News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01
NOTES AND COMMENTS,

] THERE are over nifty Thousand post
offices in the United States, and only
about four in hundred are filled by
Presidential appointments. Last yeal
over eight thousand changes were
made.
THE much-prjzed white fish of the
great lakes is threatened with extermi-
nation, notwithstanding the lakes are
freely stocked with yong fish every
year. The trouble is due to the use OF
trap nets, which destroy great numbers
of fish before they are hatf grown.
| sFEAR," says well-known doctor, sis
probably the worst malady we have to
fight. We cannot fght-lt with medi-
cines. When it once takes firm hold of
patient, the thing to 10 ss.to work up
on the Imagination. and he Who can do
most s'secessfz s;s--ssreatest
physician"
Two PEASANTS asleep in the garret of
rickety house at Cantania, Spain, be-
ing aroused by heavy shock of earth
quake, jumped up and slid from the root
by means of a rope into an adjoining
backyard, where they were attacked by
ferocious dog and SO mangled that they
died next morning.
GIRLS are ingeniously provided for in
Tartary. They are betrothed as early
as possible to some young man, and
then if anything happens to prevent the
marriage he is bound to take the next
sister, and so on in rotation. If the
youth has disincination to the alliance
he can buy himself off for considera.
ton.
The Century magazine is showing
that the more magazine-i is managed
like newspaper. with events of recent
day reported, the less it becomes serial
of private circulation. lis circulation
has increased very largely, and of the JAN
uary number will be printed larger
edition than of any other magazine in
the world.
FROM surveys of the Gulf of Mexico
it appears that its area is 595, 600 square |
miles, and that the area of the surface |
included within the 100-fathom line is |
9S7, 900 square miles-rather more than |
one-third of the surface having depth /
of less than 100 fathoms. The greatest
record depth in TIE Gulf of Mexico is
2, 119 fathoms, the mean depth being
858 fathorns.
OF the $4,000 newspapers of the
world nearly $4,000 are published in
Europe and North America, leaving lit
tie over 1000 for all the rest of the
world. South America only issues suf-
fcient to allow each of its inhabitants
.hree newspapers year-exhibiting the
curious contrast in this, as in all else,
between thfn Nt northern and southern
IT is repos ~ ffts years ago
s',r sussian .a., G 8 .0positea SO 0oa
vhich was to accumuiats ~ \ ~ -,
hen to be handed over to the author OF
he best biography of Czar Alexander l.
The sum will reach at that time lump
If something like 81, 500, 600. Tt would
,e curious to know how many biogras
,hies will be presented for competition.
THE unexpected collapse of China be-
ore the French invasion of Tonquin
,eems to have frightened the Celestial
authorities out of their extremely con-
ervative policy. Years ago Europe Of
'ered to construct railways for them,
md actually commenced one near
Shanghai, but the railway has never
been worked, and no encouragement to
future enterprise has come from Pekin.
Now, however, new light has dawned,
md it invites proposals for railways.
READERS will remember the case of
he son of Lord Chief Justice Coleridge,
If England, who was sued for SANDER
ng a lover of his sister. Edmund
Yates. the editor of the London World,
says of this daughter: ''The only moth
oTlesS QauSAtCI VI al uPAA6ho N.AAN S-O
1uent Judge, to whose lips the holiest of
sentiments spring from q guileless and
heart, was on board wages at
her fathers house on the same footing
as a scullery wench.' The World tells
a distressing tale of parsimony, mean
ness and cruelty in the Judges house
hold.
SOME of the New York correspondents
get hold of bizarre hits of news for their
etters to the provincial papers. Among
the latest of their s'finds" are the follow
ing: The son of millionaire several
times over, after being graduated from
college, has now become porter in a
downtown house in order to find out |
how it feels to earn his bread. A lady |
holds levees to which she invites the |
cash boys and girls of the city to meet
foreign notabilities. An opium 'ioint"
for the best people is about to be opened |
on Fifth avenue. And it is more than |
suspected that a well-known and effem- |
mate young man about town is really a
woman.
An Unpleasant Experience.