News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

INDIANA has AZ, 421 more males than
females, and Massachusetts, has $4,000
more women than men. Go East,
young man, go East.
BRITISH courts have decided that when
person has not been seen or heard o
for seven years the presumption is death
and the insurance company must pay up.
The Great Pyramid contains 2, 300, 900
stones, weighing on an average two and
half tons each. The granite beams of
the kings chamber weigh between fifty
and sixty tons.
DIR. FARR has divided life as follows:
Boyhood, 10 to Is years; youth, Is to
25; manhood, 25 to 55; maturity, So to
IS; ripeness, rs to 95; and old age, 85
and upward.
Mr.. JOSEPH e. TEMPLE, of Philadel-
phia, has given the Pennsylvania Muse
um and Schools of Industrial Art $50, 900.
on conditions that the income shall be
paid to him during his life.
WHAT a satire ON "outdoor" sports,
says the New York World, is a walking
match in such sitting atmosphere that
the smell of tobacco and bad fum makes
more than one of the contestants sick.
For complete case of atonement a
Lewiston, Maine, man takes the prize
Having spent ten years in prison he is
now engaged in paying off his old debts,
as well as compensating those from
whom he had stolen.
THE membership of some of the En-
glish unions is as follows /: Boiler
makers, $4,000; weavers, $1,000; cot
ton spinners, 1900; tailors, II, ,658; Ia
borers, II, 500; iron founders, II, ,563;
'Nteiiesnasons, II, 1000; printers, 5000.
a AgIs ~. ;al writer is greatly irS7es,
censed becausG an American doctor pro-
poses the drinking of hot water as a
health measure; he says that for some
time to come men IN general will care
little for hot water except in their foot
bath.
WHILE on the march to the place of
execution an English soldier, recently
sentenced to death, complained of the
man in front of him for not keeping
step to the music. He said it made him
sick to see a soldier marching out of
time.
THE album of the Bank of England in
which specimens of counterfeits are pre-
served has three notes which passed
through the Chicago fire. Though they
are burnt to crisp, black ash. the
paper is scarcely broken, and tho e2-
craving is as clear as new.
A TREMENDOUS waterspout was that
which burst over Hutchins Station, on
the Texas Central Railroad. The water
is represented as being ten feet deep on
level ground. Farm implements, fences
and crops were destroyed, and not
bridge remained. The damage was very
severe.
Two HUNDRED and seventy two new
Lutheran houses of worship were dedi-
Gated in this country last year. OF
these 1872 were built by German, SO by
English, 7 by German English, 26 by
Swedish, 7 by Norwegian, by Norwe-
gian Danish, and by Danish congrega-
tions.
A TOMATO Gamer says the cause of
poisoning from eating canned tomatoes
IS this:-When the can is opened and
only portion of the contents removed,
the air acts upon the tin and develops
The poison. The can should be emptied
at once, and the unused portion put in
an earthen vessel.
PRESIDENT HOARD, of the Northwest
ern Dairymen's Association, thinks it is
strange that not one in a hundred of the
patrons of the cheese factories of the
NJsrtia<vest z~tbe1aS1 dairy conven-
ton. The President forgets, says an
exchange, that the dairy has very little
to do with the manufacture of cheese
LAST year the women of the United
States gave $500, 900 toward Christianiz-
ing the heather. OF this large sum
women gave nearly $780,
BOO: Baptist women, $156, 900; Con-
women, $780, 700; Northern
Methodist women, $10S, 900; and South
ern Methodist women, $25, 900.