News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-13
ODDS AND ENDS.

laborers earn fifty cents day and their
board.
SOME Massachusetts, papers favor rails
ing the Governors salary from So, 900 to
SO, 200.
THE value of the herring and other
fisheries of Scotland last year was $16,-
755, 900.
THERE is great demand in Califor
mia for land suitable for orange and raisin
growing.
A WOMAN has asked the Belgian Jockey
Club to let her ride her own horses in
their races.
THE Governer-General of Alsace-Lor-
raine gets $45, 900 year and splendid
residence
THE population of Europe has in
creased In century from 145, 900, 900 to
$50, 900, 900.
THE German system of physical edu-
cation is to be introduced in the New
York schools.
IT IS predicted that Newport is to
have the dullest season for many years
this summer.
HoLYoKE claims the honor of being the
first town in Massachusetts, to introduce
electric light.
ARIsTooRATIc English girls play in
public cricket matches, wearing fanci-
full uniforms.
MONTREAL is to have botanic garden,
rs acres in extent, in the beautiful park
on Mount Royal.
The oldest gravestones in Trinity
Burying Ground in New York bear the
dates 1851 and 1891.
MANY English women attend services
In French churches for the sake of learn
ing the French language.
For funnily dyeing an enemy's hair
bright red an Englishman has been COM
PEELED to pay $500 damages.
AN Austrian artillery lieutenant con-
trived to commit suicide by shooting
himself with huge cannon.
MASON MITCHELL, an actor, quit the
Kate Claxton Company to fight in the
Riel rebellion, and got killed.
THE British Bible Society issued New
Testament at two cents copy. In nine
months $50, 900 have been sold.
THROUGH the efforts of Ouida, the
practice of skinning frogs alive has been
stopped in the markets of Florence.
A PHILADELPHIA lawyer said recently
that he has never known the law bust
ness to be so dull as it is at present.
THE clerks in Washington who have
been denied the usual months vacation
will apply for an extra months pay.
THE ladies of Augusta, Ga, boycotted
firm which refused to close their store at
o'clock as other business houses did.
AN early work of Beethoven, recently
rescued from oblivion, is to be per- |
formed at a Bonn festival next week.
A GEORGIA man tried to cut the cords
in the feet of his daughter, SO that she
could not imperil her soul by dancing.
A TRAIN moving 35 miles an hour
clears fifty feet in one second-or quick .
er than a man can jump across a track.
A MAN walking in field near Gin
cinnati was killed by lightning, the fluid
passing up from the earth to the clouds. F
MINISTER PHELPS is said to be the best
bird shot In Vermont, and when it comes
to driving four-in-hand, nobody can beat
him.
WOMEN are numerous in the British
civil service. In competition for 165
places in the Post Office 2, 534 women en-
tered
IT is said that there are more female
physicians practicing in Philadelphia
than in any other city of the United
States.
PRINCE FREDERICK CHARLES was one
of the richest men in Germany. The Con-
naughts will under his will get about
So, 500, 900.
GRAPE plants are to be taken from this
country by the Austrian Government in
the hope that fresh vines will resist the
destroying insects.
THE will Of the late William Reddick
bequeathes fortune of $500, 900 to the
city of Ottawa, H., for the establish
ment of public library.
DEcAYING wood, the Sanitary Engi-
neer says, is an unsafe thing, because it is
a great assistant in the contraction OF
yellow and typhoid fevers.
A MAN in Illinois asks a court to
change his name from Sheol to Shrady.
He thinks that the Scriptural revision
renders the change desirable.
REVOLVING shelves set into the walls
of the guests rooms, are the newest de-
vice in hotels Things can be passed
out or in without the intrusion of a
waiter.
A PAIR of the finest black eyes did not
satisfy Miss Casey, of Iowa, and in try
ing to turn them to blue by means of
chemicals she has ruined both their use
fitness and beauty.
A MEXICAN woman was recently muir
dered in stage coach near the city of
Mexico, and it is supposed the object
was to destroy a will which she was tax
ing thither to sign.
THIS seasons fatalities to venturesome
tourists in the Alps are fully as numer-
Gus as usual The body of one climber
has not been identified, though his
clothes indica ted that he was rich.
THE sale of American petroleum in
the Old w orld has been greatly lessened
by the product of Russian oil wells, and
now the discovery of oil in Galicia
threats to kill what is left of the bust
ness.
THE benefactions of the Packer fam
lily in the Lehigh Valley are numerous
and very costly. The residence of the
late Robert A Packer, worth 5000, 900,
is now being turned into public hos
pital.
In refusing leave to appeal in case,
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge asked why
should every little paltry cause go to the !
House of Lords, and said it was curse
of the new system that appeals were SO
common.
THE blacklegs of Paris, driven out by
an enforcement of the law against gam
bling, are betaking themselves to the
watering places, and the French Gov
eminent has issued circular of warning
to tourists.
ALL students in Russian universities
are now compelled to wear, on cere-
mOnious occasions, uniform consisting
of blue cap, gray coat, and green trou-
sers, all plentifully embellished with
gold lace.
MIR. Roe, the distiller, who spent
81 $50, 900 in restoring Christ Church
Cathedral, Dublin, and built the Ma
tional Synod Hall for the Irish Protes-
tant Church, has fallen on evil times,
financially.
The last duel between Parisians was
fought with pistols instead of foils; but
the deadliness of the weapons was much
modified by the distance of seventy-five
feet, and single exchange of harmless
shots suficed to satisfy the combatants
THE woman of nineteen, living at
Beacon, Ind, who is the widow of four
husbands, declares that she is DESTROYS