News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-16


hundred million dollars last year.
FIFTY-FIvE per cent. of persons dying
in Paris are buried at public expense.
JAPANESE law compels people to sell
fish alive. They are vended in tanks.
Four aspirants to the Governorship
of Massachusetts, are worth SIG, 900, 900.
In Persia no son ever sits in the pres
ence of his father until ordered to do So
OF the French Senators elected on
the 25th of January ten are Protestants.
DURING 1884 the American Tract So
ciety circulated $780, 900 books. tracts,
etc.
THE manufacture of orange wine is
one of the leading industries of Sanford,
Fla.
Boston has five roller skating Kinks, in
buildings built exclusively for the pur-
pose.
FLORIDA oranges are being exported
from Boston to Liverpool in large guam
titles.
In HELENA, NJ. T., there is a calf
only ten months old that weighs $50
pounds.
EATING the flesh of a game-cock killed
in battle sickened whole family in At
lanta, Ga.
PROSPECTS, of an inexhaustible supply
of natural gas in Dakota are very en-
couraging.
AN eight-year-old boy of CornvilIe.
Me-, was attacked and seriously injured
by an owl.
ALL the wooden toothpicks are manu-
featured in Maine and two firms control
the business.
The Japanese were the first to use en-
velopes, and for the purpose of contain
ing perfumes.
The Methodist churches of Michigan
report 5000 conversions within the
past two weeks.
The cost of each saloon to the city Of
Indianapolis last year was $153, and the
license only $50.
A SORT of controversy as to which
town has the taliest sheriff is being car
ried on in Georgia.
Boston has a drunkard who has been
sentenced to the House of Industry 100
times for drunkenness.
In a Daadwood cellar the other night !
a woman's hand was found firmly
frozen in chunk of ice.
A MAN in q Saco, Me-, mill sawed
40, 100 feet OF boards one day last week, |
and thus beat the record.
NEVER sit on a damp cushion, moist |
ground, or marble or stone step, if you |
wish to avoid a sore throat.
a LINsEED oil factory at Amsterdam, |
n. Y, consumes annually about one |
million bushels of flaxseed.
severe bill against obscene literature |
now before The Legislature.
In California 25 farmers met and
plowed, sowed and narrowed the 35-acre
tract of an invalid neighbor.
SAMUEL. Mess wheeled a barrow con-
tanning 1854 pounds of fish across
Atlantic Wharf, Gloucester.
THERE are booked for Easter week at
one ehGroA in Palatka, Fla, no less
than twenty-four marriages.
In order to encourage Irish manu-
features the Lord Mayor of Dublin is
about to give ''Poplin Ball.
In Thomas county, Georgia, a mad
stone was recently found, for which an
offer of 800 has been refused.
ALASKA seems to be the only region
in the United States that has, thus far,
escaped the roller-skating mania.
In Death Valley, Inyo county, CAL,
the thermometer for several days
marked 100 degrees in the shade.
ONE hundred families of Russians,
direct from Europe, will settle in Nc
Pherson county, Mimi, this spring.
The only international street car line
in the world is the one connecting Paso
del Norte. NIX. with Ell Paso. Texas.
THE Legislature of Alabama has
passed an act prohibiting State, county
and municipal officers from getting
drunk.
A NORTH CAROLINA lady lost a dia-
mond cross valued at 81, 200 while at
tending the Inauguration ball at Wash
ington.
LOCAL legislation in Atlanta, Ga, pro.
hi5its loud talking, laughing or smok-
ing in or near the vestibule OF any
church.
The WISCONSIN SENATE has passed
a bill to submit the question of woman
suffrage in school matters to the people
in 1887.
The largest and finest memorial stone
in the Washington Monument is the one
presented by the Corporation of Phila-
delphia.
A NEW telegraph line, 600 miles in
length, is about to be constructed in the
North of Siam, the termini being Bang
kok and Chen Mai.
The total of the enrolled volunteers in
Great Britain at the present time is an
nouneed at 215, 600 men-the greatest
number yet attained
WHILE Justice Lyon, of Chicago, was
trying a larceny case recently an &C
quilted sneak thief stole an overcoat
Irom him worth S65.
THE Medical Times says that the So
luton of cocOaine is being used by New
York dentists to render the filling of
teeth painless operation.
MARRIAGES a speciality, acceptable
at all hours; strangers particularly in
vlted, Is the unique advertisement of a
clergyman at York, Maine.
LINNETs cause such ravages in the
buds of fruit trees in California that
there is loud call for the determination
of the feathered marauder.
THERE are 8, $50 cooperative societies
in Germany, with q membership of over
1000, 900, and last year they purchased
1915. 600, 600 worth of goods.
THE grand balls given by the Presi-
dent of the French Republic cost from
Sl5, 900 to $780, each, and are some
times attended by 5000 guests.
A FLAGSTAFF at Mount Vernon. Wash
ington Territory, lac feet high, is
claimed to be one of the longest IN
spliced spars in the United States.
TIE strike among the weavers at Ken
sington, Pa, has now lasted for four |
months, and it is said that in that time |
they have lost 81, ZOO, 900 in wages.
The University of Cairo, in Egypt, is
said to be 900 years older than Oxford,
and has 10000 students being edu-
Gated as Mohammedan missionaries.
HE Canadian Pacific Railway prom
ises to run its first train through from
Quebec to Port Moody on August %.
and will make the trip in los hours,
In glass works near Paris. air
stored under pressure, has been made
to successfully supercede glass blowing
by the mouth, except in a few cases.
A PERFECT skeleton, to which was at-
taehed ball and chain, was lately nm
eaFthed twenty-five feet below the sur
face OF the earth, near Savannah, Ga.
A FLYING snake is on exhibition at
Virginia City, Nevada. The reptile ia
four feet long and has two wings at
tached to its body about four inches
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