News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26

on the Thames, England, was in 1901.
The average cost of feeding paupers
in New York city is thirteen cents day.
THERE are 113, 995 English school
teachers, nearly all of whom are spin
sters.
THE fisheries treaty expires next July,
and there is no negotiation for its re-
newal.
TIE average salary OF college profes
sors in the United States is about
$500.
A CHILD recently died in Rye, Eng
land, OF fright caused by boy wearing
a mask.
The population of st. Petersburg il
about the same as that of Chicago
S62, 200.
THE Hon. Hannibal Hamlin has beer
elected President Of the Bangor Histori
cal Society.
THERE is said to be but little faith
at Panama in the success of the Nicar-
aqua Canal.
DUCK eggs forty years old were eater
at recent marriage ceremony in an In
diana town.
CERTAIN doctors insist that hydropho
bia Is simply disease entirely of the
imagination.
Mrs. LANGTRY sets the fashion of the
latest color for dresses. It is called
'Thames fog"
THE women of Paris have purchased
over 20, 600 revolvers since the Madame
Clovis shooting.
OF the young ladies in the Normal
College in New York city twenty five
per cent are Jewesses.
In years they have reigned Queen
Victoria stands ninth among the
sovereigns of the world.
THERE are now twenty three cities in
Massachusetts. The most recently in
corporated is Waltham.
THE State of Maine paid last year
81, 745 as bounties on bears, the number
of bears killed being $40.
AT the opening of each year the arti-
cles used in evidence in the Paris courts
are sold at public auction.
THE British drink bill for 1888 foots
up S62S 385 375. The quantity aggre.
gates ], 032, 142, 153 gallons.
The latest rumor regarding the earth
Is that it will be one huge globe of ice
in 8, 900, 900 years from date.
MALLEABLE glass as pliable as India
rubber is the reported discovery of a
man in Parkersburg, W. Va.
QUEEN VICTORIA leaves Windsor for
Germany on March 80, and will remain
on the continent three weeks.
THE British brewers last year paid
S45, 000. 900 in taxes and exported more
than ST, 500, 900 worth of beer.
A SPLINTER of deer's hoof, with pow
erful microscopes and polarized light is
as wonderful TO see as a rainbow.
THERE are 10000 600 school children
in the United States. 10000, 600 of whom
are enrolled in the public schools.
PORT SAID, at the northern terminus
of the Suez canal. is generally believed
to be the wickedest place on earth
Ar the Madison Square Garden in
New York city $50 couples were dancing
on the floor at one time at a recent ball.
THE Empress of Austria grew up
among horses and dogs, and learned to
speak English from one of her stable
men.
NNETY-Two chests of leaves, colored
with soapstone and Prussian blue to re-
semble tea, were confscated in New
York.
In Glasgow cathedral monument has
been erected to the members of the
Highland regiment which fell at TeI-eI-
Kebir.
DURING 1884 2,739 new buildings
were erected in Brooklyn at a cost of
$12, 672, 1874. In 1888 the number was
$500.
Two OF the daughters of the King and
Queen of Sweden have been dangerous
ly ill from the effects of poisonous wall
papers.
LAST season San Diego county, Cal,
produced 2,177, 800 pounds of honey,
and San Bernardino county 1880 600
pounds.
THE Massachusetts, Legislature has
refused to allow a woman preacher of
Nantucket to perform the marriage
ceremony.
THE Spanish government is planning
economical measures in Cuba which are
expected to effect an annual saving OF
$4,000. 600.
JUDGE Mcguire, of California, has
made the decision that Chinese children
born in this country may attend the
public schools.
CHURCHILL's Medical Directory puts
the number of doctors in Great Britain |
at the end of 1884 at Il 1881, as against |
10, 947 in 1882.
IT is said that Hagerstown, Md, |
blacksmith, with the assistance of two |
roughed AID shod 14S |
horses in ten hours.
HE production of gold in the mines
OF this country the past year was greater
than in 1888 bv $500, 600. The total
amount was $50, 807, log.
PHILADELPHIA tax receipts for 1884
Sl3, $50, 8O4. The expendi-
lures were S14, 938, 759. Excess of ex-
pendltures over receipts, 81, 257, 955.
In the parish of Thornton le- Moor,
GLAND, with population of 625 souls,
there has been only one death during
the last fourteen months.
By new system of telegraphic short
hand, developed by an Italian, and
called the acknowledgement" it is
that 10000 words per hour can
be transmitted.
A PROJECT is announced of tunneling
Ment Blanc, Notwithstanding the fact
tnat IL Will cost $40, UUU, OUO, take eight
years time, and be the fourth tunnel
route into Italy.
SERGEANT MASON, who shot a
Guiteau, is living quietly on his Viz
ginia farm with Betty and the baby.
His museum experience yielded him
nearly S25, 900 in cash.
A VERY brilliant light is obtained in
China from candles-only of late wears
imported into Europe-made of wax
supplied by insects especially reared
through Chinese ingenuity.
TIE city limits of New Orleans so
greatly exceed the bounds of the civ
proper that some persons who live with
n the corporation limits have not a
leighbor within twenty miles.
MULhALL, the English statistician.
avs that, while England has doubled ;
Ter wealth since 1916, France has !
doubled hers since 1856, and the United I
states has doubled since 1864. .
A BROOKLYN printer has paid $500 for -,
he privilege of printing the official :
rogramme of Inauguration Day at !