News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-06
ODDS AND ENDS.

They have been sleigh-riding in Nova
Scotia.
OMAHA is talking of a cable street
railway.
The Mormons have sent missionary
to Hayti.
The average number of hairs on the
head is 10000.
THEY have discovered petroleum in
Formosa, China.
New YORK has accident suits on hand
involving 81, 500, 900.
A SCIENTIST says it is water and not
food thst makes people fat.
IoTs OF English noblemen are coming
over to "the States" this fall.
The grandson of the Emperor of Ger
many is skilful photographer.
REPORTED that Sitting Bull has made
$4,000 since he opened his show.
THERE are $500, 900 colored voters IN
this country out of total of IA, 900, 000
In Washington Territory owl stuffed
with sauerkraut is fayorite article of
diet.
QUEEN VICTORIA has 1000 people in
her household at cost of g, 100000 a
year.
A TwENTY-sIx pound mountain trout,
forty-seven inches long, is on exhibition
in Denver.
TWENTY TWO women working In the
Changing was one of the sad sights at
Atlanta, Ga.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
tons in this country own $4,000, 900
worth of property.
JOSEPH PETTIJoHN of Washington
Territory has a seventeen-year- son
who is over seven feet tall.
The smallness of the tobacco leaves
in the present Virginia crop will change
the grade of Virginia tobacco.
A Boston savings bank cashier says
it is the poorest dressed people who de
post the most money as rule.
France is making the largest cannon
for Spain that has ever been made in
that country for foreign power.
PRoF. BRNToN advises patients with
stiffened shoulders to bore twenty holes
p inches deep in soft plank daily.
The word "Mugwump," is derived
from the tongue of the Massachusetts
Indians, and signifies ''Noble lord"
Wills giving 100000 to the So
clety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals are in the possession of Bergh.
A STEAM Touring mill at Madison, Da-
kota, uses hay for fuel, of which it burns
three and a half tons every twenty-four
hours.
TIE annual consumption of imported
and domestic cigars is sixty to every
man, woman and child in the United
States.
THE 604, 900 dead soldiers left 307, 600 |
widows who have applied for pensions,
as shown by the report of the Commits
sioner of Pensions.
THEY now make handsome furniture
out of pressed black walnut sawdust,
which is capable of as high polish as
he solid wood itself.
A MEDICAL enthusiast has started a
peach cure near Wilmington, DEL, SIM
liar to the grape cure of Germany and
the pear cure of California.
THE Irish informers have founded a
colony in Brazil, where they fatter
themselves they are safe from the buhe.s
Of their indignant countrymen.
KossUTH lives IN a little attic apart
ment at Turin, having retired from his
business as teacher of the English lam
yuage, and is feeble in his cid age.
CINCINNATI is to have an odd monu-
nent, In the form of a ruin. built from
The broken pillars and fragments of the
court house burned during the riot.
THE Chinese Government offers am
1esty to all Chinese subjects who will
return home and enter into the service
IF the Government in the war against
France.
In Jerusalem, the leper quarter is out
side of the city near the Zion Gate, and
presents horrible sight, beside which
the lazar house of the Sandwich Islands
Is an earthly paradise.
The demand for opium as nerve
stimuiant during the cholera scare in |
Europe SAID to-h have advanced the
price of the drug more than twenty-five |
per cent, even in British markets.