News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-19
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

BEN: PERLEY PooRE is reported to have
once declared that he could produce one
thousand speeches of his own-but they
had been delivered by some one else.
ENGLISH towns of less than 10, 900 in
habitants have scarcely grown at all in
the last decade. The increase of ports
and seaboard towns is much greater than
that of those inland.
LILAC postal notes, which have been
turned out by Uncle Sam at the rate OF
about 2, 900, 900 month, and will be in
creased hereafter 10 per cent, are hand
led by 35 persons and are counted forty
| times.
HoUsEBUrLDERs have found that me-
chanics and the poor of our city do not
rent houses in the suburbs. The ques-
ton of fares to the city is very serious
with them, and the wives complain of
the lonesomeness of suburban life.
A Boston physician advises everybody
to ascertain what diseases have carried
off his ancestors, with view to guard
ing himself against inherited tendencies
by adopting the requisite manner of life,
place of residence and general self
treatment.
IT is said that nobody seems to be do
ing any business in Santa Fe except the
Mexican wood-dealers; and as soon as
they dispose of their little burro-loads
at twenty-five cents each, they turn their
animals loose, knock off for the day and
gamble until they lose all their money.
A YOUNG married woman of upper
Manhattan" says the Mail and E:c-
press, who has been addicted to painting
her lips as well as her cheeks and eve.
lashes, is now under medical treatment
to reduce the size of her lips, which have
become "horribly enlarged by chemical
poison.
The growth of the oyster industry in
Connecticut has been remarkable. The
first steamer that was used in this trade
was put on less than ten years ago, and
now there are forty steamers, with an
aggregate capacity of 36, 100 bushels
day. Four more large new steamers are
building for the spring.
A WALL STREET man says that to his
knowledge not less than $2,0OO,OOO of
Norwich, Conn, money has been squan-
dered in the street in the last two years.
Nearly every business man who had
dollar set it whirling on the margin of a |
railroad or mining stock. Men sold their |
estates and even personal property to
keep up their margins.
The Earl of Aylesford, the Texas COW
boy, in fifteen years squandered over
50, 900, 900, including his debts, and
killed himself by drink. The society
papers only say, "Poor joel He had
no enemy but himself" He was SO
brutal that his wife left him and took up
with the Earl of Marlborough, who will
no doubt now marry her.
THERE has been no official publication
of the votes cast for Butler and St.
John in the late election. The Boston
ascertained Buffers total vote to be 234-
843, and ST. Johns 14S, 69S Th~ Rock
Islander says that after careful figuring
it makes the result as follows: Butler.
74,785; st. John, $50, 633.
AN English ship, the Daphne, cap
sized when launched, and many persons |
were killed. She was raised and re- |
named the Rose, but only to be sunk at |
her anchor in harbor. Again raised.
she ran ashore, was got off with diff |
Guilty and named afresh the Ianthe, and |
month ago, en- route to Smyrna, she |
struck a rock on the Irish coast and is |
laid up for repairs.
The camel has twice the carving |
power of an OK. With an ordinary load |
of 400 pounds he can travel twelve to
fourteen days without water, going four
teen miles day. They are fit to work
at five years old, but their strength be-
gins to decline at twenty-five, although
they live usually until forty. They are
often fattened at thirty for food, the
flesh tasting like beef.
The approaching completion of the
Indiana State House has developed
a startling condition of things. The
original appropriation for building the
structure was 81, 900, 900, but the pros
pect is that the cost will be ST. SO, 000
less than this amount. 1t is thought
that there must be some mistake, for no
architect or contractor in the possession
of his senses would deliberately come
short of his estimates and thus demor-
alize the business.