News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12
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! free" is Significant notice IN one
Chicago theatre.
A Dakota paper says prairie chick.
ems are beginning to tassel out.
A negro colony from the South will
soon be on the way to California, the
object being TO raise cotton.
The Chinese are pouring into Bur
NAH, much to the disgust of the ma
tives, who see in John Chinaman a
formidable rival.
The date for unwilling the Barthol-
di Statue has not been definitely de-
cided upon, cut it will probably be the
goth Of next October. Some thirty
French representative will be pres
ent.
New Jersey has mosquitoes, and
now Long Island is complaining that
a magnified June bug is making life
unhappy for the summer sojoarners
on the south shore.
A Chicago firm recently had an
order for an ornamental iron fence,
Charge enough to inclose the grave OF
young man about twenty-five years
of age"
Look out for the August meteors
about now. They will be most nu.
merous in the northeastern sky, in
the constellation Perseus.
Here is good news for the pickle
eater. The crop on Long Island,
which usually amounts to about So
100000 pickles or cucumbers, will be
nearly double this year.
Letters mailed in hotel envelopes
are sent to the dead letter office, not
outstanding the 10 days return no.
tice on the corner, when they fail to
reach the person addressed.
Corn throughout New England is
unusually backward this season, and
according to present indications the
crop will be light.
An elephant belonging to circus,
engaged in prize fight with two cam
els while the three were travelling in
one railroad car the other day, and
used them so badly as to kill one and
injure the other so that he had to be
shot.
A veteran hotel proprietor at Long
Island says it costs 90 cents head
per diem to feed his guests, counting
all vastage. The remainder of the
Sc to S. day goes for music and
other luxuries and for the profits.
Two hundred and fifty pilgrims
have left Russia for Jerusalem during
the present summer, and active prep
arations are being made in several
parts of the country to celebrate the
ninth century of the introduction of
Christianity into Russia.
A polite English lawyer, who found
that q serious confag ration was pro-
ceeding in his coat tails, apologized
to the bench for the incident, and then
Invested himself of mis- coat and hur-
ried out of the court room in his shirt
sleeves.
There arc 5000 eunchs in the Impe-
rial palace at Pekin. They are treat
ed very severely and placed under
strict regulations, but when they get
into favor, as they often do, they WELD
enormous power, owing to their imme-
date contact with the Emperor and
Empress.
1t is highly popular this season to
make brief visits to inexpensive re-
sorts, and for those who cannot de-
vote long periods to rest and recrea-
ton there is much to be gained in
these brief moments of change. A
day spent at the seashore, a Sunday
rest among the hills, will refresh a
business man or any one devoted to
office work for much longer time
than the time spent in actual vaca-
ton.
A mammoth elevator project has
been arranged by the Washburn -four
ing mills of Minneapolis. A small
house between two large ones is to
hold all the machinery, and the grain
is to be carried on belts from the
smaller building to the larger, the lat
ter having storage capacity of over
a million bushels each. 1t is estimat-
ed that 5000 bushels can be trans
ferred each way to each house per
hour.
Virgins insists that the great storm
which he predicted for this fall will be
on hand. He says "September will
open cold and stormy. premonitory to
my great storm, commencing on the
29th, and the great war of the ele-
ments will come as sure as the sun is
in the heavens. 1t will be a storm of
unparalleled violence, and after sweep
ing across the Atlantic and traversing
the country, will exhaust its energy
upon the rugged front offered by the
Rocky Mountains"
An eccentric farmer at Hartford,
Ind, is engaged in the task of eu-
deavoring, by walking many miles
each day upon an improvised track,
to wear away three layers which he
imagines have been added to his feet.
He began his tireless walk about two
years ago, and keeps upon his feet
eighteen hours out of the twenty -four.
Instead of being made weak by the
exercise, he is growing stronger every
day. His limbs are firm as iron and
his tendons like whip. cord. He has
now walked some 10000 miles and
his pace is increasing daily. He is
rational on all other subjects.
The eye-stone, which is so efficient
in removing foreign bodies from the
eye, is often said to be "aiive," be-
cause it moves about when put in vim
egar. 1t is composed of calcareous
material, which when placed in the
acid is made TO move by carbonic acid
gas evolved from contact with the
liquid. The eye-stone is the front
door, as it were, to the shell of lit
tie moluscous animal of the South |
American coast, and closes up the
she'll after the animal has gone in, so
as to serve as protection.
The opinion common among noun
ain tourists that a thunder storm
NAV be observed below the stand
point of the spectator, is disputed by
4 German scientist. He believes this
,an happen only on the SUBMITS of
yery high mountains, as careful OBJ
'ervations on the Alps have convinced
lin that the height above the earth
If the lowest stratum of clouds in a
hunder storm is never less than 1900
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