News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-01-21
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Evening funerals are fast coming
into vogue in New York.
There are 100000 tons of ice along
the Hudson river, left over from last
year.
Perfect tranquility prevails in Peru,
and an era of prosperity has appar-
emily begun.
At the beginning of the present
century respectable Londoners con-
sidered it ''fast" to have sofas in the
parlor.
1t is claimed the seed of the Simaba
cedron tree of the tropics will cure
hydrophobia and the ills from any
poisonous bite.
The Italians have a new advertising
scheme. They put notices of hotels
and shops in little pocket affixed to
a railway ticket.
Danbury, Conn, produces a fourth
of all the hats made in the United
States. The average production is
1343 hats per hour.
The impecuniosity of italian no.
blemen grows apace, and palaces may
be had in Florence and Rome this
season cheaper than ever.
With flour warehouses burning al
most simultaneously IN Boston and
Chicago, the surplus of this article is
being reduced in the most unprofita-
BILE way.
A leading club of Chicago has
discovered that its servants and en-
ployes have been giving dinners, par
ties and wedding feasts with the club
foutfit and at eise-e4.rsses f1s-a
A fashionable New York mother
has brought home japanese nurse,
who goes about the avenues clad in
her native costume, provoking a great
deal Of sensation and not a little envy.
A man at Braddock, Pa, while
walking in the woods the other day,
picked up solid silver cup bearing
date 1886, with a diamond set in the
bottom of it.
Lieut.. Greedy believes that there is
an ever freezing ocean 1900 miles in
diameter around the pole, and that the
pole itself is the center of an ice
capped land.
A Congressman, of Wisconsin, has
become insane. Some of the votes
during the session of Congress, nota-
bly, on the silver question-may show
that he is not alone in his alteration.
A Connecticut society that was Or
ganized about 1900 for protection
against horse thieves, is still in exis-
tence, and so flourishing that il has de-
clared dividend of 200 per cent :,
payable February l.
The production of gold in Califor-
MIA last year is put at SIS, 1000, 900 by
Wells, Fargo & Co. The yield in
1879 was $15,618,361. So it APP
pears that the States output of gold
has declined very little during the
past five years.
There are comparatively few visit
ors at Rome this year, and the social
season has not opened brilliantly. The
deaths OF the King of Spain and the
King Consort of Portugal, the illness
of the Pope and the unusually cold
weather have affected society seriously.
Those who are trying to prove that
the Republican party's strength is
waning, ought not to fail to notice the
fact that at recent election in Fair
fax county, Va, to fill vacancy in
the House of Delegates a Republican
was elected. Last November the
county gave 385 Democratic majority
A heater for street cars has been
tried in Chicago. 1t consists of a
cylinder under the car with a super
heater in which coal oil is vaporized.
In the floor of the car is a box of fire
clay, and this is heated to a white
glow, but without any flame. There
is no apparatus inside the car save a
grating in the floor.
1t is said that London policemen
will probably be furnished with little
guide-books which will facilitate their
giving desired information to strang-
ers. The same plan might be applied
in this country to conductors on horse
cars, so that they might be well &C
quainted with points of interest on
their routes.
A small school-boy says that he is
not going to learn any more geogra-
ply lessons until the world is fully
discovered. He read in paper that
the geography of over half of the
globe would be changed by future ex-
plorations, and he is going to wait.
British Columbia has a "deserted
village" A miner on the head wa
ters of the Columbia river says he
| has found deserted mining town,
where the billiard tables still stand in
the saloons and letters are lying in
the Post-office, bearing date of 1856.
Not soul has been near the place
for years.
An unwelcome visitor boarded a
train near Silver Bow, Montana, a
few evenings ago. The train was
passing some cliffs when the engineer
saw dark object alight upon the
cow-catcher. Nothing further being
noticed, he thought possibly that it
was lump of dirt, which had rolled
off again. The fireman went to oil