News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-22

Britain for 1881, which have recently
oeen issued, show a very serious de-
crease from The yield of 1884 in some of
she most important food products. The
decrease in wheat is estimated at 2. 62S.-
al bushels, in peas 1, $50, sos bushels,
IN beans 1910, $50 bushels, in potatoes
"a, 500 tons, IN turnips 1852, 497 tons,
and maRgoid 81, 1863 tons, in England,
In Ireland, on the other hand, there has
oeen an increase over 1884 amounting to
tgf, 016 bushels of wheat, 1876, 1856 tons
Of potatoes, IS, $50 tons of turnips, and
90, 253 tons of magnold. Both England
and Ireland have shown an increase in
barley, amounting to ), 33S, $40 bushels
IN the former COT ntry, and 463, 99S in
the latter. From barley is made malt
from malt, ale, so that, though food may
be somewhat scarcer and consequently
dearer, there need be no dread of lack
of drink
LAST December Under Sheriff Coons,
of Sacramento, Cal, was in the habit of
putting his knee upon the edge of
table in the office in order to reach the
gas burner, but after doing so a number
of times he found that the sharp edge
OF the table was hurting his leg, and
afterward he stood upon a chair when
lighting up. Recently the leg began to
trouble him, growing worse daily He
was at loss to account for the fact, not
remembering that he had received any
hurt, until one day the circumstance of
the gas lighting occurred to him, and
consultation with physician resulted
IN an expression of opinion that the
bone had probably been injured The
trouble has now become serious, the
pain preventing HIM from obtaining
usual sleep, and may result in an opera
ton having to be performed to ascertain
the nature and extent of the injury to
bone.
Ex-PREsIDENT Franklin Pierce once
taught in Oxford County, Me. The Paris
democrat says that problem in algebra
was brought to Mr.. Pierce by a scholar,
with the request that he give aid in
solving it. He took the problem, work
ed on it a long time, and being unable
60 solve it gave the scholar lecture on
perseverance,, and advised him to work /
ut out himself. That night the young
schoolmaster worked at his room until /
very late hour on the problem, but with
abstraction he got up and commenced |
noticed a small closet near the side of
chimney; opening this and exploring
ats interior he found a torn and wrinkled
piece of paper with figures on it. Tax
ing it out he found that the figures on
that piece of paper were the solution of
the very problem which had perp!exed
him so greatly.
IT is announced that Messrs. Appert,
of Clichy, France, have discovered n
process that will make glass blowing by
the mouth unnecessary. Many attempts
have been made to get rid of this pain
full process in the operation of glass
but to this day in every bottle
house may be seen pale-faced men with
their cheeks hanging limp in folds, the
result of years of glass blowing by the
mouth. Cases have been known IN
which mems cheeks have been worn so
thin that they have actually cracked,
and it is a common sight in a bottle
house to see blowers at work with their
thin checks pulled out like the fingers
Of glove.
JACK OSBORNE a Wyoming hunter,
and his dog had hard chase after big
)tter the other day. The dog, who was
celebrated as an otter killer, at length
chased the otter to deep pool, well
frozen over excepting one air hole Both
animals disappeared through the hole,
and by and by the dogs nose came slowly
to the surface, Jack pulled him out, but
he had fought his last fight. The offers
teeth and the struggle in the water We're
sSsss EEaSaSAA 10E AAALL.1 Ma LlAe
ice and dragged the dead body of the I
otter to land, and, seeing it, the old dog
crawled up, and laying his head on the
body, quietly died.
DURING the freeze some coIored men
Tentured out on the lake in the lower
,art of Lowndes county, Va, and one
# them fell in. The water was over
lis head, bat he was a short distance |.
rom shore. He Immediately dived
Inder the water and swan toward the ,
hore. At length, finding himself to be ,
within his depth, he let himself Gown. !
nd. placing his feet on the ground, de- :
lberately battered a hole through the O.,
ce above his head and escaped without /;
headache. This is a hard tale, but a Z
egro's head is hard, says the local pa /;
'er which tells the story
The Danes do not propose to have Q
ny receptions in their butter supply. G
law enacted in Denmark last wear {
ompels all makers and sellers of adul- O
Grated, imitation, and bogus butter to o
Jack it in elliptical tubs, cOnspicuously. ]
marked margarine, " and Furnishes in s
FACTIONS of the law by a fine of from n
90 to 1000 kroners (about S54 TO t
$40. The enactment was forced by n
he agricultural element Of the country, v
espite the opposition of the bogus but c
er people. t
THE fruit production of California is y
wonderful During. 1885 she |
Produced in raisins over 1900, 500 F."
sounds, or nearly three times as much
S in 1884. She also sent to market last ?
ear 800, 600 pounds of prunes, 1, 823,- I,
100 pounds of apples, 1, 900, coo pounds L
f peaches, 1,139, 900 pounds of plums,
90, 600 pounds of apricots, $3.50, 900
of honey, $4,000 pounds of
Talnuts and 100000 pounds of al
Donds.
IT is peculiar how attractive a man =
becomes to the average man, woman and ',
hid after he has killed his victim or /
5 charge | with murder. Before such :
filling, al exchange sassy, the individ- .
al passes the maddening throng with =
nut exciting the least attention: no one =
urns his head to give him a passing !
dance. Let him kill his man or wo- :
nan, and everybody has a desire to see !
lin. !;
PERSONS who have a superstitious c
Tread of Friday will not be pleased to 5
earn that This is a thoroughly Friday {
rear. 1t came in on q Friday, will 90
nut on a Friday, and will have fifty {
hree Fridays There are four months |
n the year that have five Fridays each:
hanges of the moon occur five times on [
Friday, and the longest and shortest s
lay of the year each falls on a Friday. {
]. B. THoMAs's dog, while following
lin about his Florida plantation,
umped rabbit and chased it into the
woods. The dog didn't come back, and
line days after was found with his head
asst in the roots of fallen tree. The :
og was released, and at once tried to :
ct under the tree as if expecting to
nd the rabbit there yet Aside from :
osing flesh, the dog was all right.
MAUD, the twelve year-old daughter
{ DR.. r. J. Wilson of Salem, Ind,
rose in her sleep the other night and
'ent across the street. Then she went
ack and stood at her own door fumb- {
ng with the lock. Her father beard g
er and, thinking burglars were. there, c
rev his pistol and, when the door n
pened, shot The ball struck Maud in s.