News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-06-11
ODDS AND ENDS,

RHUBARB is now regularly shipped
from Oregon to Boston.
IRvINe's late American trip is said to
have Melted him $50, 900.
A CENTURY plant at Daytona, Florida,
has grown 81 inches in six days.
THERE are about ten thousand one
legged men in the United States.
ABRAHAM LINooLN's largest fee as a
lawyer was 5000 in a railroad case.
HALF cents were issued from the
United States minis for half a century.
FIVE thousand hand grenades were
burned in Chicago fire the other day.
IowA's coal output was 1908, 43S tons
last year. an increase of 100000 tons
since 1851.
NEW HAMPTON, N. H, with popu-
lation of LOGO, has eight resident
clergymen.
LIEUT.. GREEIY and family will spend
a part of the coming summer at Pitts
field, Mass.
Doctor FREDERIC HENLE, the cele-
brated German Psychologist and anato-
mist, is dead.
The poem of '"Tam O'Shanter," in
the handwriting of Burns, was recently
sold for $3.50.
POLLUTED water is assigned by ply
sicians as the cause of the epidemic at
Plymouth, Pa.
A HAPPY colored youth of Georgia
characterized picnic as chicken fxin's
an -four doin's."
BEETHovEN's favorite violin is now in
the possession of an English gentleman
named Kirmoald.
TRADE is not wholly depressed;
writing master advertises that his bust
ness is f1ourishing.
The Earl of Selkirk, who died very
rich lately, left years salary to all en-
ployed ON his estates.
THE graduating class at Williams Col
lege numbers 60 this year. 1t includes
both the Garfield boys.
CENTRALIA, No., has a negro boy
fourteen years old who has a head rs
large as a bushel basket.
The Second Auditor of the Treasury
has $4,000 unsettled claims in the
pigeon-holes of his desk.
STATISTICS show that there are $50, 900
laboring men out of employment in the
OAIcu OIdI6S at THIS Time.
The State debt of New Hampshire is
about three million dollars. It was re-
duced the past year $50, 900.
A CONTINENTAL paper says that Eng
lands wars in remote regions at least |
promote the study of geography.
A BASE ball should be struck at an |
angle of twenty-three degrees in order
to send it the greatest possible distance.
The Countess Magri Mrs Tom
Thumb) wears a No. child's shoe,
and her diminutive husband wears
No. s.
THERE is remarkable absense of
pauperism in Japan, but a man with an
income of 81 900 year is considered
wealthy.
The house or sobbing wren is a bird
peculiar to southwestern Texas. Its
melancholy note is described as very
impressive.
FRUIT trees are so heavily laden in
places on the Pacific coast that hundreds
of laborers are kept employed thinning
out the fruit
The pendulum of the new clock in the
Chicago Board of Trade building weighs
$50 pounds. The dials are ten feet ten
inches in diameter.
In RoueD, France, there is an iron |
279 feet high, which was {
riveted together and afterward lifted ]
into place with crane.
CONSUL POTTER of Crefeld writes to
the State Department that weaver in
that locality by long days work can
earn about 81. IS week.
or ha pbiIaHoIYobio |
geological garden has begun shedding
its teeth inexactly thesame manner as q
human child at the same age.
In three towns of England-Ely, Rug
by and Salisbury-consunpt has de-
clined from forty to fifty per cent. since
the land was thoroughly drained.
In Sank county, Wis, is a creamery
running 100 COWS; aud in Sheboygan |
tories unequaned in magnitude in the
world.
BARONESS BURDETT-CCUTTs is about to |
establish British honey company, for
the purpose of promoting the industry
of Bookkeeping among the poorer classes
of England.
DIAMONDS are often stolen in the
African diamond mines by swallowing
the stones, hiding them about the dress,
and throwing them away, to be picked
up at night.
The estate of Jane holmes, who died
in Pittsburg is valued at 81 zoo, 0O0, and
she distributes fully $4,000 among
local Protestant charitable and benevo-
lent institutions.
DULUTH elevators now contain 6, 329, |
343 bushels of wheat, 25, 405 bushels of |
oats, and 7,045 bushels of corn. Of this |
amouRt the large companies hold 6, 00l,-
487 bushels of wheat and 7.045 of corn. |
ONE of the most remarkable facts |
brought out by the oceanic researches |
made by the British ship Challenger is
the probability that all oceanic islands |
are of volcanic origin.
THERE are published In Honolulu |
four English daily newspapers, four
English, three native, one Chinese and
one Portuguese weeklies, and three |
English and one native monthlies.
ONE farmer in Queen Anne county,
Nd, has recently planted 1000 peach
trees, his orchard now contains 80, 900
trees, covering $50 acres. Twenty feet
square of soil is devoted to each tree.
THE three men in England who pay
taxes on the highest assessed value of
personal property are Giles Loder,
$15, 600; Richard Thornton, $l4,-
900, 900, and Baron Lionel Rothschild,
S13. 100000.