News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-15
ODDS AND ENDS.

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The value of ton of pure gold is
$500, 1921
81, 100000 gold coin weigh 8, 995. s lbs.
avoirdupois.
81, 900 600 silver coin weigh So, 930 9
lbs. avoirdupois.
TWENTY-FIVE italian cities now have
cFematory furnaces.
Four of the leading druggists in Bos-
ton are HON @opaths.
ANOTHER silver mine has been discov-
cred in North Georgia.
The Mormon arsenal has just turned
ont 20, 600 new muskets.
BosroN has her first Roman Catholic
Mayor in Hugh O'Brien.
EVERY young man if he can afford it
OWNS dog now in New York.
PHILADELPHIA has 7I9 pending di-
yorce cases; Chicago has 674.
ENGLAND will see only one total eclipse
OF the sun in the next $50 years.
The average height of man has been
estimated at five feet four inches.
HE style OF modern fashionable
clocks is that of our erandfathers.
Mrs. ScovILLE, of Guiteau trial fame,
is selling chromos for livelihood.
MISSISSIPPI has been shipping fresh
December strawberries to Chicago
QUEEN VIoroRIA has the finest set of
Plate in the world. 1t cost $4,000. coo.
IN spite Of the terms of the Crimean
treaty Russia is rebuilding Sebastopol.
TIE first wooden clock made in this
country was by James Harrison in 1890.
An English surgeon defines pain as
''the prayer ola nerve for healthy blood.
THE wives of the Supreme Court JUS
tices in Washington receive on Mondays.
AT least 5000 workmen are idle in
Cleveland and much restitution pre-
walls.
OVER 5000 patents on ehurns have
already been granted by the Govern
n!ent.
Mr.. BEssEMEB's steel process patents
i. We yielded him 5000, coo year for 81
years.
In 1861 Henri de Wyck bailt a clock
il the palace of King Charles Y. Of
France.
TIE amount contributed to the Gar
field National Monument fund is $780,
399.64.
HARP playing is one of the attractions
of the choir in fashionable New York
church.
STRAUSS has Just celebrated his for
tieth anniversary as a conductor at
Vienna.
TIE works of both Longfellow and
Emerson are read in The French
schools.
THE total cut of lumber in Minnesota
for the past fifteen years is 2.S76, 42S,
$50 feet.
SINCE 1923 cholera has visited Eu-
ropean. Russia three times and killed
/. 100000.
CHARLES FOSTER of Buckfeld, Me-, in
vented wooden toothpicks twenty-five
years ago.
A BLIND Pittsburg beggar who died a
few days since had over s., 900 in a saw
ings bank.
THERE is talk OF making Robert Lin
coln Mayor of Chicago after he leaves
the Cabinet.
THREE thousand empty whisky bar
rels were recently sold in Portland, Me-,
to put cider in.
THREE hundred thousand dozen of
eggs were recently destroyed by fire at
Waterloo, Iowa.
IT is said that Governor Eaton, of
Colorado, made his farming pay him
$50, 600 this year.
AT Victoria, British Columbia, 81, 00O,-
600 will be spent in private residences
and stores next year.
Coon dinners are provided for school
children III London at the cost of penny
(about two cents) each.
GOAL On JoHNNY,' the oil million
aire, still lives in Kearney, Kan. His
name is John w. Steele.
AT Territorial fair an Indian sent a
war bonnet fringed human sealps
t sPPesfi Tfesgn ge li go the interest on
the national debt was S143, OO0,O 900 a
year. 1t is now S58, 900, 600.
A ScoTca colony consisting of about
1000 persons, is now being organized to
60 to Los Angeles county, Gal.
The vote of Washington Territory
was about A., 900, of which humber the
women contributed perhaps one-t third.
NEXT year the South will make her
own cotton ties and 81, 600, 600 worth OF
machinery at the North will remain idle.
ENOUGH liquor was consumed IN Great
Britain last year to make a lake a mile
long, mile wide and thirty five feet
deep.
TIE briial gift of California man to
his daughter was spirited horse. in the
first riding of which she was thrown and
killed
AFTER an Idaho dog fight, in which
Ieither animal gained a decisive victory.
the two owners became combatants i'll a
battle.
THERE are more applicants for enlist
ment in the army at the recruiting of
fees in Philadelphia than can be re-
ceived.
A CORPORATION has planted $4,000
peach trees near New Britain and Deep
River, il the lower valley of the Con-
necticut.
AN emigration is taking place of young
Quakers from Denmark to avoid the wal
training which is compulsory in that
country.
TIE highest velocity that has been i'm
parted to shot is given as l, 626 feet per
second, being equal to mile in 90
seconds.
THE Queen of Holland can be seen
shy day, dressed in black, walking on
the public streets, accompanied by a
single lady.
In India cats are sometimes attacked
by cholera, according to a French au-
thority, and may communicate the dis
case to man.
DURING 1885 the charters of 100 ma
iionaI banks will expire, representing
more than one-third of the capital of the
entire system.
DURING the last thirty years no less
than seventy-6ve daily papers have been
started and died il New York, says an
old journalist.
An American in Vienna was recently
fined $25 for calling sire" through the
streets of that city. He was truthful
but indiscreet.
CEDARCRoFr, the Pennsylvania home
of Bayard Taylor, has fallen into decay,
aud was lately sold at price not equal
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