News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12
ODDS AND ENDS.

The first war steamer built in Eng
land was in 1928.
THERE are said to be 80 varieties of
sheep in the world.
WISCONSIN is added to the list of to-
bacco- growing States.
THE Sultan of Morocco has just cele-
brated his thousandth wedding.
WooD which is odoriferous is gener-
ally the most durable in exposure.
TIE descendants of the Spartans are
race of liars, beggars and thieves.
The fall in the price of sugar last year
saved the British public $30,000,0O0.
HART, the colored pedestrian, is Civ
ing bicycle exhibitions in the South.
PHILADELPHIA has counted up G, 900
saloons with which to begin the year.
THERE are $50 tradesmen in Paris who
deal in nothing but old postage stamps.
STRAW paper envelope making is a
new and flourishing industry in ireland.
Four aspirants to the Governorship
of Massachusetts are worth SIG, 900, 900.
IT is thought that half the lameness
of horses is traceable to defective shoe
ing.
EXTENSIVE deposits of manganese
have been discovered near Batesville,
Ark.
SENATOR BAYARD is fond of a sauce
made of horse radish beat up in white of
egg.
FRED KIMBLE, of Peoria, ILL.,, wants to
shoot against DIR. Carver for 81 900 q
side.
AUSTRALIA has four universities which
rank with Oxford, Cambridge and Har-
ward.
A WOMAN has Just received her fourth
appointment as Postmistress at Gardner,
Mass.
A DENTIST at Washington claims to
have extracted 100,0 900 teeth in twenty
years.
The son of Prince Napoleon has gone
to Egypt to take part in the campaign
there.
TWENTY-FIVE of the great sugar planta-
tons In Cuba are farmed by the Jesuit
order.
DR. WILLIAM HENRY FURNEss, of
Philadelphia, has been sixty years in the
ministry.
THE Government Printing Office is
the largest establishment of the kind in
the world.
MEXICAN soldiers are said to be all
shades of color, from almost white to q
dirty black.
a WESTERN paper heads its real estate
column with the words: dealing III
Frozen Dirt"
AN English electrician declares that
no one is ever killed by lightning while |
asleep in bed.
The number of letters posted in the |
world every year is said to be about |
$1,000, 900, 600.
ABOUT forty million pennies were |
coined Lass year and circulated through
out the country.
A BOY in Pittsburg has swallowed
thermometer and the doctors are un-
able to get it out.
LIEUTENANT GREELY's friends are
much concerned about his health, which
they fear is failing.
OF the Governors of Maine no less
than seven have been connected with
the newspaper press.
A BARREL of oysters, prepared for
shipment, contains $50 four year-old or
], 800 three year- olds.
RUSSIA has a public holiday almost
every other week, there being twenty
four during the year.
TIE indications are that the cotton
crop of the present year will amount to
about 5, 666. 600 bales.
A CINCINNATI gambler who had won
and lost over 5000, 600 died among the
paupers the other day.
The Philadelphia Charity Ball netted
ST, 600, or SO 900 more than the New
York eleemosynary hop.
A BULLET travels a mile in three and
two-tenths seconds little over FORTY |
times as fast as Maud S.
THREE dogs sold in London a while |
ago for $3.50 each, and brindle. white
greyhound brought $3.50.
BILL has been introduced in the
New York Legislature to appoint q
State veterinary surgeon.
In some parts of Minnesota two
pounds of butter equals in value a
bushel and a half OF wheat.
THERE are So, 779 organized militia in
the United States, and $780, SOC men
available for military duty.
SOUTHERN railways have placed their
old ties along the lines to be distributed
to poor people for frewood.
In the French army the mortality in
J. 1,Ol
men from disease it was 1892,
TIE Fargo republican saws: sWe
hear of four engines at harrisburg with
out coal, steaming up on corn"
New ZEALAND, with a population of
only half million. supports 100 news
papers, thirty of which are daily.
LIEUTENANT DANENHowER, of the
Jeanette expedition is on duty at An
napoiis. His pay is 50, 500 year.
One TENTH of all the French spolia-
ton claims are held in Newburyport,
the smallest city of Massachusetts.
MELBOURNE, Ark, with population
OF $50, has four churches, any one of
which will hold the entire population.
TIE city of Philadelphia imbibes
daily 200, 600 quarts of milk-one-f fifth
OF quart to each of its million inhabit-
ants.
AT The New Orleans Exposition the
electric lights alone cost about 81 $50
per day, the music $3.50 and the police
$780,
CUBAN planters cannot get their money
back by selling their molasses, and so
are utilizing it on their estates as ma
nure.
Mr.. HIRsH, of the Oregon Legislature
lacked one vote to make him United
States Senator, and he did not vote for
himself.
EVERY penitentiary in Texas is pro- ,
yided with kennel of three or more
bloodhounds for the purpose of hunting
escaped prisoners.
SETH GREEN recently pulled the teeth
OF trout that persisted in biting its
fellow fishes. The operation did not {
harm il in the least. s
The officers of the Salvation Army in !
this country deny the report that only
persons of English birth are appointed
as commissioned officers.
IT is stated that the natives of Ceylon
are saving There is very little encour.
agement for a man to be extravagant on
salary of six cents day.
FULTON built the Orleans at Pitts :,
burgh-the first steamboat on western 7
rivers. 1t made the voyage to New :
Orleans, 2, 600 miles, in 1911.
The yearly consumption of meats in :
the United States per capita is 100 !
pounds; in England, 1O4 pounds :
France, IA pounds; Germany, SO q
pounds.
CHINA has hundreds of thousands of ;
professional beggaIs, but not one
Chinese beggar, it is asserted, has vet