News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-01

ing in Japan.
t A poll-tax of $50 a head Is imposed
on all Cinnamon entering oouCh AUS
tralia.
Boots for dogs that have sore 1eet
are kept for sale in New YORK.
Sponge growing is a new industry
on the Connecticut coast. 1t IS touno
that Young sponges transplanted from
Florida waters grow rapidly in Long
Island Sound.
Al English traveller at a motel In
Halifax has a curiosity in the shape
of a South American bug with a small
gold band around it to which it is at
tached by a chain to a pin. He says
he has carried the bug for SIX months
and it is still alive and living on rotten
wood.
Champoireau is sometimes absent
minded. The other day he had his hail
cut, and when the operation was com
pleted he regarded himself in the
mirror, "you have got it too Short
he said to the barber, and seated him.
self again in the chair.
The discovery has been accidentally
made at Melbourne that plunglng cast
iron into a mixture of molasses and
water softens the metal to such a de-
gree that it can be worked as readily
as wrought iron.
Mr.. B~ierstadt, an eminent New
York photographer, says such progress
has been made in his art that he does
not hesitate to predict the coming
success of photography in colors.
A button caused a fire in q mattress
and shoddy shop in Chicago. A tooth
in the machine struck button and a
spark shot IN the air and fell into the
midst of combustible material, caus-
ing a fire.
The "Herald of Health" discredits
the popular impression that cutting
the hair short tends to increase its
growth. 1t says that women rarely
become bald, yet they never cut their
hair off as men do.
DR.. Benjamin Ward Richardson
gives a long list of rules chow to avoid
premature old age" We fail to find
among the number this infalible rule {;
Die young.
Rear Admiral James E. Jouett, who
recently gave up the command of the
North American squadron, has been
attached to naval ships of war in
commission for p years, and has
seen, next to Admiral Luce, more sea
service than any officer on the active
list in the navy
The carelessness of the travelling
public was illustrated by the sale in
New York on Thursday of unclaimed
articles left on the elevated road the
past year. There were 800 lots in all,
comprising umbrellas, purses, pocket
books, parcels of dry goods and mil
linery and an infinite variety of other
articles.
The editor of the Chickasaw Mes
senger breaks out as follows; 'After
politely asking five delinquent sub
cribers to haul us a load of wood, we
have to hunt brush and chips to make
a fire to cook our frugal meals. Now,
if some clever gentleman will bring US
half a cord of wood we will try to
pay him for it, even if we are com
PEELED to economic by disseminating
to send the Messenger to the five de-
linquents aforesaid"
Swarms of bees took possession of
chimneys in two residences in Napa,
CAL, and it was found impossible to
drive them out either by fire, smoke,
water or the burning of sulphur. They
played the mischief with lace curtains
and other delicate household furnish
ings by leaving sooty tracks along
their line of march,. AS last resort
they were sealed in with bricks and
mortar.
The Hbeathen Chinee" is becoming
a terror to workingmen in Italy. The
straw-plait trade is being seriously
affected by his indomitable industry
in pushing his wares into every mar
ket. The competition of the Chinese
plaits in the coarser qualities is almost
crushing, and to a very considerable
extent now supplies the markets of
Europe and America, to the nearly
total exclusion of the same qualities
of Italian plaits as regards foreign on
sumption. Cheap labor in Europe can
not compete with the still cheaper
labor of the Central Flowery King
dom.
A Philadelphia undertaken says
queer requests are made of him by the
friends of deceased persons. The
weeping widow of a young married
nan said she wanted his coffin made
large enough to hold his gun and
game bag, because he was so fond of
shooting. Then some people want
favorite books, letters, bibles, pictures
and such things buried with their dead.
One woman, whose 10 years old son
had died, handed him a little bundle,
saying, please put this at the foot of
Johnny's coffin. They are a pair of
his old pantaloons, and the first l ever
whipped him in"
There are two or three volatile liq-
uids used in families which are par
ticularly dangerous, and must be en-
ployed, if at all, with especial care.
Benzine, ether and strong ammonia
constitute this class of agents. The
two first named liquids are employed
in cleaning gloves and other wearing
apparel, and in removing oil stains
from carpets, curtains, etc. The liq-
uids are highly volatile, and flash into
vapor as soon as the phial containing
them is opened. Their vapors are
very combustible, and will infame at
long distances from ignited candles or
gas flames, and consequently they
should never be used in the evening,
when the house is lighted.
The modest and sensible way in
which Mr.. George W. Childs Of the
Philadelphia Ledger, disclaims all as
pirations to the Presidency, and as
sures his friends that the honor which
they would confer upon him is not
only one for which he is not fitted, but
which he does not desire, will add to
the universal esteem in which that gen.
tleman IS held. At the head of one of
the most popular newspapers in
America, he is the right man in tie
right place and he knows enough to