News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-06-25
ODDS AND ENDS.

THE late Lord Dudley's life was in
sured for over 81, SOC, 600.
SHEPHERD" on a Western ranch is
enlarged into ''sheepherder.
The debt of Memphis in 1879 was
Sc, 00o, 600 now it is 81, $4,000 900.
New ORLEANS was founded by COM
pany of French adventures in 1743.
REGULAR shipments of rhubarb are
now made from Salem, Ore, to Boston.
The death rate of Dublin has jumped
to 1913 per 1000, the highest since
1888.
ITALY has 4,s0O,O 900 lemon trees,
which bear 1926, 900, 900 lemons an
nually.
TIE populate of Stockholm increased
between 1856 and 1884 from 100, 900 to
205. 900.
A YOUNG lady of Lynchburg, Va, has
sent the President four-leaved clover,
for luck.
ABOUT 1000 new families settled dur
the past winter in Florida as permanent
residents.
CHARLES EMORY SMITH, editor of the
Philadelphia Press, is lecturing on
journalism.
THERE are said to be %, 600 lawn ten
mis- players within radius of 10 miles
of New York.
SINCE 1870 France has had nineteen
different Cabinets, headed by fourteen
different Premiers.
MORMON leaders assert that only two
per cent. of the members of the church
practice polygamy.
IT has been said that swallows and
sparrows forsake district when cholera
Is about to appear.
A SPECIES of fish five feet long was
found petriied in a quarry at Rock
Prairie, Wisconsin.
A PHYSICIAN at Hammonton, N. J.,
has four sons who have adopted the
medical profession.
DIR. @. 81. HUGHES, the alienist, says
that cholera is essentially a disease of
the nervous system.
ARKANSAS derives S25, 900 per annum
from the penitentiary by leasing the
labor of its convicts.
New SOUTH WALES contains more
Towering plants than all Europe. It is
the paradise of bees.
In the 100 years of ballooning how
much has been accomplished of real |
benefit to the world?
A PAPER in Bodie, Cal, comes out |
f1atfooted in favor of ''our vivacious
wife, for postmistress.
A NEW fish, the cherna, belonging to
the halibut family, has made its appear
ance in the Gulf of Mexico.
THE convicts at Sing Sing earned S21,-
761.26 last month. The expenses were
SIS, 759. 6S, leaving Sc, 001. So.
AT sale of rare coins in Philadel-
phia the other day a dollar of 1894,
which is rarity, brought $40.
In the United States there are 900
organized Universalist societies, about
766 churches and 700 ministers.
MANY Kansas farmers are arranging
to use hay and straw burners to take the
place of stoves for coal and wood.
PROFESSOR NEWTON of Yale College
computes that $50, 900 meteors fall on
the surface of the earth each hour.
THERE are about 200, 900 commercial
travellers in this country. Their aver
age salary is 81, 500 year and expenses.
THE number of goats in Angora in
creased 1873, 80 last year, and the tax
upon them now reaches 772, 653 pias-
tres.
THE Anti-Treating law of Nevada, it
is reported, is not only dead letter al
ready, but the universal subject of ridi-
Guile.
The citizens of Rockdale, Texas,
gave some disreputable characters no.
tice to leave in Is minutes. They left
in 10.
THE slave population of the empire
of Brazil is estimated at LIT, O22, of
whom 623, 274 are males and $50, 74S fe-
males.
SOME Indians recently excavated in |
Calistirhuaoa, State of Mexico, gold |
idol weighing thirtytwo sad a half
pounds.
NEWFOUNDLAND has a population of
1913, 900. In 1874, when the preceding
census was taken, it had a population of !
161, 374.
Mr.. HENDRICKS, in an interview in |
Chicago, said he looked upon the Vice
Presidency as position of dignifed
laziness.
ACCORDING to newspaper statistics,
Chicago factories employ 5000 children
under fifteen years of age, of whom 2, 900
are girls.
In Cologne court person was re-
Gently fined S12 for refusing to take the
oath on the plea that he did not believe
In God.
HENRY WILLARD of Northern Pacific
and Oregon Transcontinental fame is
now living quietly in furnished apart
ment in Berlin.
THE richest colored man in Philadel-
phia is John Mckee, a real estate
dealer, who is estimated to be worth be-
tween 5000, 900 and 100000.
THE Moravian Seminary for Young
Ladies at Bethlehem, Pa, will be 100
years old next October. The occasion
will be properly commemorated.
A SLAUGHTER house and refrigerating
establishment, costing over 81, 900, 900
has been built at Medora, W. T., for
supplying fresh meat 10 the East.
HENRY RUSSELL, who wrote the music |
to ''Woodman Spare That Tree" and "A |
Life on the Ocean Wave" is still living |
In England at very advanced age.
CONVICTIONS for drunkenness in Wales |
are steadily on the increase. The |
figures follow: 1881, 1924; 1882,
9,285; 1888, 9,347, and 1884, 1886.
NJ. KELLER is said to have selected q
Protestant church in Paris as the scene
of his recent suicide because a Protes-
tant pastors daughter had Tilted him.
The Bank of North America, the first |
established in this country and the be-
ginning of our present financial system,
was founded by Robert Morris in 1882. |
The six leading evangelical denomina-
tions in Chicago have ninety-seven |
churches, with 30 715 members, 49, 121 |
Sunday-school scholars and thirty three |
missions.
THE total population of the British
Islands is &c, 300, 600; of the British EN-
pire, 80. 225, 900; of Russia, 100, OBS, $40;
of Germany, 1924, 061; of France,
81. 672. O48.
= CARROLL e. SMITH, of the Syracuse
journal, has been presented with sill
yer tea set by the Associated Press of
the State, having retired from the
presidency of that institution.
ExOnerated ON Deathbed.
SAD STORY OF A FATHERS WRONG TO HIS
DAUGHTER.