News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-05
ODDS AND ENDS.
THE net funded debt of New York city
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ODDS AND ENDS.
THE net funded debt of New York city
is 500, 047, 403.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS is believed to be
worth at least $3.50, 600.
JAY GOULD predicts that 1885 will be
"a money making year.
THE first American bank was estab-
lished in Boston in 1856.
THERE are 900 Masonic lodges in
Texas and Is, 900 Masons.
BERLIN has 1,027 physicians, or one
to every 1880 inhabitants.
THE corps de ballet of the Paris Grand
Opera comprises 1,027 women.
"BURDIE" is Mr.. Burdett- Coutts's pet
name for the wife of his bosom.
THERE is but one place in the United
States where gun cotton is made.
Mr.. JOSHUA MONTGOMERY SEARS pays
the largest individual tax in Boston.
A PEARL has been found on the west
eIn Australian. coast valued at 800, COO.
PAPER is now used in Germany instead
of wood in manufacturing lead pencils.
GERMANY is doing what it can to keep
out American petroleum from her market
CHICAGO is said TO have within her
borders two thousand armed Socialists.
ONTARIO (Canada) exports more than
ST. per cent. of the timber annually
cut
IT is said that Japanese women have
never seen and do not know the use of
pins.
MONTANA horse thieves are operating
IN force in the British Northwest Terri.
tory.
ORE yielding 81, 900 in gold to the ton
has been discovered in Clermont county.
Ohio.
DRUNKENNESS is common in the army.
the Arn1y and Navy Journal CON
fesses.
The only sister of the late Gen. Gus
ter Is giving dramatic readings for live
hbood.
DURING the re~nr,+"l,ole-n or-iszo,,,:, =,
Naples twenty doctors fell victims to the |
disease.
OF the 80, 900 Indians in the Territory
OF Dakota, 80, 900 speak the English |
language.
FAILING meteor recently killed Mr.. |
Julius Rabble, farmer, near Somerset. |
Kentucky.
HENRY TATE has given e1O, 600 for the |
erection of homeopathic hospital in |
Liverpool.
SPIDER is said to eat twenty-six |
times its own weight every day and still
be hungry.
The number of post offices in Germany
has increased from 5, 755 in 1872 to H.
GIG in 1888.
The Salvationists of England want
Sl50,O00 for their work during the
coming year.
THE largest Bank of England note is
worth $3.50, 900, and the owner is Prince
Starbeenberg.
The late Abner Coburn was the
richest man in Maine. He was worth
about $4,000 900.
A GLASS of whisky, which is cold for
10 or Is cents, costs the distiller only
one-sixth of cent.
mp the clock of Trinity Church, New
York, it is so heavy.
A MOTION to allow street cars to run
on Sunday failed to find seconder in
the Toronto Council.
A MAN in York county, Pa, has had
his wife arrested for pouring gallon of
molasses on his head.
The estimated cost of collecting the
customs revenue at Boston for the next
fiscal year is 1863, 931.
THE season in Rome this year is re-
ported as the dullest within the memory
of the oldest inhabitart.
THERE is bill pending in Congress to
create Department of Agriculture with
a Cabinet officer at its head.
Mrs. e. D. E. n. SoUTHwoRTH is an {
nounced to be writing her sixty-ffth c
novel in her sixty-ffth year. j
The American News Company has
twenty-seven different branches, cover s
ing the entire United States,
ONLY four out of the forty-six States
and Territories are now trying to pro-
-issasftthe sale of strong drink
IT has been estimated that the COM +
mon fly moves its wings $50 times per n
second, and 1o, 800 times a minute. y
HE Italian funds have lately been
qnoted at nearly the same figures as the i
English. In 1865 they stood at SO. u
WHEN the first cable was laid the rate fl
was 500 per twenty words. The pres b
ent rate Is "a for the same message. >
An eccentric Grand Rapids woman u
has habit of paying her street-car fares "
with 50 gold pieces, taking no change.
THERE are in London fifty-nine fire en- \
CINE stations and 600 fremen constant
" employed, besides coachmen and j,
pilots. =
TIE top of Mount Carmel is now &C. o
cupled by an American, whose wine eel Il
lar is a Biblical tomb in the recesses of D
the hill.
IT is estimated that on the Tyne. be. n
tween Newcastle and Tynemouth. there q
are between 10000 and 1900 men out Il
of work. h
AN aged Michigan man and his wife h
had their first quarrel at family cele-
bration Of the fftieth anniversary of their d.
"
THE Republic of Mexico maintains an
agricultural college at its capital, the pl
appropriations for which last year were :
1888, 34S. J
ONE of the latest London absurdities &c
IS for the owners of little dogs to leave I II
the dogs card with their own when they
make calls.
PERE HYACINTHE LoYsoN is a vehe-
nent opponent of the use of tobacco in
my form or for any purpose except to
ill insects. of
HE ladies of Florida have made a of
lag entirely Of Florida silk, which they ma
Vlll present to Governor Perry on Inau- tn
,uration day. su,
HAMILTON FISH spent ST., 1000 year He
lr. Evarts $4,000, and Mr.. Freliug. d't
luysen $1,000 over their salary while tel
of State. yo
JET mining at Whitby is on the de- VIZ Wa
line, owing to the introduction of Span 10
SD Jet, which is sold at lower price to S 6u
he manufacturers. ~ -
HE cataracts of the Nile are due tn a
'ranlte veins, which the river. while wo
7orking way through the sandstone The
al been unable to destroy. kel
The largest organ in the world is said bro
be IN the cathedral of Riga. 1t is 36 cbs
'et wide, 80 feet deep and Is feet in vic
eight. 1t has 1926 pipes. " tur
WHEN st. Louis policeman is asked tur
ny question about city places. he takes ow
ON his pocket small guide book and wit
fers to sell it for 25 cents. eve
WHILE boring an artesian we'll on tba Doc
osecrans track. near Los Angeles. the ma
orkmen discovered deposit of concb
lells at depth of 160 feet. --oD
A DAKOTA Judge stepned 5o,rr g.