News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-25
M OTES.

walking the line, and was on the track
used for all traffic while repairs were
being made to the road bed.
New Orleans had come to think
their city hardened against good, but
the revival inaugurated by Moody ard
Sankey is a revelation. Seven SER
vices were held on a recent Sabbath,
attended by ten thousand people, with
: 600 at the inquiry meetings and 800
confessing Christ.
1t is said that wage workers among
women in New York save more mon
ey than men similarly situated, though
they are paid little more than half the
wages received by men. They under
stand the principles of economy bet
ter than their co-laborers.
Strenuous attempts are being made
in England to counterfeit the influence
of ''gin palaces" by "coffee palaces"
and with considerable success. The
Birmingham Coffee House Company
has declared a dividend of 10 per cent.
for the last year. 1t has twenty-six
| coffee HOUSES.
That the roller skating mania is
running out is shown by the great de-
cline in the price of lockwood, of
which the skate wheels are made.
Last year this wood commanded from
$40 to $40 ton, but now it can be
had for S18, and is likely to go lower.
The Kansas story about flock of
sheep being fastened together by their
fieeces freezing with melted snow, is
matched by one from Georgia. A
farmer at Brentwood, who keeps a
large flock in range where cookie
burs are numerous, the other day no
ticed fifteen sheep side by side, their
heads all pointing the same way, look
ing as if out for a drill. He yelled at
them to move, and the whole lot
moved at once. He finally discovered
that the burs had got into their wool,
and they were stuck against each 9TH
er's sides.
At railroad washout, the work
men were busy pouring in sand and
gravel, which the rush of water swept
away about e. fast as it was turned in.
A veteran looked on for a while and
finally said: Captain, when | was in
the army we had some crevasses to
stop, and we always got all the old
bags we could from the quartermaster
and filled them with sand, and it soon
did the business" ave will try it, >"
replied the road master. In an hours
time the washout began TO fill up and
a permanent barrier was soon secured.
Albuquerque, n. NJ, furnishes a
good bear story. The narrative states
that the local editor, who was expect
ing a gang of lynchers about mid
night, descended to the cellar, leaving
a pet grizzly bear in his place in bed.
The lynchers didn't bring any lights,
but made plucky attempt to get the
bear out and lynch it, but gave it up
after three of them had lost an eye
apiece, two had suffered the loss of
thumbs chewed off, and the other six
were more or less deprived of skin.
The man now has tremendous repu-
tation as fighter, and the bear didn't
mind the work bit.
The personal estate of the publish
er, j. B. Lippincott, who died the
other day, has been appraised at
$500, 900. OF this amount, S641,
600 represents the interest of the de-
ceased in the J. B. Lippincott Com
pany. The remainder is invested in
railroad and other bonds. Mr.. Lip
pincott is also said to have left up
ward of two million dollars in real es
| tate.
An English engine driver is COM
PEELED to work for thirty-six consecu-
tive hours on duty with his engine,
and yet thousands of unemployed are
eager for opportunities for work. The
system of labor evidently needs cor
rection.
Blind Cupid, the conventional Or
nament of the valentine, was left out
of this years sweet remembrances.
Instead of the smiling love-god APP
pear flowers and fruit and the new art
designs, making the modern valen-
tine very different production from
its prototype.
Three of the Newark, n. j., boys
who went to Paris to be treated by
Pasteur are now the drawing card in
a Bowery museum. 1t is estimated
that 100000 persons have seen them
at ten cents apiece, and the managers
are soon to take them on a tour
through the larger eastern cities.
An eccentric clergyman of Bur-
lington county, n. j., has left con-
siderable sum of money, to be devot-
ed to the pasturing and propagation
of goats, with view to encouraging
the use of their flesh, in place of that
of swine, as an article of food.
The Massachusetts House of Rep
resentatives has adopted by an i'm
mense vote-177 to 50-the resolu-
ton embracing constitutional amend
ment abolishing the poll tax qualifica-
ton for voters. This is much more
than the required twO-thirds majority,
and it is probable that it will easily
secure the necessary votes in the Sen
ate. The Boston Advertiser says the
change of sentiment on this subject
is most remarkable, though the mag
nitude Of the affirmative vote is I'M
derstood to have been a matter of
considerable size to some of those
who voted that way.
1t would seem that the liquor inter-
est has most to fear from the spread
of the Knights of Labor. Liquor
dealers are not permitted to join the
order, and the leaders in the move
ment in several instances have en-
phasized the evils to the masses which
come from intemperance. The lead
ers of that movement have it within
their power to do more to stop intern
perance and the waste of the wages of
labor in the saloon and GROCERY than
all the laws which can be put upon
the statute book.
A remarkable celestial phenomenon
was observed at Montreal at midnight
Saturday. The western heavens pre-
sented the appearance of opening and
| shooting forth stream of rose col
Ored light. The Catholic population
of the city were awe-stricken, think
ing the last day had come, and kneel-
ing on the streets they prayed for sal