News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-06-04
ODDS AND ENDS.

In London the clergymen pray Tor the
editors.
TIE population of Russia is about
$4,000, 900.
ROBERT BROWNING, the English poet,
is 70 years old.
WASHINGTON has $50 churches with
49, 35l members.
PAGoDA parasols are seen on the
streets again this spring.
In Patagonia they fine q man two
goats for killing his wife.
1t is reported that there will be only
half crop of peanuts this year.
PHILADELPHIA extremists have begun
a war on all Sunday amusements.
FIFTY thousand lawn mowers are pro-
duced annually in the United States.
A WHOLE family at Allentown, Pa,
has been poisoned by eating sausage.
SENATORS EDMUNDs and Palmer are
building new residences in Washington.
THERE is said to be but one person to
every square mile of territory in Canada.
CLARENCE A. FREEMAN, the champion
checker player of America, is 26 years
old.
IN JaIualCa COl1uS dT6 OltcA UIOuShe
to the house before the sick person is
dead.
LIQUOR SHOP keepers in Colorado are
known as ''dispellers of business depres-
sion."
BoUoUETs of white orchids have been
carried in church by several brides re-
Gently.
AMONG the Persians if man Is caught
stealing the second time his hands are
cut off.
MORE than 5000 women are en-
ployed on the Austrian railways as ticket
agents.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNEss the Duke of
Connaught passed his 35th birthday on
the LIST May.
No LESS than 4, $50 relatives of Eng
public service.
THE sign of Libby prison is in the
possession of Edward j. Bartlett, of
Concord, Mass.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to have,
mounted in silver, the ball that killed
Admiral Nelson.
New MEXICO spent last year for liquor
Sc, 485, 900, and for churches and
schools $45, 900.
A YOUNG English writer at work on
novelties said he could earn at the rate
of 18d. an hour.
MIS-. FREDERICK DOUGLASS, the white
wife of the negro orator, has consider
able literary culture.
In Massachusetts pews in Roman
Catholic churches are now sold at stated
prices at every mass.
MISS FoRTEsoUE, who obtained
$4,000 from Lord Garmoyle, is to
marry a reporter, it is said.
THE first wedding in America was
that of Edward Wilson and Susannah
White, at Plymouth, in 1921.
TOXIC, Japan, is undergoing an cpl
demic of measles. Two thousand cases
have been reported in one day.
THERE is an epidemic of measles in
New York, and 450 children have died
from the disease since New Years.
The Western recipe for planking a
shad is, plank down your money and let
the restaurateur furnish the shad.
ga WEAK and weary woman and
mad, moody man" contemplate the
relics from the wreck of May moving.
The Irish iaunting car, which became
unpopular after the Phoenix Park as
sassination, is again coming into public
favor.
THE Florida strawberry crop is re-
ported to be in splendid condition and
the yield large, though little back
ward.
SOMEBODY in Oswego, n. T., out off
the hair of a young girl in order to
ayenge himself upon the young girls
father.
INVITATIONS are oft FOR the celebration
of the thousandth anniversary of the
death of the first professor of dancing in
Japan.
THE sailors of the Strelok complain
that too little whisky and too much
water are served for an average drink at
New York bars.
PAUL 81. HAYNE, the Southern poet,
is nearly six feet tall, slender, with dark
dreamy eyes, delicate features and poor
health. He is IS.
BIsMARCK's Schoenhausen estate,
given to him by Germany, comprises
about eighteen square miles, more than
half being in forest.
The chances of making a successful
venture in silver mining in northern
Mexico are given by an expert as one
out of one hundred.
THE vaccinations against smallpox in
the Punjab last year reached 633, 062.
The natives of India hail the operation
as the greatest of blessings.
FLORIDA manufactured last year
go, 29S, 1872 cigars, an increase of Is, $780,
600 over the number made there in 1883.
There are 157 factories in the State.
BETWEEN the wolves and eagles the
farmers in the interior of West Virginia
have been losing thousands of dollars
worth OF sheep and other small stock.
THE Irish College of Surgeons recog-
nizes the London Medical School for
Women, and has decided to admit its
students to examination for its diplomas.
MISS KATE STEPHENS, professor of
Greek and literature in the Kansas State
University, has been compelled to re-
sign, she says, because she is a woman.
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN has been leased
to the liverymen of the neighboring
city, Chattanooga. After dozen years
of Niagara hack fares, the people will
want to make the mountain q national
park.
In Milwaukee is a man who is such a
firm believer in eternal punishment for
sin by fire that he has decorated his eel
lar with painted flames, wooden demons,
and other horrible figures. To this
place he takes his children to punish
them.
Not All Right.
In Chicago. two srlits for 600 nnn