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

SO closely that they could hardly move,
and could be picked out of tho water by
hand. At canning establishment lie
saw 5000 fish just taken, waiting treat
ment, and IN ono case one draught OF q
seine brought to shore 2 500 salmon.
ELIGIBLE women are ut O premium
in Dutch India. They are SO scarce in
that country that young men who wish
to get married write to friends in Hol-
land to find them wives. The friend Sc
lects willing lady and forwards her
photograph. II all is satisfactory the
would-be husband sends back soiled
left hand glove with power of attorney.
| The friend then marries the young lady
rs sort of legal proxy, and the marriage
is as binding as though the groom him
self were present.
A DESCRIPTION given in Nature of an
instance of ''sonorous sands'-sands
that give forth distinctly musical note
when moved by the hand or q stick-has
called forth number of letters from
various parts of England describing
| other cases of this phenomenon.
Musical sand was found in several in
| stances at particular spots in large areas !;
and the quality of the sound is thought
to be influenced by atmospheric condI-
tions.
In the present alarming dcarth of
glantesses 1t may be worth while to con-
slider Miss Sallie Macallister, of Spring
field. She is 10 years old, blacker than
darkness, is five feet two inches high,
and measures seven feet three inches
about the waist and three feet six inches
round the arm above the elbow. Her
net weight is 672 pounds, notwithstand-
ing which she earns living at the wash
tub.
ACCORDING to the census of 1SS0-Sl,
the last ono taken, there were at that
time 20,9S0,626 widows in India, of
whom 66S, 900 we're under nineteen years
of age, and 27S, 900 under fourteen years.
According to the native custom, none of
these widows are at liberty to marry
again. The same census gave the total
female population at SO, 100000, and of
these only 200, 600 were able to read.
A SMALL boy has recently found fine
topaz on the Bald Face Mountain in
Chatham, n. H., and sold it for small
sum to man, who realized $50 for 1t
after it had been cut and polished. Sew
eral others of less value have been found
i'll the region, and they are mostly white.
So close is the resemblance to diamonds,
it is said, that only on expert can tell
the difference.
A SHOWER of partly pulvcrized corn
and husks fell in q lumber yard at La
crosse, Wis, few days ago. The par
ticles were very thick i'll the ar, and
could be seen upward as far as the eye
could reach through the cloud. The
phenomenon WAS puzzle to everybody.
THE wife of New York banker has
invented machine for making wire
rope, tho patept of which she has sold
to San Francisco firm for $25, 900 cash
and a royalty. The way she came to
hit upon this was from device she used
to twist her worsted.
ACCORDING to official statistics there
were 2,6l7 avalanches last winter in
Tyrol and Vonarlberg. The number of
human lives lost was fifty three, and
about 500 beast we're killed. Many hun
dred buildings were destroyed.
MIS-. ELIZA WILCOX is the only person
born in the White House. She was the
only daughter of President Jackson's
adopted son, and was born in the Presi-
DENTAL mansion during the administra-
ton of cold Hickory"