News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-24
ODDS AND ENDS.


FLORIDA is utilizing convicts on tur-
pentine farms.
SOME 10000 children are living on
canal-boats in England.
MARRIAGES between Christians and
Jews in Hungary are illegal.
In INDIA $3.50 females are en-
gagged in industrial occupations.
A BALTIMORE man claims a divorce
from his wife for cruel treatment.
EMIGRATION to Texas is said to be<25
per cent greater this year than last.
MORE wheat was sown in Illinois this
season than during any previous year.
THERE have been 100 murders in
Leadville, Col, since its incorporation.
OVER 2. Zoo, 900 sheep are within the
borders of Bernadillo County, New
Mexico.
STATISTICS show that in India wild
beasts destroy about ZOO human lives
annually.
LONDON Bible societies have given
away 4, $50, ego copies of the Scriptures
the past year.
BUFFALO boasts that one of its wards
contains a larger population than the
State of Nevada.
A MELBOURNE paper says that thirty
| five known lotteries are being carried
on in Melbourne.
GENEVA sent to the United States in
the first half of the year 1888 $25, 900
worth of music boxes.
DURING the past four years Arkansas,
TN r
doubled their railroad mileage.
The New England mackerel trade is
almost in panic. There is a decrease
of 1S3, 454 barrels from last year.
SEvENTY-sEvEN per cent. of our ex-
ports during 1888 have been of agricul-
tural products and mineral oil.
EDISON SAYS: 'It requires as much
vention as to make the inventions"
CALIFORNIA is suffering from an over
dose of oleomargarine, and associations
are being formed to prevent its sale.
A NEWSPAPER in Paris has been sued
for damages for printing a portrait of a
countess which did not look like her.
IT IS estimated that $5,OOO,OO of
phosphate mining and manufacturing
interests are owned in Charleston, S. G.
PRAIRIE DOGS dig their own wells.
Frontiersman T. Leech tells Good Cheer
that he knows of such a well 200 feet
deep.
The Yuma Indians on the Colorado,
bury watermelons in the dry desert sand,
and preserve them all winter, fresh and
crisp.
Goldfish have reappeared off New
buryport, Mass, since the Merrimack
has been restocked with shad and ale
wives.
ILLINOIS has produced 0,50S, 791 tons
of coal during the last year, an increase
of 1898, 1873 tons over the previous
twelve months.
Ex-Governor ENGLISH of Connecticut.
who started out in life as carpenter, is
now worth $4,000, 900, and is the richest
man in his State.
THE only mandatory of cutlery in
Canada has just been established at
Montreal, beginning with forty men
brought over from Sheffield.
PRESIDENT GoRRINGE has over q thou
sand men at work in his shipyard. He
now has on the stocks 10 iron vessels of
Nd11Ouo dpdS1tlGc.
TWELVE graduates of Phillips Exeter
Academy, New Hampshire, have been
Governors of States, the list including
Cass, Everett, Butler. and Dix.
The largest COW in America, it is be-
ieved, belongs to John Pratt, of Chase
county, Kan. 1t is years old, % hands
high, and weighs 8, 200 pounds.
Nruv IT ,,rpc,rrrDr ooop oI,1J, 4Io4 ir
ten years old has just caught its first
coon, and the Hartford COurant sug-
gests that the coon was probably sick.
AwoUNDED soldier who lives in Bur-
hngton, Iowa-the Gazette of that city
tells the story-declines to draw anymore
pension money because he has recovered
from his wounds.
A RECENTLY published statement of
the yield of precious metals show that
in 1882 the output of gold in the entire
world was valued at $118, 100000 and
of silver at 1914, 100000.
A FOREST fire in British Columbia ex-
ploded a powder mill. Every pane of
glass in a village near by was broken,
and verybody exclaimed "Why, have
the schools opened again ?"
IT IS asserted that there is a one
legged Confederate soldier in Georgia
who has never drawn any State pension,
because all of his command were killed,
and there is no one to certify to his hay
ing been in the army.
IT WAS dull day in BARRIERS shop
in Bangor, Me-, and one of the loungers
offered him rs cents for the receipts of
the day. The offer having been &C.
cepted, the lounger went out and
drummed up his friends, and the receipts
reached about $40.
THE Eddystone Light of the Pacific is
to be erected on Seal Rock, st. Georges
Reef, eight miles from the shore, oppo-
site Crescent City, CAL, and will cost
S400, 900. The highest point of Seal
Rock is fifty-four feet above mean tide.
The light will be 100 feet higher.