News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-22
ODDS AND ENDS.

1T is noticed in England that pawn.
brokers scarcely ever become bankrupt.
PARIS Figaro States that there are
30, $50 workmen in Paris out of employ,
ment.
TIE Baltimore Aldermen have built q
City Hall for $3.50, 900 less than the est.
mates.
A SALMON weighing eighty pounds was
recently taken from the river Tay, in
Scotland.
LORD WoLsELEY fears that relief will
not reach Khartoum before the middle
of March.
BEN BUTLER is said to have paid
$4,000 for the fun of running for
President.
THE merchants of Boston have ten.
dered Mayor Martin, of that city, pub
lie dinner.
HOTEL keepers in Indiana have formed
State organization for mutual benefit
and protection.
In England Lord Salisbury and the
peers are for woman suffrage, but the
Commons are not.
A NEW YORK inventor has prepared a
paint that is said to be proof against the
teredo and the white ant.
TEE dividends payable in Boston in
81 ,070, 523 in January last.
A TELEGRAPHER in Philadelphia saws
that the strength of the Telegraph
Secret Society is fully 5000.
A MICA mine in Georgia is proving n
bonanza to the stovemakers and a gold
mine TO the fortunate owner.
A NEW fve-dollar counterfeit Treasury
note, series 1875, check-tetter A, has
made its appearance in Boston.
A MAN was drowned in Philadelphia in
a vat of liquor. Alcohol possesses a va
rlety of methods to kill people.
SIR HENRY BEssEMER has enjoyed an
income of 5000, 900 year for twenty
one years from his steel patents.
DURING the Revolutionary war Wash
ington spent S65, 600 of his own money.
and refused pay for his services.
WASHINGTON Monument weighs ST.
120 tons and cost 81, 1877, 40, of which
Congress appropriated 1887, 10.
OsKALosA, Iowa, is said to have a
spring that will tan skins either with fur
off or on, in from "a to As hours.
The first edition of the February num-
Der OF the Century, containing General
Grants Shiloh, will be 5000.
A LACE factory is to be established
at Wlkes-Barre, Pa. 1t will be the
only one of the kind in the country.
TIE Chinese soldier, just before going
into battle, takes off his shoes and stuffs
them into his tunic for breastpIate.
IT is remembered with gratitude of
Kossuth that he introduced the soft felt
hat in this country and made it popular.
MANY of the creditors of Shaw
Brothers, Of Boston, are accepting COM
promises of 81, 500, 900 of Indebtedness.
IT is believed that the sentence of
death passed upon Rupsch and Kuehler,
the German anarchists, will be RENTED.
THE Oxford crew is exceptionally
heavy this year, but the stroke oarsmen
of both University crews are very light.
On recent evening no less than
seventy-fve counterfeit dollars were
passed on the drivers of Brooklyn rail
way.
TIE Kentucky schoolmaster who was
threatened with tar and feathers is al
legged to have killed five of his assail-
ants.
A FARMER in Tennessee owns a coat
z13a5e IN 1879 BY A11l5ro7v- JlsJss5s.e,., ~
was afterWard President Of the United
States.
A VIRGINIA walnut tree was recently
sold for $500. 1t was so big that the
purchasers made money by the trans
action.
HE highest priced parlor clock in
America is owned by a Wall street man.
Ut was made in New York city, and cost
$4,000.
THE building fund of the African
Methodist Church at Grand RliIs,
Mich, was lost at faro by two of the
trustees.
A WRITER in the Texas Carrier OF
Medicine says that anything which viii
cause a man to sneeze will cure him OF
hiccough.
THE report is confirmed of extensive
annexations by Germany of Polynesian
Islands; also a German protectorate over
Zanzibar.
THE widow of Sergeant. who lost
his life on the Greedy expedition, is an
Innate of the Charlestown, Mass.
Almshouse.
TERRAPIN served in tiny soup bowls
made from the turtle shell, was one Of
the features of sensational banquet IL
Washington.
A YOUNG lady who was blamed for
allowing her glove to be discovered in a
young mans pocket stated that she had
no hand in il.
THE total production of cigais in this
country, as estimated by one of the
largest manufacturers, is about 8, 000,-
900, 900 year.
EVERY visitor to the Exposition in New
Orleans is required to deposit silver
half dollar in glass box, no admission
tickets being sold.
A DEPOSIT of vitreous earth has been
discovered on farm in the western part
of London, N. H., about five miles from
Concord city proper.
Ell MAHDI recently drowned three
thousand men in attempting to emulate
on the Nile banks the act of Moses in
crossing the Red Sea.
BELIEF in the virtues of the type-set-
ting machine has spread to Congressional
circles. At least dozen members have
stock in the enterprise.
PEOPLE who dislike to have their win
dows frosted in cold weather can pre-
vent it by rubbing the glass inside and
outside with glycerine.
Gov. SHERMAN, of Iowa, is being
urged to call an extra session of the
State Legislature to consider the ques-
ten of railway freights.
CANNON POINT, Ga, claims the honor
of having the only olive grove in the
TTpitad GFotaa ubcSa fruif 10 mead Co..
the manufacture of oil.
The last Inauguration ceremonies
ball, etc., cost nearly 500, 1000. The citi-
zens were paid back their subscriptions
out of the ball receipts.
IF there is one thing Georgia farmer
would rather do than raise all cotton and
no grain it is to give a mortgage, says
the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
RUSSIA is abort to transfer her naval
headquarters in the Black Sea from
Nikolaiev to Sebastopol. The estimated
cost of the transfer is 81, 100000.
EXPERIMENTS have been made with
the pulp of the Florida banana, and the
result is that from it can be obtained
splendid quality of paper and rope.
The leader of Harrigan & SHart's or
chestra lost violin valued at $500 in tbs
Theatre Comique fire. He had never
left it in the house over night before.
In China dog thief is beheaded. bni
the man who steals million runs away
to Corea. In the United States horse
thief is lynched and an absconding bank
cashier goes to Canada.
THE strength of the United States army
is 28,U28, with 2, 1913 commissioned Off