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

week.
SOME California beehives have yielded
as high as 600 pounds of honey thiI
season.
AN Alabama farmer obtained eigh
gallons of molasses from 100 water
melons.
A MAN has died in New Hampshire
who had been postmaster of his town
81 years.
The Georgia mosquito attacks cana
ries and hooking birds, and even kills
chickens.
The Celestial Empire says that the
King of Siam has 263 children. He is
under 80.
A MORMON Elder has made bridal
trip every five years, each time with q
new bride.
The large italian ironclads are now
pronounced utterly unseaworthy and
unwieldy.
OVER 500 Cinnamon have been SNUG
gled into Washington Territory within a
short time.
ANNA DICKINSON is living in retire
ment at her mothers house at West
Pittston, Pa.
W. A. RoEBLNG, the Brooklyn Bridge
engineer, has returned from Europe in
better health.
THE five peers who are members of
the English royal family never vote on
political questions.
A GERMAN astronomer thinks he has
discovered cities, towns and villages on
the face of the moon.
IT takes 1000 people to run Queen
Victoria's palaces, and their maintenance
costs e3S5, 900 annually.
THERE is religious sect in the Cri-
mea one of whose tenets is to kill all
who disbelieve in its doctrines.
DURING the year 1888 London had
974 hours of sunshine out of a possible
4,456, an average of 2.40 per day.
TIE price of gas in London is only 66
cents per 1000 feet, and there is a
prospect that it will be still lower.
FIVE generations of one family re-
Gently met together near Philadelphia,
and 200 representatives were present.
A PHILADELPHIA dentist says that in
mechanical dentistry women can find
a profitable and suitable employment.
THE honey production of Los An
geles, Cal, for 1884 is estimated at
10000 tons, and valued at 81, 900, OOO
THE land of Holland is cultivated by
AS, 694 persons, of whom sixty per
cent. are owners of their own holdings.
DAKOTA is the only Territory that
yields revenue to the Post Office De-
partment, and there only ten States that
do.
LoAFERs indigenous to California,
who hang round cigar stores, are called
''Kearney street statues" in local par
lance.
a WASHINGTON lady killed a rattle
snake while on a visit to North Caroli-
ma and is now having its skin made into
a belt.
FRENCH journals allege that merchants
IN China have tried hard, since the Ton
quin difficulties, to export poisoned tea
into France.
A CHILD sick with diphtheria in Balti-
more coughed in the face of the physi-
clan, who himself died of the disease a
few days later.
EMIGRATION to the United States from
all British ports was 1921 less in Sep
TENDER than for the corresponding
month in 1888.
The coming exhibition has led to a
great rise Ill house rents in New Orleans,
while boarding houses are springing up
in every direction.
OF the two hundred and sixty stu
dents at Johns Hopkins University one
hundred and fifty are graduates pursu-
ing postgraduate study.
To THE Peace League convened at
Geneva there has been presented pillow
manufactured out of swords used in the
last two American wars.
A WOMAN has held the Office of Justice
of the peace in one of the mountain
towns of Kentucky for the last ten years
without legal authority.