News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-09-10
NOTES.


Grant. 1t is one of his daily pleas
ures to arrange this mass of matter in
convenient form for reference. He
is going to leave the whole collection
to one of the large libraries.
Encouraging crop reports are COM
ing in from various sections of the
country. From the eastern fruit
growing regions, although this is the
Todd" or non-bearing year for apple
trees, the reports indicate yield of
only rs per cent. short of the average
for the bearing years; while from the
south the reports show that the crop
prospects severally are remarkably
good.
A pure blooded negress with blue
eyes is the astonishment of Louisville,
Kentucky:
Hundreds of English sparrows are
being killed in South Jersey, by the
hunters after reed birds.
Last year 26, 900 letters were post
ed in England without any address
upon them, and 1000 of them con-
tanned money.
Customer: clamp not included in
the price? Why, the lamp forms part
of the machine in the picture p Bicy-
Gle maker: eyes, sir; and lady is
also included in the picture, but we
don't give one with the machine p
The Salvationist Army in Switzer-
land is forbidden to. hold any public
meetings whatsoever, and as remark
able measure against the meetings,
parents are forbidden to let their chill
dren attend private meetings under
penalty Of fine.
The Great Eastern is larger than
was Noah's Ark, but unlike the Ark,
has bankrupted several rich compa-
MES, more than six million dollars
having been sunk upon her. The
length of the Ark was SAT feet, 81
feet in breadth and "a feet deep. The
Great Eastern is $50 feet long, SO
feet wide and Sc feet deep.
A large collection of Greek antiqui-
ties eXhumed at Nebireh between AL
exandria and Cairo, has been placed
on exhibition in London. Mr.. Petrie,
their discoverer, believes that Nebi-
reh was not only the site of Greek
city, but the very cradle of Greek art.
Three hundred Arabs were employed
in the work of excavation, and the re-
suits were exceedingly interesting.
The relics confirm the theory that
Greek art was developed from the
Egyptian.
''That boy of yours is not adapted
for the undertaking business" ex-
planned an undertaken to the boys
father, who inquired why he had been
discharged. whats the trouble
with him?" "He hasn't a realizing
sense of what is due the afflicted.
Day before yesterday Mrs. B. buried
her fourth husband. I sent the boy
up to learn at what hour she wished
the ceremony to take place, and he
asked her what her regular time of
day was for burying husbands. / ex-
pect to lose her trade entirely"
Charles w. Bosworth, who lost a
leg as private in Co. l, First Maine
Heavy Artillery. in action at Spotsyl-
vania in May, 1854, has been removed
from the Postmastership of Oldtown,
Me-, to make room for Captain Fol-
som, who was also a soldier, but lat
err commander of the forces of the
contingent conspirators in Maine.
The administration is giving the &C
tive members of that conspiracy
unique recognition in Maine. Mr..
Bosworth has never been an offensive
partisan, having discharged the duties
of the office to the general acceptance
of the community. Turn the one
legged veterans outl
The Rev. DR.. Talmage refuses to
be utilized by the New York Prohibit
tionists as a candidate for Governor.
The Lynn Bee says that so far as
it can learn, the Democrats in that
vicinity are willing to take the chan
ces of defeat if they can get the Off
ces, and it adds: ''They might as
well be defeated as to be in their pres
ent condition"
A farmer was hoeing hard on his
patch of land when one Of those town
loafers approached the fence. "Hello,
Farmer B., what do you think of the
outlook ?" "What outlook" "Why,
the business outlook" "Didn't know
there was one" "We are all talking
about it down at the store, and they
sent me up to hear what you had to
say" "Oh, yes, see; we'll you tell
'em if they will stop talking and 60 to
hoeing that the country will prosper
without any outlook. Do you hear?"
Says the New Haven Palladium:
ga man went into the country last
Sunday for walk. He carried his
overcoat on his arm, but, finding it
burdensome, hung it on a fence. TAX
ing card from his pocket he wrote:
DO not touch this coat; infected with
smallpox He came back two hours
later and found the card, upon which
was written, underneath the writing:
Thanks for the coat; I've had the
smallpox.
One of the greatest curiosities of the
present day, found among the pines of
Central Wisconsin, was discovered
near Knowlton a few weeks ago. 1t
was in the form of a petrified squirrel,
and about the size of common squir-
rel, and was taken from the heart of
tree by some woodmen. 1t was of
a brownish coler, as hard as rock,
and was "as natural as life" The
curiosity was sent to Washington
where it will be carefully preserved
and placed in the public museum.
The Augusta, Ca, Chronicle thinks
that Secretary Lamar has a chance to
duplicate President Cleveland's let
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