News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-21
ODDS AND ENDS.

VISITORS are not allowed to enter the
Tower of London.
The banking capital of the United
States to-day is $73S, 600, 600.
GENERAL KoMARoFFs name is said
to mean ''son-of-a-mosquito.
IT is estimated that $4,000 cans Of
milk are sold daily in Boston.
ABOUT three thousand five hundred
horses die every week in London.
A TURN1p, closely resembling an
elephant, is on exhibition at Key West.
CONCORD, N. H., Second Adventists
predict the end of the world on May 10.
CHINA, it is said, will reorganize her
military system as Japan has already
done.
ONLY S46 Boston boys and girls
fourteen years of age do not attend
school.
SUMNER cottages in chrome yellow
will vie with the tawny sea-sands this
season.
I.oRp LoRNE will probably succeed
Earl Spencer as Lord-Lieutenant OF
Ireland.
MIR. ARTHUR Is said to have increased
In weight since he threw off his official
dignity.
An iron car wheel will travel about
10000 miles. A steel tire will run
200, 900 miles.
The English Lifeboat Service saved
633 lives and eighteen vessels during
the past year.
The ground upon which Virginia
City is located has moved thirty inches
east since 1875.
Ten million base ball bats viii be
used by the base ball clubs of this
country this year.
A BURGLAR was arrested In Sacra-
mento dressed in priests cassock,
which he had stolen.
A LIEUTENANT and sixteen soldiers OF
the regular army are still keeping guard
over Garfeld's grave.
PERFECTLY dressed young men in
London theaters, at first performances,
now wear fur lined coats.
THERE are $50, 900, 900 women and
girls in China, nearly all of whom are
uneducated and ignorant.
The drink bill of England last year
was 1851, TAG, $50, an increase over the
year previous of 81, 359, 905.
PEDRO T., of Brazil, is the Doyen
among crowned heads, having had
forty-four years of sovereignty.
EXPERIMENTS made in Paris show that
the crocodile can bring its jaws together
with the force of over 300 pounds.
SOUND travels through the air at the
rate of ], 142 feet in second, or mile
In about four and two thirds seconds.
TIE European and American forests
cover twenty-seven times the area Of
the known coal measures OF the world.
TREE planting is Systematically fos-
tered in China, and $50, 900 trees were
set out last year in Hong Kong alone.
IT is proposed to utilize the Yellow
stone Park for the preservation of the
bison, which is now very nearly extinct.
THE bite of Chinaman or negro is
far more serious to Caucasian than
wound inflicted by one of his own race.
AMONG the Western cities Chicago ex-
pended the most in new buildings last
year, the sum aggregating $50, 6S9, 900.
A JEALOUS Christian woman in
Lowell has left her husbands bed and
board because he will not be converted.
ALABAMA physicians say that pneu-
monia is now worse IN that State than
ever before within thirty or forty years.
In Virginia peanuts are now ground
into what proves a very fair flour for
making pie crust and ether light pas
tries.
Swans have been known to live to the
8 000 Tnx-sar thirotr he n rovolo
able that whales sometimes live 1000
years.
TBE largest diamond of the world is
TO he cut soon at Amsterdam. Ii was
found il South Africa and weighs Ats
carats.
A PUBLIC playground in London,
ebort one and half acres in extent. has
an everage daily attendance of 2, 639
children.
LAST week an English company pur-
chased 60 600 head of cattle and sc, 900
acres of land near Ft. Worth, Texas, for
So, 800. 600.
A COMPLETE German translation of
the Babylonian Talmud (the first accom-
plished) is to be published shortly at
Innspruck.
A CAVE of unknown extent ia reported
to have been discovered in Josephine
county, Oregon, twenty miles south of
Grant Pass.
IT is denied that "Oliyer Wendell
Holmes carries large horse chestnut
in his pocket IS preventive of rheu.
matte pains"
A PIECE OF needle which entered the
foot of Boston street car conductor
fourteen years ago came out of his arm
the other day.
THERE is bill before the New York
to punish a person who
makes a noise in public library and
disturbs other people.
Two TAMPA, Fla, fishermen lately
sawtish Is feet inches long,
6 feet wide, and weighing 500 pounds.
The saw was over four feet long.
A FARMER near Sacramento says his
crop of asparagus this season will bring
him S12, 600, of which SO, 900 will be
profit. He has twelve acres of it.
DURING the past two or three months
between thirty and forty Chinese boys
have been sent from San Francisco to
China by their parents to be educated.
IT appears that the death sentence in
Kansas does not by any means doom a
murderer to death. The warrant must
be signed by the Governor, and as yet
no Kansas Governor has ever signed q
death warrant.
A FARMERS wife in Indiana, who
runs the market garden of half an acre,
not only kept large table bountifully
supplied, but sold last year more than
500 worth of vegetables to the towns
folks few miles away.
A Faithful Servant.
A young Austrian count, who, by run
OF luck at Baden, found himself win