News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-07-30
ODDS AND ENDS.

The republic OF Cnln now owes OIL
account Of her railways $22, 47O, 600.
YOU'VE ostriches are warmed out o.
their shells by incubators in California
GEORGE WASHINGTON wrote bad poe
try when he was very good little boy
TIE Baptists now have "a churches in
North Dakota and about 1, 900 members
BosroN, if her authorities give the
needed consent, is to have an elevated
road.
THE last remaining toll house on the
old Philadelphia turnpike has been torn
down.
THE English climate is said to have
greatly added to Mary Anderson's
beauty.
THE number of Quakers in the United
States is estimated at less thar
100,0
ONLY eight of the 4, 169 samples Of
milk examined in Berlin in April were
condemned.
Iowa farmers are offered seven cents 6
pound for their butter, provided it is OF
extra quality.
| THE violin Is beginning to supersede
the piano as fashionable instrument fol
| ladies in Paris.
NEW YORK fashionable ladies are now
escorted to and from the theatres by
messenger boys.
WASHINGTON has 9, 355 licensed dogs,
or more in proportion than any other
city in the Union.
VEGETARIANIsM is making rapid strides
in England Its cheapness commends it
to the poor especially.
1T is a somewhat remarkable circum-
stance that you never hear of poor man
having the hay fever.
THE bridge over the SUR at Water
ford, Ireland, was built by Lemuel Cox,
a native of Boston, Mass.
THE SEVENTEEN anniversary of the
battle of Waterloo found few survivors
of the memorable action.
A VICIOUS dog in Bay City, Michigan,
tore off the ear of 6-year-old boy. A
physician sewed it on again.
GOVERNOR Ross is the seventy fifth
Governor of New-Mexico in an unbroken
line extending back 300 years.
THE cherries from one estate in Kent,
England, brought So, 500 this season in
spite of great damage by frost.
A TOMATO vine at Plant City, Fla,
covers space seventy-tve feet In cir
conference, and bore all last winter.
THE fruit crop which is now hanging
from the apple, peach, pear, and plum
trees of Georgia Is the best In 20 years.
In the White House the visiting cards
are saved and sold for old paper. In the
month of May there were 800 pounds of
cards.
THE curse of intemperance is on the
increase in Glasgow and Edinburgh,
where it has been very prevalent for many
years.
THE owners of large farms In Oregon
are selling off tracts, and declare them
selves in favor of small holdings as the
best policy.
A STORY comes from California that q
police officer at Los Angeles has become
delirious from the too frequent brushing
of his teeth.
MIR. ERAsTUs BROOKS says that he
has seen 1870 daily newspapers established
in New York and of these only six are
now in existence.
THE mosquito nuisance is avoided in
standing water which prevents the in
sects from Matching.
COMMODORE DUNCAN N. INGRAHAM,
the hero of the Koszta affair, is still liv-
ing at the age of eighty-three, hale and
hearty, in Baltimore.
TIE tramps are complaining that the
business is lamentably overdone. There
are hundred men now where there was
one fifteen years ago.
IT is estimated that the annual pro-
duct of the marble quarries of Vermont
is 1, 400, 900 cubic feet, with an increase
of about 10, 900 feet year.
AN Oregon man has followed out the
stump of a large tree in the fashion of a
room, cut door and windows in it, and
has there taken up his abode.
A FLOATING island about 100 feet
square is at present an interesting object
in that portion of Lake Marsebesio, Me-,
known as the "Blsck Pond"
A CENSUS which is in progress in Iowa
shows gain In all the cities, and the State
enumeration is likely to reach 2, 200, 600,
q gain of 600, 600 in five years.
MISS NJ. A. ROOFS has been Postmis-
tress at Monroe, Ga, since April 81,
1865, and during all this time she hasn't
lost half day out of the office.
THIRTY life Peers to be appointed by
the Crown to the Hungarian Table of
Magnates are to be chosen from the arts,
science, commerce, and industry.
THERE is an ice deposit at the mouth
of the Sandy River in Oregon which is
twenty feet high, half mile long, and
extending back an unknown distance.
ONE business man out of every sixty
four writes the name of his own town in
his letters, and this class gives
the dead letter Office the most trouble.
THE first white man who settled on
the present site of Buffalo was Ger
man, and the Teutonic element now con-
constitutes one-half Of the entire popula-
ton.
A FRENcHdAN has patented q process
of making butter by passing current |
of electricity through milk, thus render
ing the operation of churning unneces-
sary.
THE Duke of Schleswig- Holstein-
Augustenburg, it is said, will shortly |
proceed to England to become sutton
for the hand OF the Princess Louise of
Wales.
THE nickel, which was until quite re-
Gently looked upon with contempt in
San Francisco, has already revolutionized
the prices of certain things and services
in the city.
SOME Mongolian pheasants brought to
this country by ex-United States Consul
Denny from China, and turned loose in
Linn county, Oregon, have wonderfully
COMPETITION in business is the life of
trade done on credit. 1t makes a mer-
chant trust buyer who does not intend
to pay, simply to keep him away from a
rival merchant.
THE Metropolitan Railroad Company
Of Boston has just discovered that about
20, 600 counterfeit tickets have been is
sued to be sold on their road by dis
honest conductors.
In Berlin society has been formed
Tor the development of New Guinea, and
It's first step is to be taken by medical
who are advertised for in the
German medical journals.
THE use of natural gas has become 80
in the foundries, factories
breweries, ETC., of Pittsburgh, Pa, that
A saving of nearly 40, 900, 900 bushels of
coal annually will be effected.
A MAN from Canada was In Toledo.
Ohio, few days ago hunting for his
wife AZ veors old who ba COVE ID |