News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-22

~I5 course Of Years.
that speed will be so increased that a
passenger can reach New York before
leaving England3
In Harper's Richard Wheatley presents
some interesting figures about the price
of real estate in New York. He says ::
Gland has reached its highest price on
this side of the Atlantic in the lower
wards of New York. When tho Drexel
building, at the southeast corner OF
Wall and Broad streets, was erected, the
price per square foot of the ground
whereon it stands was the highest paid
up to that time. When, in 1882, Will
liam II. Vanderbilt gave $40 per square
foot for the lots on Fifth avenue, Fifty
second and Fifty third streets, on which
the family mansions stand, that was tho
highest price ever paid for residential
purposes. For store sites on Fifth ave-
nue., 500 per square foot were paid in
March, 1886. ID. 0. Mills paid $S5 per
square foot for the area occupied by his
magnificent building on Broad street,
the Astors 800 per square foot for Nos
and 10 Broadway, and the Williams
burg Fire Insurance Company $1l5 per
square foot for the site of their equally
impressive structure on the northeast
corner of Liberty street and Broadway.
In the neighborhood of the old Jumel
estate prices rose from rs to 100 per
cent. between 1882 and March, 1886.
In regard to spontaneous combustion,
the fires of the year in Boston have
furnished some new observations of
considerable importance. In one case,
says the american 1rchitect, n quantity
of feather dust in n bedd ng mandatory
took fire without apparent reason. 1t
WAS found, however, that q piece of
thick glass had been lying on the
feathers, and the suns rays, conccn-
trated i'll some way by the glass, had set
fire to them, although the day was q
cold one in the month of March. In
another case a number of tarpaulin hats
were lying packed together in a window.
The high temperature, with, perhaps,
the close packing of the hats, caused
them to burst into blaze. Two other
fires were caused by putting paraline
paper, such as candy is wrapped in, into
q refuse barrel which contained q little
sawdust; and a third, which destroyed |
twenty thousand dollars worth of prop
erty, was occasionod by putting greasy
paper, which hud been used to wrap
lunches in, into wooden refuse barrel. |
which contained some sawdust and |
sweepings.
A QUEER character died of consump-
ton in Bellevue Hospital, New York,
the other night. He WAS John Walters,
better known as "Johnny the Morgue."
About eight years ago he came to the
hospital sick. That's all that is known
of his history. On his recovery he went |
to work in the Morgue as assistant to |
the keeper. His duty WAS to uudress
and prepare for burial tho dead of the
morgue. The solcmnity of his surround
ings seemed to have impresso | him
deeply, and he wore always grave and |
air. He was not paid by the
Charities Commissioners, but made his |
living by fees received from undertakers. |
His health broke down in the morgue
atmosphere, and about q year ago he
was taken with consumption and was
predecessors in the same place died of |
"THE German DOCTORS" says the St
James, Gazette, "profess to have discOv |
ered n now danger They assert that |
the custom OF carrying portfolios to .
school has q tendency to distort the |
figures of young girls between the ages
Of elev ell and fourteen Parents are ex-
horted to provide wallets for their young
which can be carried like
on the back In many parts
of Germany this equipment is already
in use, and to the unaccustomed eye of
the stranger nothing is more comic than
10 n Of
girls trooping out of school, each pro-
The next funniest thing to be seen
among school-children on the Continent
is the long pipe or the bilious cigarette
of the diminutiye Dutch boy"
The Journal DIES Debats describes q nov
city introduced in tho watch by Ar
mand Schwab. Upon the ordinary dial
is another smaller, entirely similar. Its
hands, however, can be brought to zero
by pressure upon II small spring in the
stem. When, for instance, tho wcarer
takes cab by the hour he brings the
hands to zero, and then is enabled
to read off the timo consumed. On q
railway the train stops twenty-five min
utes for dinner bring the hands to zero
and you know exactly how much time
to daily over the dinner The wife boils
eggs to be done in three minutes, but
after while she forgets the time when
she began to count. 1t is also servicea-
BILE for the photographer and other like
tradesmen.
Information collected by the Popular
Science Monthly goes to show that lon
gevity without regularity of habits is
very rare. In the blanks received, old
people, men and women alike, are put
down as carly risers and retirers, almost
without exception, and fully nineteen
out of every twenty have observed this
custom throughout life, except, perhaps,
1T some short periol in youth. Meals
have been eaten regularly, three each
day, with dinner at noon, the exception
being so rare as to indicate nothing.
Exercise in most cases has been hard
work up to sixty-five or seventy. Old
people are, as rule, rs active and fond
Of constant occupation as most persons
at thirty
A FIRsT-CbAss American watch, we'll
Kept, will last thirty or forty years, or
even longer, before tho works
wear out, but the average life of an
low-priced American watch is
ZEN years, and that of n Swiss watch of
he same grade seven years. The length
Of life for watch depends largely ON