News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-28
ODDS AND ENDS,

100 years.
DRIVERS in Paris are very cruel t.
their horses.
LEATHER wheels are made in France
for railway carriages.
The wheat crop of Italy amounted te
la, 000, GOO bushels.
A GYPSY dance was brilliant feature
OF the Kirmess in Baltimore.
New YORK is suffering with an cpl
demlc OF amateur theatricals.
OMAHA, Neb., claims to be the best
paved city in the United States.
1T is said that VIM. 81. Vanderbilt has
not used tobacco for thirty years.
GERMANY contemplates grand ex
hibition of German industry in 1888.
MANY white people patronize the
Chinese theatres in Californian cities.
VIENNA has ten times as many doctors
In proportion to population as London.
IT is stated that Queen Victoria has
arranged 10 visit Ireland next autumn.
A STATUE of Garfield, to be erected al
San Francisco, has been cast at Nurem'
berg.
The electric light is to be used on al
trains running through the st. Gothard
tunnel
THE manufacture of broom corr
toothpicks is a growing Kansas In
dustry.
ENGLISH papers announce that Irving't
last trip to America Melted him about
$3.50, 600.
OUT of the word ''incomprehensibil-
ity" Connecticut lady made 2,249 diff
ferent words.
SIXTY thousand dollars were spent in
Chicago for flowers during the recent
opera festival
EARTHQUAKES in North Japan are
more numerous and severe in winter
than in summer.
EVEN in Dakota the farmers are grow
ing tired of grain farming and advocate
mixed husbandry.
FULLY one-half the names of the mail
ing offices stamped on letters and postal
cards are illegible.
Two HUNDRED men will begin work
on the cable railroad in Atlantic avenue,
Brooklyn, shortly.
IT is rumored that Emma Nevada
will marry DIR. Palmer, her manager,
some time this year.
Mrs. THEODORE Triton is living in
comfort and quiet with her mother, Mrs.
Morse, in Brooklyn.
THE number of mules attached to
hearse denotes the responsibility of
funeral in Rio Janeiro.
WASHINGTON statistics show $50
churches, with 40, 81 members; 21, 900
are in the colored churches.
GREAT BRITAIN imported more leather
from France during February than ever
before in the same length of time.
THERE are S,163 Japanese Christians
in the empire of Japan. They have 112
churches and propose to build more.
PRUSSIA has now IL, 969, ia adherents
of the Evangelical Church, 1920, 1876
Roman Catholics and 357, 554 Jews.
The Austrian railway companies en-
ploy about 5000 women, principally in
the ticket offices and waiting rooms.
THERE are now about 5, 400 residents
in the Virginia county where stood
jamestown, of early settlement fame.
No MAN, it is said, can enlist in the
regular army of China until he has shown
his courage by having tooth pulled.
tered in China, and $50, 600 trees were
set out last year in Hong Kong alone.
THE filing of the Potomac Flats at
Washington is going on day and night,
and gives work to small army of men.
An Indian doctor in Utah was stoned
to death recently by his tribe for having
failed to cure patient placed under his
charge.
EVERY day the London postmen walk
q distance equal to twice the circum-
ference of the earth. There are 4, 030
of them.
A VALUABLE Connecticut cow came to
mysterious end, and a post-mortem
revealed three inches OF fence wire in
her lungs.
THE average maple-sugar crop of Ver-
mont is about u, 000,0 600 of pounds.
This yer the crop will reach Is, 000, 900
of pounds.
A CANANDAIaUA, n. Y, lady has been
selected to act as governess for one of
the daughters of the King of the Sand
wich Islands.
1T Is estimated that not less than a
thousand men will make regular bust
ness Of playing base ball professionally
this summer.
BETWEEN progressive euchre and re-
progressive roller skating, the Western |
parsons have plenty to do in the way of |
denunciation.
THE lawyer who obtained 81, 500, 900 |
alimony for the divorced wife of Senator |
Fair has had to sue that lady for his |
fee of $4,000.
SIR r. TEMPLE of London combats |
the statements as to the number of the |
population of China, and estimates it |
at 297, 900, 600.
HENRY 0. F'LIPPER, the colored cade
who made SO much trouble at Yves
Point, now holds commission in the
Mexican army.
AT Shiga Ken, Japan, there resides a
dwarf, only seventeen inches high and
thirty-six years old, who is well educated
and good writer.
THERE are, according to Rowell's New
York Directory, IA, LAT newspapers and
periodicals published in the United |
States and Canada
MIR. BLAINE will give up his Washing |
ton house in June and go to his old |
home III Augusta, where he will spend |
most of the summer.
ELECTRICITY is now employed in ex-
Iractlng teeth, q recently invented |
machine pulling, in an actual test. seven
teeth In five seconds.
FRANCE and Greece have 100 HOLIDAYS
annually; Russia 66, Belgium 65, Eng
land "a, and the United States so.
These include Sundays.
GREAT BRITAIN has in her navy fiftv
vessels capable of steaming around the
world at speed of twelve knots an
hour without recoaling.
In all the Japanese empire it is esti-
mated that there are less than ten thou-
sand paupers-a truly wonderful record
for population of 81, 100000
A Missouri paper announces that
Hatch is at his home in
Hannibal entertaining the elite of that
city with progressive euchre parties.
The e1-Khedive has given s4OO. 900
for a property in Florence. All the
tenants have notice to quit, and it is
rumOred that his harem will soon ar.
rive.
The current of Lake Erie has an effect
upon the adjacent shores sufficient to
make the spring season from two to four