
A VERY common tavern sign in British
India is, Animals OF all kinds stuffed at
the shortest notice"
CERTAIN portions of the Alps have
been covered with snow this summer to
an unprecedented extent.
AFTER January l, 1885, no house in
Berlin can be higher than the width of
the street on which it faces.
The new railroad cuttings about Ber-
gen Hill, n. J., have opened large de-
posits of odd and rare minerals.
DURING the first four months of this
year $50, 504, 900 was invested in manu-
features and mining in the South.
SINCE 1878 the lay schools of France
have gained 60O,00 students, while the
religious schools have lost 200, 900.
The coming corn crop is estimated at
1921, 000,000 bushels. against $50 &c.,
0GO last year and 8l3, III, 600 in 1882.
ABOUT G, 900 palace, sleeping and hotel
cars are now operated by the Pullman
Company in this country and England.
In some parts of Africa brides on their
wedding day have their front teeth ex-
tracted and their finger nails cut very
close.
ABOUT 200 fruit cars are necessary for
the transportation of California products
of orchard and vineyard to Eastern
cities.
RECENT explorations in the South
Carolina mari beds have disclosed the
fossils of over 1000 different species of
animals.
As LATE as 1910 there were but seven
vacations into which New England wo-
men had entered; in 1884 the number
was 317.
The Baltimore american says: 1t
will be nip and tuck this fall between
the campaign liar and the dramatic adj
vance agent.
WOMEN and girls own nearly one-half
of the deposits in the saving banks of
Massachusetts, having to their credit
Sly, 932, 800.
DRUNKENNESS is falling of among the
Irish In Ireland, but increasing in Italy
and Spain and among the negroes of the
Southern States.
BERLIN oculists report that the iron
dust floating from elevated railroads in
streets has added 8 per cent. to the
profits OF the profession.
PROSECUTIONS by the French Govern
ment of publishers Of immoral works
have been frequent of late, and heavy
fines have been inflicted.
DURING religious service at Block
Island hotel on recent Sabbath col
lection was taken up for a waiter who
desires to study theology.
Qua trade with Japan has increased
rapidly. In 1860 we imported 365, 900
pounds of tea from that country, and
last year "a. GOO, 600 pounds.
The wheat crop of Ontario will exceed
last years by 10, 800, 900 bushels. The
yield of hay will be LOCO, 600 tons less,
while the corn crop is improving.
PUsCHER, the Nuremberg chemist.
says paste composed of starch, glycer-
inc, and gypsum will maintain its plas-
ITCHY longer than any other cement.