News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05
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was Mark Twain. K. ii. Stoddard,
the poet, was a blacksmith, Frank
Stockton was an engraver, and John
G Whittier was farmer until he was
nearly so.
Queen Victoria, with her aunts and
her numerous progeny, has cost the
British nation in the neighborhood of
S175, 100000. In the hundred years
of their national life the American
people have paid their Presidents as
salaries 100000.
One of the features of Western
billiards is wind-rolled snow balls.
Sometimes millions of those snow balls
are to be seen on the Dakota and
Wyoming prairies. They vary in
size from that of an orange to the
proportion of prize pumpkin at a
county fair.
According to recent estimate New
York city educates about 300,0Q0
children annually, in 1874 school build
ings, covering an area of thirty-five
acres. These building placed side
by side would extend more than two
miles. There are about 1000 teach
ers, and tie annual expense of these
schools is about 100000.
A Georgia man stopped to pick up
pin on the street the other day with
the following results. His hat fell off
and rolled into the gutter; two sus-
pender buttons flew off; his collar
split open and his store teeth fell out
and broke on the walk. He secured
the pin, however, which was crooked
one, and it is to be hoped that it will
bring him proverbial good luck.
Reports from Alabama the 2Sth
ult. say that they have had for four
days the heaviest rains since March,
1884. All the streams are out of
their banks and many bridges have
been washed away. The Eastern
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, the
Georgia Pacific and the Admission and
Atlantic roads abandoned their trains
and traffic and travel is at complete |
standstill.
At last Chicago's elevated railway |
seems likely to be built. The City |
Council has granted the necessary
right of way, so far as that depended |
on it's vote and now all the company
has to do is to deposit 100000 with |
the city authorities-not for retention,
but as an evidence of good falkland |
go ahead building the road. 1t is to |
run out to the South End, and will give |
the people there a more rapid form of
transit than they have ever had before.
Daniel lyman, of Franklin. Sussex
county, was brought to st. Michael's
Hospital, Newark, in a critical con-
ditien Thursday night of last week.
lyman was caught in the blizzard two
weeks ago and when found a day or
two afterwards was unconscious and
badly frozen. 1t was deemed adj
visable to bring him to hospital.
The surgeons at ST. MichaePs say
that parts of both of his feet will have
to be amputated, but lyman is too
weak for them to operate on him at
present.
In letter to Railroad Commissioner
Green, Senator ingalls, says: Every
man of intelligence knows my illusions
to Hancock and Mcclellan were not
as soldiers but as the Democratic can
didates for the presidency. AS such
they were the allies of the confederacy,
as Grover Cleveland is and as every
Democrat must be who aspires to that
Office, because he must be elected by
the 1853 votes of the solid South,
which is as much the aggressive and
potential force in our politics as it was
in 1869.
Miss Isabella Blanche Singer, who
is 19 years of age, and worth about
81 800, 900, is about to marry the
Due de CaZes, member of a noble
French family. Miss Singer. who is
in Paris, is one of the six children of
the late Isaac M. Singer. who made
S14, 100000 in the manufacture of
sewing machines. Mr.. David M.
Hawley, is the only surviving executor
of Mr.. Singers estate and he is in
receipt of letter from Miss Singer,
asking for 100000 for wedding ex-
penses. The request is endorsed by
her mother. who is now the Duchess
De Camporfelice. Mr.. Hawley has
been authorized by the Supreme Court
to draw the 100000.
From the edition of Geo. P. Rowell
& Cos american Newspaper Direc-
tory" published April I'd tits TWEEN
tieth year,, it appears that the News {
paper and Periodicals of all kinds I
issued in the United States and Can ,
ada, now number 1886, showing a |
gain of $50 during the last II months {
and of 7,163 in 10 years. The pub I
ishers of the Directory assert that I
The impressions that when the pro- !
orietor ofa newspaper undertakes to 6
state what has been his exact circu- 6
alton, he does not generally tell the
ruth is an erroneous one: and they T
offer reward of 500 /
or every instance in their book for
his year, where it can be shown that 4
he detailed report received from a b
publisher was untrue.
Among the old customs of Good
Friday which have fallen into disuse n
n England, the sale of rings hallowed g
md distributed by the King no longer t
8 in vogue. The hallowed rings were b
to shield the wearers of them Il
rom the "falling sickness" and from '
ramps. The shot cross bun" custom, b
which is still continued, had a very p
arly origin. The pagan Saxons used Il
0 exchange buns in honor of the feast tt
f their deity, Eostre, and the priest W