News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-05
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Texas is overrun with tramps.

Inc popular opinion feSdrulllS etA-
alton: T'other fellow ought to be
taxed.
Montreal receives carnival crowds
and the south will form the favorite
resort of Lenten pennitents.
1t is said that the originator of the
Concord grape has raised over 2O,-
600 seedlings in the past 50 years
without finding his ideal grape, and
only p, had desirable qualities.
A chicken with clipped wing made
several Intellectual attempts to fly over
a fence. An Irishman, who witnessed
the efforts of the chick, laughingly
exclaimed: ''Begorra, she has de-
fective few"
The great onion tract at Chester.
in Orange county, New York, which
is now worth $1,000 an acre, was
worthless piece of ground not long
ago. Last season 10000 bushels of
onions were grown on these meadows.
and we're sold for more than $780,
900. This seasons crop will be even
larger.
Two beautiful flags, made of silk
grown and spun in this country, have
been presented to Congress by the
Woman's Silk Culture Association of
the United States, Mrs. John Lucas,
President.
Thirty-six numerously signed petit
tons asking that municipal suffrage be
extended to women, were presented in
the Massac husetts House recently.
Hard times at Washington. "The
wife of one of the members of the
Cabinet said she thought the toilets at
the Presidents reception the hand
soonest, taken as a whole, she had
ever seen there
English parents of rank are sending
their daughters to public schools
more than ever before, but American
parents of wealth are becoming more
eager supporters of private schools
than ever before. The educational
pendulum swings both ways, evidently.
A human jaw-bone, with a full set
of sound teeth, is said to have been
found in Georgia limestone quarry,
embedded in the rock sixty feet below
the surface of the earth.
Stockport, one of the oldest towns
in Cheshire, England, has the largest
aud probably the oldest Sunday School
in the world. 1t is sustained by all
the churches together, and has in con-
nection a Weekday school with COM
petent teachers.
The new Billings Library Building
Of Vermont University is to be dedi-
Gated at Commencement in June. 1t
is spacious and fire-proof, and has
been erected by means of a gift of
100000 by the Hon. Frederick Bill
lings'
Several members of Parliament
have expressed to the London CORE
spondent Of the New York Herald
the opinion that the main nest Of the
dynamite conspiracy is now in France.
The roller skate dates back to 1861.
The patents ran for seventeen years.
Not until the patent right ran out did
it become popular. Now it is the
universal and popular craze with which
every hamlet is afflicted.
What is an unlearned world to eat?
Oatmeal has been regarded for years
as sort of digestive panacea, and
now comes alon. DR.. Bartholow, who
declares that it is indigestible by
American stomachs, and that even the
Scotch, whose mucous membrane is
stronger and their gastric juice more
potent, are more subject to dyspepsia
than any other nation, all because
they eat so much oatmeal.
A clock seven feet high has been
made by Leesville, Ohio, blacksmith
with the aid Of nothing but the tools
of his trade. 1t is made principally
of steel, gives the time in eleven cities,
strikes the hours and quarters, and is
exhibited in glass case where the
can be seen.
At a woman suffrage meeting re-
Gently little dispute was significant
Of the suffragists. "We must clam
Or for our rights" said an energetic
speaker on the floor. "We don't
interrupted Lucy Stone,
mildly, from the platform. eyes, we
do; William Lloyd Garrison clam
ored." "No, he didn't, and we don't"
was the gentle aud emphatic rejoinder
and the last word.
An evangelist who has been labor
ing at Virginia City, New, had Pc
culiar testimony to the value of his
efforts. At one of the meetings a
gamblers wife testified to the good |
influence he was having on the COM
nunity. "Why," she said, "before
brother Earle came here my husband |
Use to run a regular brace, but now,
hanks to Brother Earle's Christian
eaching, he's dealing as square a
game as there is in Virginia City,"
The Columbus, Ca, Sun says
iegro living in the southern portion
If Macon county made last year five
)ales of cotton without the assistance
If a mule, OK, or any beast of like
lind. He lost his mule in the first
part of the year, and owing about $25
or advances the previous year, he de-
ermined not to go into debt any
more. AS dernier resort he made
set of harnnSc for him Golf ond tool
he place of the mule, with the above
esult.