News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-28
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

co, ,83S, 900 from the property and income
tax, G352, 900 from the customs, tooo'-
788 from stamps, e29O,000 from the
post-ofice, EGO, 900 from telegraphs, ana
G51. coo from house duty.
THE american Grocer FINDS that III
1888 100000 cases of tomatoes were
packed in the United States, each con-
tanning two dozen tins. The exact figures
are 70,645, 1896 cans. Their value at
wholesale was probably $6,00O,O 600.
Maryland puts up about one-half of the
product, and New Jersey over fifth.
TIE PRIZE OF $4,000 offered by the
French Academy of Medicine for cure
for diphtheria was demanded at their
last meeting by all sorts OF people,
among whom were glass maker, ma
chinist. an iron founder, hotel keeper,
and justice of the peace; two women
applied for it, one a lawyers wife, and
the other the wife of veterinary surgeon.
One man proposed that the diphtheritic
patient be beaten until he expelled the
membrane, and another that he be ex-
posed to scarlatina as counter irritant-
There were several who wanted their ex-
penses paid to Paris so that they might
explain their method of cure, and alarge
number who refused to disclose the secret
before receiving the $5, 900. No one had
found the 1nfallibIe
THE LATE JOSEPH ARNOLD, who was
for many years cashier of the Birming-
ham Conn Bank, had a prodigious
memory. The Sentinel of Ansonia says
that after he had heard Mrs. Kimberly
read "Hiawatha" he repeated the entire
poem. He lost his temper to the point
of profanity just once: A farmer had
called to deposit some money. Mr..
Arnold counted it, and found it five
dollars short. The farmer persisted,
and the cashier counted it again, with
the same result. "Well, there was that
sum when you took it p the farmer
broke out. The cashier stopped, looked
his customer square in the eye, and re-
torted, "Do you suppose, sir, that
would be such an Internal fool as to steal
five dollars when I could step right
back there (pointing to the Vault and
steal 100000"
APRoFEssIoNAL MAN WITH good In
come writes to an English paper that he
has recently apprenticed his son, 10
years old, to builder. "Of course"
says the father, che has to work at the
bench and go out on jobs, but he is
happy and his time well employed.
When he is 21 he will have become
master of his trade, and, being an edu-
Gated lad and sharp to boot, very few
pounds would start him in one of the
colonies on the high road to competency.
The silly pride of parents" he says, sis
the chief drawback to their sons sue
cess in life.
A sEARCHER FOR TRUTH writes from
Portland, Oregon, that the great North
west is not the place for men without
some money. He adds that if men who
are down at the heel and played out
everywhere else continue to push for
ward into Oregon, that great State will
be a fools paradise by another year,
with more tramps than there were IN
New England just after the collapse In
| 1873, Clerks and mechanics may as well
stay where they are, and, indeed, the
farmer who has from $500 to 5000 will
do better to stay at home than to spend
-
country.
A FARM IN THE TOWN of Eliot, Me-,
has been the home of nine generations
of one family, having been handed down
from father to son for nearly $50 years.
The first house was built of bricks i'm
ported from the old country, but in 1736
it was so shaken by an earthquake that
it was torn down and the present struc-
ture built of heavy oak timber. Upward
of rs children have been born and
brought up there, and it is recorded that
only one unmarried person has ever died
in it, except one child, who was accident
ally killed.
A WAITER EMPLOYED IN restaurant
says: "Any housekeeper can prove the
honesty of her grocer or his butter by
melting it. Pure butter melted pro-
duces a pure, Iimpid, golden oil, and it
retains the butter flavor. Melt oleomar-
parine and the oil smells like tallow
and looks like tallow, and scum raises
to the surface. Butterine is a mixture
of dairy butter and fats. Melt that and
the butter oil will rise to the top. Pour
this off and you will find the fats at the
bottom, whitish in color and giving off
disagreeable smell.
ONA SIDE TRACK in the city of Roches
ter. on bitter cold night recently, re-
| porter for the Democrat and Chronicle
| found a carful of immigrants. The air
was heavy with tobacco smoke and
score of children scampered down the
aisle and under the seats. A poor woman
| Law on blanket on the floor with babe
not many weeks old. She had no food
and the railroad men said that the Castle
Garden officials had sent her out OF New
York without food. The train men had
inst made up purse and sent for bread
and milk, and while she was eating they
told the reporter that scores OF lmml-
grants 90 through from New York to
their destination in the West without
eating, and that many of them have nc
friends at the end of the journey, and dc
not know whittier they are going. They
brave the horrors of the middle passage
in crossing the, ocean, and when they
enter an emigrant car they fare no better
FIFTY TENTS ON ICE, near the head Of
Patterns Bay, few miles east OF the
Penobscot, are occupied by fifty or more
Maine farmers, sailors, and fishermen,
who are catching smelts. The industry
there is profitable in January and Feb
ruary only, and then for only four hours
day, during the incoming of the tide
The men fish through holes in the ice
; and get an average of fifty pounds day
each. The fish are laid on boards, hmI
from the water, and after they freez'
they are packed in barrels and shippeG
! to Boston and New York, where tn,
D price is from eight to ten cents a pound
THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, JR., of Stock
ton, Cal. having begun to buy cats wit
; the purpose of exterminating the gopher
that are laying waste the fields of alfalf
on Union Island, the Sacramento U1aio
: tells pertinent cat story: Shortly afte
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