News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

BARON NoRDENsKJoLD, IT IS SAID, is
contemplating voyage next year to the
South Polar regions. The expedition is
to cost 81 100000
THE New YORK FLORISTS make up
small flowers into slippers. A pair soled
with velvet and lined with satin may be
bought for the moderate sum of $50.
AN ENGLISH JOURNAL SAYS THAT if the
emigration of young Irish couples to
America continues the population of
Ireland will eventually fall to three mil
lions.
THE OFFICIAL STATISTICS of Canadian
railroads for 1888 show /, 275 miles built;
S33, ,244, 595 the gross revenue, 169 per-
sons killed, and $50 persons injured dur
ing the year.
In WARSAW, WYoMIEs-z r0JINTE, N. Z,
there. are eight salt s.ells. Solid salt
is found at a distance from the surface
of from 1,600 to 1,S00 feet The beds
are about 80 feet thick.
Mr.. SEYMOUR, OF THE Butter, Cheese
and Egg Exchange, says that some of
the best families of New York have
abandoned the use of butter because of
their distrust of its purity.
In THE SOUTH, or FFeiN mills are on
the increase. Since Jan. 1 1901
spindles have been added, and the mills
recently opened or in course of construc-
ton are worth over So, 3,250,000.
CINCINNATI HAS PENNED UP in her jail
thirty homicides, seventeen ou. on bail
accused of the same crime, and twenty
more roaming at will from having slipped
through the legal moose that justly claims
them.
4 BILL HAS BEEN INTRODUCED in the
Legislature of Massachusetts, which pro-
hibits the exhibition of deformed per-
sons who are minors or insane, and of
persons who have an appearance of de-
formity produced by artificial means.
THE IsTHMUs OF CoRINTH, now under
consideration, will, it is said, be surely
completed by 1887. The canal, 100
miles in length, Will unite the Ionian
of 120 miles round the Cape of Matapan.
THE CARTER FAMILY is TO have re-
union in Woburn, Mass, on Wednesday,
June IL. The exercises will include an
address of welcome, with response, a
genealogical address, poem, orchestral
and vocal music, and after-djnner
speeches.
DURING THE RECENT FIGHTING in Egypt
Baker Pashas cheekbone was splintered
by four-ounce iron bullet, which was
so firmly fixed in the bone that it had to
be sawed out-a long and painful oper-
ation-which was endured without any
an@sthetic.
THE LONDON Lancet INFORMS A COR
respondent that 'the possibility, nay,
the certainty in many cases, of flies |
being medium of infection, especially
in warm climates, has been repeatedly |
pointed out. thongh perhaps mot suffi- |
cIen1iy borne III nliiti.7
A North CAROLINA MAN whose house |
was demolished by tornado afterward |
found his watch hanging on a small
limb of tree that had blown down in
the yard, the chain wrapped several
times around the limb. 1t was ticking
away as if nothing had happened.
RECENT EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED BY |
Professor Koeuig, of Berlin, shows that, |
within the range of the normal spectrum,
healthy eye can perceive about 800 |
differences of color, and its color -sensi-
tiveness ranges from more than one |
down TO 0.2 millionth of millimetre.
GEN. BUTLER is NOW SAID to have it in |
mind to write book of "reminiscences.
A Boston publisher says that if he would |
write book in two volumes it would be |
ensy to sell 25O,OOO copies through
agents. This, at 80 cents a volume,
would give the author royalty of
$25O,0OO.
THE ST.. LOUIS Medical Brief states
that DIR. Rasori recommends the use of
tuning fork in the treatment of neu-
ralgic pains, the instrument to be ap-
piled, while vibrating, over the course
of the painful nerve. The s1ttings are
said to last about half an hour, when the
pain is usually relieved.
GEN. GORDON SAYS THAT THE indica-
tions are very fattering for raising
81 900, 900 for the Confederate Home in
Richmond, and that he will not cease in
his efforts until this is dore. His
strongest sympathy and help came from
Union soldiers at the North.
LAST YEAR THE MANAGING editor of the
Providence Or. I.) Journal wrote Sen
ator Anthony's obituary, and had it in
type in case of emergency. Not long
ago this young man died suddenly,
and Senator Anthony wrote the funeral
sermon of the editor who had calculated
to survive his employer many years.
Such is life.
The TARIFF DISCUSSION DEVELOPS the
following During the year ending
June 80, 1888, the net value of imports
brought into this country and retained
was Free $197, 663, 1856, Duitable
$505, 901, 158; and on this last item du-
ties to the amount of $40, 63i ,293 were
collected or very nearly fifty percent. of
the amount imported.
The PRESIDENT OF THE New York
Mercantile Exchange says:-The best
dairy butter in this market comes from
the country around Elgin, Illinois. The
creameries there seem to have found
the secret of first-class butter making.
And even the best creameries of New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania do
not possess it.