News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-09
ODDS AND ENDS.

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the United States.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND declines al
invitations to dinner.
Ell MAHDI was boat builder befor
he became prophet.
THERE is rage in England just no1
for ambulance classes.
THERE are So, $3.50 miles of telephon
wire in the United States.
The electric light is beginning to b.
used in private houses in Paris.
VANADIUM, white metal discoveret
In 1880, costs $40, 900 pound.
On exhibition at Vallejo, CAL, is
goose egg weighing ten ounces.
ONE HUNDRED converts to Mormonisn
recently left Tennessee for Utah.
SPIDERS are said to eat twenty-siz
times their own weight each day.
AMHERsr's gymnasium cost SSS, OOC
and is said to be the finest in the world
IT is said that mice are just as much
afraid of women as women are OF mice.
A MACHINE is in use at Melbourne,
Australia, for shearing sheep by steam.
The cost of patents has been reduced
one-haf in England since the first ol
January.
A NEW union railway station is to be
erected at Indianapolis at a cost Of
81, 100000.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. is excited because
O span of horses for the fire department
cost s., 035.
IT is said that over $500, 900, 900 worth
of timber is destroyed every year by
forest fires.
Two GERMANS going on at the same
time is now the proper thing at fashion
able parties.
ACCORDING to the fashionable catere
Size cream" is now out of the question
for dinner parties.
The English fashion Of sending empty
carriages to fashionable funerals ha!
reached New York.
The Wild Horse Capturing Associa-
tion has asked the Nebraska Legislature
for incorporation.
Your dainty debutante of the season
and glass of milk.
In Germany steam is often used to ex.
tinguish flames. It causes much less
damage than water.
ASoUTHERN Illinois newspaper printed
its edition on wall paper during the re-
cent snow blockade.
VIXEN the track is in good condition
toboggan oftentimes goes at the rate
of mile minute.
MAIL bags from Cincinnati were re-
Gently delivered in Berlin in the short
space of eleven days.
The cities of Baltimore and Phiadel-
phia are declared by medical authority
to be ripe for cholera
A1LIGAToRs are said to be devouring
the ducks in the lakes of the lake region
to an alarming extent.
DURING the coming Antwerp Exposi-
ton the best musical works of all ma
tons will be executed.
IT is said that a Paris publisher has
the skull of Richelieu carefully pre-
served in velvet case.
AN aristocratic lady refuses to read
newspapers, magazines, tracts, etc., be-
cause they are made of rags.
Up to March l all the gas consumed
by the residents of Mare Island, CAL,
was paid for by the Government.
A SYCAMORE, Ill, man claims 800, 900
and eighty-fve years interest on it
under the French spoliation law.
CALIFORNIA has 236, 672 pupils in her
public schools, and spends annually
81, 46S, 236. Sc on their education.
THERE are 100000 colonies of bees
In the United States, which annually
yield 100, 600, 900 pounds of honey.
THE tunnel under the Mersey at Liv-
erpool was opened Feb. ID. The dis
lance under the river is about mile.
The builders and mechanics of Wheel
ing, W. Va, say that steel nails are
failure, and are abandoning their use.
The chief-engineer of the Croton
Aqueduct reports that 20, 900, 900 gallons
-oss-----@@..55z 2ze1wasted in New York every
day.
A GEORGIA woman boasts that she has
in use, unbroken, a sitter which she
bought when she was married, 81 years
ago.
The $500, 900, 900 now in the United
States Treasury is said to be the largest
sum of money ever accumulated in one
body.
THE Haytians are going to raise
monument to the memory of the father
of Dumas l., who married Haytian ne
gress.
In Portland, Me-, 994 boys have vol
unfairly signed the triple pledge against
Intoxicating liquors, tobacco and pro-
family.
THE largest gambling establishment
In Louisville, or in the South, has just
been opened by a member of the City
Council.
The bell in the Catholic church at
Kaskaskia, H., is IA years old, and was
a present to the parish from the King
of France.
THERE were 912 fires in Philadelphia
before reported. The losses amounted
to 50, 041, 81.
A NATOHEz, MISS, negro, seventy
years of age, has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for one year for marrying
white woman.
TRANSATLANTIC steamship companies
are making arrangements for an unusu-
ally large number of passengers the
coming season.
AT Alexandria, Va, few nights ago
man was awakened by cat tapping
on his face, when he found the bed en-
veloped in flames.
GREAT BRITAIN buys her postal card
supply from Germany, the last order
given the successful bidder being
$50, 900, 900 cards.
A MAN in Adrian, Mich, is on trial for
failure to support wife and nine chill
dren, the latter all born in eleven years.
Chicago Times.
A PATENT In Mexico costs from 80
to $500. according to the ideas of the
office there as to the importance of the
invention covered.
A MEMBER of the Texas Legislature
has introduced bill to establish State
hennery for the purpose of propagating
pure blooded fowls.
The Great Western from Bristol, and
the Sirius from Cork, arrived at New
York on their first voyage, in eighteen
days, June IT, 1888.
IT is figured that 1000, 900 sermons
are annually preached to Americans.
And yet insomnia is a prevalent COM
plant in this country.
THERE are no hod carriers in Ger
many. Brick are passed from hand to
hand. The higher up the work is the
more men are required.
A GEORGIA couple, after having made
all the preparations for getting married,
had to postpone the ceremony owing to
the theft of the license.
THERE are over so penitentiaries and
?, 400 jails in the United States. They
Contain "a 000 n,-i,,nirnIn and iii. 80