News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-06-11
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

over the cutting of wire fencing. Now
it is never heard of. This, according to
the Dallas Herald, Is the result Of ju-
dicious legislation.
The operation Of the mechanical APP
pliances in watch factory have become
60 rapid and systematic that 1t is possible
to take the raw material from stock IN
the morning and have watch running
from them by noon.
INvALIDs who depend upon cod-liver
oil to sustain their vital forces should be
careful to get pure article. Cotton
seed oil is now doing for the cod
product what 1t long since accomplished
in the matter Of olive oil.
TWENTY years have not sufficed to de-
stroy the explosive qualities Of shells
which were used in the late war. Forest
lres have recently laid bare the old bat
tlefields of the Wilderness, Virginia, and
many old shells have exploded.
IN the year TIT considerable interest
was manifested in an announcement that
six stoves had been completed in Phila-
delphia. The annual product of the
stove foundries in that city is now
valued at $4,000,000 and the industry
supports about Il, 900 people.
A LONDON journal tells this story Of
Mr.. Spurgeon, who lately visited San
Remo:-"On one occasion, when he was
crossing the italian frontier, the redoubt-
able preacher was ordered by the douan-
iers to give up to them certain fruit
which he was carrying. Thereupon he
retired three PAGES into the French ter
ritory and ate il.
The London Medical Press says that
the;fact has at length been made abund-
antly clear that trichiniasis in con-
tracted mainly by those who consume
pork derived from the more carnivorous
wild swine which abound in forests.
Persons whose pork diet is derived from
animals carefully fed on large dairy
farms do not suffer from the affection.
Nor many years have passed away
since roller skating was the fashionable
amusement of the hour in large cities
and watering places both in England
and Ireland. Kinks sprang up here and
there with a mushroom growth, and
after a short lapse faded as rapidly
away. Dublin affords ample evidence
of the fall of this artificial imitation of
skating.
In anticipation of clean sweep, the
postmaster of Golden, COL, has posted
up the following notice on the door of
his office: 81 have to get out of this
shebang about LIST Of August coming,
and want to close out all of this store
truck before that time, and if any of you
have the welfare of fellow being at
heart and are fond of good smoke,
walk right up to the counter and drop
your shekels-you will never get another
such chance"
THE Detroit Lancet describes the four
plans for reducing obesity: The eating
of nothing containing starch, sugar, or
fat, called the Banting system; the eat
ing of fat, but not sugar or starch,
called the German Banting; the wearing
of wool and sleeping in flannel blankets,
instead of sheets, or the Munich sys-
tenn; not eating and drinking at the
same time, or, rather, the allowing a
couple of hours to intervene between
eating and drinking, the Schweninger
system.
DIR. A. l.. LOOMS is credited by the
Canada Lancet with saying: "A man
can take two or three glasses of stimu-
lants daily and may continue the habit
for, perhaps, IS years without harm,
but when this man reaches that period
of life when the vital powers are on the
decline, he suddenly finds himself old
before his time, for he has all these years
been laying the foundation for chronic
endoarteritis. l believe that 80 per
cent of all diseases arise from the use of
EFHEN our gallant marines pitched
their tents on the Isthmus, some of the
officers made temporary beds by spread
ing their blankets on boxes of provisions.
A distinguished captain in the course of
A bloody battle with mosquitoes kicked
he cover off and discovered that he was
he did sleep-upon three
ooxes of biscuit marked "U. s. s.
rhetis." Those biscuit less than year
Lgo were in the Arctic seas with the
freely Relief Expedition. The thought
# it has kept the captain cool ever
ince.
A COLONY of infidels was founded five
ears ago in Barton county, Missouri.
| correspondent of the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, who spent day and half
q the :'ew town called Liberal, says that
he experiment is failure; that the
own, Instead of keeping pace with other
owns Of the same age, has fallen far be-
ind them, and instead of being the
appy, prosperous community it prom
,ed to be, is shrivelled, contracted, torn
4 two by dissensions, and in a condition
here only prompt action in behalf of
IS friends toward complete reorganiza-
ion will save it from disintegration.