News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-02
ODDS AND ENDS.

The British Museum is to be opene,
on Sundays.
TIE first steamboat built in Irelant
vas In 1920.
THREE of the cabinet officers wer
born in New England.
Ex-PREsTDENT ARTHUR will return t.
New York about April l.
Six hotels have failed in New Yorl
since the new year began.
AT the New England dinner in Gree
ley, Col, there were As kinds of pie
CARBoNDALE, ILL.,, has a brass banc
composed of II popular young ladies.
The most delicate watch wheels are
now made of paper pulp in Germany.
The longest legitimate word in the Eng
hsh language is disproportionablenes
SUB-IRRIGATIoN is receiving attention
from some of the California grape grow
ers.
AFTER June 80 two-cent stamp will
carry an ounce instead of half-ounce
letter.
A HYANNIs, Mass, woman has lust
finished bed quilt made of $500
pieces.
In Porto Rico an outlay of 50 will
clothe an entire family of six persons for
year.
THE Episcopal Methodist headed a
donation party item "Raiding the Par
sonage."
MORE than $500, 200 has been sent to
the sufferers from the recent EARTHQUAKES
in Andalusia.
WHEN one inch of rain falls on an
acre of land the weight of the water is
over 113 tons.
An English clergymen recently per-
formed 1OS baptisms and nine marriages
on one Sunday
A GALENA physician thinks he has
NUnd sure cure for rheumatism in
I'm leaves.
geranI~ 10 EroI. Sargent, forest
Adssopnp of $50, 900, 900 annual
fires cause less
" to this c6untFy, State rs, 600
THERE are in New YorA us, FAC
boys and girls. employed In b.
tories and workshops!
IF England had not reached out after
Egypt, some other Power would have '
got there ahead of her. ]
AN orange grower near Anthony, Fla,
will ship this year between 500 and |
1000 boxes of oranges. t
A MEMBER of the Missouri Legislature 1
has introduceda bill compelling circuses G
to do all they advertise.
A PoUGHKEEPsIE gossip was fined !.
500 for circulating reports prejudical
to person in the place.
THE English sparrows have di sap \
peared from several places IN the $
neighborhood of Boston.
COLONEL FRED BURNABY's widow /
will not need pension, as she has an S
income of $500 year. t
NINE. RUTTKAY writes from Turin that r
her brother, Louis Kossuth, is in ex- i
cellent health and spirits. I
THE natives of India are said to give c
their horses opium when they wish to I
accomplish long journeys. !
The present winter is the dullest the |
Atlantic steamship companies have ex-
perienced for twenty years.
EVERY year over so, ZOO gallons of :
wine are consumed at the sacrament ..
tables in this country alone. !
THE expenses of the White House, in
Guiding salaries of the Presidents secre-
taries, foot up S75, 900 year.
THE State of Arkansas derives S25, 900
per annum from the penitentiary by
leasing the labor of its convicts.
THERE are 46 stenographers on the
city pay roll in New York. and they
draw 500, 40 in salary annually.
The Harvard annex for women is a
success. 1t began with twenty-seven
students and now has over fifty.
THE first man in England to sign a
total abstinence pledge is dead. He {
filed teetoler's grave at ninety. {
WOMAN in NATION, H., who looked
out of window where the sun shone {
brightly on the snow lost her sight
DAKOTA is no longer a "tender-foot',
Territory. The Inhabitants are begin
ming TO have sold settlers reunions. % /,
AN exhibition of birds has been held
at the Crystal Palace, London. One :
canary exhibited was valued at SIS, 600. ;
The citizens of Chattanooga will pre- !
sent to the Government a site for the
new 100000 United States Court +
House. y
In the opinion of the Kansas colored g
preacher the earth was created at mid (
night, so no one could see what it was
made of. I
THE Duke of Buckingham, who has I
no heir to his dukedom has Just mar {
ried the daughter of Scotch baronet. {
He is 63. t
FIRM at Albany, Ga, is selling large 6
quantities of bacon at the rate of a
pound of meat for a pound of cotton I
next fall {
HAMMERED silver butter plates are {
now used to the exclusion of those g
made of even the finest and hand
soonest china. &
THE Savannah, first steamer to cross
the ocean, was of $50 tons burden, and
sailed for Liverpool from Savannah, Ca,
July Ii, 1919.
MARY is the most common name in
England 6,819 out of every $4,000 indi-
vlduals answering to it. William comes ,
next with $500.
The United States has II, 900 dentists.
who use ton of gold and five tons of
other metals and make 100000 arti-
fetal teeth annually.
SLAVERY dies hard in Brazil. The
province of Pernambuco has still 49,
600 slaves. Abolitionists are not in
favor in that province.
IT is stated that Prince Albert Victor
Is betrothed to the Princess Clementine,
daughter of the King of the Belgians,
young schoolgirl aged II.
The average wages paid to the 400
600 railway men of the country, not in
Guiding the officers, clerks or book
keepers, is S37. 80 month.
turkey is SO absolutely impotent and
apathetic that half the world forgets |
that it owns Egypt, and that British
troops are doing its fighting.
A North CAROLINA young ladies insti- /
tute sends specrm6n5 or Stocking :
darning and refooting old stockings TO |
the New Orleans Exposition.
THERE are in London 405 newspapers:
in the provinces, 1902; in Wales, 70;
in Scotland, 1874; in Ireland, 161. and
IN the British Isles, 21-total 2,052.
Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE says that
Rhode Island surpasses other States
In the variety of her exhibit in the !
woman's department at New Orleans. /
A CLERK in a pawnbroker's Office in |
Boston was fined 80 and costs a few !
days ago for selling rifles to two boys /
who wanted to go West and shoot In
dams.
A GANG raided the China houses at /
Huntingdon, Oregon, and stole 81. 600 |
from the inmates, who were forced with !
halters around their necks to give up
their money.
A CITIZEN writes from Dakota that |
he yearns for his old home, where a |