News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-30
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

DISCOVERED among the ruins OF the
Zuni and Aztec cities are spindles and
whorls remarkably like those employed
by the Highlanders in Scotland. Inc
position of some would indicate an an
tiquity Of at least 1000 years.
A NICE little Boston girl, finding that
she remarkably resembled the leading
actress in theatrical company, found
diversion in ordering large quantity OF
finery sent to her double, and signing
chat persons name to numerous passes.
IT rs said that the estate of the late
Bishop Simpson, amounting to nearly
hundred thousand dollars, was nearly
all the result of profitable investments
which the advice aud opportunities
given by warm friends enabled him to
make.
AN architect says that forty-nine
people out of fifty who build homes for
themselves voluntarily increase his esti-
mates from 81, 900 to So, 900, by changes
they want made on the original plans,
and in case they get ''stuck" they howl
at him.
THE Missouri father took most SEN
sible view of the situation when he did
not pursue his clipping daughter, but
sent clergyman on a swift horse to
oyertake the couple, in order that the
marriage ceremony might be performed
properly.
A WEDDING in Boston was lately fore
stalled by the death of the bridegroom.
The bridal dress is understood to have
been thereby bewitched in some manner
and several successive possessors of j
believe that it has brought illness anc
other evils to them.
W. HA1IErT GREENE, coloret
youth, and graduate of the College o
the City of New York, has been ap
pointed to the Signal Service corps
Gen. Hazen objected to the appointmen
but Secretary Lincoln in special orde
ordered the enlistment made.
The oldest and largest tree in th
world, as far as known, is chestnu
near the foot of Mount Etna. It
hollow, and big enough to admit tw
carriages driving abreast through ii
The circumference of the main trunk
212 feet. The Grizzly Giant, monarc
of the Mariposa Grove, measures 9
| feet.
, The law about the admission of Chins
men is so rigidly enforced on the Pacif
coast that cinnamon residing in Sa
Frannisco found, on going across th
line into British America, that he coul
not go back without making the iourneyt
China and return, in order to obtain
certificate that he was a merchant
and not laborer.
STANDING Rock, a Custer massacl
Indian, died of consumption, last montl
while travelling with an Iowa circu
Sitting Bull and his braves are on exh
hilton in New York city. This fore
the belief upon mind OF m e1Scf1a1at
f that the Custer massacre was after
: only a shrewd advertising dodge on tt
n part of the aborigines.
: OFFICIAL raiders caught an unlicense
: liouor business in full operation
e Adams, Mass. The keeper hasti
!, emptied his keg of whisky into sin
: whereupon the enemy plugged the ven
so as to secure some of the fluid as e1
: dence. A hard fight ensued, in whi'
o many eyes were blackened and the he
!, was repeatedly stopped and unstoppe
e but a sponge was satuated with the
Il Gaping beverage, and carried off to
S carefully squeezed and tested.
q In was supposed that the difficult
y between the New York Tribune and
II old printers were settled, but the De
. tral Labor Union received Sunday the l
J. port of Typographical Union No. 6 on
,e failure of its negotiation to end the 7T'
n u,,e strike. The report said that Mr.. Re
a had conceded everything the printe
rt asked for, and then had made stipu
Y. tons on his par: that totally nullified
E. of theirs, The committee then refus
a to treat with Mr.. Reid. The boycotti
of the Tribune will continue.