News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-29
ODDS AND ENDS.
ANNA DICKINSON is again lecturing.

IT takes five men year to make
LOGON olive.
The Standard Oil Company employs
93, coo men.
TIE latest novelty is chicken hatch
Ing by electricity.
THE Jeanette Monument fund nov
amounts to 50, $50.
Mr.. DAVID DUDLEY FIELD will b,
eighty in February.
THE colored population of Californi,
is estimated at $500.
The peppermint farmers of Pennsyl
vania are getting rich.
THE American nettle can be used t,
make seersucker cloth.
THERE are $3.50 postofices in tn,
State Of Pennsylvania.
JOHN BRIGHT was seventy-three year
of age on November Is.
VENIsoN is not dear in Idaho, wher,
it sells for 2 cents pound.
The dividends payable in Boston il
January aggregate 50, 710,47
NINE. RIsToRI receives 40 per cent. o
the gross receipts of her tour.
THE conductors on street cars in
Mexico always carry revolvers.
OBSERVING travellers say the Japanese
are more polite than the French.
THERE are at present sixteen loeomo
tive works in the United States.
THE figures grow. Washington now
expects 200, 600 visitors March 4.
Mrs. WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT always
dresses in black for church going.
TIE Redistribution bill gives the next
House of Commons go members.
THERE is now S13, $50, 134 deposited in
the postoffice savings bank of Canada.
LIVERPOOL has larger fleet of mer-
chant ships than any port in the world
TIE increasing number of Jewish IN
dergraduates is much remarked at Ok
ford.
NEARLY all the winter resort hotels in
Florida are conducted by Northern
men.
SEvRNTY-FIvE newspapers have started
and died in New York city in thirty
years.
THE New Orleans Exhibition will not
be in full running order before Feb
ruary.
THE total number of cigars produced
in the United States is 5000, 900, 600 an
nually.
TROY ice harvesters expect to take
from the Hudson this winter about 1856,
600 tons.
In Ohio the standard weight OF bush
ell of ear corn is IS instead of 70pounds as
formerly.
The Maryland Representatives in
Congress reside at home, going in and
out daily.
The Maine rivers have frozen up in
unusually good shape, very smooth and
very clean.
SEVEN churches were destroyed in the
city of Antiquera, Spain, by the recent
earthquake.
IT is estimated that about fifteen thou
sand persons are out of employment in
ST. Louis alone.
On trip around the globe the cost
lest link is that from San Francisco to
Yokohama, $3.50.
The Spanish treaty will be greatly
modified and chiefly in behalf of cur
tobacco interests.
TWENTY years ago the Danes i'm
ported nearly all their sugar. Now they
raise it from beets.
THERE are, twenty-five retired rear
admirals living in Washington and only
two commodores.
A MONUMENT made of cement, has Just
been built On sie spot in Hawaii where
Captain Cook fell.
a SOCIETY for the eradication of pro-
family is the latest moral reform move
nent in New York.
II Is said that no town having a pop
ulation of 5000 or more is now without
roller skating rink.
HARPER s Magazine is sold for eight
cen cents and the Century at twenty
five cents IN London.
ABOUT 1000 Scotch people are making
arrangements to form colony in Los
Angeles county, Cal.
AMONG the curiosities collected by the
Alaska Fur Company is a salmon which
In life weighed $50 pounds.
POLICEMEN who serve on the New
York force for twenty years are retired
on pension of 5000 a year.
A MAN with 500, 900 in cash, if at all
the last dollar in four weeks.
A LRE-NsURANcE man calculates that
in 1858 there will be living l, 233 survi-
vors of the war of the rebellion.
NEARLY so, 900 square miles of Uni
ted States territory are now owned by
foreign syndicates and capitalists.
PEOPLE laughed at rolIer-skating
when first introduced. Now it is a pay
ing investment all over the country.
1T is estimated that the average daily
consumption of eggs throughout the
United States amounts to 45, 900, coo.
The work of charging the Dismal
Swamp Canal In Virginia so as to make it
a veritable ship canal will soon begin.
THE greater portion of the wheat crop
OF California is stored, and will not be
sent to market until prices grow better.
THERE were more drunken men on the
streets of New York on New Years Day
than there had been on any day of the
previous 365.
A LONDON paper says that a dramatic
critic should have no friends connected
with the drama, live like hermit, aud
pay for his stalls.
The Texas pecans bring g. % bush.
ell. One farmer picked 20 bushels from
piece of land, on which he also raised
good corn crop.
DISTURBANCES caused by wall paper
poisoning take the form of bilious fever
hay fever, or in the most severe types of
nervous prostration.
UPoN good authority it is stated that
children who are very successful on the
stage rarely become good actors or act
resses as they grow up.
TIE light of an electric lamp travels
at the rate of 1877. 200 miles a second:
that of the sun 1876, 500, and that of a
petroleum lamp 1856, 700.
Rev. DIR. FURNEss, of PHILADELPHIA.
recently married a bride, for whose
mother and grandmother he had per.
formed the same ceremony.
LONDON is now one of the auietest
cities in the world in consequence of the
prevalence of wood or asphalt pavement
in all the chief throughfares.
"A PACKAGE of glass globes of the value
OF $40 was received at Portland. Oregon.
by express recently from the Est. the
express charges on which amounted TO
over $50.
1T IS stated that one of the wives of
Mormon OF Salt Lake City is about TO
come East and deliver a course of lee
lures IN answer to the attacks of Miss
Kate Field.
IHE Rothschilds bought their old
house In Frankfort and will rebuild il a
metre back to conform it with the new
street line, and then replace in it the
family relics.