News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08
ODDS AND ENDS.
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s50, 900 theatre.
Two COUNTIES in Idaho send Mormons
10 the Legislature.
/ WOMEN in Paraguay have exactly the
same rights as men.
In Paris they celebrate divorce by a
grand dinner or ball.
TENNESSEE has sixteen coal mines in
successful operation.
CHARLES HARRIS of London invent ed
the pendulum in 1641.
CLOCKS which keep excellent time
may be bought for 81.
''THEY have orange trees in Florida
seventy-fve years old. "
OSCAR WILDE proposes to come over
again and bring his wife.
In 112O the first striking clock was In
vented by Cisterican monk.
The Umatilla Indians are buying and
planting fruit trees In Oregon.
THERE is likely to be an iron revival,
the pig-iron stock being light.
THE Marquis of Lorne is talked Of for
the Lord Lieutenancy OF Ireland.
IT is regarded as vulgar for Mexican
ladies to ride on horseback.
A sEAMsrREss has counted the stitches
in shirt. There are 20, 469.
AT a carnival in Denver, Col, the
guests appeared in paper costumes.
THE Prohibitionists carried Union
Parish, La, by vote of 300 to 400.
In Valparaiso women are employed
exclusively as street car conductors.
AT the late election. "a of the 165 vo-
ing-places in Chicago were in saloons.
The husband of the young Queen of
Madagascar is her grandfather and father.
A SON of the Bishop of Rochester,
England, has become Roman Catholic.
GEORGE W. CABLE, the novelist, is
making S50,000 a year out of his read
ings."
FROM surveys of the Gulf of Mexico
it appears that its area is sos, 600 square
miles.
An inch announcement in newspaper
is worth two miles of letters on a board
fence.
A THIRTEEN-year-old girl came to
Chicago Sunday school the other day
drunk.
CANADIAN apples bring higher price
in England than those from the United
States.
A PORTUGUESE AFRICAN Company has
been formed in Lisbon with capital of
$500, 1000.
The death of Asa Hutchinson leaves
none of that famous family but John
and Abby.
THE Petit Journal of Paris is now
said to have daily circulation of $685.
600 copies.
THE submarine telegraph cable be-
tween Senegal and France has been
completed.
OVER 5000 dueIs occur annually in
France, chiefly among private soldiers
in the army.
The Japanese are said to be the most
polite nation in the world. Politeness is
born in them.
The annual business of the 2, 900 Brit
ish cooperative societies is stated QSS3)
at $40, 100000.
The laundry bill of the Pullman
Palace Gar Company amounts TO
S120. 900 a year.
A FATHER and son are under sentence
of death in Louisiana prison, and for
separate murders.
THERE are six persons in an average
farmers family, and the average price
of a farm is So, 900.
The leading lady lawyer of Washing
ton Territory is Miss Leila J. Robinson,
formerly OF Boston.
THEY have billiard table in st. Louis
which is spattered with the life blood of
three different men.
The largest prune orchard in the
world is situated in Saratoga, GAL, and
contains 16, 900 trees.
The ninety elevators in the Red River
Valley are now filed, the grain being
held for better prices.
PARsoN BRowNLow was born in Vir-
Rinia and went to Tennessee as circuit
riding Methodist preacher.
'RoPED to Rest, ;" is the way in which
a Kansas City paper recently announced
the execution OF murderer
The editor of Punch, Mr.. Burnand
has among his Happy Thoughts
eleven unmarried daughters.
ELEVEN hundred and nine women reg
istered in Boston to vote for School
Committee against 701 last year.
THERE are so many seals in the river
at Oregon City, Or, that salmon catch |
ing with seine has been suspended.
SUICIDES are on the increase in France. |
Five years ago the number was II to
every 100, 900 inhabitants. Now it is 10. |
THERE were 189, 105 deserters from
the Union armies during the rebellion,
and Ia, i2S from the Confederate |
ranks.
Mrs. KATE SPRAGUE CHASE has dis
appeared from the American @ )lony In |
Paris and taken to housekeeping to econ
omjze.
THE annual production of canned
goods in the United States equals
500, 900, 900 packages, or ten fer every
person.
STANLEY, the explorer, has received
seven titles, "a decorations, 95 resolu-
tions of thanks, and loo complimentary
dinners.
THE father of young Ellsworth, who
was shot at Alexandria, still pastures his
sons horse, which is now thirty-three
years old.
A PAIR of white satin slippers, en-
broidered with pearls were recently pur-
chased by a lady Of New York at the
price of $500.
For the last thirty-four years the
Bible societies of England and America
have printed over 1000 copies for each
business day.
THE Macon ga. Telegraph says the
New England farmer does more real work
before breakfast than his Georgia rival
In an entire day.
In carrying home TO their country seat
the wedding presents of the lately mar
ried Lord and lady Stafford four large
vans were loaded.
Hon. EUGENE KELLY, President of
the New York Electoral College, donated
his salary $500 to the Little Sisters of
the Poor at Albany.
A CANADIAN constable, who allowed a
prisoner to escape, was sentenced to pay
S. fine and $65 costs, and to be impris-
oned until he so pays.
A TRAVELLING Illinois thief, unaware
that his wife had gone to housekeeping
in Elgin, broke in at night and carried
off lot Of his own jewelry.
A Compile OF Fables.
THE FOX AND THE TRAP.
Fox having AOpaarad OF n D;o,;,.