News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-30
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THE matches consumed in the United
States require wood to the annual value
of So, 298, 562; the railroads use about
SO, 000, 900 OF wood for fuel and 2,O0O,-
900 for ties each year.
A SOLID, silver balustrade, which had
stood in one of the Mexican churches
since the time of Cortez, was torn down
not long ago and taken to the mint, pro-
ducing over sixty thousand silver
dollars,
SOME person has calculated that to
manufacture the $50, 900 tons OF paper
annually required for the supply of the
world, 4S0 days medium flow OF water
down the river Thames would be
needed.
NEAR Chickasawhatchee, Ga, says the
Savannah NeaOs, line of earthworks
can still be seen which were thrown up
by Gen. jackson (Old Hickory as a
protection against Indians on his march
to Florida through that section IN 1918.
A BLooMuNeroN Qll) youth of 10,
after a course of yellow-back literature,
wrote to a merchant that unless he i'm
mediately received 300 he would burn
down the merchants store. He con-
fessed afterward that he adopted TIE
scheme from novel.
FRANCIS MURPHY's coat was stolen in
Pittsburgh few days ago. The thief
pawned it and sold the pawn ticket, the
buyer of which attended a Murphy
meeting and took the pledge. Francis
Murphy then tied blue ribbon in the
outtonhole of his own coat on another
man.
ALCOHOLIC intemperance is stated to
be increasing to an alarming extent
among the women of Australia. In dis
cussing the matter at meeting of the
Melbourne Medical Society the physi-
clans present concurred in attributing
the trouble to close confinement,
anxiety, and the fatigue arising from
overwork.
Mr.. E. MATHEWS, of Jackson county,
Ga, has a colored man living on his
place who was left in the Cherokee Ma
ton, in Twenty y-nine-mile Stretch, sold
twice by John A. Murrell and shot at
three times by the Confederate soldiers.
He is now the father of 49 children and
is 80 years old. He can plow as much in
a day as any man.
ONE OF the cases recently reported
at a meeting of the Charity Organ
ization of Washington was that of
professional beggar who has two dresses
"a begging dress and society dress.
Her name appeared in the society col
umns of city paper as receiving guests
during the Inauguration, and she was
found to be living handsomely out of
aims.
A SERIOUS epidemic of whooping
cough has run through the islands of the
Fiji group. The malady has carried off
all the very young native children, and
left decrease in the population of 3, 900.
A few years ago 80, 900 persons in FIJI
@ tGe ir mS % i3osf P's%1S @l 1as"Hlss les Since
much to instruct the people in the law
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"I PASSED through funny town the
other day." remarked a gentleman who
is Just home from the South. "It was q
place called Fulton, on the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad, and is built right over the
dividing line between Kentucky and
Tennessee. The main street of the town
is the dividing line. On the Kentucky
side of the street local option is in strict
enforcement, but you may cross over to
the Tennessee side and find dozen sa-
looms in full blast"
Mr.. WALTER, of the London Times is
said to have been the originator of the
custom of charging for marriage notices
in the newspapers. The charge at first
was trifing, and the income of the
Times from this source was paid regu-
larly to Mrs. Walters as pin money. On
her death she passed this prescriptive
right of hers to her daughter, and when
it was repurchased few years ago by
the present proprietor of the paper it
was assessed at from e4, 900 to 5000
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