News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-07-02
ODDS AND ENDS.
THERE is but one son of Henry Clay

THERE is but one son OF Henry Ola.
living.
A LARGE paper mill is to be erected
at York Haven, Pa.
BRITISH postal savings banks have
1928, S6S, S65 on deposit.
The dividends payable in Boston IL
June foot up 81, 633, 219.
In Paraguay a tribe of Indians with
tails has been discovered.
LEATHER wheels are made In France
for railroad and other cars.
AN almanac 5000 years old, found in
Egypt, is in the British Museum.
IT is said that Lake Mistasini in the
Northwest exceeds in size. Lake Ontario.
DE WITT TALMAGE has life insurance
to the amount of $50, 900, if report be
true.
BELLE BOYD, the ex- Confederate spy,
is teaching elocution at Little Rock,
Ark.
NEARLY 1900 women are engaged
IN giving musical instruction in Eng
land.
IT is stated, that no Europeans were
killed by the recent earthquake in
India.
The ak is not the great enemy of our
forests, but the axman's pipe and camp
fire are.
M. RooHEFoRr says that French revo-
buttons which are foretold never happen
In France.
CHICAGO factories employ 5000 chill
dren under fifteen from ten to fourteen
hours day.
GOVERNMENT officials in Japan are re-
quired to wear European costume dur
ing Office hours.
EASTERN Tennessee capitalists are pre-
pairing to develop some of the marble
beds of that region.
MILK is 25 cents quart in Tampa,
Fla; but whisky still remains at the old
figure, 10 cents glass.
IT has recently been ascertained that
the Chinese coal fields occupy an area
of 400, 900 square miles.
A DOG which can pick out cattle with
his owners brand upon them is the adj
miration of Montana town.
IT is said that 955 farms in Iowa are
owned by women, and that twenty dairy
farms are managed by women.
THE people of the United States pay
$3.50, 900, 900 annually for liquors and
$85, 600, 900 for public education.
CEYLoN spiders weave webs so strong
that walking stick, when thrown into
it, is entangled among the meshes.
MISS CLEVELAND writes her compost
tioRs with gold pen. Her manuscripts
are very neat and her writing is legible.
The salary of q lady-in-w waiting on
Queen Victoria is said to be never less
than $50 per week. Oftener it reaches
S75.
The daughter of the late Sam Hous-
ton says her father died of broken
heart because Texas seeded from the
Union.
STURGEON from Lake Ontario are said
to be manufactured into Smoked hall
but" to as great an extent as the real
article.
IT is anticipated that the shortage of |
wheat for this year, as compared with the |
crop of 1884, will amount to 152, 000, 900 !
bushels.
THE profits of some whaling vessels
are still very large, despite the fact that |
many more are engaged in it now than |
formerly.
SHE jumped two hundred times with |
skipping rope and died. 1t was at |
Chester, Pa, and her name was Ger |
trude OFT.
The German authorities, with view |
to discourage emigration, have forbidden |
the railways to carry emigrants at re-
duced rates.
FIVE hundred policemen in citizens |
clothes are still employed in guarding |
the public offices of London against |
dynamiters.
Col. r. W. POPE, of Boston, is said |
to fix the price of every bicycle sold in |
this country, receiving royalty on
every one sold.
DAKOTA well-diggers keep a sharp
lookout for ants. They have found out
that ants always build their houses over
a vein of water.
Mrs. Mary Adams, who is SO years old,
and resides in Flatbush. She is able to
read without glasses.
SWEDEN has imposed duty on iv-
ing flowers, fruits and vegetables, in |
order to replenish the treasury by tax |
ing supposed luxuries.
The Argentine Republic is said to |
abound in cabinet woods of the best |
quality, for which market is springing
up in France and Germany.
The savings banks of Berlin have on
deposit $13, 339, $50, an increase of ST.
ne, 900 during the past year. The num-
Der of depositors is liz, $50.
The statue of General Custer, erected
at West Point some years ago, has been
quietly taken down and stored in the
wood shed.
A SKELETON seven feet long supposed
buried many years, was unearthed near
New Castle, Pa, a few days ago.
NINE golden weddings have been cele-
brated in Castleton, Vt, in the last ten
years, and all but one of the golden
brides and grooms are now living.
The negroes in Macon, Ga, are
greatly excited in consequence of the
number of cases of insanity occurring
among them within the past month.
THE largest business ever done by the
United States Patent Office, it is said,
was that of April, when there were
$3.50 applications for patents and $780,
$40 received for fees.
Nor soldier in the Prussian army
has died of smallpox since 1875. Their
immunity is thought to be due to the
strictness with which vaccination is en-
forced.
GENERAL HANCOCK has written to the
President of the New Hampshire Veter-
ans Association that he will attend the
annual reunion of that Society at Weirs
on August q.
IT is estimated that at the present rate
of decrease in ten years the State of
Nevada will not contain enough inhabit-
ants to comprise the Legislature and fill
the State offices.