News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-12
ODDS AND ENDS.
THERE are 1850 languages.

A SQUARE mile contains o4U acfes'
The average human life is 81 years.
A BARREL of rice weighs 600 pounds.
TIE first steel pen was made in 1880.
A BARREL of flour weighs 1876 pounds
A BARREL of pork weighs 200 pounds.
A SPAN is ten and seven-eighth inches.
A HAND (horse measure) is four inches.
WATCHES were first constructed ID
1476.
A STORM moves thirty-six miles per
hour.
The first lucifer match was made IN
1929.
THE charity ball at Baltimore cleared
$1,000.
THE value of ton of silver is $37,-
704S4.
A HURRICANE moves eighty miles an
hour.
The first iron steamship was built In
1880.
MODERN needles first came into use III
1915.
COACHES were first built in England
in 1869.
The first horse railroad was built in
1862.
VEN1soN is cheaper than beef in
Quebec, Canada.
The Baltimore Presbytery is in its
ninety ninth year.
ENGLAND imported $25, 900. 600 worth
of cheese last year.
THERE are thirty-two miles of elevated
railway in New York city.
CRAvATs and scarfs are made OF paper
by Berlin manufacturer.
The Bank of England now covers
naarly three acres of ground.
You can buy Florida strawberries in
New York for 10 cents a piece.
THE permanent population of Wash
inpton is put at a1out 90 00n
iAE pest bath houses in America are
said to be in the City of Mexico.
MUSICAL instruments are now made of
paper in some parts of the world.
The old and very unpopular stamp
law in Mexico has been abolished.
THE stationery used in the q. s.
House last session cost $34, SAT. 80.
THE London Times is the largest
daily paper published in the world.
infallible remedy for sleeplessness.
RAILWAY material is 40 per cent.
cheaper now than it was two years ago.
AMERICAN apples sell on the street
stands III London at from to II cents
apiece.
FREE warm baths in winter are pro-
posed as excellent preventives of cpl
denies.
TEMEsvAR is the first city in Europe
to have its streets lighted throughout by
electricity.
THERE are 75G miles of street car lines
-tramways they call them over there
in England.
SENATOR BLACKBURN says that there
are $4,000 applicants for office in Ken
lucky alone.
THE erection of cotton mills at the
South has not been stopped by the gen.
eral depression.
SOMEBODY says the average size of
American families has decreased one
tenth since 1850.
THE number of armed and drilled So
cialists in Chicago is now said to be quite
small-about 100.
THERE is more or less trouble regard
ing county seats in one-quarter of the
counties of Dakota.
New YORK tiremen say they always ex-
pect big conhagration Christmas Eve
and New Years Day.
THEODORE TILToN is living in Paris,
where he is described as giving good
dinners to good persons.
In forty-two years John B. Cough has
travelled 5000 miles and delivered
8 500 temperance lectures.
The Sydney IN. s. W.) Geological
Gardens has received the gift of boa
constructor eighteen feet long.
THE Governor of Michigan's private
secretary gets 81 900 year. The Gov
ernor himself gets only 81, ZOO.
TIE New Orleans city police during
the year 1884 arrested 49, 655 persons
IA, 2S9 males, and 4, 1866 females.
A COMPANY of Chicago spectators will
employ capital of 81, 900, 900 in lum-
bering operations on Huron Bay.
ENGLISH sparrows are hateful in Eng
land, and several farmers clubs are pay
ing for the destruction of the birds.
A BOUNTY of 81 per head for each wolf
destroyed in Northwest Canada is now
being paid by ranchmen in that section.
NEARLY 1000 Chinese gamblers and
opium eaters were arrested in San Fran |
cisco last year and paid S27, 900 in fues.
GENERAL" BoorH, of the Salvation
Army, recently advertised for clerk
who must write shorthand and be fully |
saved.
THE Republic of Mexico maintains an
agricultural college at its capital, the |
appropriations for which last year were |
1889, 34S.
The United States is the third silk |
manufacturing country in the world. |
The annual production amounts to |
$50, 900, 900.
COLEMAN, the great mustard man,
says that he has not made his fortune |
out of mustard eaten, but out of mus
tard wasted on plates.
NINE New York defaulters, five from
Chicago, four from Boston, and several
from other American cities, are said to
be now living in Canada.
MRS. CLARK HOPKINS says her new
house in Great Burlington, Mass, is -
cost but $l,000,0 900, not S., 900, 600, as
has bOCA hIOCAy puOlISuou
GERMANY has 1880 cooperative soci-
cites, with a membership of over
/ GOO, 600, and last year they purchased
over 1915, 900, 900 of goods.
A PHOTOGRAPH taken in North Scion,
o., contains the pictures of mother
and her nine sons, the youngest of the
latter being over 40 years of age.
The canal which Germany intends to
construct to unite the North and Baltic
Seas is to be large enough to admit of the
largest war vessels passing through it.
A New YORK millionaire has a young
lady secretary whose duty it is to mark
in at least thirty newspapers daily tie
articles she thinks he would like to
read.
MASSACHUSETTS, now pays its Governor
s., O00 year: The salary was reduced
to 81, 900 in 1879, but restored last wear.
TO take effect with the beginning of
1885.