News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-06-18
ODDS AND ENDS.

THREE Georgia weeklies are edited b1
women.
GLUCOSE is about three-fths as sweet
as cane sugar.
JOSH BILLINGS has two-years' foreign
tour In contemplation.
MARK TwAIN's ''reading" tour is sale
to have Melted him nearly $35, 900.
THE total length of the submarine
cable now in use is quoted at IS, 900
miles.
POWDERED rice is said to have great
effect in stopping bleeding from fresh
wounds.
A NEW Japanese dictionary of the
Ohlnese language. comprises no less than
forty volumes.
A BRITISH officer says that such q
thing as a good looking Arab woman
does not exist.
VENICE, Italy, is about to be lighted
with electric lamps and the gondoliers
are protesting.
In 1888 there were $3.50 murders in
this country; the number increased to
Is, 397 in 1884.
The Hawaiian Kingdom has just en-
acted patent law. ITS term is ten years
for each patent.
IT is said thst sixty per cent. of the
children born in Russia die before the
age of five years.
BEN: PERLEY PooRE claims to have
shaken hands with seventeen Presidents
of the United States.
TIE revenue of the Chinese Govern
ment for the current fiscal year is esti-
mated at $97, $780, 900.
The following is displayed in front of
Boston restaurant :-"Civil service
rules carefully observed"
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, CAL, offers
bounties of S. for killing lions, g. SO for
coyotes, and 81 for Wildcats.
PORTLAND, Me-, has a colored woman
ninety-four years of age who supports
herself by taking in washing.
STATISTICS show that in Massachusetts
since 1857 pneumonia has grown almost
twice as fast as the population.
PHILADELPHIA has one saloon to every
% voters, one grocery to every 523, and
one bakery to every 1914 voters.
A PROJECT is on foot at Wells, Me-,
of supplying the Boston market.
IT is said that the only red slate in the
world is found in four towns of Wash
ington county in New York State.
PRUSSIA has now z, $50, ia adherents
of the Evangelical Church, 1920, 239
Roman Catholics and 357, 554 Jews.
AT the Nice Exhibition there is a
Chinese clock which is stated to date |
back 800 years before the birth of Christ. |
A TEXAN who has, lived for years
among the cowboys says that many of
them are graduates of Eastern colleges.
Q. P. HUNTINGTON, the railroad mil
'tPoyerty Hollow" near Harwinton,
Conn
ORANGE peel, when thoroughly dried
or baked, is a capital thing for lighting
fires. 1t burns ferceIy and gives out an
intense heat.
TIE Boston Transcript says that
Senator Dawes will be a candidate to
succeed himself at the expiration of his
term in 1887.
PATTI has written to London to say
that she will appear in that city in June,
provided there are no signs of cholera
there at that time.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, has grown since
the war from clump of whitewashed
and shanties to a city of
%, 900 inhabitants.
THE Sultan of Turkey recently re-
modelled the pharmacy of the palace,
calling two German specialists to Con-
stantinople to do it.
A TENNESSEE Justice of the Peace
some years ago fined himself $40 and
paid it for having INDUCED too freely in
stimulants the previous evening.
In Chicago the majority of the law
reporters are women. There are forty
employed in the City Court House, and
they earn from Sc to S15 week.
IT is estimated that 40, 900 sheep have
died in Greene county, Pennsylvania
during the past three months, owing to |
the scarcity of feed and the severity OF |
the winter.
THE National Guard of Pennsylvania
is to be reduced to ten regiments and
organized into two brigades, one in the
eastern and the other in the western
half of the State.
PREMIER GLADSTONE entertains at
breakfast every Thursday morning all
the friends and celebrities who choose
to call. The meal is Scotch one and is
served at ten o'clock.
GRAssHoPPERs accumulated in such
quantities at gate on a ranch at Wheat
land, Cal, few days ago, that it was
necessary to remove them with shovel
n order to open the gate.
A VERY active red insect has appeared
in some of the vineyards of Yolo county,
CAL, in immense numbers, covering the
A a. 20 hu
this new pest droops in an hour. '