News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-19
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The average lobster lives six years.
SILK stockings range from $3.50 to
S25 pair.
eFyE steam vessels appeared in Scot
land in 1913.
WOMEN are becoming commercial
travellers in England.
THERE will be three Quakers in the
next q. s. Congress.
Hay bunkers is the Southern Cal
Hornia name for tramps.
ENGLAND owns Is, 1884 sailing ships
and over 5000 steamers.
RUSSIA is one of the great tea-drink-
ing countries of the world.
A ooRNooB pipe factory at Washing
ton, No., employs fifty men.
TIE Texas public school system is
said to be the finest in the land.
DURING last year there were 1s9 muir
ders in Ohio and 17S in Kentucky.
FLORIDA will have a Constitutional
Convention on the 9th of June next.
A LOCAL option law has passed both
branches of the Oregon Legislature.
THE first steam vessel of Europe COM
menced plying on the Clyde in 1872.
WOOD WHICH is odorifercus is gen.
orally the most durable in exposure.
IT is estimated that there are 300
700, 600 Mohammedans in the world.
OVER 5000 patents on churns have
been granted by tine q. s. Government.
GEN. WoLsELEY has received $685.
600 in bounties for his military services
'fMARK TWAIN is going to England in
May next to give readings from his own
works.
The city of Berlin budget will this
year cover $15, 900, 900. 1t is the highest
on record.
GONG upstairs should be one of the
slowest and most deliberate acts of
mans Hfe.'
THE value of ton of pure gold is
1902, 1921, and a ton of silver,
1877, 7O4S4
The merchant service of the world
consists of So, 157 vessels, which includes
s, 433 steamers.
A GERMAN scientist SAYS the attractive
power of the earth is 42,310, 900, 000,-
600, 600 tons.
The people of Maine have decided not
to transfer their State election from Sep
TEMPER TO november.
CALIFORNIA raised in 1884 a bushel of
wheat for every man, woman and child
in the United States.
FIFTY-EIGHT million dollars is the esti-
mated value of the finger rings of this
country actually worn.
THE exhibit of colored people at the
New Orleans Exposition shows great
diversity of industries.
PORTUGAL has 1854 women to every
1000 men, the largest preponderance of
any country in Europe.
The Kansas House of Representatives
has four girls among its pages, and its
docket clerk is a woman.
THERE never was time when ''trifies"
played so important a part in house |
decorations as at present.
The devastating insect, the phylIox-
cry, destroyed 120, 900 acres of grape |
vines in France last year.
JUST sixteen years ago the interest Oh
the national debt was S143, 100000 a
year. It is now S5S, 100000.
AN international exhibition of apicul- |
ture is to be held at Pankow near Berlin,
from May to September l.
The potato, introduced into England |
in 1000, was first eaten as a sweetmeat,
stewed in sack-wine and sugar.
A WOMAN in Germany was recently |
sued for breach of promise of marriage, |
and mulcted in 1850 and costs.
IT is said that the average yield of pc |
troleum wells in Caucasia is sixteen times |
as great as that of American wells.
A GARGLE of strong black tea used cold |
night and morning is now fashionable in |
London as preventive of sore throat.
ACTUAL test shows that IS per cent. of
the power driving the propeller of an
ocean steamship Is lost, or unaccounted
for.
A N1NE.roN lump of coal, the largest
= ever mined, represents the coal interests
ofAlabama at the New Orleans Exhibi-
ton.
THE sum of 100000 was recently
lost in a London gambling establish
ment by gentleman who had dined too
well.
The Cincinnati Associated Charities |
reports an increase in applications for |
assistance So per cent. more than last
year.
MELT one pound of resin and two of |
lard together and rub all the bright |
farm tools with it. Twill keep 'em
bright.
THE Aeronautical Society of Great
Britain will hold an international Ex-
hibition in London on the 31st of |
March.
CINCINNATI is building an elevated
railroad, the length of which will be
seventeen miles, and the estimated cost |
S., 600, 600.
THERE are in New York city $1,000 |
Poles, including as such the children of |
Polish parents. Four-ffths of the 81, 900 |
are Hebrews.
VETERAN Congressman estimates
that about Z per cent. of the member
ship really does the business accom-
plished there.
IT is not very generally known that
Queen Victoria was once called Queen
Alexandrina Victoria, and that the oaths
OF allegiance were in that name.
THE Commissioner of Education
places the number of medical students
in this country in 1873 at 1851; in 1883
We had 15.1
AMONG the visitors to the Washington
Monument have been several rats, who
madethe ascent to get the debris from the
workmen's lunches. Pigeons convert it
into roost at night.
THE BUILDING of the Georgia State
Capitol at Atlanta develops the fact that
granite can be quarried in Maine,
shipped to Savannah, and thence carried
by rail to Atlanta at less cost than it
can be had in quarry only sixteen
miles away.
Bringing a Committee to Terms.
Mr.. Guenther, of Wisconsin, has |
brought the River and Harbor Commit |
tee to terms by trick that is unique if |
not admirable, says Washington letter.
The committee was rather seornful in its
treatment of him during the time it was
preparing the bill. He wanted money
for the Fox and Wisconsin River i'm
provement. The committee would not
admit him into its room to plead his |
case. and kept it out of the BILL The |
nfhar Mr.