News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-21
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A REMARKABLE trade was made Satur-
day, in Macon, Ga, II we may believe q
paper OF that city. A certain merchant,
sold suit of clothes, pair of shoes
and hat for $5, and made &1.35 by
the trade.
"OUaHT we let our hens lay on Sun
day" a sister asked me, and I said,
eyes, but you ought to give the Sunday
eggs to missions, and she did it. So
says clergyman who tells the story in
a religious paper.
IF there is any law in New York city,
says a local paper, Buddensiek, the
builder of the fallen tenement houses.
should be given an opportunity to study
solidity of architecture from the inside
for time long enough to appreciate it.
ACCORDING to the Rutland Herald
no Vermonter ever said "Varmount" ex-
cept in initiating outsiders. The local
pronunciation of the name OF the State
is that of the scholar except for ten.
dency to neglect the ''r" and make it
''Ve'mont."
In the police court of q Missouri
town, the other day, several ''young
ladies and gentlemen of the highest
social standing" were tried and fined
for disturbing public worship. The
ofensec onsisted in writing notes and
and talking in church.
YOUNG man, if you are ambitious
don't try for clerkship at Washington.
Take warning from the career OF the
Oldest clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment. Appointed in 1S47 at salary of
81 200, he is now getting 81, ,400--a rise
of 5000 in thirty y-eight years.
A UNIQUE and nicely written placard
has been placed over the stamp window
In the Post Office, of a western town,
which reads: click your own stamps"
It would have accorded better with the
rules OF the civil service if the Post
master had begun with "please, says a
local paper.
TIE will of the Hon. Thomas Hege
Of Franklin, Pa, provides that should
any of the officials of the Bank which
closed up there become conscience
stricken and conclude to return to his
executors the $55, 900 they stole from
him, be bequeaths that sum to the ceme-
terry of his town.
A LADY not a resident of the new
city of Lisbon, Dakota Territory, had
house and lot there, and the city ordered
her to build a sidewalk by it.
She neglected or refused to build it,
and the city built the walk and sent
her bill for 500. Her gentle spirit
waxed wroth and she went there, tore
down the house and took it away on
the cars and told them they might have
the old lot. "There, now."
The white brick now made In France
waste sand at glass factories is likely to
prove valuable industry. The process
of production consists in subjecting the
sand to an immense hydraulic pressure
and then baking in furnaces at high
temperature, so as to produce blocks of
various forms and dimensions, of uni
form white color, and of almost pure
silex. The product is unaffected by
the heaviest frosts or by the sun or rain.
A SOUTH CAROLINA citizen thus looks
the problem in the face when he asks:
What is to become Of us With the
morphine habit making q host of liars;
the quinine habit ghostly band of
nerveIess, would-be suicides; the tobacco
habit giving us tendency to cancer
and what not; the whisky habit taking
people by crooked ways to early
graves; the money habit filling the coun-
try with avaricious spectators, thieves,
and bank robbers; the officeseeking
habit turning honest people away from
honest work to getting an Office, it does
seem we are generally in bad way.
Tag annual report of the Ohio Agri-
ultural Experiment Station urges the
preservation and maintenance of forests,
and says this concerning woodlands:
''The first step should be to remove all
worthless varieties, and to encourage
the valuable sorts to take their place.
Stock should not be allowed to run in
wood lots for purpose of forage; there
should be careful guard against fire;
seeds should be planted in vacant places
of such varieties as are most desirable;
shoots of inferior varieties should be
kept down, and valuable sorts should
be trimmed up, so that they may grow
tall, forming trunk rather than