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

UUDS AND ENID.
THE Paris new post-office cost about
SO, 100000.
Two THOUSAND varieties of apple trees
are now cultivated.
]. I. CASE has ordered his fast horses
to be brought East.
The Guernsey breed of COWS are be-
coming very popular.
IT is said that NJ. Bartholdi will visit
New York next winter.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE is Is, and
Harriet P. Spoford 90.
SEVEN MILLION sermons are annually
preached to Americans.
No CONNECTICUT regiment ever lost a
flag during the civil war.
RUSSIA has only 625 periodicals-less
even than China or Japan.
The cost of patents has now been re-
duced one-half in England.
The walls of several of the British
warships are made of paper.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY expects to return
to the Congo region in June.
The dividends payable in April in
Boston amount to Sc, 772, S42.
JUPITER is going away from the sun
and will not return until 1892.
The town of Wells, Me-, has a sur
plus of 81 294 40 in the treasury.
The wife of the Lord Mayor of Lon.
don sends to New York for her perfum-
cry.
VANDERBILT, it is said, intends to
make Washington his winter home here
after.
IsMAm PAoHA, ex-Khedive, has sub
scribed $500 to the Gordon Memorial
Fund.
Ex-Cos1MANDER GoRR1NGE, who
brought the Obelisk over, is regaining
health.
The average yearly income of the
keeper of Paris gambling house is
$4,000.
The value OF wood used annually in
cooperage in the United States is $685.
ia, 40.
The British Government during the
past nineteen years has spent e147, 576,-
900 on her navy.
The streets Of Delaware and eastern
Maryland towns are graded and ballasted
with oyster shells.
NEW YORK dentists are using cocaine
in order to render the filling of teeth
painless operation.
THERE is not a case of sickness
among the LOG boys in the State Re-
form School of Kansas.
A CITIZEN of Georgia has been sued
for holding a negro woman in slavery
for the past twenty years.
THERE are in this country at present,
according to estimates, very nearly, if
not fully 1000 skating Kinks.
A VIGOROUS war is being waged on
''bob" veal and bogus butter in the
western part of New York State.
SALMON ova are being sent from Ire
land to Tasmania in immense cans, that
are kept cool by being packed in ice.
Truth says Bismarck entertains keen
dislike for the members of the English
royal family and takes no pains to con-
ceal it.
A PHYSICIAN of Monroe county, Ga,
has among his collection a potato |
through which a blade of grass has
grown.
CTTRoN raising is receiving attention
in Florida. The fruit picked in brine
is worth $50 per ton In the London
market.
The town of Bedford, Pa, claims a
man who begged all day for his "starv-
ing family" and took in the roller rink
every evening.
A BOSTON kindergarten for blind
children has recently received from an
unknown person the liberal sum of ten
dollars.
GEN. GRANTS publishers are said to
have contracted to pay him 5000, 600.
This will be invested as the Generals
legacy to his family.
THE engineer says heavy trains must
not be run over the Brooklyn Bridge, as
the cables have on them all the load
they ought to carry.
THERE 40, 900 Poles and Bohernians
In Chicago who attend no church, but
support instead five Socialistic and
atheistic newspapers.
GENERAL WoLsELEY was stationed in
Canada until 1870, and, according to his |
old French teacher there, was a great |
favorite with the ladies.
THE Congregational Academy at Salt
Lake City, Utah, has six teachers and |
240 pupils, large proportion of whom
come from Mormon homes.
AMERICANS have recently flooded the |
Australian colonies with cigars made |
wholly of paper, carefully colored and |
veined. and favored with nicotine.
A WOMAN went all the way from Port |
land, Oregon, to set fire to a house
which she owns in Vallejo, because she |
heard it was used for improper purposes.
An Irishman in Lahore, India, re-
nounced Roman Catholicism and be-
came a Mahometan twelve years ago.
He has already made two pilgrimages to
Mecca.
A BIBLE society agent called on 3,210
families in Concord, N. H, recently,
and found only 90 with copies of the
Bible. He sold 629 copies and gave
away 107.