News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-04
ODDS AND ENDS.

FLORIDA viii raise $1,000 900 boxes of
oranges this season.
In politics the loser gets the same re-
Turns as the winner.
KIRcHER originated the germ theory
of diseases 200 years ago.
The word Mugwump came originally
from Eliot's Indian Bible.
ILLINOIS has 222, All farms, Ohio 257,-
1S9, and New York 241, 05S.
OPIUM has increased % per cent. in
price since the Chinese war.
FRANK CHANFRAU, the actor, left q
hundred and sixty thousand dollars to
his wife.
AUSTRALIA wants a new harvesting
machine, and offers 81, 900 reward for an
invention.
A HUNDRED thousand dollars are left in
charity by the viii of the late Baron
Rothschild.
INFANT mortality in France is COM
puted at from 20 to % per cent. of the
population.
The proprietors of the Century maya
zine prints 10000 copies of the De-
cember number.
THREE hundred arrests have been
made IN connection with the latest plot
to murder the Gear.
THE Health Exhibition recently closed
ID London achieved sure success. Its
profits were e3O,00
GENERAL JOHN NEWTON asks $3.50, 900
Tor the defense of Boston Harbor by the
construction of turretS.
The drinking habit is greatly increas-
ing in Germany, and saloons are multi
plying with fearful rapidity.
THE culture of salmon in Maine is a
success. Over 100, eco, 900 eggs will be
taken there for propagation.
The fruit crop of this country, accord.
ing to Mr.. Marshall 2. Wilder, is worth
hundred and forty millions year.
THERE are over 6, 600 miles of over
head wires in New York city, and 122
miles of streets are defaced by them.
PARIS is to have an elevated road in
time for the exhibition of 1889. Fifteen
miles will be in operation by that time.
ST PAUL's Church, London, is said to
be in filthy condition, and is worse
kept than the smallest village church in
Italy.
Ten years ago clans were unknown
in California waters. Now there are
millions of them dug on that coast an
nually.
THE population of the United States
increases at the rate of 80 per cent.
every ten years. 1t will be $4,000 900
IN 1900.
TH1s year for the first time, it is
said. the Zulus have had the entire
Bible translated for them into their own
language.
A DRUG trade journal is advertising
new patent medicine which is declared
to be ''the only specific for the fear of
lightning"
The amount of money now in the
United States, both paper and coin, has
reached the comfortable sum of ST.
SOC, 1000, 600.
THE Baroness Coutts is loaning dis
tressed Irish fishermen money for the
purchase of boats, thereby saving them
from starvation.
one hundred miles in seven hours aud
eleven minutes, the fastest bicycle time
vet made, is the record Of Mr.. George
Smith, of London.
ground of farmer of Burlington, New
Jersey, of the name of Seckel, some sew
enty-five years ago.
IT is 8, 023 miles from New York city
to Mexico by one line of railway and
8, 729 by the other. By water it is near
" twice that distance.
THE Pullman Palace Car Company
owns l, 14S sleeping cars and has 2, 53l
stockholders. The company has a sur /
plus of over 81, 000, 900.
A PREMIUM of $4,000 is offered by
the Mexican government to any one who
will establish in that country paper
mill at cost of $4,000
THE Russians are to substitute the
residuunn of naphtha for coal as a fuel.
1t has much more heat giving properties
and is easier to handle and transport.
THE Fairbanks house in Dedham,
Mass, built in 1886, is probably the old
est house in America. The whole struc-
ture is still standing in good condition.
WHEN General Fremont was famine
stricken on the Great American Desert
he administered an oath to his men
to die rather than to commit cannibal-
ism.
MEXICAN merchants complain that
they are constantly victimized by re-
cei7ing goods from the United States
which are much inferior to the samples
displayed by drummers.
THE first railway built in the United
States was three miles in length, extend
ing from the granite quarries at Quincy,
Mass, to the Neponset river. 1t was
commenced in 1926 and completed in
1927.
THERE is a sinister rumor in France
to the effect that the cholera germ which
has caused the recent deaths came from
the garments of the French soldiers who
died of cholera during the Crimean cam
paign of 1856.
FIVE out of the twenty-one Presidents
were of Scotch-Irish lincage-Jackson,
Polk, Buchanan, johnson and Arthur;
two of Scotch-Grant and Hayes; one
of Welsh-JeffersOn, and one of Dutch
Van Buren,; the remaining twelve be-
ing of English descent.