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

ONLY 40 miles of railway were built in
kentucky last gear.
The largest gold nugget ever found
weighed las pounds.
PARLoR lectures promise to be a pop
ular form of amusement.
LoNG black moustaches have ceased
TIC exist in fashion sense.
The death rate in Boston in 1884 was
slightly lower than in 1883.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAIrE's illness is en-
hrely the result of overwork.
DURINa the year 1884, SO, 051 persons
died in London, or 223 day.
BEANS are going up in consequence
OF the great demand for export.
No COIN of less value than fiye-cent
piece circulates in New Orleans.
Hon. SCHUYLER CoLFAx left an estate
valued at $3.50, 900, unencumbered.
Mr.. DOLBY says that Charles Dickens
cleared 1925, 900 out of his readings.
SToCKAIEN in Oregon have lost heavily
by the recent SHOWS and severe cold.
THE grain crop in this country the
past year was the largest ever raised
FITCH experimental in steam naviga-
tion on the Delaware river in 1884.
The Massachusetts railroads killed or
injured 457 people during the year 1884.
The total output of the Lake Superior
copper mines for 1884 was 43, 537 tons.
AS LONG ago as ITO London had
one cent evening paper-the EVeni13g
Post.
THERE are ia, 600 school teachers in
England, of whom 95 per cent. are spin
sters.
BUTLER COUNTY, Pa, will soon have
all its houses heated and lighted by nat
ural gas.
The Kansas Senate comprises forty
members, all but three of whom are
lawyers.
A MAN in jail at New Bedford as a
common drunkard has fallen heir to
$4,000.
A CALIFORNIA marble company have
received large order for marble from
England.
AN English newspaper, the only one
in Germany, has been started in
Dresden.
ITALY has &, 25OOO men in its army
and some of the finest ships and guns in
the world.
THERE were s, 96S marriages, 25, 263
births and 81, Tic deaths in New Jersey
during 1884,
A MONUMENT was erected over the
grave of kit Carson at Taos, N. NJ,
on January 2.
$4,000 by the late Annie NJ. Woodman,
of Cambridge.
The Chinese in San Francisco paid
$27, 600 in fines into the police court rev.
enues last year.
The oatmeal millers of the Northwest
are combining to keep prices up to a
proper standard.
A CAR starter at the Union Depot in
Pittsburg, Pa, is said to be the son of
an English peer.
AN old Mexican woman at San Luis,
Cal, aged 50 years, has just cut her
third set of teeth.
JOHN G. Emo intends to build a large
hotel on the Island of Orleans, few
miles from Quebec.
THE entertainments of the English |
aristocracy are now characterized by
''extreme simplicity"
GEN. FRANCIS A. WALKER has been |
chosen president of the American Statis-
teal Society of Boston.
GREAT BRITAIN manufactures 700, 000,- |
600 envelopes yearly. The United States
turns out 9, 500, 600, 900.
BUFFALo's total coal shipment West |
by the lakes for 1884 was 1, 456, 061 tons,
As, 257 less than il 1888.
CHARLESTON, S c., will send two mill
tary companies to Washington to take
part in the Inauguration.
THE first idea of steam navigation
was contained in a patent obtained in
England by Hulls, in 1916.
MISS MAUD ST. PIERRE is worth S.
100000. She is investing it in coal and
mineral lands in Tennessee.
A WOMAN in Ohio gave 81, 900 to a faith
cure doctor, who at once disappeared.
She was cured-of her faith.
For 90 years one-quarter of all the
eneap Ezoasns n 1ne WoHsd have been