News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-05
ODDS AND ENDS.
No CORNER in ice this year.

Scotland.
CINCINNATI expects soon to have q
cable road.
FULLY 1900 Mormons settled in Ari-
iona last year.
JEWS own more than 1850, 900 acres
of Russian land.
A GAMBLING house at Helena, Mont.
pays license of So, $50.
The people of Texas are calling it
''the new Empire State"
| THERE are ten art clubs and fifty pub
lie art galleries in London.
FARM rents in England have declined
six per cent. in five years.
FERTILE land can be purchased in
Mexico at 80 cents an acre.
THERE were about 1860 steam vessels
in the United States in 1917.
ARTEs1AN wells have been known in
China from time immemorial.
THE dividends payable in Boston IN
February foot UP So, 164, 454.
NEARLY half the American sailing
ships bear the names of women.
THERE are said to be 25, 900 people
in Cincinnati out of employment.
THE university of Michigan has 1877
students, $50 of whom are women.
In certain portions of West Africa the
natives eat all enemies taken in war.
A CREMATION society has been formed
in Buffalo, with capital of $4,000.
The Grand Army Convention refused
to endorse the Lowering Pension bill
DAVID DAVIS is credited with desire
to get back upon the Supreme Bench.
THERE are nipe American countesses
and marchionesses in Rome this winter.
AEAsIz.. 10 larger than all of the uni
ted States east of the Mississippi river
ONE person out of every 120 in the
United States is dependent upon public
care.
WISCONSIN exhibits at New Orleans a
pyramid of cheese with Limburger
apex.
N1NE-TE of the disasters at sea
occur during the watch of the second
mate.
FIFTY years ago the average weight of
beef cattle was 800 pounds, and now it
is l 400.
THERE are 4, 800 compositors in Paris,
and their pay averages about Is cents
an hour.
GERMAN public schools are about to
adopt Hawthorne's works for the study
of English.
A FRENCH milliner has invented bon
net trimmed with asses ears. The effect
is striking.
The richest Chinaman in America is
All III, of La Porte, CAL, who is worth
100000.
CANTON, CHINA, with a population of
l, 800, 900, does not publish newspaper
of any kind.
In certain parts of Minnesota one can
travel one hundred miles and find none
but Swedes.
The Florida papers tell of a lemon
that weighs 81 pounds and measures
24x19 inches.
The manufacture of artificial ivory
from bones and scraps of sheepskin is
new industry.
THERE are seventy light women study
ing medicine at Paris, thirteen of whom
are Parisians.
THE interior of the Washington mon
ument will be lighted with 125 Edison
electric lights.
IT IS said that Speaker Carlisle gets
the largest mail in Congress, and Gen.
Logan the next.
| The Russian Government intends to
start a summer tea plantation in the
Caucasus region.
A GEORGIA machinist has invented
freproof cotton bagging that will take
the place of jute.
IT is said that Cape God canal will
cost 100000, and consume three
years in digging.
AUsTRAL IA has a cave larger than the
Mammoth Gave of Kentucky. 1t is
! called the Genoian. -='z
RAPID progress is UcLns 44.~<Ie chi
cago in getting rid of aerial telegraph
and telephone wires.
DEXTER is still alive and well at MIR.
Bonner's stables in New York city, and
is twenty-six years old.
A HOTEL KEEPER in New York has AZ
trunks belonging to actors which he is
holding for board bills.
THERE are in England and Wales
14,172 benefces, $500 curates, and
G, 900, 600 church slttings.
The number of suicides committed in
front OF affairs in the Italian basilicas,
is largely on the increase.
RETURNS from twenty-three States
gave an aggregate of 700 steamboats, in
the United States in 1888.
A VINEYARD Haven, MASS, mans
cat goes in the stable every nig ht and
sleeps On the horses back.
THE permanent population of Wash
ington is estimated at 212, 600, and the
transient in town at 10000
IT is said that there are nearly two
hundred women employed on daily
newspapers in this country.
A WHIPPING in public will hereafter
await the Pennsylvania husband who is
convicted of beating his wife.
MANY physicians assert that the
secret of long life after the three score
years and ten is to keep warm.
In Morocco schools the Koran only
is taught, and the pedagogue receives Is
cents month for teaching it.
The United States Senate, after March
4, will have three gentlemen named
Jones, but not single Smith.
OVER 10000 residents of New York
city live at hotels, and there are 100. 900
strangers In town every night.
THERE is a marked decrease in the
number of Englishmen and Germans
| coming to America as emie rants.
A PHILADELPHIA business man was
able to trace 81, 600 worth of sales to a
$12 advertisement in a single paper.
JOHN BRIGHT says that in Queen
Vietoria's reign England has sacrificed
$3.50, 900, ono and 60, 600 lives in war.
GERMAN research has shown that the
mellowness of old wine is due to an in
crease in its proportion of gIycerine.
BALTIMoRE's city debt is $37, 54I, 751-
.73. 1t owns Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
way stock to the value of s5,416,O00.
New SOUTH WALES is said to possess
a larger number of Towering plants than
are to be found in the whole of Europe.
OF THE S8,OOO,O0O of German ex-
ports to Africa So, 900, 900 represent the
traffic in ''nigger brandy" and ''nigger
rum"
DR.. Do LEWIS says that tomatoes are
a medicine and not a food, and should
only be eaten when prescribed by ply
stefan.
AN experimental shaft in the new oil
region of Wyoming Territory, sunk
only Is feet, yields six barrels of oil in
"a hours.
THERE are 10000 locomotives in this
country. 1900 new ones have to be
built every year. These cost about
$12.000,OO0.