News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-26
ODDS AND ENDS.

ENGLAND built her hrst steamer IN
1916.
The rooms in Danish hotels have no
locks.
A CINCINNATI girl drowned herself
rather than marry.
Mr.. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL was
born February %, 1919.
The water supply of london is about
145, 000.0 gallons daily.
A PHILADELPHIA paper calls John L.
Sullivan "that eminent brute"
CIGARS were never known until 1915.
Before that time pipes were used only.
THERE are probably 10000 arc lights
ahght every night in the United States.
THE best toboggans are made of birch,
and velvet cushioned, cost from $50 to
$50.
A GENTLEMAN of Rockingham, N. O.,
has pair of elks that he drives to
buggy.
A CHARLTON COUNTY, Mo-, farmer
pays $1.29 in taxes on his horses and So
on his dogs.
The severity of the winter has caused
great loss of cattle in Western Kansas
and beyond.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE woman hasn't
broken lamp or a lamp chimney in
thirty years.
The avalanche in Utah, which over
whelmed the village of Alta, killed
thirty persons.
HENRY GEORGE, reformer, thinks OF
standing for Parliament for Caithness-
shire, Scotland.
SoUDAN means literally the Land of
the Blacks in the Arabian tongue-"Be-
led-es-Soudan."
PHYSICIANS say that about fourteen
per cent. of all school children suffer
from headaches.
THE most extensive linseed oil mill
in this country is said to be located at
Amsterdam, N. Y.
The Board of Health in Nashville,
Tenn, have determined to cut down all
the mulberry trees.
Mrs. APPHIA FISHER, of Salem, New
Hampshire, reads without glasses in her
ninety-seventh year.
IT is a remarkable fact that not
SINCE Chinese beggar has ever been seen
in the United States.
THIS year Lent contains forty-seven
days. 1t takes more time to repent as
the world grows older.
THE University Press at Oxford-has
appliances for printing works in $50
languages and dialects.
SARAH BERNHARDT gets $500 day
for acting. Of this her creditors take
$3.50, leaving her S120.
A WATER tank in passenger car at
Altoona, Pa, was found to contain a
trout eight inches long.
THE first steam vessel to make voy-
age up the Thames was brought to Glas-
gov by Mr.. Dodd in 1915.
No MAN can smoke as strong cigars or
as black pipes as a woman can when she
has once acquired the habit.
THE late Mrs. James Russell Lowell
was a relative of the distinguished Sem
ator, William Pitt Fessenden.
THE greater part of the wealth of ex-
Governor Coburn, of Maine, goes to the
cause of education in the South.
The White House has been SO often
painted that the white lead upon it is
nearly quarter of an inch thick.
THE English sparrows have entirely
disappeared from Concord, Mass, where
they had existed in great numbers.
No SAN Francisco resident ever
thinks of using the word Frisco"
Only strangers use that Authorization.
TOBACCO was first smoked, then
snutfed, and lastly chewed. Pipes came
first, then cigars, and finally cigarettes.
A CLEARFrELD county (Pa.) man
boards at hotel in order that his wife
can have time to attend skating rink.
DURING the Exposition in New Orleans
forty gambling houses, where banking
games are run, keep open night and day.
TEXAS is paying 100000 year to 600
survivors of the war of 1857. New
applications are coming in all the time.
ABOUT forty-fve per cent of the mem
bers of the present Congress of the
United States have been college edu-
Gated.
SINCE Mr. Robert Lincoln entered the
Cabinet there has been no time when
there has not been serious illness in his
family. 4
The latest service of burglar alarm
in Chicago was to call its possessor into
the hallway, where he was shot by the
burglar.
A REGULARITY of most of the Paris
papers is that they rent out the fnan-
cial column by the year to anybody who
wants it.
IT has been estimated that the cost of
each saloon to the city of Indianapolis
last year was $153. The license was
only $50.
A NATIVE of Zacoalco, Mexico, upon
learning that pair of shoes were not
finished as promised, shot the shoe
maker dead.
The Gear of Russia is growing quite
gray and bears on his face the wrinkles
OF premature old age, induced by worry
and anxiety
DURING ffty-one years of this century
the Bayards have at intervals held the
Senatorship of Delaware in the United
States Senate.
AT the mouth Of Cornish mine there
is this advice: "Do not fall down this
shaft, as there are men at work at the
bottom of it..
The Supreme Court in Tennessee has
decided that trainer has a lien upon
horse for services, time, and expense in
preparing for races.
SAN JOSE is the only city in California
with population excee ling 1000 that
IS not in debt. There are but five sucb
in the United States.
HE timber work of the external
domes of the Church of St. Mark, at
Venice, is more than $40 years old. and
is still in good state.
AMONG the Military titles of the
Prince of Wales is that of Honorary
Colonel of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery of Boston, Mass.
SINCE 1876 there have been sold TO
private persons 400 of the islands along
the coast OF Maine. They range in size
from 1000 to 1000 acres.