News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-07
ODDS AND ENDS.

hOLhER skates were invented by Vi
briel Ravel.
THE seasons orange crop in Florida
the largest ever known.
THERE are in the United States an
Canada Is, 343 newspapers.
Dr.. TANNER, of forty days fastin
fame, is living in New Mexico.
A CONDEMNED murderer was marie
in his cell at Los Angeles, Cal.
FREDERICK WARDS physician denie
the rumor that Ward is insane.
A MELON on a shrub is the latest fru
novelty reported from California.
AN eagle measuring 10 feet inche
from tip to tip was killed in California
INDIANAPOLIS is the largest city in tn
United States not on navigable waters
SCIENTISTS hold seventeen distinc
theories as to the cause of earthquakes
The courts of France, it is said, con
slider it libel to overestimate lady
age.
LONDON has four fire brigade districts
each brigade having 600 men and off
GERS.
IT is stated that the weight of one os
trich egg is equal to twenty-eight hens
eggs.
THE total number of recognized spe
cies of Australian fishes now reaches
1921.
The Oldest inhabitant says that thi:
is the earliest season ever known in Cali
fornia.
ITALY has 4,9OOOOO lemon trees
which produce ], 800, 600, 600 lemons an
nually.
THE Concord, N. H., Second Advent
lists predict the end of the world OF
May 10.
THERE are in Paris $50 tradesmer
who do nothing but deal in old postage
stamps.
DRAM shops are defined by the new
legislation of Kansas as common nui-
sauces."
IT costs over e., 900 year, it is said,
to keep and clean the crown Jewels Of
England.
EUROPE and India consume annually
about 100000 gallons of handkerchief
perfume.
THERE are no less than 635, O13, $685.
600 ways in which hand at whist can
be made.
The King of Bavaria has paid $780,
600 for a chandelier from the Meissen
manufactory.
The centre of popula ton of the United
States, lies just south of the Ohio, near
Covington, Ky.
THE sign, Positively No Admittance, {"
over saloon in Eureka, Cal, drew a
large patronage.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's salary is one
hundred and thirty-seyen dollars and
fifty cents a day.
THE Mormon Church has more mis-
sionaries than the American Board of
Foreign Missions.
ELMIRA, n. Y, with a population of
20, 600, has Sunday paper with a Cir
culation of LOG, 900.
THERE is about 81, 600, 900 invested in
wild animals in the United States, not
including elephants.
THIRTEEN hundred new buildings,
worth about 81, 000, 900 were erected in
Washington last year.
TIE Emperor Franz Josef will in per-
son open the International Exposition at
Buda-Pesth on May q
The number of mules attached to the
hearse denotes the responsibility of
funeral at Rio Janeiro.
ACCORDING to the Drug NeaUs, Lon
don fashion gives preference to hello
trope over all perfumes.
RECENT statistics show that there are
nearly million more females than
males in Great Britain.
THE marriage fair, the institution of
which dates from time immemorial, is
still kept up in Brittany.
Ten. sEvENTEENTHs of all the voters in
the United States are said to be en-
gagged in farming pursuits.
ONE hundred persons were killed and
wounded in New York and Brooklyn by
the horse cars in one year.
The southern part of Africa has 10000
tame ostriches, producing $4,000, 900
worth of feathers annually.
SOME genius has invented fishing rod
that registers the precise number and
weight of the fishes caught.
MEXICAN soldiers are said to be of all
shades of color, ranging from nearly a
pure white to perfect black.
A CINCINNATI gambler, who in his
time had won and lost over 5000, 900,
died among paupers the other day.
THE father of Gladstone predicted that
the latter would become Prime Minister,
ruin his country, and die lunatic.
Coal mining machines capable of
doing the work of twenty men are being
introduced in the Panhandle mines.
VACCINATION is carried out SO strictly
III the Prussian army that not q soldier
has died OF the smallpox since 1875.
Mrs. GRANT says the happiest time of
her life was when the General was living
In Galena on a salary of $40 month.
The richest man in Portland, Oregon,
began life by buying calfskin on
credit, tanning it and selling it for SO.
The California Legislature has passed
bill appropriating $40, 900 to build
hotel for travellers in the Yosemite VAL
ley.
1t is stated that out of one hun
dred men who parade in brass band at
least forty are dummies and only pretend
to play.
Mr.. ROBERT BONNER has been Obliged
to assert publicly more than once of late
that Maud S. shall not be allowed to trot
for money.
1T is said to have been a rule with
Ninon de PEnclos, whose skin was the
admiration of beholders, to use rain water
exclusively.
The Pail Mall Gazette thinks that of
all the boons which England can confer
upon India, lady doctors are probably
the most needed.
A PRACTICAL movement has been
started in Chicago toward the construc-
tiol of an elevated railway through the
south district of that city.
The courts will take judicial notice
that brandy is an intoxicating liquor, &C.
cordlng to the elaborate decision of the |
Supreme Court of Indiana.
So ACUTE is the sleeps sense of hear
ing, 1t IL said, that it can distinguish the !
cry OF her own lamb among thousand
others, all bleating at the same time.
CHAPLAIN MCCABE, the indefatigable
money raiser and church builder of the
Methodist Church, has undertaken to
collect this year missionary fund of
81, 000,0 900.
A NEW YORK prison convict has in
vented hat pressing machine. which
he patented and sold for SIC, 900. half of
which sum has been placed in the prison
safe to his credit.
LoBsTERs, says Prof. Beckmore. are
now taken almost entirely from deem
water, and at the present rate of de-
crease Will shortly become curiosities, to
be found only in the museums"
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