News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A QUEBEC woman has applied to the
corporation of the ancient city for per
mission to exhibit herself as a curiosity
She weighs 45O pounds and her limbs
are four and half feet in circumference.
THE fish known as Lafayette, and
Fsomewhat resembling porgy, has ap-
peared in vast numbers. 1t derives its
name from the fact that it first appeared
the year that the French General visited
this country.
THERE is a woman's prayer meeting
every afternoon in Saratoga at which the
women pray for the reform and CONVEX
sion of their frivolous sisters who live
for dress only. No conversions have yet
been announced.
COOPERATION in England is success
full. There are $4,000 cooperative stores
with a capital of forty-fiye millions of
dollars, which distribute profit of ten
million dollars annual among the
| stockholders.
WHEN Brazilian gentleman introdu-
ces friend he always adds after the
formula of introduction, eff he steals
anything I am responsible for it." What
fun there would be If this crctoA were
introduced in this country.
Two BOYS at Macclesfeld, Eng, tried
to see which could stare longest at the
sun. One of them soon complained of
intense pain in the eyes and head.
During the following night the pain be-
came agonizing and he died.
Miss CARRIE AsToR wears at Newport
very delicate dress ofshell-tinted crepe,
trimmed with cream lace, caught up in
little shells. She wears if with a cluster
of pinkish cream tea roses and it is con-
s1dered the most artistic dress in New
port.
The deaf-mutes of Pennsylvania in
convention recommended that a State
should establish industrial homes for
the deaf, in which useful occupations
might be taught. The task of earning
living is much more difficult for the
afflicted.
A PARIsIAN marchioness has taken
service in a Marseilles hospital as
nurse for the cholera victims; she is
pretty and young. dresses in plain calico
and has been very useful. She is fulfill
ing vow made during the illness of one
of her children.
THE people of Genoa have already be-
gun to discuss the proper method of
celebrating the fourth centennial of the
discovery of America. Some are in fa-
vor of sending over twelve Genoa sea
captains, as typical of both Columbus
and Garibaldi, to debark on the same
spot that Columbus first trod.
LAST year the women of the United
States gave 5000, 600 toward Christian
izing the heather. OF this large sum
Presbyterian women gave nearly $780,
900; Baptist women, $156, 600; Congrega-
ional women, $130, 900; Northern Meth
odist women $108,000, and Southern
Methodist women over $25, 900.
W. L. PAINTER, a leading merchant of
Pulaski county, Va, was robbed of
S7.5o0s 5000 infloonds ..Ar.1 tlla balance
in money and checks Mr.. Painter was
at dinner at the time the robbery was
committed. He left his store without
locking his safe, and during his absence
the place was entered and the money
and bonds carried off.
The daily consumption of oysters in
VOrIy oit1 0O O0n
To see that no one has to go without
share 500, 900, 600 it is estimated, have
been invested in the business, IN which
10000 persons are employed. In
cluding the 5000 places where oysters
are served the investment is three times
as great and its employees number over
25, 900.
WooD pavement is to be given up in
London, and the old McAdam system
restored. The former is said to have
not only failed to realize the expected
bat has led, according to
Prof. Tyndall's report, to serious affec-
tions of the eyes and lungs; that is, by
continual watering, the wood became
saturated with street filth, and then, un-
der the influence of the hot sun, gave
forth a pernicious species of dust.
The Chinese have what is termed
kite festival on the ninth day of the
ninth moon. Sometimes the kites re-
semble serpents thirty feet long, at
other times a group of hawks lowering
around a centre, all being suspended by
a single strong cord, but each kite
moved by separate line. Sometimes
the kites are cast adrift under the be-
lief that they will carry away with them
all impending disasters.
THE old story of the telegraph oper-
ator in Hyderabad, who telegraphed the
central office: "Tiger jumping about
the platform. What shall I do p was
illustrated by the experience of sta
ton master on the Calcutta railway re-
Gently. A large and apparently very
hungry leopard came into the waiting
room and approached the ticket window. |
The railroad man barricaded himself in
and remained q voluntary prisoner for
five hours, when the leopard left. 1t
was afterward shot about a mile from
the station.
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