News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-14
ODDS AND ENDS.

uys sucn as they are.
A POPULAR preacher at Chattanooga,
Tenn, is named Dumbell.
THERE is said to be an alarming in
crease of cancer in England.
HENRY JAMES, the novelist, was forty
two years old on Wednesday.
A MILLION and quarter of cat skins
are used annually by furriers.
A BED QUILT on exhibition at New
Orleans contains 100, 5S4 pieces.
Few towns in England under 20, 900
Inhabitants can boast daily newspaper.
ALABAMA doubled her coal output of
1884, as compared with the figures of
1888.
THE custom <of appointing an Arbor
Day now prevails in eight States of the
Union.
From 1868 to 1888 the lottery players
t1rned into the Royal Italian Treasury
S275, 100000.
THERE are ten Irishmen on the Pacific
slope who own between them over
s41s, OOO,O 900.
Miss JULIA PEAsE, a graduate of Vas
sar College, cultivates 5000 acres Of
land in Texas.
THERE are $50 disabled ex- Confederate
soldiers living in the poor houses of
North Carolina.
A WALKING stick concealing match.
box and cigarette holder is q late
English device.
The BARRIERS are almost alone among
the tradesmen in the United States in
having no union.
L.
pointed vaccination officer at Fording-
bridge, England.
PUBLIC houses in the United Kingdom
have diminished 6,S61 in number during
the last eight years.
The value of the estate of the late DIR.
Glenn, the California "king" wheat
raiser, is S2,000,0O0.
DURING the summer season President
Cleveland will be the guest of August
Belmont at Newport.
LONDON is the largest city In the
world. The population numbers con-
siderably over 100000.
Mr.. Buck, of Kentucky, our Minis
ter to Peru. is now said not to be bug
hunter. He hates bugs.
SEVEN of the largest firms in Ham |
burg have formed a syndicate to engage |
10 the West Africa trade.
THE mean elevation of this country |
above the sea level is 2, 600 feet, and the |
average rainfall is 90 inches.
A NEW YORK society woman gave a
large dinner party to celebrate the re-
ception of her divorce papers.
INSURANCE is not an invention of this
century. The assurance of ships was
practiced as early as As A. D.
BOMBAY husbands cut off their wives
noses for punishment. In single week
five such cases were reported.
A NEBRASKA girl and another from
Arizona have made arrangements for
competing at throwing the lasso
A MAN in Mississippi was sent to Jail
for 80 days, under tho law, for playfully
pointing gun at another person.
THERE are more than 1000, 900 farm
ers in the United States, or nearly
one-eighth of the entire population.
IT is computed that $50, 600 people go
into London by rail every day to earn
their livelihood, and leave it at night.
AN exhibition of birds has been held
at the Crystal Palace, London. One
canary exhibited was valued at 5000.
DURING the recent cold weather in
Illinois a sexton was found frozen to
death in grave he had been sent to
dig.
ESeLAND's savings bank deposits
amount to 80 cents per inhabitlnt; those
OF the United States to $40 per inhab-
liant.
IT is said that there has not been such
a run of shad in the ST. Johns River,
Fla, for ten years as during the present |
season.
THE Nebraska town which placed the |
retail liquor license fee at 800, 900 has |
no licensed saloon and no application
thus far.
BLAINE, Dawes, Sheridan, Logan and
Sioux are the names of the five new
counties created by the last Nebraska
Legislature.
NATURAL ice cave, according to the
Alta California, exists thirty miles east
of Fall River Valley, Cal, in the Mount
Shasta region.
THERE are 623 325 Odd Fellows in
Great Britain, gain of 38,377 during
last year. The number of deaths in
1884 was 1913.
A CoLoRED family named Silence, it is
said, holds five positions in the depart
ments at Washington, with salaries ag-
gregating So, 800.
GREAT BRITAIN buys her postal card
supply from Germany, the last order
given the successful bidder being
100000, 200 cards.
AN unusual number of houses are now
for rent in New York, and many private
residences on Fifth avenue are being
converted into stores.
The pay of retired army officer is
seYenty-tiVe per cent. of the pay allotted
to the rank of officers in active service
at the time of retirement
TEXAS will soon abound with cotton
mills, says a San Antonio paper, which
also chronicles the erection of a mill at
Riverside at cost of $4,000.
SEVERAL outlaws VINO skipped out
from Texas year or two ago are now
officers in the army with which Gen.
Barrios invaded San Salvador.
In former years ut Astoria, Ore, men
were paid y! cents a fathom for knitting
nets; this year it is done mostly by
Cinnamon at 9 cents fathom.
ACCORDING to the will of a New
Hampshire man his "dear wife, is to
receive $4,000 in case she remains
single eight weeks after his death.
CALIFORNIA has 236, 672 pupils in her
public schools, aud spends annually
81 468. 236. Sc on their education. OF
this sum 1892, 67O 81 goes to the city of
San Francisco.
1T is claimed by Southern planters
that cattle can be fattened, even in mid.
winter, at a cost of less than two cents
per pound by the use of cotton seed.
In Switzerland, under the compul-
sorry laws, out of 485, 100 children of
school age, 474,87 or 81 80 per cent
attended the elementary schools in 1888.
BETWEEN wolves and eagles the farm
ers in the interior of West Virginia have
been losing thousands of dollars worth
of sheep and other small stock for weeks
past.
The Crows Left.