News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-11
ODDS AND ENDS.


cents.
ONLY one-fftieth of the people in Ber-
lin attend church.
OHIO RURAL preachers are up In arms
against roller skating.
In England female doctors are
termed 'lady medlcals. "
GREAT BRITAIN has eleven iron-clads
in course of construction:
DIR. NEWMAN HALL took the temper
ance pledge forty years ago.
A NEWTON, Ga, man has paid for
farm with the melons off it.
OVER 669 Northern Pacific cars are
hauling stock FROM Montana.
THE value of this years crops in
Kansas is put at $3.50, OOO,O 600.
AN underground stream at Birming-
ham. Ala, is utilized as q sewer.
THERE are ninety-four varieties of
wine grapes grown in California.
THE third largest river in the world is
in Australia. 1t is called the Darling.
THERE are %, 900, 900 head of cattle in
the States west of the Mississippi river.
FRoas' legs have taken Replace of
oysters as fashionable dish for lunch.
ONE.THIRD of the newspapers pub
lished in Italy bear the title of Gazette. !"
LOUISIANA has over half as much tim
Der as Minnesota, Wisconsin and Mlchl-
gan.
FLAX is grown in southern Dakota for
the seed, the fibre going mainly to
waste.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to have the next
meeting of the Concord school in Chi
cago.
THERE were so many murders in Rome
last wear that no track was kept of
them.
LITTLE Belgium has GAL newspapers
and magazines, of which 70 are daily
papers.
THERE are nearly 100000 members
of the African Methodist Church In this
country.
A HERD of hybrid cattle-one-half
buffalo and one-haf cows exciting at
tention in Canada.
TWILIGHT parties, where there is no
light but a CRATE fire, are very fash
ionable in the East.
THERE is at least 10000, 900 of I'm
claimed money now in the vaults OF the
United States Treasury.
The Mormons are rapidly colonizing
in Arizona. Two thousand entered the
Territory last summer.
THE telephone has been introduced in
New Zealand, Van Diemens Land,
Borneo, and Formosa.
THE German admiralty considers $50
torpedo boats necessary for the defence
Of the German coasts.
The assessors of Atlanta, Ga, make
the valuation of that city So, 05S, 35e
greater than it was last year.
THE California Silk Culture Associa-
ton has been compelled to suspend
operations from lack of funds.
The Sunday leagues are endeavoring
to secure the closing of the New Or
leans Exposition on the Sabbath.
DURING the year Massachusetts, has
paid her militia S73, SIT for special duty,
spring and fall drills and camp duty.
Missouri raised this year very nearly
90 OGO, 900 bushels of corn, the largest
crop ever produced in the State.
OF the Anglican bishops six are wild
overs. five are married for the second
time, and one is living with his thirG
wife.
WE1LExECUTED ten-dollar counterfeit
notes upon the Cincinnati Nationa
Bank, of Cincinnati, o, are in circula-
ton.
A TURN1P grown near Marquette,
Mich, weighs IS pounds, measures 80
inches in circumference and IL inches in
diameter.
THE locomotive which hauls trains
through the st. Gothard Tunnel is fire.
less. The steam is supplied from sta
tionary boiler.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE, of the United
States Supreme Court, has never missed
a session of his court since he has been 9
member of it.
THE German authorities, with view
to discourage emigration, have forbidden
the railways to carry emigrants at re.
duced rates.
In San Francisco there is Ia craze TO,
quakes the buildings are seldom higher
than two stories.
In Cleveland county, N. c., there is a
vein of fine cassiterite, for which a party
of English capitalists have made an
offer of 100000.
The pauper population of England
exceeds by some 10000 souls the en-
tire population of the great colony of
New South Wales.
AS AN evidence of the great march of
modern civilization it is stated that St.
Peters Church, Rome, is to be lighted
with electric lights.
The manufacture of watches and
clocks in Switzerland has of late suffered
SO severely that many of the factories
have been indefinitely closed.
THE Marquis of Camden, now IL years
old, asked the Court of Chancery to in
crease his allowance of $4,000 a year
to $40, 900, on the ground that the for
mer was not enough to live on.
ALTHOUGH newspaper reading is
greatly on the increase in Austria Hun
gary, it is estimated that some twenty
millions of the nation never see paper.
The action of Adelbert College, at
Cleveland, in favor of coeducation of the
sexes has caused q revolt, and eighty
boys have refused to attend Rotations.
EATING small piece of soap at stated
intervals is recommended by Berlin
physician as better remedy for dyspep-
STA and sour stomach than soda, mag
nesia, or lime water.
THERE are twenty-four gaming houses
and gambling clubs in Paris, and be-
tween $50, 100000 and $50, 900, 600 are
computed to have been lost there during
the last five years.
CHICAGO now claims population of
$50, 900, of whom 456, S65 are foreigners,
against native American contingent of
143, 600. OF Germans there are 200, 631
and of Irish ia zoos.
AT an English wedding the brides
maids were dressed in white lace, with
long white wells, with the curious addi-
tions of red wreaths and red shoes as re-
lief to the predominant color.